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The Liberty Tree was an elm tree in Boston where protesters of English rule would congregate. It became a symbol of individual liberty and resistance to tyranny

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@militantpizza @alphafox Agree 💯

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@Bobberkowi77584 @beautyreelsx Correct. I’m old. My wife had a body like that. She is still thin and proportional pushing 60. It’s genetic. It’s a phenotype. Select wisely.

[Judge Stephen Dillard @JudgeDillard]

Every American should watch every second of this video.

Thank you, @BenSasse.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Everyone should unequivocally condemn the government-imposed racial discrimination Obama is pushing!

Obama makes three errors in one post, all of them philosophical.

First, the United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The purpose of the Constitution is to protect individual rights from the majority, not to ensure "equal participation in our democracy." The Founders designed the system specifically to prevent what Obama is demanding: unlimited majority rule.

Second, "protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach" sounds correct until you examine the premise. Rights belong to individuals, not groups. The moment you define rights by racial group membership, you have adopted the same collectivist framework that produced the discrimination you claim to oppose. Jim Crow categorized people by race and assigned rights accordingly. Modern voting rights activism does the same thing with different beneficiaries. Both are collectivism.

Third, gerrymandering is a problem created entirely by the system Obama wants to preserve: a political structure where the drawing of district lines determines outcomes. His solution is not to fix the structure. It is to ensure his side draws the lines.

The government must treat every citizen equally before the law. Everyone should reject Obama's framing entirely. He is not defending individual rights.

He is defending group power, while using the language of rights to make collectivism sound like liberty.

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@Pixie1z @DKH013 Reacher S2 was such a disappointment

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@sciencegirl Cutting entitlements to balance the budget

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@TansuYegen This is why a bundle of firewood costs $12.99 at Kroger.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned she was likely to commit suicide.

As the floodgates open, and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them to an unregulated medical experiment, gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative. They'll keep insisting that hardly any transitioned people regret their irreversible procedures, that gender clinicians know exactly what they're doing, that surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are of proven benefit and that minors who're denied these treatments will to kill themselves. All of this is a lie.

Speaking at the WPATH conference in 2021, British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal admitted 'we are doing procedures here where we don’t have outcome data.' A woman from Utah said she felt gender clinicians like her were making it up as they went along: 'Because I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.' (https://t.co/dW4xXKUzOY)

This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts.

As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public will learn the full extent of the harm done to kids in the name of an ideology. Clinicians performing these 'treatments' will go down in history as barbarous activists who betrayed a sacred oath: to do no harm. But we should never forget how many people outside the medical profession urged these young people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone advising caution was an evil bigot. There are people in elitist professions like publishing and academia, not to mention politicians and celebrities with young fan bases, who did all they could to champion the idea of gender identity, and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians. Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble, they've slurred whistleblowers and attacked anyone with valid questions. In doing so, they've created a cultural climate without which this appalling tragedy could not have taken place.

Never forget, because only by learning the lesson can we stop this happening again.

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[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@Norma5387953815 1353

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Less than a year ago, President Biden upped the Maduro bounty to $25,000,000.

Removing Maduro was positive for Venezuela.

As a Democrat, I don’t understand why we can’t acknowledge a good development for Venezuelans—and how deft our military’s execution of that plan was.

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@NoDMsPerfavore A

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@creepydotorg If you ain’t first, you’re last

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@314strider @Ed_McGee1967 @greg_price11 He’s right. More than double 600 would die without trauma surgeons.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

OMG

JD Vance posted this on BlueSky

Next level trolling 😂🤣�

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@1USADivisible @nbc4i Underrated comment

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@CNviolations No. It reeks of instant gratification without consideration of long term consequences

[Ice Bear @IceBear514]

@brosephblake @washghost1 There is a branch of mathematic called queueing theory. It analyzes how people line up and the most efficient means to mitigate bottlenecks. The most efficient method is to merge at the cones. This is largely because the single line of cars is shortest.

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

Wikipedia is considering removing my "Nine Theses on Wikipedia." 🤔