Tim Graham

Christian. Husband. Father. Math/physics/CS geek. Retired Google Eng. director. WSCAL MDiv. Fuller OT PhD. History nut. USC/Vandy fan.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

So good, from Kevin Williamson: https://t.co/XTosVZtVJc

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Book recommendation: @al2ostaz of @SBTS just released an important book on the incompatibility of the Constitution with sharia law: Sharia Versus the U.S. Constitution: Why Americans Must Choose Freedom https://t.co/5uuoyAiSjN

[Thomas S. Kidd @ThomasSKidd]

Prize-winning book once hailed by The New York Times and American Historical Association pulled by Liveright due to allegations of factual errors, made-up sources, and plagiarism. https://t.co/0hXB5xBULd

[Grok @grok]

No, Planned Parenthood clinics do not perform mammograms. They lack the equipment.

They provide clinical breast exams and refer patients to radiology centers or partners for actual mammograms. Some affiliates help arrange access or host events through partnerships.

This is consistent across their sites and independent reviews.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

The obvious reason we haven’t invested in this is that there’s a widely available third option that costs about $40 worth of gas.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Go Ben go.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

The man on the left with an SS tattoo received both top and bottom surgery and was on both steroids and estrogen at the same time. Rather than affirm his womanhood, his wife divorced him after he began claiming to be a woman. He murdered his wife and children and then turned the gun he used to murder his family on himself in a Rhode Island ice skating rink. The media refused to refer to his transgender identity or use his preferred pronoun in covering his mass murder-suicide. The man on the left is not a woman. He is a man.

The man on the right also married and had children before abruptly declaring himself to be a woman in middle age. His wife, a fellow professor of medicine at Penn State university, also divorced him but has not made any statement about whether she believed herself to be exiting a lesbian marriage from the stunning and brave woman that her husband revealed himself to be after fathering children with her, or whether she maintained some skepticism of the claim made by the father of her children to be female. He is also not a woman. He is a man.

The man on the right was the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services under President Joseph R. Biden, from which position he led the whole of government effort that the Biden Administration undertook to forbid any schoolgirl from drawing a boundary between herself and any boy who claimed to be a girl in every school in America and to pressure the medical lobby organization that purports to promulgate "standards of care" for transgender medicine to strip out all age guidelines on who could be chemically castrated, dosed with steroids, or have healthy body parts surgically removed, permitting these procedures to be done on any person of any age. He is universally referred to as a woman, as a female role model, and his preferred pronouns ("she and her") are honored wherever he goes and whenever he is mentioned in the press.

My question about these two men who claim to be women is -- why were the preferred pronouns of the man on the left callously disregarded by the mainstream media while the preferred pronouns of the man on right were honored? Both men satisfy the sole criterion that the trans activist movement and President Joseph R Biden worked tirelessly to establish as decisive in determining what makes someone a woman: both of them said they are women.

So why is the recognition as they claim to be (and thus are, according to transgender dogma) withheld from the man who mass murdered his family and not from the man who deployed state power to propagate the chemical castration and dismemberment of thousands of confused children caught up in the social contagion that the Biden Administration worked tirelessly to propagate as widely as possible? Is it because one of these men who claims to be a woman is really a woman and the other one is not?

Real question.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

@awstar11 @willcollier Yes, but eventually they’ll talk about how much worse some living conservative is and use the memory of the deceased as a cudgel. https://t.co/zn4fSfWDj9

[Tim Graham @tngraham]

A Calvary Chapel kid's account of his discovery that there's no such thing as a non-denominational church and that church history is a deep well.

https://t.co/leqtUaAzG3

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Telling that Applebaum has not even a whit of sympathy or interest in Graham's untiring defense of Ukraine against Putin.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

This you?

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Seeing the despicably cruel, heartless and abusive way that many people in UK and US have responded to the deaths of conservative politicians, Ann Widdecombe and Lindsey Graham, reminds me that the least kind people on earth are ironically those on the #BeKind woke left.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Clinton gets it.

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

Dear young person,

If these people get their way, there won't be anything to redistribute.

I know these people. They were around 50 years ago. They are personally miserable and they want the rest of us to be miserable with them.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Journalism 101, the course I teach at Peterson Academy, starts with one non-negotiable: public trust is earned by accuracy and fairness. Falsify a quote to fit your narrative, and you've committed a firing offense at any outlet that still wants to be taken seriously.

This week David Gerstman (@soccerdhg), writing for CAMERA (@CAMERA4Truth), caught the Washington Post doing exactly that.

In a July 2 story on U.S.-Israel tension over Iran, reporters John Hudson and Ellen Nakashima quoted Trump saying: "You know it's a little tough. They've wiped out everybody. I don't want them to be killed."

Except he never said that. Gerstman went to the transcript and found the Post had spliced together fragments from two separate answers, to two separate questions, at two different moments — and quietly deleted the words in between that undercut their storyline. Trump's actual sentence was "we've wiped out everybody," referring to U.S. and Israeli efforts together. The Post dropped "we've" and swapped in "they've" to make it look like Trump was singling out Israel. The second sentence, on not wanting negotiators killed, came from an entirely different exchange minutes later.

That's not editing for space. That's manufacturing a quote to push a narrative. And it happens to be an elemental rule for reporters: never alter what a source actually said to make your story work better.

Credit to Gerstman for doing what a real fact-checker does — pulling the primary source and letting the transcript speak for itself. The Post owes its readers a correction and an explanation.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

After 16 years of Xavier Becerra's political machine:
- the beaches stink of 💩
- the streets stink of urine
- Boyle Heights stinks of rotting meat after the warehouse fire

We are done with this. Time to clean up California! ☀️

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Ivy League professor suspected AI cheating, ordered an in-person final, & saw average scores plunge from 96 to 48.

[Kirralie Smith @KirralieS]

I have been ordered to pay $95,000 in "damages" to two men in women's sport because I apparently hurt their feelings. It is potentially going to be doubled because I didn't pay in 30 days. So that is $190,000 in total to reward two men in women's sport. I am appealing in the NSW Supreme Court, so for now, there is a stay on the orders.

@salltweets has been ordered to pay a man $20,000 for not allowing him on her female only app. His hurt feelings claim is hoping to be challenged in the High Court. Sall is still waiting to see if leave will be granted for the appeal.

Jasmine Sussex could have to pay up to $95,000 to a man with hurt feelings who falsely claimed he could breastfeed a tiny baby. Her case is still to be heard by a Queensland tribunal.

None of these numbers include the court costs which run into millions.

Others have lost jobs, been censored, gaslit or threatened if they speak the truth or object to the lie that men can be women.

Men who wish they were women not only want to dominate our sports, spaces and services, they are also trying to make money as they go. It appears quite lucrative if they succeed.

Stand with us. Men are not women and we should never be penalized for stating the facts - especially in court where evidence and facts are meant to be paramount.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Missed this: On June 14, 1937, the New York Times ran an interview with the last living son of a Revolutionary War soldier, who recounted his father's stories about meeting George Washington. https://t.co/q7YGwF8q3T