“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim”-M.A. Politically -😡 WTF?
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In what sense are they prevented from living their life and having the same rights as anyone else? I never hear a satisfactory answer to this question.
From what I can ascertain, the only people expected to give up rights, are women. Our language and freedom to use accurate language to reflect our sex and our lives are under constant assault. It seems every time I read an article, some offensive euphemism is used to refer to us so as not to invalidate or offend a male. We are the only ones expected to “make way” in our sports, our prisons, our refuges, our intimate spaces, and to do so for the sex most likely to harm us. Crime rates bear this out. It is ridiculous to read an article about a “woman” accused of a rape that a male committed. It is the worst form of that overused word “gaslighting”.
I’m a woman. I live every day with both eyes wide open and wishing for eyes in the back of my head. I never feel completely safe. I don’t expect that I ever will. And while I don’t want anyone to be harmed or to feel othered or excluded from life, I will not compromise my safety or the safety of other women and young girls. I know male violence and strength and personally understand the disparity between males and females. This is not an esoteric discussion. Makeup, surgeries and cosmetics do not change this, or the patterns of male behavior.
The ruin of society? That sounds silly, but its force is a breaking of the civil compact, and it is far more pervasive and insidious in its reach than many naively assume. At the heart of this, is a lie. A lie that harms those who wreck their bodies in pursuit of something impossible, that harms every young and confused child who is no longer allowed to navigate the confusion of puberty and grow up without the forced infusion of “gender” and it’s now ubiquitous presence. A lie that has tried to wreck/cancel anyone’s life that has tried to provide ANY kind of counter to this “live” medical experiment on children as lab rats. A lie that expects unquestioned assent, under the fantasy of someone else’s god.
Acceptance in this matter should be the same that anyone with a belief system that differs from their fellow citizens enjoys. The right to it, and the expectation of not being discriminated against. We should all share that expectation. I want every one to live their best life, until their best life brings harm to others in its unique requirements in forcing down the boundaries and societal partitions that exist for indisputable reasons.
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There's an invasive tree growing across America, and it's rolling out the welcome mat for the worst new bug on the continent.
It's called tree of heaven, and the name is a lie. It came over from China in the 1780s, and now it's everywhere: fast, scrappy, growing up through pavement, poisoning the soil around it so natives can't compete. One female makes over 300,000 winged seeds a year. Crush a leaf and it smells like rancid peanut butter.
And it's the favorite food of the spotted lanternfly, the invasive planthopper now chewing through grapes, orchards, and hardwoods across the East. An invading tree, feeding an invading bug. Kill the tree, starve the bug.
Here's the part that trips everyone up. Do not just cut it down. Cutting it, even cutting and painting the stump, makes it panic and shoot up dozens of root suckers. One tree becomes a thicket.
The move that works: treat the standing tree. Hack a ring of cuts into the bark and apply triclopyr in late summer, and it carries the poison down into its own roots.
Never advice I love to give, but it's the best way to end this invasion, one tree at a time.
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I always thought America was one country 🇺🇸
But Americans on X keep saying
"Well in MY state it's totally different"
Texas. California. New York. Florida.
It sounds like 50 small countries in a trench coat.
Is that a fair way to think about it?
Please quote-tweet with your state flag! 🙋
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Trump’s EPA is moving to loosen rules on coal pollution, including protections designed to stop toxic waste from coal plants reaching rivers and streams.
Coal waste can contain dangerous heavy metals like mercury and arsenic.
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Jun 13
Not a she- HE. We do not want male crimes to be recorded as women…
Jun 13
A cross-dressing Australian man who's suspected of murdering a child behaves erratically and aggressively outside court, where he was found guilty of a separate firearms charge.
Australian media calls him a woman and only mentions he's "trans" towards the end of the broadcast.
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Mothballs scattered in the yard don't repel snakes, squirrels, moles, or anything else. They do poison the ground though.
Folk wisdom says toss a few under the porch or around the garden and the critters stay away. They don't. Outdoors, the vapor disperses too fast to ever reach a concentration that deters an animal, and there's no evidence it works on a single one of the species people use it for.
Mothballs are naphthalene, a pesticide. The vapor and the dissolved chemical contaminate your soil and leach into groundwater, where naphthalene has turned up in 44 states. The pellets look like candy to a kid or a dog, and one can do serious harm if swallowed.
And here's the kicker. The label says airtight container, indoors, with clothing. Using them any other way, including in your yard, is a violation of federal pesticide law.
In this case, the folk remedy not only doesn't work, but is illegal.
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Jun 13
It's hard to say this without sounding condescending but...you know how cat people greet every cat as if it's a little celebrity? Americans are like that with people from the UK. Any accent at all. We think you're adorable and we WILL offer you treats.
Standing in the queue at Penn Station for the Amtrak to Boston, and a bunch of lads behind us get asked by an American woman if we’re the Scotland soccer team, yanks are fully living up to my expectations 😭😭
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Jun 13
Somewhere in America, your weather report is performed as THEATER, and I have become a devoted patron.
In Japan, the forecast is read calmly. Rain tomorrow. Carry an umbrella. Farewell. Sixty seconds, a bow, the nation equipped.
Here, a man named Chip stands before a LIVING MAP, sleeves rolled to the elbow, and delivers the coming of a thunderstorm like news from a battlefield where he personally fought.
"Folks, I want you to look at this system moving in from the west—"
FOLKS. He addresses the entire region as kin. He sweeps his arm and the clouds OBEY HIS GESTURE. He warns of hail with grave eyes, then promises a beautiful weekend with the smile of a man delivering a peace treaty — both within ninety seconds, both with total sincerity.
And when true severe weather comes, America? Chip removes his jacket.
THE JACKET COMES OFF. And the entire state understands instantly: this is now serious. There is a doctrine of sleeves in your meteorology — unwritten, universally read. My neighbor glanced at the television, saw the bare forearms, and said, "Jacket's off. Better bring the grill cover in."
A NATION READING A MAN'S SLEEVES FOR SURVIVAL INSTRUCTIONS. We have early warning systems in Japan that cost billions, and I am no longer certain they outperform Chip's wardrobe.
Last week: hail. Chip stayed on air for hours. No jacket. Sleeves climbing toward the elbow like a rising river gauge. He tracked every cell. He told specific streets when to shelter. MY street. He said its name. A man on television guarded my street BY NAME until the storm passed.
Samurai have served lords for less devotion than Chip shows a cold front.
I watch nightly now. I have opinions about the rival station's radar. The radar is inferior. I trust Chip's seven-day outlook because he tells you when he is UNSURE — and a forecaster who admits doubt is a forecaster whose certainty means something. That sentence is free, America. Give it to your generals.
A man does not ask the storm to explain itself. He watches the sleeves, as his ancestors watched the sky.
Tonight Chip is in the full jacket, laughing with the sports desk.
Stand down, everyone. The realm is at peace.
The sleeves have spoken.
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Jun 12
Let’s make one thing very clear: signing up for girls’ wrestling is in NO way a permission slip for sexual assault.
As @ADFLegal explained in our lawsuit: “Digital penetration falls outside the scope of implied consent to participating in athletics because, under normal circumstances of girls wrestling, it is not a reasonably foreseeable hazard from the perspective of a girl wrestler. Nor is sexual assault or groping generally accepted by society as part of any lawful athletic contest.”
Also: girls who sign up for girls’ wrestling aren’t consenting to wrestle boys. Kallie Keeler was betrayed by multiple adults in authority, who knowingly allowed her to wrestle a male without her knowledge or consent. They bear responsibility for what happened to her—and they are continuing to put female wrestlers in harm’s way through their actions and policies.
That’s why, besides suing governing bodies @wiaawa, @waOSPI, and the Puyallup School District, we’re also suing:
- State superintendent Chris Reykdal
- Kallie’s principal
- Her school district’s Title IX coordinator
- Her opponent’s coach
… and not just in their official capacities, but as individuals.
I’m also glad to hear the local prosecutor is reportedly still considering action against those who failed to report the sexual assault, as required by law. These mandatory reporters should have reported the incident within 48 hours but waited 53 days. They should face consequences.
We won’t rest until Kallie gets justice—and girls in Washington state get their sports back.
Jun 11
NEW: Prosecutors say they will not charge trans wrestler with alleged sexual assault of Kallie Keeler because of "case law concerning consent in athletic contests." If only the state of Washington had given Kallie the option to consent to being touched by a male.
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Jun 12
This gurning lad appears to have thrown the shot 3ft further than the nearest girl.
Nothing at all surprising in that because he is a boy competing as a faux "girl".
This is cheating.
He knows it is unfair, the girls all know it is unfair, organisers know it is unfair.
"Cheating"
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Julia Arnold, a male athlete pretending to be a girl, is currently seeded NUMBER 1 at an upcoming GIRLS' shot put NY state championship event.
His school, @CNSAthletics, DELETED their post congratulating him for stealing wins from girls after getting roasted in the comments.
PEOPLE ARE SICK OF THIS!
This is a clear violation of Title IX. This school needs to be investigated. @usedgov
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Jun 13
From May to August last year, Corpus Christi's Bitcoin mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons of water, according to utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s information request.
The city is refusing to share the latest data. texasobserver.org/corpus-chr…
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Jun 12
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
— Carl Sagan
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USA. A supermarket. I went to buy one bottle of the white sauce this nation pours on everything. I found a WALL.
Ranch. Spicy ranch. Chipotle ranch. Avocado ranch. Bacon ranch. LIGHT ranch, for the disciplined. There was a ranch labeled "secret recipe" that printed its ingredients on the back, which is not how secrets work, and I respect the audacity.
In Japan, a sauce knows its place. One dish, one purpose, centuries of refinement. Here I stood before forty bottles of the same white dynasty, each claiming the bloodline.
I asked a passing employee: which is the true heir?
He looked at the wall. He looked at me. "It's all just ranch, dude."
It is NOT all just ranch. That is exactly what a branch family would say.
I bought the original. The founding house. One honors the main line — this is not negotiable.
I also bought the chipotle. We meet at lunch. Privately. The original does not know. A man may serve one lord and still admire the ambition of the younger branch. This is recorded in many histories, and I will not be judged by a nation with forty sauces in its door.
At the register, the cashier saw my two bottles and said the most American sentence I have yet heard:
"Smart. You got your everyday ranch and your fancy ranch."
EVERYDAY RANCH AND FANCY RANCH. She understood the entire feudal structure instantly. This country runs deeper than it pretends.
A man does not betray the main house in daylight. Lunch is at noon, with the curtains drawn.
A man does not ask the dynasty to be one bottle. He only becomes loyal to more of them.
So tell me, America, and be honest with me: how many ranches live in your door right now?
Count them. Then tell me again who the samurai is.
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USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.
I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.
In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.
"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.
"Honey, that's what it looks like."
The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."
I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.
I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.
It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.
"Well?" the waitress asked.
"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."
"Everybody does, hon."
Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.
Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.
I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.
It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.
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USA. A grocery register. The cashier held up my crackers and said "oh, these are SO good," and I understood that my entire basket was being judged.
I had not known checkout was an evaluation. No one tells you. The items ride the belt one by one, and the magistrate lifts each, and some receive a verdict.
"These chips? SO good." Approval. My heart rose.
"Oh, I love this salsa." Two for two. I stood straighter.
Then she scanned my mustard in silence.
Silence. No comment. The mustard passed unjudged, which is worse than condemned. I stared at it in the bag. What did I not know? Who buys the correct mustard? Where do they learn?
"And the mustard?" I asked. I could not stop myself.
"...it's fine."
Fine. In my land, when the tea master calls your tea "fine," you train for another decade. I will train.
The man behind me saw my face. "She's just makin' conversation, man."
Conversation. Sir. She has tasted EVERYTHING. She stands at the gate of the food and watches what ten thousand households carry home, and she has formed views, and for a few seconds those views are aimed at your basket. There is no more qualified judge in this nation. The judges of my land studied twenty years. She studies forty hours a week, scanner in hand.
In Japan, the cashier would sooner faint than comment on your groceries. Here, the verdicts are free.
A man does not shop to fill a basket. He shops to hear, at the gate, that he chose well.
I confess I now select one item each week purely to earn her praise. This week: the crackers again.
"These are SO good," she said.
I know. I know.
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Jun 12
She says what’s happening to her, as it happened. Not even knowing her opponent was actually a man. Imagine being sexually assaulted, reporting it immediately, then finding out it was a boy. Then imagine the school, prosecutors, and the state telling you it was consensual.
Jun 12
Female wrestler sues over 'sexual assault' by transgender fighter during match trib.al/QEjiglH
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Jun 12
People, please call your Repub politicians & raise hell. They've hidden an amend in a wildfire bill that allows them to get rid of the roadless law that stops them from mining, logging, road construction, and the selling of 59 million acres of our nat'l forests & Parks. Stop them
Jun 12
I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.
Yesterday, Republicans made their move — and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.
Here's what makes this so enraging:
59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.
The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.
Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up — at 430 public hearings nationwide — to demand it.
What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home — they're the last places left.
What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."
The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule — they aren't holding a single public hearing.
1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.
What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?
#DemsUnited
ALT Sunlight streams through a towering old-growth forest, illuminating a massive tree trunk surrounded by ferns and dense woodland. Tall trees stretch into the background as bright rays of light filter through the canopy, highlighting the scale and beauty of the forest.
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🚨BREAKING: @POTUS just opened three marine monuments to destructive industrial fishing. These areas are vital for protecting whales, sea turtles, sharks, and sensitive ocean ecosystems. This is an egregious attack on our public waters. #ProtectOurOcean #MonumentsForAll
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Jun 11
Hell yes we are. Americans shouldn’t have to sacrifice our cherished public lands to subsidize a corporation run by the richest man in the world.
Jun 11
Conservation groups are suing to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from exchanging hundreds of acres of land with SpaceX in the Rio Grande Valley.
The groups said they hope to preserve the land to protect the diverse wildlife there, including the endangered ocelot. bit.ly/43rcDKK
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Holy Crap. The prosecutors won’t prosecute because they claim the female wrestler consented to being physically penetrated by the male wrestler simply by the fact of her playing the support.
So according to WA state no means no except if it is a boy pretending to be a girl so he can wrestle girls and sexually assault them and then no means yes.
She did not consent to wrestle a boy she did not tacitly consent to be violated
And none of this would have happened if the state cared about protecting girls.
No Hate in WA State you guys are on the wrong side of this issue.
Teachers union, you are on the wrong side of this issue
Home health care workers you are on the wrong side of this issue
ACLU what do you even stand for anymore?????
Boys don’t belong in girls sports.
They ignore
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NEW: Prosecutors say they will not charge trans wrestler with alleged sexual assault of Kallie Keeler because of "case law concerning consent in athletic contests." If only the state of Washington had given Kallie the option to consent to being touched by a male.
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Jun 11
This is men in women’s sport in a nutshell.
Unfair & unsafe competition.
Females being made to compete against males without their knowledge or consent.
Males assaulting females.
Males destroying female boundaries.
Enabled by misogynist cowards in positions of power.
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Jun 11
If you still believe that perverted men won’t go to any lengths — any lengths — to gain access to girls and women for sexual assault, you are willfully blind.
That’s exactly what happened in the case of Kallie Keeler, the young wrestler in Washington forced to compete against a male opponent.
During the match, he assaulted her. This wasn’t some clumsy accident. It was a deliberate violation on the mat, enabled by policies that prioritize feelings and ideology over female safety and fairness.
And if you think men like this wouldn’t exploit those openings, you haven’t been paying attention.
Take Larry Nassar. The former “doctor” for the USA Gymnastics Team for nearly 30 years. He did the job for free. Out of his apparent “love of the sport.”
He had unfettered access to young girls and women. He was respected. Trusted. The guy who could fix you up and get you back on the floor.
He abused over 500 athletes. Over decades. He became a D.O. with the sole intention of abusing girls. He called it “pelvic floor therapy.” No matter what the girl came to him for — wrist pain, ankle sprain, back issue — that’s what he did. Ungloved hand inside her vagina. Or anus. Or both.
He didn’t explain. He just did it. Girls covered under a sheet while he hid his body — and his erection — behind the table at just the right angle. Sometimes mothers were even in the room.
He had a fancy PowerPoint to defend the “treatment.” Oh, those silly girls, they just don’t understand my advanced medical techniques.
There were complaints for years. Ignored. He pretended to be kind. A pillar of the community. Asked the girls about school, favorite subjects, complimented their shoes. All during the assaults. He called himself a Christian. Did all the things. Just so he could keep assaulting young girls for decades.
This is what predators do. They hide in plain sight. They build trust. They exploit positions of authority and access and respectability. They weaponize institutions that look the other way.
So when a young man insists he’s a woman in order to wrestle girls, rub up against them, pin them and knows the system will defend him while calling her a bigot for objecting — you really think he won’t use that opportunity? You think he won’t shove his hand where it doesn’t belong and leave it there? You think this was accidental?
He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew he’d be protected. She’d be doubted, dismissed and smeared.
“Stunning and brave,” they’d say. He’s the vulnerable one! While the girl is left traumatized.
Nassar didn’t invent this. He just exploited the same blind spots we’re seeing now in sports, locker rooms, shelters, and prisons.
Bad men will always seek access. The question is whether we’ll stop pretending they won’t. x.com/KristenWaggoner/status…
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