I’m weary of the following notions: 1. Absence of evidence is evidence , actually. 2. Claims about the existence of evidence are equivalent to said evidence. 3. Evidence is evidence to the contrary, actually.

RT @Natsecjeff: One mistake that has been made in this war and even before is the false assumption that economic pressure alone will be eno…

Juxtaposition is a hell of a drug.

Following youth who medically transition for an average of 2.4 years is not likely to detect the true detransition rate among them, given that researchers believe it can typically take several years for detransitioning in this population to occur. And then there is the fact that this clinic did not reach out to these patients after they left the clinic, which happened automatically once they became adults. So there is no way of knowing if they detransitioned past their adolescence. I am in the process of writing an article about a pediatric gender clinic doctor who once presented data at a conference with two years of follow-up of youths attending gender clinics and found that among those who underwent gender-transition treatment, there was no treatment regret at that point. This physician presented the study as evidence of great success. I have interviewed a patient of hers who detransitioned six years after being put on testosterone. This patient is deeply unhappy about the care they received and believes that the doctor harmed them egregiously. If they had been in the aforementioned study, their detransition would not have been detected due to insufficient follow-up time.

No, sweetie. Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it. Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region. Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there. Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus. Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform. We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles. It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books. And then you arrived. And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit. You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war. You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts. You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever. You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World." You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation. It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair. And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

Gulf state airspace closures about to go down.

The U.S. strikes on Iran are still ongoing. As I said, this wasn’t a one and done. Iran will absolutely respond, not to Israel, but to the Gulf states.

What I’ll be watching: How Iran will respond. They may strike the Gulf countries. High chances.

BREAKING 🔴 U.S. CENTCOM says American forces launched strikes on Iran at President Trump’s direction in response to the downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.

Of course the headlines will be “only 23% of diagnoses receive medical intervention,” Nevermind the 500-fold increase in diagnoses…

Palestinians in Gaza are protesting against Hamas on June 26th. I offer my full support to these souls who just want a normal life, and to live in peace, instead of being forced to live under a jihadist terror state.

Inventing asexuality as a wedge issue to colonize and deconstruct everything that doesn’t actively involve having sex was pretty clever, I’ll grant that.

An elaborate deceptive conspiracy conceived with the goal of tricking people into accepting an unorthodox worldview within an institution will only succeed in undermining those people’s trust in that institution, whether that institution is the Vatican or Hollywood. Now, if the undermining itself was actually the goal… that would be an interesting story.

The idea that everything will work out in the end is in fact my favorite conspiracy theory.

This is even funnier when you close your eyes and imagine Jason Alexander as the one ranting and raving. Uncanny. 😂

Just needs a little push over the edge…

Interceptions in northern Israel. Israel is preparing for a disproportionate response.

More missiles are outbound from Iran towards northern Israel

NOW 🔴 Iran’s Khatam al Anbya Joint Military Command (IRGC) signaling that tonight’s missile strikes are intended to “remain limited.” The message says Israel should refrain from retaliating, warning that any Israeli response, or continued strikes in Lebanon, could trigger a “broader escalation.”

Third wave of missiles launched at Israel 🇮🇱 from Iran 🇮🇷

Initial reports - Second wave of Iranian missiles intercepted