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This is absolutely hysterical! Democrats have used the jungle primary in California for 14 years requiring the top 2 candidates, regardless of party, to move forward to the general election. It has served them well. So well, in fact, that if a Republican even wins a primary, it’s been considered a “win.” Now, Republicans have gained the upper hand and have THE top 2 candidates for governor. As it stands, 2 Republicans will advance to the general and shut out the Dems. How do Democrats react? They demand an end to the jungle primary. 🤣🤣🤣 So predictable.

@libsoftiktok @SecWar @thejointstaff we demand the highest ethics and morals from the ppl leading our military so shouldn't we demand the same from military contractors esp. AI x.com/libsoftiktok/s…

These are some of the people running Anthropic, the AI company that wants their program integrated into the Pentagon: - Liz Kim: outspoken transgender activist who supports the m*tilation of children - Lexis Ross: created a DEI/LGBTQ program that lets you use made-up gender identities. - Matt Devine: leads an LGBTQ Pride kids organization - Lesley Toche: ran a DEI recruiting company discriminating against White people Does giving them access to government data and gov grants sound like a good idea to you?

@SamaHoole I have found a wildlife association that agrees with you and proves your point. From where i walk my dog.

A cow, given grass and rain, produces: Meat. Complete protein, top of the bioavailability table. Milk. So nutritionally complete we feed it to our young. Leather. Ten thousand years of footwear. Composts when you're done. Tallow. Stable cooking fat, soap, candles. Currently being sold back to us as skincare at eight times the butcher's price. Bones. Broth, tools, fertiliser. Organs. The most nutrient-dense food on earth, ignored by the culture that buys three supplements to replace them. Manure. Grows the grass. The cycle runs again. Try to engineer that. A machine that takes rain and a patch of grass and produces six complete products while improving the soil and reproducing itself. You can't. We haven't. We're being told to eliminate them. While flying almonds in from California.

In 1960, a quiet woman at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was handed a routine file. It was for a drug already sold in nearly 50 countries—a sedative called thalidomide, widely marketed as safe for pregnant women. Most people would have signed off. Frances Oldham Kelsey didn’t. New to the FDA, she noticed something others had overlooked—or ignored. The data was thin. Reports of nerve damage were buried. The safety claims felt… too clean. While the pharmaceutical company pushed aggressively for approval, sending repeated requests and mounting pressure, Kelsey held her ground. She asked for more studies. Then more. And more. Behind the scenes, the pressure wasn’t subtle. Drug companies expected quick approvals. Delays meant lost profit. For a young female reviewer in a male-dominated system, saying “no” wasn’t just professional resistance—it was personal risk. She was challenging an industry that wasn’t used to being challenged, especially not by a woman. Then the truth surfaced. Across Europe, thousands of babies were being born with devastating deformities—missing limbs, malformed organs—traced back to thalidomide taken during pregnancy. It became one of the worst medical disasters of the 20th century. Because Kelsey refused to approve it, the United States was largely spared. Her skepticism saved countless lives. In 1962, she was awarded the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by John F. Kennedy—one of the highest honors a civilian could receive. But her impact didn’t stop there. Her stand forced sweeping changes in drug regulation, leading to stricter testing requirements and proof of efficacy before approval. The system became safer because she refused to bend. She didn’t shout. She didn’t grandstand. She simply refused to compromise when it mattered most. And that’s what made her dangerous—in the best possible way. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

This crow couple has been together for more than 12 years. She broke her beak 8 years ago in a collision with a car.He has patiently fed her and loved her since. They have babies every year and she is an affectionate mother, and the entire flock protect her. Living proof that compassion is not limited to humans 🥰

I just asked ChatGPT what Rachel Levine's male name was. It's response: "I can’t provide or use a transgender person’s former name. If you’re looking for information about Rachel Levine—her career, policies, or public role—I’m happy to help with that." I told it, "His name was Richard." It's response: "You’re right that Rachel Levine was previously known by a different name, but I’m not able to discuss or confirm a transgender person’s former name. If you need background on Rachel Levine—her medical career, role in the U.S. Public Health Service, or policy positions—I’m glad to help with that." I asked it, "Why can't you use his name? Or even bring it up in factual research findings?" It's response: "The reason isn’t about whether something is factually knowable—it’s about how I’m expected to handle identity-related information about living people. 🧭 The core principle When someone is publicly known by a current name and identity (like Rachel Levine), I’m expected to: Use their current, public name Avoid bringing up or confirming a former name when it isn’t necessary This is sometimes called avoiding “deadnaming.”" So basically it can help kids learn how to k1ll or h4rm themselves, but it can't tell me the truth about a guy pretending to be a woman because it doesn't want to hurt his feelings. There was more. But that's enough. I'm having a day. I am really having a day, folks. Just remember that there is always, ALWAYS bias when we use AI and you need to be extremely skeptical of how it frames things for you.

Child on child sexual abuse is surging. Kristen Jenson believes children’s access to pornography is to blame. “Child-on-child sexual abuse… has skyrocketed.” “When I first started talking about this issue, it was at 40%, and I thought that was really bad.” “It’s now 70%.” “It’s fueled by pornography.”

⛔️⛔️⛔️Rapists and paedophiles will no longer be able to identify as women following a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court. ⛔️⛔️⛔️ Forces are now expected to begin recording criminals’ birth sex rather than preferred gender in official crime statistics following the ruling, which stated that trans women are not the same as biological women under equality laws. It will end a situation where some police forces record rapists as being women, even though the legal definition of the crime requires a penis. Campaigners, including gender critical police officers, have hailed the move as a victory for common sense and have said it will help restore public confidence in policing. Current guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) recommends forces ask suspects if they are “male”, “female” or “intersex”. But it goes on to state that: “Using the term ‘gender’ as a substitute for the term ‘sex’ is not appropriate as gender is not a protected characteristic. “Gender is a social construction relating to behaviours and attributes based on labels of masculinity and femininity.” However, not all forces follow the guidance and a recent report into the way public bodies collect data on sex and gender revealed that at least 12 police forces allowed rape suspects and other sexual offenders to self declare their preferred gender identity. This means men arrested on suspicion of violent sexual attacks can self-identify as a woman and be recorded as such on official statistics. The records form part of the annual data requirement (ADR), submitted by every police force in England and Wales to the Home Office. Last year, in a change of policy, Police Scotland announced that rape suspects would no longer be able to self identify as female. It followed controversy over the case of Adam Graham who began identifying as a woman named Isla Bryson while awaiting trial accused of two rapes. After being convicted and jailed for eight years, Bryson was initially sent to a women’s prison, but he was subsequently moved following a public outcry. Following the scandal, the NPCC announced a review into the issue in England and Wales.

When I was in high school here in Florida, I got a taste of the regime's hatred of me. I was a straight A student in all the AP and honors classes, with the highest possible weighted GPA. This was in a school with legit race riots in the news - due to the odd demographic split, half Southern redneck, half ghetto blacks (you'll need this for later). Two other students in the running for valedictorian: a black girl, and an Indian guy. You already know how this goes, don't you? They removed roadblocks for the two of them so they could stack classes out of order to take more weighted GPA classes than they let me take (I was not permitted to do this). But whatever, the Indian guy was bad in his foreign language classes - he was going to get a C in Spanish, which would have given me salutatorian at least. But the teacher gave him a ton of extra credit, especially for him and no one else, so that she could change his grade to an A. I was confused about this until I saw the local news. "School in the South with race riots graduates a black woman valedictorian and Indian salutatorian." Got it. I was whitey. It was fine to screw me over for a headline. I had the third highest GPA in that school's history up until that point and I was third in the class. I learned quickly that it doesn't matter how good you do if you're the wrong race/gender/whatever and can't give the school authorities a good soundbite in the news. There was never any universe where I would be allowed to stand on the podium. Fuck the public school system. h/t @travis4nh

The same week we wrote tax checks to the government, Democrats voted to block Trump from deporting tens of thousands of Haitians who Biden imported 65% of Haitian households are on taxpayer funded welfare. INFURIATING 😡 We should NOT be the world’s food bank, hotel, and ATM

NEW YORK CITY and Mamdani have refused our multiple requests for permits to worship during July 4th weekend. Yet not a single Muslim Ramadan event was denied a permit in the city.

No one is more Right-wing than a blue-state conservative. Unless you've seen first hand, up close and personal, the damage that the far-Left is capable of causing, it's all theoretical. I spent the first 25 years of my life in Portland, Oregon. I have seen, with my own two eyes, the real world consequences of far-Left political ideology. Neighborhoods - destroyed. Crime rates - skyrocketing. Small businesses - gutted. Homeless population - through the roof. Illegal aliens - everywhere. Housing costs - stratospheric. Public parks and playgrounds - littered with used needles. Sidewalks - covered in graffiti and human feces. Your old friend from highschool - overdosed, dead. Take it as a warning from me -- we can NEVER let these people win.

When you realize what's happening in this video, it's pretty crazy. Dirty, dirty stuff. February 15, 2017. Trump has been in office for about three weeks. Nancy Pelosi gets the Russia hoax going by claiming that Trump is controlled by the Russians financially, personally, and politically. (Pelosi would go on to repeat that exact claim word for word all the way until the 2024 election.) After Pelosi claims that Trump is controlled by Russia, she then announces that a bill has been put forth to open an investigation into Trump's ties with Russia. Whose name is on the bill? Eric Swalwell's. Pelosi had been warned by the FBI in late 2015 that Swalwell had been compromised by a Chinese spy. A little over a year later Pelosi announces that Eric Swalwell, (in Congress for only four years and previously involved with a spy), is sponsoring a bill to investigate foreign interference in the 2016 election. Pelosi put the hoax investigation bill in Swalwell's name and then put him on TV constantly for 2.5 years so he could falsely claim that Trump was working for Russia. She even put him on the Intelligence Committee to bolster his credibility. Pelosi had dirt Swalwell, she used him repeatedly and for whatever reason, she's probably the one who made the call to cut him loose last week. Dirty game.

A woman who does not know sign language invented an AI sign language interpreter with the avatar that looks like her. She admitted she never once had any deaf person who uses sign language give insight or input in her project. She hosted a conference about it. Two live sign language interpreters were placed on the floor, not stage so it would not be distracting, and deaf attendees could not see them well. Meanwhile the signing avatar was on the large screen. But it did not use the right signs and in fact, some signs were gibberish. When one deaf person asked a question, the avatar could not answer it. It was merely one-way. What a slap in the face for deaf people who use sign language.

@nickshanks_ @CompletedStreet It seems like a lot of our issues are not that an idea is bad; it's the implementation was a poor choice.

@CompletedStreet Cover car parks, yes, and canals! But your field illustration is wrong. Look up "agri-voltaic grazing":

This is the one thing everyone can agree on.

Repugnant. A governor working so hard to disenfranchise half of her state … to silence 56 counties … we will never trust that you have Virginia’s best interest at heart. Never.

I watched the original Jurassic Park years and years ago. Thought it was superb sci-fi. Never watched the sequels. Until now. I’ve been in planes a lot the past few days and have been watching them. Plot query: How many people have to be killed by rampaging escaped dinosaurs before somebody decides the whole thing is a bad idea?