Rick Arnonal

The root cause of division in the country is the change from America as a melting pot to identity politics first and the crime of cultural appropriation.

@Novaservicedog @mgubrud @HistoryBoomer Apples and oranges. The kids in the NEJM study received the ABSOLUTE BEST CARE POSSIBLE on planet Earth with dedicated specially trained physicians and therapists continuously treating and monitoring to avoiding these outcomes.

@RickArnonal @mgubrud @HistoryBoomer Now do autistic kids. Ah gee… rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-s… medicine.uiowa.edu/news/2023/03/a… kennedykrieger.org/stories/news-a…

Thomas Edsall saying Dems need to get tougher on immigration and crime, and be clear that there are two sexes, and while trans people need their rights protected, that does not include playing on women's teams or being in prison alongside women. This is gonna get some heat! 1/

@ByMHarrington Flosports is really niche, yet they must have put up big bucks for the rights. How do they intend to monetize it? Do they really think people will subscribe for it?

So in other words, no one is going to be able to watch the Worlds anymore. FloSports stinks. The IIHF blew it here.

@mgubrud I even did a thread about this. Not that anything can penetrate your closed mind. x.com/RickArnonal/st…

@mgubrud @HistoryBoomer I said prove me wrong.

@RickArnonal @HistoryBoomer "Conclusions In this 2-year study involving transgender and nonbinary youth, GAH improved appearance congruence and psychosocial functioning." Sucide rates among trans youth decrease with gender-affirming therapy. Banning it will kill more kids.

@mgubrud @HistoryBoomer Nope Mark. If abortion doesn't kill 'em, the side effects from your trans treatment will. Prove me wrong. "The most common adverse event was suicidal ideation (in 11 participants [3.5%]); death by suicide occurred in 2 participants." nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

@HistoryBoomer Absolutely nothing there but first-order transphobic bigotry. Zero evidence of deep thought or knowledge. Above all, it is a call to compromise. With bigots.

@HistoryBoomer NEJM: 315 kids given gender affirming hormones. 11 attempted suicide and 2 actually killed themselves. Treatment deemed SUCCESSFUL because the survivors felt better about their appearance. This is with the best medical/social care possible. nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

On trans issues. 5/

@ByMHarrington With Ostlund and Helenius on the way up, I expected Krebs to be expendable in a trade package.

4 x 4.5 for Krebs is over-the-top in the 2021-23 flat cap world. In the 2026-30 world where numbers are over $100M, it's more than fine for both sides. Everyone has to adjust their thinking on the numbers. They're not what they used to be and they're only going to rise. #Sabres

@lymanstoneky Because the vendor of a critical $20 part is running flat out with no more room on the factory floor and doesn't want to spend a million dollars for a $100K follow on order, and the tooling has an 18 month lead time.

What it's actually saying is the US is essentially running out of Patriots.

@Rochester_Bee @wxbywilliams @johnrich Electricity is use it or lose it. There always has to be more on the grid than instantaneous demand like when you turn on a light. The excess gets continously run into the ground. Solar is a source just like power plants except it comes and goes on a whim.

I cannot get a consistent answer to these common sense questions regarding #NYS solar energy so I am asking @wxbywilliams, who always seems to have #ROC facts and stats. @johnrich Once the solar energy is harvested where does it go and how does it get there? Who benefits? ( Hasn’t shown up at my house ) With the open land of NYS compromised is there a direct benefit to the landowner or the community where the panels are located ?

Black English used to be a source of satiric comedy. Now some "experts" want it to be taught in preschool. x.com/nypost/status/… youtube.com/watch?v=RrZlWw…

@spotrac Byram was third best on the Sabres behind Dahlin and Samuelsson. Although it flew under the radar, Samuelsson was probably the most improved player in the league last year.

Bowen Byram's 6-year, $75 million extension with the #Blackhawks currently makes him the highest average paid NHL defenseman for the 2027-28 season (when the deal begins).

@wokal_distance I'm convinced that if Dr. Martin Luther King lived long enough, he'd be relegated to the race theory dumpster along with Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas.

1/ This reminds me of a story about the influential Critical Theorist and Marxist Theodore Adorno. Adorno had spent almost his entire career theorizing about how to tear down western capitalism and replace it with some form of Marxism, Communism, or socialism.

@KBAndersen 3/3 is your answer. If SCOTUS ruled otherwise, I believe the term you are looking for is fascist dictatorship. Maybe a benevolent King. The role of the SCOTUS is not to implement social policy that Congress/Executive fail to do. These are courts of law, not courts of justice.

Among fixes a Democratic- majority Congress could do: • Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act so cancellation of Temporary Protected Status gets judicial review • Give law-abiding TPS folks who settled here long ago dedicated humanitarian visas or permanent residence 3/3

What a hellishly cruel and stupid mess SCOTUS has enabled. Most or the 1.3M legally resident people they’re letting Trump deport have lived here 15+ years. Average age 42. They’re parents to 273,000 U.S. citizen kids. 30% have mortgages. 1/3

@geneseedave @ByMHarrington The legendary...

@RickArnonal @ByMHarrington What player besides Simmonds waived? I'm still curious on others, haha.

GMJK said a couple agents have told him their players have changed no-trade lists and taken Buffalo off of it. #Sabres

@geneseedave @ByMHarrington I checked sources other than puckpedia (which appears to be incorrect), so you are the winner!

@RickArnonal @ByMHarrington Wait a minute! x.com/reporterchris/…

@ArlineL0 @rachbarnhart Rachel's mom thinks her daughter was unfairly kept out of the National Honor Society and gets a feature article with a large photograph in the newspaper. Rachel is the epitome of #WhitePrivilege. Bar none.

I had never seen this before and it explains so much!! @rachbarnhart’s mother is responsible for turning her God awful HOMELY daughter into a narcissist that Rochester loves to hate 😂

@alex_fasulo Solar and wind are INTERMITTENT. When the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, you still need ALL of your existing fossil fuel plants.

I need you to look at this map out of Montgomery County, posted by Meghan M Manion, their county attorney, yesterday. Do you understand the CUMULATIVE impacts of what ORES is doing to rural counties in Upstate NY? Right now, Montgomery County, against its will, is being sited for over 18,800 acres of solar panels. Remember that 1 acre = roughly equals the size of a football field. And for context, a Walmart Supercenter plus its parking and setbacks come to around 19-21 acres. The average size of an entire village in Upstate NY comes to around 1,200 acres. You are looking at 18,800 acres of solar. Is your mind able to conceive the size of that? It isn't. Our brains can't comprehend the catastrophic sprawl conceptually, which is why this map should help you see that if all of this solar is allowed to be built, the rural way of life, rural businesses, retail stores, agrotourism, designated habitat, endangered species, and Amish communities will be obliterated. That's why Montgomery County, thanks to Meghan M Manion and the towns of Root, Glen, and Canajoharie, continue to sue ORES over the forcible siting of its projects. The towns said NO to these solar complexes. ORES doesn't care. This should be national news. Our home rule has been devoured by faceless bureaucrats in Albany in the name of "green" energy.

The great irony of the LA Times publishing a rhapsody about foreigner visitors finding everything deplorable is what makes America great. I don't see our visitors waxing poetic over rainbow stripes in the streets or drag queen reading hours.

@rachbarnhart Rachel, the worst thing that can happen to a politician is for a problem to be solved. Government is about the only business where failure is rewarded with more money. Everything you are "fighting" for never seems to get solved no matter how much money is spent.

I hate when politicians say they’re quietly working and throw shade at politicians who are good at getting publicity for their work. Part of the job of an elected officials is connecting with people, showing proof of performance and COMMUNICATING.