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@jk_rowling It should go without saying you’re right. But in today’s world you have to say it. Dead on correct. You need to suffer( and probably be poor) to understand what it means to be an adult and take responsibility for your actions

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days. Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created. When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said. The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison? I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges. The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest. Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

This is terrible and we wish him well. However, for prostate cancer to get to the point of being metastatic and being missed on history (He’s 82 and had previous cancer which is a risk factor for other cancers), digital rectal exam which is standard on all complete physical exams, and blood tests like a PSA which is also standard seems surprising More likely is they didn’t look closely enough for whatever reason

Agreed 100%

@BRICSinfo And you believe it?

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China says it will ignore the meaningless number games by the United States.

@LegitTargets The middle of the bottom is still the bottom

🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 BREAKING: CHINA'S MIDDLE CLASS is now LARGER than the entire population of the US

@anders_aslund I think you’re playing into his hands

What I cannot understand is why Trump is doing whatever he can to destroy the US. I see 3 alternative explanations: 1. Trump is truly dumb. 2. Trump works for Putin. 3. Trump is so corrupt that he does not care about the US. What do you think?

@BRICSinfo Because China must make a deal with the USA

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US President Trump says he will make a deal with China.

@RogerJStoneJr Now that’s funny And clever

Senator Chris Van Hollen

@BRICSinfo And Americans will buy less of things they don’t really need and shop elsewhere for things they do

Chinese founded e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they will raise prices for US customers in response to President Trump's tariffs.

@GuntherEagleman They don’t care about him They think they have a winning political issue They are reading the room wrong

Senator Whitehouse wants Boasberg to award Abrego Garcia with millions and permanently bring him back to America because he's been deported to his home country. Do you understand who the Democrats are now?

@bluhue123 Yes They will quietly make a deal with Trump administration. And all the rest will do the same to keep getting money from the federal government.

Barack Obama: "Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions.” "Let's hope other institutions follow suit." Do you agree with Obama? Yes or No

@BRICSinfo So they say

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China's GDP grew 5.4% in Q1 2025, exceeding expectations.

@TrungTPhan They will have to use their pirated versions

BREAKING: In response to the Nvidia H20 chip ban…China will no longer allow Facebook, Google, X, Snap, YouTube, Pinterest, Netflix, Spotify, Instagram, Reddit, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Linkedin, G-Mail, Wikipedia, Zoom, Friendster, AskJeeves and MySpace to operate in the country.

@Resisting313392 The podium has trouble supporting him

Do you still support him?

@upholdreality That’s what China says

🇨🇳 Victor Gao: "China is making sure that the U.S. gets the message. If you want to impose war on China, you get war. If you want to destroy China, you get destroyed... China won't be pushed around. We will fight to the end, peacefully or otherwise. The choice is in Washington."

@ChrisVanHollen You are being played

I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Admin can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should've never been abducted. I won't rest until then.

@donwinslow Posturing

China has done more in a week to say FU to Trump than most Democrats in Congress have done in four years.

@donkoclock He overplayed his hand and gave Trump an excuse to go to the Supreme Court and limit his power and every other District judge He took the bait Not smart

Breaking - U.S. District Judge Boasberg said in an order that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt over their deportation flights to El Salvador; Potential for criminal charges. Drop a 💙 for James Boasberg on standing up to the bully.

@FanJDVance Yul Brynner impersonator

What should Alejandro Mayorkas's next job be?

@AntiLeftMemes You can fool some of the people all of the time

@Sassafrass_84 I just don’t understand why they are dressed like X-Men

Call me a conspiracy all ya want, but this looks so fake. Why would anybody send Katy Perry or Lauren Sanchez into space? A publicity stunt? Empowering women? Idk, but the whole thing screams like a really bad movie. Just my opinion.