Catherine Dubuque 🐉

Belatedly, a government guidance document upholds the Supreme Court ruling that a woman is – guess what? – a woman. 70 MPs have signed a rearguard motion opposing it. Presumably they think a man is a woman if he says he is. Among them is Layla Moran, for whom I used to vote.

@RichardDawkins The astonishing thing is that quite intelligent and well educated people believe that men really can change into women. Here is a world class medic making the point as strongly as he can. FOUR years ago! youtube.com/watch?v=LGR_pN…

Exactly right

You have to be 16 to drive. You have to be 18 to vote. You have to be 21 to drink. You have to be 25 to rent a car. Why are teachers talking to our kids about sexuality at 12? Why are kids encouraged to mutilate their bodies at 13? This gender ideology madness needs to end.

After being fired from CBS, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley yesterday said that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.” Those are remarkable claims for which Pelley presented no evidence. Indeed, it would be extraordinary for CBS to demand such things of a correspondent, either verbally or in writing, given the reputational risk to the network. A more likely explanation is that Pelley disagreed with someone at CBS and then declared a difference of opinion to be a demand to lie. Support for this interpretation comes from the fact that he claimed Tuesday that CBS’s new management, led by Bari Weiss, was trying to kill “60 Minutes,” something for which he also did not provide evidence. Moreover, the accusation makes no sense. CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss took the job to rebuild CBS News, not to wreck it, and a ruined “60 Minutes” would hurt her. Paramount’s owners did not pay billions for the network to burn its best asset for spite. So the simpler reading is that Pelley is the one stretching the truth. Doing so appears to be a habit for Pelley. He told The New York Times, “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq,” but being in a combat zone as a journalist is not the same as being “in combat.” The remark is yet more evidence of Pelley’s propensity to exaggerate to the point of lying. For decades, mainstream liberal journalists have displayed remarkable levels of arrogance, even as they get major stories wrong. Consider the case of CBS News’ former anchor Dan Rather. In the fall of 2004, two months before the election, Rather presented documents purporting to show favoritism in George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Experts called them forgeries. CBS apologized: “We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry,” Rather said. On air, he added, “I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry.” But then, a decade later, Rather told Variety he still stands “100 percent” behind the report and reframed the apology. Or consider NBC’s Katie Couric. In her 2016 documentary “Under the Gun,” editors inserted roughly eight to nine seconds of silence after she asked Virginia gun owners how to keep guns from felons and terrorists without background checks, making them look stumped. The raw audio revealed that they answered immediately. Couric’s first instinct was to defend what she did, saying she was “very proud of the film.” Only after sustained backlash did she apologize. In her 2021 memoir “Going There,” Couric admitted she cut Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest anthem-kneeling comments from her 2016 interview. Ginsburg had said kneeling players showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.” NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in the spring of 2020, aired a clip of Attorney General Bill Barr that omitted part of his answer, misleading the public. When Catherine Herridge interviewed Barr for CBS Evening News, she asked what history would say about his decision to drop the case against a former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn. The Obama administration’s FBI had illegally targeted Flynn for entrapment and prosecution. Barr replied that ”history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.” "Meet the Press'" anchor at the time, Chuck Todd, said on air that Barr “didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.’” But “Meet the Press” had left out the second part of Barr’s answer to Herridge, in which he said, “But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law.” The safeguards the journalism profession built against error did not work when it mattered. The corrections, the editors, the fact-checkers, and the standards desks all sat in place while the press got the border, trans medicine, climate, the sixth extinction, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, Covid and much else wrong. Gerth described how reporters sought to “shoot the messenger” rather than grapple with evidence contradicting the Russia collusion narrative... x.com/shellenberger/… Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism and to read the full article!

@Jacqkelly You can perform as many sexual services for men, like undressing with them, as you like. Many women earn a good living doing that! However, all other women and girls have the right not to consent to unpaid sex work. I am sure you know that.

@avidseries Wow. Did not expect this from Cato.

In the mid-80s, Kansas City Public Schools spent more than $1.5 billion (over $40,000 per student) to close race achievement gaps — spending the most in the nation per pupil and twice as much as in nearby suburbs — but black student test scores did not improve. It was the most any school district had ever spent on trying to improve black student achievement. To pay for this exercise in blank slate futility property tax rates were eventually doubled. cato.org/commentary/ame…

@chosen_the43436 @avidseries When my daughter created her college application list, her target schools required an ACT math score of 32 (or 98th percentile). This wasn’t even a question.

@avidseries Why would ANY institution of higher learning accept students who couldn’t even do grade school or middle school math??? How do these people get into institutions of higher learning, and what is the motive for institutions of higher learning to admit them?

The data: "At UC San Diego, the number of freshmen failing to meet high-school math standards grew nearly 30-fold between 2020 and 2025. By fall 2025, 1 of 12 entering students was placed into remedial math to learn material taught in elementary and middle school.”

See, this is why I find Walsh impossible to dislike, despite his sledgehammer "theocratic fascist" views. Did any person have more success puncturing the thin absurd facade of the most insane cultural movement of our time? Did anybody do it better?

@avidseries Speechless

@mattvanswol @camusrocks The SYSTEM failed her daughter? No, YOU failed your daughter shame on you and your sociopathic family

Her name was Dominique Moody. She was 6 years old. She was locked in a dog crate and starved for over a year in Charlotte NC. She was bound in duct tape. Wrapped in plastic. She was bitten by rats in a home with no heat and feces in every room. She weighed just 27 pounds when she passed away. Her "caretakers" forced little Dominique to watch them eat, while starving her. They made her sit in her own urine and feces until she had open wounds. When police found her, she had multiple broken bones. Burns. Open wounds and scars across most of her body. She lived like that for OVER A YEAR. Police were called to the house 50 TIMES before she died. Nothing happened. The women who were her "caretakers" were arrested 10 PREVIOUS TIMES. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if Bari Weiss is the right person to turn around CBS News' fortunes, but if her only accomplishment is ridding us of these insufferable windbags, her tenure will be a success.

@jan_murray Sick fuck

Awww … it’s another one of those poor misunderstood gents the likes of Stella Creasy and Nadia Whittome apparently feel so sorry for. Fancy women and girls saying ‘no’ to all men in their single sex spaces. So there’s no chance of fellas like this getting in. Bigots 🙄

@marycatedelvey Elvis

Does he look like an “Ellie?”

Yes

@WomenReadWomen Easy peasy. Horrible

@reduxx Can't get over the fact that this mf called himself "Aurora" and the DOC Gender identity Committee (🥴) just said, "Ok!"

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Female inmates at Minnesota's only women's prison have come forward to reveal that they are being forced to share a shower with a violent trans-identified male. The inmates say their complaints to prison staff are being ignored. reduxx.info/exclusive-fema…

Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer. Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.

I’ve only worked for 3 companies at 3 radio stations in a 29-year run & had 6 great bosses, & only 2 real crappy ones (both of whom I far outlasted, I would humbly tell you), BUT I do know this: 1. If you tell your immediate superior he/she will never be welcomed by you or other staff… AND, 2. You accuse that boss’s boss of “murdering” the flagship show of the department…. …THEN get a chance to come back the next day & own just a percentage of blame for a heated moment, & refuse!…. You should be fired & will be fired. Every single time. Without exception.