Stephen Ferguson

Source also confirmed to me Stephen Miller is close to the groups behind Canary Mission and Betar.

This is from 2018, about the board of the nonprofit believed to operate Canary Mission in Israel.

1: "I am absolutely convinced that an unprecedented and very dangerous line has been crossed”
2: "We cannot​ and will not comply with this unjust law”
3 wrote that Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs”
4 asked his flock to join him in the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

The question isn’t whether a federal court can order the Salvadoran government to release Garcia; it can’t.

It’s whether the U.S. government has the ability to secure Garcia’s release. If so, then it can be ordered to do so, because then Garcia is in the “constructive” custody of the United States.

Only “cringe” can ultimately defeat evil, only acts of sincerity without cynicism or ironic distance

obama was pilloried for months for having attended reverend jeremiah "god damn america" wright's church, meanwhile jd vance can have dms full of in-depth discussions about esoteric nazism and vril, and nobody says a word. don't let anybody tell you that racism isn't real

New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.

The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!

This is the power of representation.

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

A screenshot of a legal brief by the new Trump administration, which reads: “Plaintiffs Are Not Likely to Succeed on the Merits. As to the merits, the Citizenship Clause provides: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. Under the plain terms of the Clause, birth in the United States does not by itself entitle a person to citizenship. The person must also be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Id. Contrary to Plaintiffs' overheated rhetoric, that phrase does not mean simply being subject to federal jurisdiction to tax or regulate someone. Among the many reasons why Plaintiffs' position is incorrect, the term "subject to the jurisdiction thereof' in the Fourteenth Amendment harks to tandem language in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, ch. 31, 14 Stat. 27. The Supreme Court has interpreted the Act and the Amendment coterminously, explaining that the Act served as the "initial blueprint" for the Amendment, Gen. Bldg. Contractors Ass'n v. Pennsylvania, 458 U.S. 375, 389 (1982), and that the Amendment in turn "provide[d] a constitutional basis for protecting the rights set out" in the Act, McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 775 (2010). The Act provided, as relevant here, that "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." § 1, 14 18 Stat. at 27 (emphasis added). The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the Fourteenth Amendment is best read to exclude the same individuals who were excluded by the Act—i.e., those who are "subject to any foreign power" and "Indians not taxed."”

They’re really going for it:

A position that no government lawyer ever took during the first Trump administration because they felt they couldn’t get away with it is suddenly legally defensible.

Government says the plaintiffs’ argument from precedent amounts to “overheated rhetoric.”

Excerpt from Trump executive order: (d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) "Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.

Nothing shows the fundamental dishonesty of the “anti-DEI” folks like Hegseth getting hearings to run the nation’s largest bureaucracy. He’s an unqualified drunken defender of war criminals, credibly accused of sexual assault and reported for extremism by his military peers. He is merit’s inverse.

look at the dates on these articles. (my point is not that anyone in weimar germany was reading the NYT. My point is about approaches to coverage that are stupid and evil)

More Republican legislators arrested for bathroom miscond... More Republican lawmakers face bathroom misconduct arrest...

"More Republican legislatots have been arrested for bathroom misconduct than trans people"

www.complex.com/life/a/amand...

And this is all completely different from academic freedom, which regards the right of higher ed faculty to research/publish/teach without interference from the government, administration, etc.

Like a lot of conservative free speech discourse, this idea conflates freedom of conscience with free speech (and then makes conscience = the right to be uncivil and discriminate...).

We require certain kinds of speech all the time in this country, e.g., product labeling requirements

Judge Rejects Biden’s Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students The decision threw out the administration’s proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.

Judge Reeves wrong that "the First Amendment does not permit the government to chill speech or compel affirmance [sic] of a belief with which the speaker disagrees"

Education isn't public discourse. Rather, it regularly requires certain speech, which is why there's no 1A defense to poor grades

Paging Ross Douthat

New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

And there's evidence to the contrary! Trump did surprisingly well with young men but he did not win those who said things like "I worry I can't afford a house or kids" -- he won those who said things like "trans men aren't really men"

youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/new-survey...

This is giving Socrates in Symposium

THREAD. It will be interesting to see how the public's understanding of the propaganda term "terrorism" evolves as prosecutors and police try to brand Luigi Mangione a "terrorist."

One of the great Justices

youtu.be/sGArqoF0TpQ?...

Truly a fascinating nation. My (more limited) encounter has been through my love of Erazim Kohák. The Embers and the Stars is brilliant. More on these points though is Hearth and Horizon (as symbols of cultural particularity and global humanity, encapsulating Czech national identity)

This was so good. I had no idea of the personal source of his humane politics; it fits so seamlessly with his intellectual approaches

President Masaryk once told Karel Čapek, who is the source of the word "robot," “My socialism is simply love of neighbour, humanity."

Through cyberpunk, Howell helps us think through what it means to be human, to live humanely, even as we're slowly being turned into the machines we live on

Read it

From New York Times v Sullivan to ABC < Trump