Caroline Downey
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Reporter @NRO . Visiting fellow @IWF . 2022 Publius Fellow @ClaremontInst . Alumna @bostoncollege . Tips: cdowney @nationalreview .com.
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Today we laid my father, Captain Walter Daniel Downey Jr., to rest.
“And when our work is done
Our course on earth is run
May it be said, ‘Well done.
Be thou at peace.’
E'er may that line of gray
Increase from day to day
Live, serve, and die, we pray,
West Point, for thee.”
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🚨UPDATE from DeSantis's office on Disney call:
"Disney contacted our office today to speak with the governor. This is the first time we have heard from Disney regarding HB 1557. The governor did take the call from Mr. Chapek. The governor’s position has not changed."
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In your charity, please pray for my father, a Vietnam war vet, who is battling pancreatic cancer. He already beat lymphoma once after a grueling stem cell transplant at 79.
Warrior doesn’t begin to cover it❤️🇺🇸
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EXCLUSIVE: A trans-identifying male inmate at Washington state's women's prison who strangled & bludgeoned his mother then stabbed his father, both fatally, was found having sex with his female cellmate last week🧵
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Full statement from Jane's Revenge, announcing that it's "open season" on pro-life pregnancy centers.
Future measures "may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti," the terrorist group threatens.
Merrick Garland?????
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EXCLUSIVE: The Biden admin punished a clinical psychologist after she publicly opposed a trans policy that allows men into women’s medical spaces in the Veterans Administration🧵
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Spine-chilling transcript from May Hayat, a survivor of the Nova music festival by the Israel-Gaza border:
So I went to work with my girlfriend Liron at the bar in the Nova’s party, the whole night and morning we were together. We had so much fun.
There was a beautiful sunrise
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When will the day of reckoning come for the teachers' unions that said school re-opening was white supremacy?
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Natomas school board meeting is WILD. Furious parents calling for counseling for students who were taught by the pro-Antifa teacher. Parents calling for the school board's resignation, lawsuits, the teacher's arrest, criminal prosecution.
This is in CALIFORNIA.
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🚨🚨🚨
DeSantis has appointed six members, including
@realchrisrufo
, Hillsdale prof Matthew Spalding, and
@mark_bauerlein
to the New College of Florida’s Board of Trustees, directing the new conservative majority to recapture the progressive school.
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One year ago today the National School Board Association sent a letter asking President Biden to deploy the FBI against parents who protested at school board meetings and treat them as "domestic terrorists" under the Patriot Act. 🧵
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DoC Secretary Strange is responsible for a scandal at the WA women’s prison, where violent male felons are preying on vulnerable female inmates.
More on Strange soon.
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WA Department of Corrections Secretary Cheryl Strange is putting trans double-murderers like Amber FayeFox Kim in prison cells w/ vulnerable female inmates.
“Kim’s hands were on Nerton’s buttox in a spread open position while Kim’s erect penis was penetrating Nerton's Vagina."
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Pro-abort terrorist group Jane’s Revenge takes responsibility for firebombing the Buffalo pro-life pregnancy center:
"Through attacking we find joy. We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack. We promise to take increasingly drastic measures."
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Kim transferred to the women’s prison in 2021 under the DoC’s trans housing policy. The twisted practice leads to assault & rape in the women’s prison.
In 2021, a female inmate woke up to a trans inmate nicknamed “Jazzy” with an erection “touching her all over.”
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“Jazzy” groomed the girl for weeks, stroking fingers through her hair, flirting, & persistently making sexual advances until “finally she woke up to him molesting her.”
The former inmate who told the story said she was also sexually assaulted by a trans inmate.
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Pro-Palestine protesters are in Times Square shouting, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied”
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In 2021, a trans inmate called Princess Zoee Marie Andromeda Love was found in bed with a female inmate, both naked. The woman, Heather Trent, a victim of sexual assault, mentally challenged, with the disposition of a “little girl,” was housed in the prison’s mental-health unit.
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Three VA psychologists who work with rape victims wrote an op-ed opposing the department’s policy. Ten days later, the retaliation began.
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CA Department of Corrections forced a female inmate to live with a trans-identifying man she said was tied to the gang that sexually abused her as a child.
Alissa Kamholz: “There’s a 97 % chance that [he was] there in the building or even the room while I was being raped.”🧵
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First it was
@Riley_Gaines_
at the NCAA champs. Then the KKG women at U Wyoming, a story I broke. Then Abbigail Wheeler in her YMCA's women's locker room. Now the Roanoke women's swim team.
On all of these cases,
@IWF
is a voice for these disenfranchised women, & those to come
📺 WATCH:
@carolinedowney_
joined
@FoxNews
to discuss the
#FemaleAthletes
on the Roanoke College Women's Swim Team who are standing together in the fight to save women’s sports!
Take action to protect
#WomensSports
& demand fair play:
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Nina Silander, one of the authors, a primary-care psychologist at a VA outpatient clinic, was removed from her work as a psychologist & barred from contacting patients or colleagues. She was investigated on patient safety & care concerns. She had never had a complaint before.
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“What kind of care are veterans getting now?” Waldrep asked. “Most of the veterans are males. Are you here as a political activist, or do you care what the veterans are coming to you for?”
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To add insult to injury, in early February, the VA clinic scheduled a struggle session for staff to air their grievances about the op-ed. While that meeting was subsequently canceled, it made Silander feel like an outcast. Silander was reinstated last week.
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Remember when American Girl taught little girls history and strong values like friendship, courage, and selflessness?
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🚨Sixteen-year-old Abbigail Wheeler is correcting the record on how her family felt like they had no choice but to cancel their YMCA membership after she was banned from the facility for protesting a man in the women’s locker room.
@IWF
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For years, Waldrep has been outspoken against DEI insidiously infiltrating the VA. Waldrep was penalized by his outpatient clinic for challenging DEI in the VA. After he objected to racially segregated trauma groups, Waldrep was pulled into a three-hour fact-finding probe.
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The retaliation continued with co-author Edward Waldrep, a Purple Heart recipient & psychologist at Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center. He was kicked out of a VA LGBT-related chat in early Feb.
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Waldrep said veterans say they feel dismissed by VA psychologists. They confide in Waldrep because he’s a veteran. A psychologist recently hired in Waldrep’s department bragged her favorite pastime is “dismantling the patriarchy.”
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BREAKING: The New York Times union protest happening now in front of midtown headquarters
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oh you're uncomfortable? why?
Mike Lee is now graphically detailing abortion procedures. I'll spare you the clip.
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🚨🚨Ohio House votes 65-28 to override DeWine's veto of bills prohibiting child gender transition hormone therapy & surgery as well as boys in girls' sports
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This makes the GOP look even more out of touch. There’s a growing Gen-Z movement to get off the 💊
The list of potential risks for the 💊 is longer than a CVS receipt. Blood clots, stroke, depression, low libido & more.
And, birth control is big business, like abortion.
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can someone please explain to me why it's relevant to the Trump indictment that Jack Smith is a triathlete
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really powerful thread
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I've been a teenage girl and I'm in process of raising two of them. Nothing about the horrific rise of gender confusion in girls surprises me.
Puberty is an emotional tsunami for girls. Today they face a gross and degraded dating culture in which
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A judge has ruled that a sorority at the University of Wyoming will be forced to admit a man into its sisterhood.
To disallow the man would mean the female plaintiffs would "inject" their own "circumscribed definition" of "woman," the judge said.
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The 6 sorority girls fighting to keep
@KappaKappaGamma
exclusive to women are firing back at the male ‘sister’ who was inducted into their chapter last year in violation of bylaws. 🧵
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And that, folks, is how you win an election.
Glenn Youngkin: "This is our moment where we stand up for our children [...] And we decide that we in fact are going to be in charge of our children's education"
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The darkest, most disturbing installment of my detransitioner series for
@NRO
yet.
While the details are gut wrenching, it exposes the evil deception of so-called gender affirming care, I hope once and for all.🧵
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Pro-abortion group
@RuthSentUs
posted a Google Map pinning the addresses of "Extremist Justices" Barrett, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Roberts online with tag: "Where the six Christian fundamentalist Justices issue their shadow docket rulings."
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Grateful my parents raised me on artists and groups like Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys & The Eagles (gorgeous harmonies, introspective lyrics) so ik how to recognize musical cheapness
I salute you
@Heminator
for risking it all w this
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Months later, it was revealed that a first draft of the NSBA letter requested that the National Guard and military police be sent to quell parent protests.
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A mom went undercover in Trevor Space, the chat forum for LGBT youth hosted by
@TrevorProject
, searching for resources on detrans for her gender-confused child. She found none. Instead, she discovered a "Pandora's box" of depravity.🧵
My latest for
@NRO
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"Starting today, the ship is turning around. New College of Florida, under the governor’s new appointees, will be refocused on its founding mission of providing a world-class quality education with an exceptional focus on the classics," DeSantis press secy
@BryanDGriffin
told me.
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@TulsiGabbard
tonight at CPAC: "Those in power see themselves as the high priests in a secular theocracy. This explains why they see those who disagree with them as heretics."
🔥🔥🔥
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New Florida state seal just dropped.
No step on chomp🐊
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It's 10:30 p.m. CT and the Chicago Teachers' Union is STILL counting votes to determine whether its members will illegally strike against in-person teaching and take classes remotely in Chicago Public Schools tomorrow. Students and parents are in the dark.
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The Babylon Bee is in Twitter jail for telling a joke that challenged transgenderism. To be freed, Twitter is demanding the Bee concede that they engaged in hateful behavior by stating biological fact.
My interview with
@SethDillon
for National Review:
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The New York Times almost a year apart.
Today from Pamela Paul: "Transgender activists have pushed their own ideological extremism, especially by pressing for a treatment orthodoxy that has faced increased scrutiny...clinicians are expected to affirm a young person’s assertion
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Since the infamous letter, 30 state school board association chapters downgraded their relationship with the NSBA, and 26 severed ties altogether.
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Customers lined around the block for coffee at Caffe Aronne in the UES singing, “Am Yisrael Chai,” as the owner greets everyone.
“We got a lot of applications,” he said after baristas quit en masse because of his support for Israel.
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State backlash like this reminds me why America is special. The avalanche of state outrage when federalism is violated...it's a beautiful thing.
26 state school boards associations have now distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association.
14 of those states (purple) have discontinued membership, participation, and/or dues because of the NSBA's actions.
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Dr. Jack Turban has dedicated much of his psychiatry career to affirming treatment of pediatric gender-identity disorders. But critics have wondered whether his research reflects scientific curiosity and discovery or confirmation bias and an axe to grind🧵
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Wise teacher, captain of the military & his family, music man, adoring husband, unapologetic patriot, man of god, happy warrior.
I never will forget him, for he made me what I am. Though he may be gone, memory lingers on. And I miss him, the old man
Requiesce in pace, dad🕊
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first father’s day without my dad
I miss his grumpy voice telling me to get a grip, his tales of war, west point & CT, & his goofy adages
A few:
1. When the going gets tough, the tough get going
2. If u think u can, or u think u can’t, you’re right
3. You can’t fix stupid
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what an incredible W for Virginia
Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears: "Parents are asking to be given the vouchers so that they can decide where to send their children."
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On October 1,
@DefendingEd
sent a letter to the NSBA condemning their letter, signed by 20 other parent organizations from across the country.
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🚨NEW:
@KappaKappaGamma
national headquarters has KICKED OUT 2 prominent alumna after they advocated in the media on behalf of the 6 University of Wyoming female students who sued the sorority after a man was admitted into their chapter
@IWF
Me in
@NRO
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I’m beyond thrilled to join the first class of Logos Fellows! ⚔️
The Manhattan Institute Announces its Inaugural Cohort of Logos Fellows
Working with
@realchrisrufo
, Logos Fellows will pursue journalistic projects that have the potential to change American public life for the better.
We're pleased to announce the selection of our inaugural
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🚨FIVE local city councils in the UK have set up "buffer zones" that restrict speech within a certain radius of abortion clinics.
In the Bournemouth buffer zone, "prayer or counseling" is criminalized. It is also an offense to "genuflect" or "cross themselves."
Police in the UK arrest a woman for silently praying:
"Are you praying?"
"I might be praying in my head."
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DeSantis aims to transform NCF into a Florida
@Hillsdale
that delivers quality classical higher ed.
"It is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida’s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South," -
@JamesUthmeierFL
, DeSantis Chief of Staff
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I’m at a loss for words- you’re doing God’s work MMO
@MaryMargOlohan
Thank you to
@IngrahamAngle
for allowing me to share
@realDailyWire
's reporting on the aborted baby bodies found here in DC and my experience going to Washington Surgi Clinic on Thursday, where I encountered a woman in the middle of her abortion.
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A
@DefendingEd
public records request uncovered that the NSBA letter was written in coordination with the White House, and specifically at the behest of U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.
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Not the Hail Mary I would have gone with but ok
Randi Weingarten spoke at Terry McAuliffe's rally tonight
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To justify its ask for unprecedented federal intervention a year ago, the NSBA cited 24 examples of 'threats' leveled by parents against school board members.
But the vast majority of referenced incidents didn't qualify as threats of physical violence🤔
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"we ask the questions"
Unreal.
In which
@mattwalshblog
leaves an elected Democrat absolutely speechless with one simple question. This clip is stunning.
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I'm tired of seeing Autism be used as an epithet. It's simply untrue. My brother has a photographic memory. Having Asperger's is a strength, indeed a beautiful one, not a defect.
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After you've demonized parental involvement in education for two years, righttttttt. Nobody's buying it!
Happy
#NationalParentsDay
! A major factor in student success is an involved support system outside of school. When parents are involved in their children’s education, kids do better in school!
#WeAreCTA
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I lost my dad 2 months ago. This makes my blood boil.
If stores won't make Pride month optional, then they better not make honoring fathers- the literal bedrock of society- optional. Absolute lunacy that fathers come in second place.
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America's students need you on the front lines of K-12.
Here's a crisis you should feel compelled to address: math and literacy proficiency plummeted this year due to school closures you supported. You desert children when you put union politics and other issues above education.
Woke up this am to reports of disgusting Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Lviv & other cities.Heading to the border now to assess the situation. This Russian attempt to frighten civilians & the effect on children (who are learning online today) is why this 🇺🇦 trip is so important
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🚨The Coalition for Thomas Jefferson has won its lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools.🚨
The court found that FCPS' equity admissions policy discriminated on the basis of race, specifically against Asian-American students.
W.
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Thank you again
@megynkelly
for having me on the
@MegynKellyShow
to discuss the decline of U.S. Women’s Soccer.
Let’s hope the team stops with the woke distractions - disrespecting the flag & gender activism- and keeps their eye on the ball ⚽️
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NEW: A British man said he was pressured into genital reconstructive surgery by a U.K. gender clinic.
In order to continue psychological counseling,
@TullipR
had to go under the knife, he said. The negative complications and regret still haunt him.🧵
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Yeah, I’m sure people will leave the free state with no income tax, low cost of living, and high quality of life in droves just so they can say the word “gay,” which isn’t even banned in FL
BREAKING:
@NYCMayor
announces a new digital billboard campaign in five Florida markets denouncing the hateful
#DontSayGay
law and inviting Floridians to move to New York.
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The CA DOC re-traumatized a battered woman by putting her in a prison cell with a man connected to predators from her past.
“I feel like even being sentenced to prison was easier than having to deal with that.”
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fellas if she: is invading your space, getting militant, and gaslighting you into thinking she owns you
that's not your girl, that's Russia
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why the disdain for community college? dripping with gross elitism
Jimmy Kimmel just scorched earth on Aaron Rodgers!
“A guy who went to community college, then got into Cal on a football scholarship & didn’t graduate… Aaron Rodgers got two A’s on his report card, and they were both in the word, ‘Aaron’.”
@jimmykimmel
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🚨The Romeikes started homeschooling after they found satanism & witchcraft in the public school books...until German police took custody of the kids to force them to attend public school
After living in Tenn. for 15 yrs, the U.S. govt is deporting them:
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Beyond high-profile K-12 and university cases, female professional and amateur athletes in niche sports such as cycling, boxing, and skateboarding are fighting to protect their arenas from male interference. 🧵
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Can we stop pretending there is such a thing as "your truth." There is only THE truth.
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the soccer moms have been mobilized🚀
@rweingarten
NEW Virginia Governor's Race Poll:
(Parents of K-12 Children)
Terry McAuliffe: 39%
Glenn Youngkin: 56%
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This is so utterly bizarre. If we lived in a normal political moment, this kid would retire to private life in peace. The judicial system reached its conclusion, can we let it rest? What a strange time to be alive.
Hesitate to post this, but do we realize who we are becoming? This is absurd. It’s one thing to say a young man who made foolish decisions should be declared legally innocent. Another to turn him into a traveling folk hero. Not to mention what this will do to him, personally.
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The
@NewCollegeofFL
has in recent years expanded its DEI initiatives, including its gender studies program, gender diversity center, & Black History Month.
Gender Studies majors complete an internship with an ideologically-oriented organization, such as Planned Parenthood.
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Trans activists are after Hogwarts Legacy again, and this time they've launched an online witch hunt targeting Twitch streamers who play the game. 🧵
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They replace "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" with "equality," "merit," and "colorblindness."
They will hire new professors credentialed in constitutionalism, free enterprise, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, & American principles.
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It’s a huge honor and privilege to join this incredible class of women as a visiting fellow with
@IWF
!!
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McAuliffe can take a seat
New Virginia polling: "Should parents or school boards have more of an influence in the school's curriculum?"
Parents: 52%
School Boards: 33%
Unsure: 16%
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Following the Cass report, the UK has taken steps towards gender sanity. America needs to get with the program, and stop disenfranchising women and sacrificing children for the cult. My debut in
@Telegraph
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"DeSantis is leading the nation in educational reform and post-secondary responsibility,"
@Hillsdale
prof Matthew Spalding told National Review.
"A good liberal arts education is truly liberating and opens the minds and forms the character of good students and good citizens."
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