Today I'm launching my own clothing brand. It's the only athletic brand to stand up for female athletes and the protection of women's sports.
It's called XX-XY Athletics.
I hope you'll join us.
@xx_xyathletics
@Riley_Gaines_
@PaulaYScanlan
@icons_women
My husband gave blood today. They only test the unvaxxed for antibodies & if they have them, they use their blood as treatment for those at risk of adverse outcomes. Why can't they use blood of vaxxed who also had Covid? Real question for MDs. What's wrong with vaxxed blood?
It feels a tad bit excessive to be in an official state of emergency while CA hosts the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Oscars and the governor goes on a book tour.
The CDC is finally acknowledging that vaxx status has zero to do with transmission.
Families have been destroyed, some members refusing to see others who aren’t “fully vaccinated.” Aunties who’ve not met nieces & nephews. Grandmas who haven’t met grandchildren. Thanks
@CDCgov
Up until Feb '20 if asked about my politics I would have said left of left of center. But as I've watched "progressive" leaders destroy public education, deny kids access to public life, ruin small businesses, demonize a segment of the population to divide us...
They lied about everything. Lockdowns, masks, vaccines.
They’re still lying. Saying we never had a lockdown. Saying we never promised vax prevented infection. Saying we didn’t force compliance. Saying we never lied.
Question. Resist. Speak up. Use your voice.
Apparently I'm a "Conservative" now because I think school closures are a tragedy that will have long lasting impacts on this generation of kids. Since when is advocating for kids a solely conservative value? I thought prioritizing & nurturing children was a "human" value?
.
@GavinNewsom
kept churches closed because he doesn't go to church. He opened wineries because he owns a winery. He likes wine. He doesn't like church.
He kept public schools closed because his children don't go to public school. They go to private school and attended in person…
He's a liar.
He knew early on.
He sent his kids to private school and camps unmasked.
He had dinner with friends while restaurants were closed.
He had the Super Bowl while kids were masked in school.
He knew. It just didn't affect him.
Some days I wake up & I still can’t believe I lost my job because I said children should get to go to school. Public school kids, not just those in private school.
It’s just so dumb. And
@LeviStraussCo
is just ridiculous for having done it.
We're not paranoid.
We were blacklisted.
We were censored.
We were fired & ousted from our jobs.
We were called terrorists & murderers.
We lost friends & colleagues.
We were interrogated.
We were vilified as "conspiracy theorists" for saying things now accepted as true.…
This is dystopian.
The CDC just lowered the standard for speech in early childhood development.
Instead of highlighting the harmful effects masking & social isolation have had on small children the CDC just lowered the bar. Presto! No impact!
Weekly reminder, in Denver where I live, adults can go to large scale sporting events, night clubs, the mall, bars & strip clubs unmasked. But 2 year olds learning to speak need to mask for 8 hours a day in pre school and daycare. Does anyone really think this makes sense?
I spent Friday night w a childhood friend who is hard of hearing. She communicates by reading lips. The past 2 yrs have been unspeakably isolating for her. She resorted to just staying home all the time. She’s single & lives alone. She welled up thinking about kids…1/2
.
@elonmusk
spent billions to bring free speech to Twitter. Advertisers are boycotting the platform.
I fought for public schools to open & got pushed out of my job at Levi's.
SBF stole billions. He's speaking on stage at the
@dealbook
summit today.
Make it make sense.
I am pro-science. That's why I'm anti-mask. And the landmark Cochrane study shows that the mask skeptics like me were right all along.
My latest in
@TheSpectator
.
Are we still supposed to hate the unvaccinated? Feels like we’ve moved on but I’m having trouble keeping up with who I’m supposed to direct my vitriol at…
Because of this tweet, Daniel Kotzin was permanently banished from Twitter.
He stated a fact and then expressed his opinion of that fact.
@elonmusk
- why has my husband still not been allowed back on the platform? Why is Twitter still suppressing free speech?
This NYT headline is now my resume =
1. Demonstrates foresight
2. Undeterred by false narratives
3. Unafraid to do the right thing
4. Data informed
5. Decisive
6. Influences effectively
7. Leverages power of social media
8. Leads
“It’s easy to say ‘be authentic’ or ‘stand up for what you believe in,’ but it isn’t actually easy to do. Our hope is to inspire others to undertake this journey.” I meant that.
Everyone hemming & hawing about how they're gonna have to endure abuse for continuing to wear a mask from those who choose to drop them - you don't get it. We don't care what you do. We just want to go about our lives. You wanted to tell us what to do, not the other way around.
Whatever your feelings are about who should be allowed to participate in women’s sports, the way
@Riley_Gaines_
was harassed, bullied and attacked at SFSU is unacceptable.
#IStandWithRileyGaines
I’m sorry & I know it sucks but girls & women need to stand down, refuse to compete, in order to stand up for female athletes. It must be done.
I do understand the sacrifice.
But it’s the only way to end this.
#StandDownToStandUp
#SaveWomensSports
Philly has announced that 3-5 year olds will be masked for the upcoming year.
Kids in NY public schools who aren't vaccinated can't play sports.
Rutgers announced they are keeping masks in all classrooms.
Kids are still being forced to carry an undue burden.
This isn't over.
.
@DrPhil
is 100000000% right & these women of
@TheView
are total hacks in addition to being quite dim.
Give it up ladies. Everyone now acknowledges school closures were an unmitigated disaster — except, of course, those completely blinded by ideology.
“They cut limbs and genitals, they raped, they abused corpses. There were sadistic sexual acts.”
@UNWomenWatch
can’t muster a statement condemning the rape of Israeli women & girls.
Is there a women’s organization that has forcefully condemned it?
I get a lot of DMs from dads (often executives) who say — thanks for standing up for our kids. I couldn’t because I’m the breadwinner. Appreciate that you did.
I’m the sole breadwinner too. We needed you. We could have been a sizable cohort. Don’t be cowed into silence. We are…
Yes that’s exactly what happened.
People were arrested at beaches in CA. Ticketed for surfing. Playgrounds in SF were closed for 8+ months. If you dared enter, “good citizens” (aka snitches) called the police & they actually came. Basketball hoops were removed, skate ramps…
Closed beaches. No surfing. Closed playgrounds. No youth sports. Closed parks. Boarded up basketball hoops. Closed skate parks. Closed public schools. Masking toddlers. Plexi dividers which increased, not decreased spread.
Public Health leaders were wrong on so many counts.
.
@LeviStraussCo
— you claim the reason I was pushed out of my job is that I criticized public health guidelines. Like vaxx mandates furthering the false notion that there is no such thing as natural immunity. How many people were denied an exemption for natural immunity that you…
My 4 yr old daughter was sick with a bug this week. I did what any parent would have done pre Covid. I held her & slept by her side. What cruelty to isolate a small child when sick. I don’t understand how some can recommend this & how any parent can follow through with it.
I was in Greeley, CO today interviewing a 16 year old for a documentary film about the impact of school closures.
At 13, she was left to care for 2 younger siblings.
She was stuck at home with an abuser.
She stopped attending classes.
At 15, she dropped out of high school.…
AFT President Randi Weingarten: "We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools."
I’ve tried very hard to be diplomatic over the last two years. I lost friends, family and my job anyway. I don’t know why I bothered to try for delicacy and discretion. Perhaps I should abandon it now? Just let ‘er rip?
🚨🚨Department of Education released changes to Title IX today.
The new final rules re-write discrimination as "based on stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex characteristics.”
But not actual sex.
They are eliminating sex-based categories and distinctions.…
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone said to me:
I got all my boosters and I always wear a mask ... and now I have covid. Again!! How?
When does the💡moment happen?
Hey
@Twitter
… what exactly is misinformation here?
-FDA approved ✅
-suspended in other countries for under 30 ✅
-now giving in US to babies ✅
Perhaps admit you just suspend people who say things you don’t like.
@elonmusk
look 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
All the words are violence people from fancy universities, corporate DEI departments, and leftie activists groups seem to now think real barbarous violence isn't violence. Rather it is euphemized as "de-colonization."
They think misgendering should be a crime but raping and…
I honestly don’t think it’s too much to ask to say please don’t refer to me this way. Bleeder? Really? Who is this helping? In what world is this respectful and considerate? Who is being respected and considered with this language?
I will never get over the cruelty inflicted by those who were so confident & morally righteous as they doubled down on their grotesque and inhumane actions.
*people locked in quarantine hotels
*family members kept from dying loved ones
*old people left to die scared and…
Gates admits schools shouldn’t have shut down for a year and a half. We knew enough by mid 2020 latest. To say we didn’t know is a lie. But data was ignored and those citing it were vilified. Who’s going to own this devastating policy? Sadly… no one.
Bill Gates admits that shutting down schools was a bad call; it didn’t stop case growth and the education deficit will take years to recover from.
Lockdown skeptics were right again and punished for it.
The day after my husband testified against the Surgeon General about censorship of his Twitter account he was permanently suspended for ‘misleading & harmful information.’
Today my friend Emma Woodhouse was permanently suspended with no reason given.
@elonmusk
😵😵💫
‘You’re gonna just sit there in your white coat & tell me “we have all the answers; we know everything; just do what we say.”’
‘Who’s best? The 16k doctors who signed the Barrington Agreement, or the political hacks who run the FDA?’
2.5 yrs later,
#truth
🔥
@billmaher
These are the things that make me unemployable (thread):
I spoke out against public school closures starting in March 2020. I thought then, and it has been proven to be true, that closed public schools would harm the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children the most. 1/
In Denver the mask mandate has been lifted. The one place where it actually matters for my kids to NOT wear them - school - where they are learning to read and doing it in a second language, they remain masked. Make it make sense.
Remember when Biden gave us all permission to have 4th of July in small groups last year. And remember the year before that when we couldn’t have it at all. And remember all the holidays and milestones we were told we couldn’t celebrate? The funerals we couldn’t have? I do.
I am vaccinated. I am not afraid of the unmasked, the unvaccinated or children - inside or outside. I wasn't afraid of them before I was vaxxed.
I will die on a hill to protect bodily autonomy for those who choose not to or can't vaxx & to fight discriminatory passports. 1/2
School closures were a failed & catastrophic policy.
Masks are ineffective. And harmful (they’ll get to that next).
Covid came from a lab.
Everything we skeptics said was true.
And we were vilified, ostracized, fired.
No we aren’t letting it go.
#neveragain
“It was your fault. If you weren’t bad I wouldn’t have had to hit you.”
This is the language of abusers.
This is what the students at
@SFSU
are saying about
@Riley_Gaines_
expressing her views calmly and peacefully. They assaulted her and are now saying it was her fault…
Many of my friends from "before times" find me confusing & think I joined some sort of cult or had my body snatched by Qanon. But I find them confusing. How did they send their kids to private school & not say one word about all the public school kids locked out for 18 months? 1-
This morning on CO NPR: a study finds that not allowing family to see hospitalized family members during Covid caused traumatic stress lasting months. 😳
Did we need a study to tell us that?
My dad said to me today:
Have you seen all the articles lately about school closures and how bad the impact is on kids?
(um... yeah)
Also dad: I guess you were right. You've been saying this the whole time.
My brain just broke.
...restrictions. A political party that constantly terrorizes the populace & encourages disavowal of each other - I can't sign up. So I'm a woman w/out a party. But that's ok. I've got y'all. Former lefties, currently homeless, growing in numbers, not going away. We got this.
In the
@washingtonpost
yesterday:
“Regular Exercise Protects Against Fatal Covid.”
I was told by Levi’s to delete the below tweet because it “blamed the victim” and was “fat-phobic”:
“Why doesn’t anyone in public health ever say exercise, go for a walk…”
I was right.
Of note, I lost my job for asking some of the questions asked here in this SNL skit. 2 years in I guess it’s ok for comedians to challenge the groupthink but certainly wasn’t ok for parents for the past 24 months.
If people are laughing at this what are they laughing at? Themselves … quietly questioning restrictions but being unwilling to do so publicly? Or are they laughing at those who question at all? If you find this funny, why?
…experiencing what she has.
She had to retire early b/c she simply couldn’t communicate in the world. And no she doesn’t have a lot of money. This is a trial.
Why don’t we care about the hard of hearing when we claim removing mask mandates harm those with disabilities? 2/2
You know what’s shocking about this? NOTHING! These harms were totally predictable!!! Many of us have been screaming this for two whole years and not only were we ignored… we were demonized, dragged, called terrible unemployable things. Some of us were even fired. Despicable.
New study shows that covid school closures affected cognitive and motor development in preschoolers. Learning loss is most pronounced in kids most at risk. We must focus on keeping kids in school and on closing educational disparities.
@biannagolodryga
If the pandemic is over, as Biden declared (just in time for midterms!), how can:
1/ 10 states - including CA, IL, WA - still justify having emergency orders in place?
2/ why in NY can’t unvaxxed kids play school sports?
3/ WHY is Headstart still masking toddlers?!
In Sweden, where schools stayed open, there was no learning loss. & guess what, the teachers didn't all die & the outcomes were better, not worse, than the US overall. Those who fought to keep schools closed owe kids here a giant apology. & a promise not to do this again. 1-
I received this email at Levi's in 2021.
Then I had to do an "apology tour" and answer these questions.
(Note: I didn't apologize.)
Seems like what you might experience in an indoctrination or re-education camp, no?
...and degrade the public discourse, I don't know where I fit anymore. I didn't leave the party, it left me.
I upended my entire life (30 yrs in SF) so my kids could go to school & experience a normal childhood existence. In Co, they attend school, play freely...
Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Not A Democrat Anymore:
Lockdowns
Endless States of Emergency
Use Covid to Demonize and Divide
No Debate or Dissent
It's a Cult
They're Hypocrites
They Deny Reality
They're Snobs
They Don't Believe in Free Speech
They Hate Kids
...participate in sports, hug friends and even teachers (they are young). They are not required to think of themselves as filthy vectors of disease. They participate in public life, go to the playground unmasked, and are relatively carefree, the way 4 & 6 yr olds should be...
This Harris rant is embarrassingly elitist.
He states that
@elonmusk
is “completely cavalier about who he interacts with…” damaging his reputation “in circles that count.”
How dare Elon talk to regular people! The unwashed masses! The horror!
The fact that these books are being sold in a large bookstore is evidence of these books NOT being banned.
So much drama. Everything is genocide this, murderer racist nazi fascist that, banned … blah blah.
Our culture is the boy who cried wolf. Just reject it all.
Governor Gavin Newsom has a lot to say about Florida and Target. But his state is flailing. Why not focus there?
-1/2 million people have left CA in the past 2 years
-CA ranks 49/50 states in unemployment
-CA has one of slowest economic recoveries overall post Covid
-CA is…
It took the
@nytimes
4 years to write this.
1. The longer schools were closed the more kids fell behind
2. The most vulnerable kids were harmed the most
3. School closures did nothing to slow spread
@nytimes
contributed significantly to prolonging the closures with their…
I refuse to stand by and be silent while yet another year is stolen from kids - those who have the most to lose. I'd ask you to join me. There are many silent people out there who find this encroachment on basic liberty, on our kids' lives, unacceptable also...
“I was told on many occasions by Levi’s that I needed to stop tweeting about closed public schools...I was then told in January 2022 that there was no longer a place for me at the company. This is a very high profile example of
@elonmusk
's offer.”
Leaving my job has done more for me than just not having to worry about losing said job. It's taken away the ability of the 'mob' to threaten me by tagging & threatening to boycott my employer. Now all they have is calling me names. Who cares. Sticks and stones and all that.
Everything we were called conspiracy theorists and horrible racists for saying … was TRUE. Every single thing.
Vindication is not enough. We need apologies. We need our lives back.
Can she possibly think we’ll believe this?
We were here. We were trying to get schools open. We were called lazy shitty parents, racists and teacher murderers.
Stop it.
AFT President Randi Weingarten: "We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools."
I voted for Chesa. I believed in his thinking on criminal justice reform. I didn't think it would mean lawlessness. I was wrong. He did what he said he was going to.
It's not so hard to admit when you were wrong. You can do it Closed Schools folks. Just say it. "I was wrong."
Todays rewrite of Title IX doesn’t just ignore the fact that women exist and replace “women” with “gender identity” — essentially erasing women as a category with legal rights in the education system … it also:
*compels speech depriving students of their 1st Amendment rights…
We were vilified for saying lockdowns are ineffective & harmful, closed schools harm the most vulnerable kids the most, masks don’t work, vaxx doesn’t prevent transmission, vaxx mandates are discriminatory.
They smeared us, then came for our jobs. We were right about all of it.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand will be remembered for widespread discrimination, restricting basic civil rights and weakening a robust democracy. This is her legacy.
An insane number of people say to me:
"I don't get it. Saying public schools should have opened isn't controversial. Why would you lose your job for that?"
What a difference ~3 years makes! Who remembers how controversial this was?! Chime in please.
#IWasRight
#NoAmnesty
The “progressive” Democrats of Benicia, CA decided a woman who calmly spoke at a school board meeting about the sex-ed & gender curriculum for 10 year olds in her district — should not be able to hold a job & earn a living.
Her company
@Compass
bowed to their demands.
So is…
📣: California mom breaks silence on losing job for speaking at her children’s school board meeting.
This well-mannered mom spoke at the
@BeniciaUSD
board meeting, expressing concern the new sex-ed curriculum was teaching 10 year-olds they could choose their own gender.
Within…
This is a lie.
Biden's
@CDCgov
made placating teachers' unions the priority. A full year after schools closed, ~25M students were still in disrupted schooling.
Open schoolers were still being smeared as racists.
Now they say kids lost so much? What about: "Kids are…
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Kids have lost so much in the pandemic. This is why, when the president walked in, he made a priority to open schools one of the things that was important to do"