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Nov 5
Let's say there were 2 candidates for President who might win. And on EVERY major issue they agreed but one supported something you found morally reprehensible and destructive and the other didn't. The only rational choice is to vote for that second candidate...A 🧵...
2/ So even if they agreed on taxes, regulation, trade, immigration, foreign policy/militarism and education policy, if one supported restricting women's reproductive autonomy and one didn't, it would make sense, if you're pro-choice, to make THAT the deciding issue...
3/ You basically make the issues where there is agreement irrelevant to your choice, even if you're bothered by the agreement (because your position is different) and go to the next issue, and on and on until you find points of departure. It's the ONLY rational way to proceed...
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Nov 5
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Nov 5
Massive news!

Congress is investigating the NIH and Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the gender doctor from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Johanna was given $9.7 million to research puberty blockers on kids.

Nine years after the study began, she refused to publish the research because it showed puberty blockers didn’t help the 95 children being experimented on.Image
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Dear Director Bertagnolli:

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $9.7 million to an ongoing research project titled, “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth.”

We are alarmed that the project’s principal investigator, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, is withholding publication of the project’s research findings which cast doubt on the efficacy of the “gender affirming” model, because she believes the findings could be “weaponized” by critics of transgender medical interventions for children.

NIH is responsible for overseeing its extramural research projects to ensure supported researchers practice transparency, exemplify scientific integrity, and are proper stewards of taxpayer funds.

Therefore, in light of the NIH grantee’s unwillingness to release the research project’s findings, we ask that you provide documents and information to assist the Committee’s oversight of this matter.
One research study in this project, known as the Trans Youth Care (TYC) study, gave
medical puberty blockers to 95 children in the early stages of puberty and observed subsequent mental health outcomes over two years.

Nine years after the study began, Dr. Olson-Kennedy claims the TYC cohort did not report any mental health improvements after initiating puberty blockers.

Furthermore, Dr. Olson-Kennedy claims the TYC cohort’s mental health was “in really good shape” when the study began, implying that puberty blockers have no adverse clinical impacts on mental health.

However, a 2020 paper authored by TYC researchers conflicts with Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s account.

According to this paper, the children in the TYC cohort did experience troubling mental health symptoms when the study began. In addition to gender dysphoria, 51 percent of the TYC cohort reported elevated depression symptoms and 57
percent reported clinically significant anxiety.

Two-thirds of the children reported suicidal
ideations and one fourth of those with suicidal ideations reported at least one past suicide attempt.
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Nov 5
There's a beauty to watching democracy actually happen before your eyes. That's one of the great things about our system: it all happens right in front of you.

You go see people line up. You see the votes being counted. And there are candidates who would take that from us.
We've always disagreed about what this republic should be. And I think this Election Day is as good a time as any to share some thoughts from our Founders -- all of them, in the full diversity of their beliefs about the country we are.
"It is much easier to adapt the laws to the manners of the peopple, than to make manners conform to the laws. The idle and dissolute inhabitants of the south require a different regimen from the active and sober people of the north."

Massachusetts Gazette
1/11/1787
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Nov 5
BREAKING: Mainstream media sat on explosive tapes for weeks, burying the story until it finally saw the light of day at 11 PM on October 31.

I was one of the first to break the news, and within 24 hours, The Guardian picked it up.

Now, Jimmy Kimmel is out here questioning the media's deafening silence.

These tapes capture Epstein discussing his "friendship" with Trump for 100 hours—yep, 100 hours of damning revelations about a man Epstein called morally bankrupt.

Kimmel’s shock is justified; the American media went all in on manufactured scandals for years but went quiet on this.

When it’s Trump, suddenly legacy outlets have “standards,” like the truth here isn’t essential.

Kimmel’s point isn’t just another late-night punchline; it’s an indictment of a media complex that selectively buries real stories and expects us to forget them.

And his message is clear: this silence isn’t just oversight—it’s complicity. It’s up to the public to remember and act, to push back on the media's selective memory, and to keep these revelations alive.

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Trump’s Manipulative Tactics: Epstein described Trump’s strategy of pitting people against each other, often stirring conflicts among his team members and creating distrust to keep control.

Trump would insult or criticize his associates to others, playing on their insecurities and allegiances to maintain his power.
Epstein’s Insights into Trump: Epstein, who was once close to Trump, appeared to have a mixture of disdain and fascination with him. Epstein saw Trump as “vulgar” and somewhat “bush league” in comparison to his perception of class and status.

Yet, there was a certain shared ethos between them – they both saw themselves as embodiments of the 1980s’ “money, women, and power” culture.
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Nov 5
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Nov 5
NEW: A Trump-appointed judge has rejected the RNC’s claim that some GA counties violated the law by accepting in-person delivery of absentee ballots over the weekend. The claim "does not withstand even the most basic level of statutory review and reading comprehension," he said.
The ruling followed an hours-long hearing before Judge Stan Baker, a federal court judge appointed by Trump.

The RNC & GA GOP already lost a similar suit filed in state court last week.

Both suits were filed by Alex Kaufman, who was involved in Trump's 2020 post-election efforts. Kaufman sat in on the infamous call in which Trump asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. The Fulton Co. special grand jury recommended that DA Fani Willis seek indictments against Kaufman, but he was not charged.
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Nov 5
📖 Misused Terms About the Israel-Hamas War

Words like “genocide,” “collective punishment,” and “famine” are often thrown around inaccurately.

Here’s what these terms actually mean—and why they don’t apply to Israel. 🧵 Image
Genocide is about intent: it’s an intentional effort to destroy an entire group. Israel’s goal is to dismantle terror threats, not to target civilians. Image
Why it doesn’t apply: Israel is operating in self-defense under international law, aiming at military targets—not civilians. Image
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Nov 5
Firing the leading moderating voice in the cabinet is an alarming move that foreshadows a concerning, unrestrained next chapter. Netanyahu continues to reject the advice of security experts in favor of serving his own political needs and the most extreme voices in his coalition.
We echo the concerns from Israeli opposition parties across the spectrum, who are calling for public protests and expressing profound concern over where this will lead.

Firing Gallant, with no strategic end game for this horrific multi-fronted war, is another step in Netanyahu’s targeted campaign to dissolve any opposition in the security establishment, at the expense of Israeli safety.
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Nov 5
Wake up and smell the manure people. Don’t you get it? This isn’t about party vs. party, or state vs. state… This is a fight between GOOD and EVIL. Only President Trump has the good of the people in mind. Not only the people of the USA either. He is standing for the good
and God-loving people of the world. It isn’t too late in most states to get out and vote. Those of us who have supported President Trump since he agreed to finish the plan that President John F. Kennedy envisioned and supported welcome you to join us.
We didn’t understand that there were reasons to allow the “Democrats” to steal the election that President Trump won overwhelmingly in 2020. Nor did we believe that we would have to wait for 4 full years for an honest resolution. You didn’t see the respect President Trump earned.
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Nov 5
People who say this election could be the "end of democracy" are so extra...

Or maybe they know the TRUE history of the election-denying white supremacist who led a violent insurrection, overturned a presidential election and ended democracy in America.

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First, you should know that the US Constitution created a form of govt called a "federal republic" where elected officials represent the citizens (as opposed to a DIRECT DEMOCRACY, where people vote on every decision)

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Saying, "America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy," is like saying: "I'm a MAGA Republican, not an American."

BTW, this is your daily reminder that @laurenboebert is a pro-insurrection MAGA Republican HS dropout who failed the GED 3x... NOT an American. Image
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Nov 5
THREAD: Citing a “crisis of trust”, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has finally fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant. He’d fired him once before, in March 2023, when Gallant warned that Netanyahu’s program to overhaul the Israeli judiciary, and the consequent polarization of Israeli Jewish society, would have negative repercussions for Israel’s security. On that occasion widespread protests forced Netanyahu to reinstate Gallant. The insight that got him fired the first time notwithstanding, no Israeli leader was caught with their pants further down on 7 October of last year than Gallant himself.
On this occasion as well it appears that Gallant’s failures as defense minister were not the reason for his dismissal. Rather, Netanyahu’s primary motivation appears to be Gallant’s role in drafting members of the Orthodox Jewish community known as Haredim, measures which he and the military’s leadership consider necessary to address the Israeli military’s growing manpower shortages. Other differences, among them those relating to Gallant’s leadership of the Israeli military, the future of the Gaza Strip, and relations with Washington also played a role, but a secondary one.
The Haredi community has as a rule enjoyed exemptions from the draft so that its members can instead devote themselves to religious study. As this community has grown over the years, and with the loophole utilized by others unwilling to waste several years of their life in military service, the Haredi exemption has become an issue of increasing debate and resentment. Even more so during the past year as Israel’s failures to achieve its war objectives, and the expansion of conflict across the region, placed a disproportionate burden on not only the conscript army but also the military’s reserve forces.
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