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Jul 24 4 tweets 1 min read
Here are four things about Kamala that swing state voters will care to know:

1) She is deeply hostile to American energy, calling to ban fracking and off-shore drilling.

2) She had no interest in securing our southern border, even when it was made her unique responsibility. 3) She fully supported Biden's policy of making gender medical transition *more accessible* to minors and Biden's push to include males in girls' sports.

4) In June of 2020, she urged her supporters to post bail for BLM rioters, even tweeting payment link.
Apr 26 9 tweets 3 min read
Get the sense that we talk about on-campus harassment and intimidation differently when the subjects are Jewish students?

In 2017, an anonymous jerk put flyers with a Confederate flag and cotton around American University's campus. They read "Huzzah for Dixie" or similar.
🧵 Image 2/ The university went into emergency response mode, treating these flyers as a criminal threat. It published CCTV video and immediately asked the public for help in identifying the man who posted the racist flyers.

Dec 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
America threw more preventative "mental health resources" at Gen Z than at any generation prior.

Therapeutic techniques guided how these kids were parented. Our kids were treated to "Social Emotional Learning," and "Empathy Education," and "Restorative Justice" at school.

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Schools hired large psych and counseling staffs to support them.

Kids had more access to therapists and psychiatric meds than any prior generation.

And these interventions were destigmatized to a degree that would have been unthinkable just two generations ago.

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Nov 10, 2023 14 tweets 3 min read
This is Alexandra Orbuch, Jewish editor of Princeton’s conservative newspaper. A male student shoves a Palestinian flag in the way of her camera, then blocks her way, forcing her down a step.

/1 According to Orbuch, one protester pushed her, stepped on her foot, trailed her closely when she tried to leave, in a form of harassment known as “bird dogging.”

This male student doesn’t bother to hide his face. He knows he’ll never be held accountable by his university.

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Oct 13, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Here is Harvard's statement on the invasion of Ukraine, from Feb 2022. It stakes out an incredibly clear moral position.

Harvard raised the Ukrainian flag on campus in solidarity.

/1 Image On October 7, 2023, the Jewish state was invaded - its civilians subjected to unimaginable atrocities.

Harvard's president Claudine Gay equivocated for days on whether even to condemn Hamas, much less its joyful celebrants on her own campus.

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May 30, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
HOW LEFTIST MEDIA LIES:

My book was published this week in Israel, a country 1/50th the population of the US, where Amazon has little presence. Bowing to LGBTQ+ activist pressure, the two largest book chains refused to carry the book, which made it hard to buy in Israel.

1/ Image Nonetheless, hundreds immediately registered (and paid) to attend my talk in Tel Aviv.

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Nov 22, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Gender Spin Zone claim:

*Gender surgery is never (or almost never) performed on minors.*

Here, Yale's Dr. Meredithe McNamara testifies to the Florida's Medical Board that top surgery on minors is "extremely rare"
/1 Watch the clip. She claims she has never even heard a patient express the desire for top surgery. That's how rare it is.

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Nov 7, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Thread 🧵:

If I were advising the Democrats on how to win in 2024, I would tell them that their best path to victory involves baiting the Republicans to nominate Trump. He splits the GOP coalition in half and vastly energizes Democratic turnout. /1 How do you bait Republicans to nominate Trump? By nominating Biden. Trump's desire for a rematch in the general against Biden will be irresistible to him. And Republicans will assure themselves that Trump can beat Biden, given Biden's sub-basement favorability numbers. /2
Sep 12, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
This is a transparent attempt to whip up hatred and resentment against a minority community that the NYT cannot tempt to swallow its progressive priorities.
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nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyr… The NYT doesn't hate the yeshivas because they prioritize Talmud over math. It hates them because these schools refuse to let the NYT's educational priorities - gender ideology & CRT - touch their children.
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May 16, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
This piece is an embarrassment, even for Rolling Stone.

Disgraced fact-checker, Talia Lavin - who blew up her career by falsely accusing innocent people of "white supremacy" - now accuses me.

This is the best Rolling Stone can do to gain clicks?

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rollingstone.com/politics/polit… Lavin's sorry history speaks for itself:

thecut.com/2018/06/new-yo…

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Apr 6, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
I suspect there's a generational divide at play:

GenX (and older) grew up with clearer child-adult boundaries. In the case of teachers, these boundaries were primarily enforced by heterosexual women who refused to tell us about their personal lives (though we begged).

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Obviously, some teachers broke the code and we all got a thrill. But those teachers who took us into their confidences were doing something transgressive -- and they knew it.

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Aug 31, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
The notion that a child would be in physical danger from her parents for her gender identity, so therefore she tells 1,500 of her friends, teachers, administrators, classmates, and everyone else at school to use her new name & pronouns and they keep her secret - is nonsense. /1 If you thought a kid would be hurt or killed for being trans (or for ANY REASON), you must immediately work to protect the kid, involve law enforcement - not simply conceal the new name and pronouns from parents.

Lying to the parents is an utterly unsustainable solution. /2
Aug 30, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
And here we have Glendale Unified school district in California, with its "Gender Support Plan."

"Sometimes parents are not involved...There's an interesting dance you have to play there."



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"If the student does not have at least one affirming parent or guardian, then that's a very different discussion about what we can do in regarding privacy and public action... What we don't want to do is change the name on all records [so] ... it outs the student to the family"/2
Aug 27, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Here is a redacted "Gender Support Plan" in place in a NY middle school district, sent to me by the mom of a 12 year old girl. The school district kept this "gender change" secret from mom, and mom might not have known about it at all, but for the guilty conscience of a teacher. For much of the daughter's 7th grade, the school was not only referring to her daughter by a boy's name, it was providing the daughter with "gender counseling" and providing this "gender support" - all a secret from the child's parents.
Jun 22, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
The Biden Administration is manifestly going after girls' sports, as I wrote on January 20, (), based on my reading of the Biden EO.

It's big news, which broke on Friday. See here:
ky3.com/2021/06/18/doj…

Curious why you haven't heard more about it?

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So -- Within days of my January Tweet, the "fact checkers" of @Newsweek and @USATODAY decided my opinion was "mostly false" and misleading ("missing context").

newsweek.com/fact-check-doe…

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May 14, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
It is inexcusable that people like "Em" (quoted here) - and this journalist - would suggest to vulnerable trans-identified kids that my book, or its presence in a library, is a justification for self-harm.

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stuff.co.nz/national/12510… Jack Turban lies that my book encourages families to reject trans-identified teens & says the book
"could have negative effects on the mental health of transgender youth.. including suicide attempts."

A reckless, unethical suggestion.

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nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou…
Apr 16, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
What's at stake in America right now is much larger than the liberal vs conservative agendas we know so well.

What's at stake right now is the rule of law, free speech, equal protection and the integrity of our branches of government. Some examples: /1 Facebook has a messenger service. It pretends to allow people to talk to each other privately. It's not supposed to be reading their mail and putting it through some sort of ideological purity test.

foxnews.com/media/facebook…
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Feb 26, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
We're really not making a big enough deal of the fact that @amazon has begun deleting books.

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/1 Amazon now claims the right to bar all books that are "inappropriate or offensive."

justthenews.com/nation/technol…

Of course, nearly *every book* worth reading could be characterized as 'inappropriate' or 'offensive' to someone. /2
Feb 21, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
What difference will the Equality Act make? In every single state, overnight, all of the following will become illegal.

(Thread).

/1 A devout Muslim woman enters a U.S. airport, dressed in a burka. She's randomly selected for a pat-down & requests a female.

As long as a male TSA agent has announced he is a woman, he does the pat down. /2
Feb 12, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
It's become commonplace to poke fun at the silly hypocrisy of media and Big Tech 'fact checkers.' The situation is actually far more dire than people realize.

Here's my own experience. /1 On Jan 20, I read Biden's EO on Gender Identity and tweeted my legal opinion: it would force public high schools to allow bio boys onto girls' teams, beginning the end of girls' sports.

I was proven right faster than I imagined. On Feb 2, the Administration confirmed this. /2 Image
Jan 14, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
So, before a non-leftist can be published in MSM, they will now review everything he/she has ever written or said to see if that *person* is worth ‘platforming.’ This is passing stupid. /1 First, it forces us to score *people* and not just an idea (as if we’re in any position to sum up each other’s entire work/worth). Second, it discourages ever expressing an opinion that would deviate from your ideological tribe (risking estrangement from both camps) /2