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Reporter @NRO. Visiting fellow @IWF. EIC @conservateurmag. 2022 Publius Fellow @ClaremontInst. Alumna @bostoncollege. Tips: cdowney@nationalreview.com.
Apr 16 10 tweets 2 min read
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.”🧵 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.”
Mar 22 6 tweets 2 min read
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🧵 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."
Feb 20 9 tweets 2 min read
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🧵 Three VA psychologists who work with rape victims wrote an op-ed opposing the department’s policy. Ten days later, the retaliation began. Image
Jan 12, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
🧵Prof @Hillsdale Matthew Spalding's statement on his appointment to the New College's Board of Trustees:

"I appreciate the complimentary nods to Hillsdale College, but we are not going to serve New College’s mission by remaking it into a carbon copy of another institution." "As a professor, dean, and vice president at a successful liberal arts college, my focus is on the work at hand: restoring New College’s 'distinctive mission' as the 'residential liberal arts honors college' of Florida."
Oct 21, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
A top University of Wyoming sorority has accepted a transgender member into its sisterhood. A current Kappa Kappa Gamma woman told me that the chapter extended the trans student a bid despite the objections of some existing members.🧵

nationalreview.com/news/sorority-… Members' concerns about safety were dismissed by chapter leadership, acc. to the KKG source. KKG women will be housed and forced to share bathrooms with the trans member, she said.
Sep 29, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
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. 🧵 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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