Ink Dribble

20 October - 25 November 2024

Nov 25, 2024

Time for another roundup of everything I have been publishing around the internet. This month was a bit slow because I have been on the road a lot. Publishing should return to regular pace next week.

The Distance

Reading The Skrmetti Briefs As History

“Suing Alabama was the single biggest strategic mistake transgender advocacy groups made in their zeal to defend sex ‘change’ procedures for kids,” Leor Sapir wrote on Twitter/X last week. “I've never seen a decision backfire so spectacularly.” Sapir…

2 months ago · 40 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

Polemology Positions

Team Obama-Biden-Harris Does Not Believe In The Possibility Of Victory

North Korea has reportedly sent ten thousand troops to Ukraine, with the first units due to arrive in Kursk this week. According to military intelligence sources in Kyiv, the first North Korean advisory and training troops have already deserted their position in Kursk, earning a new role as the vanguard…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

Osborne Ink

Associated Press Names The Man Behind 'Black Insurrectionist' Account

Shortly after I had openly speculated that the ‘Black Insurrectionist’ account on Twitter/X might belong to Ali Alexander, and then the account disappeared, someone let me know that the Associated Press had positively identified the person behind the account, and that a story was forthcoming which would name someone else. I was willing to be wrong. Rath…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

The Distance

The Bowlby Files: Minnesota Destroyed A Dad To Groom His Kids In Secret

An interview with Brent Bowlby, whose three younger children have been systematically alienated in violation of court orders so that his daughter could be sexualized and guided towards gender transition in secret. Listen here or on YouTube…

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a month ago · 13 likes · Matt Osborne and Brent Bowlby

The Distance

Minnesota Man Jailed For Telling Us How His Child Was Transitioned In Secret

Shortly after 8:30 PM last night, Brent Bowlby turned himself in at the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Department and was taken into custody for the crime of talking to us about his ex-partner for a podcast…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

The Distance

It's Not Just Trump: The Jig Is Up For 'Gender Identity' In 2025

An old Democratic Party acquaintance reconnected with me yesterday to admit I had been right. “Well you said the trans thing would be an issue, when you were right,” they said. “I can’t even say publicly how much I think it was really a factor but I saw right here … how much it was.” Sports were the topic most commonly raised in his everyday conversatio…

a month ago · 104 likes

Osborne Ink

How To Take The Whipping

Kamala Harris underperformed with every demographic she was supposed to win, including black women. Democrats met their turnout goals and still lost. Conversely, Donald Trump won the popular vote, gaining ground with demographics that were considered reliably Democratic since 2…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Osborne Ink

Harris Comms Director Wants Kamala To Have A Participation Trophy Presidency

Jamal Simmons is one of the people who directed the “flawless campaign” of Kamala Harris to a flawless defeat. He was her communications director. His job was to manage the messages that the campaign sent, both within the Democratic Party and out into the media ecosystem, to promote her image as well as the image of the party. Key to that job was the co…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

Inspecting Gender

Resisting the New State Religion of Canada

“Canada's liberal policies on gender identity are reshaping the education and healthcare systems, but at what cost?” ask the creators of Gender Wars in Canada, a documentary by TRT World, which is essentially the BBC of Turkey. One might rephrase the question: how has gender ideology banished liberalism and its principles f…

a month ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

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The Distance

American Family Courts Are In Crisis And 'Trans Kids' Are Making It Worse

Bill Corbitt is the founder and executive officer of Veteran Fathers, or the Foundation for the Parental Rights for Veteran Fathers, and an activist with Daddy’s House, a shelter for men escaping abusing relationships with their children. We discussed…

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a month ago · Matt Osborne

Skeptic Spirit

Science Of The Soul: Theosophy, Therapy, And The Evolution Of The UFO Cults

Matt Osborne

Nov 13

Science Of The Soul: Theosophy, Therapy, And The Evolution Of The UFO Cults

Secret societies always have esoteric beliefs at their core. In his explanation of Freemasonry, Albert Gallatin Mackey attributes the foundation of his faith to Abe Dom Pernetty, “a Hermetic philosopher,” and “a disciple, to some extent, of Jakob Böhme, that prince of mystics. To such a man, the reveries, the visions, and the spiritual speculations of [Emanuel] Swedenborg were peculiarly attractive.”

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Polemology Positions

Can Trump Fix The Recruiting Crisis?

As the Biden administration winds down, the president-elect is making his first major cabinet picks. His choice of Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense is raising eyebrows, with prominent Democratic Senators voicing doubt in Hegseth’s ability…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

The Distance

Brent Bowlby Faces Prison Sentence For Objecting To A Child's Secret Transition

Kelly Magda claims to be a victim of harassment by The Distance for our reporting on the secret transition of her child without the father’s knowledge or consent…

19 days ago · 16 likes · 1 comment

Polemology Positions

My Thesis On John Fowke Of English Civil War London Is Now Published On ProQuest

My academic advisor sent me “a big congratulations to you for completing this project,” my thesis on the most interesting man in English Civil War London. “It is one of the most ambitious and best M.A. theses I have worked with in my career.” My university does not make it easy to get a thesis to the finish line, so “I admire the way you stuck with it u…