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The Detransitioners Have Arrived. They Are Not Your Personal Army

Exulansic underwent “gender affirming menstrual suppression.” As a result, her bones were not taking in enough calcium during the critical adult female developmental window. She also has rib flar…

2 months ago · 14 likes · 5 comments · Matt Osborne

Detransitioners Take Washington

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2 months ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne, Laura Becker, Exulansic, Elle Palmer, Abel Garcia, and Maia Poet

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that his government wants to build “one of the largest European militaries.” While most of the contracts awarded last year went to American contractors, with South Korea being the runner-up, the Polish Ministry of Defense was already expected to increase its European partnerships even before the American election r…

Damn Poland, You Scary

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Where The Dunbar Went Down When The US Navy Conquered The Lower Tennessee

Where the Elk River empties into the Tennessee River below Rogersville, Alabama, there lies a “bed of flinty rocks that overlaid or was mixed with the soft rocks on the river bed” many eons ago. This 37-mile (60 km) stretch of water includes four shoals collectively known as the Great Muscle Shoals…

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Why The Democratic Party Brand Is More Unpopular Than Ever

Donald Trump’s numbers are sliding, but the Democrats’ numbers are even worse. “Unless Democrats acknowledge that much of what Trump says and does is not only popular but also, here and there, good policy, they can never recover,” Democratic political analyst Ruy Teixeira…

2 months ago · 55 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

CLAIM: Kathleen Kennedy Was A Boys' Football Team Quarterback

After my previous post about Kathleen Kennedy went viral, I looked online for books about her and found one…

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Biden-Era FBI Whistleblower Jonathan Buma Arrested By Trump FBI

Jonathan Buma, the FBI agent who alleged that Rudy Giuliani is compromised by Russian intelligence and the Bureau was covering it up, was arrested by the FBI last week as he prepared to leave the country. He was charged with disclosure of classified information under 18 U.S. Code § 1905…

Department Of Veterans Affairs Obscures Its Participation In A Self-Harm Cult

Responsive to Donald Trump’s executive order, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced last Monday “that it will phase out medical treatments for gender dysphoria…

a month ago · 22 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

Reading Mark Turnbull's English Civil War

The beginning of the end of the Royalist army is the beginning of Mark Turnbull’s story. The King’s Spy, first book in his novel trilogy set during the English Civil Wars, begins with Captain Maxwe…

Kathleen Kennedy, Quarterback Princess?

Recently, I wrote an essay about Kathleen Kennedy that went viral, so I followed it up by looking for further information about her. That’s how I found out that Vanity Fair and kids’ lit publisher Bellwether Media have propagated a dubious anecdote that Kennedy was the quarterback of her middle school boys’ football team…

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We Must Expel The Transphobic Toddlers Before They Literally Murder Again

At least 178 children were “suspended or expelled” from primary and state schools across the UK “for homophobic or transphobic behaviour” during the 2022-23 school year…

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How Cis White Gay Ben Appel Beat His Social Justice Activism Habit

Ben Appel was a nontraditional student at Columbia from 2017 to 2020. He watched the wokening of the campus. Ben is a gay man who found himself on the wrong end of the new oppression hierarchy and had to unlearn his prior political assumptions. He appears on the Informed Dissent podcast with Lisa Selin Davis, Eliza Mondegreen, Cori Cohn, and Jamie Reed…

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Losing The Confederate Cause: An Interpretation Of Shiloh Battlefield

Surprise was hardly total. “For days before April 6, minor skirmishing took place,” Timothy Smith writes in The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. “Both sides routinely took prisoners in the days leading up to the battle. The rank and file in the Union army knew that the Confederates were out there; they just did not know in what strength…

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'Who Killed The Electric Car?' The 'Woke Mind Virus,' Apparently

Anyone who was alive and aware in 2006 may remember Who Killed the Electric Car?, a documentary by environmental activist Chris Payne which frames the experimental EV1 car of the 1990s as the victim of a conspiracy by automotive manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry…

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Skeptic Spirit

The Case Of The Missing Continent

Matt Osborne

Apr 3

“Atlantis as the origin of New World culture is a theory dating back almost to the discovery of the New World itself,” Robert Wauchope wrote in 1962. It became a popular idea about the Americas even before they were colonized. We can blame the Spanish and the Italians. Columbus, a Genoan, sailed west looking for the legendary island of “Antilia” on behalf of the Spanish king and queen. Then people got creative.

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Trump Exhausting All The Other Options

Senior Trump administration officials tell Reuters the White House is “increasingly frustrated” with Vladimir Putin and has “grown wary” of his intentions. Donald Trump did his best to woo Pu…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne