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It’s time for another roundup of everything I have been writing and podcasting around the internettings lately. The internet is actually a kind of netting, I hang out in it like a hammock all day, every day. It is more work than it sounds.

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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…

a year ago · 14 likes · 5 comments · Matt Osborne

Detransitioners Take Washington

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

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Damn Poland, You Scary

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…

a year ago · 1 like

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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…

a year ago · Matt Osborne

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…

a year 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…

a year ago · 15 likes · 3 comments · Matt Osborne

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…

a year ago · Matt Osborne

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 year ago · 22 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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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…

a year ago · Matt Osborne

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…

a year ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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…

10 months ago · 22 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

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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…

10 months ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne and Ben Appel

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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…

10 months ago · Matt Osborne

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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…

10 months ago · Matt Osborne

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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…

10 months ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Democrats Double Down On Trans Sports Cheats, Totalitarian Language Policing

The Kelley Loving Act (HB25-1312) passed a Colorado legislative committee on party lines yesterday. If enacted, it would “define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the ‘Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act’, and prohibit these discriminatory acts in places of public accommodation…

10 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Russell Brand Must Stop Having Opinions About Anything, Immediately

Russell Brand is innocent until proven guilty according to a unanimous jury in a court of law, etcetera. In the court of public opinion, however the jury will always be out and the discussion will be contentious…

10 months ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

American Brexit: Tariffs Are Magic

Both imports and exports decreased. Exports to the countries that instituted retaliatory tariffs fell the most. Canada was one of the first countries to enact counter-tariffs, followed by Mexico, then France. Unemployment began to rise from single digits, reaching 25 percent in three years…

10 months ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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Iran On The Brink Of Transition?

Reports that Iran is withdrawing from Iraq and Yemen have raised speculation that the country is undergoing some kind of transformation in its relations with Donald Trump, or alternately, that the regime is planning some sort of trick, perhaps even a nuclear breakthrough…

10 months ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Comedian Paul Chato Explains How John Oliver Uses Comedy To Lie

Comedy legend and former network executive Paul Chato has deconstructed John Oliver’s rant against women having sports of their own. Chato notes the dishonest use of “juxtaposition,” the “list joke,” and deflection. Oliver minimizes the unfairness of female athletes at having to compete against males, but he gives the game away when he uses the word “ci…

10 months ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Donald Trump wants to be the center of our attention. For a week, he kept our attention on himself by shocking global stock markets with tariffs. Then yesterday, just at it seemed that Trump had destroyed the global economy, he announced victory in his one-man trade war, suspending his tariffs on every country except the two that have pushed back, China…

10 months ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

A Classic TERF Meme Stash

As part of my historiographical research, I am collecting classic TERF memes. Memes are internet propaganda, a term I am using in its neutral sense of images and text designed to affect human psychology. For example, here is a meme that I made a few years ago. It is meant to provoke laughter, yes, but also thought. What is the ‘trans man’ trying to proj…

10 months ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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