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Mar 11, 2025

It’s time for another round-up of everything I’ve been doing around the interwebs. I’m in Washington, DC for Detransition Awareness Day this week. Expect the new short story next Thursday.

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REPORT: James 'Elisa Rae' Shupe Has Joined The Transgender Jonestown

James Clifford Shupe, aka Elisa Rae, who became the world’s first “legally nonbinary” person in 2016, reportedly hanged himself from the parking deck of the Syracuse, New York Veterans Affairs hospital last month. He was 61 years old…

a month ago · 98 likes · 12 comments · Matt Osborne and Donovan Cleckley

Polemology Positions

The Two-State Solution Is Dead

Terrorist organization HAMAS cancelled all further hostage releases on Monday, having released just 21 hostages in 25 days under the terms of the ceasefire that took effect on 15 January. Seventy-five hostages remain in Gaza. With only three months’ worth of bargaining collateral …

a month ago · 16 likes · 3 comments · Matt Osborne

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Shots Fired

a month ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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Transgender Death Cult Shifts The Conversation About 'Preferred Pronouns'

Dr. Todd Grande is a professional counselor and a very successful YouTuber. He avoids politics, but he does not shy away from controversial stories. His depth of understanding, calm demeanor, and consistent methodology have convinced more than 1.5 million people to subscribe to his channel. To put that in perspective, Dr. Grande probably gets…

a month ago · 8 likes · Matt Osborne

Polemology Positions

Art Of The World Peace Deal

Donald Trump says that he wants a three-way agreement with Russia and China to reduce nuclear stockpiles and defense spending. This new world order to reduce strategic tensions would follow after peace in Ukraine…

a month ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

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Free Speech Now Right-Coded For The Convenience Of Lazy Media Hacks

Yesterday on the CBS News program Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio about remarks Vice President J.D. Vance made at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend…

a month ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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Trevor Project Still Gaslighting YouTubers With 'Conversion Therapy' Message

Hospitals in New York and Los Angeles have halted pediatric medical transition of minors after President Donald Trump’s executive order to end the practice. Despite some resistance, the order has still impressed the medical profession with the newly-increased risks of ‘gender affirming car…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Pronoun Showdown As Trans Vegan Death Cult Leader Is Arrested In Maryland

The Times reports that Jack Amadeus ‘Ziz’ LaSota, the 33-year-old leader of the Zizians cult that is named for him, was arrested yesterday in Maryland. “LaSota, who is originally from Alaska, has previously identifie…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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Extremist Vegan Thinspo Influencer Wants To Starve Swiss News Consumers

Meret Schneider, a member of the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, called for her country to block the app formerly known as Twitter yesterday in order to prevent Elon Musk’s bad takes from brainwashing Swiss voters…

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Trump Frustrated By The Limits Of Brand Transactionalism In Peacemaking

It is not hard to understand why Donald Trump got blustery yesterday. His team of peacemakers met with Russian counterparts in Riyadh on Tuesday, each side not sending their best, with no firm commitments of any kind from Moscow resulting. Kyiv is unwilling to sign a minerals-for-arms deal with Trump until Vladimir Putin commits to real peace with Ukrai…

a month ago · 7 likes · 4 comments · Matt Osborne

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'Doctor Who' Banished From Our Timeline Just Like Gareth Roberts Said?

The British tabloid Sun reported on Tuesday that Doctor Who is on the verge of cancellation. Star Ncuti Gatwa “is already believed to have filmed his regeneration exit scene — and crew fear the BBC will shelve the show after 62 years.” Emphasis added…

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Love AGPs? Hate AGPs? Dr. Bailey Wants To Know What You Think

Dr. J. Michael Bailey wants to know what all kinds of people think about autogynephilia. He is “especially interested in surveying gender critical respondents,” he says, “although gender critical identification is not necessary for participation…

25 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Ukraine Targets Russian Drone Operators Through FPV Supply Chain Sabotage

According to the Kyiv Post, HUR, the Ukrainian intelligence directorate, has sabotaged the supply chain for Skyzone Cobra X v4 FPV drone control goggles in Russia…

23 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Truth And Media Consequences

Almost a decade ago, when ad rates were still okay, before Facebook killed the blog pages, Joy Reid gave me the single greatest payday of that phase of my career. She tweeted a link to a story, now long gone, in which I speculated that members of Donald Trump’s family had agreed to the 2016 Trump Tower meeting because they genuinely believed Russia had …

22 days ago · Matt Osborne

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How The Media Picks The Pronouns Of Zizians Trans Vegan Death Cult Members

When the BBC finally reported on the Zizians death cult last Friday, the headline mentioned the group was “vegan,” but said nothing about its foundational belief in transgenderism…

22 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Why The United States Space Force Is Not Equipped To Use Force In Space

According to Col. Charles Galbreath, retired from the US Space Force, and Col. Jennifer Reeves, retired from the US Air Force, military space operations have yet to be “normalized,” while “establishing a warfighting mindset of Guardians” — space soldiers — is “a persistent challenge…

21 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Trump Trans Sports Order Makes Perfect Sense To Nearly 4 Out Of 5 Americans

For three thousand years, women had ‘the wrong bodies’ for sports. Then came Title IX, which mandated sports for women in federally-funded education programs. This genius legislation lasted for fifty years, when suddenly, for reasons that defy understanding, male bodies ceased to…

21 days ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

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Man Threatens To Take Woman's Kidney Over Her Views On Trans Medicine

A Zanesville, Ohio man tried to terrorize a woman on X over her views regarding ‘gender identity’ on Monday…

20 days ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

Skeptic Spirit

The Peaceful Race From The Heavens

Matt Osborne

Feb 27

“We have not been left alone to evolve on our own as most planets have, but instead we are a mixture of many different races that have come here over the millennia,” J. Randolph Winters writes in his exegesis of the Swiss flying saucer prophet Eduard ‘Billy’ Meier. “It is this mixture of races who are at different spiritual levels of evolution that has led to the difficult times we are now experiencing” in 1994, when

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