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Jul 18, 2025

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Scottish Women Shall Fight The English Civil Gender Wars Until They Win

Dalgety, Susan and Blackburn, Lucy Hunter, editors. The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht: Voices from the Front-Line of Scotland’s Battle for Women’s Rights. Constable, 2024. (Amazon.com link…

7 months ago · 12 likes · Matt Osborne

Donald Trump Is Not Ideological

There is no ideology to Donald Trump, just id. He feels his politics in his gut. Reason and evidence are not interesting to Trump. To quote John R. Bolton, his former national security adviser, fascism is a “comprehensive ideology” while “Trump isn’t capable of philosophical thought.” Rumors of an ideological admiration for Adolf Hitler are therefore utterly ridiculous and tendentious…

7 months ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban On Pediatric Sex Lobotomies

In a decision and three concurrent opinions that could have been written by any group of TERFs with law degrees, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that minor children experiencing or expressing ‘gender dysphoria’ do not “classify on the basis of transgender status” as a “quasi-suspect class” deserving special protections from state legislatures…

7 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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The Weapon Invented To Destroy Iran's Fordow Complex Works As Designed

History did not begin on Inauguration Day. Iran has developed a non-civilian uranium enrichment program for decades while Benjamin Netanyahu kept telling the Americans to do something about it. From its first test in 2007, the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) was designed to fly in a B-2 Spirit and crack open very deep bunkers exactly like Fordow. When the Air Force added the MOP to their congressional funding request in 2011…

7 months ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

Fame Seeker III: Breaking Boelter Bad

In “a rambling, conspiratorial letter” addressed to the FBI and left abandoned in his newly-purchased Buick Regal, Vance Luther Boelter claims that Gov. Tim Walz wanted him to murder Senator Amy Klobuchar in order to clear a political path for the governor. According to two sources who spoke to…

7 months ago · 7 likes · 3 comments · Matt Osborne

'Comedian' Aidan Comerford Threatened A Bunny Rescue Charity Over This Video

Alleged comedian Aidan Comerford has now paid actual solicitors to send two legal letters to a UK bunny rescue charity. Comerford tried to cancel the Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue ever since Chris, the creator, snubbed his attempts to control who the account is allowed to follow back. Chris follows back anybunny who follows the account…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

Watership Clown: A Musical Roast Of Failed 'Comedian' Aidan Comerford

In this episode, I am joined once again by musician William Ferguson to roast Aidan Comerford, the Watership Clown. Recently, Comerford picked a fight with Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue over who the X account was, and was not, following back. At Comerford’s instigation, the shelter has now received two letters from the UK’s charity commission threatening their nonprofit status over Comerford’s social media butthurt. We discuss the failed comedian and fraud as we sample some of William’s dope tracks…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne and William A. Ferguson

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Trump Buys A Persian Carpet

Donald Trump is popular because he is perceived as strong. If Trump fears looking weak, he will lash out at someone below him in the hierarchy of power. Trump has always lashed out at real or potential partners to make himself look strong, doing the same with electoral opponents, or White House report…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Grieving Skrmetti: An Adult Movement Processes The Loss Of Their 'Trans Child'

Last week, my friend Brandon Showalter quoted me for a piece at the Christian Post. Many thanks to Brandon for the interview. In the piece, I say that what Joe Biden called “the civil rights movement of the 21st century” gave the Democratic Party a “perfect ersatz belief” that subsumed and replaced the old civil rights struggles…

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

Rep. Eric Burlison: David Grusch Told Me About 'Nordic Aliens' And 'Grays'

David Grusch, the “UAP whistleblower” at the center of a sensational congressional hearing in 2023, has a new job. He works for Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri, who is a member of the “UAP caucus” in Congress. Speaking in an X.com space on Friday, Burlison revealed information that his new empl…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

City Settles With 83-Year Old Woman It Smeared Over 'Trans' Pool Incident

Julie Jaman, who was banned from her city pool and then mobbed in the street for expressing safeguarding concerns regarding a man who was in the female shower and toilet area, has has reached a $65,000 settlement with Port Townsend, Washington…

7 months ago · 8 likes · Matt Osborne

Inspecting Gender

Understanding ‘Gender Affirmation’ as a Patent Medicine Show

At the founding of the American nation, medicine was an individual pursuit. Colonists used ‘proprietaries’ made from herbs and sold as medicine. Doctors were rare, and their profession was, as yet, hardly professional. Distrust of ‘scientific’ medical knowledge was understandably common when physici…

6 months ago · 9 likes · Genspect and Matt Osborne

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Ukraine Keeps Hitting Russian Rail Logistics Hard At Tokmak

HUR, the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate, hit another Russian locomotive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on Tuesday. The line had only just returned to service after being closed for a week through a very similar operation. By destroying the track ahead of the train, HUR was able to force the locomotive…

6 months ago · 1 like · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

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Everyone Who Goes Woke By Excluding Masculinity Eventually Goes Broke

Jaguar, the automotive brand that staked its future to an infamously splashy, queer-themed ad campaign last year, has seen European sales plummet 97.5 percent. The new all-electric models have the same luxury as before, while competitor EVs are surging. Jaguar has wagered that new, young, more ‘inclusive’ customers would replace the old, mostly middle-aged men with money who used to buy their cars. Instead, the men who used to buy Jaguar abandoned the brand like Bud Light, deeming it feminized, leaving the company no customers at all, anymore. The wages of woke is broke…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Which War Wore It Better?

So the hot summer fashion on the battlefields of Ukraine is anti-drone netting over the road approaches to the front. While it is hardly perfect, it is better than nothing, especially as fiber optic guided (FOG) drones proliferate. It’s funny how battlefield fashions come back into vogue, and this development is yet another recall of the First Wor…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

The FTC Workshops 'Gender Medicine' As Potential Medical Fraud This Week

As I mentioned at the end of my piece for Genspect last week, I will be in Washington, DC this week to report for The Distance from a Federal Trade Commission workshop on the inherent frauds of ‘gender medicine…

6 months ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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About Those Ammunition Stockpiles

Originally attributed to Elbridge Colby, the latest disruption of Ukrainian ammunition supplies turns out to have been the decision of Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense. Hegseth is being excoria…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Stella O'Malley Against The Bullies

First came the parents, for help. Then came the detransitioners, for help. Then came the opposition — from every side. Strangely, the big, right wing evangelical culture war money never did show up, but still she persisted. Psychotherapist and author Stella O’Malley tells us about Genspect, the organization she founded to promote non-medical responses to gender-related distress in minor children, and the cost of taking a principled stand in a contentious crowd…

6 months ago · 10 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne and Stella O'Malley

Pedro Pascal CONFIRMS That 'Trans' Is A Medicalized Gnostic Cult Of Woo Woo

Hollywood astroturfers have elevated Pedro Pascal as the new, non-toxic male that is supposed to bring the ‘modern audience’ to see his films. Through transparently facetious efforts, Pascal has been labeled for sale as ‘the internet’s daddy’ in a failing attempt at social engineering of the movie audience…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

The Cult Of The 'Trans Child' Is Doomed

It was a casual conversation with a security guard during the first break, in the middle of the morning session, that convinced me we have reached the beginning of the end…

6 months ago · 7 likes · Matt Osborne

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Trump Exhausts All The Other Options With Vladimir Putin In Ukraine

First, a brief recall of how we got to this turning point, and the reasons why it took so long. Then we may consider what Donald Trump is doing to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and what may follow…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

The Endocrine Society Learns The Truth About Puberty Blockers In The Heart Of San Francisco

History consists of people in motion. As part of my historiographical research into the ‘gender critical’ moment, I have walked alongside ‘Billboard Chris’ Elston outside Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, participated in a women’s free speech event, and attended two Genspect conferences as well as the recent Federal Trade Commission workshop in Washington, DC. This Sunday, I hustled over to the Moscone Center in San Francisco to document a group called Democrats with an Informed Approach to Gender sharing their message with the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society…

6 months ago · 4 likes · 3 comments · Matt Osborne

Nancy Pelosi's Attack On Trump's Alcatraz Reopen Is Her Stupidest Initiative Yet

“With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tells the San Francisco Chronicle in a statement…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

How Trump Derangement Sydrome Is Making Partisan Democrats Sick With Anxiety

Last Monday, Axios reported that nine House Democrats worry their progressive base voter is increasingly inclined to just burn everything down. The high-engagement progressive soul is unable to focus on winning back Congress in 2026, on realistic goals, on constitutional means. The people who put signs in their yards to announce their political beliefs are in full meltdown mode…

6 months ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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Putin's War Will Turn On Macroeconomics

Wars are fundamentally macroeconomic affairs. Soldiers are labor, conscription is a form of taxation, production and demand set prices. Men with guns and gold win wars. The larger macroeconomic alliance will have the advantages of greater collective GDP, and will therefore most likely win…

6 months ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

'Transwoman' Sara Higdon Talks Like A TERF: 'I Have A Mental Illness'

John Papola of the Dad Saves America podcast has interviewed Sara Higdon, a transsexual libertarian willing to tell the truth about transgender ideology. This interview could as easily featured J.K. Rowling — or any TERF who has spent any time learning about the things that hide behind the mask of a civil rights cause…

6 months ago · 24 likes · Matt Osborne

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