A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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If you want the best explainer on what is unfolding in China right now, you need to read N.S. Lyons’ essay “Courage in the Streets of China.” Lyons is one of the most interesting writers on Substack, and I’d encourage you to subscribe to his work if you haven’t already. (Here, for those interested, is my interview with him in The European Conservative.)
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As long foreseen, some passages of Scripture are becoming unacceptable in public. From the UK: “Crown Prosecution Service Says it is ‘No Longer Appropriate’ to Quote Some Passages From the Bible in Public.”
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Well, how’s this for a headline (Daily Mail): “Biden’s non-binary nuclear waste guru used Vera Bradley bag for a month after stealing it from airport and unpacking female victim’s clothes – but claims it was an ACCIDENT: Keeps job despite being charged – as White House says NOTHING.)” Yeah. So Joe Biden’s “non-binary” cross-dressing administration official—much-vaunted as an LGBT showpiece—has been charged with pilfering women’s luggage. Who could have guessed that this guy isn’t well?
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Here’s a revealing thread on men identifying as women—working as cops.
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I’ve heard similar stories to this one regularly from folks: “If I were a trans kid today: Here’s what potentially saved my life.”
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The extent to which the media will go to avoid telling the truth is just vile. Here’s a recent BBC headline: “Trans woman jailed for sex with 14-year-old girl.” Let me phrase that properly: “Man rapes child.” That is what actually happened.
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According to the CBC, another Canadian veteran—a former Paralympian—has told MPs that she was offered assisted suicide. We don’t know if this is one of the five veterans we had previously heard were proactively offered assisted suicide, or if this is yet another case.
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More soon.