It used to be that if you wanted someone to publish an over-the-top, flattering portrayal of your life&#8217;s work, you had to pay for it. Unless it&#8217;s your obituary, you had one choice, which was to hire an ad agency to create some marketing materials or get a publicist to send some emails or something like that. I’m not sure how the process works exactly.
But anyway, none of that is true anymore. Now, if you&#8217;re looking for unfettered, fawning adulation on the cheap, there is another option. You can always wait for a Left-wing digital media outlet to write a hit piece about you. Years ago, when the slightest hint of nonconformity got people fired, these hit pieces were effective. Now they read more like press releases from the person being targeted. This has been true for a while, but yesterday, the trend officially hit its apex at something called &#8220;HuffPost,&#8221; formerly known as The Huffington Post.
Without charging me a dime, HuffPost has just <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-walsh-anti-trans-push-tennessee_n_653fd5e8e4b032ae1c9c0497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> probably the most complimentary profile anyone has ever written about me. That’s not a high bar to get over, granted, given that there has never been a complimentary profile written about me. But still, this one is pretty great. That was not their intent, as far as I can tell. They obviously spent a lot of time on this thing. They interviewed a bunch of people to put together this lengthy diatribe in an apparent attempt to make me seem mean and bad and scary. But in the end, they produced an article that essentially accuses me of single-handedly shutting down &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; in Tennessee while chasing trans activists out of the state altogether. They were trying to embarrass me, but in the process made me out to be some sort of superhero.
To be clear, I don&#8217;t deserve nearly as much credit as they give me, but I appreciate the thought. And of course, it’s the thought that counts. And it&#8217;s worth talking about this article in some detail because it reveals something significant, which is that the Left knows it&#8217;s losing on this issue. Even the writers at HuffPost and the few people who still read HuffPost understand that very well. This is probably the best confirmation on this point that we’ve seen, and I’ll show you why.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1254-the-left-admits-defeat-in-their-latest-hit-piece-against-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
The <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-walsh-anti-trans-push-tennessee_n_653fd5e8e4b032ae1c9c0497">piece</a> I&#8217;m talking about is entitled &#8220;This State Tried To Pass Anti-Trans Laws For Years. Then A Right-Wing Media Star Got Involved.&#8221; The sub-headline reads, &#8220;The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh has set his sights on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth — and an attack on Vanderbilt&#8217;s transgender health clinic shows he&#8217;s succeeding.&#8221;
All I have to say to that is, damn right and amen. Now, the writer of this profile is a former Buzzfeed reporter who goes by the name &#8220;Lil Kalish&#8221; and uses they/them pronouns, so you know you&#8217;re in for something good. You also know, of course, that Lil Kalish, they/them, is going into this investigation with all of the conclusions already drawn. There isn’t even any pretense of objectivity. That’s journalism for you. Lil Kalish begins by describing an interview with &#8220;Riley,&#8221; who&#8217;s supposedly a health care worker at Vanderbilt and who also uses they/them pronouns, apparently. The article makes clear that &#8220;Riley&#8221; is a pseudonym. So, right away, we have a hit piece written by an author with a fake name talking to someone with a fake name, and both of them have third-person pronouns.  Already, the credibility is off the charts.
According to Riley, one day in September, the idyllic serenity of the Vanderbilt gender clinic was shattered when I posted my investigation into Vanderbilt on Twitter. As Riley put it, people at the clinic: 
<blockquote>&#8230;whispered about the social media posts by right-wing blogger Matt Walsh, which had gone viral the day before for claiming that doctors at Vanderbilt’s transgender health clinic &#8216;castrate&#8217; and &#8216;sterilize&#8217; children.</blockquote>
I need to pause for a second to note one of the many ironies of this piece, which is that it accuses me of spreading disinformation while constantly getting basic facts wrong. Throughout the piece, I&#8217;m called a &#8220;right-wing blogger,&#8221; even though I haven&#8217;t blogged in roughly ten years. It&#8217;s a small detail, admittedly, but it stands out in a piece that&#8217;s supposed to be accusing me of spreading disinformation. Our friend Lil Kalish dedicated a 5,000 word hit piece to me, but apparently never even bothered to Google me beforehand. Which, you would think, would be the first step.
But to Lil Kalish&#8217;s credit, the article does offer a somewhat accurate portrayal of what I wrote on social media. Here&#8217;s the HuffPost summary: 
<blockquote>Walsh posted a video of one Vanderbilt doctor ― Dr. Shayne Taylor, who founded the clinic in 2018 ― discussing how gender-affirming surgeries, like double mastectomies and genital surgeries, could bring in &#8216;a lot of money&#8217; for the medical center.</blockquote>
And indeed, that&#8217;s exactly what I posted, because it’s true. The article goes on to correctly characterize some of my other tweets: 
<blockquote>In another video Walsh posted, a different doctor cautions that employees who don’t want to treat transgender patients on the grounds of religious objections &#8216;probably shouldn’t work at Vanderbilt.&#8217; At the end of the thread, Walsh wrote that the clinic’s peer support group, Trans Buddy Program, was in fact a &#8216;gang of trans activists&#8217; acting as &#8216;surveillance in order to force compliance.&#8217;</blockquote>
What&#8217;s the problem with any of this? you might ask. Eventually, Lil Kalish gets around to making something of a point: 
<blockquote>Puberty blockers, which stop the body from making sex hormones, help slow unwanted secondary sex characteristics. They do not, as Walsh suggested, &#8216;sterilize&#8217; or &#8216;castrate&#8217; children, though the medication could pose some risks to fertility if they are administered too early in puberty.</blockquote>
This is what&#8217;s called a self-refuting sentence. Lil Kalish begins by saying it&#8217;s wrong to suggest that puberty blockers castrate kids and then proceeds to admit that these drugs castrate kids.
You should know that the definition of “chemical castration,” according to the Webster dictionary, is the use of a drug to block the production of <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sex%20hormone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sex hormones</a>. So HuffPost is claiming that puberty blockers don’t castrate, they only block the production of sex hormones. Which is to say that they don’t block the production of sex hormones, they only block the production of sex hormones. Just as, you might argue, that object over there isn’t a square, it’s only a geometric shape with four equal straight sides and four right angles. If it feels like you’re having a stroke while you listen to this line of logic, that makes two of us.
As for sterility, the data have been clear on this for a long time. Here&#8217;s a direct quote from the peer-reviewed journal of Translational Andrology and Urology, from back in 2019: 
<blockquote>Transgender individuals who undergo gender-affirming medical or surgical therapies are at risk for infertility. Suppression of puberty .. in the pediatric transgender patient can pause the maturation of germ cells, and thus, affect fertility potential.</blockquote>
By the way, not that facts matter here, but in my tweet thread, I wasn&#8217;t only talking about puberty blockers. I was mainly talking about cross-sex hormones, which also have a well-documented sterilizing effect on children. Vanderbilt admitted to giving those to children as young as 13:
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But they must have forgot to delete a video from Vanderbilt Psychiatry’s Youtube channel back in 2020 which admits explicitly that they will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13. <a href="https://t.co/Qn48zWoJ1N">pic.twitter.com/Qn48zWoJ1N</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313670075518978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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To be clear, the drugs they&#8217;re talking about don&#8217;t simply reduce fertility. In many cases, they eliminate it entirely and permanently. It is simply an indisputable fact that cross sex hormones — which Vanderbilt did give to gender confused children, and which are given to gender confused children all over the country — can and very often do sterilize. This is not my theory or my assumption, it is a fact. That’s why many hospitals engaging in this so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; tell patients to store their eggs and sperm. UCSF, for example, advises that its gender doctors will: 
<blockquote>&#8230;oversee services for people with testicles, including sperm storage and specialized techniques to produce and retrieve sperm in those with a history of hormone use.</blockquote>
So HuffPost caught me saying something true, which they&#8217;re pretending is false. But let&#8217;s just move on because it gets even worse. Lil Kalish also takes issue with my reporting that Vanderbilt was performing double mastectomies on minors.
<blockquote>[Vanderbilt] performed fewer than a dozen top surgeries, or double mastectomies, each year for transmasculine patients in their late teens, according to Riley. Such surgeries require patients to undergo months of therapy beforehand, and a study published this summer showed that top surgery patients had little to no regrets decades after the operation. Both Riley and a [Vanderbilt] executive, C. Wright Pinson, said that the hospital never performed &#8216;genital procedures&#8217; on minors.</blockquote>
There are at least three significant problems with this paragraph. The first is that it uses the term &#8220;late teens,&#8221; which is obviously ambiguous. A 19-year-old adult woman is in her &#8220;late teens.&#8221; Someone who&#8217;s 17-years-old could also be considered to be in their &#8220;late teens.&#8221; A 16-year-old might qualify as “late teens,” if by “late teens” you just mean someone on the back half of their teenage years. They’re relying on this ambiguity because, in fact, Vanderbilt did perform double mastectomies on patients under the age of 18. They&#8217;ve admitted that. This is why they suspended so-called &#8220;gender-affirming surgeries&#8221; for patients under the age of 18 after my reporting. It’s kind of hard to suspend something you weren’t doing in the first place.
Another problem with that paragraph is that it implies Vanderbilt didn&#8217;t act unethically because they only performed &#8220;fewer than a dozen top surgeries” each year for teenagers. So they only mutilated a few kids. What&#8217;s the big deal? Imagine being one of the young girls who no longer has her breasts because of these charlatans and then reading that paragraph. Enraging does not begin to describe it. In fact, if you are a person with a brain and a soul, you will hear that they mutilated a dozen kids a year and be shocked by how high that number is. A dozen a year? A dozen girls a year had their body parts removed for no valid medical reason? That is shocking and horrifying, to those of us with a conscience, anyway. You notice how they’ve moved the goal posts. They went from saying “We don’t mutilate kids at all, don’t be ridiculous,” to “We only mutilate kids every once in a while, don’t overreact.” That’s a very different argument, isn’t it?
The third issue here is the study they cite. They claim that &#8220;a study published this summer showed that top surgery patients had little to no regrets decades after the operation.&#8221; If you have common sense you will already find this claim highly dubious, given that almost all surgeries have regret rates at least over zero. The idea that nobody ever regrets a cosmetic double mastectomy is simply ludicrous on its face. That’s why I did what HuffPost hopes you won’t do and I clicked the <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2808129?guestAccessKey=43a62af8-3042-4678-b29d-3430c3ff98c1&amp;utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_content=tfl&amp;utm_term=080923" target="_blank" rel="noopener">link HuffPost provided</a>. It took me to a report that I’ve actually already debunked on this show, and it begins with this: 
<blockquote>Question: What is the rate of regret and satisfaction with [the] decision after 2 years or more following gender-affirming mastectomy?</blockquote>
They&#8217;re clearly not tracking results from &#8220;decades&#8221; after the surgery, at least not in every case. Two years suffices, apparently. And then I looked at the response rate: 
<blockquote>A total of 235 patients were deemed eligible for the study, and 139 responded.</blockquote>
Right there, you have a useless study. If nearly half of the patients don&#8217;t respond — maybe because they&#8217;re dead, depressed or unhappy — then you have no business citing the very small number of people who responded — fewer than 140 in this case — as evidence of anything. We see this kind of statistical manipulation constantly in this field. This is yet another instance of it. We should also note that the median age at the time of surgery for those who did respond was 27. So this was not a study that focused on minors who had top surgery. In other words, it’s a totally irrelevant study because it is not even attempting to measure the thing that we’re actually talking about. 
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Finally, a number of respondents actually did report high levels of dissatisfaction, but their answers were thrown out because the researchers judged the answers to be contradictory or confusing. This is just a brief list of the problems with this absolutely ridiculous and scientifically illegitimate study, which HuffPost is citing uncritically and without acknowledging any of its myriad limitations.
I could go on here. The rest of the piece is an extended attack on Vanderbilt, believe it or not, for daring to comply with the Tennessee attorney general&#8217;s investigation into this barbarism. They also suggest it&#8217;s improper for Tennessee officials to act on my concerns, even though this is precisely how democracy is supposed to work: Citizens bring an issue to the attention of their government, and the government responds.
The upshot is that this writer repeatedly insists that I misinformed the public about Vanderbilt&#8217;s trans program and about &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; generally. But there is no explanation as to what part I was wrong about, or how exactly I was wrong. What little this writer does say is clearly wrong or misleading. This is what passes for a fact check. This is how a &#8220;hit piece&#8221; works in the year 2023.
As gratifying as it was for me to read this, there&#8217;s a bigger point to be made here. Ultimately the article is a lamentation over a battle that the Left knows it has lost. The child gender transition racket has suffered one defeat after another in state legislatures, and then the courts followed. Most importantly, it has lost completely on a cultural level. 
Look at the comments on this HuffPost hit piece. The most popular comments — on this extremely Left-wing website — all support my point of view. As of today, the top comment on the article reads: 
<blockquote>Why is this being made into a Left-Right issue by the media, it&#8217;s NOT. I&#8217;m liberal, everyone I know is liberal, NO ONE I know supports trans treatments for children.</blockquote>
The next highest-rated comment reads: 
<blockquote>They keep telling us that no surgical procedures are being done on minors, yet here it seems to be occurring.</blockquote>
Right below that, is this comment: 
<blockquote>I just can&#8217;t understand how any adult would be ok with this in their children..</blockquote>
The public sees &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; butchery for what it is, and once they&#8217;ve seen it, the genie can&#8217;t go back in the bottle. The voices of sanity are winning. They&#8217;re winning with laws against child castration, which are being passed all over the country. They&#8217;re winning in the courts, especially after the ruling from the Sixth Circuit just a few weeks ago, upholding the ban on &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; butchery in Tennessee. And now, with this desperate, overwritten and incoherent hit piece, the Left has admitted their defeat as clearly as they possibly can.

Matt Walsh 5 (1)

The Left Admits Defeat In Their Latest Hit Piece Against Me

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Readers Pass

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transgender surgery

Vanderbilt University

HuffPost White House correspondent <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/author/sv-date" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S. V. Date</a> used the 22nd anniversary of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-plans-to-commemorate-9-11-with-stop-in-alaska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 11th</a> terrorist attacks to claim that former President Donald Trump was worse than &#8220;Osama bin Biden.&#8221;
Date laid out his argument in a post on X, saying, &#8220;Twenty-two years ago this morning, a foreign terrorist murdered nearly 3,000 Americans. But he could not come close to ending or even hurting our democracy. That attack arrived 19 years, three months and 26 days later, at the hands of an ersatz American.&#8221;
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Osama bin Biden, after all, had never taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the United States. 
Our 45th president had. 
Ironically, the locus of his assault was the same building that was saved by the bravery of the passengers on United 93.
&mdash; S.V. Dáte (@svdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1701246957631455540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Date added a follow-up post, continuing his attack on Trump and flubbing the name of 9/11 terrorist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-cant-believe-i-fought-for-this-bulls-navy-seal-who-killed-bin-laden-blasts-u-s-navy-using-drag-queen-to-recruit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Osama bin Laden</a> in the proceess.
&#8220;Osama bin Biden, after all, had never taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the United States. Our 45th president had,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ironically, the locus of his assault was the same building that was saved by the bravery of the passengers on United 93.&#8221;
&#8220;WH Correspondent for HuffPost downplays 9/11 to talk about Jan 6th,&#8221; John Hasson <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1701248329986855223" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>.
&#8220;22 years ago, people had to choose between jumping out of a building or burning alive,&#8221; another pushed back. &#8220;This is not the same thing as some idiots breaking a fence and inconveniencing lawmakers for a few hours. Anyone comparing 9/11 to J6 should be f***ing ashamed of themselves. #NeverForget.&#8221;
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22 years ago, people had to choose between jumping out of a building or burning alive.
This is not the same thing as some idiots breaking a fence and inconveniencing lawmakers for a few hours.
Anyone comparing 9/11 to J6 should be fucking ashamed of themselves.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverForget?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NeverForget</a> <a href="https://t.co/xNIoNwZh4o">https://t.co/xNIoNwZh4o</a>
&mdash; Meara (@MillennialOther) <a href="https://twitter.com/MillennialOther/status/1701289737909162276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s my favorite time of year: The time when we recognize and celebrate delusional Lib September 11 takes,&#8221; @BravoKiloActual <a href="https://twitter.com/BravoKiloActual/status/1701271127279198372" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;White House correspondent for HuffPo having a totally normal one,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1701256468119289887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
&#8220;What is it that makes a**hats like this, post something on this day?&#8221; another asked. &#8220;We get it, you hate Trump, but tweets like this energizes the division even more. Pompous a**.&#8221;
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What is it that makes asshats like this, post something on this day?
We get it, you hate Trump, but tweets like this energizes the division even more. 
Pompous ass. <a href="https://t.co/nRvDGK5VfU">https://t.co/nRvDGK5VfU</a>
&mdash; Grand Admiral of Propaganda (@TheIOGuy) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheIOGuy/status/1701272747081667040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Oh great, I get to dust this one off,&#8221; Damin Toell added, sharing a screenshot of an exchange with Date from May of 2021.
&#8220;United 93 was intended to crash into the Capitol,&#8221; Toell said. &#8220;You think January 6th was worse than that?&#8221;
Date&#8217;s response? &#8220;1000 percent worse.&#8221;
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Oh great, I get to dust this one off. <a href="https://t.co/oDSxZo7eSR">https://t.co/oDSxZo7eSR</a> <a href="https://t.co/5xdxJzFOKt">pic.twitter.com/5xdxJzFOKt</a>
&mdash; Damin Toell (@damintoell) <a href="https://twitter.com/damintoell/status/1701250763614294062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Annual Tribute in Light is Setup in New York City

HuffPost WH Correspondent Uses 9/11 To Claim Trump Is Worse Than ‘Osama Bin Biden’

HuffPost WH Correspondent Uses 9/11 To Claim Trump Is Worse Than 'Osama Bin Biden'

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Terrorists

BuzzFeed News is shutting down just over a decade after its 2012 launch.
BuzzFeed Inc. CEO and founder Jonah Peretti announced the closure to staff on Thursday as part of a wider plan to cut BuzzFeed staff by 15% “across our Business, Content, Tech and Admin teams.” Chief Revenue Officer Edgar Hernandez and Chief Operating Officer Christian Baesler will also be leaving.
“It might not feel this way today, but I am confident the future of digital media is ours for the taking. Our industry is hurting and ready to be reborn. We are taking great pains today, and will begin to fight our way to a bright future,” Peretti said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/BenMullin/status/1649067421766938624">memo</a> to staff.
BuzzFeed News’ closure will affect about 60 people, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/business/buzzfeed-news-shut-down.html">The New York Times</a>. About a dozen staffers in the news division will be offered positions at BuzzFeed.com and The Huffington Post, another of BuzzFeed’s subsidiaries.
The bulk of BuzzFeed’s reporting will now be done under The Huffington Post, a leftist outlet with “a highly engaged, loyal audience that is less dependent on social platforms,” Peretti said.
BuzzFeed has <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shareholders-buzzfeed-nasdaq-bzfd-lost-111743541.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggled</a> to make a profit, and its news division added to the parent company&#8217;s financial woes.
“I made the decision to overinvest in BuzzFeed News because I love their work and mission so much. This made me slow to accept that the big platforms wouldn’t provide the distribution or financial support required to support premium, free journalism purpose-built for social media,” Peretti said.
“I regret that I didn’t hold the company to higher standards for profitability, to give us the buffer needed to manage through economic and industry downturns and avoid painful days like today,” he continued. “I’ve learned from these mistakes, and the team moving forward has learned from them as well.”
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BuzzFeed News won one Pulitzer prize, awarded in 2021, for its reporting on the oppression of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.
The news division is also well-known for being the first outlet to publish the infamous Steele Dossier that contained unfounded rumors and innuendo about former President Donald Trump. The dossier, funded by the Clinton campaign for opposition research, was used by the FBI to obtain warrants to surveil the former president’s 2016 campaign.

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BuzzFeed News To Shut Down After 11 Years

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A freelance writer was assigned to write a hit-piece on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a>, but after researching the controversy over the author&#8217;s purportedly &#8220;transphobic&#8221; tweets, she came out in support of her.
E.J. Rosetta, who describes herself as a &#8220;lesbian writer&#8221; and has bylines in various LGBT and leftwing publications, was asked to write an article about the famed children&#8217;s book author J.K. Rowling’s &#8220;transphobic&#8221; statements. But after several months of research reading her work, Rosetta came to the realization that she shared Rowling&#8217;s position about the importance of protecting women&#8217;s sex-based rights and took to Twitter to share her revelation.
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Right, I’m done.
3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With”
After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay &amp; finding the context of these “quotes”, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message🧵
&mdash; E J Rosetta (@ejrosetta) <a href="https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595060392031657984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Right, I’m done,&#8221; Rosetta&#8217;s tweet thread began. &#8220;3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing &#8217;20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With.&#8217; After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay and finding the context of these &#8216;quotes&#8217;, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message.&#8221;
Rosetta, a London-based freelancer, said she &#8220;peaked&#8221; during her three months of &#8220;dedicated research&#8221; into the debate between those advocating for and against the inclusion of biological men into women&#8217;s protected spaces.
&#8220;In many cases, one group&#8217;s rights are being sacrificed for the other, with the most vulnerable women often paying the price,&#8221; said Rosetta. &#8220;Here in Britain, we always want to support both sides but realise that in some cases (like [Domestic Violence] Shelters), that is impossible.&#8221;
Rosetta found a new appreciation for Rowling, who she says has been unfairly labeled an &#8220;intolerable transphobe&#8221; for standing up for women.
&#8220;JK saw the loopholes being created and knew that women needed a voice,&#8221; said Rosetta. &#8220;So instead of sitting back and wishing everyone well, said &#8216;It’s got to be me, hasn’t it?&#8217; She did something terrifying and amazing and used her voice, I suspect knowing damn well what was to come. That’s bravery.&#8221;
Commenters applauded Rosetta for her own bravery, and warned she would face an onslaught of vitriol from activists. Rosetta <a href="https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595071714790150146?s=20&amp;t=9GxH5s5g7tI51xPDKDbA4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that she has been &#8220;ignoring frantic phone calls&#8221; from her agent &#8220;demanding&#8221; she take the post down, but she said &#8220;no.&#8221;
Rosetta has bylines in many pro-LGBT publications including Curve US, DIVA, PinkNews, g3, a weekly column with WhenSallyMetSally.co.uk, and the Huffington Post. When a commenter asked if she was concerned she may be dropped from some of the pro-trans outlets she writes for, Rosetta <a href="https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595074362851344390?s=20&amp;t=9GxH5s5g7tI51xPDKDbA4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that severing ties with them would be an &#8220;unintended benefit.&#8221;
When asked what prevented her from coming to this realization sooner, Rosetta answered that &#8220;groupthink&#8221; played a role in suppressing her critical faculties.
&#8220;Group think, brainwashing and listening unquestioningly to the voices of my LGBT peers over critical thought and doing my own research/thinking,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595082401474301953?s=20&amp;t=9GxH5s5g7tI51xPDKDbA4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rosetta. &#8220;5 years I have spent nodding along while JK was buried, and for that I apologise. I’m glad to report I’m thinking for myself again now.&#8221;
Rosetta admonished those who she now believes are responsible for &#8220;chucking out clickbait and stirring up hate.&#8221;
&#8220;Shame on those who followed that propaganda without critical thought,&#8221; said Rosetta. &#8220;You&#8217;re burning the wrong witch. I stand with JK Rowling.&#8221;

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On Monday, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/verizon-scrambling-to-unload-huffpost-as-losses-mount/">the New York Post</a> reported that Verizon, the parent company of Huffington Post, wants to dump the leftist news site.
Verizon purchased HuffPo in 2015 as part of the deal in its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL in 2015, but now, the Post reported, Verizon has contacted multiple digital-media companies to take the news site off its hands. Some of those possible targets reportedly have included Vox Media, Group Nine Media, Penske Media Corp., Bustle Digital Media and J2 Global.
The Post stated that Vox and Group Nine both declined to purchase HuffPo; the Post noted that Group Nine’s CEO is Ben Lerer, the son of Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer.
One digital media executive said of HuffPo, “This thing loses so much money. It’s such a mess, I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. I don’t think there’s any way you can make money.”
Two sources told the Post that HuffPo’s expenses range from $60 million and $70 million, but the site only brings in between $45 million to $50 million a year, and with the losses from the coronavirus pandemic, the site’s earnings could drop to $40 million this year.
HuffPo has roughly between 150- and 200 employees; one source told the Post that HuffPo suffers from a “toxic culture” with “distrust in the organization” and “in-fighting” over how “Left” HuffPo should be. The source added, “Who wants to buy ads on the thing? Nobody. If Verizon can’t make money on it, who can? And, you have to fire half the people? There goes the traffic. The brand means nothing anymore and it’s ultra-partisan.”
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/arianna-huffingtons-improbable-insatiable-content-machine.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">The New York Times</a> reported in June 2015, “The Huffington Post broke even last year on $146 million in revenue, according to someone familiar with the site’s finances.” In January 2019, HuffPo <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/verizon-media-huffpost-layoffs_us_5c48b986e4b083c46d64e85a?tjm">announced</a> it was laying off roughly 20 employees, which it said comprised 9.5% of its staff. HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said:
<blockquote>It’s a tough day for HuffPost, and we’re losing some talented and beloved colleagues. We are deeply committed to quality journalism that reflects what matters most to our diverse audiences across the globe. HuffPost is aligning its talents and investments to areas that have high audience engagement, differentiation and are poised for growth at a time when our mission means more than ever.</blockquote>
In October 2019, HuffPo laid off 11 more employees; the site <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/huffpost-video-layoffs_n_5d9640f4e4b02911e117bc2c">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Among the cuts were five managers, video producers, camera operators, on-screen talent and several branded shows the department was working on. A company spokesperson released a statement, saying HuffPost was “realigning its video strategy.” The statement read: &#8220;We remain deeply committed to quality journalism and what matters most to our diverse audiences across the globe. HuffPost is realigning its video strategy to invest and allocate resources to support its core areas that have high audience engagement, differentiation and are poised for growth as we continue on our mission to provide a voice to all people.&#8221;</blockquote>

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Climate change hysteria has brought people to such lowly depths of despair that they are now refusing to have children in order to protect the environment.
In an op-ed for The Huffington Post, guest writer Mariana Keen declared that she feels a &#8220;responsibility not to have children&#8221; in order to combat the world&#8217;s &#8220;unsustainable population size,&#8221; thus seeming to offer support for something that conservatives have alleged for years: Climate change hysteria can sometimes simply mask an insidious leftist/Malthusian movement for global population control.
&#8220;The world population is growing by approximately 83 million people every year, largely due to a high birth rate and falling death rate, and this is having a devastating impact on the planet,&#8221; argues Keen.
In Keen&#8217;s mind, not to mention <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/scientists-call-for-population-control-in-mass-climate-alarm">the scientists who have echoed</a> her sentiments, having children simply translates into &#8220;multiplying my impact on the environment&#8221; — which is further compounded by our &#8220;increased life expectancy.&#8221; The question of having children has weighed on Keen for years and has now reached an apex, given her age of 36. However, after careful consideration, she has decided that children will not be in her future.
&#8220;I don’t want children, and a major deciding factor for me has been the impact this would have on the environment,&#8221; she argues. &#8220;Of course, such a major life decision is multifaceted. I’ve made a lot of choices in response to environmental concerns, but the matter of kids has certainly been one of the more challenging topics to ponder because I’m interested in balancing my duty to our planet with making enriching life choices.&#8221;
Keen says her choice stems from two factors: Seeing that her friends are no more happier after having children and her responsibility to the environment.
&#8220;This, for me, means not adding to my home city’s population density, global population growth, and further destruction of our planet,&#8221; she emphasizes.
Keen then cites a 2009<a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/jul/family-planning-major-environmental-emphasis" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk"> study by statisticians at Oregon State University</a> to support her claim, which argued that &#8220;having one less child in the U.S.&#8221; would dramatically impact the output of greenhouse gas emissions.
&#8220;The study found that under current conditions in the U.S., each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent ― about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for an average person worldwide,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;For me, this impact has been worth considering. Just as I can do my bit by recycling and limiting my waste, I can help to curb the population by limiting the number of children I have.&#8221;
&#8220;So considering the environmental impact I can have in my lifetime, I’ve decided not to have kids,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;There are so many great people in my world with whom I can share love and companionship, so I don’t feel the need to have my own child in order to feel fulfilled.&#8221;
While certain segments of the climate change activist community have called for more population control, other segments have cautioned against it. The feminist <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2019/09/24/population-control-isnt-the-answer-to-our-climate-crisis/">Ms. Magazine</a>, of all places, even argued that population control would not solve the supposed problem.
&#8220;Today, arguments for population control are reemerging in mainstream and even liberal discussions around limiting women’s fertility in the name of environmental sustainability,&#8221; the article stated. &#8220;This isn’t the first time women’s bodies have been treated as a means to a demographic end. Recall such ugly initiatives, all mainstream in their day, to forcibly sterilize Black, Latina, and Indigenous women, to treat Puerto Rican women like lab rats in contraceptive trials to keep the island’s population down and to fund sterilization camps in India.&#8221;

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A former high school classmate of Brett Kavanaugh filed a lawsuit last week against the Huffington Post and its former journalist Ashley Feinberg for repeatedly making &#8220;false and defamatory&#8221; claims about him and a friend during the uncorroborated accusation-riddled confirmation process of the since-confirmed Supreme Court justice.
In the <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/HuffPo.pdf">lawsuit</a>, filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, plaintiff Derrick Evans — an African American professor from Gulfport, Mississippi who went to Georgetown Prep with Kavanaugh after earning a full scholarship to the school — accuses Feinberg of defaming him and friend Douglas Kennedy in a report published by HuffPost in September 2018.
The report, originally titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/georgetown-prep-student-party-culture-kavanaugh_n_5ba28cf7e4b07c23ef37a06c">Brett Kavanaugh’s Prep School Party Scene Was A ‘Free-For-All</a>’,&#8221; claimed that Evans and Kennedy helped arrange the purchase and delivery of cocaine to Georgetown Prep that ultimately led to the death of David Kennedy, Douglas&#8217; brother and the son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in April 1984, the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/22/mississippi-man-sues-huffington-post-over-story-brett-kavanaugh-illegal-drugs-party-david-kennedy/2086975001/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories">Mississippi Clarion-Ledger</a> reported Thursday.
Evans is accusing HuffPost of either knowingly publishing false and defamatory claims, or, at best, &#8220;reckless disregard&#8221; of the truth. &#8220;These statements were not only false and defamatory, but outrageously so, and were published by defendants with knowledge of their actual falsity or in reckless disregard of the truth for the apparent purpose of creating a salacious story designed to drive internet traffic to HuffPost’s website,&#8221; the lawsuit charges.
&#8220;Defendants had no sources to support their outrageously false and defamatory statements about Derrick Evans and Douglas Kennedy,&#8221; the lawsuit states. &#8220;Nor did Defendants make any effort whatsoever to contact Mr. Evans for comment before accusing him of not only of committing a crime, but of being responsible for the death of David Kennedy. Indeed, if Ms. Feinberg or her HuffPost editors had done even the most basic research of publicly available sources, she and they would have known, if they did not already know, that Mr. Evans actively assisted law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting the individuals who actually sold the illegal narcotics.&#8221;
The lawsuit points out that after being contacted by Evans, HuffPost initially issued a correction, but the correction itself contained false information. The initial correction read:
<blockquote>This article previously stated incorrectly that Doug Kennedy was involved in helping his brother to purchase drugs in 1984. Kennedy was only sharing a room with Derrick Evans, who helped David purchase the drugs, according to an affidavit obtained by the New York Times. We regret the error.</blockquote>
That correction &#8220;was another complete fabrication published by HuffPost with actual knowledge that both it and the original publication were false or in reckless disregard of the truth, again without ever attempting to contact Mr. Evans for comment,&#8221; the lawsuit asserts. &#8220;As HuffPost knew, there was NO affidavit reflecting that Mr. Evans ever helped anyone purchase illegal drugs. Defendants had no such affidavit in their possession, and they could not have had such an affidavit in their possession.&#8221;
The site eventually revised the report to remove all reference to Evans and Douglas Kennedy and included the following correction at the bottom of the piece:
<blockquote>This article previously mischaracterized the involvement of individuals in a drug purchase. References to those individuals and the incident have been removed. We regret the error. Additionally, certain references by the former student to specific individuals have been removed to better reflect the intended purpose of the article: to provide a former student’s general characterizations of the party culture.</blockquote>
Evans, who has since gone on to earn distinctions as a history professor and found a nonprofit to address hurricane damage on the gulf coast, is suing for emotional distress and reputational harm for what his attorney describes as &#8220;false, malicious and fabricated&#8221; claims published &#8220;with a knowing, intentional, subjective awareness of, and/or reckless disregard of, their falsity.&#8221;
A HuffPost spokesperson told the Clarion-Ledger it would not comment on pending litigation.
After a series of increasingly outrageous sexual misconduct accusations — none of which were corroborated and many of which were quickly discredited — Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice in October 2018. A month later, the Senate Judiciary Committee released its <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf">summary report and exhibits</a> regarding the allegations. In the summary of its findings, the committee explained that after speaking with 45 individuals, taking 25 written statements, and working with 40 attorneys, law clerks, and other professionals, the committee did not find &#8220;any evidence to substantiate or corroborate any of the allegations&#8221; against Kavanaugh.
&#8220;After an extensive investigation that included the thorough review of all potentially credible evidence submitted and interviews of more than 40 individuals with information relating to the allegations, including classmates and friends of all those involved, Committee investigators found no witness who could provide any verifiable evidence to support any of the allegations brought against Justice Kavanaugh,&#8221; the committee concluded. &#8220;In other words, following the separate and extensive investigations by both the Committee and the FBI, there was no evidence to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault made against Justice Kavanaugh.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49927/ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-what-conservatives-have-james-barrett">Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says What Conservatives Have Said About Kavanaugh All Along</a>

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There may indeed come a time when the American Psychological Association (APA) endorses polyamory as a healthy lifestyle and devoid of psychological stigmatization.
According to <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/psychologists-form-new-task-force-to-normalize-polyamory">LifeSiteNews</a>, the APA has now formulated a task force to study polyamory in hopes of removing the &#8220;stigma&#8221; associated with it, and have even given the lifestyle its own politically correct term – &#8220;consensual non-monogamy.&#8221;
The Division 44 Task Force says on the <a href="https://www.apadivisions.org/division-44/leadership/task-forces/">APA website</a> that the group will dedicate itself to promoting &#8220;awareness and inclusivity about consensual non-monogamy and diverse expressions of intimate relationships.&#8221; Such relationships include but are not limited to: Polyamory, open relationships, swinging, relationship anarchy, and &#8220;other types of ethical, non-monogamous relationships.&#8221;
&#8220;Finding love and/or sexual intimacy is a central part of most people’s life experience. However, the ability to engage in desired intimacy without social and medical stigmatization is not a liberty for all,&#8221; the Task Force says. &#8220;This task force seeks to address the needs of people who practice consensual non-monogamy, including their intersecting marginalized identities.&#8221;
Shortly down the list of task forces in Division 44 is the <a href="https://www.apadivisions.org/division-44/leadership/task-forces/">Religion and Spirituality Task Force,</a> which promises to remove any religious objections people might have to any of the sexual lifestyles listed.
&#8220;The Task Force on Religion and Spirituality was created to encourage a confluence between sexual minority orientations and identities and religious experiences,&#8221; the page says. &#8220;It further attempts to create affirmation and acceptance for LGBT individuals of faith within theologically diverse ideological traditions. Given the importance of faith and even religious tradition in the lives of many LGBT individuals, the Committee seeks to reduce theological barriers often separating sexual minorities from the sources of their beliefs.&#8221;
Speaking with LifeSiteNews, <a href="http://drdanboland.com/">psychologist Daniel Boland</a>, a 50-year member of the APA, said that the so-called &#8220;Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force&#8221; proves that the APA has abandoned the scientific tradition in favor of prevailing political and cultural pressures.
&#8220;In this entire arena of so-called transgenderism and affiliated conditions, the APA has abandoned all respect for fact-based research and scientific tradition,&#8221; Boland said in an email. &#8220;It has capitulated to the most unstable, most radical elements in our society. It has thereby nullified its once well-founded claim to represent health service providers. It abandonment of its original professionalism renders it no longer credible to the public or to its members.&#8221;
The subject of polyamory has been increasingly pushed by leftist media as mainstream in recent years. Sites like Teen Vogue and HuffPost have sometimes pushed it as an alternative lifestyle that may not necessarily be for everyone, but is still a healthy expression of sexuality for those who accept it.
&#8220;I like to think about it as polyamory is the umbrella and underneath it there is open relationships, swinging, all different kinds of non-monogamous relationships under the spectrum that can all co-exist,&#8221; sex educator Cameron Glover told <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-polyamory">Teen Vogue in 2018</a>. &#8220;What differentiates polyamory is that polyamory itself is not so much about the amount of people you can have sex with or anything like that, but the amount of folks you can have and create substantial relationships with, that might include sex, but that can encompass other relationship components.&#8221;
A simple Google search with the words &#8220;polyamory&#8221; and &#8220;Huffpost&#8221; also yields dozens of glowing profiles on the subject.

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For what Politico has styled &#8220;Trump&#8217;s takeover of the Fourth of July celebration,&#8221; the U.S. Military brought a couple of M1 Bradley Armored Personnel Carriers into the heart of Washington, D.C. Tuesday night, a moment HuffPost described as a &#8220;surreal scene&#8221; and footage of which has been posted online. The tanks are among the half-dozen or so military vehicles that will be included in the &#8220;Salute to America&#8221; event around the Lincoln Memorial, which will also feature the standard fireworks and flyover — and for which Trump has been decried by the Left for his &#8220;authoritarian&#8221; display of military power.
&#8220;In a surreal scene, tanks rolled into Washington D.C. on Tuesday to participate in President Donald Trump’s Independence Day event,&#8221; <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tanks-in-washington-dc_n_5d1c3ce5e4b082e55371d8b1">HuffPost</a> reported Tuesday in a piece highlighting some of the footage as well as comments by Army Col. Sunset Belinsky to a Washington-based CBS affiliate reassuring the public that there&#8217;s no need to &#8220;panic.&#8221;
&#8220;Residents of the Capitol City will see the vehicles move through their neighborhoods, but should not panic,” said Col. Belinsky. HuffPost also quotes D.C. Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton denouncing Trump for &#8220;robbing&#8221; the people of the nonpartisan celebration. &#8220;This robs us of the one holiday where everybody comes together and doesn’t even look at you to find out what your political party is,&#8221; she said.
Some of the footage of &#8220;Trump&#8217;s tanks&#8221; that&#8217;s made the rounds online:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Just left the Nats game, and we were greeted by Trump&#8217;s tanks rolling through just outside the ballpark <a href="https://twitter.com/fox5dc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fox5dc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nbcwashington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nbcwashington</a> <a href="https://t.co/O9VmDGFoMY">pic.twitter.com/O9VmDGFoMY</a>
— Cole (@eloc8) <a href="https://twitter.com/eloc8/status/1146238374203863040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">NEW — <a href="https://twitter.com/USArmy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USArmy</a> says armored vehicles WILL move through WASHINGTON TONIGHT.
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Two M1 Bradley Armored Personnel Carriers.
Army spokesperson says, “you’ll see them moving through your neighborhood, but DON’T PANIC.”<a href="https://twitter.com/wusa9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WUSA9</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaluteToAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SaluteToAmerica</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FourthofJuly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FourthofJuly</a> <a href="https://t.co/c9IockpNMv">pic.twitter.com/c9IockpNMv</a>
— Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikevWUSA/status/1146207474220961794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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And as is the case with so many Trump-led events, the mainstream media is uncertain about how to cover his &#8220;takeover&#8221; of the Fourth. <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/02/trump-july-4-event-tv-1395474">Politico</a> provides a rundown of how the networks plan to approach it, most notably MSNBC, which is considering effectively blacking it out.
&#8220;President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Fourth of July celebration at the National Mall won’t completely take over the cable airwaves,&#8221; Politico reports. &#8220;MSNBC, for one, doesn’t plan to carry his “Salute to America” live, though the network will assess in real time whether to air clips of the event, a spokesperson told POLITICO.&#8221;
While MSNBC appears to be leaning toward acting like the event isn&#8217;t happening, Fox News is planning to dedicate a couple of hours to the event in a two-hour edition of &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; Politico notes.
The other cable news outlet, CNN, meanwhile, just happens to be airing a special on the rise of white nationalism starting at 7 p.m., in what some might consider a curious choice for July 4th programming.
ABC News will air the &#8220;Salute to America&#8221; on its streaming channel ABC News Live, as will CBS on CBSN and NBC on NBC News NOW. CSPAN will likewise be streaming the event.
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/everything-you-wanted-know-about-trump-s-july-fourth-celebration-n1025606">NBC News</a>, which has covered the event with a little less slant online, provides a summary of what to expect: &#8220;Tanks. Troops. The president. The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, the U.S. Army Band, the Armed Forces Chorus, the U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels are all part of the program.&#8221;
NBC quotes Trump about the need to be &#8220;pretty careful&#8221; with the tanks, but not because of a fear of &#8220;panic&#8221;: &#8220;We gotta be pretty careful with the tanks because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks, so we have to put them in certain areas,&#8221; he said.
Unlike Norton and her fellow Democrats, Trump is amped up about the event. &#8220;Big 4th of July in D.C. &#8216;Salute to America.'&#8221; he tweeted Tuesday. &#8220;The Pentagon &amp; our great Military Leaders are thrilled to be doing this &amp; showing to the American people, among other things, the strongest and most advanced Military anywhere in the World. Incredible Flyovers &amp; biggest ever Fireworks!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Big 4th of July in D.C. “Salute to America.” The Pentagon &amp; our great Military Leaders are thrilled to be doing this &amp; showing to the American people, among other things, the strongest and most advanced Military anywhere in the World. Incredible Flyovers &amp; biggest ever Fireworks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146062242388959238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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She&#8217;s been featured on Refinery 29; now she&#8217;s being featured on <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/legal-sex-worker-couples-communication_n_5ca78600e4b0a00f6d3f2a14">The Huffington Post</a>, of all places. Her name is Alice Little, reportedly the highest-earning legal prostitute, or as she calls herself, &#8220;sex worker&#8221; in the United States
&#8220;I describe myself as the <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/12/216107/sex-worker-money-diary-follow-up-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">country&#8217;s highest-earning worker</a> in the world&#8217;s oldest profession, by which I mean I make more than any other sex worker at any legal brothel in the U.S,&#8221; Little&#8217;s op-ed begins.
Knowing fully well that her work will spark the ire of judgment in readers, Little cuts right to the chase about the alleged dignity of her work and notes that she is an educated and &#8220;well-spoken&#8221; woman who also defies the &#8220;sex worker&#8221; stereotype by standing at just 4 feet, 8 inches tall. In the same breath, she also claims she&#8217;s not a &#8220;victim of a tragic circumstance&#8221; before going on to admit several paragraphs later that her parents&#8217; painful divorce may have in some way spurred her into prostitution.
Currently, she works at the infamous Bunny Ranch in Nevada, the subject for the HBO docuseries &#8220;Cathouse,&#8221; where she works as many as 60 to 80 hours per week between tending to clients (she works by appointment only), running her own YouTube channel, and writing sex education articles.
As to why she finds her profession of trading sex for cash fulfilling, Little says she finds joy in helping &#8220;people rediscover personal connections and intimacy.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe Americans are facing an intimacy crisis, and I believe loneliness to be America&#8217;s fastest-growing public health epidemic,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;I specialize in therapeutic sexual services that can help build sexual confidence, provide an opportunity to practice building connections and teach sexual techniques to work around physical limitations. If you&#8217;re a man terrified of talking to women, it can be intimidating to get out there. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have a dinner date with a girl whom you can not only be romantic with but also ask for dating pointers to boost your confidence? Having someone on your side, cheering you on, can make a big difference.&#8221;
So other than teaching awkward men who have such a difficult time with women that they have to hire a prostitute to teach them how to talk to women, Little then describes the alleged wonderful work she does for couples, which boils down to educational threesomes:
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Couples frequently seek my services to rediscover intimacy, improve bedroom communication, explore safely and fulfill fantasies. I believe seeing a legal sex worker when your relationship needs fine-tuning is just the same as going to a mechanic when your car needs repairs. I love working with couples because of the special chemistry that already exists between them. It challenges me to see where I can fit into their equation and work around their dynamic to help enhance it. It gives me pleasure to know that they have entrusted me with one another and have honored me with the privilege of helping them improve their relationship.
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According to actual professional sex therapists, however, couples suffering from intimacy issues should not seek the help of anyone who either wants to be a voyeur of the intimate act or a participator in the intimate act, regardless of the consent involved. They argue it creates greater damage to the couple&#8217;s intimacy. Keep in mind, HuffPost published this op-ed without so much as a disclaimer.
&#8220;Sex therapy should never include nudity, sex, or any type of sexual touching in the presence of a therapist,&#8221; writes Dr. Joe Kort in <a href="http://Sex therapy should never include nudity, sex, or any type of sexual touching in the presence of a therapist.">Psychology Today</a>.
Though Little characterizes her work as something she willingly participated in without any psychological wounds, she then reveals how her parents&#8217; divorce made her see physical intimacy and romance in a rather extreme light. &#8220;In my teen years, I witnessed my parents&#8217; marriage falling apart. As they were entangled in their divorce, my family was torn up and I felt helpless,&#8221; she admits. &#8220;I struggled to understand it back then, but as I grew older, it dawned on me that their divorce was due, in huge part, to a lack of intimacy and romance.&#8221;
The push to use sanitized phrases like &#8220;sex work&#8221; instead of prostitution for Little&#8217;s type of profession has been ongoing in recent years. Julie Bindel at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/30/new-zealand-sex-work-prostitution-migrants-julie-bindel">The Guardian</a> denounced this movement as a &#8220;green light for pimps to populate brothels.&#8221;
&#8220;The decision to include prostitution as an &#8217;employment skill&#8217; is a green light for pimps to populate brothels to meet the increased male demand for the prostitution of the most vulnerable women,&#8221; noted Bindel. &#8220;The practice of using human bodies as a marketplace has been normalised under the neoliberal economic system. Supporting the notion that prostitution is &#8216;labour&#8217; is not a progressive or female-friendly point of view.&#8221;

HuffPost Highlights ‘Highest Earning Legal Sex Worker In The U.S.’

The Democrats are doing everything to sully their chances of winning the 2020 election by pushing out every centrist in the running in favor of a far-left socialist radical agenda, and it&#8217;s glorious.
On the same day that CNN aired a focus group of just six people against former VP Joe Biden, the far-left Huffington Post <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020_n_5c796502e4b087c2f295ba31">published a scathing hit piece</a> on him for being a Wall Street, big-money, abortion softie.
The article first attacks Biden&#8217;s image as &#8220;<a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/10/15/daily-202-joe-biden-appeals-to-working-class-whites-who-defected-to-trump-is-that-how-democrats-win-again/5bc396dc1b326b7c8a8d19a1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Middle-Class Joe</a>&#8221; and his supposed working-class appeal, arguing that his career suggests otherwise.
&#8220;In more than four decades of public service, Biden has enthusiastically championed policies favored by financial elites, forging alliances with Wall Street and the political right to notch legislative victories that ran counter to the populist ideas that now animate his party,&#8221; the article declares. &#8220;If he declares for the presidency, Biden will face a Democratic electorate that has moved on from his brand of politics.&#8221;
HuffPost takes particular issue with Biden going up against Sen. Ted Kennedy by joining with Republicans on a piece of anti-trust legislation that exempted the soft-drinks industry at the behest of Coca-Cola.
&#8220;Antitrust law was an early salvo in what became a quarter-century struggle to shift the Democratic Party&#8217;s base of support away from organized labor toward large corporations,&#8221; reports HuffPo. &#8220;Biden became an advocate for corporate interests that had previously been associated with the Republican Party.&#8221;
The <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:13;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Washingtonian</a> even quoted Biden as saying in 1974: &#8220;A lot of us sit around thinking up ways to vote conservative just so we don&#8217;t come out with a liberal rating. When it comes to civil rights and civil liberties, I&#8217;m a liberal but that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m really quite conservative on most other issues.&#8221;
Spooky stuff if you&#8217;re a leftist of the Green New Deal variety.
Another <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-in-74-women-dont-have-sole-right-to-say-what-should-happen-to-their-bodies_n_5c78409ae4b0de0c3fbf2b70">HuffPost article</a> blasted the former vice president for not being liberal enough on abortion, taking issue with a quote of his from 1974 denouncing third-trimester abortion.
&#8220;When former Vice President Joe Biden was a freshman senator he <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> in a 1974 interview with Washingtonian that he believed the Supreme Court&#8217;s Roe v. Wade ruling clearing the way for legal first-trimester abortions &#8216;went too far,&#8217; and that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body,&#8221; lamented HuffPost.
The same article criticized Biden for supporting legislation in the 1980s that banned U.S. aid to foreign research on abortion and for saying that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for them.
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In 1981, for example, Biden proposed the Foreign Assistance Act, which barred U.S. aid from being used for any medical research on abortion. It&#8217;s still in effect to this day. He has also voted in support of the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortion procedures.
&#8220;Those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them,&#8221; Biden <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="http://www.nrlc.org/archive/ObamaAbortionAgenda/BidenOnHydeAmendmentTwoLetters.pdf">wrote</a> to a constituent in 1994.
He also supported former President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Global Gag Rule,&#8221; which prohibits the U.S. funding any nongovernmental organizations that offer or advise on reproductive health care if they also offer abortion. President Trump was <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:10;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-global-gag-rule_us_58822355e4b070d8cad1f774">quick to revive it</a> in 2017.
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HuffPost Takes Biden To The Woodshed: Wall Street, Big Money, Weak On Abortion

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Ever since President Trump publicly denounced the Democratic Party&#8217;s increasingly clear push for legalized infanticide the increasingly far-Left HuffPost has been producing as much late-term abortion content as possible. Their strategy has often been to highlight the most obscure, uncommon pregnancy cases and present them as the norm.
Last week, the site profiled a <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-late-term-abortion_us_5c5b02c5e4b09293b20a8263">couple who aborted their baby</a> in the third trimester at the behest of doctors who diagnosed it in the womb with spina bifida. This week, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/late-term-abortion-rape_us_5c630b8de4b0a8731aeabbd6">the site featured</a> a woman who got pregnant from a rape at age 17 and whose baby died one year after being born due to a birth defect.
&#8220;I Wish I&#8217;d Had A &#8216;Late-Term Abortion&#8217; Instead Of Having My Daughter,&#8221; reads the title for guest writer Dina Zirlott.
Indeed, Dina Zirlott has a story to tell, and unfortunately, it does not end happily. Impregnated by rape at 17 from a boy she knew at school, Dina courageously made the choice to keep her baby &#8212; a daughter named Zoe &#8212; who eventually died a year after being born. Dina now wishes she had aborted little Zoe when she had the chance, instead of granting her a brief chance at life.
&#8220;The doctor came to us and spread the ultrasound pictures across the table,&#8221; Dina says of the time she first learned about Zoe&#8217;s disorder. &#8220;She pointed to darkness where gray brain matter ought to be. She called it hydranencephaly, a congenital defect in which the brain fails to develop either cerebral hemisphere, instead of filling with cerebrospinal fluid. The fetus continued to experience development because the brain stem was still intact, but she would be born blind, deaf, completely cognitively stunted, prone to seizures, diabetes insipidus, insomnia, hypothermia and more. The list of every agonizing disorder she would suffer was tremendous.&#8221;
Dina learned of Zoe&#8217;s disorder after being eight months along in her pregnancy. In the state of Alabama, whence she hailed, abortions were allowed up 26 weeks at the most. Dina says she did not seek the option out of state for fear of the pressure it might bring.
Unlike other medical anomalies, baby Zoe indeed suffered in the way doctors described and eventually died.
&#8220;Nothing can prepare you for losing a child, even when you know it is coming,&#8221; Dina says upon learning of Zoe&#8217;s death. &#8220;I crumpled to the floor. It seemed like the only thing to do.&#8221;
Now, at age 31, Dina has three daughters and is happily married. She believes that the merciful thing to do would have been to put Zoe out of her misery prior to birth, and to this day she still lives with the grief of carrying her to term.
As difficult it is to digest Dina&#8217;s story, not all cases of babies diagnosed with terminal illnesses in the womb end the same. Some, such <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29725/couple-talks-about-carrying-their-terminally-ill-frank-camp">as the case of</a> Stephanie and Andy Schoonover, transform the parents in profound ways, allowing them to see life with a new perspective. For others, such as <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2014/10/22/baby-born-healthy-after-couple-refuses-abortion-despite-doctors-fetal-abnormality-claim/">Melanie and Damion Sheenan</a>, the baby defies diagnosis and lives on to become healthy.
No one can always be entirely sure what will result from an abnormal pregnancy. One thing, however, is for sure: All abortions end in the death of an unborn child.

HuffPost Feature: ‘I Wish I’d Had A Late-Term Abortion Instead Of Having My Daughter’

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