If Sex Matters in Women’s Sports, It Matters in Women’s Prisons

 The American Spectator

"Women’s rights should not depend on their location, their status, or the trending mood of popular think tanks." 

"Recently, The Center for American Progress put out a policy paper that talks about restrictions on transgender participation in sports. This has been a hot topic recently, as WNBA player Sophie Cunningham has been dominating the headlines with her stance that men should not be permitted to play in the women’s category. This paper, however, does not resolve the debate of whether or not biological sex should be the decision-making factor in participation in women’s sports. What it is admitting is that sex should be given fair review in at least one setting. But if sex matters in athletics, shouldn’t it matter in other intimate spaces as well?

"There is a demographic that has no voice and is forcibly subjected to sex-based protections. The demographic in question? The women in our nation’s prisons. These vulnerable women who have already survived abuses of every kind are now living with, showering with, and serving their sentences with male prisoners — no questions asked. One of the most common misconceptions about this is the proximity male inmates have to female inmates. There is no separation. There is no specialized housing unit for trans-identifying men. They are coming directly from men’s level 4 yards — meaning some of the highest security possible, some even from men’s death row — filtering directly into women’s general population. That means men coming from a security level that simply does not exist in any women’s prison, being housed with female prisoners who are levels 1-4. Historically, women, in most states, are not separated by security levels because there has never really been a need to do so.

"According to the California Department of Corrections website, there are currently 49 biological men housed in the state’s two women’s prisons, with 224 requests pending review. The convictions of the 49 biological men who have successfully transferred range from carjacking to rape by force or fear, and even include the murder of another inmate while in custody. These are the same people that the female inmates were told would not qualify for transfer. They were told the review process would be stringent and that there would be no risk of sexual predators or individuals with histories of violence against women slipping through the cracks." . . . More...

This Shocking Information About Karmelo Anthony Was Kept From the Jury

  RedState  

"He had a documented history of fighting, enough that his parents sent him to a special program at LSU for kids who “cannot keep their hands to themselves.” He was also obsessed with knives and guns and had fantasized about stabbing someone. Investigators found a text where he wrote: “when I stab somebody I am going to lick the blood off the blade.'” 

Karmelo Anthony threatened to 'shoot the school up' in shocking text kept from jury in Austin Metcalf murder trial. NY Post

"If you were hoping that you had heard the last of Karmelo Anthony, I've got some bad news for you.

"As a reminder, Anthony is the young man who was convicted in June of the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet back in April of 2025. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison. 

"End of the story, right? Not so fast.

"Anthony's attorneys are now trying to get that conviction tossed out and want to secure him an entirely new trial. Hearings on that effort were held this week – and they have managed to surface some pretty shocking information that the jury never heard.

"Anthony apparently has a new legal team, and they are arguing that problems during his original trial deprived him of a fair proceeding. One blockbuster revelation this week was of an unusual, off-the-record agreement between prosecutors and his former defense attorneys to keep damaging information about both Anthony and Metcalf away from the jury.

The deal was “keep things clean,” prosecutor Bill Wirskye said from the stand as Anthony’s new attorney Russell Wilson grilled him about the alleged “shadow docket” Wilson claims corrupted the June proceedings.

"Wirskye also said of the agreement, "Let’s stay away from historical character and stick to the facts — what happened under the tent.”

"That "historical character" information was not withheld during this week's hearings, however, and the information about Karmelo's past behavior that was made public is shocking. He had once threatened to shoot up his high school.

Karmelo Anthony talked about shooting up his school in a trove of disturbing texts that a backroom deal kept out of the courtroom during his June murder trial, prosecutors said on Friday.

“”imma shoot the school up tmr,” Anthony wrote in a 2023 text that prosecutors revealed in Collin County, Texas, during a hearing to determine if Austin Metcalf’s convicted killer will be granted a new trial, according to WFAA. " . . .

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California regulates spare tires; "just another bureaucratic power grab in the name of saving the planet"

 Don Surber   

"Once again, the left created a problem out of thin air and gave only one solution—regulation. The left allowed no discussion of the validity of the problem and no discussion of alternative solutions."

. . . "36 years later, Barack Hussein Obama was serious when he said, “Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much.”

"By June 30, 2008, when he made the statement, most cars no longer needed tuneups. Even Fact-Check.org gagged on that claim that inflating tires would save the world saying, “Motorists could save more than 1 billion gallons of fuel a year, right now. But expanded offshore drilling would eventually produce even more.”

"A billion gallons of gasoline requires 50 million barrels of oil.

"But horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking had by 2012 added 550 million barrels of oil a year to American production.

18 years after Obama’s lame alternative to drilling—“we can’t drill our way out’’—the state of California is about to save the world by regulating spare tires, and not the kind some of us have around our waist.

"The California Energy Commission on Monday unanimously approved a new power to regulate spare tires using a 2003 law. The commission claims without independent verification that its Replacement Tire Efficiency Program will save Californians $1 billion a year on gasoline.

"(In snobby British accent) they spend $58 billion a year on petrol.

"The commission could save Californians $8 billion a year by eliminating gasoline taxes but then the state would have to cut back on handouts to the homeless and the illegal aliens that give it extra congressmen and extra federal funding.

"Regulating replacement tires would impose new costs. The commission says the costs will be but $1.50 a tire. OK, $6.50 tops." . . . More...

Bruce Springsteen was never just a blue collar rock star

 TheBRHM   

"Peel back “Born in the U.S.A.” from 1984 and what you find is stranger than any flag waving anthem. Reagan invoked Springsteen’s message of hope during that same election year and helped reinforce the mistaken belief that the song was a patriotic celebration. . ."   Never go to Springsteen for patriotism. TD

"Somewhere along the way a lot of critics decided who Bruce Springsteen was and quit paying attention. They handed the man a uniform. Blue collar poet. Bard of the assembly line. The voice of some guy clocking out at the plant with grease under his fingernails and a mortgage he will never beat. It was simply never the whole story, and the folks who stop there shortchange one of the most restless magpies American popular music ever produced. To hear the real thing, you have to go back to what raised him.

"Start at the foundation. Elvis. Roy Orbison. Phil Spector. Every one got into him early, long before he had anything of his own. Bruce once told a reporter he wanted “Born to Run” to sound like Roy Orbison singing Bob Dylan with Spector at the boards. “Thunder Road” is the proof, a harmonica and a slamming screen door swelling into something Spector would have wept over. Chuck Berry taught the rest, that a car in a song is never a car, it is a way out, and the kid just stomped the gas.

"Then the horn. Clarence Clemons mattered as much as any guitar in that lineup. His saxophone came out fat and cocksure, King Curtis all over it, a hundred old Stax sessions rattling underneath. Take “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.” It struts like a revue, the lyric telling the group’s own origin story, gospel style, over a Memphis beat. When the aim is to gut you, Sam Cooke turns up in the phrasing. That whole Asbury Park world, the sticky boardwalk bars where the kid swapped licks with Southside Johnny, ran on rhythm and blues covers before anybody there wrote an original worth a damn.

"His earliest live tapes catch a kid steeped in chitlin circuit energy, with or without a name for it. Gary U.S. Bonds meant so much that decades later Springsteen helped produce the man’s comeback alongside Steven Van Zandt. “Quarter to Three,” that rowdy Bonds smash, stayed in his sets forever. No factory floor in it, just a room full of people losing their minds.

"Go to one of his shows and you are basically in church." . . . More...

TheBRHM.com is a hub for rock and heavy metal music from a Black perspective, spotlighting Black rock culture, classic and modern metal, album reviews, and underground artists for fans who live and breathe heavy music

Blame Truth for Jason Arday’s Death

I must blame fears of rioting and burning, women with bullhorns screaming "Jim Crow!", bitter accusations of racism from MSNOW, Sharpton, Joy Reid, The View ladies, and Democrats in Congress for this tragedy. TD

Richard Kirk

" . .  .there’s nothing funny about the political and cultural weaponization of race for the sake of an ideology that has largely ruined higher education and filled society with individuals and institutions willing to destroy anyone possessing the audacity to tell the truth."

"One of Seinfeld’s more poignant scenes revolved around the ambiguous pigment of Elaine’s latest boyfriend. Was he or was he not black? Jerry, Elaine, and George are pondering the question and wondering if they should be doing so. George says flatly that the discussion is not okay. Finally, when a black waitress arrives at the trio’s booth to deliver checks, all three frantically toss bills toward her in a visual demonstration of liberal guilt.

"Something similar is now transpiring in the case of Jason Arday, a Cambridge professor who recently committed suicide following exposure of his academic plagiarism and wildly fictitious life story. That story included, among other imagined hurdles and accomplishments, early autism, muteness till age eleven, illiteracy prior to age eighteen, teenage epilepsy spawned by a physical attack, a brain tumor experienced while writing his dissertation, a coma triggered by a car accident, a mini-stroke, a fractured fibula suffered on one of the thirty-five marathons that he ran in thirty days (nine of which were done with the injury), and a six-hundred mile run between London and Edinburgh accomplished in six days (later amended to twelve days). Those athletic feats were said to have raised £5.5 million for eighty charities.

"On the academic front, Arday’s plagiarism was extensive. Not only was his dissertation lifted inordinately from a thesis written six years earlier, his work was also filled with grammatical errors that even extended to its title: “An exploration of peer-mentoring among student teachers’ to inform reflective practice within the context of action research.” The dissertation whose work was stolen had a similar title with an appropriate apostrophe following the word “teachers”: “An analysis of the concept reflective practice and an investigation into the development of student teachers’ reflective practice within the context of action research.'” . . . More...

Richard Kirk is a freelance writer living in Southern California. His book Moral Illiteracy: "Who's to Say?"  is also available on Kindle, as is his book Poetry with a Moral Edge.

Tommy John and Dr. Frank Jobe (Who could have said "I am the science". But didn't.)

  American Thinker 

"Baseball owes much to the gifted surgeon and the willing patient who revolutionized sports medicine through their courage, grit, trust, and determination.

"Tommy John passed away Sunday at the age of 83. He spent 26 years being paid to play.

Every little boy’s dream.

During his almost three decades in the major leagues, he won 288 games with a .555 winning percentage in more than 4,700 innings pitched, with a solid 3.34 ERA, pitching for teams on the right and left coasts, and some in between.

He was a really good player, regarded today as a “cusp Hall of Famer,” who won titles and pennants with his teams.

He didn’t earn a World Series ring, but he did participate in three of them, all involving baseball’s most bitter interleague rivalry: the Yankees and Dodgers.

Yet, it is not just what John achieved on the field. His biggest impact came from what he did as a patient in an operating room—and during his recovery. For that, all of baseball will forever owe him a debt of gratitude: Tommy John Surgery.

Basically, it is the replacement of the ulnar collateral ligament, a band that attaches the humerus and ulna, with a graft or tendon from another section of the body or from a donor.

Usually, the operation is performed on a pitcher, although it can happen to any athlete who throws too much, exerting too much pressure and stress on the arm.

In short, the athlete blows out his/her arm." . . .

Bottom line:

“He had a brilliant mind but never acted like he was the smartest guy in the room,” said Orel Hershiser. “You’re talking about someone who could have walked around like they were God as he repaired and took care of everyone, but walked around like he was the lowest on the totem pole, and waited to be talked to and waited to be recognized.”  What say you, Dr. Fauci?"      More...

Speaking of Fauci: Fauci diary: “Simon Says I’m one amazing guy”

Liberal white women: "Free Jack the Ripper!"

 Liberal White Women Stand Weeping Outside Court Trying Jack The Ripper | Babylon Bee parody

LONDON — Dozens of liberal white women gathered outside a local courthouse, weeping and holding signs of support for serial killer Jack the Ripper.

"With their hands held up into the shape of hearts, the women decried the injustice of imprisoning a man who was so clearly the victim of a flawed system.

"Justice for Jack!" cried the women, waving signs of encouragement. "He was clearly begging for help when he murdered those 11 prostitutes. But no one heard him, and no one cared. Now, think of how much Jack is suffering! That's why we are here today, so that he knows we care. It could have been any one of us that didn't get the help we needed and so went on a killing spree across East London."

"Several of the liberal white women present expressed terror that they too could so easily end up on trial for merely slashing a dozen prostitutes to death. "I just relate so much to Jack the Ripper," said one woman, Regina Kensington. "Like, I see the mangled bodies he left and think — wow, I'm just the same as him. That's why we are here cheering him on. Oh, I do hope he's still single."

"At publishing time, Jack the Ripper had thanked the crowd of women for coming to support him and asked if any of them would like to meet up around midnight in a secluded spot in Whitechapel.

The Islamic Republic of NYC

"Organized Radical Islam has learned that it is not necessary to mount a frontal assault on our buildings or hijack our planes."

Kim Ezra Shienbaum  

"New York City, which began as a city of survivors, has become a city of apologists. The lessons of 9/11 have been buried under layers of political fashion and academic abstraction."

 . . . " This is not a political debate. It is a civilizational confrontation.

"The irony is unspeakable. The city that was the primary target of Islamist terrorism, whose skyline was shattered by the bodies of Americans falling from the sky, is now becoming the base for a political movement that shares more in common with the ideology of 9/11’s architects than with the values of those who died on that day.

"Mamdani’s political vision is not just radical. It is a repudiation of the moral clarity that made 9/11 a defining moment in American history. It is a rejection of the idea that Western civilization is worth defending, or that the United States is anything other than a system of oppression.

"Opposition is building and may explode well before his term ends. Staten Island Italians and other European immigrant groups excluded from his 'ethnic enclaves map' -- along with pro-police factions -- have heavily booed him. His administration is facing legal challenges from several groups: bodega owners planning to file a lawsuit, local landlords launching legal pushback against a city-endorsed rent freeze, and NYC homeowners suing over a messy pied-à-terre tax rollout that allegedly violated privacy laws by exposing 900,000 residents' data and illegally forced primary residents to prove they do not own luxury second homes. Corporations are trimming workers, and almost a thousand local small to mid-size businesses have moved operations to the Sunbelt.

"The question is not only whether Mamdani’s performative socialism delivers. The larger issue is whether New York’s experience should prompt a serious national debate about whether immigration, multiculturalism, and political activism can coexist with a shared commitment to constitutional government, public safety, religious pluralism, and the defense of democratic allies."

Why are all of the left’s cause célèbre heroes bad people?

A biker friend of mine who often hooked up with women in night spots once told me with a sly smile, "Some women just like bad boys".

Luigi Mangione fangirl lashes out at Brian Thompson's widow online "One of the Luigi Mangione fangirl “journalists” lashed out at Brian Thompson’s widow in a sickening social media posting spree after the object of her obsession pleaded guilty to murder.

"Lena Weissbrot, one of the three deranged fangirls called the “Mangionistas,” who were given press credentials by the Mamdani administration, reposted horrifying comments about Paulette Thompson — justifying the killing of her husband and suggesting she was complicit in murder."...

Is the left now claiming there are “mostly peaceful” fatal shootings?   ..."And it is Mangione who has a large and devoted following on social media and elsewhere.

"My God, is the left now claiming there are “mostly peaceful” fatal shootings? If so, what happened to “gun violence?” Guess it depends on who is shot.

"So, in leftist parlance, pre-planned homicides are not “violence,” but misgendering or dead-naming someone is “literally violence?” . . .

Why are all of the left’s cause célèbre heroes bad people?  

"It seems that all of the heroes of the left are rotten people, which raises the obvious question: if there are no good and decent people among the left’s causes, could it be because there are no good and decent people who can become their latest cause célèbre, and because their causes are all rotten causes? Perhaps, just perhaps, good and decent people don’t do the stupid s(tuff) that inflames our good friends on the left!"

 Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs Says He Would Dress Luigi Mangione for His Trial, Calls Him a Fashion Trendsetter

. . . There has been no evidence whatever that Mangione was ever a UnitedHealthcare patient.

Mangione has now pleaded guilty to “interstate stalking resulting in death” and “stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death.” Both carry a maximum life sentence.

Liberal, Joe Biden-appointed judge Margaret Garnett tossed out the two charges the prosecution sought which would have led to the death penalty.

It seems likely that with its plea, the defense expects Mongione’s second trial for second-degree murder will be dismissed as a case of “double jeopardy.”

Whether or not Mangione is a fashion trendsetter, he has at least become a hero of the bloodthirsty left-wing." . . .

From attacks on the Constitution to praise for Hamas and Mao, Piker’s rhetoric has not stopped prominent Democrats from appearing with him.  Posted earlier this week by the Tunnel Dweller but is a necessary cautionary tale all must know of, despite the obscene language from Piker. TD.   More.

California's state Democrats pass the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' to shut down independent journalism

California, why do you consistently vote these Democrats into office?

 Monica Showalter  

"The rigging runs deep, and once more, Democrats are willing to shut down all other rights to preserve it. So now they're trying to shut down free speech, upset at Shirley's exposés, and favoring keeping voters in the dark so the scams can go on."

"In California, Nick Shirley's exposés of flaming fraud and open-air corruption annoyed a lot of special interests with powerful hands in the state's political scene.

"So, to stop the likes of Shirley and all his videomaking exposing huge swathes of fraud -- by so-called daycare operators both in Minneapolis and San Diego, as he did -- the state legislature, led by Mia Bonta, wife of the state attorney general Rob Bonta, who missed all of the corruption, has put out a bill, AB2624, supposedly to protect immigration and other controversial NGOs from being exposed in the act by video.

"Opponents call it the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act,' and sure enough, California's ruling one-party legislature passed it.

"According to WABC Radio:  

(Sacramento, California) – California lawmakers have passed AB 2624, a bill critics have dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” and sent it to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Supporters say the measure is designed to protect immigration-service providers, employees and volunteers from harassment, doxxing and threats.

The bill would create new privacy protections for people connected to immigration-support services who face threats because of their work.

Critics argue the legislation could chill undercover-style investigations, online exposés and public scrutiny of immigration organizations.

"The timeline of this rubbish makes it pretty clear that the purpose of the bill was to shut down independent journalism of the high-impact kind that Shirley has perfected, and allow the corruption to fester, the better to harvest the votes that come of it." . . . More.

California Passed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act"...

Nick Shirley on X:  "Confronting California Politicians behind the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”:

California’s Attorney General’s wife has created a bill titled AB 2624 (aka the Stop Nick Shirley Act) that will fine citizens and journalists a minimum $4,000 for exposing and searching for potential fraud inside Immigration Support Service Providers and take away their First Amendment rights." Video.

Gav The Gov

Gavin Newsom's Ex-Lover Says Kamala Harris Gave Advice About Affair

"In a revealing essay published in Vanity Fair on Tuesday, July 28, Ruby Rippey, the former appointments secretary for Gavin Newsom, broke her 20-year silence regarding their 2005 affair.

"She revealed that former Vice President Kamala Harris — who was the San Francisco District Attorney at the time — personally called her after the scandal broke in 2007 and advised her to remain silent.

"According to Rippey’s essay, she was broke, unemployed and heavily considering a lucrative memoir offer to tell her story when Harris reached out.

'I Wouldn't Say Anything Right Now' . . .

. . . "The situation sparked a massive political scandal when it went public in 2007 because Rippey was married to Alex Tourk, who was Newsom’s deputy chief of staff and campaign manager. Tourk immediately resigned upon learning of the affair." . . . More.

Gavin Newsom Reveals Tax Returns—Here's His Net Worth Compared to Other Governors - Newsweek   . . . "The California governor has also been frequently named as a potential candidate for Democrats in the 2028 presidential race, though he has not formally said he plans to run. 

"The latest polls show Newsom as a leading candidate among the potential field.

"A McLaughlin & Associates poll, which surveyed 472 likely voters from July 15-21, showed former Vice President Kamala Harris leading with 28 percent, but Newsom followed at 17 percent. New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez followed at 10 percent, while 8 percent said they would vote for former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

"An Emerson College poll showed Buttigieg leading at 19 percent, while Newsom followed at 17 percent. Ocasio-Cortez and Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff received 13 percent support, while Harris received 8 percent in that poll. It surveyed 574 likely voters from July 19-20, 2026.

"Newsom told reporters earlier in July that whether he joins the race would be determined by “fate.'” . . .

'Who Knows, Right?': Jill Biden Won’t Rule Out That Joe Was Drugged Before Meltdown Debate

  RedState

Whoopi thinks "amazing doctor" Jill would know

"Former first lady Jill Biden is refusing to close the door on one of the wilder theories surrounding her husband’s disastrous 2024 debate performance.

"That he was drugged.

"In a recent interview with podcast host Jamie Kern Lima, the only doctor less qualified than doctors Anthony Fauci and/or Pepper to offer medical assessments was asked if a stroke had been ruled out by actual medical professionals. 

"'Well, they did. They said, I mean, I didn't say to them, when I was writing my book, I was reflecting, but I didn't say, 'God, did Joe have a stroke?' I just said, 'Is he OK? Is he OK?'" Biden replied.

She further suggested that nobody really knows what happened that fateful night.

"I mean, there's all kinds of theories — you know, he had been traveling," Biden said. "I know he was tired, he didn't feel well that day, when I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to. And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment. So, I wasn't with him. I didn't see him days before, weeks before. I saw him maybe one hour before."

Lima then asked whether someone might have laced Uncle Joe's beverage of choice or pulverized oatmeal beforehand.

"There's no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something?" she said.

"Who knows? Who knows?" Biden openly wondered