THE ESSEX FILES: The Cost of Speaking Truth in Women's Sports

 RedState  

"Anderson knew the risks when she walked away that day. "It definitely hurt," she said of the backlash. "But it never hurt enough to get me to stand down." That's the quiet courage Title IX demands." . . .

Oregon girls' track and field athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson did not stand on a medal podium
next to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)

"When Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard stepped off the podium at Oregon's girls' state track championship in May, they weren't staging a tantrum. They were taking a stand. Third and fourth place in the high jump after years of grueling practice, the two Tigard High School seniors refused to share the moment with a transgender athlete who had cleared the bar for fifth. 

"In that quiet act of dissent, they exposed the raw fault lines in the push to redefine fairness in women's sports. Anderson, now a freshman at the University of South Alabama, earned her bronze medal the hard way. Four seasons of early mornings, sore muscles, and quiet determination led her to that podium. Yet officials, after forcing the protesters out of the championship photo, promised to ship the medals to the school. 

"They didn't. Not for months. Only after Anderson and Eckard sued the Oregon School Activities Association, alleging a First Amendment violation, did the medals arrive, quietly forwarded to their lawyers at the America First Policy Institute. U.S. District Judge Youlee Yim You's recent denial of the OSAA's motion to dismiss underscores the case's merit. 

"The association had argued against claims of selective censorship, pointing to allowed displays of Black Lives Matter slogans and pride flags at events. Anderson has seen it firsthand: Shirts, pins, and banners celebrating those causes drew no ire during her high school career." . . . 

She is a hero! Alexa Anderson walked away from the medal podium at the Oregon State Championship to protest a male athlete. In response to this she was threatened & received death threats. The Oregon HS sports league won’t give her medal to her!

Michelle Obama Says We're Not Ready for a Woman President, and She's Both Right and Very Wrong –

 RedState  

"A leader should be chosen to get the job done, not check an identity box. Until Democrats get that identity ultimately means little, a female president is a far-off prospect." 

"America has yet to elect its first female president, while other countries have seen the role come and go for various women. 

"The left would have you believe this is all because of sexism, which... of course they would. They need people to believe that our society runs on a toxic mix of misogyny and testosterone. Every male elected to office is a slap in the face to the Left, unless that female is a Republican, in which case, being awful to a woman is suddenly in vogue. 

"According to Fox News, Michelle Obama has watched as America has passed on two female candidates now, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and has concluded that America just isn't ready for one: 

. . . "As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready," she said on Friday." . . .

"Try to stop your eyeballs from rolling out of their sockets, if at all possible. 

"Obama's woe-is-women nonsense is just that: nonsense. Firstly, if she wants to blame men, I'll remind her that 46 percent of women turned out to vote for Trump over Harris. If even women didn't want her by a large margin, then this had to be a bit deeper than "America sexist, America hate woman." Harris was just a bad candidate, a bad politician, and need I remind you, not chosen by Democrat voters to be their 2024 candidate.

"And as for Clinton, she was just as bad, but I don't think people truly understood that, thanks to all the media glossing she got. She was incredibly off-putting, physically frail, and had a record of failure that couldn't be spun. 

"But if Obama thinks men refuse to elect women, I'd point her to all the women who are currently holding office at every level of government as evidence that she's full of it. 

"But it does leave the question. Why hasn't America elected a woman as president in its history? 

"Republicans are fine with women as leaders, and if someone like an American version of Margaret Thatcher came along, I'm pretty sure you'd see half the country pull the lever for her. The thing is, most Republicans wouldn't care that she was a woman. They'd elect her because she's a good leader with a solid plan and the wherewithal to carry that plan out. Someone with the wisdom and wit to fight for the right thing."  . . .

Do we have no women Democrats like Golda Meir of Israel, Lady Thatcher of Britain, Giorgia Meloni of Italy (and famously herding Joe Biden)?  Have Democrats nobody better than the likes of AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Jasmine Crockett, an occasional purple-haired leftist and some congresswoman who takes verbal orders from Jeffrey Epstein. The Tunnel Dweller

Nolte: Fake Media Now Blame ‘Right-wing Plot’ for BBC Scandal Fallout

Breitbart   "In today’s episode of You Can Never Hate the Media Enough, I give you the corporate media’s latest disinformation campaign to blame a “right-wing plot” for the recent scandal fallout at the far-left BBC." . . .

. . . "Now, in a sane world, the corporate media would be thrilled with this result. After all, the BBC tried to rig a presidential election with an outright fabrication and the subsequent resignations prove the corporate media have high standards and that this sort of thing will not be allowed, right?

"Well, we do not live in a world where the corporate media are sane, and we have not lived in that world for decades, if ever, so…

"Instead of presenting the BBC scandal as healthy accountability or just leaving it alone and moving on, the usual degenerates in the corporate media see it like  they see everything nowadays: as a partisan political battle, so they refuse to suffer the loss like media professionals and are instead responding like the leftist hacks they all are. So, yeah, these resignations aren’t about accountability at the BBC. Oh, no, It was Russian Collusion; I mean, Hunter’s laptop is fake; I mean, the border is secure; I mean, Joe Biden is sharp as a tack, I mean, it was a right-wing coup at the BBC!"  . . .

 . . . "It’s just another look at how truly hateful and hopeless the regime media are.

"Trump has led the charge to hold the corporate media accountable, and there is nothing elite liars hate more than accountability, sunlight, exposure, truth, and ridicule.

"Additionally, Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for one billion pounds if he’s not satisfied with a full retraction and apology by Friday. Let’s hope he’s not satisfied and the suit goes forth and the result is an actual right-wing coup." . . . Full article here.

Former BBC Chief Rejects the Idea of Any Compensation for Trump Over Misleading Jan. 6 Edit

" 'I don’t think we should agree to any money being paid to Donald Trump. You’re talking about license fee payers’ money, you’re talking about public money. It would not be appropriate," Hall said in an interview on Sunday." 

Why Free Buses in NYC Could End Up Backfiring Horribly

"Mamdani clearly understands that transportation affects job prospects, influences public health, and helps shape the cost of living. Many of his proposals are creative and worthwhile. Nixing bus fares is an exception."  Slate

Rich Terrell

Slate: Zohran Mamdani: Why his plan for free buses is a bad idea.  "After winning the Democratic mayoral primary held two weeks ago, Zohran Mamdani is in the spotlight, as is his policy agenda for New York City. From reforming food truck permits to expanding library access, many of Mamdani’s plans are excellent. Alas, eliminating bus fares—his flagship transportation proposal—is anything but. Should Mamdani somehow cobble together the hundreds of millions of dollars required annually, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would have many superior uses for the money.

"Tallinn, Estonia, stopped charging residents to ride public transportation in 2013, as did Kansas City, Missouri, in 2019. Michelle Wu, the progressive mayor of Boston, promised during her 2021 campaign to “Free the T,” and upon taking office spent city money to eliminate fares on several MBTA bus lines. Two years ago, as a New York Assembly member, Mamdani himself helped secure $15 million from the state budget to temporarily stop charging riders on five MTA bus lines.

"Without question, there are advantages to letting passengers board for free. Total ridership typically rises when no one has to pay. Assaults on bus operators may decline because passengers are not swiping a card or handing over cash, and the boarding process can be faster (although this seems not to have happened during the MTA’s fare-free pilot, potentially due to a jump in riders). Because many bus passengers have low incomes, eliminating fares is fiscally progressive, disproportionately benefiting the less wealthy.

"But prior fare-free deployments provide some cautionary lessons." . . .   More...

Sorry, socialists, there's no such thing as a free bus: Video

William F. Buckley, Jr. and Tucker Carlson

 The American Spectator

 "It is time for us to expel Carlson, Fuentes, and their ilk from the conservative movement. We can do it, just as Buckley expelled Welch and the John Birch Society: by logic and reason. The proofs are entirely clear. Carlson et al. are not conservatives but they are a pernicious influence on those whose beliefs are truly conservative."

 

"The late William F. Buckley, Jr. must be credited as one of the people who established modern conservatism in the United States. He had a weather eye for what or who could help or hurt the movement.

"In the early 1960s, Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, labeled former president Dwight Eisenhower, former secretary of state George C. Marshall, and many other leading Republicans as communists. He, and the Birch Society, claimed that every federal agency had been taken over by the communists. After many debates and much correspondence with Welch, Buckley led a movement to expel Welch and the John Birch Society from the conservative movement and he succeeded.

"Buckley did so with logic and reason and at great risk to himself and to his then-new publication, National Review. It was, he judged, a risk worth taking and he succeeded. He made the Birch Society anathema to conservatives.

"We cannot know how Buckley would have dealt with Tucker Carlson but it is a safe bet that he would have driven Carlson and the rest of his gaggle out of the conservative movement, as he did with Welch and the Birchers.

"It is now up to us to expel the loudest anti-Semites from the conservative movement. They aren’t conservatives: they are, quite simply, bad people who use the conservative brand to conceal their racism and anti-Semitism.

"We know who they are and so do they. They range from Tucker Carlson (who my friend Mark Levin calls “Qatarlson” for his sympathy and emulation of the rhetoric of the Qataris who back Hamas) to people such as Nick Fuentes, who was recently given a friendly interview by Carlson.

"In 2021, Carlson gave an impassioned defense of the white supremacist “great replacement” theory which holds that whites are being replaced by people of color. More recently Carlson has described Ukrainian President Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “sweaty and rat-like,” “shifty,” and “dead-eyed,” which are common anti-Semitic tropes." . . .

"This isn’t about “cancel culture.” It’s about ridding the conservative movement of the people who don’t believe what conservatives believe. After all, in the interview with Fuentes that Roberts felt compelled to defend, Carlson savaged evangelical Christians, whose support for Israel suggests they suffer from a “brain virus.” Carlson exclaimed, “I despise Christian Zionists more than anyone else on earth.” Given that around 29 percent of Trump’s voters are white evangelicals, does that sound like a winning formula for conservatives?" . . .  More...

Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism Is Crumbling

RealClearEnergy 

From the political scene to the continued growth of hydrocarbon energy, the global climate consensus and the push for Net Zero is crumbling. It’s time for nations to return to sensible energy policy.

Parody: New Greta Thunberg Thermostat Scowls At You When You Turn The Heat Up

..."A backlit screen that displays the names of people who will probably

 die because you bumped it from 63º to 64º in mid-January"

"COP30, the UN climate conference, is underway in Belem, Brazil. Thousands of representatives from all over the world have journeyed to discuss how to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to try to fight human-caused climate change. But ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, the global consensus on climate change is crumbling.

"COP30 is the thirtieth “conference of the parties.” The first took place in Berlin in 1995. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, more than 190 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement, pledging to cut emissions and to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

"About 50,000 people are attending COP30 from more than 190 nations. But key world leaders are not attending, including President Xi Jinping of China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and President Donald Trump of the U.S. Climatism, the ideology pushing for a global transition to Net Zero energy, faces a rising tide of opposition across the world.

"Two weeks before COP30, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates posted a memo to COP30 on his website titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate.” In it he states that “Climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization,” and also that “Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals … ” He also said that “Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”

"This is a remarkable change of position for Mr. Gates, who has spent billions in the fight against climate change over the last two decades. In 2021, he wrote a best-selling book titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. His shift of emphasis away from stopping emissions to solving real world problems is a move away from climate alarmism and toward common-sense policy." . . .

"What have thirty UN climate conferences accomplished since 1995? The answer is “no measurable climate benefit.” Since 2000, the world has spent about $10 trillion on renewable energy, but hydrocarbons─coal, natural gas, and oil─still provided 87% of world energy in 2024 according to the Energy Institute."

Steve Goreham is a speaker on energy, the environment, and public policy and author of the bestselling book Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. 

San Fran Nan calls it quits, as we all know

 

Quoting: ITEM 1: The Pelosi family announced that Nancy won’t seek another term. She is endorsing state senator Scott “Pedo Rights” Wiener for the seat with her daughter Christine seeking to replace him in the California legislature.

Christine will carry on the family tradition of using public office to make millions.

ITEM 2: JFK’s only grandson entered the race to replace Jerry Nadler in Congress.

I don’t know. Those are mighty wide pants to fill.

By the way, his videos show that he has a screw or two missing. Maybe he’s really the secret love child of Liberace and Richard Simmons.

ITEM 3: The Clintons may have a dog in that fight.

Chelsea’s thinking of seeking the seat.

ITEM 4: The LA Times announced George Lucas’s billion-dollar starship museum will open in September.

Here’s an idea. Instead of building a museum, why not spend the money to build an actual starship?

ITEM 5: The U.S. Mint made its last penny this week. It cost 3.7 cents to make a coin that’s worth 1 cent. We lost $85.3 million on the deal in 2024.

Leave it to the government to lose money minting money." . . .More at the above link.
 . . .

America's leftist bookends; the ignorant chosen by the ignorant

 “It’s a recurring story in most of America’s big cities today. Cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Denver, Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Chicago are being mismanaged by leftist and socialist Mayors and George Soros soft-on-crime district attorneys. The result? Cities that were once the envy of the world are now garbage dumps replete with homeless tents and hovels, junkies smoking crack and fentanyl on the streets, carjackings, rape, muggings, theft, and murder.” July 2, 2025 by Ronald E. Yates

Rich Terrell

Are Communists about to control America’s three largest Cities?  Posted July, 2025; so yes. Cheered on by those female Gen Z voices heard at Pro-Hamas crowds on campuses.

"If Muslim communist Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayoral election in November, it will mean that for the first time in history, America’s three biggest cities (New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) will be governed by communist mayors.

"The other two communist mayors are Brandon Johnson of Chicago and Karen Bass of Los Angeles.

"Before we get to them, let’s look first at the man President Trump has called a “left-wing lunatic.”

"Mamdani, 33, who describes himself as a “Democratic Socialist,” but whose stated policies align more with Communism, won the Democratic primary over Andrew Cuomo last week.

"To say it was a shocking result is an understatement, especially in the five boroughs of New York City, which, according to the United Jewish Appeal, has a Jewish population of 2.1 million—the largest outside of Tel Aviv.

"Why do I say that? Well, for one thing, Mamdani, a self-avowed anti-Semite, has called for a global intifada against all Jews and Israel, and is not backing down in his request." . . .

. . . Chicago: "Like Mamdani, Johnson despises the police. He has gutted the Chicago Police Department and opened the city to thousands of illegal migrants—both policies that have been roundly condemned by a majority of the city’s minority (primarily black) population." . . .

. . . Los Angeles: "In the 1970s, Bass participated in the Venceremos Brigade, traveling to Cuba as a young communist political activist. She was described as a leader of the group in a 1975 communist publication,  according to Politico, although her office has denied she ever had that role." . . .

. . . "Bass’s problems did not end there, however. Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley told local media during the raging fires that she believed the City of Los Angeles and Bass, specifically, had failed residents. The fire chief added that the department had long been plagued by staffing issues and a lack of resources, which she had previously detailed in a series of memos to the city." This was followed by Crowley's firing by Mayor Bass...

Now we must note this was written before Seattle elected that city's leftist mayor: Mamdani’s West Coast ‘Sister’ May Spark Cascade Of Socialist Politicians, Analysts Warn

 . . . "Political strategist and founder of advocacy organization League of American Workers Steve Cortes told the DCNF he thinks Wilson and Mamdani both have “an openly Marxist worldview.”

“Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani are ideological brother and sister,” Cortes told the DCNF. “They are coastal Leftist elites who openly despise America, lie about our values and culture, and share an openly Marxist worldview.”

It can and does happen: List of elected socialist mayors in the United States - Wikipedia

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 J.B. Shurk 

 "Too many Americans seek and cheer violence right now.  Too many Americans are eager for civil war.  If we cannot lower the temperature in this country, Charlie’s murder will presage an unbearable slaughter to come." 

zikoko.com

"The political assassination of Charlie Kirk continues to impact America.  Charlie’s conservative nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA, has seen a surge in membership.  There are reports across the country of increased church attendance, as lapsed congregants contemplate the sacrifice Charlie made to spread a Christian message.  Conservative and Christian Americans are expressing themselves more boldly on social media platforms and college campuses.

"An equally important, though darkly troubling, consequence of his murder has been the deluge of mockery and hatred from leftists celebrating Charlie’s death.  Antifa-aligned groups show up on college campuses to attack Turning Point staff and prevent students from hearing Charlie’s arguments.  Prominent Democrats continue to pretend that violent leftist rhetoric had nothing to do with his murder.  Celebrity “journalists” defend Charlie’s assassination by not-so-subtly suggesting that Charlie’s willingness to debate a range of political and moral issues with Americans of all political backgrounds constituted some kind of impermissible “hate” or linguistic “violence.”

"In a recent interview with Democrat Senator John Fetterman, leftist propagandist Katie Couric tried really hard to blame Charlie for his own murder.  “Did you have any issues, now in hindsight, over some of the things that Charlie Kirk said?” Couric asked Fetterman.  When the senator responded with compassion for Charlie’s family and pointed out that “engaging in debate would never justify what’s happened,” Couric nonetheless insisted, “I think some people might say Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was extreme. ... People think his words lead to violence.”  

"Breaking news, Katie: During the height of the civil rights movement, people worried that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words would lead to violence, too.  His assassination did not dispel the truth of his message.  The same is true of Charlie.

"When famous “reporters” such as Couric so conspicuously work to justify a leftist-inspired political assassination, non-leftists pay attention.  As one social media account posted, “Charlie was a moderate Christian conservative.  If Katie thinks he ‘deserved’ this because of his beliefs, she thinks we ALL deserve the same thing.”  A lot of non-leftist Americans have realized over the last two months that leftists want them dead." . . .  

J.B. Shurk, Author at The Federalist is a freedom-minded, anti-establishment, sometimes unorthodox, committed generalist and a proud American from Daniel Boone country. Also by Mrr. Shurk: If Men Can Be Women, Powerful People Can Force Others To Do Anything

BOMBSHELL Backfire - Newly Released Epstein Email Spells BAD News for Dems, Especially Hakeem Jeffries

 Twitchy   

" ‘We Have Nothing to Hide’: Trump Tells Republicans to Vote to Release Epstein Files" . . . "However, Trump is correct when he said that if the files contained anything juicy about him, the Democrats would have released them earlier.Then again…I wonder if no one has released the files because it would out them and/or close friends and partners."

"There's nothing quite as satisfying as watching Democrats' efforts to hurt and smear Trump backfire SPECTACULARLY. It would be one thing if they were pushing for the release of the Epstein files if they actually cared about justice for the victims. The fact that they sat on them under Biden is not a great look for them in the Justice Department, and the fact that they're pushing them now proves it's political.

As is everything they do.

Take a look at this:    

BREAKING - A newly revealed email shows Democrat-funding group Dynamic SRG contacting Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 to promote then freshman Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, calling him “Brooklyn’s Barack,” while urging Epstein to support a major Democratic fundraising push. pic.twitter.com/LhSBjOI4yb

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) November 16, 2025

. . . "Brooklyn's Barack.

"Sheesh, and we thought Temu Obama was bad.

"And wow, this release meant to harm Trump has proven that Epstein hated Trump, that he blamed him for squealing to law enforcement about his sex ring, and that he was helping a Democrat to hurt Trump during a questioning. Now we see that Democrats asked Epstein to help them raise money for Hakeem Jeffries, aka Brooklyn's OBAMA.

"Wow, this couldn't have backfired more if they tried."  Full Article here

The Media Panics After Trump Calls for the Release of Epstein Files   "On Sunday night, President Donald Trump turned the tables on the Democrats, who spent four years under Joe Biden doing nothing about the Epstein files, by calling for them to be released.

" 'House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

"Now the liberal media is struggling to come to grips with this development, as this completely blows up the narrative they’ve been pushing. On CNN Monday morning, John Berman pushed the narrative that Trump’s actions signal a waning influence over the GOP.

"Republican strategist Melik Abdul didn’t buy that argument one bit.

" 'I think what the frustration that Donald Trump and many people — even like me — who have been critical of Donald Trump at times — we realize that this is an effort — this whole Epstein effort is an effort to really prosecute Donald Trump in the court of public opinion," Abdul stated bluntly.

"He continued dismantling the narrative by pointing out an inconvenient truth that CNN clearly didn't want to hear: "There is not a single shred of evidence that links Donald Trump to a single crime. Not a victim, not a court case links Donald Trump to a crime. And I know that the media itself is aware of that, but the more you keep talking about it over and over again, linking Donald Trump to something potentially nefarious, that actually gets the news cycle going."  . . .

Let our people go! Zohran Mamdani victory spurs Staten Island pols to renew bid to pull out of NYC

 NY Post 

 “I’m was trying to capitalize on the election of Mamdani as mayor,” Pirozzolo told The Post afterwards. “We are not declaring war on Manhattan or the rest of New York City, but elections should have some consequences.”

Rose and Crown Tavern Historical Marker*

"Let the rebellion begin.

"Leaders of New York City’s “Forgotten Borough” — and most conservative enclave — are re-introducing stalled legislation for Staten Island to secede from what they fear will become the People’s Republic of Mamdani.

"The Democratic Socialist “could not be further out of sync with the values of communities on Staten Island, and I’d argue that this time around Democrats won’t want to stop [the borough’s secession] because it would make it even less likely [NYC] ever elects a Republican mayor again,” said state Sen. Andrew Lanza, who told The Post he plans to “put the foot to the pedal” on the plan in January.

"Lanza (R-Staten Island) has been been pushing his secession bill since 2008, and it’s seen little traction.

"But the rest of the Big Apple has swung so far left that there could be common ground — even among Democrats — to separate the four other boroughs from Staten Island’s predominantly moderate and GOP voting base, he said.

“I think the timing is right, and it would be great not only for Staten Island … but for the City of New York,” said Lanza, referring to the plan for Richmond County’s independence at the same time the United States celebrates its 250th birthday next year.

"State Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo (R-Staten Island) got the ball rolling Friday by hosting a Richmond Road rally where he read a “Staten Island Independence Declaration.”

"The event occurred at the former site of the Rose and Crown Tavern in New Dorp, where British soldiers on July 9, 1776 were first read the Declaration of Independence on Staten Island." . . .

*Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York    . . . Significant Event: On July 9, 1776, General Howe read the United States Declaration of Independence to British and Hessian troops at the tavern