Woke Chinese-Slavery Exploiter Nike Is Funding a "Study" To Figure Out What Hormones to Inject Into Young Boys So They Can Pretend to Be Girls and "Compete Meaningfully" in Girls' Sports

Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey

Buried deep in today's article in @NYTmag about Blaire Fleming and @SJSU
women's volleyball team, is the fact that @Nike is funding a study to understand how much they can hamper male advantage in pre-pubescent boys to allow for "meaningful competition" despite those advantages.

1. why is @Nike funding research (yes we knew this already but here it is in the @nytimes) about how to disfigure and sterilize little boys sufficiently such that they retain male advantage but not so much that it would be unfair to girls?

2. Girls/women are not hampered or impaired males. It's never ok. The mere debate about how much impairing is the right amount is demeaning and degrading to women.

3. @Nike -- just make sneakers and focus on bringing your business back to life. This is, at best, a distraction from your fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders and divisive for your consumer base. At worst, it is criminal. It is most certainly grotesque and unethical and outside the scope of business goals to be in the business of destroying the bodies and sexual function of little boys.

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New Mexico Judge Resigns After Feds Arrest "Man" In His Home

The Albuquerque Journal hides the actual news here: The feds didn't just arrest a "man" he was keeping in his home.

And not just an Immigrant Man, either.

ICE came to arrest a Tren de Aragua man this judge was keeping in his home.

Doña Ana County judge resigns after feds arrest man at home

LAS CRUCES -- Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano has resigned from the bench where he has sat since 2011.

Although his resignation letter, dated March 3, did not state his reason for stepping down, it followed shortly after a man awaiting deportation proceedings, accused by federal law enforcement of being affiliated with a Venezuelan gang, was arrested at Cano's home.

Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, 23, faces federal firearm charges after Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant on Feb. 28 at a Las Cruces residence owned by Cano and his wife, Nancy.

"Working with each of you has been a very rewarding experience for which I will remain eternally grateful," Cano wrote in a letter addressed to 3rd Judicial District Chief Judge Conrad Perea and court staff. The letter declared his last day as March 21, which dockets show was also the last day he had hearings scheduled in court.

was first elected as a magistrate judge in 2010 and ran unopposed in three subsequent elections, winning his fourth term in 2022.

I suppose that was pretty obvious.

The details of Ortega-Lopez's arrest and prior relationship with the Cano family are addressed in federal court motions seeking Ortega-Lopez's detention. In New Mexico federal district court, prosecutors argue that Ortega-Lopez is a flight risk and a danger to the community due to an alleged criminal history, including alleged ties to the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela.

Court filings state that agents recovered four firearms from a neighboring home owned by April Cano, who is identified in court filings as Nancy Cano's daughter. A criminal complaint alleges Ortega-Lopez admitted to possessing and firing them, as seen in photos and videos posted on Facebook last December.

Ortega-Lopez was taken into custody along with other individuals described as roommates in court filings.

For some reason the judge introduced this guy to his daughter.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter or Pesach.

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THE MORNING RANT: Could Ranked Choice Voting Allow the GOP to Snatch Some Prominent Seats in Blue States?

Ranked choice voting (“RCV” has proven to be an effective tool for Democrats to win elections in red states and congressional districts, most famously in Alaska. Naturally, we Republicans stand in principled opposition to this electoral gimmick which has cost us the loss of otherwise safe seats in Congress.

Are we perhaps so indignant about how this is being used against us that we are forsaking the opportunity to deploy this same tactic against Democrats?

The specific gimmick with ranked choice voting is that it serves as an instant runoff. When voters cast their ballots, they also indicate who their second choice is in each race, and if their chosen candidate is not one of the top two vote getters, their backup vote gets counted. The reason Democrats have been effective in using RCV is that it generally also replaces party primaries with a “jungle primary” in which all candidates of both parties compete. RCV then sorts out the winner. Democrats have generally had the discipline to only run one candidate while Republicans split the vote with multiple candidates who might otherwise have been narrowed down to one candidate in a Republican party primary. Above all else, RCV inserts chaos and confusion into the election of what would normally be a reliable Republican seat.

Lisa Murkowski, a Democrat in elephant’s clothing who was bequeathed her Senate seat by her daddy, had previously lost a Republican Senate primary in Alaska, and stood no chance of ever again winning a Republican primary there. So to help her retain the Senate seat, the Alaska political establishment implemented RCV in 2022. Instead of a primary, there was an open RCV election. The real Republican, Kelly Tshibaka, received 43% of the vote, the same vote total as Ms. Murkowski, who despite running as a Republican gathered most of the Democrat vote. The actual Democrat candidate got just 10% of the vote, as his role was simply to ensure that neither candidate got 50%, kicking in the “second choice” option to push the liberal Murkowski over the top. Democrats also won Alaska’s sole seat in the House of Representatives in 2022 thanks to RCV, with Mary Peltola defeating Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich.

The good news is that Republicans took back Alaska’s House seat in the 2024 election. The bad news is that RCV remains in place there, which Murkowski will need to keep winning re-election.

Let’s forget about RCV for just a moment and think about all the political ground we conservatives have sacrificed out of noble principles. For years, we mocked political boycotts of companies as being something our sacred principles wouldn’t allow. But Democrats had no problem letting corporate America know that they’d boycott businesses if those companies didn’t engage in the culture war on the left’s behalf. So corporate America took the easy path, choosing to accommodate the left’s political agenda so as not to lose their business, while we conservatives piously refused to counter-boycott. How’d that turn out for us? Corporate America became an enforcement arm of woke culture. It was only when we started boycotting in response to woke advertising campaigns such as those from Gillette and Bud Light that corporate America started to back off from left wing politics.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

L'abandon
Guillaume Seignac

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The Morning Report — 4/ 21 /25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a blessed Easter Sunday. And of course the big news this morning is that Pope Francis has died.

I want to be very careful what I write and how I phrase my thoughts because the last thing I want to do is offend my dear Catholic brothers and sisters. Regardless of the background, and it is a very checkered background indeed of this Pope, he was the head of the Catholic church, and his death coming as it does at the end of the Easter holy week, makes writing this column all the more problematic.

Yet, that said, His life and background defined who he was. And by looking at this summary of his words and actions from the invaluable Discover the Networks makes it crystal clear, and this excerpt is just the bullet point intro:

*Calls on America to welcome illegal immigrants fleeing persecution in their homelands
*Characterizes capitalism as an economic system “where the powerful feed upon the powerless,” and which leads inevitably to “the greedy exploitation of environmental resources”
*Asserts that the “inequality” inherent in capitalist economies constitutes “the root of social ills” and “eventually engenders … violence”
*Believes that “the bulk of global warming” is due to “the great concentration of greenhouse gases” generated by “human action”
*Opposes the death penalty and life-in-prison

From my perspective, until the very end he was essentially the same unreconstructed Argentinian Communist he always was. It's not that he embraced and promoted secular political causes, it's that the causes he embraced were at the forefront of a movement that sought the dismantling of the Church he was supposed to lead and antithetical to his stated beliefs about humanity, inclusiveness, justice and the lofty ideals he supposedly championed.

Most horrendous was his embrace of Islam, as Islam ramped up its ongoing 1,500-year war against infidels, including the Church all over the world and most brutally in one of the last major bastions of Catholicism and Christianity in general in the world, central Africa.

As he welcomed and embraced the most radical imams to the Vatican he made no mention of their bloody rampage, and yet insisted that the Western world and Catholics commit societal suicide by erasing their borders, destroying the greatest engine of prosperity the world will ever know, free market capitalism, and accepting the global warming/climate change lie as the excuse.

Also, his views on homosexuality and transsexualism in service to that dissolution were not merely the echoing of the sentiment of loving the sinner and hating the sin, but also as yet another assault on the Church from within. Perhaps if the Pope spent less time on demanding the faithful accept teachings antithetical to traditional Catholicism, he would have better served the faithful in defending them instead of defending the forces of darkness and evil seeking their destruction.

So an extremely flawed man who held the title of Pope has passed, and it will be up to the Lord to render His final judgement.

I certainly hope and pray that the next Pope is someone, who like John Paul II not only understands but perhaps like him at one point actually lived under the boot of and then stared down the face of evil. It would be most appropriate that Francis' successor be his diametric opposite. Given what's going on in the world today, it would be a Divine blessing, and I would be thrilled to see the cardinal from Nigeria or any from that part of Africa , whose flock has and continues to be decimated by Boko Haram and its allies be elected.

I have no idea what the internal politics are of the Vatican and college of cardinals. Given the twisted politics of far too much of the Western and putatively Christian world, insofar as the infection known as Wokism, Perhaps the best we can hope for is not another Pope Fiction, communist in Papal drag. I don't think they'll have the stones to elect someone who will be as vocal in calling out Islam as Francis was in apologizing for Islam while denouncing the advancement of Western civilization over the past two millennia.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. 

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with intellectuals as society’s most downtrodden, has died at age 88, the Vatican confirmed.
  POPE FRANCIS DEAD

• Clarice Feldman: The broad scope and speed of the administration’s actions have knocked the sense out of the media, the Democrats, and the judiciary. They cannot seem to process the swift and expansive range of change without making themselves look ridiculous.
  Is it Time to Ignore the Judiciary?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Elite universities push for federal funding while ignoring legal and ethical obligations, fueling public distrust as they prioritize ideology over academic rigor and free speech.
  Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?

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Daily Tech News 21 April 2025

Top Story

• Discord is deploying age verification systems recently made mandatory in fascist dystopias. (Soap Central)
  
  Like Britain. And Australia.
  
  Fortunately they're being a lot more sensible about this than the governments that enforced the rules. The verification pops up - once - when you want to see adult content.
  
  Which is not something I want from Discord, ever, so I don't see this as a huge problem. And you can pass the verification check with a face scan by the app and not have to upload government ID.
  
  
  

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Easter Sunday Overnight Open Thread - April 20, 2025 [Doof]

(Mystery Click dedicated to the Son)

Howdy Hordelings! Happy Easter / Resurrection Sunday. Hope you were able to enjoy the day with family, friends, loved ones, candy, eggs, good food and drink - or whatever it is you did today. If you celebrate today's calendar date, go grab yourself some munchies and a large beverage. Now step inside the ONT and drop something witty in the comments!

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Gun Thread: Easter Bunny Edition!

A Gunthread Easter favorite!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! Happy Easter everybody! Has everyone bitten the head off their chocolate bunny yet?

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Chocolate Bunnies And Crawfish?

That was from the third batch of our neighbor's crawfish boil. Delicious! The first two batches were pretty damned tasty too. He uses the same boiling liquid for each batch, so it gets more intensely flavored as the day goes on. Yesterday was his fourth Crawfish boil, and the guy is getting really, really good at it! Controlling the amount of spice for each batch is a bit of an art, and this guy is an artist!

Luckily it coincided with a brief return home for us, because I would have been very disappointed to miss it. The Corn Hole tournament though was a bit much for our jet lag.

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First World Problems...

Weasel is up to his old tricks...causing trouble with his catastrophic choice of container closing system.

I know, I know, the choice is obvious. The clip is the only way to go, because the twist-tie fails spectacularly when reused. Look at the one he uses... the damned thing could take out an eye!

But real men...men who think John Moses Browning was an effete poseur because he didn't design a .50 ACP... use binder clips!

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Women's Safety Is A Red Herring

Obviously the Maine Attorney General is a booger-eating retard if he thinks that there is no danger to women and girls when they compete against men and boys. Can he be that dumb? Possibly! Just read the two sentence statement and you will notice a conspicuous lack of communication ability: Crap sentence structure, run-on, fragments, no parallelism, and that weird affectation that politicians and other worms use -- "The participation?" What... he can't even recognize that there are actual humans involved? And of course, the sheer idiocy of failing to recognize what most people with seven seconds of experience in the real world understand... Men and boys are bigger, stronger, faster, and more aggressive than women and girls. They shouldn't contend in physical competition.

But he's not that much of a retard...he is an apparatchik. He is dutifully following his marching orders to blur the lines between men and women, to destroy the concepts of traditional relationships, to subvert our culture with ahistorical, ascientific nonsense like transgenderism.

Maine AG Feels 'No Concerns of Safety' For Girls Playing Against Trans-Identifying Athletes

After the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Maine on Wednesday, state Attorney General Aaron Frey claimed there are “no concerns of safety” about female athletes competing against transgender-identifying males.

Frey made the comment during an interview on CNN, continuing his state’s defense of letting males play on female sports teams because of their claimed “gender identity.” The DOJ is suing Maine over its refusal to comply with President Trump’s executive order, which interpreted Title IX to prohibit the inclusion of men in women’s sports.

“We’ve been working though to understand what, if any, problem exists with the participation. If some of the harms that are being alleged really are of some concern and what we’ve identified, there really are no concerns of safety,” Frey said.

He is tipping his hand though... the idea of physical danger to women and girls if they are forced to compete with men and boys can be massaged away almost completely. Rule changes, better officiating, high-level committees, weight classes...and on and on and on. They will flood the zone with that sort of bullshit, trying to hide the real issue.

That real issue is that men and boys are biologically and psychologically distinct from women and girls, and no amount of post-modern, Freudian/Marxist bullsh*t can change that. They want to make the issue simply one of safety, when the reality is that it is a cultural and biological issue. Denial of the damage to our culture is one step, and denial of biological reality is another. By focusing on safety they ignore the profound issues.

There are many sports in which physical safety isn't an issue. Swimming comes to mind, and Riley Gaines has been a staunch defender of the traditional concept of Men and Women without resorting to the important but secondary "physical safety" issue. That is not to say that there are no safety issues in non-contact sports. The psychological and cultural damage being done to women and girls by forcing them to compete with an objectively unfair set of rules can't be overstated. And forcing the use of the same locker rooms is a perversion that is breathtaking in its evil.

But the primary evil is the Marxist conceit that Man is malleable and perfectible. And in their twisted world, the innate differences between men and women can be changed with a new birth certificate, a handful of hormone pills, some makeup, and long hair.

Yes, safety is a significant issue, but letting them focus on that is a tactical error. Never let go of the real issue...Men and Women are simply different, and no amount of Marxist/Freudian gobbledygook can change that.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 4-20-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

Today's Sunday Morning Book Thread is dedicated to the memory of jewells45, who went to be with the Lord this past week. I will always remember her as a smiling, laughing woman who danced with me at a TXMOME.

Prayers for NaCly Dog and his wife this morning.

"He is not here. He is risen, just as he said."

--Matthew 28:6 (NIV)

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Daily Tech News 20 April 2025

Top Story

• Vendors have voted to reduce the duration of SSL certificates from one year to 47 days. (Computerworld)
  
  Fuck vendors.
  
  This is mostly driven by Apple, because... Because nothing, really. It's a bad solution to a non-problem.
  
  Apple has been pushing for this for some time. Previously certificates were valid for up to five years, and then Apple got involved.
  
  And the certificate vendors have just committed suicide, because nobody is going to pay them for a certificate that has to be manually refreshed every few weeks, and if you are deploying an automated solution you might as well go all the way and implement a free automated solution using Let's Encrypt.
  
  So good work, assholes.
  
  
  
• It's true that SSL providers are stupid but you still can't use the certificate without hacking DNS. (Bugzilla)
  
  And it's true that SSL is intended to be resilient to this sort of attack, but if you care about security you need to care about who is providing your DNS, and if you do then this attack doesn't work anyway.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" April 19, 2025 [The 3 D's]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Two D show tonight as the Doggo jumped the fence and is roaming the neighborhood - if you get a message from him about canned meat, don't open it. It's Spam.

Top photo: Easter baskets at Club ONT may be a little different than those the Easter Bunny leaves for the kiddies.

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Open Thread

You know the drill...

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Hobby Thread - April 19, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) the weekend off because Peter Cottontail has taken over. Let's talk Easter!

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 19

Courtesy Misantropic Humanitarian

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, April 19

Sakura blossoms, JR, Japan

Happy Easter Weekend! What could be nicer than some blossoming trees?

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A little history of self-assuredness in mass media

I ran across an interesting thread on X by Mike Nayna, the Australian cinematographer and writer. Timely given the Trump Administration's efforts to shake up the self-assuredness of places like Harvard and Columbia:

In 1922, a journalist by the name of Walter Lippmann published a book called Public Opinion where he explored the limitations of the liberal democratic order in the burgeoning era of mass media. 1/n

This was a time between the world wars when innovations in radio, the telegraph, industrial printing, & cinema were being honed as powerful tools for propagandising the masses. 2/n

He argued that the public doesn’t have direct access to objective reality due to limitations in knowledge & access to information. Instead, they rely on heavily mediated info & simplified constructs to create a distorted image of reality that he called a ‘pseudo-environment’. 3/n

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. It has been a sad week here at the Horde family. It's a good day to be alive.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Spring Green)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be nice, be kind. And no you can't tie your younger sibling up with zip ties.
3) No! Don't even think about it! No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a blessed Easter.

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