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→ Monica Lewinsky makes up with Drudge
Much has changed since 1998, when the Drudge Report first broke news of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The campaigner and former White House intern has now praised the outlet for posting a fact-check of Donald Trump’s “Haitian migrants eating pets” claims, alongside an AI photo of the former president in a private jet filled with rescued cats and ducks. “Never thought I’d see the day that I’d applaud the drudge report. but here we are,” she wrote online.
never thought i’d see the day that i’d applaud the drudge report.
but here we are.
(IYKYK)
@brooke pic.twitter.com/OpcuJkRcds— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) September 11, 2024
Drudge took notice, linking the post at the top of the site with the caption, “HELL FREEZES OVER: LEWINSKY APPLAUDS DRUDGE?” It’s only natural that, having pivoted away from Trump during his presidency, Drudge would build bridges with former enemies. Let bygones be bygones.
→ Mussolini’s granddaughter ditches ‘Right-wing’ Giorgia Meloni
As the William Faulkner adage goes: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Today, the name Mussolini is once again making headlines in Italy. Rachele Mussolini, granddaughter of the fascist dictator Benito, has announced that she is leaving Giorgia Meloni’s governing Brothers of Italy party.
Mussolini, a councillor in Rome, is joining the more moderate Forza Italia. She said: “It is time to turn the page and join a party that I feel is closer to my moderate and centrist sensibilities.” These moderate sensibilities were on view recently when Mussolini got into a spat with Meloni over the gender of the Olympic boxer Imane Khelif. “Until proven otherwise Imane Khelif is a woman. And she has suffered an unworthy witch hunt,” Mussolini said. It may suit Meloni to rid her party of a remaining Mussolini…
→ Trans census data scrapped
The UK Office for Statistics Regulation is decertifying its 2021 census data on transgender identity, which initially found that a surprisingly high 0.5% of the population identified as a gender other than their sex registered at birth.
BREAKING: Gender identity census figures decertified.@ONS census figures lose status as official statistics.
to Professor Michael Biggs whose work highlighted the problem with the methodology.https://t.co/4xlcG2bOE8
— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) September 12, 2024
Trans activists had celebrated the apparent prevalence of transgender people following the release of the results, but the gender-critical crowd was sceptical. Oddly, non-English speakers were four times as likely to identify as trans compared to the rest of the population, and low-education respondents were more likely to identify as trans than those with university degrees. Rather than asking “Are you transgender?” the census asked “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” Who could be confused by that?
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SubscribeI’ll bet Trump loves that Meme.
The census sounds like the Simpson’s “Don’t do what Donny Don’t does” instruction manual. https://youtu.be/NRvaR4fqrYY?si=axhV2l8yV1EZtlI4
Except Trump was right.