.@buttonslives’s investigation reveals how activists help families circumvent state restrictions on gender-transition treatments—and potentially endanger children’s health. city-journal.org/article/pediat…
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NEW: The Mellon Foundation is quietly bankrolling a political alliance to protect DEI efforts and fight conservative higher education reforms.
@JohnDSailer obtained thousands of documents, including emails, project proposals, lecture slides, and meeting recordings showing how, behind the scenes, the Mellon Foundation is organizing and spending big to defend its vision for higher education.
As the records suggest, Mellon has geared up for a political fight. city-journal.org/article/mellon…
@JohnDSailer obtained thousands of documents, including emails, project proposals, lecture slides, and meeting recordings showing how, behind the scenes, the Mellon Foundation is organizing and spending big to defend its vision for higher education.
As the records suggest, Mellon has geared up for a political fight. city-journal.org/article/mellon…
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. @buttonslives spent several months undercover investigating a network that helps families obtain gender-transition medications for children living in states where these interventions are banned.
What she discovered is shocking ⬇️
What she discovered is shocking ⬇️
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. @ChicagosMayor has not allowed his position as one of the nation’s most unpopular mayors to dent his ideology. Nor has he been deterred from announcing his next mayoral campaign, even as only 14% of Chicagoans want him to run again, @judgeglock writes. city-journal.org/article/mayor-…
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NEW UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION: I spent several months investigating a nationwide network of advocacy organizations and medical providers helping families continue medically transitioning their children in defiance of state laws.
My investigation centers on Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE), an LGBT advocacy nonprofit that connects families with cooperating medical providers across the country. CSE has distributed over $1 million in travel grants to more than 1,200 families, plus another $1 million to partner organizations, including funding for medical appointments.
With CSE's knowledge, providers in its referral network told me the ways that they circumvent state restrictions on gender-transition treatments for minors.
Some discussed using alternative diagnosis codes, such as “endocrine disorder,” to facilitate prescriptions or insurance coverage. Others described mailing medications directly to families' homes or sending prescriptions to pharmacies in states where these interventions are banned.
Providers also discussed conducting virtual appointments with patients in those states. Others required patients to cross state lines for telehealth but did not appear to have a reliable method for verifying their physical location.
My primary undercover scenario involved an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee who had only recently begun identifying as nonbinary, with no long history of gender-related distress. The providers I shared this scenario with seemed eager to treat her. Many indicated that puberty blockers could be prescribed after an initial evaluation lasting just one to several hours.
My investigation uncovered practices that may violate state and federal laws and pose medical risks to children living hundreds or thousands of miles from their treating physicians.
Read my full @CityJournal investigation: city-journal.org/article/pediat…
My investigation centers on Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE), an LGBT advocacy nonprofit that connects families with cooperating medical providers across the country. CSE has distributed over $1 million in travel grants to more than 1,200 families, plus another $1 million to partner organizations, including funding for medical appointments.
With CSE's knowledge, providers in its referral network told me the ways that they circumvent state restrictions on gender-transition treatments for minors.
Some discussed using alternative diagnosis codes, such as “endocrine disorder,” to facilitate prescriptions or insurance coverage. Others described mailing medications directly to families' homes or sending prescriptions to pharmacies in states where these interventions are banned.
Providers also discussed conducting virtual appointments with patients in those states. Others required patients to cross state lines for telehealth but did not appear to have a reliable method for verifying their physical location.
My primary undercover scenario involved an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee who had only recently begun identifying as nonbinary, with no long history of gender-related distress. The providers I shared this scenario with seemed eager to treat her. Many indicated that puberty blockers could be prescribed after an initial evaluation lasting just one to several hours.
My investigation uncovered practices that may violate state and federal laws and pose medical risks to children living hundreds or thousands of miles from their treating physicians.
Read my full @CityJournal investigation: city-journal.org/article/pediat…
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🚨BREAKING: An undercover City Journal investigation found a nationwide network that exists to help families medically transition their children in defiance of the law.
Advocacy organizations are partnering with medical providers who discussed using diagnoses other than gender dysphoria to make it easier for families to obtain prescriptions or insurance coverage; sending prescriptions to pharmacies in states with bans or mailing medications directly to patients’ homes; and using telehealth to circumvent state laws.
Via @buttonslives: city-journal.org/article/pediat…
Advocacy organizations are partnering with medical providers who discussed using diagnoses other than gender dysphoria to make it easier for families to obtain prescriptions or insurance coverage; sending prescriptions to pharmacies in states with bans or mailing medications directly to patients’ homes; and using telehealth to circumvent state laws.
Via @buttonslives: city-journal.org/article/pediat…
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NEW: Welfare recipients—including illegal immigrants—can receive free, “medically tailored” meals and groceries delivered straight to their door as part of California’s $12 billion Medicaid reform package.
“Eligible conditions” that may qualify someone for “medically-tailored” meals include anxiety, PTSD, depression, and ADHD.
@christopherrufo & @Maddie_Rowley_’s latest report: city-journal.org/article/luxury…
“Eligible conditions” that may qualify someone for “medically-tailored” meals include anxiety, PTSD, depression, and ADHD.
@christopherrufo & @Maddie_Rowley_’s latest report: city-journal.org/article/luxury…
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The NCMEC estimates that Flock cameras have assisted in the safe return of “more than 1,000 missing persons” since it started working with Flock Safety in 2024, @CharlesFLehman writes.
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Two months before Allie was kidnapped, someone vandalized three of the six Flock cameras in nearby Woodruff, South Carolina. Allie's kidnapper almost certainly drove by one of the downed cameras.
If those cameras hadn't been vandalized, Allie could have been home much sooner.
If those cameras hadn't been vandalized, Allie could have been home much sooner.
Allie was the picture of a typical 12-year-old girl—pink-and-white-striped shirt, blue jeans, and a PINK backpack, blond hair askew—the day she was taken. She later told police she thought she was meeting a 15-year-old boy, whom she’d first spoken to online and with whom she ationship. Instead, when Allie (whose name I’ve changed for this story, and whose image I've anonymized with @grok for this post) climbed into the black Chevy Malibu that afternoon, she found 31-year-old Brandon Britten. He drove them across three states, to his home in Independence County, Arkansas. Britten and his wife Sierra had conspired to abduct Allie, police allege, talking with her online for a month and even soliciting nude images. Upon returning home, Sierra told police, Brandon had “taken the child back into their bedroom while she slept in their young son’s bedroom.”
Back in Woodruff, North Carolina, law enforcement began a fevered hunt for Allie. They thought she had gone to Arkansas or Texas, Spartansburg County sheriff Bill Rhyne told me, but were at “a dead standstill” until they found a surveillance-camera image of Allie entering the car. They fed a description of the vehicle—they had no license plate—into Flock Safety’s license plate reader database, which can track cars based on their appearance. “Without [Flock’s] technology, we would be at a complete standstill,” Rhyne told local media.
After a few hours of combing the results, investigators found further images of Britten’s car, driving south through Alabama and into Arkansas. At 3 p.m., Spartansburg called the Independence County Sheriff’s Office; 90 minutes later, police had arrested the Brittens and recovered Allie.
“I was able to locate the minor in a back bathroom with her face and hands against the wall shaking,” Lt. Zach Rawlins wrote in a sworn statement. “After telling her who I was, the minor thanked me for coming to get her, and said she wanted her momma.”
America is gripped by a panic over Flock’s network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), driven by stories of abusive cops and people wrongly jailed because of what critics call a creeping surveillance state.
Largely absent from this discussion are stories like Allie’s, which is not unique: dozens of other children have been returned safely to their parents thanks in part to ALPR technology.
Read about those children in my latest @CityJournal:
city-journal.org/article/flock-…
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Instead of focusing on which jobs might be displaced by AI entirely, a new working paper from the Burning Glass Institute’s Soumitra Shukla asks which jobs contain an awkward mix of tasks—some of which can, but many of which cannot, be massively sped up with AI.
These are jobs undly rather than disappear. In these jobs, workers’ efforts will likely narrow to focus on the tasks AI can’t do. Such tasks will become a “bottleneck” to productivity, and improving human performance in those areas will become especially valuable.
Accountants and software analysts face extremely high AI exposure, and thus have a low bottleneck score. AI is a big deal in this field, but there are few tasks that can’t be done that way to serve as bottlenecks.
Fast-food cooks, with very low exposure (about 15%), also have a low bottleneck score: humans aren’t bottlenecks when AI can’t do much work either way.
These are jobs undly rather than disappear. In these jobs, workers’ efforts will likely narrow to focus on the tasks AI can’t do. Such tasks will become a “bottleneck” to productivity, and improving human performance in those areas will become especially valuable.
Accountants and software analysts face extremely high AI exposure, and thus have a low bottleneck score. AI is a big deal in this field, but there are few tasks that can’t be done that way to serve as bottlenecks.
Fast-food cooks, with very low exposure (about 15%), also have a low bottleneck score: humans aren’t bottlenecks when AI can’t do much work either way.
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For my latest for @CityJournal, we look into the severe backlash to online sports betting, from formerly optimistic leagues and politicians:
- Following federal investigations involving players targeted over specific prop bets,the NBA restricted wagers on easily manipulated micro-plays like opening tip-offs and specific missed shots.
- A 2026 Epic Research study shows that diagnosed gambling disorders in states that legalized sports betting have risen by 61 percent since 2018, with the sharpest increase among males aged 18 to 29.
- According to Ipsos polling, 56 percent of Americans now believe sports betting undermines the integrity of games—a 19-point increase since 2023—with clear majorities expressing opposition to app-based betting.
Read the rest at the link below.
- Following federal investigations involving players targeted over specific prop bets,the NBA restricted wagers on easily manipulated micro-plays like opening tip-offs and specific missed shots.
- A 2026 Epic Research study shows that diagnosed gambling disorders in states that legalized sports betting have risen by 61 percent since 2018, with the sharpest increase among males aged 18 to 29.
- According to Ipsos polling, 56 percent of Americans now believe sports betting undermines the integrity of games—a 19-point increase since 2023—with clear majorities expressing opposition to app-based betting.
Read the rest at the link below.
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"Ages 8-12" 😬
Diagnoses of gender dysphoria among minors skyrocketed in Washington between 2017 and 2023, especially among girls. Rates more than doubled for teen girls ages 12–17 and almost tripled for boys in that age group. For children and young teens in the 8–12 age group, rates grew 3.5 ost doubled for boys.
(Note: the apparent drop-off in 2023 may be due to incomplete data for that year.)
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Kratom, much like marijuana, cannot be safely regulated, no matter what the industry claims, @KevinSabet writes.
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Diagnoses of gender dysphoria among minors skyrocketed in Washington between 2017 and 2023, especially among girls. Rates more than doubled for teen girls ages 12–17 and almost tripled for boys in that age group. For children and young teens in the 8–12 age group, rates grew 3.5 ost doubled for boys.
(Note: the apparent drop-off in 2023 may be due to incomplete data for that year.)
(Note: the apparent drop-off in 2023 may be due to incomplete data for that year.)
NEW: In 2022, rate of a transgender-related diagnosis among teen girls in Washington was nearly 600 times greater than historic adult rates, and among teen boys nearly 60 times greater. In the 8–12 age group, it was roughly 240 times greater for girls and 11 times greater for boys.
A bare minimum of 15,437 minors in the state had a transgender-related diagnosis on their health insurance claims between 2017 and 2023.
The percentage of Washington teens with a transgender-related diagnosis in 2022 was about 19 times the prevalence of pediatric Type 2 diabetes, a condition the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes Care characterized in 2023 as "an awakening epidemic."
Via @LeorSapir: city-journal.org/article/transg…
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NEW: In 2022, rate of a transgender-related diagnosis among teen girls in Washington was nearly 600 times greater than historic adult rates, and among teen boys nearly 60 times greater. In the 8–12 age group, it was roughly 240 times greater for girls and 11 times greater for boys.
A bare minimum of 15,437 minors in the state had a transgender-related diagnosis on their health insurance claims between 2017 and 2023.
The percentage of Washington teens with a transgender-related diagnosis in 2022 was about 19 times the prevalence of pediatric Type 2 diabetes, a condition the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes Care characterized in 2023 as "an awakening epidemic."
Via @LeorSapir: city-journal.org/article/transg…
A bare minimum of 15,437 minors in the state had a transgender-related diagnosis on their health insurance claims between 2017 and 2023.
The percentage of Washington teens with a transgender-related diagnosis in 2022 was about 19 times the prevalence of pediatric Type 2 diabetes, a condition the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes Care characterized in 2023 as "an awakening epidemic."
Via @LeorSapir: city-journal.org/article/transg…
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Why are female Cornell students saying that they feel unsafe on campus? Because they are surrounded by adults who are just as unhinged as they are.
@HMDatMI on Cornell students claiming to be victims of a "rape crisis" and the radical professors egging it on: city-journal.org/article/cornel…
@HMDatMI on Cornell students claiming to be victims of a "rape crisis" and the radical professors egging it on: city-journal.org/article/cornel…
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One of the distinct benefits of using contractors for last-mile deliveries is that it makes change a lot faster. Companies striking the right balance between efficiency and safety are rewarded; those that aren't give way to companies that strike a better balance.
The city itself own agencies give out millions of dollars in contracts every year.
The so-called "Delivery Protection Act" would put a stop to that—with no evidence it will improve safety—simply because of an ideological prejudice against a big company whose services millions of New Yorkers value.
The city itself own agencies give out millions of dollars in contracts every year.
The so-called "Delivery Protection Act" would put a stop to that—with no evidence it will improve safety—simply because of an ideological prejudice against a big company whose services millions of New Yorkers value.
When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.
When we see that traffic and injury-causing crashes spike on the streets around a warehouse — that's kes our streets less safe.
We stand with working people, not corporations that profit by denying them their rights. We stand with @Teamsters and for safe streets in New York City.
We will pass the Delivery Protection Act.
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