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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster - Merriam-Webster Dictionary…
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aardvark… noun… a large burrowing nocturnal mammal (Orycteropus afer) of sub-Saharan Africa that has a long snout, extensible tongue, powerful claws, large ears, and heavy tail and feeds especially on termites and ants…
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Sophie Page @pophiesage
This is how cool mysterious people text actually
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Megan Basham @megbasham - World Relief is in trouble because their hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants have been cut off. They have been a key pipeline in funneling amnesty propaganda into churches. I would very much recommend not doing this.
Also, keep in mind, World Relief settled the Afghan terrorist who killed two national guards a couple of months ago.
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Phil Vischer @philvischer
You can help. Sign this World Relief statement to stand up for legal refugees being unjustly targeted by the Trump administration.
https://worldrelief.org/statementonrefugees/
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Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver - It’s clear that the trans contagion is winding down, as all fads eventually do.
But because we prioritized the demands of extremist political activists over the safeguarding of vulnerable children, so many will bear the scars forever.
What a shameful chapter in human history.
https://x.com/_CryMiaRiver/status/2015895377392619716
Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver - Video: The Tale of Two Contagions
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In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.
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This was an entirely new patient population.
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Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.
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The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.
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Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.
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Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger.
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And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.
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Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.
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And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.
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Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.
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And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.
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The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans.
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And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.
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Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness.
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Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.
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