MJ MURPHY: Dude. The real disgrace would be telling women their boundaries don't matter. Dignity is not hatred. Privacy is not bigotry. Safety is not discrimination, and protecting sex based spaces does not ruin lives.

Another male crying victim for being excluded from a female sex based space. pic.twitter.com/ORDF7WOw8M

— MJ Murphy (@hothingsgirlsay) June 24, 2026

TRANS KANSAS LAWMAKER SLAMS BILL BANNING BIOLOGICAL MEN FROM WOMEN'S BATHROOMS

Thank you, Mr Speaker.  On its face, this bill obviously discriminates against transgender people.

00:09.  No, it separates bathrooms by biological sex. That is how bathrooms have operated for generations.  Protecting female spaces is not discrimination. It's recognizing sex differences.

In ways that make our lives exponentially more difficult and dangerous . . . 

00:29.  Dangerous for whom?  Women are statistically at far greater risk of sexual assault than men. Sex-segregated bathrooms exist because of that reality. Not because of cruelty.

Good morning seriously it is yet another way of policing women and our bodies . . .

00:52.  Sir, women are not being policed.  Women are asking for boundaries.  Female privacy is not oppression, it's a basic civil right.

In the absence of men and masculinity being subjected to the same scrutiny. 

01:10.  No, Sir.  Men's spaces are not the issue because men are not physically vulnerable to female in the same way females are vulnerable to males.  That's not ideology.  That's biology, Sir.

There's no outrage about trans boys playing in sports.

01:31.  And that's because female athletes lose opportunities when male bodies compete in women's categories.  The performance gap matters.  That's why this debate exists.  

There's no hand ringing about husbands and Sons sharing their bathrooms with trans men.

01:54.  Correct.  Because women are the sex with higher rates of sexual victimization.  Policy follows risk.

This is about blaming women for the bad behavior of men.

02:11.  No sir.  It's about not forcing women to absorb the consequences of male behavior.  Women didn't create male violence.  We shouldn't have to surrender our spaces to accommodate it.

And we may be done with this travesty in the Statehouse but now we've just Unleashed it upon our families and our friends.

02:40.  No, sir.  What's being unleashed is clarity.  Bathrooms are separated by sex.  That standard protects everyone without requiring women to override instinct or privacy.

And our colleagues, and this is an embarrassment and a disgrace, and it is going to no doubt ruin lives.

03:03.  Dude.  The real disgrace would be telling women their boundaries don't matter.  Dignity is not hatred.  Privacy is not bigotry.  Safety is not discrimination, and protecting sex based spaces does not ruin lives.  It maintains clear, neutral standards that protect everyone's rights without forcing women to surrender theirs.  Calling this "life ruining"?  Come on, that's dramatic.  No one's life is ruined by not entering a woman's restroom.  Women's rights however are eroded when male access becomes mandatory.

JOHN GUANDOLO: What is going on is the intentional outcome of a 100+ year communist movement and a 60+ year Islamic movement in the United States. Not much more complicated than that.

What is going on is the intentional outcome of a 100+ year communist movement and a 60+ year Islamic movement in the United States. Not much more complicated than that. pic.twitter.com/tWDc9IXwBO

— John Guandolo (@JGuandolo54271) June 24, 2026

Melanie Phillips.  

TREASURY SECRETARY, SCOTT BESSENT: "I think we're going to have a strong dollar because our economy is pulling away from the rest of the world."

Yes. Deregulation and revamped taxation at every level along with investment is long term dollar positive but more importantly overwhelmingly positive for PEOPLE Not OLIGARCHS https://t.co/yXn4l2xbtV

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) June 24, 2026

TREASURY SECRETARY, SCOTT BESSENT: We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first @USTreasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.

Hamilton you say? https://t.co/PomYmKy72l

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) June 24, 2026

from Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent,

We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first

@USTreasury

Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.

As we approach 250 years of American independence, we would do well to remember that our founders left us more than a Republic—they bequeathed a roadmap powerful enough to sustain it for two and a half centuries and beyond.

 

ANNA D. WEST: The finale for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), as the captive protagonists are finally freed from their captivity as slaves of the Islamic Barbary trade.

The Islamic slave trade was such a common theme in the arts that this isn't even the only opera to focus on the topic. From the fiction of Cervantes and Voltaire to the poetry of Lord Byron (who died aiding the Greeks on their fight for freedom from Islamic occupation) to the captivity narratives and more, the ever present threat of being enslaved by Muslims left its mark on the arts. --Anna D. West

The finale for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), as the captive protagonists are finally freed from their captivity as slaves of the Islamic Barbary trade.

The real tales, over 1.25 million Western Europeans, didn't generally end… pic.twitter.com/Iwunf2ij5C

— Anna D. West 🇺🇸 (@SlimWiggy) June 24, 2026

The finale for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), as the captive protagonists are finally freed from their captivity as slaves of the Islamic Barbary trade.

Mozart--The Abduction from the Seraglio [harem], Overture.

The real tales, over 1.25 million Western Europeans, didn't generally end so happily. Freedom was only possible if the slaves were ransomed and their owners willing to sell, and often they weren't. The Islamic slave trade was such a common theme in the arts that this isn't even the only opera to focus on the topic. From the fiction of Cervantes and Voltaire to the poetry of Lord Byron (who died aiding the Greeks on their fight for freedom from Islamic occupation) to the captivity narratives and more, the ever present threat of being enslaved by Muslims left its mark on the arts. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen famously said that moderns want Christ without His cross; too often, having abandoned Christ many want culture without discomfort. They want the truth edited out, and if we don't fight it soon will be.

So, for posterity, Konstanze, Belmonte & Co. making their grand escape in an opera premiered in Vienna within 100 years of the Ottoman siege of that very city. We cannot forget our past, it's already repeating.