“85% of U.S. adults agree that transgender people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else (according to a 2026 Human Rights Campaign / SSRS survey). This includes 92% of Democrats, 87% of Independents, and 76% of Republicans” You’re the extreme minority @BrandiKruse

New study finds no clear physical advantage for transgender women over cisgender women in sports. A major review challenges the claim that transgender women hold a clear physical edge in women’s sports. After pooling results from 52 studies and thousands of participants, researchers in Brazil reported that transgender women had greater lean mass than cisgender women, but not greater physical capacity. Across the data they examined, they found no meaningful differences in upper-body strength, lower-body strength, or aerobic fitness between the two groups after hormone therapy. That does not settle the political fight. It does, however, narrow the scientific one. The paper, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, reviewed research on body composition and physical fitness in transgender people receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy. In their analysis, they covered 6,099 individuals overall. This included 2,566 transgender women, 2,646 transgender men, 442 cisgender women and 445 cisgender men. Forty-two studies were included in the meta-analysis. Transgender women, the central result was striking in its contrast. Lean mass remained higher than in cisgender women, yet the performance measures most often cited in sports arguments did not show an advantage. “This refutes the logic behind blanket bans on transgender women in sports,” said Bruno Gualano, a physician and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil who co-authored the study. “Most of these policies are based on the assumption that transgender women retain inherent physical advantages and would therefore dominate women’s competitions. The data does not support this idea.” The review found that transgender women had higher absolute lean mass than cisgender women, but similar relative lean mass. It found no significant differences in upper-body strength, lower-body strength, or maximum oxygen consumption, a standard measure of cardiorespiratory fitness. The authors also looked at how hormone therapy changed the body over time. In transgender women, one year of therapy was associated with increased fat mass, reduced lean mass, and lower upper-body strength. Over one to three years, the pattern pointed in the same direction, though not every measure could be tracked across every time span. The paper argues that this matters because sports rules often treat muscle mass as a stand-in for performance. The new review suggests that assumption may be too simple. thebrighterside.news/post/ne…

There’s a lot of this vibe in DC these days.

If you watch this, the reporter claims that this highly respected member of the community supports Lucas and her family, but if you listen, what he actually supports is a 'new direction' for them. He knows what they've been doing is wrong for the family and for the community.

It's time for a change. Vote for leaders like @AbdulElSayed and @JocelynBenson who will work every day to make this country better.

New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad: Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German. Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”? Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.

The flirtation with groyperism and the tariffs are what turned off swing voters. The nuance that both parties don’t get is that most Americans believe in a tolerant America for ppl of all backgrounds but would prefer the border stay secured and that neither wokes takes over their

Former Virginia teammates De’Andre Hunter and Ty Jerome catch up postgame.

BREAKING: The Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools announced in his weekly email: "The conversation around school mergers begins." He wrote, "In 1964, Seattle Public Schools had an enrollment over 94,000 students. Today, our student count sits under 50,000. Over the last half century, there have been years of growth and decades of decline." "Some of the decline was out of the district’s control, but some was self-inflicted: a lack of clarity of vision and purpose, a revolving door of disparate and problematic leadership, fits and starts of numerous programs and policies, each seemingly in contrast with the previous iteration. But through it all, there seemed to be a district that did not privilege students and their families." "Decisions seemed to be made in direct opposition to the expressed needs of our community. When parents asked for rigor, we thought of cutting advanced programming. When families asked for clarity, they got obfuscation. When we hear about the desire for more arts, music, and dual language programs, we seem to cut those first. When community members want to donate, volunteer, or support the district, we create roadblock after roadblock." He then spoke about his visits to all the schools: "Some students were in beautiful buildings with bright, airy, light-filled classrooms, while others spent their days in buildings without interior walls, traipsing through poorly lit hallways and hearing the scurry of much smaller beings in the rafters." "I saw robust learning communities with teachers who could share within their grades amongst colleagues and schools with just one second grade teacher who had to fend for themselves. I saw schools that got itinerant music teachers once a week or even once every two weeks, while others had full-time teachers firmly part of the school community. And what I saw over and over again was forced split classes. Room after room of second and third graders trying to learn together. Fourth and fifth graders struggling because of the inherent difficulty of teaching “up” or “down” or two grades at once." "I also saw a K-8 school with less than 50 students, where multi-grade classes are the norm. I saw a K-5 school with less than 120 kids trying to contort and contrive as best it could to serve our students. But no matter how great the staff is, this is an extra burden to bear." "I hear communities with very low enrollment say, “But Ben, just give us a year, give us two years, we will get students to come. Give us a PR budget and we will draw tens if not hundreds of students. Just redraw district lines and force students into our school.” I appreciate that all, but each idea takes time and would either cannibalize other schools or be based on wishful thinking. In times like these I often think of the Dr. Martin Luther King quote, 'We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. This is the time for vigorous and positive action.'" "I don’t want students to spend one more year in a building where bookcases serve as walls, if we don’t have to. I don’t want students to spend one more year in a sixth-seventh-eighth grade split if we don’t have to. I don’t want teachers to be the only teacher in the grade if we don’t have to. I don’t want to accept large class sizes if we don’t have to. So, the conversation around school mergers begins." The timeline is as follows: Senior Leadership meetings – First two weeks in September Principal meetings – September and October Staff meetings – October and November Family meetings – November and December Community meetings/public hearings – January and February Board possible action – Late February or early March

WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan laughs in Pete Buttigieg’s face when he is unable to explain why only 7 or 8 electric vehicle charging stations have been built despite the Biden admin spending $7.5 BILLION to build chargers.

I imagine all Portland, Oregon conversations go something like this.