Woke watch: ‘Trans’ Inclusion = All-Male Finals
An “all-male final” in a “women’s pool championship”? That’s just “what the endgame of trans ideology looks like,” scoffs Lauren Smith at Spiked.
“The UK’s Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series” saw its final match fall to Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both biological men.
Yes, “in pool, the difference between men and women might not be as pronounced” as in, say, swimming. But “men do still have some biological advantages,” “obvious to anyone with eyes” (like much longer arms).
Which means top female players “are expected to throw away all their training and hard work to spare men’s egos.”
No: Those women “deserve to see two actual women fighting it out for a women’s championship. The only balls involved here should be on the table.”
Protest desk: The Hands-off Hypocrite Left
“Hands off?” The protesters gathering against Donald Trump and Elon Musk want “the government to keep its hands on — on our throats choking out our freedoms and in our pockets stealing our money,” thunders the Issues & Insights Editorial Board.
“Waste, fraud, heavy-handed regulations, politicized law enforcement are all the hands-on weapons of autocrats and dictators.”
“How is Donald Trump amassing power by cutting the size of government, squeezing out waste, and deregulating the economy?”
And despite protester claims, he “isn’t attacking immigrants. He’s trying to stop illegal immigration and deporting those who are here illegally.”
No shock that “many of the protestors had no idea what they were protesting.”
Indeed, “these protests are just another sign that the left has nothing to offer. Nothing but fear itself.”
From the right: Why the Young Won’t Work
“President Trump proclaims his tariffs will” boost manufacturing jobs, but “good luck finding workers to fill them,” snarks The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.
Employers say “they can’t find reliable, conscientious workers who can pass a drug test.”
Federal data show “America’s worker shortage is the worst in 50 years.” “Blame government, which showers benefits on able-bodied people who don’t work” while “subsidizing college degrees that don’t lead to productive employment.”
Young people “have been taught that capitalism is exploitative” and won’t “work in factories. They’d rather mooch off taxpayers or their parents.”
Warning: “The decline in work among young men is a far bigger problem for the nation’s economic and cultural vitality than the decline in manufacturing jobs.” Tariffs can’t fix that.
Conservative: Fed Waste Is Big Biz
“Ripping off taxpayers is one of the biggest businesses in America,” fumes Stephen Moore at The Washington Times.
“It pays the bills, and everyone in the swamp gets their cut.” Elon Musk’s DOGE has uncovered “$10 billion in rent for empty office buildings” and “hundreds of millions of dollars for foreign aid programs” that “disappeared down a rabbit hole.”
Democrats “never lifted a finger” to end “the rampant fraud and corruption.”
“Nor did Republicans all these years. Washington hid behind a curtain of plausible deniability, even though we had scores of auditors and inspector general reports spotlighting the continuing raid on our federal fisc.”
“The most sinister and obvious explanation” for why politicians “did nothing to stop it” is that “THEY ARE IN ON IT.”
Science beat: Bad Data Everywhere
A 2020 study claiming “black babies are three times more likely to die when cared for by a white doctor than by a black one” was “junk science,” roars Beckett Adams at The Hill, its data “manipulated to produce a divisive and partisan narrative.”
The authors of this “dishonest study” abandoned scientific standards to push that “narrative” — and worse, “the records also suggest the researchers also intentionally concealed data that might have distracted” from the bunk they were pushing.
“Even more distressing than this study’s journey from junk to accepted narrative is that this incident is not isolated.”
When journalists and scientific institutions are “susceptible to junk science,” how can the public know it’s “not being misled — either by accident or by design?”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board