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Beginning with the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, biological males will not be allowed to compete against biological females. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ruled that men will compete in men's events and women will compete in women's events.

Nothing about that is or should be controversial for anyone living in reality. For Megan Rapinoe, who is among those who subscribe to the idea that feelings matter more than facts, and we can quite literally just make things up as we go, biological males being told that they can't compete against females is wrong.

In Rapinoe's world, the transgender athlete – a biological male in this instance – matters more than the biological female competing in the women's category. I'd say make it make sense, but you can't.

The former U.S. women's soccer star reacted to the IOC's recent ruling about biological males being banned from competing in the women's category in an extremely predictable fashion during a recent episode on her ‘A Touch More’ podcast.

I’m an optimist but I’m not holding out a lot of hope for the missing guy. Best we can hope for is he will be captured. Unlike Hegseth, I suspect the Iranians will treat him much better than we are treating them.

We all remember the story of Fang Fang, the Chinese spy who allegedly approached Rep. Eric Swalwell when he was still a city council member in Dublin, CA. She allegedly helped with fundraising for his 2014 run for congress. In 2015, Swalwell got a tip from the FBI that Fang Fang was a spy and then cut off contact with her. Swalwell has repeatedly denied having any relationship with her beyond meeting her in a professional capacity.

Today there is another story apparently coming together behind the scenes involving Swalwell and alleged sexual harassment involving multiple women. What takes this past the rumors stage is that the person highlighting these claims is a progressive attorney named Cheyenne Hunt who runs a site called Gen Z for Change. She is on Swalwell's side of the aisle but says she found out about this issue because a personal friend came forward about it. She posted a video about it on Tik Tok which has since been re-posted on X.

The key allegation here, and again this hasn't been verified by any major news outlet yet, is that Swalwell has a habit of sleeping with his staffers and interns and then relying on an NDA to keep it quiet.

Last night, Cheyenne Hunt posted a thread on X going into more detail. Hunt says she is working with a group of women who are currently speaking with reporters about their experiences.

After an F-15E Weapons Systems Officer ejected injured over Iranian territory, the United States military and intelligence community moved Heaven and Earth to find him, rescue him, and return him safely home.  While we might never know the exact figures, somewhere between 100-200 personnel were involved in the rescue, including perhaps two small Night Stalker helicopters, and two MC-130J Commando II Special Forces cargo planes that had to be destroyed on the ground.
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Let me take you on a quick detour through exactly how American forces were able to track and finally pinpoint the location of the injured WSO. It's a nifty little device called the Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL), and it's worn by pilots and combat aircrews at risk of getting shot down over enemy territory.

CSEL looks a little like an old-school satellite phone, and that's because they share some DNA. Automatically activated during ejection, a CSEL communicates in short, encrypted bursts the ejectee's location and movement. Short bursts prevent the enemy from triangulating a position ... frequency hopping prevents repeated attempts at listening, ...
When a rescue team gets close, CSEL changes modes, "guiding helicopters straight to them in terrain that would otherwise swallow a man alive," as Gene Robinson put it on X.
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This post is indicative of the mindset, and Western Europe's comparative inability to conduct such rescues.

)An embedded X post from some French guy)

But as I replied on X, we don’t call it our “greatest military success of all time.” We call it “business as usual.”

"If you want to know why the U.S. & IAF have the best and most committed pilots/aviators in the world, it’s because they know we will do everything in our power to bring them home."
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As another wit said, France can't afford to lose two of its 14 cargo planes, but we have hundreds. That's the inevitable result of free-rider military budgets that countries like France and Britain are willing to make.