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J.K. Rowling described transgender activism in the 21st century as “elitist,” adding that her political views “haven’t changed,” despite having faced “an avalanche of death, rape, and torture threats.”

“It’s been six years since I wrote my essay explaining why I chose to speak up on the issue of trans activism and the risk I believe it poses to women’s rights, and to everyone’s freedom of speech and belief,” Rowling wrote in a new essay, published on Wednesday.

“My views haven’t changed,” the “Harry Potter” author continued. “But the landscape certainly has, and my own involvement in the issue has become practical as well as theoretical, so I thought it was time for an update.”
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As a result, the author faced “an avalanche of death, rape, and torture threats” for opposing “the current, dominant strain of trans activism, which holds that a man who declares himself a woman is, literally, a woman, and is therefore entitled to be treated as a woman in all contexts.”
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Near the end of her essay, Rowling vowed to “continue to speak out, continue to use my money to help women who otherwise couldn’t afford to go to court, and continue to ensure that women in my area can still access female-delivered, female-centered support after rape.”

iHope you weren’t planning on getting away with it.

Looters who descended on a French Apple Store during the chaotic riots were reportedly greeted with warnings from their ill-gotten gains that the merchandise was being locked and tracked.

Viral video from the aftermath of the looting of the Lille Apple Store on Oct. 17 shows one of the thieves flashing the security warning on the stolen iPhone.
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“Please return the device to Apple Lille. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted,” the alert read.

Apple’s products famously flash such warnings when they detect that they have been stolen from stores, with many on social media mocking the thieves ...

It was only a matter of time before Michael P. Desronvil was exposed as the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case, in which Clancy killed her three children in 2023 and tried to argue postpartum psychosis to avoid a murder conviction. Desronvil was not budging, as he felt Clancy had murdered her children. The other jurors felt compelled to use this case to push a mental health agenda, kids be damned. The trial became a Rorschach test for who's sane and who is not, who thinks child murder is bad, and those who are engulfed in TikTok conspiracy garbage and outright fiction.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has it out for Desronvil and wants to investigate how this man got on the jury, as there are some domestic violence incidents in his past. A judge has shut that crusade down (via NY Post):

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Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, had asked for an evidentiary hearing at an upcoming Nov. 2 court date to call witnesses to speak about accusations that Michael P. Desronvil lied on his jury questionnaire and used his cellphone during deliberations.

However, Judge William F. Sullivan wasn’t having it, and ruled Wednesday that the mistrial must only be evaluated based on the circumstances known at the time — not allegations after the mistrial.

This morning, two Palestinian gunmen, armed with hundreds of rounds, tried to launch a mass-casualty terrorist attack, seriously wounding Israeli soldiers before being eliminated.

The attack was caught on video.

NBC’s headline? Israel kills two Palestinians “accused of launching an attack.”

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Most of the immigrants targeted by federal authorities in California this week for alleged voter fraud had applied for U.S. citizenship and now face charges related to lying on forms or during interviews. Those charges could lead to years in prison and thwart their efforts to naturalize.

One of them is José Antonio Bañuelos-Díaz, 42, who applied for citizenship in October 2025 after living in the country for 40 years and spending his entire adult life as a legal permanent resident. The federal government has alleged in charging documents that he improperly claimed to be a citizen in 2007 when registering to vote, then later lied about it on his immigration paperwork. The government hasn't accused him of casting a ballot.

Bañuelos-Díaz told The Associated Press he had no idea he had registered to vote until he was arrested Monday outside his Los Angeles home, though he recalls getting a driver's license around 2007. In California, people are prompted to register to vote when applying for a driver’s license.