Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/21

[SVPete]

Disturbing Data Exposes UK Trans Sexual Predator Crisis

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/20/disturbing-data-exposes-uk-trans-sexual-predator-crisis-n4947335

Two-thirds of “transgender” men in UK prisons are sexual criminals. And that’s just one of multiple chilling statistics illustrating Britain’s woke predation crisis — a crisis American leftists keep trying to import here.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter authoress and exploder of transgender fantasies, provided multiple statistics on X to undermine the claim that trans-identifying males do not pose a threat to women and girls in bathrooms, prisons, and locker rooms. In case we didn’t already know that dudes in dresses were not to be trusted…

Thomas Willett, whose X bio says “[w]riting queer  experiences,” has been arguing with Rowling about biological males in women’s facilities — always a foolish thing to do, because Rowling tends to have five facts for every one activist platitude. “Because there is no evidence to suggest that trans women using women’s spaces increases abuse against cís women. Ban trans women and nothing changes. The problem is and always has been abusive cís men, who you conveniently shield in your transphobic campaign,” Willett gibbered.

He — or she — or it couldn’t be more wrong. Rowling quickly fired back:
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She also highlighted, “A freedom of information request in 2024 revealed that 62% of trans-identified male inmates in UK prisons had committed at least one sexual offence.” And in fact, more than 70% of UK transgender prisoners overall have committed either sexual or violent crimes, government data showed last year.

Are transies in the US especially different from those in the UK?

Given some cities' PDs' fudging of crime data, a politically motivated cover-up of transie crimes seems very plausible to me.

I realize that some of these "trans" are actually persons and sexual-assaulters using trans-identifying for access to sexual prey, but I doubt there is any effort anywhere to discern abusers from "real" transies.

[SVPete]

NYT Buries the Lede: Admits No Proof Trump Was Involved in Epstein Crimes

https://www.lifezette.com/2025/12/nyt-buries-the-lede-admits-no-proof-trump-was-involved-in-epstein-crimes/

The New York Times acknowledged in a recent report that there has never been any evidence connecting President Donald Trump to the criminal activities of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, despite years of public speculation and repeated claims pushed by Democratic officials.

The article, written by Times reporters Nicholas Confessore and Julie Tate, was based on interviews with “more than 30 former employees of Jeffrey Epstein, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with Mr. Epstein and President Trump.”
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While much of the article relied on decades-old photographs and quotes from the 1990s to suggest familiarity between Trump and Epstein, the Times ultimately conceded that its review found no evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s abuse or trafficking of minors.

“An examination of their history by The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of minors,” the article stated.

1. The NYT could have written this in 2016 or whenever Dems started their guilt-by-association insinuations.

2. "No evidence" is a weaselly evasion after a decade of the false claims - many published by the NYT, BTW - of admitting that the claims are simply false.

3. I've not seen it mentioned before this admission by the NYT, but the pictures of Trump used to support Dems' guilt-by-association insinuations are visually obviously of a relatively young Trump, i.e. from years before Epstein's perversions became known. OTOH, much of the text evidence and many pictures of Dems' associations with Epstein are from when/after Epstein's perversions became known.

[SVPete]

Deputy AG Destroys the Left’s Latest Conspiracy Theory About the Epstein Files

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/21/deputy-ag-destroys-the-lefts-latest-conspiracy-theory-about-the-epstein-files-n4947353

For four years, the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files and offered the public nothing. Trump made their release a campaign issue, then followed through last month by signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act. That move left Democrats exposed, so they scrambled for cover. Instead of accepting the facts, they have pivoted to spinning conspiracy theories about the Epstein files themselves, in a blatant attempt to explain why the long-promised smoking gun against Trump doesn’t exist.

The conspiracies have become so pervasive that NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Meet the Press Sunday about one such conspiracy theory regarding the temporary removal of documents from the Justice Department’s release of the Epstein files.
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Welker asked Blanches about the "15 files released Friday" that "disappeared from DOJ's website yesterday, including this photo of what looks like a desk with a drawer open containing photos of Donald Trump." She pressed Blanche to explain why the files were taken down, asking if it was "at the direction of a judge."

Blanche calmly explained the actual reason, which had nothing to do with protecting Trump and everything to do with protecting victims. "Well, you can see in that photo, there’s photographs of women," Blanche said. "And so we learned after releasing that photograph that there were concerns about those, about those women and the fact that we had put that photo up. So we pulled that photo down."
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The deputy attorney general went on to explain the DOJ's policy regarding victim privacy in the Epstein document release. "But the reality is anybody, any victim, any victim's lawyers, any victim rights group can reach out to us and say, 'Hey, Department of Justice, there's a document, there's a photo, there's something within the Epstein files that identifies me.' And we will then, of course, pull that off and investigate," Blanche explained.

So there you have it. The breathless speculation from the left about Trump supposedly being protected by the Department of Justice—which is full of people who helped try to take him down, by the way—falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. The files were pulled to protect potential victims whose images appeared in the photographs, not to shield Trump from scrutiny. ...

Have DU-folk been ing over this faux-CT? Progs doing so demonstrate their utter disregard for protection of victims and innocent bystanders in their fantasy-hope of finding a Gotcha-Trump.

[SVPete]

U.S. House leader questions Chicago Public Schools’ exclusion of Christian student teachers

https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-house-leader-questions-chicago-public-schools-exclusion-of-christian-student-teachers/

A U.S. House Republican leader pressed Chicago Public Schools for answers about its anti-discrimination policies this week after a Christian college recently accused the employer of religious discrimination against its student teachers.

In the letter, an advanced copy of which was provided exclusively to The College Fix, U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg raised concerns about the public school system compelling Moody Bible Institute “to abandon its Biblically-based doctrinal positions” on human sexuality.

“Specifically, the governing board of CPS – the Board of Education of the City of Chicago – appears to be excluding Moody and its students from participating in CPS’s student teaching program unless Moody agrees to change its faith-based hiring policies and practices,” the Michigan congressman wrote Friday. 

The letter asks Interim Superintendent Macquline King to provide documents related to the dispute to “determine whether potential legislative changes, including legislation to specifically address unlawful discrimination, are needed.”

More about this situation here, https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=137641.msg1568025#msg1568025 . BECC is trying to make it difficult for Moody students, who live in Choicago, to satisfy the student-teaching requirement for certification. Moody students would be forced to student-teach somewhere some distance from where they live. BECC is trying to force a 140-year-old Christian institution to compromise its faith. Needless to say, if this bigotry is allowed to stand, many Prog-ruled cities would do similarly to other Christian colleges and universities.