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Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Dr. Locasale, you've been on 🔥 re MIT's odious treatment of David Sabatini but this might be the best commentary so far. Reading Knouses's note is like looking into a dark dystopian future and thinking: this could never happen irl--and yet it did. There need to be consequences.
A colleague sent me this excerpt of a text Kristin Knouse sent to a friend. Fox News posted it with the article they published.
She was so confident her own choices would count for nothing when assigning blame. The entitlement is staggering.
This captures what universities have become. Truth and fairness are irrelevant while administrators identify favored categories and protect the people who fit them, regardless of how destructively they behave. Individual conduct is meaningless in light of the institutional narrative.
The message exemplifies the entitlement behind Knouse’s accusations and the receptive audience she found among administrators. She expected responsibility to rest with him regardless of her own conduct. The institutions gave that expectation career-destroying force.
A majority female jury in a deep blue state found that she defamed Dr. Sabatini and unlawfully interfered with his professional relationships, rejected her counterclaims, and awarded him $6 million.
The disgrace extends beyond Knouse. Administrators and the rotten institutions they lead destroyed a scientist’s life’s work while claiming to uphold fairness and evidence. They should be held accountable for what they did.
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Many of these documents have been in the public domain for a long time but were only accessible through the court docket. Post trial they are coming to light.
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE REVEALS EXPLOSIVE COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT A CONCEALED INVESTIGATION INTO PROFESSOR DAVID M. SABATINI — BEFORE WHITEHEAD'S DIVERSITY SURVEY.
🔱 New revelation — Court-disclosed messages describe a plan to use Whitehead Institute's diversity survey to conceal an investigation already under consideration.
The court evidence contains extraordinary contemporaneous communications involving Nora Kory, a former postdoctoral researcher in David Sabatini’s laboratory at Whitehead Institute, Kristin Knouse, and references to Whitehead Institute Director Ruth Lehmann.
THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN WORDS ARE STUNNING.
Nora Kory stated:
🔴 “Although we know the diversity survey was just a cover up and it was planned long before...”
Knouse responded that Ruth Lehmann:
🔴 “was a little loose lipped early on…”
In another exchange, Kory described her discussion with Lehmann:
🔴 “we came up with the idea of ‘covering the investigation up’ with the diversity survey”
Knouse replied:
🔴 “Yea I mean this supports the notion that she has all along wanted to follow through on this but scared to do it without a smoking gun ...”
⚠️ THE SIGNIFICANCE IS PROFOUND.
These are contemporaneous messages in which participants explicitly described the diversity survey as a cover for an investigation they said had already been contemplated.
The communications raise serious concerns that the publicly presented sequence of events may not reflect the discussions taking place behind the scenes.
The references to Ruth Lehmann make the documentary evidence particularly consequential for examining Whitehead's leadership, the origins of the investigation, and the independence of the procedures that followed.
An institutional investigation must be transparent, impartial, and grounded in evidence. Its legitimacy cannot rest on procedures whose stated purpose may differ from the purpose discussed privately by those involved.
The documentary record demands independent scrutiny of Whitehead Institute Director Ruth Lehmann's decision-making, the origins of the investigation, and the integrity of the procedures that followed.
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MORE COURT EVIDENCE. MORE REVELATIONS. STAY TUNED. ⚠️
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Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
One week from today, Americans head to the polls, and many will choose a governor. Before they do, look at Virginia: ICE cooperation gutted, tax hikes on gym memberships and dog walking, and a failed redistricting power grab.
Virginia is becoming the California of the Mid-Atlantic.
Don’t let your state be next.
My latest in @DailyCaller: dailycaller.com/2026/10/27/a…
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
This is Harvard Law Professor Emerita, Mary Ann Glendon's theory too, published in @firstthingsmag (2003) and in my book, The Cost of Choice (2004)
People usually say that the pill caused the sexual revolution but a) people started having premarital sex in the 1950s, a decade before the pill and b) contraception is widely used by people who don't live very post-sexual-revolution lives (like in Asia). I think the sexual revolution, i.e. more permissive attitudes about sex, caused the pill to be invented and not the other way round.
But then, why did the sexual revolution happen? I have cooked up a theory. Just as how women have more casual sex on college campuses with fewer men, I think women, as a collective, responded to the male shortage caused by the Second World War by shortening their hemlines and having premarital sex.
Read my column here: worksinprogress.co/issue/you…
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
„Die Grünen haben Deutschland großen Schaden zugefügt. Aber für die Ausländer- und Sicherheitspolitik in Bund und Ländern sind vor allem Minister und Ideologen von SPD und CDU/ CSU verantwortlich. Sie sind dafür verantwortlich, dass 2015 die Grenzen für nahezu jeden Ausländer zur Einwanderung geöffnet und bis heute nicht geschlossen wurden. Den Grünen allein die Schuld zuzuschreiben wird der Haupttäterrolle von CDU, CSU und SPD nicht gerecht.“
Hans-Georg Maaßen im Januar 2025 auf X.
TM
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Die Albträume, die 1978 im Iran angefangen haben und dort noch weitergehen, lassen uns Deutsch-Iraner nie los.
Vor allem, wenn wir die Parallelen und die anfängliche Phase jetzt in Deutschland erleben.
Meine Generation war damals von der Gefahr des Islamismus verblendet.
Obwohl Mohammad Reza Schah etwa 15 Jahre davor die Bevölkerung auf die Koalition von Rot-Schwarz (Rot für Kommunisten und Schwarz für Islamisten – er nannte es den „Rot-Schwarzen-Rückschritt“ bzw. die unheilige Allianz) aufmerksam gemacht hatte, hatten wir ihn und seine Warnsignale ignoriert.
Dass wir Iraner diese Fahrlässigkeit mit unserem Leben bezahlt haben, ist das eine.
Was uns in Europa aber massiv erschreckt: genau dieselben Szenen noch einmal vor Augen zu haben, während die europäische Bevölkerung – vor allem die jüngere Generation – genauso politisch blind ist und jeglicher Sachverstand zu fehlen scheint.
Ich möchte hier niemanden beleidigen – die jüngere Generation auf keinen Fall! Aber außer politischer Blindheit und Unwissenheit fällt mir dazu einfach nichts anderes ein.
Hamburg 👇
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Mons. Robert Mutsaerts formula la pregunta que muchos católicos llevan décadas formulando en silencio: ¿por qué la Iglesia celebra con orgullo su diversidad litúrgica —ritos orientales, ambrosiano, mozárabe, usos particulares— y, en cambio, trata como amenaza la liturgia romana que durante más de mil años santificó a generaciones enteras de fieles?
La respuesta no es teológica. Es ideológica. Cuando el cardenal Roche advierte que los grupos tradicionalistas “utilizan” el Vetus Ordo para oponerse a la reforma del Vaticano II, lo que realmente se está diciendo es que la continuidad de la Iglesia consigo misma se ha convertido en un problema político. La unidad ya no se mide por la fidelidad a la fe recibida, sino por la adhesión a una interpretación determinada de los últimos sesenta años.
Benedicto XVI lo advirtió con claridad: la Iglesia no puede afirmar con credibilidad que lo que ayer era sagrado hoy constituye un peligro. El Vetus Ordo no es un “rito paralelo” inventado para protestar. Es la liturgia que formó a santos, que transmitió la fe en tiempos de persecución y que expresa, con una precisión que el Novus Ordo nunca ha alcanzado, el sacrificio propiciatorio de Cristo. Tratarlo como un riesgo para la unidad revela menos una preocupación pastoral que un miedo a la memoria de la Iglesia.
La verdadera diversidad católica no consiste en multiplicar experimentos, sino en conservar lo que la Iglesia ha recibido. Cuando se protege todo menos la liturgia romana tradicional, lo que se está defendiendo no es la universalidad de la Iglesia, sino una ruptura selectiva. La paz entre los fieles no se logrará silenciando a quienes rezan como rezaron sus antepasados. Se logrará cuando el Vaticano y el clero vuelvan a reconocer que la Tradición no es un obstáculo para la unidad, sino su fundamento.
Menos suspicacia. Más honestidad histórica. Más fidelidad a lo que siempre se ha creído y celebrado.
*Lex orandi, lex credendi.*
Artículo completo de Mons. Mutsaerts:
lifesitenews.com/opinion/bis…
#VetusOrdo #MisaTradicional #TradiciónCatólica #MonsMutsaerts #Liturgia #IglesiaCatólica
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
I’ve been a university professor for 15 years, political economy, Duke University, pro-capitalist, thus a minority, and can attest that for decades these schools have price-gouged & indoctrinated millions of students. They’ve destroyed instead of developed young human capital. Deliberately. So a majority of millions would rule and vote socialist. As is happening. Utterly grotesque.
WILD: University of Michigan students PROVE just how STUPID and BRAINWASHED they truly are when they were asked to define what socialism is, while a Fox poll shows nearly half of young Americans still view it favorably.
“Socialism doesn't mean like anti-capitalism. Based off what I learned in my Gov class, it's basically like spending more money on helping society.”
“Socialism to me is a concept in politics where everybody gets a little bit of everything. Everybody benefits and everybody is really taking care of kind of that social net that you see in other types of politics.”
“I think a lot of people get the economic system of Socialism confused with the government system of Communism.”
We are SCREWED if we do not change how the younger generations views capitalism.
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Hace más de una década comenzamos a hacer modelo comparado en Francia, para saber lo que pasaba allí,y lo que podía llegar a pasar aquí.
Entonces hicimos predicciones:
1- Barcelona sería la primera ciudad en caer, luego iría Bilbao, y después Zaragoza, Valencia y Madrid. Por ese orden.
2- La nueva realidad criminal que se empezaba a observar, no era nada comparado a lo que sucedería con la entrada en escena de la segunda y tercera generación, que son las que han, literalmente, arrasado ciudades europeas enteras.
3- Las bandas latinas, que eran las únicas establecidas a nivel delincuencia urbana entonces, entrarían en competencia por la mercancía y el territorio con las bandas de magrebíes y subsaharianos, cuando estas tuvieran estructura, y el caos criminal se desataría en muchas zonas de España.
(Este escenario llegará a nuestras calles en los próximos años, si nadie hace nada).
4- La cobardía e incompetencia de los gobiernos, de un signo y otro, llevarían a una sensación de impunidad a los criminales que daría lugar a la aparición de nuevas formas de terrorismo y crimen organizado. También a dos fenómenos que sólo se pueden frenar actuando en los primeros estadios delincuenciales: la reincidencia y la escalada.
Para evitar todo lo anterior había que haber empezado a cambiar leyes, protocolos y estrategias policiales hace diez años. Nadie escuchó hasta la aparición de VOX. Nadie hizo nada.
Los policias que acertamos en todas nuestras predicciones y denuncias fuimos perseguidos, expedientados y criminalizados. Fin.
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
> be a high-flying MIT scientist
> discover mTOR
> expected to win a Nobel Prize some day
> have consensual relationship with younger female biology MIT professor
> she accuses him of sexual harassment, coercion and grooming after he declines a long term relationship with her
> MIT launches investigation
> MIT lets the accuser’s allies help pick the judges and threaten the president if he wasn’t destroyed
> lo and behold, investigation finds he violated MIT’s sexual relationship and anti-harassment policies
> he gets fired and resigns under threat of termination
> loses his lab
> he sues her for defamation
> jury awards him $6 million in defamation case and rejects her claims that she was coerced in any way
How did 13 members of a civilian jury come to a different conclusion than @MIT?
Answer: MIT’s investigation was not exactly independent thanks to coordinated female faculty collusion. It was a kangaroo court and the verdict was pre-determined
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE EXPOSES INSIDER INFLUENCE OVER MIT'S TENURE-REVIEW PROCESS IN THE DAVID M. SABATINI ORDEAL.
🔱 NEW REVELATION — Court evidence exposes MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia's involvement in the selection of Sabatini's tenure-review committee
On 27 September 2021, Kristin Knouse exchanged messages with Izabella Pena following a conversation with @MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia.
The court-disclosed messages reveal Kristin Knouse telling Izabella Pena:
🔴 “Sangeeta just called”
🔴 “they even asked for insight into who to put on the committee”
🔴 “AND she said she will go to Rafael Reif’s office and protest the decision if and when needed.”
Pena responded:
“At least they are asking her insight”
Knouse replied:
“Exactly”
“This is good”
⚠️ The evidence exposes a troubling channel of insider influence surrounding MIT's tenure-review process.
These contemporaneous communications document that Knouse understood Bhatia to have been consulted about the committee's composition and to be prepared to challenge its eventual decision directly with MIT President Rafael Reif.
Rather than an independent review insulated from interested parties, the messages reveal access to the committee-selection process by an academic aligned with the complainant, raising serious concerns about institutional impartiality and conflicts of interest.
This disclosure adds another significant piece to the growing documentary record surrounding the institutional handling of Professor @DMSabatini's case.
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@SciGuardians 🔱
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
An Open Concern About Appearances: The Catholic Church and the Midterms
I am Catholic. I say the rosary. I go to Mass. Nothing in what follows is an accusation against the Church, the Pope, or any bishop. It is a concern about how things look from the outside, and how that appearance is landing with millions of Americans right now.
This administration created a Justice Department task force on anti-Christian bias, pardoned twenty-three pro-life prisoners, stood up a White House Faith Office and a Religious Liberty Commission, designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern over the killing of Christians, and cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood. For a Catholic writer, that record is not nothing. It is, on its face, one of the most tangible pro-life and pro-faith agendas in modern presidential history.
In January 2025, the same administration suspended the refugee and migrant service contracts that had funded the USCCB and Catholic Charities for decades. Over one hundred million dollars a year. More than ninety-five percent of some program budgets. By spring, staff were laid off. By summer, agencies were closing programs. The money did not come back.
Institutions that lose their largest funding stream tend to find their moral vocabulary sharpening in the same direction as their budgets. I am not saying that is what happened. I am saying that is what it looks like, and that appearance is not going unnoticed.
Fourteen months later, in April 2026, the public statements from the Vatican and from American bishops toward this administration grew noticeably louder and more pointed than anything seen during the first term. Catholics see it. Non-Catholics see it.
And when a bishop speaks out days before a national election against one party’s immigration positions—which are prudential disagreements open to debate—while remaining silent on the other’s platform positions that contradict settled Church teaching on life, on the body, on marriage, the imbalance is impossible to miss.
I am not suggesting the Church holds a grudge, or that its silence on one side was bought. I am saying that is the appearance, and appearances are what most Americans, Catholic and not, actually see. When the institution that spent a year without its largest funding stream then directs its public voice at one party near an election—the very party that delivered more concrete protections for Christian life and religious liberty than perhaps any administration in living memory—the appearance is not of a shepherd. It is of a stakeholder.
That is the embarrassment I cannot unsee.
-- Joseph Fosco
October 27, 2026
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Brazil is a tragic case study.
Once you let communism in, it’s tough to vote it out.
They sink their claws into the Supreme Court and do everything possible legal or illegal to stay in power, even after Flávio destroyed Lula (a criminal) in the debate.
Stay alert 🇺🇸!
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
The U.S. Department of War and the U.S. Navy must end the corrupt Navy Reserve program popular with the Beltway, and all officers past and present should be reinvestigated.
All flag officers who managed the program should be brought back to active service and demoted one rank.
The program is the epitome of deep state pay to play corruption. The Navy trades commissions for influence in the federal bureaucracy and up to Congress.
Moreover, Democrats who are bereft of veterans use the program to check a box, not to serve.
If it was service, they would join through the normal process, and wouldn’t cluster around Intelligence and Public Affairs.
If there was a need, the majority of commissions would be for Surface Warfare Officers.
Among the many Naval Reserve Officers include former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, who half his donors were illegal China Smurfs. Most in politics are similarly compromised.
All classified leaks since March 2025 are from Democrats with SIPR/JWICS access. No exceptions.
This Navy Reserve Commission program is cancer and must end. Literally none of the other services have this, and if they did it would be the exact same problem.
@SecWar @PeteHegseth and @SECNAV @HungCao_VA
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Despicable.
Faithful Catholic pilgrims are denied entry to St. Peter’s Basilica because of their devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass.
The next time we’re told that Pope Leo praying the Our Father in Latin signals a change in Rome’s attitude toward traditional Catholics, remember how these pilgrims were treated.
So much talk of pastoral charity and unity, yet some of the Church’s most faithful Catholics continue to be met with closed doors.
They were denied entry. They processed anyway. Faithful Catholics whose only “fault” is that they remain grateful to Pope Benedict for Summorum Pontificum, were denied entry into St. Peter’s Basilica, where they hoped to conclude their procession through the Pilgrim’s Door and recite the Credo over the bones of the first pope. They came anyway, and went as far as they could. God bless them and their loyal hearts.
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
My friends know my wife is a huge anti-Trumper. She believes firmly that he's gonna seize permanent power and never let go. She knows this in her soul and cannot be dissuaded from the certainty by any argument. I know. I've tried.
Setting aside the fact the man is *old* and has no desire for a third term, I keep coming back to the fact that Trump has become the defining personality of American politics in the 21st century. Doesn't matter if I think he's a showboating showman with no real statesmanship. He towers over Obama, W. Bush, every Senator, every Congressman, every Governor, etc.
Everyone and everything just pings and pongs off the hull of the U.S.S. Trump and it's all reactive politics all the time. Even the DSA—who are Communists cloaked in Millennial metrosexualism—just hurl rotten fruit at this guy. Using him to hype up their growing base. If he did not exist they would have to invent him.
The Orange One is the dragon breathing fire across the American political scene, and the number of jousting pugilists who tilt at the Orange windmill is legion.
He defines who they are. Never the opposite. And I suspect in many ways this is what drives their hate.
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
Troubling evidence revealed in Sabatini case at @mit
Kristin Knouse messaged that Sabatini was going to be "Weinstein’ed out of science"; that she was "out for blood"
University administration ran an investigation which had a predetermined outcome
foxnews.com/opinion/mike-dav…
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
As the prospects of getting a tenure-track job shrink, the prestige of academia declines, and working conditions worsen, PhD cohorts in the humanities skew more and more towards ideologues, the socially dysfunctional, and the otherwise unhireable.
Massive survey of grad students finds: "Humanities PhD students were the most likely to express anti-Jewish prejudice and hostility to Israel and to consider Israel/Palestine to be an issue of personal importance, compared to other graduate students."
brandeis.edu/cmjs/antisemiti…
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
« L’Est parisien est aujourd’hui mis en coupe réglée par trois tribus alliées : la racaille, les bobos et les islamistes. Mais un jour, ils finiront par s’entregorger »
👉 Eric Naulleau sur notre fauteuil rouge : youtu.be/MzLt75Spnzs
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
MIT thinks it can put on a show claiming to value merit to keep the DOJ and the White House off its back.
David Sabatini’s case exposes that smokescreen. Their true colors were on display throughout his ordeal. Scientific excellence was disposable when it conflicted with their political priorities. They have hollowed out the science while continuing to trade on the reputation it built. Their real priorities are far removed from the excellence they advertise.
Excellent article from @mrddmia.
foxnews.com/opinion/mike-dav…
Lucius Ranius Felix 🐸👌 retweeted
The Guardian is asking the wrong question.
The real story in Hungary is the rise of liberal authoritarianism, backed by Brussels.
Viktor Orbán lost an election and peacefully handed over power. The new government then banned him from running for prime minister again, barred many opposition politicians from running for office, removed the president and constitutional judges, and launched a political purge against the largest opposition party. It also created a powerful new authority with extraordinary powers to seize assets and investigate political opponents.
All this in the name of democracy and the rule of law!
This is what the Guardian should be investigating.
The patriotic movement is not going away. It is a response to decades of globalist and neoliberal policies that are leading the West towards disaster. European countries have become ungovernable as a result of decades of disastrous political decisions. This is the fundamental problem of the EU.
And as long as the crisis continues, the movement will only grow stronger. This is also how the patriotic movement in Hungary will renew itself and rebuild for the future.
theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…
