Executive Editor, Discovery Institute Press. Author. Tolkien lover. Christ follower. Shameless generalist.
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Jonathan Witt retweeted
A total reversal of the pediatric gender ban in Texas? Elections have consequences.
Democrats flipped the Texas governor's office and the House on November 3. On the first day lawmakers could pre-file bills for 2027, Rep. Donna Howard filed HB 126, a sweeping repeal of the state's abortion restrictions. Buried in it is a repeal of SB 14, the 2023 law that bars puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for minors.
I have reported extensively about the permanent adverse effects and consequences of this unproven “care” for children. Decisions made at 14 that can't be undone later..
Sweden, Finland and the UK are some of the countries that have pulled back.
The first Democratic move in Texas goes the other way.
It won't pass the Republican Senate. But the governor-elect said this wasn't her priority, it’s a messaging move. Her own House caucus just told voters that reinstating pediatric gender hormones and surgery is an early priority for Texas Democrats.
Jonathan Witt retweeted
Nothing like your first act being out of the Venezuelan socialist playbook . . . This will not end well.
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Jonathan Witt retweeted
Interesting. And yet the Republican Senate could not bring itself to fight for the SAVE America Act.
Ohio results:
🔵 Governor race: +8 Democrat
🔴 Voter ID amendment: +31 Yes
North Carolina results:
🔵 Senate race: +20 Democrat
🔴 Voter ID amendment: +20 Yes
Nevada results:
🔵 Governor race: +7 Democrat
🔴 Voter ID amendment: +25 Yes
Even in a blue tsunami, voter ID was able to pass with landslide margins
Jonathan Witt retweeted
6. The border is secure.
7. Fentanyl OD deaths plummeting.
8. Greenland future secured.
9. U.S. manufacturing booming.
10. DEI, ESG, CRT being dismantled.
11. Trans insanity slowing.
Did I mention the border is secure?
Jonathan Witt retweeted
Another example of the high stakes of this election for our constitutional republic. Biden DOJ goes after a whistleblower who exposed gender destructive surgery on minors by a Texas hospital.
I blew the whistle on @TexasChildrens secret sex change program and the @TheJusticeDept came after me for exposing the truth. After experiencing DOJ corruption we've decided to fight back. If you want to join the fight, donate below.
givesendgo.com/texas_whistle…
Jonathan Witt retweeted
And of course David doesn’t practice what he preaches. In 2021 he demonized fellow Christians who were seeking exemptions from COVID vaccine mandates as having “hardened heart[s]” that “reason and virtue have difficulty penetrating.” He accused them of having a “moral framework that’s broken” and being “dangerous,” “extreme,” and examples of “libertinism” that was a threat to liberty itself. Disagreeing with COVID mandates was not immoral. It was a reasonable difference of opinion, and yet David sought to absolutize his view on this disputable issue and anathematize as evil Christians who disagreed with him. By contrast, he now insists that someone like Talarico who is promoting truly evil things must be praised as a paragon of Christian decency.
Jonathan Witt retweeted
This is poison. If anyone needs more material documenting the Darwinian racism of the German elites, I encourage them to check out the website for historian Richard Weikart. Weikart knows a lot more about German ideology than Cooper: darwintohitler.com/
Jonathan Witt retweeted
This new paper is hilarious. It warns about political and cultural biases influencing science, and aims to expose the biased "co-option of research" by...
..."Using the lens of queer monster theory" to reveal the "power dynamics" that have resulted in "binary definitions and proscriptions of cis-heterosexism" the "purported 'biological truth' of immutable binary sex."
Oh yes, the sex binary rooted in observable sperm and ova discovered over a century ago is totally a result of cultural and political bias, but "queer monster theory" and "cis-heterosexism" is rooted in pure reason and derivable from first principles. 🙄
These people have zero self-awareness.
Jonathan Witt retweeted
This is exactly right. Insofar as it seems human, that is because (in the case of LLMs) it's trained on human generated text, fine tuned by humans, and provided with a user interface that produces text based on the same.
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling
“Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word."
"That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person."
"But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
Jonathan Witt retweeted
I suppose I should take the opportunity to suggest an alternative book, which happens to have the same title:
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Jonathan Witt retweeted
I have to admit, I always wondered what this part of Psalm 23 meant. I thought “He anoints my head with oil” was figurative language for God keeping the Psalmist healthy. I never knew this parallel.
Anoint my head with oil
“Sheep can get their head caught in briers and die trying to get untangled. There are horrid little flies that like to torment sheep by laying eggs in their nostrils which turn into worms and drive the sheep to beat their head against a rock, sometimes to death. Their ears and eyes are also susceptible to tormenting insects. So the shepherd anoints their whole head with oil. Then there is peace. That oil forms a barrier of protection against the evil that tries to destroy the sheep. Do you have times of mental torment? Do the worrisome thoughts invade your mind over and over? Do you beat your head against a wall trying to stop them? Have you ever asked God to anoint your head with oil? He has an endless supply! His oil protects and makes it possible for you to fix your heart, mind, and eyes on Him today and always! There is peace in the valley! May our good good Father anoint your head with oil today so that your cup overflows with blessings! God is good and He is faithful!!”
Jonathan Witt retweeted
Hey @alamodrafthouse, why is your Dallas location mocking Tolkien with a drag queen showing of LOTR?
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Jonathan Witt retweeted
Yep
Marc Andreessen reveals why housing, health care, and education keep getting more expensive while everything else gets cheaper
"There's basically three components to the American dream. A house near great job opportunities, great health care for you and your family, and sending your kids to good schools"
"If you disaggregate the economy over the last 25 years, everything that technology touches basically collapses in price. Television sets, computer games, anything with electronics in it. But if you chart housing, education, and health care, the prices of those things are skyrocketing"
"The government restricts supply, zoning laws and university certifications. And then the government responds to the political pressure caused by the rising prices by subsidizing demand. And of course, if you subsidize demand and a fixed supply, you get skyrocketing prices"
Jonathan Witt retweeted
“Shamefully dishonest” is correct. Even if you think Trump’s unscripted remarks were somewhat muddled, no thinking person should have any problem whatsoever understanding his intended point. Trump clearly was arguing that higher gas prices are a small price to pay to prevent nuclear attacks on American cities in the future. Those claiming otherwise are being cynically dishonest, and establishment media who are reporting on this as if there is any real confusion about what Trump meant are again showing their partisanship.
BTW, for Trump haters who are frustrated because Trump supporters often ignore their criticisms of him: This fake controversy is a great example why. If you still don’t comprehend, you might want to read about the boy who cried “Wolf!”
I have been pretty critical of Trump on Iran, but this is a shamefully dishonest mischaracterization of what he said, which is that he does not want that to happen, and that he thinks that higher gas prices are worth it to ensure that it doesn't. teapaw.org/HQNewsNow/status/21072…
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But it couldn’t be social contagion, folks. It’s just that young people, especially autistic, gay and mentally ill ones, are finally free to be their authentic selves.
The sudden explosion of young women who want to cut off their healthy breasts and take testosterone? Well, it’s absolutely not the newest form of self-harm, to which troubled adolescent girls are provably prone, ok? It’s not a consequence of the commonplace fear of becoming an adult woman, with all that that entails. No, there’s nothing to worry about there.
The possibility of regret? Naturally, we don’t let minors get tattoos or own guns or vote, because that would be ridiculous, but if they want irreversible surgeries and drug treatments, they must be given them, and everyone around them must immediately agree they are now the opposite sex. That’s called being kind.
And the mounting numbers of detransitioners? They were never trans, obviously, and should be mercilessly attacked, especially if they now say they were vulnerable and in a friendship group, online or off, dominated by trans identities, where transitioning was presented as a way to resolve all their social and emotional difficulties. (I have the emails).
No, there’s nothing whatsoever to see here. Keep justifying it, keep cheering it on, keep insisting that the doctors and drug companies making serious money out of it all are acting with the purest of motives. Answer every reasonable question with an accusation of hatred and bigotry. Dispel every qualm of conscience with an activist-approved talking point. Reassure yourself that everyone on your dinner party circuit agrees with you.
And when, in years to come, we’re all looking back on graphs like this, be proud that you did your bit to monster whistleblowers, parrot unevidenced claims and create the climate of fear that allowed the worst medical scandal in a century to take place.
This data never ceases to "amaze" me. In 2005, very few people received any transition related genital surgery (120 over the whole of 🇩🇪), in 2025 it was 4,184.
And the shift in the age distribution is staggering: Surgeries on 18-25 year olds were almost non-existent in the noughties, now they dominate every other age group by a large factor.
(This is official data)
Jonathan Witt retweeted
This month marks 500 years since a small, illegal book began slipping into England hidden in bales of cloth and barrels of goods. It was William Tyndale’s English New Testament, and it changed the world.
Published in 1526, it was the first English NT translated directly from the original Greek… but Tyndale was far more than a translator. He was a scholar, theologian, linguist, reformer, and martyr whose work helped reshape the English Bible, the English language, and the Reformation itself.
Here is why we need to remember this remarkable man:
📖 Tyndale believed Scripture belonged in the hands of ordinary Christians, not locked behind Latin, clerical authority and scholarly privilege. When challenged by a wealthy clergyman, he famously declared:
"I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spares my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost."
To do it, he fled England and spent years translating in hiding while authorities hunted him.
🗣️ He shaped the English language.
Every time you say:
• “The salt of the earth.”
• “My brother’s keeper”
• “Eat, drink and be merry”
• “Go the extra mile”
• “Fighting the good fight”
• “Broken-hearted”
…among so many other phrases, you are quoting Tyndale. When English lacked words for Hebrew concepts, he invented them: atonement, Passover, scapegoat, mercy seat. He even included the first glossary in an English Bible to help readers understand his translation choices.
His extraordinary gift for English became the foundation for the King James Version, weaving his words into the very fabric of our language.
👑 The King James translators couldn't improve upon his work.
When 54 scholars were commissioned in 1611 to create the King James Bible, they were tasked with producing a brand new translation... but when they sat down to the work, they found they didn't need to reinvent the wheel.
Tyndale’s cadence, vocabulary, and grasp of the original languages were so masterful that the committee found they simply could not improve upon his phrasing. They adopted his work as the backbone of their own.
Modern computer analysis confirms that roughly 84% of the King James New Testament, and 76% of the Old Testament books Tyndale translated, are essentially Tyndale’s exact words.
When you read the King James Bible, you are hearing the voice of William Tyndale.
🔥 He counted the Word worth dying for. Tyndale was betrayed, arrested, and imprisoned in a cold castle for over a year. On October 6, 1536, he was strangled and burned at the stake.
His final recorded prayer was not for his own life, but for his enemies:
“Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.”
Within just a few years, English Bibles were being placed in churches throughout the realm. Tyndale died, but his work lived, and the Word of God went forth.
By the providence of God, the work of one faithful man helped to put the Scriptures into the hands of millions upon millions of people for centuries.
Jonathan Witt retweeted
To be clear, in this clip Vivek explicitly talks about making Ohio more attractive so (1) an increasing number of *Americans* from other *states* will want to move to Ohio; and (2) an increasing number of Ohioans will stay in the state, bear and raise children there, and their children will want to stay as well. This post misuses the word “immigrant,” which typically refers to someone who arrives from another *country.* Most people would not refer to an American who moves from Illinois to Ohio an immigrant. I get that some people on the right don’t like Vivek. They apparently would rather have a left-wing Democrat as Governor instead. But if you have to resort to this kind of misinformation, you aren't a reputable voice.
Vivek says he will increase the population of Ohio by 33%, flooding the state with immigrants.
Follow: @AFpost
Jonathan Witt retweeted
Glad to be on the Eric Metaxas Show again talking about America, communism, and the importance teaching the next generation about the principles of the American Founding. We also talk about the new core curriculum I am helping to develop for Cornerstone University. @CornerstoneU
