#article from January 13 2025

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Woah, hold on, how did I miss this?

The document explicitly permits gay men to enter the priesthood under the normal chastity requirements!

Article time stamped January 13, 2025.

[eggtrolls]

Can you restore the ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Wikipedia page ‘That’s Entertainment (Hazbin Hotel)’ on Wikipedia? The same person keeps blanking it.

Hi, thank you for your question! I appreciate the request - I’m actually really flattered! - but I’m not going to do that at this moment. This is actually a very interesting microcosm of Wikipedia backdoor activities and we can use it as a learning opportunity.

Background: anon said the same person (not the same person) keeps “blanking” the page and that’s not entirely true. People have turned into it a redirection page or a redirect (let me know if the terminology is too technical). A redirect is one of the series of pipes that keeps Wikipedia moving smoothly; it would be a massive time waste and hassle to have to enter every article title perfectly to search for it. This is also helpful when you have multiple names for the same topic. Okay great now we all know what a redirect is.

Timeline: on 23 July 2023, someone made a redirect for the Hazbin Hotel pilot.

Then on 6 November 2024, as if I didn’t have enough problems, someone turns that redirection page into a standalone article and adds a massive increase in characters to go with it. This page is user Hazbin girl. Remember this one.

And we all sort of putter around improving that until 6 January 2024, when someone redirects the page, which is currently using the title Pilot (Hazbin Hotel) to That’s Entertainment (Hazbin Hotel).

They also do a kind of sloppy job (see the tag about having not left a redirect). People add meme categories to it a few times, they get removed, and the activity goes back and forth until one of the admins gets fed up and reverts it back to a redirect to Hazbin Hotel on 13 January 2025. And I see the logic behind this - there is very little that is stated in the episode article that isn’t already stated in the show’s article. Between production, development, the actual episode summary, and the references, having an article for every single episode would be a massive reduplication of efforts. Wikipedia is also not a fandom site - what’s notable to fans of the show is not notable per our general notability guidelines. Some episodes get that but at this point, I don’t think the pilot of HH cuts the mustard. So the redirect from 13 January stands.

Then on the same day, someone reverts the redirect to restore the standalone article. That person is Debopamsikder. Also remember this name.

It’s fine to have a difference of opinion as to what should be on Wikipedia. We can work that out with community census-building which is a beautiful thing.

Here’s what’s not fine: sockpuppetry.

Shortly after the redirect is undone, both Debopamsikder, whose account had been created on 13 January 2025, and our old friend Hazbin girl get suspected of being sock puppets and get blocked. More specifically, they are suspected of being sockpuppets for a user who was blocked back in 2017 for, get this, creating multiple accounts to argue for articles about their favourite franchises. You can check out the original sockpuppetry investigation here

Conclusion: I’m not sure if this is the same person behind TotalTruthTeller24, although that would be wild, but I think it’s extremely poor form to ask me to wade into something like this and haha yeah man can you just fix it there’s no larger issue happening ahhahaha nooooooo don’t use critical thinking skills ur so sexy, someone keeps blanking the page that’s it I prommy. That’s simply not true, and now I have spent over 40 minutes digging into this because you want more fandom cruft for your favourite show to repeat information that’s already present or would get immediately removed for being non-notable to anyone but a hardcore fan. No thank you. Go write something on the fandom wiki and be done with it.

[jjmcquade-misc]

California's Endless Highway: A 17-Year Odyssey Under Governor Newsom

March 27, 2025

SACRAMENTO - For 17 years, California Governor Gavin Newsom has presided over a highway project that has become a symbol of ambition, delay, and political theater. What began as a promise to revolutionize the state’s transportation infrastructure has morphed into a saga of grandiose announcements, ballooning costs, and minimal progress. As the current date marks March 27, 2025, this article chronicles the timeline of this elusive highway, critically examining the gap between Newsom’s triumphant rhetoric and the stark reality on the ground.

2008: A Vision Takes Root

The story begins in 2008, when California voters approved Proposition 1A, authorizing $9.95 billion in bonds to fund a high-speed rail system, not a traditional highway. Newsom, then mayor of San Francisco, championed the project as a transformative step toward a sustainable future. While this initiative was technically a rail project, it laid the groundwork for Newsom’s later focus on transportation infrastructure, including highways, as he ascended to the governorship. The rail’s promise of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco captured imaginations, but it also set a precedent for ambitious timelines and optimistic funding projections.

2019: Newsom Takes the Helm and Shifts Focus

Upon becoming governor in January 2019, Newsom inherited the high-speed rail project, already mired in cost overruns and delays. In his first State of the State address, he acknowledged the rail’s challenges, scaling back the original vision to a 171-mile segment between Merced and Bakersfield. Yet, alongside this recalibration, Newsom began emphasizing broader infrastructure goals, including highway improvements. That year, he signed an executive order redirecting some gas tax funds, raised under Senate Bill 1 of 2017 -from road repairs to rail and transit, prompting criticism that highway maintenance was being sidelined. Still, he promised accelerated highway construction to complement the rail, framing it as part of a “build more, faster” agenda.

2020-2022: Promises Amid a Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped California, Newsom’s administration leaned into infrastructure as an economic recovery tool. In 2021, he touted a $13 billion investment in transportation, including highway upgrades, funded partly by federal stimulus dollars. Press releases highlighted plans to repair bridges, widen lanes, and enhance safety on major routes like Highway 99. Yet, progress reports were scarce, and critics noted that much of the funding was earmarked for planning rather than construction. By 2022, Newsom announced the “substantial completion” of preparatory work on several highway projects, but ground-level evidence, such as visible construction, remained limited.

2023: Streamlining and Celebration

In May 2023, Newsom unveiled a legislative package to streamline infrastructure projects, including highways, by cutting bureaucratic red tape. Standing at a solar farm site in Stanislaus County, he declared, “We’re building more, faster,” promising thousands of jobs and modernized roads. The Los Angeles Times reported that this initiative aimed to leverage $180 billion in state and federal funds over a decade. Later that year, he signed the package into law, celebrating it as a historic reform. However, specific highway projects, like the widening of Highway 46 in San Luis Obispo County, remained stalled, with funds still held in reserve.

2024-2025: Milestones or Mirage?

Fast forward to 2024, and Newsom’s administration claimed $13 billion had been invested in transportation that year alone, with a focus on “climate-resilient roads and highways.” Press releases cited new bike lanes, bridge repairs, and wildlife crossings along Interstate 15 as evidence of progress. On January 7, 2025, Newsom broke ground on a railhead near Bakersfield, doubling down on his transportation legacy with a nod to highway synergies. Yet, as of March 27, 2025, no single highway project spanning his 17-year political career, from his mayoral days to now, has been fully completed and operational under his direct oversight, raising questions about the substance behind the fanfare.

The Money Trail

Financially, the picture is murky but staggering. Since 2008, the high-speed rail project alone has consumed over $20 billion, with estimates now exceeding $128 billion for the scaled-back Merced-Bakersfield line, according to official updates. Highway-specific spending is harder to isolate, but Senate Bill 1 has generated billions since 2017, supplemented by federal funds like the $6.5 billion from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Caltrans reports suggest hundreds of millions have gone to highway planning and repairs, yet tangible results, completed miles of new or upgraded highway, remain elusive. Critics estimate that at least $2-3 billion has been spent on highway-related efforts under Newsom’s watch, with little to show beyond press conferences and partially funded initiatives.

The Current Reality

Today, California’s highways are a patchwork of aging infrastructure and incremental upgrades. Highway 99, a frequent target of Newsom’s promises, still suffers from congestion and unfinished widening projects in Madera and Tulare counties. The Sacramento Bee noted in 2019 that $17 million for such work was deferred, a pattern that persists. Meanwhile, the high-speed rail, often conflated with broader transportation goals, inches along with 119 miles under construction in the Central Valley, hardly a highway, and far from the statewide network Newsom once envisioned.

Final Considerations: Propaganda vs. Reality

Governor Newsom’s 17-year highway narrative is a masterclass in political optics. His annual triumphant announcements, laden with phrases like “world-leading,” “transformative,” and “faster”, project an image of decisive leadership and progress. This propagandistic angle leverages California’s appetite for bold solutions, casting Newsom as a visionary tackling climate change, economic stagnation, and infrastructure decay. The reality, however, is a sobering contrast: billions spent, years elapsed, and a state still waiting for its promised highways.

The disconnect lies in execution. While Newsom’s administration excels at securing funds and crafting legislation, the follow-through, turning dollars into asphalt, lags. Environmental reviews, legal challenges, and shifting priorities (e.g., rail over roads) have bogged down projects, a fact he acknowledged in 2019 but has since glossed over. The money spent to date, potentially exceeding $3 billion on highways alone, has yielded planning documents and piecemeal repairs rather than a cohesive, completed network. The citizens skepticism, and with users decrying a “$128 billion train to nowhere” and questioning highway progress after 17 years.

In fairness, Newsom faces systemic hurdles, California’s stringent regulations and a fragmented funding landscape, but his reliance on hype over substance invites scrutiny. The governor’s narrative suggests a golden age of infrastructure is imminent; the facts reveal a state stuck in neutral, with taxpayers footing the bill for a dream deferred. As 2025 unfolds, Californians await not just announcements, but results.

[satureja13]

A happy Lunar New Year 2025 from Outer Space!

2025 is the year of the Wood Snake 🐍🌳

Quote from CNN:

“Year 2025 will be very different. The Snake — with a strong fire element, along with some metal and earth elements — is a zodiac sign that can cause significant clashes and conflicts. We need to be mindful of accidents as we approach the Snake Year. The overall atmosphere in the world will become slightly more chaotic.”

(ö.ö')

"To resolve clashes, followers usually go to a Chinese temple and make offerings to representations of Tai Sui.

While it doesn’t harm anyone to visit such a place to inspire positive thoughts, Chow especially encourages people born in the Year of the Ox, Tiger, Snake, Monkey, Rooster and Pig to get some extra blessings this year."

Quote end.

While Vlad, Kiyoshi and Saiwa were born in the year of the Goat (2003) and have not much to fear, Jack, Ji Ho and Jeb were born in the year of the Monkey (2004) and have to be cautious! ö.ö

If you want to know what the new Lunar Year brings to you, you can check -> here

If you don't know your Chinese Zodiac Sign, find out -> here (If you are born in January or February, you might be still the sign from the past year, since the Lunar New Year does not start on January, 1st. My son, for example, was born on January, 16th 2003, but he is still a horse and not a goat since Lunar New Year 2003 started on February, 1st. So it's best to use a calculator like the one linked above and not just google the year.)

If you want to learn more about the Lunar New Year and how it's celebrated, check -> this article on CNN

Here is how the Boys celebrated the year of the Dragon 2024.

Is your sign one of those who have to be extra cautious? My sign is pig 🐷 I hope for all of you that this will be a good and healthy year!

🎉

From the Beginning 🔱 Underwater Love 🔱 Latest

Current Chapter 'Goats in Space': starts ▶️ here Last Chapter: 'Piglets in Space' from the beginning ▶️ here

📚 Previous Chapters: Chapters: 1-6 ~ 7-12 ~ 13-16 ~ 23-29

[ofmdrecaps]

01/05-08/2025 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; OFMD Recaps on Mastodon; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Samba Schutte; Wee John Wednesdays/Kristian Nairn; Rachel House; Dominic Burgess; Kristen Johnston; Hugo Pierre Martin; Aotearoa Treaty Principles Bill Submissions; Articles; AdoptOurCrew: Call To Action; LettersToSeaForSeason3; Fan Spotlight: Jax/North FL OFMD Cosplay/ Fandom Meet Up; Love Notes/Resources;

== OFMD Recaps on Mastodon! ==

Some awesome news! The absolute sweetest person alive, Lowrah (https://gaypirates.club/@lowrah) has been kind (and brave) enough to join my team and create an OFMD Recaps for Mastodon! She has offered to help crosspost the recaps over to Mastodon (blorbo.social) and manage that which I appreciate so much because I am completely inept at that site! She's also the one helping me with all the alt text (that I am behind at updating tumblr with sorry!) so please send her some massive love if you see her around because she is helping me out so much right now! One thing to note -- Since she's on the other side of the world for me, the recaps cross-posted there will be a bit delayed, so please bare with us :) Thank you so much Laura for all your help! You can check it out here!

Source: OFMD Recaps Mastodon

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

= David Jenkins =

David's giving us some interesting updates on the eve of the first cancellation of S2.

Source: David Jenkins bsky

= Rhys Darby =

Rhys was in Auckland recording the first Cryptid Factor show of 2025! For all of you Cryptid Factor fans out there, he's also finally gotten to come in contact with the Sir Ed YETI Expedition backpack!

Source: The Cryptid Factor's IG

= Taika Waititi =

The Golden Globes celebrations were this past weekend and Taika was everywhere!

Source: Loop Mag

Source: Instagram

Source: VasJMorgan's Instagram

= Samba Schutte =

"14 years in LA today✨ Arrived on Ethiopian Christmas with one suitcase and 5 guiding steps I had come up with in my hut while staying in a remote Kenyan village, for my future self who would eventually make it to Hollywood. Hope you’re proud Past Samba🫶"

Source: Samba's Instagram

= Kristian Nairn and Nathan Foad =

Some great news! Wee John Wednesday is back on Wednesday the 15th! This news also has some clown potential, so please clown responsibly everyone!

Source: Adopt Our Crew Bsky

Kristian is also going to be attending MegaConLive in Dublin on January 18-19, 2025! Get your tickets at megaconlive.com!

Source: MegaConlive Instagram

= Rachel House =

Rachel House was out with friends looking badass!

Source: Maria Lewis IG

= Dominic Burgess =

Dominic is back from the UK and posted some great "Beef" pics from Skeleton Crew. He fits the Star Wars Vibe so well!

Source: Dominic's bsky

Dominic and several of our other cast members live in California so a lot of folks are being affected by the fires. I'll try to post what I can about safety/news but for now, looks like Dominic and family are prepared.

Source: Dominic's Bsky

= Kristen Johnston =

Our "The Widow Evelyn" is now on Bluesky too! Special thanks to @jilliansauers for catching her!

Source: Kristen Johnston's bsky

= Hugo Pierre Martin =

Our friend and crewmate Hugo Pierre Martin is on Bluesky now! HPM's Bluesky

Source: HPM's Bluesky

= Aotearoa Treaty Principles Bill Submissions =

Now, I generally try to keep "politics" out of the recaps because this is meant to be a positive space for the fans-- but I do know that A LOT of our cast and crew are affected by this bill personally so I do want to throw this in there. It looks like you don't actually have to be a resident of Aotearoa to submit your feelings on the bill. Here is helpful linktree with things you can say and how to submit that I tracked down via a post Rachel House reposted.

Source: NZGreenParty

== Articles ==

Thank you @adoptourcrew! You are article maniacs! So many in so little time! Thank you for always sharing!

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Bsky

== Call To Action From AOC ==

January 9, 2024 marks the first cancellation of S2 of our beloved Show. Our fan-crew, @adoptourcrew has asked that you help support our show by: 1. Taking Action 2. Sharing your love 3. Showing your pride. In short-- sign a petition, share something about the show, tell the world how it affected you! If you can get the #OurFlagMeansDeath, #SaveOFMD and #AdoptOurCrew in there, that's great too! Show all the new and seasoned fans how much you love the show!

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Bsky

== Letters To Sea For Season 3 ==

The Letters to Sea for Season 3 campaign that was being spearheaded by the darling Molly, aka aproperpirate, is finally coming to fruition! Tomorrow is the day the letters should be arriving! Molly had a special message to share re the letting writing campaign!

Source: AProperPirate's Bluesky

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Jax/North FL OFMD Cosplay/ Fandom Meet Up =

Florida crew! One of the Truly Docked members @ladymekaella is hosting a little get together in Jacksonville on Jan 19! Wanna join in? Follow them on facebook! Deets below!

1/19/2025 11am - 2pm, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233

Source: Truly Docked Instagram

== Love Notes / Resources ==

Hey Lovelies, I know 01/09/25 is going to be a very mixed feeling kind of day for everyone. It's the anniversary of the first time S2 was cancelled. It's going to bring up a lot of sad feelings, and you should absolutely sit with those feelings and embrace them. It was a rough time for all of us. There's no shame in feeling that grief again. I know I didn't show it much, but I cried so many times. Seriously, like SO MANY TIMES. My parents asked me if someone whacked me in the face with a shovel (which, thanks folks, I feel so pretty) but it was true-- I was devastated. It was a slow burn for me too because I wanted so very much to keep up hope. Seeing you all really push for the show helped keep me going-- and helped me learn more about how to cope with that kind of grief (and it was grief for so many of us because the show meant so very much-- and changed some of us at our core). No matter how tomorrow makes you feel though, I do want to remind you what came of it. This beautiful community rallied together and did some absolutely AMAZING things this past year (I wish I hadn't been sick this past two weeks cause I wanted to get you some stats). From billboards, to faxing, and calling in to Max, and Netflix, and Amazon, and Apple TV, to raising a SHIT TON of money for SO MANY charities-- to making beautiful works of art and fiction-- to making our cast and crew (not just the actors) feel loved and impactful-- this cancellation brought SO MANY OF US TOGETHER. People stepped out of their comfort zones-- talked to people they didn't know, reached out to streaming platforms and learned to use their voices in ways they'd never done before. We all built our own little communities within the fandom, bit by bit-- and those little communities have spread so much love, and kindness, and made life worth living for so many of us. It's been almost a year for my recaps too-- those officially started on Jan 13th, once again, because of the cancellation, and because of the camaraderie of the crew and all the support we all gave each other. Jan 9 is probably a tough day for most of us, but it's also the catalyst for so many wonderful things, and I'm so very grateful for it in a way. I've gotten to know so many of you, gotten to experience your joy, and participate in your struggles, and vice versa. I've met so many people from all over the world I'd never have once dreamt I could meet-- and I know SO MANY of you have too. This fandom is one of a kind-- and this special show and it's cancellation brought us together. I am still in full clown mode at all times, and I believe S3 is an inevitability, it's just a matter of when-- but no matter when it happens, I'm grateful we got this past year together, and all that came with it. So thank you lovelies. Thank you for being a huge part of my life, and turning it in a much better direction I could ever have thought possible given where I was. Lean on each other tomorrow, okay? We got through this past year together, and we'll get through whatever happens going forward, as a crew. Take care of yourself lovelies, drink some water, and get some sleep. Love you <3

= Resources =

Outside of the fandom in my day job, I work for a company that works with 211's and non profits, and so resources are really important to me. I have a lot I'm aware of, but if anyone has more they'd like to share around, please let me know! I'm happy to spread the word to help people get support they need right now!

For those of you in California or who know some folks who are-- please be sure to download the Watch Duty App, it keeps track and notifies you of nearby fires in real time.

In addition here's some additional info on go bags if you are in the evacuation areas:

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Source: Brown Issues Instagram

Also looks like Airbnb will be pairing up with LA 211 to offer shelter for those evacuated from the Palisades fire. You can visit www.211la.org for more information.

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A post shared by Drew Droege (@drew_droege)

Source: Drew Doege's Instagram

As I hear more resources I'll try to share more in the recaps/on socials. I hope you all are staying safe out there!

[ultrainfinitepit]

Seasons greetings followers, it's time for the December update.

New Items

First and foremost, I'm happy to share that the Pride Angels leftovers are now available. There's lots of new pins, stickers, and keychains from the campaign listed on Shopify and Etsy.

That's not all: in advance of my Themed Monster Enamel Pins campaign next year, I made one design from each of the sets to test the colors: Cyberpunk Medusa, Priest Angel, Rococo Angel, Victorian Angel, and Werewolf Plague Doctor. If these sell out you can pledge for more in the campaign, along with their companions - though please note the colors may change a little batch-to-batch.

For those of you who prefer to purchase from my stockists, these items will be sent to them as well but you will have to wait longer for them to be listed and available. Guest artist designs have been sent to their respective artists, you can find them in their stores soon, or message them to purchase.

If you're looking for a fun way to display your new pins, check out one of the many pin hoops that are now listed. If you want some pins at a discount, I've updated the as-is display pins listing.

Holiday Sale and Closure

To celebrate the holidays, I am running a very short sale on all older items: 15% off on Shopify (discount applied at checkout) and 10% off on Etsy. I will be closing my shop for the year December 8 at 10AM PST, be sure to get your orders in before then. Slow-selling or low stock items may be removed over the holidays, so if you've had an eye on anything now is the time to grab it.

I have no set date for when my shop will reopen but I anticipate it will be sometime January-March 2025.

Pinconvention

While my shop is closed, you can find many of my items with my stockists. For a limited time December 4-9, a few of my pins will be available from Pinconvention as well. Pinconvention is based in Hamburg, Germany and is the only way for buyers in Germany and France to get my pins.

Shipping Restrictions for EU/Northern Ireland

Speaking of countries in Europe: if you haven't heard already, the EU and Northern Ireland will be enforcing a GPSR regulation starting December 13. You can read more about it in this Etsy article. There's been a lot of discussion in the seller community about what these restrictions mean for US to EU shipping. At the moment I'm going to tentatively continue to allow shipping to the EU and Northern Ireland, but I can't guarantee it will be allowed forever. So if you have your eye on anything in my shop or others, it might be wise to purchase soon. In the event I have to discontinue shipping to these destinations, you may be able to purchase from my stockists, or use a mail forwarding service.

Plans for 2025

That's all for 2024, let's look ahead to next year:

I have some pin designs in my drafts I hope to finish up. This includes: the Angelic Hierarchy set, pins for each BG3 companion's good and bad endings, Dungeons and Dragons pins, some original character designs, and fanart pins including for Dune and Ghibli.

I will be running the Themed Monsters Enamel Pins campaign in March 2025; and collaborating with HoloRaindrops to offer a pair of cross-collab pins to backers who pledge to both of our campaigns. If I can finish up those pins I just mentioned in time for this campaign, they will be available as addons/preorders.

I am planning to make variants of the most popular Pride Angels pins for June (Pride Month) next year.

Other than that, I don't have many pin plans for 2025. I am open to making new variants of previous designs if there's sufficient interest. If you have an idea you can submit it here (and consult my pin catalog here), feel free to share with your friends. I won't be giving up pin making, but I definitely want to slow down on it - I wrote a little about why on Tumblr if you're curious.

And I may slow down my shop updates to every other month as well. As much as I love making new items every month, it's been hard to keep up the pace. I hope you'll stick around to see what I make even with less frequent releases.

That's all for this update, have a wonderful winter holiday!

[polarisgirisan]

Why does Gen talks in pig Latin Theory

I did info dump on a reblog of a post of @ kaibutsushidousha

and I wanted to show it on the main tag…sooo I'm posting it as a post, here you go!

HI!! I have a theory, but I cannot confirm it as canon.

I have investigated so many things about gen I even bought a book exclusive to Japan only, because it mentions a bit of his past

With the information and another theory's I discover many interesting things

Here is a bit that I translated with an extension of Google (Very likely to have mistranslations, sorry!):

"Gen Asagiri's Biography "When my parents had a fight, I understood what my nephew was saying and made compromises. It stopped the quarrel." "He begins studying magic in order to manipulate people's hearts the way he wants." "His social media account, which shared "psychology for exploring adults," went viral, and he made his debut in the entertainment industry as a mentalist."

Source: Riichiro Inagaki, & Boichi. (Aug 4, 2022). Dr.STONE 公式ファンブック 科学王国事典 (Jump Comics Digital & Shueisha, Eds.). Jump Comics Digital - Shueisha. https://bookwalker.jp/de3d7b532c-2fe5-4a31-af57-7695f7d01857/ (Page:62-63)

And with the question about the pig Latin

I like to look at it as something he learned for living in abuse as a child, I say he lived in abuse because of the previous citations I did.

I can reinforce this theory with another theory that could be canon, which is that Gen has Canities subita

(Before I have to mention I'm not a doctor or professional on anything of psychology, I'm only a person who loves to investigate)

This is an alleged condition

"is an alleged condition of hair turning white overnight due to stress or trauma."

 Trüeb, Ralph M. (2013). Female Alopecia: Guide to Successful Management. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 132. ISBN9783642355035.

"The syndrome has been hypothesized to be a variant of alopecia areata diffusa or autoimmune non-scarring hair loss that selectively affects all pigmented hairs, leaving only the white hair behind. Canities subita is caused by high levels of emotional stress, which, in turn, causes less pigmentation of the hair.[3] These form the basis of most uses of the idea in fictional works. It has been found that some hairs can become colored again when stress is reduced.[5][6]One study[7] with experiments on mice found that stress caused white hair even if the immune system was suppressed (ruling out auto-immune response) and if the glands producing cortisol were removed. The study concluded that over-activation of the sympathetic nervous system was causing stem cells to stop producing pigment cells in hair follicles.[8]"

Canities subita. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved January 25, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canities_subita#cite_note-1 (Is the part of "Causes"

So with that (and other thing I didn't mention because this is a Tumblr post) I believe Gen lived in abuse for a big part of his life, also this is reinforced with the fact that Gen used to dye his hair fully black, which could be interpreted as him wanting to forget his past.

And now with that, He learned Pig Latin as a way to survive in his childhood, I based this on the next citations.

"An 1866 article describes a "hog latin" that has some similarities to current Pig Latin. The article says, "He adds as many new letters as the boys in their 'hog latin', which is made use of to mystify eavesdroppers. A boy asking a friend to go with him says, 'Wig-ge you-ge go-ge wig-ge me-ge?' The other, replying in the negative says, 'Noge, Ige woge.' ""

Pig Latin. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved January 25, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin

Wakeman, George (1886). Sound and Sense (in "The Galaxy: A Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Volume 1"). p. 638. Retrieved 13 December 2015.

"it can also be used to hide conversation. For example, a conversation between two people in the presence of an unwanted "

Pig Latin. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved January 25, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin

With that information that I found, I created the theory he used Pig Latin to communicate in secret with people (probably with the “nephew” That is mentioned in his biography…not sure if it could be a mistranslation, sadly I don't know Japanese yet so if anyone knows what it actually said, I would be so thankful!)

In short;

I believe that Gen lived in abuse as a child and learned Pig Latin so he wouldn't get in more problems, and he kept using it mostly when in stress!

But I'm just an internet user who loves this character so much that went very far to use a Japanese VPN to only buy a book he couldn't even understand only because it has a bit of his favorite character backstory and then went on rabbit hole!

So this is like really summaries because I'm planning on adding it on the website I'm making, because I love making essay about things like this on my free time! So yeah, thanks for reading it! If you want to talk to me, feel free! I love talking about the deep of history's mostly cartoons/animes

(Last note: I wrote this really fast so the citations maybe wrong in their format, and it may have some writing mistakes my mother language is not English!)

Sad_little_Potato

The page's of the Dr.STONE Official Fan Book Science Kingdom Encyclopedia (MANGA SPOILERS ON JAPANESE)

62-63

page 62

page 63

Edit: There is no nephew, it was a mistranslation of my translator! So yeah take that into account! Sorry about it, and thanks to @kaibutsushidousha for telling me!! :3 (sorry for tagging you so much ;w; )

[bangtanpurplearchive]

April 2025 방탄소년단

Not long now until the return of our lovely 7 men. Please lets all keep supporting them all.

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All BTS_twt social media post have been archived on the website and all pictures from all social media sites for all members can be found in the picture drive.

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A very very busy month!!!!!

Let's start with JHope's tour. This month he finished the North American leg and has now moved to the Asian leg

Pictures archive for HOTS tour

✅ 250401 Hope on The Stage – Oakland – Oakland Arena D2

✅250404 Hope on The Stage – Los Angeles -BMO Stadium D1

✅250406 Hope on The Stage – Los Angeles -BMO Stadium D2

Asia

✅ 250412 Hope on The Stage – Manila -SM Mall of Asia Arena D1

✅ 250413 Hope on The Stage – Manila -SM Mall of Asia Arena D2

✅ 250419 Hope on The Stage – Saitama – SAITAMA SUPER ARENA D1

✅ 250420 Hope on The Stage – Saitama – SAITAMA SUPER ARENA D2

✅ 250426 Hope on The Stage – Singapore – Singapore Indoor Stadium D1

✅ 250427 Hope on The Stage – Singapore – Singapore Indoor Stadium D2.

You can find links to the tour archive here

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Jin has announced his second solo album 'Echo' to be released 16th May. (picture drive)

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Jin has been incredibly busy with everything!!!

This month Jin has continued with RUN Jin (picture drive)

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Jin has also starred in Netflix's Kian's Bizarre B&B Watch on Netflix but details can be found on the interviews archive page and pictures and clips are in the picture drive folder (here) all other interviews and articles can be found here as well.

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Jin has announced his tour RUN Seokjin Ep tour

Asia

06/28 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Goyang Auxiliary Stadium D1

06/29 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Goyang Auxiliary Stadium D2

07/05 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Chiba  Makuhari Messe Hall – intl Exhibition hall D1

07/06 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Chiba  Makuhari Messe Hall – intl Exhibition hall D2

07/12 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Osaka – Kyocera Dome D1

07/13 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Osaka – Kyocera Dome D2

North America

07/17 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Anaheim Honda Center D1

07/18 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Anaheim Honda Center D2

07/22 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Dallas American Airlines Center D1

07/23 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Dallas American Airlines Center D2

07/26 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Tampa Amalie Arena – D1

07/27 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Tampa Amalie Arena – D2

07/30 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Newark Prudential Center – D1

07/31 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Newark Prudential Center – D2

Europe

08/05 – Run Seokjin EP Tour London The O2 – D1

08/06 – Run Seokjin EP Tour London The O2 – D2

08/09 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Amsterdam Ziggo Dome – D1

08/10 – Run Seokjin EP Tour Amsterdam Ziggo Dome – D2

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Jin also performed with Coldplay in their concerts in Seoul (250419) and on (250425)

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'Stop the Rain' By Tablo ft RM has also been announced to be released 2nd May

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JHope has done several lives after his concerts- links can be found on the lives page.

BTS7 Moments and RUN BTS Poly have been released (drive)

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Vanity Fair's Wild About Harry Mea culpa for launching MeGain Markle & publishing her propaganda

"Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years After Their Royal Exit | Vanity Fair"

FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE

Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years After Their Royal Exit

Ensconced in their cozy Montecito mansion, the Sussexes are living the American dream. By all accounts, the love is real. But their foray into moguldom has not always been a smooth ride.

BY ANNA PEELE

JANUARY 17, 2025

The house proved it: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex could have it all. Their Montecito home offered all the fresh promises of a 21st-century California mansion and the cloistering of a gated neighborhood from which they could emerge on their own terms. In the house’s 13 fireplaces, described as “mostly centuries old examples brought over from France,” there was even some European history, stripped of any potentially uncomfortable context.

At $14.65 million for more than 18,000 square feet, half the current median price per square foot in Montecito, Rockbridge was a steal. The oligarch owner’s romantic relationship had deteriorated to the point where he was compelled to offload far below market value, according to a source with knowledge, and the property seemed just right for the duke and duchess, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. It was the perfect launchpad for Archewell, their nonprofit and entertainment studio—an approximation of a part noblesse oblige, part aspiring independently wealthy mogul model, one that Elizabeth, Charles, and William rejected by fiat during the January 2020 “Sandringham Summit.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center in Wellington, Florida, on Friday April 12, 2024.PA IMAGES/ALAMY.

This January marks five years since that failed parley. Leaving the royal family has brought tests for the couple—legal, financial, reputational, personal, and practical. Going from divinely chosen (or at least chosen by someone else who was divinely chosen) members of a 1,200-year-old institution to start-up founders in exile is a tough adjustment. But there has also been opportunity. Over many months, Vanity Fair spoke with dozens of people who have worked with and lived alongside the couple to understand the impact they’ve had on their new coastal California community, the challenges of enacting the ambitions of two first-time CEOs, and how their experience with the monarchy foreshadowed some of their current difficulties. (Harry and Meghan declined to be interviewed for this article.)

Harry still works closely with the charities he founded: the Invictus Games Foundation and Sentebale, an organization focusing on “mental fitness” and the impact of poverty and HIV/AIDS in southern African countries. “He has real gravitas when he speaks about his work in Africa,” says someone inside the couple’s circle. And he is free from “Willy,” as well as the future king’s supposed dominion over that continent, as Harry confessed in his 2023 memoir, Spare. “Africa was his thing,” Harry said. Archewell also encompasses Meghan’s efforts to empower and educate young women, like the 40x40 initiative, where for her 40th birthday she asked 40 well-known friends, such as Melissa McCarthy and then first lady of Canada Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, to each spend 40 minutes on Zoom mentoring a woman returning to the workplace in the wake of the pandemic. On March 14 of last year, the fourth anniversary of their flight to California, Meghan rejoined Instagram to announce American Riviera Orchard, a home goods and sundries line. The Sussexes have announced Meghan’s second podcast, though not the title or premise of it. Archewell Productions also recently produced two high-profile Netflix series—a docuseries called Polo, which premiered December 10 and features the world of Harry’s buddy Nacho Figueras, and the reality show With Love, Meghan. The latter is a hospitality endeavor that, according to the Netflix promotional language, “reimagines the genre of lifestyle programming, blending practical how-to’s and candid conversation with friends, new and old.” Three days before her show’s scheduled premiere date of January 15, Meghan announced that the series would be pushed to March 4 “as we focus on the needs of those impacted by the wildfires in my home state of California.” The couple has been volunteering amid the crisis in Los Angeles and donating to people displaced by the fires, as well as taking in friends who had to evacuate their own homes.

“They have this naivete and their hopefulness about what’s possible in terms of storytelling and good works and all those things,” says producer Jane Marie, who collaborated with the couple while they developed audio projects at Archewell and later produced a podcast with Michelle Obama. “I wish I had that kind of optimism.”

Optimism abounded as the couple embarked on their Spotify deal in 2020, both for them and for those who were coming in to help do the work. “I thought that I had the role of a lifetime,” says a person who worked in media projects, who was a “fan” going in and eager to make the type of life-changing content Harry and Meghan seemed to want to create. “I thought I was gonna be besties with Meghan and Harry and we were gonna, like, run around the world saving people.”

Interest in the couple was unslakable. But it remained to be seen whether they were actually interesting, beyond Harry’s uniquely difficult upbringing and Meghan’s years of defending herself from shoddy treatment and racism, whether in the British press or from members of her husband’s family. As one former Spotify employee put it, “The thing you’re escaping is the reason you’re compelling.”

Those stories would be meted out in different media: breathless reports of a $20 million Penguin Random House contract (Spare) and $100 million partnership with Netflix (Harry & Meghan). (According to a representative for Netflix, “We don’t disclose our financial deals with talent, but I can confirm to you on the record that the $100M figure is not correct.”) On the August 2022 cover of The Cut Meghan did to promote her first—and only—Spotify podcast, Archetypes, she said, “I’m, like, so excited to talk,” and “It’s like I’m finding—not finding my voice. I’ve had my voice for a long time, but being able to use it.” When repeatedly asked by the interviewer what she wanted to say with her newly free voice, Meghan demurred. “I have a lot to say until I don’t. Do you like that? Sometimes, as they say, the silent part is still part of the song,” she said, noting, “I’ve never had to sign anything that restricts me from talking. I can talk about my whole experience and make a choice not to.” (One of the people who spoke with VF for this story says they signed a nondisclosure agreement to be employed by Harry and Meghan.) A person who worked closely with the couple and “loves them” says, “I have no idea what [Harry’s] interests are beyond polo. No clue what his inner life is like.”

The development process was challenging. The former Spotify employee says, “They had this idea to do a podcast because they knew celebrities did them,” a category differentiated between celebrities who get a lot of money to begin podcasting, like Harry and Meghan, and celebrities who get large deals after proving themselves to be capable podcasters, like Smartless’s Will Arnett, Sean Hayes, and Jason Bateman. The former Spotify employee says Harry and Meghan “didn’t do what celebrities do on podcasts, which is turn on the mic and talk. They wanted a big theme that would explain the world, but they had no ideas.” Someone who worked closely with them on audio projects disputes this version, lamenting that because of Meghan and Harry’s insistence on silence from employees and their own reticence, the public doesn’t know about good projects that had to be abandoned for practical reasons. “It feels like the only story is ‘They didn’t satisfy their contract,’” she says. “It’s not like work wasn’t being done.”

As time passed—it would be nearly two years between the couple’s deal being signed and the premiere of Archetypes—Spotify began applying pressure to produce something (anything!) that people might listen to.

People involved with production say the couple did trial runs on some big ideas, like a This American Life–style show where Harry and Meghan took turns hosting and talking to interesting civilian guests. As Bloomberg reported, Harry wanted to host a series where he interviewed powerful men with complicated stories, like Mark Zuckerberg, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump. The concept wasn’t just that the men shared challenging early lives; it was that their experiences made them into sociopaths, or so Harry envisioned, one person familiar with the ideation process says. (The person who worked in media confirms there was a “sociopath podcast.”) The person who worked closely with the couple on audio projects recalls Harry saying, “I have very bad childhood trauma. Obviously. My mother was essentially murdered. What is it about me that didn’t make me one of these bad guys?” To implore a season’s worth of world-famous sociopaths to talk about how they developed sociopathy would be what is referred to in access journalism as “a booking challenge.”

As time passed—it would be nearly two years between the couple’s deal signing and the premiere of Archetypes—Spotify began applying pressure to produce something (anything!) that people might listen to. The former Spotify employee says Harry came to the Los Angeles office once and asked for a cup of cocoa. There was none in the office, so employees scrambled to obtain some. An idea was pitched to Harry—what if he reviewed a hot chocolate every week while chatting with a different friend?—which he and his team considered and rejected. Another concept was that Harry would “fix” something every week, ranging from a flat tire to global warming. “He wanted to do a podcast about disabled people who compete in the Invictus Games,” the former Spotify employee says. “But there’s no crossover between the audience who would listen to that and people who want to hear about Harry’s life.” (Harry and Meghan did produce a 2023 Netflix docuseries called Heart of Invictus, which significantly underperformed Harry & Meghan.)

The former Spotify employee says it was challenging to engage Harry, and a person who interviewed for a job with the couple says, “I just felt like he kind of didn’t want to be there doing that at this time.... My expectation was ‘charming receiving line.’ And it was clear he wasn’t that person. At least that day.” And at least in the context of a hiring manager: A person who worked on an event during Harry’s book tour says he has the “greatest manners I’ve ever seen. Hands down. Like I can’t believe his knees are as supple as they are. He was getting up and down anytime somebody walked into a room.... He was unfailingly kind and friendly to everyone.”

During the interview, the potential employee says, Harry’s attitude was either “Well, why should I do this?” or “Why are we doing this?” The interviewee says they wondered, “Didn’t Spotify pay you a lot of money to do this?” The person inside the couple’s circle says, “He looks like the kind of guy who would, frankly, happily work for charities for the rest of his life and would be very happy if Meghan made all the money and he didn’t need to.”

On his self-titled podcast, Bill Simmons described his own experience working with the Sussexes at Spotify. “The Fucking Grifters. That’s the podcast we should have launched with them,” Simmons said. “I have got to get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories.… Fuck them. The grifters.”

Harry and Meghan became increasingly nervous about how their content would impact them. Marie says, “I can say that they had really great ideas for shows, interesting pitches, interesting guests. But them as the deliverers or either of them as the hosts of these more kind of edgy ideas would have been like…they would have had to move again. I think it’s a combination of self-censorship for good reason and the corporate powers that be that run podcasting that don’t know what that is [to create valuable shows]. In combination, those things make it really hard to make good stuff.” The person who worked in media projects imitates the thought process behind any decision about the couple’s projects: “Well, he has a million things that he has to protect, and he has the book, and they have the documentary, and they don’t want to make the queen upset, and their public image.…”

That source says the idea for Archetypes came from another employee—not Meghan—though the employee didn’t own any of the intellectual property. Archetypes began production in January 2021. Though the former Spotify employee says the initial expectation was that Archewell would handle production for the series, the process took so long that Spotify’s studio Gimlet was called in. A source familiar with the production of Archetypes says this required additional cost to and resources from Spotify, though a current Spotify employee refutes that the extra support was a burden. (Virtually the entire Gimlet team would be laid off in the year following Archetypes’s release, but employees blame mismanagement at Spotify rather than any individual project.)

The former Spotify source says, “Archetypes was complicated as a podcast concept. You had to explain what the archetype was, then why the woman embodied it, but also how it wasn’t true about her. Every episode was like, ‘This is my friend who has been called that archetype but is not that archetype.’” These archetypes—actually stereotypes—included diva (Mariah Carey) and bimbo (Paris Hilton and Iliza Shlesinger). As for those “friends,” there was an expectation that Meghan would be able to use her personal Rolodex to book the show, the way hosts like Simmons and the Pod Save America guys do. The person who worked in media projects says the assumption was, “Meghan’s gonna be on the phone with the pope tomorrow.” The former Spotify employee says in addition to Taylor Swift, they heard rumors that Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion were asked to come on the show and declined. (Other people who worked on the podcast also say they heard those names mentioned, though a source close to the situation says Megan Thee Stallion’s team knew nothing about any request.)

According to the source in media projects, Meghan would agree to provocative ideas and then walk them back. In one episode, she wanted to actually say the word bitch because, as the source remembers Meghan saying, “You hear it all the time.” It ended up with Meghan calling it “the B-word.” An episode titled “Slut,” intended to center on how trans women’s sexuality is used against them, was retitled “Human, Being” by Meghan and had to be completely reimagined late in production. “Every episode got more and more watered down and further away from actual conversation,” the source says. “It felt like very Women’s and Gender Studies 101 taught in 2003.” (Though the Spotify contract has widely been reported as worth $20 million, two sources told VF such deals are generally not paid out in lump sums; in other words, the couple would not likely have received the full amount without meeting benchmarks beyond making one 12-episode season of a podcast. Spotify does not comment on deal terms.)

The issues extended into the actual workplace. Terry Wood, an executive vice president at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, was brought in to be what Meghan would later call her “right hand” when Archetypes won a People’s Choice Award in 2022. The source familiar with the production of Archetypes describes Wood’s anger, saying that she yelled at Spotify staffers when Meghan changed her mind about episodes. (Wood did not respond to VF’s request for comment.)

The source who worked in media projects says Meghan’s own relationships with employees tended to follow a familiar pattern. She would be warm and effusive at the beginning, engendering an atmosphere of professional camaraderie. When something went poorly, often due to Meghan and Harry’s own demands—such as a teaser for Archetypes being released five months before the show premiered and before there was any tape to promote—Meghan would become cold and withholding toward the person she perceived to be responsible. The source says it was “really, really, really awful. Very painful. Because she’s constantly playing checkers—I’m not even going to say chess—but she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board. And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment.” In practice, they say, that manifested as “undermining. It’s talking behind your back. It’s gnawing at your sense of self. Really, like, Mean Girls teenager.” Marie had a different experience with Meghan: “She’s just a lovely, genuine person,” she said.

The person who worked in media projects read stories in the tabloids about Meghan “bullying” palace aides and couldn’t imagine such behavior actually happened. After working with her, though, this person realized, “Oh, any given Tuesday this happened.” While it beggars belief that Meghan actually shouted at a palace aide, as has been reported, a person who interacted with her professionally says, “You can be yelled at even if somebody doesn’t raise their voice. [It’s] funny that people don’t differentiate between the energy of being yelled at and literally somebody screaming at you.”

Two sources say a colleague with ties to Archetypes took a leave of absence after working on three episodes, then left Gimlet altogether. Several others described taking extended breaks from work to escape scrutiny, exiting their job, or undergoing long-term therapy after working with Meghan. The person who interacted professionally with her says, “I think if Meghan acknowledged her own shortcomings or personal contributions to situations rather than staying trapped in a victim narrative, her perception might be better.” They added, with the soggy laugh of a plebe rendering judgment on the Duchess of Sussex, “But who am I to criticize Meghan Markle? She’s doing great.”

It’s hard to imagine how someone who seems so earnestly intent on being kind and engaging in world-improving (if also brand-building) activities could wind up engaging in revanchism with people so below her in status. A partial answer might be found in an episode of Archetypes in which Meghan interviews Mindy Kaling, who assumed Meghan was popular as a child. While attending Immaculate Heart Catholic school in Los Angeles, Meghan tells Kaling, “I never had anyone to sit with at lunch. I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy and didn’t know where I fit in. And, and so I just became, I was like, okay, well, then I’ll become the president of the multicultural club and the president of sophomore class and the president of this and French club. And by doing that, I had meetings at lunchtime. So I didn’t have to worry about who I would sit with or what I would do because I was always so busy.” (It brings to mind Swift’s “Mastermind” lyrics: “No one wanted to play with me as a little kid / So I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since / To make them love me and make it seem effortless.”)

In other words, Meghan was a good person trying to do good things in spite of—and at times because of—unkind people. The person familiar with the production of Archetypes says at least one employee who had a terrible experience got a handwritten thank-you note and gift from Meghan. Is it any surprise that a sense of victimhood and righteousness could continue to exist in a person who had been treated so horribly by the press and her husband’s family? (Not to mention those little B-words at Immaculate Heart.) That people whom Meghan may have perceived as enemies or interlopers—members of the loathsome media, or insiders at the palace, or people who actually knew how to make a podcast, or her pitiable father and half sister selling her secrets and history to tabloids for cash—might have seemed more powerful than her in some way, despite her immense fame and wealth and privilege? And then whatever happened to them, well…they shouldn’t have gotten between Meghan and her good work. As Harry knows, trauma can warp your perspective.

Spare, Harry’s best-selling and beautifully written (by J.R. Moehringer) memoir, chronicles the prince’s lonely former life with MRI-level self-examination—if not always top-tier self-awareness. Harry recounts an anti-poaching trip to Namibia in which he insisted on sleeping outdoors despite his team telling him, “We just saw proof that there are lions out here, boss.” Harry claims everyone with him—including a bodyguard, local police, a ranger, and Namibian soldiers who were all there to protect him—went to bed in their tents or trucks rather than staying up to ensure he wasn’t eaten by lions in the night. The book also discusses in great detail Harry’s issues with his family, opening on his reunion with now King Charles and Prince William, who in addition to “beloved brother” Harry describes as his “arch nemesis,” possessing a “familiar scowl” and “alarming baldness.” It doesn’t get more flattering for Willy in the ensuing pages.

At an event in 2023, someone privately asked Harry if he’d heard from his family. He said he hadn’t. This person asked Harry if he thought he was going to, and he said he hoped so. “That’s sort of what made me so sad,” the source says. “His hope seemed very genuine. And I was just kind of like, ‘Oh, no.’ ” The source believed Harry hadn’t absorbed the gravity of what it would mean to sell millions of copies of a tell-all book about a famously insular and circumspect family in the middle of a years-long public relations crisis. “The power of the written word, and the power of the narrative…” this person went on. “I don’t know if that’s something he understood while he was doing it.”

In addition to painting Dorian Gray–style personal portraits of family members, in Spare, Harry accuses the offices of his brother, father, and Camilla of briefing the press against Harry to distract from or trade away negative stories about themselves. Harry sued the publisher of the Daily Mail for libel for publishing an article in 2022 that said Harry tried to conceal his efforts to obtain taxpayer-funded security, but the prince ultimately dropped the case, and a judge ordered Harry to pay the Mail’s publisher nearly 50,000 pounds in legal fees.

Harry is currently involved in two other lawsuits that further alienate him from his home country and its tabloid media. He is moving forward with an invasion of privacy case against Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, which follows a settlement from Mirror Group Newspapers for a phone-hacking charge. But more isolating is the suit regarding state police protection for him and his family when they are in Britain, which Harry, Meghan, and their older child, Archie, were stripped of when they left the UK in 2020. There are clear dangers to the family’s safety—a person who worked closely with them says strangers take Lyfts to their house, and in 2023 the couple was involved in what a spokesperson called a “near catastrophic car chase” with paparazzi. (There were no injuries, collisions, or charges filed.) The person who interacted with Harry in 2023 also described a “very scary paparazzi situation” after employees at the hotel where Harry was staying allegedly tipped off photographers to his presence. Nevertheless, the High Court in London twice struck down the UK lawsuit. Harry is appealing.

According to someone familiar with Harry and Meghan, the legal case was at least part of the reason Harry didn’t attend the June wedding of his longtime friend Hugh Grosvenor, ​​Duke of Westminster. The source says if he’d come back for the event, it could have imperiled his claim that he needs government-funded protection. “‘Well, you were here in May and you were absolutely fine attending a wedding,’” the source says, imagining the response in court. “So I’m sure a lot of the decisions about time in the UK are also being made based on how it looks for the case.”

Of course, there’s also Willy. The source says that after invitations went out, Harry and Grosvenor had a conversation. (Vanity Fair has also reported that Harry may not have formally been invited.) The source says they discussed Harry’s discomfort at the thought of being re-mired in the familial claustrophobia of Windsor turf. “It suddenly becomes all about the brothers, and did they look at each other, and how close were they stood?” the source says. Which is exactly what happened at Charles’s 2023 coronation and their uncle Lord Robert Fellowes’s funeral in August.

You can imagine the Zapruder-footage-level scrutiny by the press. The source says they miss Harry, or at least the person they pretended he was in their papers. “I think with a lot of the reporters they like the version of Harry that they helped create,” they say, describing how they would reminisce about when Harry would come over and pal around with them. “Yes, but he also, when you left, would make fun of you all behind your backs and hated you guys.”

“They are so hot for each other,” according to a person who worked closely with the couple. “Like, you know how you meet those couples where you’re like, the way they’re looking at each other, I should probably not be here right now?”

But who is the real Harry, now that he’s been released from the zoo in which he was raised? By one telling, the person who interacted professionally with Meghan says he’s socially marooned beyond his nuclear family. “She was up-front about the fact that Harry hadn’t made many friends yet,” the source says of Meghan’s assessment of her husband. The person who worked in media projects with the couple also has a guess. “I think Harry doesn’t know what he wants because he grew up in a fishbowl, and so he doesn’t know what real life really is,” they say. “I think he probably wants to be left alone and be able to go kiss babies every once in a while but not have to worry about money. I don’t think he wants to be famous the way Meghan wants to be famous.”

Harry and Meghan are, in the estimation of everyone Vanity Fair spoke with, deeply in love. “They are so hot for each other,” the person who worked closely with them said. “Like, you know how you meet those couples where you’re like, the way they’re looking at each other, I should probably not be here right now?” When Harry is solo, the person inside the couple’s circle says, “he’s very personable, he’s very at ease with people, quite like Diana... he just has this way of, like, making people feel very comfortable.” When he’s in public with Meghan, “there is a circus,” the source says. “He’s so protective of her because people are so nasty to her.... It’s a whole different experience.”

Harry has explicitly drawn parallels between his wife and his late mother. “My deepest fear is history repeating itself,” Harry wrote in a 2019 statement about Meghan’s treatment by the press. “I’ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.”

While Harry is vigilant about Meghan’s safety, the person who worked closely with them says Meghan’s role in their dynamic is caregiver and facilitator; she’s the one who makes things happen. “Pre-Meghan,” says the person familiar with the couple, “Harry would just pop in [to the palace press office], ask a few questions, and leave, like he was a little bored but also very keen.” It’s almost impossible to imagine today’s Harry willingly engaging with the media in search of purpose. The source who worked with Harry and Meghan says, “I can picture him meeting Meghan and being just a deep breath of, like, ‘I’ve been so exhausted, and you make everything so easy.’... I don’t want to be like, oh, it’s an Oedipus thing or whatever, but it kind of feels like she’s reparenting him in a way.”

It’s easy to imagine a folie à deux emerging from the singular blend of circumstances: a need to believe in each other and the primacy of their relationship in the face of shared trauma and the real obstacles they encountered as they idealistically endeavored to break the wheel, while occasionally breaking the spirits of those tasked with executing their shared vision. “You don’t” tell them no, the person who worked in the couple’s media projects said. “I left because I couldn’t live with myself anymore.”

This intracouple permission to stray from other people’s realities may have led to some of the points of contention that people bring up when questioning Meghan’s fidelity to emotional truth above literal truth: her assertions that she neither googled Prince Harry nor looked up the etiquette for meeting the Queen of England and didn’t know she was supposed to curtsy until the ride over.

“Meghan is the type of woman who would check a menu out online before going to a restaurant to pick what she was going to eat,” says Tom Fitzgerald, a fashion and cultural commentator who, with his husband, Lorenzo Marquez, comprise the brand Tom and Lorenzo. (A resident of Montecito who ate lunch in the same restaurant as Meghan said the server told her Meghan had called ahead to ask about the privacy of the seating arrangement.) “So the idea that she didn’t know she was supposed to curtsy for the queen, I just didn’t find it particularly believable, because [based on] everything she ever told us about herself, I cannot imagine that she went into meeting the royal family completely cold, with no research whatsoever.” Fitzgerald also points to Meghan’s repeated claims that she was forced to wear neutrals during her time in the palace in order to avoid upstaging or competing with Queen Elizabeth and other senior members of the family, noting that Meghan’s wardrobe is now primarily composed of that palate.

A royals reporter believes that Meghan assumed her husband’s vision rather than researching the job of being a royal, and the reporter has a more positive view of the folie. “Oh, that’s such a good idea for a successful marriage,” the reporter says. “It’s a terrible idea for a job, but...if you’re joining this big network of people, you’ve got to see this through your husband’s eyes, be your husband’s advocate in it. And it’s no wonder this relationship works, even if the family business part of it fell apart.”

It’s a charming (if Freudian) dynamic—a husband and wife who organize each other’s lives and well-being, who flirt and hold hands and want the world to be a better place, even to the exclusion of evidence that suggests their well-meaning way of disrupting institutions is not always the best approach. That instinct to do things as Harry and Meghan believed they should be done, rather than how they are typically accomplished, was exacerbated during their time as senior working royals. It led to conflict with Harry’s family and palace staff, the reporter says, because Harry “doesn’t understand himself. He doesn’t understand a monarchy. His family didn’t do a very good job of inculcating him into the family legend partially because he didn’t care; partially because he was just kind of abandoned at the age of eight.”

However, the couple’s regal charisma while effortlessly changing the world has been showcased to great effect on their most successful reimagining of monarchy x Markle: Harry and Meghan’s common royal tours, to Nigeria in May and Colombia in August. “Invictus Games for sure is a very clear product, a brand, an organization that Harry spent a decade building, which is why in many ways I think the Nigerian tour worked,” says Elaine Lui, the celebrity commentator behind Lainey Gossip. “When they appear together in non-Invictus circumstances, that’s when people are like, I’m not really clear what they’re representing here.” That’s contrasted with an actual royal tour, when individuals are acting on behalf of the sovereignty and its various causes; or, as Lui points to, an independent actor like Angelina Jolie, who went to places like Afghanistan and Ukraine with the backing of the United Nations Refugee Agency. (In September, Harry appeared in front of a small group at the United Nations in New York to highlight issues in Lesotho, one of the countries where his charity Sentebale focuses its efforts.) Lui says, “She could leverage the history and the reputation of a very established philanthropic organization to say, ‘Hey, I’m lending my celebrity to this cause and in raising this awareness, we can actually attach the effect or the results to the UNHCR.’ ” With the gauzier parts of Meghan and Harry’s tours—what Harry called the “reasons to meet the people at the heart of our work”—Lui says the question is how are they helping anyone, and how is Archewell distinguishing itself from any other foundation? After raising more than $13 million in 2021, according to public disclosure forms, the charity grossed $2 million in 2022. The nonprofit has not yet shared its 2023 or 2024 revenue. “Yes, it has them as spokespeople,” Lui says. “But they haven’t had yet—because it’s still quite new—a track record of being able to make philanthropic achievements independent of the palace.”

How complete that independence is is another point that rankles people about Meghan and Harry. If you still use a title and descend upon commonwealth or developing countries and let little girls curtsy to you, as one did to Meghan in Colombia, it doesn’t seem like you’ve totally left the monarchy behind. It also doesn’t give you a lot of room to critique it.

The Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan litigates in painstaking detail Harry’s and Meghan’s mental health declines as she was bullied at the very least in sight of, and by many accounts at the behest of, an imperialist establishment. Yet this doesn’t seem to sour them to the idea of participating in a hereditary bloodline. In the doc, Harry says that during their last week as working senior royals, the couple, ruing the circumstances of their exit, kept telling each other, “We would have carried on doing this for the rest of our lives.” When Charles ascended the throne after Elizabeth’s death, the couple’s children became Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. Some people familiar with the production of Archetypes and Harry’s book tour said they were instructed to address the couple as sir or ma’am, though the request was dropped in one instance after the person pushed back. (Other people say they were encouraged by Harry and Meghan to call them by their first names.) “I think ultimately it’s cachet and sets them apart as different and special,” the source familiar with the couple says. “In the US, success, money, fame, all of that stuff exists out here. But a blood title, it’s few and far between.” (Many members of Meghan’s current inner circle—which includes Kaling; Figueras’s wife, socialite Delfina Blaquier; Tracy Robbins, the fashion designer and wife of Paramount Global co-CEO Brian Robbins; and parenting influencer and activist Kelly McKee Zajfen—are basically living by the rules of “American aristocracy,” according to Lui. They “stay behind the scenes…wield their power quietly…[and] look down on people who are very public, too thirsty.” On the other hand, all of the aforementioned are slated to appear on With Love, Meghan.)

A Black studies scholar who is also an African American woman noted the way racism is discussed in Harry & Meghan: as the one-off actions of Princess Michael of Kent wearing a blackamoor brooch to a brunch where Meghan was present, or the distant colonialism that still furnishes the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster and the jewels in the family’s tiaras, or Harry saying that the royal family merely had “unconscious bias.” “It’s a very common discursive move,” the scholar says. “Locating racism in individual bad actors or locating it in the past.... Queen Elizabeth becomes a kindly grandmother. She’s in the back of a car [or] her carriage, under a blanket. There’s that story, which is really kind of sweet that Meghan tells in the documentary, but [it] can’t connect that with the larger ideology of England—and thereby Queen Elizabeth—being like, ‘We are the natural rulers of the world.’ And that includes the segregation of people of color.” The cultural critic says this framing makes it so Meghan and Harry “can tell the story of being victims of the system, but it’s all about them being disenfranchised from whiteness and white privilege.”

The couple repeatedly expressed frustration in Harry & Meghan that Meghan wasn’t tapped as an asset for upholding the crown’s international interests in an era when Prince William was tasked with expressing “profound sorrow” for the “appalling atrocity of slavery” during a tour to Jamaica. As historian David Olusoga says in the docuseries, “Part of what makes the inability of the palace to defend Meghan an even bigger disaster is that the center of the argument for the monarchy in this country is the commonwealth. The commonwealth is 2.5 billion, mainly Black and brown people. Here was a woman who looked like most of the people in the commonwealth.” Harry speaks shortly after and says the palace and its denizens “have already missed an enormous opportunity with my wife and how far that would go globally.” The source familiar with the couple says it’s important to note that Harry isn’t an anti-monarchist. “He just didn’t like the way things were run within the institution,” he says. “His issues are about people and behaviors, not tradition.”

The source, who is also a person of color, defends Meghan’s right to want a piece of the empire for herself. “If I was in the same position and I was treated the way I was by the institution, it wouldn’t stop me from still feeling that that title is mine and deserved,” they say. “If anything, it would feel like you’re giving in to the pressure to exclude you in the first place. So actually it would probably make me want it even more. Damn well I’m going to slap it on my kids’ names too.”

Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, John Carradine, Kirk and Michael Douglas, Jonathan Winters, Gwyneth Paltrow, Adam Levine, Jimmy Connors, T.C. Boyle, Leonardo DiCaprio, Neil Young and Daryl Hannah, Michael Keaton, and of course Oprah are among the many celebrities who have peacefully coexisted with other locals in Montecito, an unincorporated part of Santa Barbara County. When a Montecitan’s labradoodle ran up to a child and licked their ice cream, the kid’s father—Kardashian affiliate Scott Disick—ran up to the pet owner with concern; not because he was upset that the cone was ruined but to reassure the person that the ice cream was vegan and wouldn’t upset the dog’s stomach. Katy Perry has, per usual, had some legal real estate issues, and Ellen DeGeneres has become unpopular for her immaculate, usually off-market flips that have supposedly driven house prices up. “I think everyone, including the A-list celebs, would prefer that it’s not on the map like it is,” the Montecitan says. It’s a place where no one would ever “bother” a famous person beyond saying hello at the coffee shop, as they would to anyone else. One resident says Montecito’s defining characteristics are “quiet” and “neighborliness.”

The prince and “the starlet,” as the Montecitan calls her, have become local villains, according to several people who spoke with VF. They attribute the increase in housing prices to them as much as DeGeneres and point to out-of-towners coming in, driving too fast, and taking up all the street parking by local trails like the one Meghan was photographed hiking on while Harry was in the UK for Charles’s coronation. You can’t just walk into Lucky’s for dinner anymore. While the Montecitan says neither he nor his friends have ever met the couple (two others mentioned Harry biking in town), they popped up in the video for DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s vow renewal, and the Montecitan saw photos of Harry playing polo at a nearby field, which will also be featured in Harry’s Netflix docuseries. Meghan’s Netflix project was filmed at a house near theirs.

American Riviera Orchard—which on Instagram has a logo styled with a royal-looking crest and written in Meghan’s perfect calligraphy and is known internally as ARO—is located in Montecito. Though an 1898 book published by the Southern Pacific Company rail line states, “The Montecito is known as the American Riviera,” today that honor is understood to belong to Santa Barbara; no one Vanity Fair spoke with had ever heard Montecito referred to by the name. “It’s such a kind of hucksterism,” one resident says. “It’s just finding every way she can to monetize something.” And in doing so, bringing more attention to the place where the Sussexes say they want to be left alone. “I still think they’re the most entitled, disingenuous people on the planet,” the Montecitan says. “They moved away from England to get away from the scrutiny of the press, and all they do is try and get in the press in the United States.” Lui says the most common criticism she hears about Meghan (though she notes it’s true of Harry as well) is “you can’t cherry-pick the good parts and leave out the bad parts” of fame. However, she points out, “all celebrities do this. ‘Don’t take photos of me. Oh, but here, let me step out, conveniently, and get papped. Only give me good reviews of my movie or my album. And if you don’t like my music, I’m gonna post on Instagram that you’re so shitty as a reviewer.’ ”

Whether American Riviera Orchard will be well-received—or received at all, at least in name—remains to be seen. On August 31, the US Patent and Trademark Office rejected the trademark application: “Registration is refused because the applied-for mark is primarily geographically descriptive,” the response read. In other words, you can’t claim a place. (Tell that to Queen Victoria.) The same day, according to the New York Post, the office reportedly received a complaint from storied pear purveyor Harry & David regarding the similarity in name to its Royal Riviera line. As far as the substance of the brand, Lui says Meghan’s first lifestyle effort, The Tig, was popular in Lui’s circle in Toronto while Meghan was filming Suits there. However: “American Riviera Orchard to me is giving 2014. It’s not giving 2024,” she says. “Fame arrests you at the moment it arrives. And I wonder if that is your health-and-wellness-lifestyle version of that, where she had to suspend The Tig and quit it the moment that she became Harry’s girlfriend, then fiancée, and then his wife. American Riviera Orchard is maybe picking up from where The Tig left off.”

The source familiar with the couple says, “I think there’s one thing that no one could take away from Meghan is how hard she works, how much effort goes into everything that she does. Ultimately that’s all she needs. And I think that’s why American Riviera Orchard probably will be a massive success. Even if in two years’ time it doesn’t exist anymore and she’s on to the next, it will have that moment. There’ll be no way that you can say that it wasn’t successful.”

A few years ago a rumor began circulating around the book world about another prospective project for Meghan. This story, which a person with knowledge confirms the broad details of, was that Meghan’s team had a conversation with a publishing house to gauge interest in the idea for a potential book. The concept, for which there was no written or formal proposal, was post-divorce. Not a general book on life after marital dissolution, or one about Meghan’s past experience. (She was married to producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2014.) This book—this notion of a book, really—might center on a post-Harry divorce. Not that there was actually one in the works! Just…if this a priori divorce ever came to be, would this publisher theoretically be interested in a book that took place in its aftermath? Another source with knowledge says, “If that’s true to any degree, she would have been approached and not vice versa.” No offer was ever made, and no manuscript was produced. After all: There was no divorce.

The source familiar with the couple says Meghan’s metabolism for campaigns that she can move on from—Archetypes, the ephemeral 40x40 mentorship program, the forthcoming lifestyle line and show, the wisp of a possible book about a divorce that might never happen—are part of why she’s better suited to celebrity outside the palace. “The royals don’t work like that,” the source says. “How many years has Kate been talking about early childhood development, like 11 now, 12? We still haven’t really seen anything.” (Princess Catherine launched Shaping Up, a campaign focused on “increasing public understanding of the crucial importance of the first five years of a child’s life.”)

In that time, Meghan has gone from star of a syndicated cable series to paradigm-changing princess to her husband’s conduit out of royal life to the founder of a hybrid charity–Hollywood start-up. She has earned as much faith in her own force of will as a sovereign might have from believing that they were anointed by God to lead.

As for what she’ll do with that power, look at what it means for her to make the world a better place, which she and Harry genuinely seem to want to do. Jameela Jamil, Chrissy Teigen, and Omid Scobie, the author of Finding Freedom (about Harry and Meghan’s time in and departure from royal life) and Endgame (about the ensuing years within the Windsor dynasty), have all publicly discussed Meghan unexpectedly reaching out during difficult times in their lives and offering solace, even though they weren’t close. Lui sees it as something Meghan took from her royal years, just as Harry has taken his impeccable manners and the ability to patronize the fuck out of a charity. “That’s what they do,” Lui says. “They bless you with their royalness, and that’s the gift. It’s not like Princess Diana was ever best friends with all the people that she visited in the hospital.”

“I think that they don’t know what ‘change the world’ means,” says the person who worked in media projects. “They want to be people who are looked at as people who want to change the world.” Maybe that’s why Meghan has continued—on Nick News, in The Tig, on panels, on Archetypes, in Colombia in August—to bring up the story of writing a letter to Procter & Gamble about a sexist soap ad, taking credit for them changing the spot so that it no longer suggested women should be the ones doing dishes. Procter & Gamble declined many requests from VF to confirm that Meghan was the impetus for the switch, and in 2021 the company partnered with Archewell with the goal of “elevat[ing] the voices of adolescent girls to ensure their point of view and lived experience is heard at the tables where decisions are made.” Whether or not Meghan’s letter is what prompted the change, the fact that more than 30 years later she continues to speak up about having spoken up suggests it’s the kind of mission she aspires to. Marie, who has worked with many celebrities, says of the Sussexes’ aspirations, “I think it’s actually better than where most people start out.”

To point out the modesty of that world-bettering feels like contributing to the essential problem of Harry and Meghan: No matter what they do, they just can’t win. (If, I guess, you don’t count the overwhelming portion of their beautiful lives that exists outside of Daily Mail headlines and blog comment sections.)

If Harry’s burden is the soft oppression of no expectations, Meghan’s might be the opposite: the betrayal of not living up to an unachievable ideal. “I think the whole world was waiting for her to be that person, and then she never jumped,” the source who worked in media says. “Diana walked amongst land mines. Meghan couldn’t even say the word slut.”

Anna Peele is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her culture writing looks seriously at subjects that are sometimes considered frivolous. Anna spent the first eight years of her career as an editor at men’s magazines, where she wrote a widely read Esquire cover story of Miles Teller

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Only a man would be surprised by these results.

Are women victims of time poverty? Women allocate 34% of their time to unpaid caregiving services for household members—nearly double the 18% spent by men. When it comes to producing goods for their own final use, women spend 21% of their time compared to 13% for men. The NSO data points out that women continue to shoulder the bulk of unpaid household work and caregiving responsibilities.

By Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair 07 April 2025

Last year, the National Statistical Office (NSO) in New Delhi raised an important question in its Time Use Survey to understand how Indians, in both urban and rural areas, spend their time. The question was, “How do you spend your day?” The survey covered 454,192 individuals between January and December 2024, and the findings, released in February, reveal a striking reality— the extreme “time poverty” experienced by Indian women, especially in rural areas.

Time poverty refers to a situation in which an individual lacks adequate time to ensure their own well-being, whether due to paid or unpaid work. This may eventually lead to a loss of income. Viewed through a gender perspective, time poverty in India often manifests as women devoting disproportionate hours to unpaid household chores and caregiving, leaving them with little or no time for remunerative work or personal needs.

Time poverty and income poverty are interlinked. The former excludes Indian women from the formal economy and perpetuates gender inequality. In 2015, a global study estimated this exclusion represented a loss of $9 trillion to women in developing countries.

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By: Leor Sapir

Published: Feb 14, 2025

On January 28, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” The order’s most important provision defunds health-care and medical education institutions that engage in or facilitate sex-trait-modification procedures for adolescents 18 or younger. Within a week, at least ten hospitals in states where these procedures are still legal announced that they were changing their practices. The list includes some of the top pediatric gender clinics.

On February 4, the American Civil Liberties Union announced a lawsuit challenging the executive order. Joining the ACLU in the suit are other transgender advocacy groups and two law firms, which together represent two trans-identified 18-year-olds and five trans-identified minors and their families; they also represent PFLAG National, an LGBT organization with nearly 350 chapters nationwide, and the named plaintiffs.

The suit alleges that the executive order exceeds Trump’s Article II powers by directing “public funds to advance the President’s policy preferences, rather than those of Congress.” It argues as well that the EO discriminates based on sex—a claim also made against Tennessee’s ban on pediatric “gender-affirming care,” which the Supreme Court is considering in U.S. v. Skrmetti—and violates plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to equal protection and due process under the Fifth Amendment. Finally, and most surprisingly, it alleges that the order violates Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination because of disability in federally funded programs. Gender dysphoria, the ACLU claims, is a disability of the kind protected by this law.

On February 13, a federal district court in Baltimore blocked the executive order’s defunding provision from going into effect for a period of 14 days, at which point the court will reassess. The Department of Justice is expected to appeal these injunctions to the Fourth Circuit and, possibly, to the Supreme Court.

The ACLU’s case contains an unusual feature. One of the plaintiffs, Cameron Coe (pseudonym), is a 12-year-old New York–area resident who received a puberty-blocking injection in 2024. Cameron was scheduled for a puberty-blocking implant at NYU Langone the day after the executive order went into effect. Unlike plaintiffs in similar suits, however, Cameron does not identify as a boy or a girl. When Cameron was born, “they [sic] were designated as male. From the age of four, Cameron communicated to their parents that they were neither a boy nor a girl. They began to express their nonbinary identity in the fourth grade.”

The suit never defines the term “nonbinary.” Instead, it lists “nonbinary” as a “gender identity,” which it defines as “a person’s internal sense of belonging to a particular gender.” The complaint does not define “gender,” either, or explain how a “particular gender” can include no “particular gender,” which is presumably the substance of a “nonbinary” identity.

People across time and civilizations have felt that they did not fit into their society’s sex-role expectations. Contemporary therapeutic culture, empowered by novel medical technologies and theories from the postmodern academy, has recast this enduring human experience as an innate “identity” corresponding to a distinct type of human. Girls who once would have been referred to as “tomboys” are now “nonbinary” and part of the “LGBTQIA+ community.”

Nonbinary is the “fastest growing” gender category among adolescents and young adults, according to the U.K.’s Cass Review. As Jean Twenge reports in Generations, according to U.S. Census data, by 2022 more than 3 percent of those born in the 2000s identified as transgender and nearly 5 percent identified as nonbinary, representing a rise of 48 percent and 60 percent, respectively, from 2021. The U.S. Transgender Survey of 2015 found that close to one-third of its nearly 28,000 adult respondents identified as nonbinary, 80 percent of whom were female. By 2022, 38 percent of 92,329 respondents identified that way, with similar female overrepresentation.

The phenomenon of (mostly female) celebrities “coming out” as nonbinary, adopting “they/them” pronouns, and receiving instant media attention has become familiar to many in the West. This would likely be of less public interest if not for the fact that kids who embrace the nonbinary label are being offered irreversible medical interventions on that basis.

In its legal filing against the Trump executive order, the ACLU appeals to medical “guidelines” supported by “[d]ecades of clinical experience and a large body of scientific and medical literature.” The ACLU doesn’t specify which “guidelines” it has in mind, likely because it is referring to the now-discredited World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s “Standards of Care,” Version 8.

SOC8 introduced several innovations on SOC7, among them chapters on “eunuchs” (a “gender identity” that WPATH claims even children can have) and on nonbinary identity. WPATH states that nonbinary identity “first emerged in approximately the late 2000s.” The term

includes people whose genders are comprised of more than one gender identity simultaneously or at different times (e.g., bigender), who do not have a gender identity or have a neutral gender identity (e.g., agender or neutrois), have gender identities that encompass or blend elements of other genders (e.g., polygender, demiboy, demigirl), and/or who have a gender that changes over time (e.g., genderfluid).

WPATH writes that nonbinary “may communicate a specific consciously politicized dimension to a person’s gender” but also that it “functions as a gender identity in its own right.” Rather than explain the tension, WPATH reverts to cliché: “the same identities can have different meanings for different people, and the use of terms can vary over time and by location.”

Further:

A non-linear spectrum indicates differences of gender expression, identity, or needs around gender affirmation between clients [missing word?] should not be compared for the purposes of situating them along a linear spectrum. Additionally, the interpretation of gender expression is subjective and culturally defined, and what may be experienced or viewed as highly feminine by one person may not be viewed as such by another. . . . [Health care providers] benefit from avoiding assumptions about how each client conceptualizes their gender and by being prepared to be led by a given client’s personal understanding of gender as it relates to the client’s gender identity, expression, and any need for medical care.

The expectation, standard in gender medicine, that clinicians be “led by their patients” is never more applicable than when treating individuals whose “gender” and “embodiment goals” have no parallel in nature.

WPATH recommends various procedures to help those who feel neither male nor female align their bodies with their “internal sense of gender.” These include surgeries like “penile-preserving vaginoplasty” and hormone micro-dosing. Unlike male-to-female or female-to-male “transitions,” where the end goal is to resemble the opposite sex, nonbinary medicine lacks defined objectives. It is entirely dependent upon the patient’s subjective, idiosyncratic (or as WPATH puts it, “particularly diverse”) goals.

Nonbinary is both the result and a likely cause of gender medicine’s drift away from a clinical model, which at least pretended to care about evidence-based medicine, toward an autonomy-focused framework that deems cosmetic procedures “medically necessary,” for insurance purposes. The autonomy model discourages “gatekeeping” and insists that physicians’ proper role is to counsel “clients” (“patients” is too stigmatizing) on the technical possibilities and limitations of drugs and surgeries. If a male wants “softening of skin and reduction in facial hair growth” but not “breast growth,” WPATH says, the doctor must explain that estrogen will inevitably result in the latter. If a female patient wants testosterone for “facial hair development,” she should be told that this comes with “genital growth” (i.e., clitoral growth that can result in chronic, painful chafing). Gender surgery centers across the U.S. now offer clients a range of a la carte procedures catered to their individual “embodiment goals.”

If you are wondering what any of this has to do with medicine, you’re not alone.

What of the ACLU’s claim that the Trump executive order negates “[d]ecades of clinical experience and a large body of scientific and medical literature”? According to SOC8, “The most robust longitudinal evidence supporting the benefits of gender-affirming medical and surgical treatments in adolescence” comes from the Dutch studies that launched the field. Considered the “gold standard” of evidence for such treatments, the initial outcomes of the Dutch pseudo-experiment were reported in two papers, published in 2011 and 2014. Lurie Children’s Hospital gender clinician Aron Janssen, who has served as an expert witness in gender-medicine lawsuits, attested in a 2022 Florida hearing that the Dutch data are “the best . . . we have.” 

The Dutch first proposed early intervention as a possible solution to a problem that they observed in their adult patients: “subjective well-being of the transsexuals has increased, whereas an ‘improvement’ in their actual life situation is not always observed.” The Dutch clinicians theorized that their patients’ difficulty passing, a problem they attributed to the irreversible effects of puberty on the body, was a key reason for their psychosocial dysfunction. The problem, in short, was “wrong puberty”—that is, a puberty that a kid doesn’t want—and the solution, for adolescents in these situations, was the administration of puberty-blocking hormones.

Showing at least superficial awareness of the ethical problems involved, the Dutch devised what they thought were strict eligibility criteria. Only adolescents with documented history of gender distress arising in childhood and who had a strong desire to be of the opposite sex were considered. Crucially, what we today call nonbinary was seen as a contraindication—a sign that an adolescent’s sense of self was unstable. Such youths were ineligible for medical intervention. As the Dutch clinicians wrote: “adolescents… whose wish for sex reassignment seems to originate from factors other than a genuine and complete cross-gender identity are served best by psychological interventions” (emphasis added).

The Dutch approach quickly “escaped the lab,” was grafted onto a nascent transgender-rights movement, and became entrenched as the standard of care shorn of its original safeguards in multiple Western countries. Rates of transgender identity and gender dysphoria in youth skyrocketed, partly because “being transgender” was popularly redefined such that it was indistinguishable from regular gender nonconformity or puberty-related angst. Adolescent girls, most with mental-health challenges and no documented history of gender non-conformity in childhood, became the primary demographic identifying as trans and being referred to gender clinics.

Society’s shifting conceptualization of sex and gender coincided with a change in the rationale for early intervention. No longer was it about trying to detect future (mostly male) transsexuals and help them pass. No longer were puberty blockers envisioned as diagnostic tools that would allow patients “time to think.” The goal was now to help “trans kids” who “know who they are” to realize their autonomy and achieve their unique “embodiment goals.” The “child’s sense of reality,” explains the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s statement on gender medicine, is the “navigational beacon to . . . orient treatment around.” And that sense of “sense of reality” need not be binary. All individuals now had a right to “gender euphoria,” regardless of age, mental-health status, or comfort with the sex binary.

One of the architects of this new way of thinking is UC San Francisco’s Diane Ehrensaft. “[N]othing less than a gender revolution is going on,” the Bay Area child psychologist gleefully declared in her 2016 book, The Gender Creative Child. “Who is leading this revolution? Children who are nimbly pushing the boulders around, creating an ever-shifting terrain as we try to grasp ‘What’s your gender’?”

In a 2017 interview with Tomboy author Lisa Selin Davis, Ehrensaft said that she had “kids as young as four or five” telling her that they are neither boys nor girls but rather “a boy-girl” or “just a rainbow kid.” It “just shakes the foundations of what we think gender is,” she said. “We have a number of gender nonbinary kids coming to the clinic, asking for, for example, a touch of testosterone. They would just like to have a little bit of a deeper voice and a little bit of peach fuzz and then stop the testosterone.”

Yesterday’s tomboy wore baggy clothes and rode skateboards. Today’s nonbinary girl micro-doses on testosterone to grow peach fuzz.

In a 2018 US Professional Association for Transgender Health symposium titled “Outside the Binary—Care for Nonbinary Adolescents and Young Adults,” Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a leading U.S. gender clinician, expressed a similar sentiment. “I don’t like the word ‘pass’ at all,” she explained. “Passing as a member of the other sex is not a criterion for treatment, whereas achievement of personal comfort and well being are.” The role of the physician is “to work with [a] person to determine what it is that they’re interested in.”

The clearest demonstration of how the goalposts have moved came in December 2024, when the lead author of the Dutch studies, Annelou de Vries, coauthored a peer-reviewed article arguing that the field should no longer concern itself with whether “gender-affirming care” is “effective,” or results in mental-health “improvement” (the article places these words in quotation marks). Drawing on the theoretical framework of “trans negativity,” which “critiques” the notion that “negative affect” in trans-identified people is “a problem to be resolved through medical intervention,” de Vries promptly abandoned the clinical reasoning that she had defended so vigorously throughout her career. In this schema, doctors are reduced to highly educated vendors of consumer services.

I asked Laura Edwards-Leeper, the psychologist who helped establish the first pediatric gender clinic in the country at Boston Children’s Hospital, whether her clinic saw kids with nonbinary identities in the early days and, if so, how they treated such patients. “There wasn’t even a term for it back then,” she told me. “All the kids we saw were straightforward binary adolescents”—meaning, they identified as either male or female—“with severe dysphoria, with some indication since childhood.” The nonbinary phenomenon among clinic-referred teens emerged in the late 2010s, she added, “but it was rare. Doctors were very hesitant to do anything medically” with these kids “because they said, ‘there was no research.’”

There are still no long-term studies on the impacts of using hormones this way, not for binary transitions and certainly not for nonbinary ones.

Blocking the puberty of boys like ACLU plaintiff Cameron at Tanner stage 2—the earliest stage of physical puberty—and placing them on estrogen therapy will result in lifelong sterility. They will have undeveloped penises and suffer from sexual dysfunction. Those lucky enough to have passed through Tanner 2 will still be exposed to a range of negative health effects, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Gender clinicians like de Vries, who abandon the pretense that they care about evidence-based medicine, appeal to the value of personal choice as the sole ethical consideration. As evidence that their “clients” are choosing autonomously, they argue that regret from pediatric gender transition is vanishingly rare, at less than 1 percent. The main piece of evidence furnished in support of this claim is a deeply flawed “systematic” review published in 2021. Notably, of the more than five thousand of patients documented in the review,only one identified as nonbinary.

Summarizing the findings of her multiyear review of youth gender medicine, Hilary Cass wrote that “This is an area of remarkably weak evidence,” and when it comes to nonbinary-identifying children in particular, “we know even less about the outcomes for this group.”

The ACLU’s decision to include Cameron and his parents in its lawsuit may prove to be a strategic mistake. But this would be on brand for the organization, which has thrown its institutional weight behind the most radical and unpopular campaigns for transgender rights. The ACLU’s star attorney, Chase Strangio, is a controversial figure even within the nonprofit, according to a source with high-level knowledge of LGBT movement politics. Strangio, who has used “they/them” pronouns, once tweeted that “Stopping the circulation of [Abigail Shrier’s] book [Irreversible Damage] and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.”

In 2020, Strangio told The New Yorker that she and a group of lawyers had asked trans-identified male inmates whether they wanted to integrate into women’s prisons or have a separate trans section in a male prison. An extremely high percentage of trans-identified male inmates are convicted of sexual crimes, and their placement in women’s prisons puts incarcerated women at risk. The inmates “all said that they wanted a trans unit,” but they were overruled by Strangio and the others. A separate unit, Strangio reportedly believed, would be “stigmatizing, and only served to perpetuate the prison system.”

Like other gender-medicine apologists, Strangio seems willing to say whatever the moment demands. For example, she once said that she “sort of regret[s] the emergence of gender identity as this entire separate thing from sex” and that assumptions about the reality of sex, not only of gender, “are socially, culturally, and politically contingent”—that is, they “take on meaning as we talk about them and interface with systems of power.” Yet when arguing before the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Skrmetti, Strangio accepted that while “gender identity” may be “fluid,” it nevertheless is an “immutable characteristic” deserving of constitutionally protected status because, as she argued, it has “a strong biological basis.”

“I am a civil rights and constitutional lawyer,” Strangio said in a 2019 interview, “who fundamentally doesn’t believe in the Constitution and the legal system.” Rest assured, she will now call upon that system and its Constitution to protect her favorite client, the gender industry.

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It's amazing how inconsistent the genderists are. The same people claiming sex "discrimination" also say that sex is a "spectrum." They're claiming dysphoria is a disability, having spent a decade insisting you don't even have to have dysphoria to be "trans," that diagnosis is "pathologizing" and "gatekeeping," and any attempt to treat the disability is "conversion therapy."

Make any of this make sense.

I really want them to explain what type of disability it is, though.

It's going to be amazing watching them try to argue this and struggle to make it not obviously ridiculous and self-contradictory.

In 2020, Strangio told The New Yorker that she and a group of lawyers had asked trans-identified male inmates whether they wanted to integrate into women’s prisons or have a separate trans section in a male prison. An extremely high percentage of trans-identified male inmates are convicted of sexual crimes, and their placement in women’s prisons puts incarcerated women at risk. The inmates “all said that they wanted a trans unit,” but they were overruled by Strangio and the others. A separate unit, Strangio reportedly believed, would be “stigmatizing, and only served to perpetuate the prison system.”

Thought I knew where this was going, but I did not. Wow.

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2025 Haylor timeline

Timeline Tag, or back to 2024

4 January - Harry in Hampstead rumour

10 January - rumour Harry seen in Rome

11 January - Harry at SoHo House gym Berlin

13 January - Harry at Berghain Panorama Bar. An legendary Berlin club known for techno, exclusivity, sex-positive culture. It has no photos, a sticker is given for phone cameras and people are thrown out. It is a LGBTIQ+ club and has consensual adult dark rooms. There was no reports of Harry entering those spaces. He danced till 6:30am in the main space. Multiple reports of him there.

14 January - Harry photo Berlin coffee shop

17 January - Taylor in NY.. Haylor RN:

18 January - Taylor KC game

20 January - fan said she saw Harry at the Vatican

26 January - Taylor KC game

29 January - Taylor seemingly takes all of her stuff (multiple bags, rugs, several people load things) with her when she flys KC->LA. DM article uses ‘suffocating’ maybe K team

1 February - Harry in Italy, sneaked video of him eating alone another fan said they saw him with friends at a coffee shop in Italy. Photo/video from Japan in April came

2 February - photos and video of Harry running and walking in Rome. Taylor Grammy

4 February - Taylor cocktails with Selena in Beverley Hills according to waiter, no photo

5 February- Travis said it was awesome, a great honour and pretty cool to play in front of trump… who posted he hates Taylor

7 February - Taylor seen on damage control dinner with Travis in New Orleans

8 February - Harry in Berlin. Taylor NOLA party with Haim

9 February - Harry seen Berlin carrying a record. Super Bowl: Taylor wears a white outfit that bookends her first game look, no red. Chiefs lose badly to Eagles, the eagles even switch out their benched players for the end of the game so they got to play. Taylor was boo’ed when shown and not seen leaving, conflicting reports that she left early, maybe for security reasons. Travis seen going to a suite after game and leaving alone. Donald trump posted that Taylor was boo’ed out of the stadium like it was a victory, a sitting president.. who left before she did.

10 February - Taylor flew to Nashville without TK. A chiefs player posts he should have stayed with his ex, people online talk about them like they broke up although no real comment on that. General anti Swift vibe.

16 February - Paul McCartney Bowery concert when Haim, Ashley and Taylor’s friends attend but she is not seen

19 February - rumour Harry in London, no photo

23 February - video of Harry walking with a man in London. Taylor unseen 2 weeks.

29 February - rumour Harry is in Tokyo

1 March - Harry photo in Japan.

2 March - Harry runs marathon in Japan in 3 hrs 37 mins

4 March - Harry still in Japan.

7 March - of Taylor with Travis on street DM 10 March “last week” Park City Utah

6 March - Harry in London. Denies Rumour of Las Vegas and Manchester residencies from mid 2025

8 March - Harry London with fans and at Sabrina carpenter concert.

12 March - rumour Harry in Rome

14 March - Taylor Travis dinner NYC, last time seen touching for months. Harry met fans in Florence 16 March - vogue reports Harry in palm beach

17 March - Harry in Rome. Taylor video accept iheart award for tour

22 March - rumour Harry in London, cousin wedding soon.

25 March - Harry in London with maybe Gemma. Travis alone Vegas photo with fan in same outfit as podcast. Fan posts and goes private because of reaction, then Travis posts to twitter for the first time since August about beer..

26 March - Harry in London with James Corden. 1 minute of Two Ghosts music video posted to Twitter by a previous employee who worked on it, saying the studio was shut down for smoking weed (??), then they deleted their account.

27 March - Harry in London, catches pink cab. The date of the metadata of Taylor’s photo with her original records to announce she owns them again.

29 March - Travis alone North Carolina pine guest golf

31 April - Harry in Berlin

2 April - Harry pap photos in London

3 April - Harry arrives in NY

5 April - Harry at Max’s wedding, Brad and Tommy near in the photo

7 April - Harry riding bike in London

8 April - Harry in London with ben

9 April - Travis’s team tell Daily Mail he “won’t let his girlfriend’s fame get in the way” of football. A month since they were seen

11 April - H photos cousins UK wedding. Kanye inappropriate tweets about Taylor including one with Harry and Justin Bieber. Travis team runs to Daily Mail to say that she issued a cease and desist, he wants to confront to Kanye ‘man to man’. Taylor no comment. Harry, Bieber deny. H offer support.

15 April - H in Berlin

20 April - H follows Berlin based DJ and producer Peggy Gou on insta and seen by fans in Berlin, he paid for a fans cab

21 April - H photos in Berlin cafe, fans overheard him talking. And seen with Kid H!!

22 April - Harry with Jeff, Yaffra, and Kid Harpoon in Berlin. Sarah posted drums in a studio

23 April - Harry Berlin, Daily Mirror reports with source that he was recording in a studio used by Bowie and “Now he’s diving into the final stages of his next album, and Berlin - much like it was for Bowie - has become his muse.”

25 April - Travis Vegas party w Justin Timberlake & Jason. Deux Moi hints Taylor at Gigis NY birthday, unseen since 7 March.

26 April - Harry in Berlin, short shorts.

27 April - Molly in Berlin with Harry!!!

30 April - Harry seen leaving Hansa studio then walking with Luis in Berlin

2 May - Harry in Berlin talks to lots of fans then disappears for nearly week.

4 May - rumour Harry in Rome

16 May - rumour Harry is in LA

8 May - Harry at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, watching the new Pope being elected

10 May - Harry still in Rome, 2 months since Taylor seen

11 May - Taylor and Travis in Philadelphia. H in Rome

12 May - Harry back in London

20 May - LWYMMD TV on Handmaids tale socials, billboard article says perfect 6 times. Harry shared photo of fan he took the month before on instagram, his profile location was UK

23 May - rumour Harry patted a dog in Rome. Photo of him in London “last week”. Taylor and Travis in Florida at restaurant named Harry’s.

24 May - Harry in Rome with Alessandros partner

29 May - Harry in Martano Italy with Anne. Taylor pap walk alone in NY no TK when a tonne of Travis tabloids come out about her being in Florida being a tradwife with him.

30 May - Taylor owns all her albums 💚💛💜♥️🩵🖤. Video of taylor and Jack singing getaway car with Meredith! H in London.

31 May - Harry in London photos with fans, Taylor dinner with Selena NY. TK elsewhere golf

4 June - Taylor Travis retirement restaurant Florida. Harry London

6 June - Taylor and Travis at his cousins wedding, no other kelces, took ridiculous number of fan photos with guests, seat-danced during the first dance and left early. Filler widely discussed. Harry dresses up to go to Columbia HQ London.

7 June - Harry at Lido festival Victoria Park with his music video production designer, Patience Harding, Kid and Yaffra.

11 June - Harry looks amazing in London and is with his manager Tommy.

12 June - Taylor and Travis attend a hockey game in Florida. Taylor goes to a children’s hospital (which she’s done many times before) she is pictured with “Chief of surgery” which alters Taylor + surgery search, Taylor flew to TN. Harry in London then Lisbon.

13 June - Harry in Lisbon with kid harpoon and Wet Leg who are playing a festival

16 June - Harry in Rome, in a T-shirt. TK and brother in Cannes, no Taylor, unseen, plane ny.

19 June - Harry in Rome Italy

20 June - Taylor w Travis, Taylor seems drunk, ny.. Harry Italy. Travis helicopter to Hampton to play golf the next day

22 June - fans post they saw Harry in London. Patience, Harry’s friend and video designer posts variety quote ‘benson Boone made his album in 17 days and it shows’

23 June - Taylor at tight end u event, she gets on stage and sings Shake it Off and is pictured with MAGA supporters who have threatened women with sexual violence. Offical NFL account shared photo. Rumour harry in Liverpool

24 June - Harry with fan in London looking extremely good in a vintage olympics Windrunner

26 June - Harry at Ballet in London, choreographed by 1D/TPWK person.

27 June - Harry at Glastonbury in his red short shorts with Paddy, kid and Rob!! Louis also there and rumour Niall too. Lewis Capaldi, Haim, wet leg playing. OD, the 1975, Gracie and Lorde too.

[study-with-aura]

Friday, January 17, 2025

Quick post since I am with H for the weekend. She's taking her shower right now, and then I'll take mine after. I wanted to get this up first, so I told her I'd go second tonight when usually we do this youngest to oldest thing when H, E, and I are together, and I'm the youngest by a few months.

H enjoyed her time today at the mission. She has volunteered there before because we sometimes go as a troop, but it had been a while since she last went. We are going to have a crazy time this weekend and probably drive her parents insane by the end of it. Honestly, they love and adore me.

Hopefully I didn't forget anything in the post. Hygiene time for me! Good night studyblr! I hope we're not up giggling until midnight. 🙃

Tasks Completed:

Algebra 2 - Learned about logarithms + evaluated logarithms + evaluated logarithms with fractions

American Literature - Copied vocabulary terms + read chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee + answered discussion questions + read about developing a strong thesis statement

Spanish 3 - Completed quiz on direct and indirect objects (30/20 from EC)

Bible 2 - Read Ezra 5-6

Early American History - Read about James Monroe and the Era of Good Feeling + quiz (100%) + read Chapter 7 of Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis Parkman

Earth Science with Lab - Read “Does the Big Bang Fit with the Bible?" + answered discussion questions

PE/Health 2 - Read a health article about how improving education could close maternal heart health gaps

Art Appreciation - Read about art as as instrumental + looked at a painting by Magritte in reference to this philosophy

Khan Academy - Completed Algebra 2 Unit 8: Lesson 1.1-1.5

Duolingo - Studied for approximately 15 minutes (Spanish + French + Chinese) + completed daily quests

Piano - Practiced for two hours

Reading - Read pages 47-89 of Swarm by Jennifer D. Lyle

Chores - None today

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (1 Corinthians 13)

Group Bible Study + Devotional (Genesis 16-18)

Volunteered 4 hours at the mission with H

Ballet

Variations

Journal/Mindfulness

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In January 2020 "sources" told the Times that "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex regard themselves as having been pushed away from the royal family by the bullying attitude of his brother the Duke of Cambridge." Classic gaslighting on the part of the Sussexes. This is so much clearer in retrospect. by u/BuildtheHerd

In January 2020, "sources" told the Times that "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex regard themselves as having been pushed away from the royal family by the “bullying” attitude of his brother the Duke of Cambridge." Classic gaslighting on the part of the Sussexes. This is so much clearer in retrospect. While revisiting Jan 2020 and the development of Megxit, I noticed accusations of "bullying" made by Megs and Harry through their anonymous proxies to the press. The article was dated January 13, 2020 and written by Valentine Low. "In an analysis that is contested by sources close to Prince William and others close to Prince Harry, the Sussexes want to step away from their royal role after two years of “constantly being told their place”, according to a source that knows the couple well.The rift is said to date to before Harry and Meghan’s wedding. According to repeated reports, Harry felt that William was insufficiently welcoming towards Meghan when they first started dating. Their relationship has apparently not recovered.However, the controversial new claim is how much that falling out has played a part in Harry and Meghan’s decision to forge themselves a “progressive new role” and divide their time between Britain and North America.Palace aides, while acknowledging that the brothers have fallen out, insist in the strongest terms that William has not forced Harry out. One said that the couple’s unhappiness was caused by the way the Palace machine made them feel constrained. “They feel tethered,” said one who knows them well."https://ift.tt/uyv72Np version:https://ift.tt/vXBsfDG post link: https://ift.tt/adXfRrI author: BuildtheHerd submitted: April 21, 2025 at 04:07PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[darkmaga-returns]

In case you missed President Trump’s Inaugural speech and would like to hear it I have attached a link for the full speech - ARTICLE/VIDEO (30 min.)

WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - the first day of GOOD news for a change. President Trump removes the US from the Paris Climate Accord and withdraws the US from the WHO and ends participation in the Pandemic Treaty and Amendments to the IHR (International Health Regulations). Now if he would just remove the US from the UN. I hope these EOs become law so the next President cannot undo what President Trump has done to save the sovereignty of the US. Also, an EO to pardon 1500 J6ers - PRESS RELEASE

Ghost President: Speaker Johnson, Following WSJ Expose, Says He Was Blocked From Alone Time With Biden; When Biden Insisted, Johnson Asked About An EO On Liquified Gas That Biden Said He DID NOT SIGN- this is what is wrong in our federal government. They all knew Biden was not running this country and they allowed it. Also an under cover video about GA legislators and ALEC. ALEC not only pushes legislation to GA legislators they push the legislation in many other states too. Whenever you see the same bill being pushed in multiple states you can be sure ALEC is behind the bill. ARTICLE/VIDEO (Speaker Johnson 3 min. ALEC 6 min.)

Are we proceeding to the New World Order, or are we successfully beating it back? Dr. Nass - ARTICLE

13 Nations Sign WEF Treaty to Destroy and Rebuild Major Cities Before 2030 - I think the title of this video is incorrect it should be 13 Cities not 13 Nations. In the US there are 14 cities that have joined the C40 Initiative (15 Minute City/Smart City) and Los Angeles is one of those cities. Listen to this video and tell me the fire in Los Angeles was natural. C40 Initiatives aggressive goal by 2030 is: 0 meat, 0 dairy, 0 cars, 3 pieces of new clothing per person per year. I have a presentation I do on the C40 Initiative and most of the info is taken right from the C40 documents. They have already started this in the UK and France. Los Angeles will be the first city in the US. There are 2 cities that I know of that are creating a 15 minute city right here in TN. Chattanooga Mayor says his city will be a 10 or 15 Minute City and he is also going to make Chattanooga a Park City which is an initiative started in the UK. Chattanooga also has dealings with ICLEI (International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives which implements UN Agenda 21 at the local level) and the WEF (World Economic Forum). We also have a 20 Minute City going up near Nashville. It all sounds so great until one day you wake up to find your 15 Minute City has become your prison. 15 min. VIDEO

Fauci's Pardon Cannot Protect Him from State Crimes or Civil Lawsuits - we cannot let this man get away with decades of death and destruction for personal gain - ARTICLE