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Ben Appel

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Writer in @newsweek, @thefp, @queermajority, @dcexaminer, @quillette, @spikedonline, @unherd. Memoir CIS WHITE GAY: THE MAKING OF A GENDER HERETIC, fall 2025.

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Whenever you point out the insane racism on the left almost immediately someone will say “what about the right?!” and yeah people on the right are crazy racist but it’s more satisfying to say it about the left because for years they’ve done nothing but call everyone else racist.

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Writer Ben Appel talked about his experience countering the Russia collusion story as a Hillary Clinton supporter. The story was like "air," he says on the Third Rail Podcast. Ben Appel

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Writer Ben Appel describes Mamdani's voting core in the NYC primary. He says that Mamdani represents "Columbia" and tend to live in areas like Williamsburg, Bushwick, Park Slope and other high-college educated, professional-level New Yorkers. Ben Appel

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One thing I love about Rowling's social media presence is how it inspires those of us who do not have four theme parks to tell our haters to eff off.

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A journalist I respect very much requested an advanced copy of my book. A week later, he texted, "I am devouring your book. I love it." Best feeling ever. Hardcover and ebook editions are available for preorder from most booksellers. amazon.com/Cis-White-Gay-…

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After he was sentenced to prison, a neo-Nazi took advantage of a German law that allows any man to change his legal sex to "female" through a simple declaration at a registry office. He will now be sent to a women's prison. The BBC refers to him as "she." bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Gender-cult propaganda in reporting can be so subtle. This Detroit Free Press article states that a trans-identified immigrant in custody was "denied her hormonal treatment that some trans people take..." What does the phrase "that some trans people take" do? It acclimates the

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Episode 2 of The Third Rail Podcast is up: "How We Became 'Problematic.'" Daniel Idfresne, Maud Maron and I talk about losing old friends, making new friends, and learning to see the world, our country, and our culture in a new way.

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A heartbroken mom writes a letter to @WaPo's "Ask Sahaj" about her high-achieving lesbian daughter with T1 diabetes who went to college, started dating a trans-ID'd girl, lost her scholarship, began IDing as male, had a breakdown, dropped out, started hormones through Medicaid,