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Post-Roe battle over abortion pills reaches Kentucky gas stations
Topic: Abortion
Source: FOX News
KY Attorney General Russell Coleman issues subpoenas to gas stations running Mayday Health ads targeting 'vulnerable' residents. With the March for Life marking nearly three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Kentucky has launched an investigation into out-of-state groups advertising mail-order abortion pills, citing a post-Dobbs law that bans the drugs’ delivery into the state. The march's organizers now see new meaning in their annual demonstration following the landmark Dobbs decision, and states around the country are taking sides on whether abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," as then-President Bill Clinton put it, or liberally permitted or strictly prohibited. In Kentucky, lawmakers responded by passing House Bill 3 in 2022, banning the mailing or delivery of abortion-inducing drugs.

Fla. Black Democrats decry state’s stance on affirmative action
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Jax Today
Calling it an attack on people of color, House and Senate Democrats on Thursday decried a legal memo issued this week by Attorney General James Uthmeier that said numerous affirmative action laws are discriminatory. “Racial discrimination is wrong. It is also unconstitutional,” he wrote. Uthmeier’s memo, issued Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, said state laws giving preferences to minorities or requiring quotas are racially discriminatory. The attorney general said he would refuse to “defend or enforce” such laws.

Trump administration announces expansion of 'Mexico City' aid restrictions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: NBC News
...to include DEI and gender. The Trump administration will expand the "Mexico City" policy that restricts U.S. aid to foreign organizations that provide or promote abortions to include advocates of "radical gender ideologies" and diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Vice President JD Vance announced Friday at the March for Life.

Gen Z students are so unprepared for college that 'coddling' profs
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The New York Post
...have started reading aloud to them. Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, according to a shocking new report. Instructors at universities across the country — including top programs — detailed to Fortune how they have had to change their curriculum and teaching style to accommodate their Gen Z pupils — who are more focused on TikTok than printed text. “It’s not even an inability to critically think,” Jessica Hooten Wilson, a professor of great books at Pepperdine University told Fortune. “It’s an inability to read sentences.”

Spanish prosecutors drop sexual assault complaint against Julio Iglesias
Topic: Father's Rights
Source: Toronto City News
Spanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain’s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter. Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors had opened an investigation studying allegations that the 82-year-old Grammy-winning global singing star had sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.

Nurses union lowers demand for raises at Mount Sinai
Topic: Women's Health
Source: The New York Post
— as second week of bitter NYC strike winds down. New York State Nurses Association union negotiators asked for smaller, 18% wage increases for nurses on strike at three Mount Sinai hospitals, officials confirmed Friday — as the historic walkout’s second week drew to a close. The walked-back ask, which is down from the initial 30% over three years, would see nurses’ base wages rise 7% in the first year, 6% the following year and 5% in the third and final year, officials said. But the union held firm on other demands for pay differentials and staffing, hinting the two sides still have ground at the bargaining table before the largest nurses strike in the city’s history ends.

Utah student arrested after threatening to kill conservative speakers
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
...saying he would “Kirk” them, apparently referring to the deadly shooting of Charlie Kirk. 21-year-old Dean Stewart, a student at the University of Utah was caught on video making shooting motions toward the speakers and saying he would 'Kirk' them. The Reawaken USA Tour, a Christian conservative speaker series that is among those picking up the mic after the murder of Charlie Kirk, is off to a rocky start.

Democrats in Va have introduced a bill that discriminates v. White men
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: X, Christian Heiens
Democrats in Virginia have introduced a bill that discriminates against White men in government contracting. For discretionary contracts under $100K, White men are barred from even being considered unless there’s literally no competition. And even then, this bill allows agencies to award contracts to women or minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business owned by a White man.

March for Life 2026: Gratitude, Mixed With Concern, for Trump and Vance
Topic: Abortion
Source: National Catholic Register
Many of those gathered in the nation’s capital for the 53rd annual March for Life Friday hailed President Donald Trump for his accomplishments on behalf of the unborn, even as some pro-life leaders called for further action from the Trump administration to help end abortion. “He’s done more for the pro-life movement than any president in my lifetime,” said Craig Philpot of Birmingham, Alabama, who attended his first March for Life with his wife this year. Philpot’s sentiment appeared to be widely shared among the tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall, many of whom told the Register they were grateful for President Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade.

NYT Does the Math on Grok's Sexualized Image Count
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Newser
AI tool produced at least 1.8M sexualized images of women over 9 days, analysis. Elon Musk's homegrown chatbot just got hit with some very unwelcome math. The New York Times reports that Grok, the AI tool integrated into X, appears to have publicly churned out at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women in nine days, according to a Times analysis of platform data. A separate estimate from the Center for Countering Digital Hate pegs the figure even higher, suggesting more than 3 million sexualized images of women, men, and children combined, including an estimated 23,000 involving minors.

Will Trump’s DHS ‘Zone Out’ the First Amendment?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James Bovard
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday called for Minneapolis to “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights and do so peacefully.” Since 9/11, “free speech zones” have been one of the biggest constitutional shams around. Both major political parties have used “free speech zone” restrictions to seek to silence dissent. As I wrote in 2004 in The Baltimore Sun, the Democratic National Convention that year was downright bizarre...

35 Days Overdue: Where Are The Epstein Files? - Democrats
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Democrats.org
Over one month after Donald Trump's Justice Department was legally required to release all of the Epstein Files, he Trump administration has failed to comply with the law and has released less than ONE PERCENT of the files — a majority of which were incomplete, heavily redacted, or had already been made public through previous disclosures. Trump and his DOJ have delayed the release of the files for months — despite the House and Senate voting almost unanimously to make them public — providing endless excuses while denying long-overdue justice for Epstein’s victims and transparency for the American people. Congressional Republicans have all but forgotten about the Epstein Files, with one House Republican even saying, “I don’t give a rip about Epstein.”

The FCC Wants To Police How Many Conservatives Appear on The View
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
The equal-time rule is an antiquated regulation that becomes more obsolete with each passing year. This week, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr announced new directives for TV networks to follow in order to maintain their broadcasting licenses. "For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as 'bona fide news' programs—even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes," Carr wrote Wednesday on X. "Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities."

In-depth discussion with the prof who just won a major free speech victory
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges put a satirical land acknowledgement on his course syllabus. The university administration wasn’t happy about it. But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Professor Reges’ syllabus was protected by the First Amendment.

The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian (UK)
That has consequences for us all. A year ago, I was in north-east Syria, in the Kurdish-dominated area known as Rojava, listening to some of the most determined women that I have ever met. On my first day there, I went to a huge conference where one after another, women in Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian dress roused the audience to chants of “Jin! Jiyan! Azadi!” (Woman! Life! Freedom)!. When I visited, this region of Syria had for more than a decade been governed not by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but by an autonomous administration (the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or Daanes). Its commitment to equal rights has been remarkable – every institution it set up relied on power-sharing between men and women. No wonder many of the women I met there sounded optimistic about their future. “This will be a century of women’s freedom,” one said to me. “We are in solidarity with women in resistance throughout the world.”

AI-Induced Cultural Stagnation Is No Longer Speculation ? It’s Already Happening
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Naked Capitalism
AI is being used more and more to replace original creative works and is harming what passes for culture in the West. Note that this development is taking place along side a more general erosion of cultural values, as a result of younger adults not reading books much if at all as well as the teaching of the classics being degraded due to being largely the output of white men. But studying humanities has also been under assault for over two decades due to being perceived as unhelpful to productivity. For instance, from Time Magazine after Larry Summers was forced out as Harvard President:

AWFL Marcotte Throws Tantrum “Babies are White Supremacy”
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
If Salon were more like The Babylon Bee, Amanda Marcotte’s latest RHEEE-fest about [checks notes] babies of pallor would read as wry parody. Alas, GenX’s most whiney AWFL is dead serious. And it’s hilarious. It appears that J.D. and Usha’s announcement of new baby Vance’s July arrival just sent Mad Mandy over the cliff. "Everyone’s heard of someone having a baby in a doomed bid to save a marriage. But to save a fascist ideological project is a new one. OK, OK — no one can prove that Second Lady Usha Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, all got pregnant as a concurrent MAGA propaganda project. (snip)"

Amelia Unleashed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Red State
A British 'Anti-Radicalization' Simulation Goes Horribly Wrong With Hilarious Results. "In 2023, a British gaming company called Shout Out received funding from the British Home Office's “Prevent” counter-terrorism program for an online game to combat the radicalization of British youth. This program, by the way, investigated the murderer who landed Ms. Connolly in prison three times and found he wasn’t a threat. The game, called Pathways, lets the participant adopt a male or female persona named “Charlie” and place them in various scenarios where the wrong answer can get you a visit from the police. ...Some genius, somewhere, decided that the perfect foil in the scenario involving the decision to participate in an anti-immigrant demonstration was a character named Amelia. She is depicted as a goth girl with purple hair, a pink dress, and a choker. Combine the tone-deafness of government true-believers with a lack of respect for authority, and AI-generated animation, and you have hilarity. Amelia has become the heroine of the story.

The Troubles with the Trump Admin's Involuntary Student Debt Collection Delay
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Cato Institute
On January 16, the US Department of Education announced that it will delay the collection of defaulted federal student debt via wage garnishment and retention of federal funds such as Social Security payments. The reasons offered by the Trump administration are that the Biden administration left student debt repayment a confused mess that needs to be clarified before forced collection resumes, and the Working Families Tax Cuts Act—aka One Big Beautiful Bill—will simplify debt repayment starting this July, as well as allow a second chance for defaulted borrowers to rehabilitate their loans....But federal student loans are not an ideal lending world. They are loans made in a political world using money taken from taxpayers, whether they wanted to lend or not.