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Disney exec has AI 'son,' causing staffers to be disturbed
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
"This is the kind of Pandora’s Box stuff that science fiction movies are based on." A Disney executive is reportedly disturbing a number of employees because of a “relationship” he has developed with an AI chatbot that he refers to as his "son." The bot is personified as a child-like avatar similar to a young boy.

‘It Hurt’: Graham Platner’s Exes Accuse Him of Getting Physical
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Mediaite
...and Other ‘Unsettling’ Behavior in Bombshell NY Times Story. Ex-girlfriends of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, accused him of demeaning women, calling his controversial tattoo “my Totenkopf,” and even getting physical in a bombshell New York Times report. The most serious allegations come from Lyndsey Fifield, “a Virginia conservative” who reportedly dated Platner between 2013 and 2015, and disputed his claim that he was unaware of the connection between the tattoo across his chest. “After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as ‘my Totenkopf,'” reported the Times‘ Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer.

Dems replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in latest woke rewrite of NY law
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New ork Post
Mom’s not the word. A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws — a gender-neutral rewriting that’s expected to spark a flood of similarly clunky legislation. “Mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent” or “parent” in family court along with in domestic and education law, under the legislation, passed this week by state Democrats.

Botched ruling on pregnancy 'fairness' law
Topic: Abortion
Source: Just the News
...opens floodgates to abortion, pro-life coalition warns. Democrats, atheists, Jewish and Christian groups back Catholic bishops' challenge to EEOC regulation, court ruling on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, saying they obliterate First Amendment rights of religious and pro-life groups.

DEI ban ‘doesn’t do anything’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Undercover video raises legal questions about UT Austin.
UT Austin claims full compliance with Texas' DEI ban after an undercover video showed an employee stating the law has limited impact, merely creating extra work for staff.
Accuracy in Media's Adam Guillette criticizes the DEI ban's effectiveness, alleging that universities are circumventing the law by altering job titles and curriculum without true compliance.
Progressive student activists are protesting against the DEI restrictions, claiming they undermine academic freedom, while university officials note changes aimed at compliance and streamlining academic program decisions.
Guillette argues that Texas higher education institutions require further reforms to prohibit the promotion of identity politics and focus on education rather than activism.

New Study Finds Average College Professor 'Only Slightly Less Left' Than Bernie Sanders
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
FIRE's data suggest that the range of opinions at American universities is far too narrow. In the U.S., the average college professor who donates to political candidates is "only slightly less left on the political spectrum than Bernie Sanders." That's the top-line finding from a new study of American academics' political donations, commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The study scored academics' political ideologies based on the voting records of the candidates to which they donated. It found that academics are increasingly donating to far-left politicians like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

BBC presenter apologises for misquoting Nigel Farage
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: BBC News
Chorley said Farage had used the phrase "white cold rage" instead of "pure cold rage". On its flagship evening news show Newsnight, presenter Matt Chorley repeatedly claimed Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for a "white cold rage" in response to the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak. Yet Farage said no such thing. He called for "pure cold rage" - a measured, determined pushback against institutional failures and anti-white bias in policing and justice.

A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice
Topic: Children and Family
Source: PJ Media
A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn't the latest headline out of Minnesota - look a little further north. In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets picked up a story too sensational not to be true: Hundreds of indigenous First Nations children had been buried in unmarked graves at residential schools run by the Catholic Church in British Columbia.

Arming Women in 2026: A Guide to Female Gun Ownership
Topic: Women, Minorities, and Guns
Source: Ammo
Female gun ownership in the U.S. is on the rise. This guide helps women understand important aspects of gun ownership and self-defense.
--Situational awareness and threat avoidance are fundamental tactics for self-defense.
--Federal and state gun law knowledge is essential for gun owners.
--Purchasing a gun, holster, and ammunition is more straightforward than you might expect.

How common is sex?selective abortion in Australia, really?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Conversation
New South Wales parliament is debating a bill this week that seeks to ban abortions performed on the basis of fetal sex. If passed, health practitioners who perform such abortions would face professional misconduct charges and lose indemnity insurance coverage for the procedure. At first glance, this might appear to be a defensible measure to address a practice that sits uneasily with gender equality. But there’s little evidence sex-selective abortions are occurring in Australia.

White girls raped by whisky bottles, and hundreds of Muslim men
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix
[Ed: readers will note that I took out the reference to dogs because I don't know how seriously to take the claim. Seems meant to incite fury. It is being reported, however.] Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe told Westminster that Parliament had a duty to confront the full horror of rape gang abuse and stop “talking” while children continued to be failed. The debate was secured after 260,974 Brits signed a petition calling for Parliament to address the rape gang scandal. Lowe opened by thanking the signatories and welcoming survivors who were sitting in the hall, saying the debate was not about politics, but about them.

$4M settlement after gender reveal ignited deadly SoCal wildfire
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
A couple’s gender reveal that led to a catastrophic wildfire disaster and claimed the life of a firefighter is now getting a massive financial settlement. Three companies will pay more than $4 million to resolve claims tied to the El Dorado Fire, the deadly 2020 Southern California wildfire scorched thousands of acres. According to the US Department of Justice, Ohio-based Wholesale Fireworks Corp. and its subsidiary, American Fireworks Wholesale LLC, agreed to pay $4 million to settle claims brought on behalf of the US Forest Service. A third company, Florida-based Pink or Blue Gender Team Inc., will pay an additional $500,000.

If Judge Ross's "Improper Sexual Activity"
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
"Greatly Damage[s] [Her] Credibility as a Judge," Does That Satisfy the Standard for Impeachment? The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council may have thought Judge Eleanor Ross's apology was sufficient to keep the reprimand private, but those not wearing a robe continue to see a problem. Representative Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee is starting to discuss an investigation. "The House Judiciary Committee's top Republican said his staff is looking at possible congressional action after a Georgia federal judge had an affair in her chambers, in earshot of clerks, and lied to judiciary officials about it."

Facing the Big Zero
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
The University of Oregon Grapples With a Budget Crisis After Years of Woke Excess. It appears that being unrelentingly woke means that you need fewer dormitories. The University of Oregon is facing a major budget crisis and will cut $65 million from its budget and close dorms due to low enrollment. That growing crisis, however, did not stop Oregon from burning almost a million dollars fighting against free speech. It also did not induce its faculty to offer greater intellectual diversity and tolerance to prospective students. Oregon is a cautionary tale for a generation of academic social warriors, but also an opportunity for those who want to restore balance in higher education.

The moral woke abyss that got Henry Nowak killed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
So this is the moral abyss wokeness has dragged us into. A society where a dying teenage boy can be roughly handcuffed by cops because someone accused him of being racist. A hellish dystopia where the last thing a kid hears as he gasps his final breaths is a politically correct police officer reading him his rights. A nightmare world where not even the victim of a vicious stabbing can escape the haughty suspicion of the state’s DEI-trained goons. The cruel, lonely death of Henry Nowak has caused a storm here in the United Kingdom. It should send a shiver down your spine too — for it provides a chilling insight into the barbarism of wokeness.

Bill Gates Public Image Takes Hit After Epstein Files
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: OK Magazine
Bill Gates' public image has suffered significant damage due to unsealed documents, photographs, and ongoing congressional investigations linking him to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to an explosive exposé by the Wall Street Journal. “Justice Department files show that Gates met with Epstein multiple times despite concerns from his then-wife, that Epstein knew about some of Gates’ extramarital relationships and that two of Gates’ close advisers had exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein for years up until 2019, the year he died,” wrote Emily Glazer in a WSJ story titled “Bill Gates’ Image Is Cracking.”

Ditch DEI
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: PJ Media
Investors fell back in love with Victoria's Secret, sending shares up more than 40% to record highs on Tuesday following quarterly results that blew away Wall Street expectations — and even beating the company's previous guidance. And it's all thanks to the company getting back to what it does best. The lingerie retailer (which also owns young-adult brand PINK) reported a 15% first-quarter sales spike and raised its performance outlook going forward for the next full year. Investors bought on the news, sending shares temporarily up over $80. Monday, they closed at about $54. Trading seems to have settled in at the high 70s.

Nobody Taught Them to Adult — So They’re Teaching Each Other
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reasons to be Cheerful
Every year in India, thousands of teens age out of state-run childcare. Now, the ones who have left are helping their younger peers grow up. Across the world, 18th birthdays are a time for celebration. But in India, an estimated 30,000 teens reach this threshold in childcare institutions (places that offer shelter and protection to vulnerable youth) every year, and age out of care to become “nobody’s responsibility,” as one person who works to support such teens put it. Girish Mehta and Anisha Sharma have faced this firsthand. “I had barely a month to figure out my life after I had to move out at 18,” says Mehta, who had lived in a childcare institution (CCIs) in Jaipur since he was 12. Sharma grew up in a Delhi home for children living with HIV and AIDS. When she turned 18, she says she was “mid-course, mid-dream, and on my own. I wasn’t mature enough to cope.”

Can You Tell Me How To Get To Agenda Street?
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Sesame Street’s Pride Push. By now, Sesame Street promoting Pride Month is about as surprising as Cookie Monster eating cookies. The show has spent years drifting away from teaching letters, numbers, and basic childhood lessons in favor of broader social messaging. So its latest rainbow-filled post barely qualifies as news these days. What strikes me is not that they keep doing it. Instead, it’s how many people accept the idea that children’s television should help shape a child’s worldview in the first place.