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U. Louisville ‘LGBTQ+ Students of Color’ scholarship
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
...draws federal civil rights complaint. The Equal Protection Project recently filed a federal complaint against the school, alleging it violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. Specifically, the complaint by the Legal Insurrection Foundation project identifies six scholarships it says violates the law. For example, the “A&S McSweeny Fellowships” are only open to “historically underrepresented ethnic/racial groups,” a list that excludes white and Asian applicants.

Al Sharpton seemingly suggests all Latinos are same as activists plan 'Day of Defiance'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
Sharpton made the comments during an online town hall meeting as over one thousand protests are slated to take place across the country on Saturday. Sharpton made the comments during an online town hall meeting hosted by on Tuesday by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in preparation for the protests. “All Latinos are one, they don’t even have a distinction of different countries they’re from,” Sharpton asserted. “All blacks are one.”

Entire Fulbright Scholarship board quits, citing Trump admin actions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: ABC News
The government-funded, non-partisan program was established by Congress in 1942. The 12-member board alleged the Trump administration "usurped the authority of the Board" by denying Fulbright awards to "a substantial number of individuals" who were selected for the 2025-2026 academic year. The board also alleged the administration is currently "subjecting" an additional 1,200 international Fulbright recipients to "an unauthorized review process and could reject more."

Wisconsin Breaks From CDC
Topic: Women's Health
Source: The Epoch Times
Keeps COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendation For Pregnant Women. Wisconsin’s health department is keeping in place its recommendation that pregnant women and all children receive one of the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, diverging from guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said on June 4 it is continuing to recommend COVID-19 vaccination for people aged 6 months and older.

California Public Schools Are Losing Kids While Special Interests Profit
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
...the declining student population required much more taxpayer money. New numbers from the California Department of Education show a continued drop in public school enrollment in the 2024–2025 school year. Despite fewer students, TK-12 education spending continues to increase, begging the question of whether taxpayers are getting value for money. The 5.8 million students counted for the just-concluded school year represents a reduction of 31,000 from 2023–2024 and 380,000 (or 6 percent) from before the pandemic. But the drop in traditional public school enrollment is even worse than these headline numbers suggest. The totals include charter schools which added 75,000 students since the 2018–19 school year. Netting out charters yields an enrollment drop of 8 percent, and this is despite the fact that a new grade, Transitional Kindergarten, was added during the period.

Macron says he’ll ban social media for under-15s in France
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
French government also wants to ban websites selling knives to children. French President Emmanuel Macron said late Tuesday that he will ban social media for under-15s in France “in the coming months” if progress isn’t forthcoming at EU level. Greece, backed by France and Spain, is spearheading efforts to get the EU to significantly limit the amount of time teenagers can spend online. But Macron, speaking to the French public after the murder of a teaching assistant in a high school Tuesday morning, wants to move faster.

Man Faces Murder Charges Over Using Abortion Drug
Topic: Abortion
Source: BBC News
Authorities say Texas suspect spiked girlfriend's drink, causing her to lose pregnancy. A Texas man has been charged with capital murder after allegedly slipping an abortion drug into his pregnant girlfriend's drink without her knowledge, police say. Justin Anthony Banta, 38, was arrested on Friday following a monthslong probe into claims made by his ex-girlfriend, per the BBC. According to authorities, after Banta learned about the pregnancy last year, he offered to pay for an abortion, but his girlfriend chose to keep the baby.

Southern Baptists Vote Against Gay Marriage
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Associated Press
Delegates at national meeting endorse call for Supreme Court decision to be overturned. Southern Baptist delegates at their national meeting overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on same-sex marriage—including a call for a reversal of the US Supreme Court's 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide. They also called for legislators to curtail sports betting and pornography, and to support policies that promote childbearing, decrying those who choose "willful childlessness." The votes Tuesday came at the gathering of more than 10,000 church representatives at the annual meeting of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the AP reports.

Federal Court: Naples Pride Drag Show Must Be Indoors, Adults-Only
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Daily Caller
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that drag performances at Naples Pridefest must be held indoors and restricted to adult audiences, siding with the city of Naples in a closely watched First Amendment case. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision just hours before the seventh annual Pridefest was scheduled to begin at Cambier Park, Fox 4 reported. The court concluded that Naples Pride “will not be substantially injured by a stay” because similar restrictions applied to the event in 2023 and earlier in the year.

Harvey Weinstein lawyers press bid for mistrial amid more jury deliberation tension
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Yahoo
Lawyers for Harvey Weinstein on Monday continued their bid for a mistrial in the disgraced movie mogul’s rape and sexual assault retrial as another juror reached out to the judge to discuss the tense deliberations and declare they were “making headway.” The weekend break did nothing to change the defense team’s stance that a Manhattan judge should shut down the six-week trial amid a juror’s concern about misconduct during deliberations. Just days after a juror begged off the panel, the jury’s foreman said members were discussing matters outside the scope of the evidence.

U of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Outcry after report that private investigators had been trailing and recording pro-Palestinian protesters for months. We recently learned that an employee of one of our security contractors has acted in ways that go against our values and directives,” the U-M president, Domenico Grasso, wrote in an email to students and faculty on Sunday night. “Going forward, we are terminating all contracts with external vendors to provide plainclothes security on campus.”

18 universities back Harvard as Trump's funding freeze hits
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Times of India
Harvard initially sued the government in April after an abrupt $2.2 billion funding cut. In an extraordinary show of academic solidarity, 18 leading universities — including five Ivy League schools and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — have announced plans to back Harvard University in its legal battle against the Trump administration’s freeze on nearly $3 billion in federal research funding.The coordinated move marks a rare intervention by peer institutions in a politically charged standoff, reflecting deep concerns within the academic community about the future of research funding and institutional autonomy in the United States.

1 dead, 4 injured after explosion outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs
Topic: Women's Health
Source: Palm Springs Post
...police and FBI investigating as an act of terror. An FBI official described the law enforcement response as “probably one of the largest bombing investigations that we’ve had in Southern California.” Akil Davis, assistant director of the Los Angeles Federal Bureau of Investigation, told reporters the blast created a debris field spanning over 250 yards in all directions from the 1100 block of Indian Canyon Road.

Military Spouses Fight Back Against Pentagon Book Bans
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Military.com
A group of military and veterans’ spouses is joining forces to advocate against book bans at Defense Department schools, service academies and elsewhere within the military. While starting small -- the group has six core members -- the organization they've dubbed Military Families for Free Expression has plans for virtual events and "activations" in communities around military bases with the goal of educating other military families about the book bans and empowering them to speak out.

The fall of Pride is upon us
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Gender ideology is the enemy of gay and lesbian rights. The ghoulish, fleshy public spectacle that is Pride Month 2025 has little to say beyond exhibitionism and hedonism. It certainly has nothing to say about the UK Supreme Court ruling in April that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex – a ruling that upheld the lesbian and gay right to single-sex associations. It has nothing to say about the Supreme Court justices observing that, had the judgment gone the other way, the protected characteristic of same-sex orientation would be rendered ‘meaningless’. It offers no praise or thanks to the lesbian interveners in the Supreme Court case for fighting for lesbian and gay rights. In fact, it is angry that they did so.

Free Speech Unmuted
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Free Speech, Public School Students, And "There Are Only Two Genders". My co-host Jane Bambauer and I discuss the First Amendment rules pertaining to public school students. The occasion: The Supreme Court just declined to consider a federal appeals court case that led a public school to punish a student for wearing a T-shirt saying "There Are Only Two Genders." Did the lower court get that right?

WHY DOES AMERICAN HIGHER ED WORK SO POORLY?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
A review of Rich Vedder’s latest book, Let Colleges Fail. At this rate, we may have little choice but to watch a lot of them fail. What has gone wrong? In his latest book, Let Colleges Fail, economics professor Richard Vedder employs his insights to answer that question. The book’s subtitle, “The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education,” further elucidates his point of view. Consumers enjoy the results of markets where wide-open competition prevails, because the drive to succeed weeds out entities that fail to provide good value for the money. The problem in higher education, Vedder observes, is that competition is greatly hampered. Colleges can get into financial trouble just like failing businesses, “but, typically, third parties come to their rescue—governments allocate emergency funds and private donors respond to appeals for support,” he writes.

Professor Sends Email Encouraging Campus To Join LA Protests Against ICE
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
“Why is GCC allowing their teachers to directly [organize] against ICE and interfere with authorities?” An English instructor at Glendale Community College recently sent an email encouraging the campus community to join in protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The call came as riotous demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles have included destruction of property, looting, arson incidents, and the injury of at least five police officers.

‘Black Lives Matter was irrational’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Tony Sewell on the untold success story of minorities in Britain. Five years ago, the Black Lives Matter movement crossed the pond, as protests flared up in London and around the UK. Activists claimed that Britain is a systemically racist country and that widespread racial discrimination is holding minority groups back. Tony Sewell, now Lord Sewell, was tasked by the British government with investigating these claims. Yet Sewell and his Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities could find little evidence to back them up. Instead they found that while disparities exist, the UK is largely tolerant, fair and anti-racist – results that identitarian activists were not prepared to hear.