Garth Brooks Denied Request to Dismiss Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: E Online
After the country singer sought to dismiss a case of sexual assault filed against him by a woman identified as Jane Roe, the United States District Court in California has temporarily denied his motion. In Dec. 16 documents reviewed by E! News, the court details that Brooks’ motion was “denied without prejudice,” or temporarily denied, pending the outcome of another lawsuit against Roe filed in Mississippi Sept. 13. Indeed, the lawsuit against Roe in the aforementioned state cites “defamation,” “false light invasion of privacy” and “intentional infliction of emotional distress through outrageous conduct.”

SCOTUS to hear case on state funding of Planned Parenthood
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a case that could determine the future of government funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood. The case, Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, arose after Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) in 2018 declared by executive order that abortion clinics were unqualified to receive Medicaid funding. Planned Parenthood swiftly sued in federal court, and a federal district court ordered that the state permanently restore the abortion provider’s funding.

Nissan becomes latest car company to walk back 'woke' DEI practices
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX Business
...following Toyota and Ford. Robby Starbuck, an activist against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the workplace, announced Nissan's reversal on Wednesday, revealing that they agreed to the changes after he informed them that he was working to expose ongoing "wokeness" at the car company.

Texas Public School District Bans Bible In Libraries
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Wire
It “seems absurd to me that the Good Book was thrown out with the bad books." A Texas public school district superintendent informed parents that the Bible was removed from the district’s libraries because it violated a state House bill requiring library books to be expunged if they contained “sexually explicit material.” HB 900, the READER Act (Restricting Explicit and Adult Designated Educational Resources), was passed by the 88th Texas Legislature, signed into law by Republican Governor Greg Abbott, and implemented on September 1, 2023. It states, “a library material vendor must perform a contextual analysis of the material to determine whether the material describes, depicts, or portrays sexual conduct in a way that is patently offensive.”

'Child Trafficking' Sting Video Turns Out To Be Toy Drive
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
A Coca-Cola truck "full of kids" turned out to be a police charity. In a December 16 Instagram post that received more than 190,000 likes, user Ernest Carter shared a video of a Coca-Cola delivery truck that he claimed was found "full of kids." Carter said the truck was found in Cicero, Illinois, and that the video showed police getting the children off the truck. "The same video and false claim have circulated elsewhere on Instagram, X, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, Bluesky, YouTube, Rumble and Gettr -- including in Spanish and French," AFP reports.

Stephanopoulos Repeatedly Told Not To Say 'Rape'
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Zero Hedge
...In Interview That Cost Disney $16 Million. In a revelation that may explain why ABC parent Disney folded so quickly in Donald Trump's defamation suit, the New York Post has reported that, in preparation for his March interview that lies at the center of the suit, an executive producer repeatedly warned George Stephanopoulos not to use the word "rape" in reference to Trump's loss of a civil suit filed by E. Jean Carroll -- only for Stephanopolous to plunge ahead and use it a dozen times.

Another College Racism Hoax Got Exposed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
A Tennessee college revealed that racist messages found written on campus were fabricated by a student in an apparent attempt to make Donald Trump supporters look bad. Rhodes College confirmed to Fox News Digital that a student had admitted to leaving the messages strewn about campus that were found over Thanksgiving break and were being investigated as a hate crime. Instead, it turned out to be yet another race hoax. "Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Campus Safety officers and the Memphis Police Department, the investigation into the hate crime that occurred recently on our campus has ended with the identification of the perpetrator and the conclusion this incident was fabricated. This individual has admitted responsibility," the statement read.

San Francisco hires taxpayer funded 'weight stigma' czar Virgie Tovar
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Mail
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on 'weight stigma and weight neutrality' despite the city in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and violent crime. Virgie Tovar, a self-described 'anti-weight-based discrimination' expert describes herself as a prominent advocate for 'fat positivity' and body acceptance. Announcing her appointment on her Instagram, she called it 'an absolute dream come true.' 'I'm unbelievably proud to serve the city I've called home for almost 20 years in this way!' Tovar wrote.

Gisele Pelicot Addresses Victims 'in the Shadows'
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Rape survivor gives statement following Dominique Pelicot's conviction. Gisele Pelicot had a lot of people to thank following the conclusion of a rape trial that turned her into a global icon. The French woman spoke to the press shortly after her husband, Dominique Pelicot, was convicted of drugging and raping his wife and inviting 49 others to do so and sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison. Gisele Pelicot acknowledged the months-long trial "was a very difficult ordeal," but said she "never regretted" her decision to waive her right to anonymity and go public. "I wanted society to be able to take part in this debate," she said, per the Guardian.

Math Teacher Makes Students Pretend they are Gay
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Todd Starnes
The teacher is under fire for a diversity, equity and inclusion exercise. According to photos of the instruction, students were told, “Stand in a circle. Each of you is now gay or lesbian, and you are about to begin your coming out process. You cannot talk for the rest of this activity.” At least six students walked out of the class in protest. Parents later complained to school board members. “I don’t see how this is part of the California curriculum for education,” parent James Leon told board members. “There is nothing that it does other than groom children.”

Florida to Lose PornHub Access
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Newsweek
PornHub is blocking website visits from Florida on the first day of 2025 in response to the state's new over-18 age verification law for access to adult websites. On Tuesday, visitors to the pornographic video site in the state received a message saying: "You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days." The site appeared to be saying in messaging that a requirement to provide driver's license details to gain entry will put everybody's privacy at risk...

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At U of Rhode Island
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Legall Insurrection
...Challenged By Equal Protection Project. The Equal Protection Project (EPP) (EqualProtect.org) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation has challenged numerous discriminatory programs done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In all we have filed over 50 complaints and legal actions since launch in February 2023, with approximately half the schools withdrawing or modifying the discriminatory programs after our filing. (See EPP November 2024 Impact Report.) Almost all of our actions have addressed discrimination in higher education. In our latest action, we have filed a Civil Rights Complaint (full embed at bottom of post) with the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education, against the University of Rhode Island over 51 scholarships that discriminated on the basis of race (23), race and sex (5), or sex (23).

Federal appeals court rules tweeting about Cardi B shouldn’t get a grad student expelled
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
In a victory for free speech rights at public universities, a federal appeals court ruled today that a graduate student’s social media posts, called “sexual,” “crude,” and “vulgar” by university administrators, are protected by the First Amendment. In 2021, student Kimberly Diei sued the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy. University administrators investigated her twice, claiming her personal social media activity was unprotected speech. Diei enjoys commenting on topics of interest to her and other young social media users, occasionally expressing her views about sexuality.

UCLA med students alarmingly sub-standard
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
...as school 'cuts corners', admits applicants based on race. Over 50% of UCLA med students failed standardized tests on family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and pediatrics. A professor described one operating room incident, during which a student could not identify a major artery when asked. The University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen Medical School has been heavily prioritizing race in admissions while the school has fallen in rankings.

American Airlines Ends DEI Hiring Practices
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Off the Press
American Airlines has reportedly agreed to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring and employment practices, joining a growing list of major corporations to halt the controversial “woke” initiative. America First Legal (AFL), a conservative watchdog organization, announced Tuesday that American Airlines has agreed to “abandon discriminatory employment practices” after AFL filed a complaint against the carrier. “The airline acknowledged that recruiting and hiring based on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) violates federal laws and equal employment opportunities,” AFL said in a statement.

California District Attorney Forced to Address Male Rapist
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Fetched
... with Correct ‘She/Her’ Pronouns in Court. A California District Attorney, including witnesses and victims, was forced to use a convicted male rapist’s “she” and “her” pronouns in court. Biological male Tremaine Carroll, 51, who identifies as female, was incarcerated in a women’s prison after being charged with raping women inmates. Carroll faces charges including two felony counts of forcible rape and one count of dissuading a witness. Carroll asked his attorney to require the prosecutor to refer to him by his “preferred pronouns” during a preliminary hearing in Madera, California.

DOJ to Pay $116M to Victims of 'Rape Club'
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
100-plus current, ex-prisoners say they were abused, mistreated at women's federal prison. The US government will pay nearly $116 million to resolve lawsuits brought by more than 100 women who say they were abused or mistreated at a now-shuttered federal prison in California that was known as the "Rape Club" due to rampant sexual misconduct by the staff, reports the AP. Under settlements approved Tuesday, the Justice Department will pay an average of about $1.1 million to each of 103 women who sued the Bureau of Prisons over their treatment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say the deal is the largest ever of its kind with the federal bureau, per the New York Times.

Why is Congress funding the failing Department of Education?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
Since its creation in May 1980, the Left has demanded Republicans justify opposing federal intervention in U.S. education. However, with President-elect Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency now promising to “outright delete” the Department of Education, it’s time to flip the script. The real question isn’t, “Why should we eliminate the Department of Education?” It’s, “How can Congress possibly justify funding this ineffective and unconstitutional institution any longer?” The answer is simple: they can’t.

JK Rowling and the tweet that changed the trans debate
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Today marks five years since the Harry Potter author first took on the scourge of gender ideology. Five years ago today, a single tweet transfigured JK Rowling from beloved children’s author into the internet’s No1 hate figure. In 2019, the Harry Potter author decided to tweet out her support for Maya Forstater, the researcher who was forced out of her job at a think-tank because of her gender-critical beliefs. Rowling’s own trans-sceptical leanings had been suspected for a while at this point. But now, for the first time, she was making her position plain...

CPS Is Investigating an Influencer Because Her Son Flinched in a Video
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Hannah Hiatt isn't the first parent to face child welfare investigations sparked by an internet mob. Social media influencers who post their children online often face their share of criticism. But now, if their audience disapproves of their parenting decisions, they could also find themselves being investigated by child protective services (CPS). The latest parent to face a CPS investigation for showing innocuous footage of her children is Hannah Hiatt, an influencer who has built an audience of half a million followers for videos detailing her life as a nurse with two young children. Last month, Hiatt posted a video in which her toddler-aged son appeared to flinch slightly as his father walked toward him to hand him a box of ice cream mochi. While most wouldn't think much of the clip, many viewers seized on the moment, arguing that it was proof that Hiatt and her husband were abusing their children.