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Statehouses Can't Shake Sexual Misconduct Claims
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
At least 14 state lawmakers were accused last year, per AP investigation. The #MeToo movement hit critical mass in 2017, toppling politicians and public figures across the country. Allegations of harassment and misconduct—some from many years prior—emerged. Many state legislatures responded by adopting or enhancing policies against sexual misconduct. In the years since, women's representation in US statehouses has reached an all-time high. But allegations continue to surface—at the state level and beyond. An AP investigation finds at least 147 state lawmakers across 44 states have been accused of sexual harassment or misconduct since 2017. Most allegations were reported during the first two years of #MeToo, but more have surfaced every year since.

With Depardieu Trial, France May See Its #MeToo Moment
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
Actor accused of groping 2 women during 2021 filming of Les Volets Verts. French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France, per the AP. Depardieu, 76, is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of Les Volets Verts or The Green Shutters. The actor denies any wrongdoing. Depardieu told the judges he was prepared to answer the court's questions. "We will be able to show in an impartial, objective and incontestable manner that all of the accusations are lies," his attorney, Jérémie Assous, told journalists massed outside the courtroom. "The truth will be obvious and the truth is on our side."

Disney Quietly Cancels Live-Action 'Pocahontas' Starring Dylan Mulvaney
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Babylon Bee
[Ed: yes, satire.] After watching its latest feature Snow White suffer a disastrous opening weekend at the box office, executives at Disney have decided to quietly cancel the studio's live-action version of Pocahontas starring Dylan Mulvaney. Studio executives notified Mulvaney that the project would not be moving forward after audiences resoundingly ridiculed Snow White, blasting every aspect of the film, from its poor production quality to its pushing of a "woke" agenda.

Michelle Obama Expresses Shock that Controversial School Lunch Program Unpopular
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart News
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is surprised that her school lunch program proved to be so controversial. Obama made the remarks during an appearance this week on the Not Gonna Lie podcast with Kylie Kelce, asserting that her decision to make a difference with school lunches — and her overall “Let’s Move” initiative — was “strategic” in nature. “I was trying to be strategic about aligning my agenda with something that was important to the West Wing. And I thought, ‘There’s no way that anyone is going to take issue with trying to make school lunches healthier, getting kids more active,'” she said.

Rate of French Women Assaulted on Public Transport Sores 86%
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Armageddon Prose
...For Some Odd Reason [Ed: the odd reason mentioned is migrants from areas that disrespect women] The “weird unknowable reason” is: the “migrants,” as the UN insists they be called. It’s always the migrants. If you see a story about subway rape literally anywhere in Europe at any time in any context, it was a migrant that did it. If the legacy media won’t identify the attacker in its coverage — if it can be bothered to report on it at all — that’s because it’s covering up this very critical, universal fact pattern.

Former Vogue Editor Admits...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gateway Pundit
Liberal Bias Keeps the Most Beautiful First Lady in History From Magazine. I’ll be very honest. I’ve talked to a lot of friends in the industry who are very liberal, a former colleagues at Vogue and other magazine I’ve seen some other designers, American designers, some of whom were very close friends with Ivana Trump and very much love Melania, but they have said point blank, ‘Yeah, sorry, no,’ people are too scared. They won’t do it because they are too worried about their own brand, their own reputation, and the bottom line. I think that’s really disappointing. I’m not saying across the board that’s going to be the case, but I don’t think we’re suddenly going to see a dramatic change. I mean, fashion houses like Oscar de la Renta, of course, he doesn’t do the designs anymore, but they’re historically more about fashion and beauty and the esthetic as they are than politics or even being bullied into dressing or not dressing someone.

Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Politico
Colleges and universities across the country are capitulating to President Donald Trump with staggering speed, moving to slash progressive policies and crack down on student activism as they face compounding threats from an administration hellbent on reshaping higher education. Columbia University on Thursday appeared poised to submit to a list of Trump administration demands that threaten core tenets of the school’s mission in an attempt to release itself from a $400 million federal funding freeze. The University of California’s board moved on Wednesday to cut diversity statements from recruitment requirements. Dartmouth College on Monday announced it had hired the Republican National Committee’s former chief counsel — an outspoken critic of birthright citizenship — as the college’s top lawyer and leader of its immigration office. And dozens of universities last month rushed to scrub diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their websites and cancel related events.

Iceland's Minister For Children Quits After Admitting Having Baby With 16 Yr Old
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
While Iceland’s age of consent is 15, sex with a minor under 18 is illegal if one is their teacher or mentor... Iceland’s minister for children has resigned after admitting she had a child over 30 years ago with a 16-year-old boy while she was a 22-year-old church group counselor, according to the New York Post. Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir, whose name has forced us to remember Word keystrokes we haven't used in years, is now 58 and a member of the center-left People’s Party. She confirmed the relationship after local outlet RUV received a tip. She revealed the teen father was present during the birth, and later paid child support.

Woke Kennedy Center Worker Fired Over Naked Meltdown Video About Trump & Musk
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Tavish Forsyth, a woke leftist and former program director at the Kennedy Center’s Opera Institute, was fired after bizarrely stripping down in a 35-minute video posted on YouTube and X, during which he ranted against President Trump's takeover of the national cultural center on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. “Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center and that’s a place where I work,” Forsyth said in the video while clothed.

Trump demands apology from Maine Gov. Mills amid transgender athlete dispute
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: News 7 WSVN
President Donald Trump demanded an apology from Maine’s governor over a dispute involving transgender athletes. The testy encounter took place in February at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting. Trump threatened to strip Maine of its federal funding if it refuses to comply with his executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. Maine Gov. Janet Mills responded with a simple “see you in court.”

Maine Universities Back Down To Trump
Topic: Women's Health
Source: Outkick
Will Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports. Universities in Maine have caved to pressure from the Trump administration on the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports. Maine, with the support of Democrat Governor Janet Mills, had been defying an executive order issued by President Donald Trump to prevent males from competing against females in athletic competitions.

PM Urged to Declare “Emergency” After U.S. Stops Funding Australian Universities
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Last Refuge
Apparently, the U.S. government has been sending $6oo million/yr to universities in Australia to subsidize various college research programs. The Trump administration has told Australia the funding will likely end. The Australian university system is in a state of panic, telling their government to declare a “state of emergency”. One particular quote from within the Sky News article below seemingly encapsulates the mindset of the situation in the land down under...

TX AG Paxton Sues School District for ‘Illegally Teaching’ Critical Race Theory
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Signal
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Coppell Independent School District for “illegally teaching woke and hateful critical race theory curriculum,” his office said in a Wednesday press release. The lawsuit follows an undercover video revealing Coppell school district’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction Evan Whitfield admitting to defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on teaching critical race theory, according to the statement. Conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media released the footage on Feb. 26.

America’s colleges are hoarding billions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The New York Post
— and yet still cry poor as Trump targets federal funding. Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I’d have found stories about the administration cutting grants to universities and detonating thousands of campus-related jobs horrifying. But the education sob stories now flying off the presses have a gigantic lie of omission. Take Johns Hopkins. NBC News was one of many to highlight the “grave consequences” the new administration’s policies have had on the famed institution, noting “the changes will also have an economic impact in Baltimore because the university is the largest private employer in Maryland.” NBC pointed out that “about half of Johns Hopkins’ funding last year came from federal research dollars, according to a letter from Ron Daniels, the university’s president.”

Brutal: Come see how poorly the Snow White remake is doing
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Not the Bee
...at the box office on opening weekend. Well, opening weekend is finally here, folks. And I'm pleased to report that it's looking as horrifically bad for Disney as we all thought it would...

The Vanishing White Male Writer
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Compact Magazine
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six. And then the doors shut. By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list, none in Vanity Fair’s, none in The Atlantic’s. Esquire, a magazine ostensibly geared towards male millennials, has featured 53 millennial fiction writers on its year-end book lists since 2020. Only one was a white American man.

"This Has Become So Absurd"
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
WaPo Comments Section Explodes After Transgender Op-Ed Reminds Democrats Why They Lost. While Jeff Bezos is trying to rebrand the Washington Post as a more moderate rag - causing mass resignations last month at the thought of being less partisan - he might want to check in with the paper's new Opinion editor after his last one rage-quit as part of the February freakout. The author of course then jumps into "the Trump administration's attacks on us," and insists "transgender women are not “really” men. We are women. We may have different histories than other women, but then, every woman has her own history." Make it stop...

Forget Woke Snow White.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Disney's Remake Is More Like Socialist Snow White. If you've heard anything about Disney's new live-action Snow White remake, it's probably that it's woke, that star Rachel Zegler is a "DEI princess," and that the movie caters to cringe left identitarianism. The long-in-the-works movie, most of which was shot in 2022, has been embroiled in online controversy for years, and most of the complaints were made by people who hadn't seen the movie. But I have. And the movie is indeed a trainwreck. The problem isn't that it's woke. It's that it's awful—and lamely, bluntly socialist.

The Dems' Reported Pivot on Trans Issues Will Be a Brutal Transition
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Townhall
Democrats are starting to have serious conversations around how to handle transgender rights politically ahead of next year’s elections — after, by their own admission, they were caught flat-footed on the issue in 2024. The upshot, so far: Don’t be so dogmatic that you risk alienating voters and allies.