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Trump Orders Federal Gov To Recognize Men And Women Are Different
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Federalist
‘If federal policies promote such an obvious falsehood that men can become women, the government will forfeit all credibility.’ One of incoming President Donald Trump’s first orders of business on Inauguration Day will be issuing an executive order declaring that the federal government must recognize and honor that men are men and women are women. Trump plans to realign the country with truth and the will of the people by purging the federal government of any of its accommodations and advances of radical gender ideology. Under the new administration, the departments and agencies running the country are barred from pretending people can switch their sex and prohibited from bypassing the First Amendment to force the Orwellian use of “preferred pronouns” at jobs and in schools.

NBC Runs Hegseth Hit Piece Despite Ex-Wife Debunking Accusation
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Zero Hedge
If you thought the Kavanaugh accuser was a joke... [Ed: I am so damned tired of this tactic.] Just in time for Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, his brother's ex-wife, Danielle Hegseth, came out with a wild, Kavanaugh-esque claim that Pete Hegseth, President Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, made his second wife 'fear for her safety.' Except, Hegseth's second wife completely denied the claim, and NBC News decided to run the story anyway. When asked for comment, Hegseth's ex, Samantha Hegseth, told the outlet, "I do not believe your information to be accurate, and I have cc’d my lawyer," adding "There was no physical abuse in my marriage. This is the only further statement I will make to you."

No White Men Allowed In Bally's Chicago Casino Share Offering Promoted By City Officials
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Wire Points
Bally’s, the big casino operator, is selling shares only to women and minorities in its new gambling resort mecca being built in Chicago’s River West neighborhood. Bally’s, the big casino operator, is selling shares only to women and minorities in its new gambling resort mecca being built in Chicago’s River West neighborhood. A minority preference of some kind was a condition to city approval of the project, and this is what the city and Bally’s agreed to. Yes, that appears blatantly illegal, but wait to understand the deal before deciding whether it’s truly doing any favor for women and minorities. Opinions may vary on that. The offering is being promoted by the City of Chicago Treasurer and some city aldermen.

Democrats press VA secretary nominee on abortion, Project 2025
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
Trump's pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs answered questions on abortion access and broader health care challenges at the agency. Abortion politics took center stage at the Tuesday morning confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA Secretary nominee Doug Collins, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, was asked more than once by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Democrats whether he would roll back a Biden administration rule allowing the agency to provide abortion counseling and, in some cases, the procedure itself.

Federal Reserve Withdraws From Global Climate Group As Trump Assumes Power
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
“This is policy masquerading as ‘risk analysis,’” The U.S. Federal Reserve is exiting a global climate change coalition days before the new Trump administration is set to take power on Jan. 20. The Federal Reserve had joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) in December 2020. NGFS, composed of global central banks and supervisors, aims to integrate climate and environmental risk management into the financial sector and mobilize “finance to support the transition toward a sustainable economy,” according to the group’s website. On Friday, the Federal Reserve announced its withdrawal from the 143-member coalition.

Indiana gov signs executive order to replace DEI with 'Merit, Excellence and Innovation'
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Campus Reform
Indiana Governor Mike Braun has ordered for state agencies to replace DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) with what he calls 'MEI' (Merit, Excellence and Innovation). On Wednesday, the governor issued Executive Order 25-14, invoking the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 landmark ruling against race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The order prevents agencies from supporting DEI programs if they offer “preferential treatment” for characteristics like race or ethnicity, prohibits mandatory DEI statements for employment, bans mandated preferred pronouns, and blocks required DEI programming and training. State agencies will also be required to perform a review of all DEI programming to ensure compliance with the governor’s order.

'There Are Only Two Genders,' Trump Order Declares
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: NBC News
Barring a successful court challenge, biological sex will be required on government documents. In a change that could affect health care for transgender and other patients and be fought in court, one of President Trump's new executive orders says the government now will recognize biological sex, rather than a person's expressed gender identity if it's different. He declared in his inaugural address Monday that it will be "the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," the Wall Street Journal reports.

NC Governor Issues New Abortion Protections Ahead of Trump Presidency
Topic: Abortion
Source: Truth Out
Gov. Josh Stein’s order protects abortion providers, blocks prosecution efforts and strengthens patient privacy. With less than a week until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) has taken new steps to enhance state protections for abortion providers and shield patients’ reproductive health information. “I don’t know what will happen, but what I am trying to communicate to the people of this state is that they have a champion in me for their personal privacy and their right to make their own health care decisions,” Stein said at a conference.

3 Key Medical Concepts to Teach Every Child
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Survival Mom
Are you a parent or caregiver concerned about your child’s safety in a medical emergency? Children are smart enough to learn how to best respond in a medical emergency. Here is the essential knowledge and practical strategies to teach children how to recognize danger, respond appropriately, and potentially save lives.

Supreme Court to Determine if Parents Have a Right
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN News
... to Opt Young Kids Out of LGBTQ Reading in Elementary School. The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether schools may read LGBTQ+ books to elementary school students without giving parents the ability to opt their children out on religious grounds. The lawsuit over a Maryland school district’s policy landed at the Supreme Court amid raging culture war fights about transgender rights and how much control parents should have over school curriculum. A group of mostly Muslim and Ethiopian Orthodox parents sued Montgomery County schools over the policy, arguing that it violated their First Amendment religious rights, and were seeking an injunction that would block the policy while courts considered their underlying First Amendment challenge.

SCOTUS Will Consider If Maryland Parents Can Opt Children Out Of Pro-LGBT Books
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
The Fourth Circuit ruled against the parents last year, finding there was no evidence their constitutional rights were violated. The court granted the petition in Mahmoud v. Taylor in an unsigned order. No justices dissented, and the court did not explain its decision. The petition was filed on Sept. 12, 2024, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit turned away the parents’ request for an injunction to halt the Montgomery County Board of Education’s policy of promoting the books. The case goes back to November 2022, when the board mandated new “LGBTQ-inclusive” storybooks for elementary school students that promote gender transitions, Pride parades, and same-sex romance between young children.

Grooming gangs: the making of a scandal
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Spiked Online
How elite fears of social unrest and accusations of racism led the state to look away from industrial-scale abuse. Thanks to the numerous local inquiries and court cases, this much we do know about the grooming-gangs scandal. From at least the 1990s and likely long before then, criminal networks prostituted, raped and tortured thousands of young girls in towns and cities across the UK. And the authorities, despite being aware of what was happening, did very little to intervene. The sites of the abuse may differ – significant gangs have been identified and partially prosecuted in Bradford, Derby, Newcastle, Oxford, Telford, Rotherham, Oldham, Birmingham, Rochdale and many more places. But we know that the pattern of offending remains similar. Groups of men working in or around the nighttime economy target 11- or 12-year-old girls, often from challenging backgrounds. They pose as their ‘boyfriends’. They ply them with drink and drugs. Then over months and years they rape them. They pimp them out for sex with other men. They beat and threaten them.

Biden Makes Last-Ditch Pass at Interfering in College Sports
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Even if the Trump administration quickly undoes it, it’s a precedent for future administrations. On President Joe Biden's way out the door, his Education Department has thrown a wrench into plans for universities to pay student-athletes directly. The payments will almost certainly still happen, but instead of schools using the vast majority of the payments on athletes in big-revenue programs (i.e. football), the Education Department says under Title IX the payments must be "proportionate" between male and female athletes.

Prof says 'all hell broke loose' at Harvard after his study found no racial bias in police shootings
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
Roland Fryer recently detailed the extreme backlash he says he faced for releasing findings that contradict popular left-wing narratives on policing. Fryer says that colleagues told him 'Don't publish this,' warning that 'You'll ruin your career.' Professor Roland Fryer, an economics professor at the Cambridge, Massachusetts Ivy League institution, recently had a conversation with Bari Weiss of The Free Press during which he discussed the violent reaction to a study he published in 2016. [Ed: Fryer is a black prof.]

Her name is Emily Damari
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Author: by Brendan O’Neill
The left will never live down the shame of staying silent on the racist kidnapping of a British Jew. There is a British woman who survived 15 months at the hands of a neo-fascist militia. A woman who was cruelly deprived of her liberty and dignity by racist monsters and yet who emerged from that hell smiling and defiant. A woman who spent her 28th birthday in the bondage of an army of bigots. A woman who was subjected to the most intolerable persecutions for one ‘crime’ and one ‘crime’ only – she’s a Jew.

Gender Equity at Curtin University
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James Nuzzo
As many women as possible and one token male ally. The purpose of the STEM Outreach Officer at Curtin University is to increase the number of students of only one sex: females. Curtin University does not appear to have positions or initiatives dedicated to increasing the number of male students in programs where men are fewer in number, such as psychology, education, nursing, and occupational therapy. Therefore, Curtin University is engaging in sex discrimination. When I posted about this discrimination on X, an astute follower responded with a link to the website of Curtin University’s Gender Equity and Inclusion team. According to the team’s website, their mission is to “build and nurture inclusive, socially just, culturally responsive and safe values driven communities within the University.” An additional aim of the team is said to be to “eliminate gender-based discrimination and identify and challenge cultural, social and institutional norms and barriers to achieving gender equity.”

I Prefer Toxic Masculinity to Deadly D.E.I. Incompetence
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: American Thinker
All masculine images have been reclassified as toxic by the progressive feminists so my headline may be misleading. I actually prefer real examples of the male in all his magnificent glory while rescuing those in need of brute strength to combat adversity of all kinds. What we have seen in recent news is the failure of instituting Diversity, Equity and Inclusive (D.E.I.) policies into emergency services that require strength and power. Nothing was made clearer than the disastrous interview with LAFD deputy assistant, Kristine Larson, who had the nerve to suggest that if she, as a woman firefighter, was unable to carry a man out of a burning house, then the man was at fault. “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

Linda McMahon can transform education through school choice
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
As President Donald Trump’s nominees are considered by the U.S. Senate, families are ready to see education secretary nominee Linda McMahon step into the ring to shake up our nation’s education system. What’s one of those moves? School choice. As someone who benefited from school choice by attending private and charter schools and has worked to remove government barriers to both the workplace and education, senators need to consider McMahon’s unique perspective and leadership style, shaped by her extensive business experience and ability to drive innovation, as she vies to become the next secretary of education.

Reverse Biden Administration's Illegal Student Loan Giveaway
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Real Clear Policy
The settlement represents a dangerous erosion of the separation of powers,,, Even in the waning days of the Biden administration, they are circumventing Congress and the rule of law to illegally forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt through the collusive class action settlement of Sweet v. Cardona. As one of his first acts on January 20, President-elect Trump should shut down this travesty.