Model recruiter who introduced young women to Epstein found dead in France
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CNN
A French professional model recruiter who for over a decade arranged for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to meet multiple models, was found dead in his home near Paris on Monday. Daniel Siad’s body was found in his house in Colombes, a suburb of the French capital, Marie-Céline Lawrysz, deputy public prosecutor at the Nanterre Judicial Court, told CNN in a Wednesday statement. An autopsy will be performed on the body to determine the cause of death.

Tokyo urges men to wear shorts to work
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: BBC News
but some women say it’s ‘leg hair harassment’.As temperatures rise this summer, Japanese men are baring more leg at work than ever before. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is pushing company employees to ditch their usual suit and tie for more casual attire, featuring t-shirts, trainers - and shorts. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike introduced "Tokyo Cool Biz" in April, hoping to expand on her signature cool down initiative which has now become a widely recognised annual summer tradition. Almost four months in, the newly allowed shorts in the office policy is getting mixed reviews.

PAPERS, PLEASE: UK and EU push forward with mass surveillance
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Human Events
...infrastructure under the guise of protecting children. Last September, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the UK would get a mandatory national digital ID. The Estonian model was cited approvingly. Labour MPs believed the pitch was narrow and reasonable-sounding, especially considering Starmer had just given a migration speech so hardline it was compared to Enoch Powell’s "Rivers of Blood." The ID, called a BritCard would stop illegal Channel crossings, and prove people's right to work and residency status. However, it wasn’t long before Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, put his foot in it. He admitted the card "could have much wider uses in the future."

Brandon Gill grills Smithsonian director over 'racist' Mickey Mouse
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
... politeness, 'white supremacy culture'. Tuesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Brandon Gill pressed Anthea M. Hartig, who serves as director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, over a white supremacy Mass Action Toolkit the museum promoted under the director's tutelage and her comments on Mickey Mouse being rooted in racism. "Would you say that the goal of history is to be objective?" Gill asked Hartig.

Chaotic Bodycam Video Shows Trans Florida Student Confront Cop
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Over 'Misgendering' Before Arrest. Newly released police bodycam video shows a University of Central Florida student confronting a campus officer over pronouns before being pepper-sprayed, tased, and taken away in handcuffs. The footage shows Jarrett Vick, a 27-year-old blue-haired UCF student from Treasure Island, Florida, shouting at an officer who had arrived at a campus building on an unrelated call. The video was recorded in February 2025 but released Friday by the YouTube channel Inside The Blue TV.

NIH Gave Pediatrician Nearly $1/2M to Study BIPOC Youths’ Gender-Affirming Care
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Judicial Watch
Charged with making important discoveries that improve health and save lives, the nation’s medical research agency gave a pediatrician and professor at a public university nearly half a million dollars to research gender-affirming care for youth in rural communities who identify as black, indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which annually disburses tens of billions of dollars in research grants, initiated the award during the Biden administration but some of the money flowed under Trump, even after the president banned taxpayer dollars for such initiatives advanced by the left. “Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology,” reads an order issued by Trump on the day of his 2025 inauguration. “Each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.”

This Sex Robot Is Going To 'Teach' Your Kids In Schools
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
A $57,000 silicone-skinned humanoid with botox lips... A rural New York school district on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to become one of the first in the United States to place a lifelike humanoid robot in front of high school students. Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will introduce "Sally," an M-Series robot built by Realbotix, to assist in coding, robotics, and AI classes for 11th and 12th graders. Sally comes with brown hair, silicone skin, a Western New York accent, upper-body movement, and facial expressions. She remains seated and cannot walk the room. Students will log in with unique identification codes so the machine can recognize them and pick up previous interactions.

DOJ Probing Harvard Over Financial Aid Programs Linked To China-Based Sources
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
Harvard had disclosed nearly $4.5 billion in foreign funding of which $630 million came directly from sources in China, the DOJ said. The Justice Department (DOJ) said on July 20 that it was investigating whether Harvard University violated Title VI by excluding American students from financial aid programs funded by China-based sources. Universities are required by federal law to report gifts and contracts from foreign sources that exceed $250,000 in a year. Harvard had disclosed nearly $4.5 billion in foreign funding, of which $630 million came from sources based in China - the university's largest source of foreign funding - the department said.

‘When she turns eight they will take her’
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian
...rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage {Islam}. Sima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four. Sitting with her children in their mud-brick room in Badghis province, Sima says: “After the Taliban entered the country, I had just finished the sixth grade and was supposed to start the seventh. But two months later, my father pressured me immensely to marry my cousin. After being beaten by my father several times, I was forced to accept.” At 13, Sima became a bride inside the compound where she still lives, and where she has given birth to her children

US Democratic senators demand Pentagon release investigation
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Anadolu Agency
... into deadly Iran school strike. 'There is no justification for withholding an unclassified accounting of what happened, what went wrong,' senators write in letter. A group of Democratic senators is pressing the Pentagon to immediately release its findings of an investigation into a US military strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 175 people, including children. Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and 23 other senators in demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper make public the Pentagon’s review of the Feb. 28 strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab.

‘Trumpian politics’: Abortion battle flares over law pushed by Madrid conservatives
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico.EU
Critics say an expansion of benefit entitlements pushed by Spain’s People’s Party could open the door to restrictions on terminations. A push by Spain's conservatives to encourage families to have more children has thrust abortion back into the national political arena. At the center of the fight is a new law introduced by the regional People's Party government in Madrid that allows families to claim certain benefits linked to family size before a child is born. The PP says the measure is a "sensible, useful and necessary" response to Spain's slumping birth rate — one of the lowest in Europe — and has promised to implement it nationally if it returns to power next year. But the law has become a culture-war flashpoint

The Great Menopause Grift
Topic: Women's Health
Source: The Brownstone Institute
We can see fearmongering everywhere, but the most brazen current example is the full-frontal assault on menopause. If you’ve read a newspaper or scrolled through social media lately you might be asking yourself: Why the heck is everyone getting worked up about menopause? Are hot flashes taking over the planet? Are women really as angry as the media portrays them to be? And the drugs: who do you believe about whether the drugs will help or harm you? These are good questions, focusing on a condition that every woman—our mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers and so on – went through, back to the dawn of time. The fearmongering today bypasses the fact that most women who arrive at the end of their periods get through this phase without serious discomfort or suffering.

A Step-by-Step Guide to AI in Schools — How Much to Use and When
Topic: Children and Family
Source: 74 million
Weber: Let artificial intelligence help build critical thinking in elementary school, teach AI literacy in MS, use it for personalized learning in HS. Every few years, a new technology enters schools. Television beamed lessons from the best teachers into classrooms. Computers and the internet gave students access to a wealth of information, right at their fingertips. Interactive whiteboards, tablets and Chromebooks were sold as the future of education. Now, it is artificial intelligence. And educators must ask: What does this innovation help students learn that they couldn’t without it? [Ed: a contrary view to the following piece.]

The philosopher who wants schools to slow kids down
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Big Think
Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education. As Biesta put it in a conversation with Big Think, such a task is much harder than being told what to do: “It’s being confronted with your own freedom, when you need to figure out: What do you do if no one tells you what to do?” This is the space Biesta — a widely influential philosopher of education and professor of public education at Maynooth University in Ireland — has struggled to defend for decades. He argues it’s been shrinking in schools that prioritize speed, efficient learning, and measurable outcomes. To him, nothing has done more to minimize that space than AI: a machine almost designed to hurry us past the moment of not-knowing before we have had any real chance to inhabit it.

Jennifer Seibel Newsom Earning Side Eye Even From Democrats
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
As Gavin Newsom scrambles to keep is congenital Presidential ambitions alive, his ‘First Partner’, Barbie Jennifer Seibel, is drawing such negative attention that even Democrats aren’t buying the OrangeManBad excuse. "A sizable share of Democrats support the federal probe into California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife as the duo claims President Donald Trump is directing a politically motivated attack against them, a new survey shows. A Daily Mail/JL Partners poll found 27% of Democrats support the probe into California’s first couple, with 14% saying they “somewhat support” the investigation and 13% saying they “strongly support” it."

Doug Casey on Trump Accounts and the Coming Raid on Retirement Savings
Topic: Children and Family
Source: International Man
International Man: The government is now offering “Trump Accounts” for children, with a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible kids born from 2025 through 2028. Why do you think the government wants this money held in an IRA-style structure instead of simply giving families direct ownership and control?

Doug Casey: My understanding is that once the money goes into the Trump account, it can’t be withdrawn at all until January 1 of the year the child turns 18. Then it’s treated like a regular IRA. With exceptions for education or the purchase of a first house. 60 years hence, it’s supposed to be tax-free. But 60 years is a long time, especially when it comes to government programs. We don’t even know if the US will exist in its present form 60 years from now. Forget about the dollar; it definitely won’t exist in its present form.

The Great Academic Purge
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: State of the Day
Tucked inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law almost exactly a year ago is a new law federal bureaucrats have referred to as the “do no harm” test. Technically named “STATS” – Student Tuition and Transparency System – this test is part of the Earnings Accountability rule. It will eventually require universities to gather data on student outcomes in certain majors. If those majors fail to report earned income higher than median workers without a college degree, they will lose federal funding. Seems like common sense. Why should taxpayers foot the bill on (astronomical) college debts for educations that have no hope of ever paying back the money?

Gallup: Higher Education Hits Another Low in Public Trust
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...as the Public Rejects Institutional Bias. According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. One of the Gallup experts told Fox News that one of the key reasons for the continued slide in public trust is “the perception that there’s a political agenda being taught.” That perception is well documented after most departments purged their ranks of any republican, conservative, or libertarian faculty members. At the same time, many faculty oppose the long-standing principle of institutional neutrality for universities, the subject of a recent debate that I had with the President of the American Association of University Professors.

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses”
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Daily Bell
Are Afraid to Use Them in Public. Meta’s camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports. Influencers, mostly men, have been using the glasses to inconspicuously — and non-consensually — capture footage of themselves approaching women and attempting to hit on them, interactions they’ve then posted online for content. Some wearers have even attempted to extort victims of covert recordings for cash. That’s on top of serious allegations of alleged privacy breaches by Meta itself.

Academics persist in being ’20’ on the ’80-20? issue of trans women in female sports
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: The College Fix
It’s been almost two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. which allows states to ban biological males — or “trans females” — from competing on (biological) female sports teams. If ever there was an issue that separates the common sense-adhering general public from the critical-theorizing academy — a so-called “80-20? issue, if you will — this is it. It’s also an example of what Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy.” Taken by itself, no, allowing men to compete as women won’t collapse our society; however, the mindset behind such certainly will. If we let it.