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A Supreme Court case about abortion could destroy Medicaid
Topic: Abortion
Source: Vox
Kerr v. Planned Parenthood asks the justices to render much of federal law unenforceable, in order to spite abortion providers. Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is one of the most straightforward cases the Supreme Court will hear this year. It involves a federal law that requires every state’s Medicaid program to ensure that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” may obtain that care “from any institution, agency, community pharmacy, or person, qualified to perform the service or services required.” Thus, Medicaid patients, and not the state, clearly have a right to choose their own health providers, with only one exception. The provider must be “qualified,” which, as the federal appeals court that heard this case explained, means that the provider is “professionally competent” to provide the care that the patient seeks.

Maine Governor Responds to Trump's Apology Demand
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Bangor Daily News
Janet Mills pushes back again on president's attack against transgender athletes. He then demanded a "full throated apology" from Mills personally, as well as "a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the Federal Government again." An apology isn't exactly what Trump received on Monday from Mills, who the Bangor Daily News notes "doubled down" on standing for "the rule of law" against Trump's anti-trans movement. "If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying because they can't get basic, lifesaving health care in states across this country," Mills retorted.

Female Track Olympians Will Have Had DNA Sex Testing
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Newser
Track's governing body announces plan to introduce it. The head of track's governing body on Tuesday announced a policy change designed to "doggedly protect the female category": all female athletes participating in World Athletics track and field events will have to undergo DNA sex testing. The New York Times reports that makes it the first Olympic sport to have such a requirement. World Athletics head Sebastian Coe says the testing will take the form of a noninvasive cheek swab or dry blood DNA test. "Neither of these are invasive," Coe told reporters. "They are necessary and they will be done to absolute medical standards." The Washington Post reports World Athletics already bars transgender athletes; Coe said the planned testing is "not just talking about the integrity of female, women's sport but actually guaranteeing it."

NASA No Longer Looking to Put First Woman, POC on Moon
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Agency cites Trump's executive order to end DEI initiatives. Perhaps there won't be a woman walking on the moon after all. NASA's pledge to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface with its Artemis III mission has vanished from NASA webpages "in deference to President Trump's anti-diversity, equity and inclusion directive," NPR reports. In keeping with Trump's executive order to end DEI programs, "we're updating our language regarding plans to send crew to the lunar surface as part of NASA's Artemis campaign," NASA says in a statement, per the Orlando Sentinel. "We look forward to learning more from about the Trump Administration's plans for our agency and expanding exploration at the moon and Mars for the benefit of all."

Orwellian: Irish Court Seizes Cash of Teacher Denying Trans Ideology
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: PJ Media
Teacher Enoch Burke respectfully refused to use invented pronouns for a student who claimed to be transgender. Since he was teaching at a Christian school, the young Irishman believed that his Christian belief that there are only two sexes would be respected. He was wrong. In one video, Burke explained that on payday, he received no salary and his bank account was raided. As he makes €750 weekly, and has to put aside a little at a time, the loss of his life savings — €40,000 — is indeed a significant blow. “I want to say this is all unprecedented,” Burke stated, citing legal authority backing up his statement.

DOGE halts gruesome transgender mice grant
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
... intended to fine-tune male hormones for women: FOIA. "We are currently assessing exposure of short term (several weeks or less) androgens on reproductive parameters of female mice to model transgender men," University of California San Diego protocol says. The Biden administration's funding for transgender experiments on animals, intended to improve so-called gender-affirming care for humans, is coming to an early end as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency and Freedom of Information Act requests by a watchdog that opposes taxpayer-funded animal tests that are shining a light on the gruesome research.

Columbia faculty hold 'emergency vigil,' urge students to wear mask, skip class
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
...to protest Trump. Columbia University professors protest Monday in response to college's recent policy changes. A group of people continued marching and circling around the main gate of Columbia University on Monday afternoon, banging loud drums and chanting, "Long live the intifada." Their actions come shortly after Columbia University professors held what they called an "emergency vigil" in response to the college's agreement to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department following demands from the Trump administration.

This company is taking advantage of sextortion victims, some customers say
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: USA Today
The blackmailer was waiting. If the man didn't pay up, the scammer, known as a sextortionist, promised to release his nude images to his family, friends and government job. But each time he paid, the predator, who had pretended to be someone else on a dating app, increased the ransom. Desperate for a way out, he was relieved when a Google search brought him to the site of Digital Forensics Corporation (DFC). The Ohio-based company said they could try to get the explicit photos deleted, but it would cost $3,000. He says they asked for half the money up front via credit card and that he send a physical check for the rest. It seemed strange to him, but he complied.

Exposing The Chinese "Rent-A-Womb" Industry In America
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
...hotels and motels across the U.S. have reported an influx of pregnant Chinese women staying for months to give birth on American soil. Federal officials are targeting a long-running underground birth tourism industry in California, where Chinese nationals pay baby brokers to ensure their children are born as U.S. citizens. Authorities say pregnant women are often housed in upscale homes and apartments near Los Angeles—dubbed “baby farms” by locals. These illegal operations can charge over $100,000 per pregnancy, according to NewsNation. “This was an industry,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally. “These were criminal enterprises that operated here in the United States and also people in China who would recruit. The organizers... were responsible for the birth tourism of thousands of babies. They had a system in place.” McNally estimates that roughly 30,000 babies were born through these schemes.

Trans, Nonbinary People Are Fighting New Passport Policy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Associated Press
Meanwhile, Trump administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ community. A group of transgender and nonbinary individuals is suing the Trump administration over its passport policy, which bans changing gender markers on passports and bans the use of the "X" gender marker. The policy came about after President Trump issued an executive order on the first day of his second presidential term declaring that the country will only recognize two sexes, male and female, and further declares that those are "not changeable." The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs in the suit filed in Boston, the AP reports.

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."

Texas A&M's Drag Ban Shows the Threat to Campus Free Speech Is Bipartisan
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Conservatives are picking up the unconstitutional weapons that intolerant progressives deployed against them. This week a federal judge stepped in to save a student-sponsored drag show at Texas A&M University. The need for that intervention shows that efforts to control on-campus speech, long decried by conservatives who complained of censorship by intolerant progressives, are a bipartisan phenomenon. Men have been dressing as women in theatrical performances for millennia—a history that includes ancient Greek dramas, 16th century productions of Shakespeare's plays, and popular films such as Hairspray, Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire, and White Chicks. But the continuation of that tradition was too much for the Texas A&M Board of Regents, which last month banned "drag shows that involve biological males dressing as women" from "special event venues."

Democrats Start “Informal Conversations” on Transgender Issues,
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Wokespy
Democrats are beginning to address their radical transgender policy which is in direct conflict with over three-quarters of American voters. According to a New York Times/Ipsos Survey, 79% of Americans, including 67% of Democrats say that transgender athletes should not be allowed in women’s sports. Similarly, 71% of Americans, including 54% of Democrats, oppose transgender care such as puberty-blocking drugs and hormone therapy for children under 18 years.

Latest Racism Hoax: Allentown City Worker Planted Noose On Her Own Desk, Police Say
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Mayor glad incident has prompted conversations about "inclusivity". Here we go again: Yet another headline-generating act of anti-black racism has turned out to have been staged by the "victim." You'll feel like you've seen this movie before, but grab a box of Sno-Caps and step into our theater, as this long-running franchise never disappoints. This story starts in January, with news outlets earnestly reporting a claim by Allentown, Pennsylvania city employee LaTarsha Brown that she found a small noose on her computer when she arrived at work in the Department of Economic and Community Development. "It is both horrible and unacceptable that, in this day and age, such an incident can happen in any workplace," Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk said at the time.

The Anti-democratic Legal Form of the University (And How to Fix It)
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: LPE Project
To arrest this slide into academic authoritarianism, the AAUP offered a plea in the form of a platitude: “Governing boards, administrations, and faculties must make a conscious, concerted, and sustained effort to ensure that all parties are conversant with, and cultivate respect for, the norms of shared governance.” Thus does the AAUP urge the very trustees and senior administrators who have abetted what it calls the academy’s “corporatization” to concede the error of their ways and affirm allegiance to practices of collaborative governance they have undermined for years.

Davidson College Investigates Student
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...for Speaking Out Against Palestinian and Transgender Positions. Davidson College officials have launched an investigation into a student, Cynthia Huang, the president of Davidson College’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. In two separate incidents, Huang spoke out against Palestinian and transgender claims. In a disciplinary letter, Mak Tompkins, Davidson’s director of student rights and responsibilities, wrote that she was accused of spreading “misinformation” that could foster Islamophobia and transphobia.

Why is the NHS siding with a racist paedophile?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
A nurse is fighting for her job after she ‘misgendered’ a sex offender, who then racially abused her. If a six-foot-tall convicted paedophile racially abused a black female nurse, who would you expect the NHS to defend? Incredibly, the Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust has allegedly taken the side of the racist paedo. All because the criminal in question identifies as transgender and the nurse in question ‘misgendered’ him.

Adolescence: Netflix Series Demonizes Young White Men And The Manosphere
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Zero Hedge
The show blames toxic masculinity and the anti-woke movement for a recent string of knife attacks against girls in Britain while ignoring the real cause. The progressive media is swooning over a new miniseries produced in Britain and distributed by Netflix called 'Adolescence', and after reviewing the story it's easy to see why. British government officials are hailing the show as a wake up call and are using it to promote online censorship of the "Manosphere". Leftist journalists are seeking to drum up artificial interest, calling it a "masterpiece" that exposes the toxic nature of masculinity. At a time when the political left is losing the culture war on almost every front it's not surprising that they would hyper-promote an otherwise forgettable series that panders to the woke demographic. Its depiction of a teen murder, driven by the terrible "evils" of conservative influencers who expose the irrational zealotry of feminism and DEI, is pure propaganda fodder. A desperate attempt to to double down on woke arguments that have been debunked for years. The creators of Adolescence cite a recent string of knife attacks against girls in Britain as the inspiration for the series, but in typical progressive fashion the production ignores the fact that the vast majority of these crimes were committed by minority and migrant males. The teen killer in Adolescence is a white British boy, not a minority.