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The demographics of gun owners are changing
Topic: Women, Minorities, and Guns
Source: The Washington Examiner
In fact, the firearm community today is the most diverse it has ever been. More than 25 million people have become first-time gun owners since 2020, bringing with them a surge in gun ownership among communities that historically hadn’t been as keen to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Female firearm ownership increased by 77% between 2005 and 2020. Firearm purchases by Hispanic people grew by almost 50% between 2019 and 2020. The year 2020 also saw a 58% increase in black people purchasing firearms. Even Democrat firearm ownership jumped from 22% in 2010 to 29% in 2022.

Trump Doubles-Down On Returning American Education 'Back To The States'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Campus Reform
"We are going to close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. and send it back to the States, where it belongs..." On the topic of education, Trump highlighted Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon, whom he called “fantastic.” ”And a very special woman, Linda McMahon, is going to be our future Secretary of Education, which we’re going to be giving back to the states,” Trump remarked. “Let the state run education.” Trump also said how he told McMahon, “if you do a great job, you will put yourself out of a job. Because you’re going to be sending it back to the states.”

Dems Hijack Doug Collins’ Confirmation Hearing To Push Extreme Abortion Agenda
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Federalist
[Ed: as clarification, I am pro-choice and this is a biased piece] The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday to consider the nomination of Doug Collins to lead the agency of the same name. While Collins and Republicans focused on the department’s shortcomings and the well-being of America’s veterans, it’s clear some of the body’s Democrat members had only one issue in mind: the ability to kill unborn children. Throughout the nearly three-hour-long hearing, Collins fielded an array of hostile questions from Democrat senators about the future of a pro-abortion policy enacted by the Biden Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, the leftist lawmakers wanted to know whether the Trump administration would repeal the rule.

Trump Issues Major New Executive Order Impacting Higher Education
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump that included an extension of his earlier move against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies to the area of higher education. The order makes direct reference to the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) banning the use of race in college admissions and instructs the Departments of Education and Justice to investigate any circumvention of the prohibition by colleges and universities. The order effectively carries out the mandate declared by Chief Justice John Roberts: “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” Since the EO has not been officially posted on the government website, I have included the full language below.

The British Pakistanis who spoke out against grooming gangs
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Spiked Online
Ethnic-minority Britons are as furious about this scandal as everyone else. A recent poll found that support for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs is widespread and mainstream, with around three in four members of the British public being in favour of one. Labour’s current plans for five local inquiries and a three-month audit into ‘cultural and societal drivers’ behind the crimes will no doubt fall well short of what the public wants. Interestingly, non-white Brits are slightly more likely to support a national inquiry into grooming gangs than white Brits (75 per cent versus 73 per cent), and less likely to oppose one (10 per cent versus 15 per cent). Ethnic-minority Britons want to punish the perpetrators more harshly, too.

Senate Democrats block GOP’s ‘born-alive’ abortion bill
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
Senate Republicans failed on Wednesday to invoke cloture on a bill legislating care for infants “born alive” during attempted abortions, with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the record as voting against a bill being framed as anti-infanticide. Republicans sought cloture on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that requires health care practitioners to provide the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” for a child born alive during an attempted abortion, as they would during normal childbirth.

Child marriage now legal in Iraq after new bill passes
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Human Events
Courts can now rule over cases according to their interpretation of Islamic law.... Islamic courts will now have more authority over family matters including marriage, divorce and inheritance because of the amendments, which critics have said undermine Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, AP reports. The bill will allow the courts to rule over cases according to their interpretation of Islamic law. While the current minimum age of marriage in Iraq is 18, the new bill suggests that clerics could decide to allow child marriages in certain cases. In the Jaafari school of Islamic law, which is followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq, children as young as 9 are encouraged to be married off.

Antifa, trans activists swarm U of Washington TPUSA event, forcing cancelation
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
On Tuesday night, far-left activists forced the cancelation of a speech by Olivia Krolczyk with University of Washington's ​Turning Point USA chapter. Krolczyk is an ambassador for the Riley Gaines Center and reporter for Campus Reform. Krolczyk became a speaker while pursuing a major in chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. She was given a failing grade on a project proposal in one of her courses for using the term “biological woman.” She posted about the incident to TikTok and the video reached more than 6 million views before it was deleted by TikTok over “community guideline violations.” She was permanently banned from the platform for stating the biological fact that men and women are different.

Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
A recent study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, Americans’ average IQ is declining, a trend that the study's authors theorize could result from the quality of education. The professors who authored the study theorize that the quality of education could play a role in reversing the IQ gains enjoyed by previous generations. The study, published in a spring 2023 edition of Intelligence, measures IQ test results among 18- to 60-year-olds to examine the phenomenon first observed by philosopher James Flynn. Professors from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and the University of Oregon in Eugene explain the Flynn effect: starting in 1932, average IQ scores increased roughly three to five points per decade. In other words, “younger generations are expected to have higher IQ scores than the previous cohort.”

WA bill would make ‘gender expression,’ illegal immigrants protected in K-12
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
The bill risks putting state's K-12 system at risk of losing federal funding due to Trump's executive order in which the federal government only recognizes male and female sexes. Although proponents of the legislation say it is needed to ensure certain students are treated equitably, critics testifying at the bill’s Tuesday public hearing argued the definitions are not only confusing, but would put Washington’s K-12 system at risk of losing federal funding due to President Donald Trump's executive order in which the federal government only recognizes male and female sexes.

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.

Rowling: This Is a Result of Left's 'Betrayal of Women'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
Author says embrace of gender identity 'has been a calamity'. The left's recognition of self-assessed gender identity apart from one's biological sex "has been a calamity," author JK Rowling wrote Tuesday, commenting on President Trump's executive order that will recognize only two genders, male and female. Writing on X, Rowling responded to a post from Scottish journalist Susan Dalgety, who said "it's a huge failure of the left/progressives that the material reality of sex had to be confirmed by Trump." Rowling, a gender-critical activist, said "a noisy part of the left still refuses to step outside their sex-is-a-social-construct bubble and acknowledge that their embrace of gender identity ideology has been a calamity," per Fox News.

A Sydney ban on skimpy swimmers is not new.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian (UK)
‘Bikini wars’ have been raging in Australia for a century. Until the 1900s daylight beach swimming was banned and women were expected to wear pants in the water. The Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman smashed conventions and sparked controversy by baring her legs then donning a one-piece. From the 30s to the 60s, women’s swimwear was policed – often enthusiastically – by beach inspectors who patrolled shores with tape measures to ensure that beachgoers complied with modesty standards. As rights for women increased after the second world war, and with the invention of the bikini in 1946, newspaper archives show regular run-ins between inspectors and women.

NBC News Tries To Kavanaugh Pete Hegseth
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Victory Girls Blog
Once again, the media has learned NOTHING. This time it’s NBC News with their pitiful attempt to Kavanaugh Pete Hegseth. This is what they ran with. "Senators received an affidavit Tuesday from the former sister-in-law of defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth in which she says his behavior caused his second wife to fear for her safety. The receipt of the affidavit comes after Senate Armed Services Committee staffers were in contact with Hegseth’s former sister-in-law for several days. The former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth, submitted the affidavit in response to a Jan. 18 letter from Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., seeking “a statement attesting to your personal knowledge about Mr. Hegseth’s fitness to occupy this important position.” And then ran their nightly report. [Ed: NBC dismissed the actual statements of the ex-wife who flatly denied the account.]

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.”