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Cambridge University has been mocked online
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: X
...for some of the ridiculous PhD courses currently being studied. They include: - Traditional Cultural Norms, Technology and Gender Relations in Ghana; The Political Economy of Female Circumcision; Unsexed beings: constructing gender; umanness, and agency through the use of the word “unsex” in Late Modern British society and writing; In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate.

Court Orders Meta to Pay $567 Million Over Child Harm
Topic: Children and Family
Source: KCRA
A court on Thursday ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund over child harm. New Mexico Judge Bryan Biedscheid compared Meta to air pollution and called it a “public nuisance.” “Although Meta is not alone in this regard, its social media platforms are a significant contributing factor to the current mental health crisis among New Mexico’s youth established by the substantial evidence in this case,” Judge Bryan Biedscheid wrote in the ruling on Thursday

North Carolina career criminal arrested
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: New York Post
...after attacking, chasing women in terrifying social media videos A North Carolina career criminal is accused of randomly punching and hospitalizing a woman while chasing down another victim in a separate attack as he posted the disturbing footage across social media. Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was arrested Thursday for committing the alleged assault in a residential neighborhood on the 400 block of East Boulevard in Charlotte, NC, on July 30, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. Police busted Hunt, 32, when the department was presented with several videos on his social media page, where the brute posted about his physical confrontations.

Cambridge's Black Time-Travelling Professor (And His Many Superhuman Feats)
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Mark Collett
...how Britain’s elite universities abandoned rigorous academic vetting and swallowed wild, superhuman claims as facts – all in the name of diversity. This is the story of Cambridge University’s youngest-ever black professor, who was appointed as Professor of the Sociology of Education in 2023.

The Financial Consequences Of 'Gray' Divorce
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Divorce after 50 can dramatically reshape your retirement, making careful financial planning more important than ever. Gray divorce refers to divorce among adults ages 50 and over. And although divorce among younger adults has been declining over the past 15 years, according to Pew Research, gray divorce is on the rise. Although any divorce can be financially difficult, gray divorce is especially hard on retirement because it halves accumulated savings. It can also double living expenses by creating two separate households. The danger of a gray divorce is that, unlike a divorce in your 30s where you have time to make up for the financial loss, there is little time left in your 50s or 60s to rebuild wealth.

Minnesota's Nudification Ban Could Punish People
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Over Parodies and Stripped-Down Selfies. Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing. A Minnesota law that took effect August 1 says it's illegal to run a website, app, or software program that lets users "nudify" images. Elon Musk's xAI is challenging the law on First Amendment grounds—and it should win. When it comes to nudify services, the behavior we want to stop is people using them to nonconsensually "strip" others of their clothes and then share these images in order to harass or embarrass someone or pretend that they have gotten nude in front of you when they have not.

Fake ICE raids and kidnapping drills: how Chinese teens prepare for US college
Topic: Children and Family
Source: South China Morning
As Trump’s toughening rules spark anxiety, Chinese parents pay for camps teaching how to survive being seized by gunmen or ‘hidden dangers’. When she opened the door, a man pushed his way inside, shone a flashlight in her face and shouted: “Get down. Give me your phone.” Lu froze. Moments later, she came to her senses and did as she was told, burying her face in the mattress and raising her hands above her head. The intruder blindfolded Lu, tied her hands and finally made her record a phone message for her parents – begging them to pay a ransom. Except the scenario was not real.

DHS Locates 148,000 Missing Migrant Children
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Faith
Last year, DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari released a report detailing the thousands of migrant children unaccounted for by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between fiscal years 2019 and 2023. “From fiscal years 2019 to 2023, ICE transferred more than 448,000 UACs [unaccompanied alien children] to HHS; most were released to sponsors,” the report says. “However, more than 31,000 of the 448,000 children’s release addresses were blank, undeliverable, or missing apartment numbers. ICE also was not always aware of the location for UACs who fled HHS’ custody.”

AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ars technica
Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May through early June. It was a disaster. When exam results came in, they bore little resemblance to past results, especially at the top. Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. This year, 16.3 percent did so.

Gender Identity Federal Policy Update
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Source: Manhattan Institute
A note to readers: This week's newsletter is our federal policy update on "gender identity" policy which we are sharing once a month in place of the Gender Debriefs weekly updates. Our normal Debrief content will resume next week. Thanks for reading. [Ed: a round-up of last week's gender policy legislation being floated in Congress.]

Mamdani’s Jim Crow 2.0
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Washington Examiner
An old saying suggests that actions speak louder than words. Assuming that to be true, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an ardent supporter of identification requirements — requirements that many Democrats, including powerful legislators in his state, categorized as oppressive, racist, bigoted, and analogous to the racial segregation practices known as Jim Crow. Mamdani once again showed that Democrats wholeheartedly support identification requirements when they align with their political ambitions and interests. When they do object to them, it is nothing more than hyperbolic performative nonsense.

The Future of Race-Based Scholarships in Higher Education
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
It’s now been three years since the United States Supreme Court declared that race may never be used as a “negative” or operate as a “stereotype” in higher education. While that landmark case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, dismantled affirmative action in admissions, race still lingers as a factor in many other areas of higher education. One such area is financial aid—specifically grants and scholarships. The National Scholarship Providers Association estimates that 11% of all higher-education scholarships still contain eligibility requirements for race, ethnicity, or other demographic factors, even after SFFA. Race-based scholarships, though, are facing increasing scrutiny.

Wait, What?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: PJ Media
Chris Cuomo Justifies Vaccine Heart Damage in Kids Because ‘Very Few’ Affected. To say Chris “Fredo” Cuomo left CNN in disgrace in 2021 would be to assume he’s capable of shame. His comments and behavior over the years signal something else, which is why his latest comments on the health risks of the COVID-19 vaccine to children really can’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention. Remember, this is someone who was reported to have provided damage control counsel to his brother Andrew, the governor of New York at the time, when he was accused of sexual harassment. OK, blood is thicker than any CNN contract, but it wasn’t much of a secret at his employer’s offices and studios. And so, he had to conduct some damage control for himself after that...

Let the men play... It's time for the WNBA to stop discriminating
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Just Kira Davis
WARNING. Satire. There is a controversy brewing in women’s professional basketball. Some bigoted, weak women are insisting on gatekeeping the WNBA. Against whom? Biological men. Sophie Cunningham may be one of the most talented and tenacious players in the league, and she may have brought an unprecedented amount of attention to the WNBA, but she’s shown her true colors by insisting on the W part of the WNBA. I mean, what kind of woman does that? Doesn’t she know men are women too?

Planned Parenthood: Abortion Is Gender-Affirming Care
Topic: Abortion
Source: Victory Girls Blog
Planned Parenthood, AKA Abortion Incorporated, knows no bounds. The latest from the enterprise says it all. This from Planned Parenthood’s page a few days back: "Reproductive freedom means every person gets to decide what’s right for their own body. No exceptions.”-Planned Parenthood." But what about the very tiny, helpless BODY growing inside of a woman, you ask? Glad you’ve asked. To Planned Parenthood, it is insignificant because (drum roll, please)…"Abortion is gender-affirming care.”-Planned Parenthood."

'Inclusive' WNBA coaches have chance to draft French trans basketball star
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...who 'won't say no' if offered spot on US team. Tétart's season scored him Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Domestic Player of the Year. A trans-identified male basketball player from France is ready to accept the WNBA's call to play in the US women's league. Julie Tétart, 34, who stands at 6' 3" is a trans-identified male playing on the second-tier French women's basketball Ligue Féminine 2. There are currently no trans women in the WBNA. Although, as women's rights activist and attorney Kara Dansky pointed out sarcastically to trans advocates, if there's no difference between women and trans women, then "how do you know" there hasn't been a trans player in the WNBA?

Nashville bookstore cancels Jewish author's book release after backlash
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
The book, titled "White. Blonde. Jew. A Call to End Extremism, Speak Up, and Reclaim Center," is set to be released on August 18. Jewish author Alyssa Rosenheck slammed a Nashville bookstore for cancelling her upcoming book launch event, with the store citing "security concerns." She said the store never expressed such concerns and only cancelled the event after an online pressure campaign.

Thrown out of Hadestown:
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
A ctor Fired for Opposing Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports. Geno Segers was a widely acclaimed actor who starred in the Broadway production Hadestown. That came to an end this month when Segers expressed the view of the vast majority of Americans: women’s sports should be confined to biological women. He has now been fired, even after an attempt to apologize for expressing his own views on the subject. Other actors have expressed support for transgender players without any response other than praise in the latest example of the rising McCarthyism on the left.

A Comics Genius Repents for Being Un-Woke
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Chronicles Magazine
Frank Miller is now sorry about his graphic novel Holy Terror, which was published in 2011. Miller is known as a comic book genius, the man who revolutionized Daredevil, created 300 and Sin City, which became great movies, and gave the world The Dark Knight Returns, a classic 1986 Batman story. Miller has just published an autobiography, Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling.