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House votes to disclose which members settled sexual misconduct allegations
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Politico
... with taxpayer funds. Rep. Nancy Mace was the only member to vote “present.” The House approved a measure Tuesday compelling the public release of records showing which House members have used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct charges levied against them and how much money was spent. The resolution, offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), directs the House Ethics Committee and the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights — which also handles claims of misconduct — to produce such information within 60 days. It passed nearly unanimously, 420-0, with only Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) — an outspoken advocate for victims of sexual harassment and assault — voting present.

Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million after Supreme Court denies his appeal of sexual abuse verdict
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: CNN
The Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an appeal from President Donald Trump over a $5 million verdict and finding that he sexually abused and defamed?E. Jean Carroll, a decision that means the president will now have to pay the magazine columnist. Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for defamation, and then she sued him again in 2022 for defamation and battery after New York enacted a law allowing the victims of sexual abuse to file civil claims for past incidents. In an unusual quirk, the second case — the one filed in 2022 — went to trial first, and the jury awarded Carroll $5 million...

Dems' First 'Project 2029' Proposal: More Gov Control Over Social Media
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Semafor reported on Project 2029’s "Kids Over Clicks" proposal, which outlines Democrats' plans to regulate social media and AI companies. Democrats are gearing up for the 2028 election and preparing a list of policy priorities—dubbed "Project 2029"—should they retake the White House. The first Project 2029 proposal is not about affordability, healthcare, or foreign policy. No, the Democrats' first proposal concerns children's online safety: the issue fueling lawmakers' bipartisan push to impose greater government control over the internet.

Tennessee univ to pay $1.9 million to professor fired over Charlie Kirk comments
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Times
A University of Tennessee professor who was fired after calling Charlie Kirk a “disgusting psychopath” in the wake of his assassination would receive $1.9 million under a tentative settlement approved by the university system’s Board of Trustees Audit and Compliance Committee in a nonpublic session held after the board’s annual meeting Monday, eight months after she sued the school over the firing. The settlement does not restore Tamar Shirinian, a former assistant professor of anthropology, to her position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. It still must be approved by Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti before it is final, according to the Daily Beacon, the University of Tennessee’s student newspaper.

Education Department cuts loan eligibility for college degree programs
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
yielding 'low-earning' jobs. The Education Department has approved a plan to cut federal loans to college programs that result in low-earning jobs – a move the Trump administration sees as an opportunity to rein in runaway borrowing, while critics argue it is a blow to students seeking degrees in such fields as music, public service and religious studies. The department announced the so-called "rule" Monday for its new Student Tuition and Transparency System and Earnings Accountability initiative – after saying in April, when the rule-drafting process started, that the federal student loan portfolio was approaching $1.7 trillion as "more students are left financially worse off than if they had never attended college.”

Woke Paris pol blames Americans and our air conditioning
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
...for Europe heat wave that has killed 1,300 people. A Paris politician blamed Americans and US air conditioning for the record-breaking heat wave in Europe that has resulted in more than 1,300 excess deaths. After US tourists mocked France over the lack of air conditioning across the country amid 104-degree temperatures, Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor of Paris for international relations, claimed the situation was partly America’s fault. “As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing. Your cities, which are 90 percent air conditioned, are not unrelated to this,” she added.

TikTok reaches settlement with Florida teen ahead of July social media addiction trial
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NBC
The case was part of litigation consolidating thousands of lawsuits alleging that several major social platforms used addictive designs that harmed young people’s mental health. The terms of the settlement are still being finalized, representatives for the plaintiff’s lawyers said on Tuesday. The 15-year-old boy, identified in court filings by his initials, R.K.C., accuses Meta (the parent of Instagram), YouTube, TikTok and Snap of designing their platforms to be addictive through features such as infinite scroll and autoplay.

SCOTUS Upholds Bans on Transgender Female Athletes
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: AP
State bans preventing girls, women from playing school sports don't violate Title IX. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. The court's conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year, ruled that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don't violate the Constitution or Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education. More than two dozen other Republican-led states have adopted bans on female transgender athletes, and the decision seems certain to extend to them as well, reports the AP. Left unresolved are lawsuits challenging state laws and regulations in Connecticut, California, and elsewhere that permit transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity.

Are You Gay Enough To Get A California Utilities Contract?
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Western Journal
Here's The Test. The NGLCC’s qualifiers include, but aren’t limited to, affidavit-backed letters from three people outside the business attesting to the LGBT status of the applicant(s), a letter from a physician or therapist confirming their transgender status, or evidence of “discriminatory action” over their LGBT status. Discriminatory action could include an HR report, police report, or court records. Applicants can also be qualified by presenting evidence of “completed or attempted parenting and family-building efforts” made by themselves and a same-sex partner. This could include adoption records, proof of an in-vitro fertilization procedure, or surrogate mother arrangements.

A Top-down Willed Failure
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Steyn Online
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer got a bit tearful in his resignation remarks, quite a departure from the emotionless, bot-like face he normally presents to the world. But then, he was alluding to his family, people he apparently cares about. He's sad now, but in the days to come, he may realize that he has dodged a bullet – or perhaps a lynching – as the soul-sickening findings published by the Restore Britain Party's leader's Rupert Lowe 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released June 16, are bruited in international news. Starmer did not envision facing that particular music so soon. Lowe's report was independently collated and produced independently with strong survivor collaboration overseen by now 43-year old Sammy Woodhouse

Michigan parents charged with murder in death of 7-yr-old son who weighed 255 lbs
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Washington Times
The parents of a 7-year-old Michigan boy who weighed 255 pounds when he died have been charged with murder, torture and child abuse, prosecutors said. “Clearly the parents were feeding the child improperly, to say the least,” Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said Monday. “He wasn’t getting the nutrition he needed.” Casper O’Brien died last November after first responders were called to the family’s home in Flint because he’d stopped breathing, prosecutors said. His parents - Damien O’Brien, 40, and Jessica O’Brien, 41 - have each been charged with second-degree murder, torture and three counts of second-degree child abuse.

US House passes bipartisan online child safety bill
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Anadolu Agency
The US House of Representatives passed a sweeping bipartisan children's online safety package on Monday, marking the first time the full chamber waded into the debate about children's online safety.The Kids Online Safety Act passed in a 267-117 vote and now heads to the Senate, where it faces significant obstacles.

SCOTUS Rejects Trump Push to Toss E. Jean Carroll Verdict
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AP News
Justices decline to take up the case. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury's finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The high court declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order, per the AP. Trump's lawyers had argued that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were propped up by "highly inflammatory" evidentiary rulings, including those that allowed the testimony of two other women who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago. Trump has denied all three women's allegations.

Alive and Kicking: News of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Real Clear Investigations
Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of “cultural appropriation.” Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized “fatphobia,” even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably aimed at white supremacy. Meanwhile, a slew of studies and papers and articles argued that punctuality, excellence, and other forms of professionalism are “the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness.” Today, as universities are dismantling their DEI bureaucracies, corporations are scaling back antiracism training, and academic trigger warnings and diversity pledges have become punch lines rather than cudgels, it is tempting to believe that the excesses of the woke movement have not just peaked but are a thing of the past, a passing fever dream of a peculiar era.

“That Guy Is Still Out There”
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Propublica
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.

Kids Are Flying Into Lunatic Rages When Their iPads Are Taken Away
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Futurism
iPad kids are exhibiting iPad rage. Parents say their kids are going ballistic when they take their iPads away from them, leaving them unsure of what normal behavior might be — and whether there’s something sinister going on with their child’s connection to the devices. Rachel, a mother of two, tried limiting her son Jonah’s screen time by warning him that he had put down his iPad to leave for a birthday party at 11 AM. Despite the repeated warnings the day before and several reminders before the hour mark, when it came time to leave, Jonah had a meltdown

Supergirl Movie A "Girl Boss" Bomb With Disastrous Opening Weekend
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Maybe Hollywood is hard of hearing? How many times do audiences have to say "Get Woke, Go Broke"....? There's no more excuses. Filming for James Gunn's Supergirl summer blockbuster started in January of 2025, with most of the US celebrating the defeat of woke politics and the downfall of DEI. There was no confusion in 2025; woke is dead. Gunn was well aware and decided to make an insufferable feminist "girl boss" movie anyway. In other words, his failure is his own fault. Either due to hubris, stupidity, or both. Initial projections for Supergirl a month ago hovered around $70 million for opening weekend. These estimates were already low and the panic within Warner Bros. was palpable. DC Studios was already on its ass for the less than stellar performance of Gunn's Superman, which was supposed to revitalize the comic book movie landscape.

The Kids Are Not Okay With AI, And They Know It...
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Forty-two percent believe it will hurt their ability to think carefully... The former Google CEO stood at the University of Arizona's commencement last month, ready to deliver the kind of speech he had probably given a dozen times before: AI as the next great transformation, graduates as its rightful authors. He got as far as telling them the technology would "touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person, and every relationship you have." The boos rose before he could finish his own sentence. "I can hear you," he said gently. The boos continued, as did Schmidt, who was unable to fully conceal the awkward embarrassment. He wasn't the only one. A week earlier, at Middle Tennessee State University, Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta told graduates that "AI is rewriting production as we sit here." The boos from graduates started immediately. He responded with tough love: "I know it. Deal with it." But the boos only grew louder.

The Empathy Weapon
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Brownstone Institute
Frame the debate so that only one conclusion is possible, then demonstrate some sense of open-mindedness about how people arrive at that conclusion. Be empathic about the journey. Just never, ever allow the destination to be questioned...I’d admire the elegance of it if it wasn’t so dang sinister. It preys on what I perceive to be one of the best attributes of our species (empathy) by preying on some of our obvious blind spots (fear, conformity). It appropriates the language of understanding and kindness to shut down the conversation it pretends to open. It says “I see you, I hear you…now shut up and do what you’re told.”