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Our Campuses Are Corrupt
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
— and Higher Education Is Due for Its Comeuppance. One industry in America pumps out toxic waste day and night, but suffers no penalty for the damage it causes. It operates at enormous public and private expense, sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars in government money. Its toxic bilge poisons much of society, but those who complain about it are often dismissed as ignorant or bigoted.

Scottish Court Rules Against Biological Males Being Held in Women’s Prisons
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
There is a major ruling in Scotland where a court declared that it is generally unlawful to house a transgender biological male in a women’s prison. The decision follows the ruling of the top UK court that a woman is defined by her biological gender at birth. The timing is notable as we await a couple of transgender rulings from our own Supreme Court this week. The decisions also highlight the anomaly of police continuing to arrest people who object to transgender policies under the aggressive anti-free speech laws in the United Kingdom.

Appeals court blocks CA law that hides gender confusion from parents
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
"The Supreme Court has spoken to every state legislature and school district in America: you do not have the right to keep parents in the dark about their own children," say lawyers for parents whose victory led to new appeals ruling. The writing appears to be on the wall for elected officials and bureaucrats who keep parents in the dark about their children's mental health, as a Supreme Court ruling in favor of parental rights in public schools trickles down to the lower courts. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked parts of a California law that gives students veto power over school districts and teachers telling their parents they don't identify with their sex – even when parents explicitly ask whether their children exhibit gender confusion – though the order is limited to the plaintiffs themselves.

Laundry Ad Meant to Slam Sexism Irks Internet Instead
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Global Times
Dettol is facing backlash in China over promo that cast women as 'tainted' early in the clip. Dettol is scrambling to explain itself in China after a five-minute advertisement for its laundry disinfectant triggered calls for a boycott. The video, told from a man's perspective, shows him dumping a girlfriend after learning she once lived with a previous partner, branding her "tainted by other men" and praising a new girlfriend as "pure" and "innocent," per the Global Times. The Standard notes that a reference is also made to women's "chastity," with the claim that such women are "not polluted by men."

LA Schools Chief Resigns in Wake of February FBI Search
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Newser
The superintendent of Los Angeles public schools has resigned four months after he was put on paid leave during a federal investigation, the district's Board of Education said Monday. The FBI served search warrants on Feb. 25 at Alberto Carvalho's home and the LA Unified School District's headquarters. Two days later, the district's Board of Education voted unanimously to place him on leave pending the outcome of the investigation. months after he was put on paid leave during a federal investigation, the district's Board of Education said Monday. Carvalho denied any wrongdoing and had asked to be reinstated as head of the nation's second-largest district, but in its statement released early Monday, the Board acknowledged it received a letter of resignation from Carvalho. The resignation was effective as of Sunday. Andrés Chait, who has been acting superintendent, will remain in that position until a permanent decision is made. Authorities have not provided details of the nature of the investigation involving the district, nor have they accused Carvalho of any crimes. Carvalho became superintendent for LA in 2022. He previously led the public schools in Miami.

Collins Has Supported Planned Parenthood, but It Won't Endorse Her
Topic: Abortion
Source: Maine Public
Group cites Collins's Kavanaugh vote and questions her abortion-rights record. Planned Parenthood just broke with one of its longtime Republican allies. The organization's political arm on Monday endorsed Democrat Graham Platner over Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, a notable snub of one of only two GOP senators who back abortion rights, the New York Times reports. National president Alexis McGill Johnson labeled Collins a "fair-weather feminist" in Portland, arguing the senator hasn't taken the "hard" stands needed since the fall of Roe v. Wade: "She is conveniently pro-reproductive freedom when it suits her," McGill Johnson said.

Musk Supports Nuremberg-Style Trials After UK Rape-Gang Inquiry Release
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix News
"Those migrants have colonised large parts of our country, and live their lives how they choose to do so because our authorities are too frightened of being called racist to challenge them." After Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe released the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, which documented the systemic rape and often torture of up to 250,000 young British girls at the hands of predominately Muslim rape gangs, SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk agreed with calls for Nuremberg-style trials for the perpetrators and those who enabled the heinous attacks.

MLB Pitcher Defends Altering Pride Night Cap
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: NBC
Landen Roupp, 2 others from Giants warned by league after Bible references on rainbow headwear. Three San Francisco Giants pitchers turned their Pride Night caps into a Bible billboard, and Major League Baseball wasn't OK with it. The league has warned Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker after they wrote Scripture references on the team's rainbow-colored hats during Friday's game against the Chicago Cubs, per NBC Sports. "The writing on the cap violates our rules," MLB spokesperson Pat Courtney said in a statement, adding that the players were cautioned about "future violations," per the Athletic. UPDATE: Senator Josh Hawley Opens Investigation into MLB for Discrimination Against Christian Players for Proclaiming Their Faith on Pride Night

Zombie Study Indulging Mental Illness & Hiding Truth About Transgender Kids
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Wire
It's an example of legal and political advocacy dressed in scientific research clothes. In 2024, amid a wave of state legislation on transgender issues, the prestigious academic journal Nature Human Behavior (NHB) published a study titled “State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA.” The study claimed to find that the passage of state “anti-transgender laws increased incidents of past-year suicide attempts” by as much as 72%. Yet, in what has become routine in this research area, the NHB study’s findings and conclusions later crumbled under scientific reexamination. As a methodological criticism published (to its credit) in the NHB last month — over a year after the original study — shows, the observed elevation in suicide attempts came from a small sample (roughly 100 youth) in a single state (Idaho), at a time when that state’s “anti-transgender” laws were not even in effect. Further, the researchers did not properly control for confounding factors.

Parents of 2-yr-old girl who died from fentanyl overdose charged with murder
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ABC News
The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died of a fentanyl overdose in the family's California apartment have been charged with murder, according to the San Francisco district attorney, who alleged the couple showed a "conscious disregard for human life." The charges come two months after the toddler's death, which the medical examiner ruled to be acute fentanyl toxicity, according to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. The child's parents -- 38-year-old Michelle Price and her boyfriend, 43-year-old Steve Ramirez -- were both initially charged with felony child endangerment, possession of fentanyl and possession of drug paraphernalia, prosecutors said.

New $1,700 Education Tax Credit Starting in 2027: Who Qualifies
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Elite Consulting
A new education tax credit is coming in 2027, and it could help families save up to $1,700 on their federal taxes. This credit is part of a larger tax law called the One Big Beautiful Bill. While the name may sound unusual, the benefits could be very real for many taxpayers. This new credit rewards people who donate to approved education charities. It also supports families who want more school options for their children. Below, we break down what this new tax credit is, how it works, who may qualify, and what you should do now to prepare.

Supreme Court snubs anti-abortion flyer case
Topic: Abortion
Source: Court House News
...leaving school political speech off docket. The case involved a local chapter of Students for Life of America seeking to hang ads at a public high school emblazoned with photos of protesters holding “Defund Planned Parenthood” signs. A freshman identified as E.D. sought to hang flyers for a local chapter of the national organization Students for Life of America at Noblesville High School in the fall of 2021. But a dispute over a political photo included in the advertisement led the clubs to be shut down.

Judge rules transgender people won’t face criminal charges
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: AP News
... for using Idaho public restrooms. A judge ruled Tuesday that transgender people won’t face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms that match their gender identities. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford puts on hold enforcement of key components of a law adopted in March — and set to take effect July 1 — that went further than laws in other states to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use in public places, including privately owned places where restrooms are open to the public.

Education Department Losing Two Key Divisions
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NPR
Special education and civil rights enforcement in schools are moving elsewhere. The Education Department continues to shrink in President Trump's second term, as he promised it would. The White House is moving two of the department's most important responsibilities—special education and the enforcement of civil rights in schools—to other federal agencies, reports NPR. Special ed will move to Health and Human Services, and civil rights will move to the Justice Department.

Do “Anti-LGBTQ+” Policies Worsen Mental Health?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: City-Journal
A recent survey claims to find they do, but its conclusions ignore key evidence. Transgender-identified teens are stressed about policies “related to their identities,” the education-focused website K-12 Dive recently claimed. That assertion was based on a 2025 survey by the Trevor Project, an influential LGBTQ advocacy organization ostensibly focused on suicide prevention. The numbers K-12 Dive presented are alarming, implying that kids with gender distress were at heightened risk of suicide thanks to “anti-LQBTQ+” policies. But while many of the survey’s findings fit progressive assumptions, its conclusions aren’t clearly supported by the evidence it offers.

From Courtrooms to Classrooms
Topic: Unspecified
Source: James G. Martin Center
The ABA’s DEI retreat could reshape legal education. For most Americans, the American Bar Association is merely a professional guild that publishes ethics opinions, hosts conferences, and occasionally weighs in on public policy. But in legal education, the ABA has long occupied a far more consequential role as de facto gatekeeper to the profession. That status helps explain why the ABA’s recent move to suspend—and purportedly, to eliminate—two of its controversial diversity mandates for law schools represents more than an internal procedural dispute. It signals a potentially significant recalibration in the balance between accreditation authority, constitutional law, and ideological conformity in higher education.

Do Democrats Know What a Man Is?
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Brownstone Institute
Author: by Wendy McElroy
Democrats cannot answer “What is a Woman?” so it is not surprising that they struggle to answer “What is a Man?” But answer they must because the ‘young male vote’ could mean winning or losing the midterms. And, if Democrats persist in treating men in an insulting manner, they will lose and should lose.. The question of how to connect with men arose in the 2024 Presidential election because Democrats were desperate to draw on the ‘young male vote,’ which was skewing strongly toward Trump. Moreover, in 2024, only 58.3% of 18 to 24 year-olds were registered to vote compared to 80.5% of those 65 to 74; unregistered young men were an untapped demographic, but only if they could be reached.

Giants pitchers expose the limits of liberal tolerance
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
Four of the five Giants pitchers chose to protest their team’s requirement that they wear a rainbow logo on their hats for Friday’s game against the Chicago Cubs. Landon Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker chose to inscribe Bible verses near the pride-themed logo, while Sam Hentges wore a cap with the Giants’ normal logo....According to SFGATE, some fans are attempting to organize protests against the pitchers at Giants games, with Friday’s starting pitcher, Roupp, taking much of the heat. Roupp notably said his and his teammates’ decisions to silently protest during Pride Night did not stem from hatred, but rather from a desire to express his Christian beliefs. Roupp explained his reasoning to reporters after the game.

“Stupid, Stupid, Stupid”
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Jonathan Turley
Justice Department Memo Further Tarishes Record of Merrick Garland. Internal emails were uncovered recently that cast a new, negative light on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s record in targeting parents over school board controversies. The communications show that various Justice officials raised alarms over the effort pushed by Democratic allies and the National Association for School Boards. Career officials condemned the Biden Administration proposal by objecting that “If they do this, they might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force.”