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Fashion CEO assaults PETA activists
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
protesting H&M over miserable treatment of sheep by African wool farm. PETA activists at New York Fashion Week on Sunday were thwarted by Council of Fashion Designers of America CEO Steven Kolb, who reportedly physically restrained them as they tried to yell and protest about the use of wool for clothing at the COS showing. Five PETA activists were present with their anti-wool signs and a few of them found their way onto the runway where they could protest in front of the audience.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK dropped by the BBC after 11 series
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Independent
The news comes days after the latest series premiered on BBC Three. RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has been axed by the BBC after 11 series due to “significant financial pressures”, the broadcaster has confirmed. Produced by World of Wonder, the reality series follows drag queens as they compete to impress a panel of judges, including RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr. Based on the Emmy-winning US series, the UK version launched in 2019 and catapulted British drag into the mainstream. The show has provided a huge platform for drag stars who have gone on to become incredibly popular with wider audiences, including La Voix, who competed in last year’s Strictly Come Dancing, musician and activist Bimini, and the late The Vivienne.

Sydney Sweeney fires back at trolls
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: FOX News
...after facing criticism online for provocative sports ad. Sweeney, 29, shared a series of images on social media over the weekend which featured prominent athletes posing naked for various magazine covers. Earlier this week, the "Euphoria" star faced harsh criticism after daring to bare her body in a provocative campaign for the sports trading app Novig.

Abbott to Pay $385M in Baby Formula Contamination Case
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP News
Trump administration dropped criminal case earlier this year Abbott Laboratories will pay $385 million to resolve claims tied to an investigation of contamination at a baby formula factory in Sturgis, Michigan, the largest in the country, which led to supply shortages in 2022. Problems at the facility prompted a lawsuit by the Justice Department and a recall of powdered infant formula at the facility. The recall covered several infant formula brands, including Similac, and squeezed inventory that had already been strained by supply chain disruptions and stockpiling during COVID-19 shutdowns

Planned Parenthood of Wisc. challenges restrictive abortion laws in new suit
Topic: Abortion
Source: Courthouse News
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin sued the Medical Examining Board and statewide district attorneys, challenging the constitutionality of two abortion statutes. “Freedom means being able to make the decisions that shape our lives and futures,” said Tanya Atkinson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. “No politician should have the power to make a deeply personal pregnancy decision for someone else. Wisconsin’s Constitution promises liberty to all of us, and this case asks our courts to protect that promise.” The Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and policy institute, classifies Wisconsin as a restrictive state for abortion...

India: Meta to report child abuse cases to law enforcement
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Deutsche Welle
Tech giant Meta will now directly report child safety-related cases to India's cybercrime portal, according to media reports. Amid intense scrutiny in India over alleged paid ads promoting child sexual abuse material, social media giant Meta will now reportedly lodge cases related to child safety with Indian law enforcement agencies. Air India's CEO has been summoned after three Italian nationals "skipped" immigration at Delhi airport and left the country

Nashville International Airport to be renamed after Dolly Parton
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Post Millennial
"We are working closely with the appropriate parties to thoughtfully determine how Dolly Parton’s name and legacy will be incorporated." The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority has voted unanimously to change the name of Nashville International Airport to honor the late musician, Dolly Parton. The vote is the final step to make the name change take place, but it is yet to be determined what the name of the airport will be. The authority is working to incorporate and decide how Parton’s name or legacy will be used to rename the airport.

Lindsay Clancy juror says lone holdout fixated on...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
A juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial said the lone holdout whose reluctance to acquit forced an 11-1 hung jury was fixated on the amount of blood found in the killer mom’s bedroom. Paula Devlin’s critique of the holdout echoes that of juror Kellie Farina, who went viral for accusing him of making deliberations difficult because “he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.” Devlin, 65, said the lone holdout, one of just three men on the 12-person jury, “thought there was too much blood for the wounds that she had” in the bedroom of Clancy’s Duxbury, Mass. home where she strangled her three children with exercise bands.

CA Enacts New Child Safety Laws On Social Media And AI Chatbots
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Yes because California cares about children... Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed bills that restrict how social media companies may design products for children and that tighten rules for AI companion chatbots. He announced the package on X. "I just signed the strongest kid safety laws for AI chatbots and social media in America," Newsom wrote. "California is banning addictive social media features for kids, cracking down on dangerous AI chatbots, and strengthening privacy protections for ALL kids. PROTECT OUR KIDS!"

Turkey Raids LGBTQ Groups
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: AP
Human rights organization argues rationale of defending children urkish authorities cracked down on multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals early Sunday, detaining dozens of members, breaking into association offices and raiding popular hangouts. In an escalation of its decadelong hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the lead-up to elections, simultaneous police raids beginning at 1am took place in the major cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydin, and Mersin, the AP reports. Justice Minister Akin Gurlek announced on social media that the investigation into 162 suspects, nine associations, and 13 businesses was to "protect children, the institution of the family, and public order" in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year executive order relating to families and children.

New Mexico is Building Yet Another Tax-Funded Abortion Center
Topic: Abortion
Source: Life Site News
[Ed: taxes should never fund abortion...or anything else, for that matter.] As construction advances on New Mexico’s first $10 million forced taxpayer-funded abortion killing center in Las Cruces, NM, the New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) confirms that pro-abortion administrators at the University of New Mexico (UNM), in partnership with state officials, are targeting Las Vegas, NM as the site for the second state-funded abortion killing center. The information comes directly from Christopher Arndt, M.D., Interim President and CEO of the UNM Health Sciences Center, during a 2026 University of New Mexico Board of Regents meeting earlier this year.

CA high school grads score 4.0 GPAs but can’t do basic math, profs say
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
California high school students are scoring more straight A’s than ever – but it’s not necessarily because they’re getting smarter, according to data and education experts. The number of college applicants reporting flawless GPAs of 4.0 or higher has doubled over the past decade even as state testing shows a post-pandemic plunge in reading and math comprehension — revealing a grade-inflation crisis that’s sending students who can’t even do fractions into top universities. Over the past decade, the number of students applying to the University of California system with straight A’s skyrocketed from 52,989 in 2015 to 103,138 for the class of 2025, with a notable jump during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022, according to UC data reviewed by The Post.

Australia’s top bureaucrats want protection from ‘harmful’ social media
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FIRE
The clips can ‘invite ridicule’ of public officials. Many of the free speech fights today rest on the question: How do we protect kids online? But some of the battles over what can be said or shared on the internet are about protecting a remarkably less vulnerable — and significantly more powerful — group from so-called harm: public officials. One such case is in Australia, where top bureaucrat body the Secretaries Board is asking Parliament to cap politicians’ and parties’ ability to share and criticize clips of testimony from the very officials the board represents.

The Transgender Mirage Is Cracking
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Lew Rockwell
When ideology overrides biology, it isn’t compassion — it’s harm dressed as progress. The issue was never about adults making personal choices. Free people can live as they wish. The scandal was always about the children. Adolescence is messy. Teenagers often feel anxious, awkward, alienated, and uncomfortable in their own skin. That used to be called growing up — a phase most eventually outgrow. Then activists rebranded ordinary distress as evidence of being “born in the wrong body.” This is magical thinking. A tomboy girl? Maybe she’s a boy. A sensitive boy? Maybe she’s a girl. A teen who dreads puberty? Time for blockers.

A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Wired
But Is Anything Ever Free? Cofertility manages the costs of egg freezing and storage, in exchange for half the batch. One young client became suspicious of the arrangement—and started to investigate. Sue perused Cofertility’s website, clicking through text boxes of deep, soothing teal, optimistic light green, a steady purple, and an urgent orange. She was invited to a meeting almost immediately after passing the test, and within days she was video chatting with an employee who gushed that Sue would be doing the responsible thing for her own future while fulfilling the dreams of a desirous family. In the background of Sue’s Zoom, the Cofertility employee spied a piano and asked if she could record Sue playing. It’d be enticing to prospective parents who might want the eggs of a piano prodigy.

Transgender Matrix Director Declares Harry Potter Fans
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Variety
,,,Complicit in ‘Trans Genocide’ and Calls J.K. Rowling a ‘Literal Nazi’. In an interview with Variety published this week, the biological male filmmaker said J.K. Rowling “funds trans genocide, full stop.” “So, if you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide.” Wachowski claimed that money spent on books, movies, merch, theme parks, or the upcoming HBO series eventually flows to Rowling and allows her to fund “anti-trans legislation all over the world.” [Ed: these people have no idea how ridiculous they sound. If you disagree with Rowling, then just disagree with her.]

"Money to Burn"
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: New York Post
A new book reveals just how buddy-buddy billionaire Leon Black was with creep Jeffrey Epstein In “Money to Burn” (Portfolio Books) the writer and former investment banker William D. Cohan tackles this epic tale. If “Money to Burn” is a success story, it is also a story about the hazards of new fortunes, which include massive public failure and the fear of betrayal even by lovers and close associates. Leon’s father, Eli, was a tycoon in his own right, but a disastrous merger (essentially, the acquisition of the Chiquita banana business) may have been the impetus, in 1975, for the overworked CEO of United Brands to leap from the 44th floor of what was then the Pan Am Building.

Bad Criticism
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
Name-calling, guilt-by-association, and other unscrupulous methods of argument are polluting our discourse. Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.

The Secret to “Sleeping Well”:
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Jonathan Turley
A Response to Kevin Reddington [Ed: defense attorney at Lindsay Clancy trial.] I wanted to briefly respond to Reddington’s criticisms. I actually praised Reddington’s handling through the end of the trial, until I felt he blew the summation to the jury. I was also critical of his motions to substitute a holdout juror with an alternate as running against the overwhelming authority in the area. However, what triggered Reddington was not my commentary on his trial performance, but what he did outside of the courthouse when he attacked the holdout juror. It was a repugnant and unprofessional venting by counsel who should be reaffirming the right of every juror to stand with their convictions against not just the other jurors but the world.