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Teachers’ Unions Are Losing One of Their Government Perks
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Economy
Should taxpayers be required to subsidize unions’ lobbying for more taxpayer subsidies? Three states say “no, spend our money on students.” Should taxpayers be required to subsidize unions’ lobbying for more taxpayer subsidies? Three states say “no, spend our money on students.” Teachers’ unions have long enjoyed access to public payroll systems and facilities that no private entity receives. Recent legislation in three states demonstrates a better path: public funds are redirected toward improving student outcomes, not strengthening union infrastructure. Idaho got the ball rolling on April 10, when Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 516a. The law prohibits the use of public resources and facilities for union activities. Districts are now barred from collecting dues through payroll systems, hosting union meetings or trainings at school sites during work hours, or granting paid leave for political advocacy. The bill’s supporters argue that public resources should be directed toward educational functions rather than union operations.

Conservatives Push to Renew Planned Parenthood Ban
Topic: Abortion
Source: Newsmax
Conservative groups are pressing congressional Republicans to renew a federal ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood after a one-year restriction expired Friday, arguing the lapse reverses what they had hailed as one of the movement's biggest policy victories since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The provision, enacted last year as part of Republicans' budget reconciliation law, barred Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and other large abortion providers for non-abortion health services.

New Michigan Law Will Protect Kids’ Lemonade Stands
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Good News Network
In Michigan, a prospective law would eliminate virtually all regulations on that ole’ chestnut: the childhood lemonade stand. If it can be believed, state house Representative Cam Cavitt (R-Cheboygan), had the issue brought to his attention after the local health department in his district demanded that some children pay repeated fees to run their lemonade stands. The parents reached out to Cavitt, who introduced common sense protections for the classic child-run, non-alcoholic beverage stand, and it passed overwhelmingly in the state house.

Female officer pummeled by mob at North Charleston 'teen takeover' block party
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Post Millennial
“Attacks on law enforcement are unacceptable and those responsible will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The safety of our residents and visitors remains our highest priority." The North Charleston Police Department released a statement following the circulation of a viral video showing a female officer being attacked by a black mob. Police said the violence that erupted during a neighborhood block party in the Chicora-Cherokee community spiraled out of control, resulting in multiple arrests and the seizure of several firearms and a makeshift spear.

Kash Patel announces 305 arrests, 24 children recovered
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
Eleven federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA and ATF, united under President Trump's crackdown on violent crime. "Operation New Dawn represents a massive, whole-of-government approach under President Trump’s leadership to cracking down on violent crimes and crimes against children in great American cities," Patel told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. "This was a sweeping operation in Chicago that brought together 11 different federal agencies across the government who worked together to execute 305 arrests and recover 24 children — many of whom had been reported kidnapped or missing — as well as charging subjects with robbery, kidnapping, drug trafficking, child exploitation and more.

The ‘Pride Match’ that wasn’t
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Politico
Local organizers hoped rainbow flags would fill Lumen Field. They were largely outnumbered by lion-and-sun banners and tricolor facepaint. As a lesbian raised in Egypt, Noha Mahgoub could have chosen to dress for what local organizers branded a “Pride Match” in colors associated with either her sexual orientation or her ethnic identity. The 43-year-old Democratic legislative aide — one of the top staffers in Washington state government — chose the latter, arriving in a red Egyptian national team jersey, a black hat emblazoned with YALLA and red, white and black tricolor facepaint. “I’ve seen Pride shirts. I’ve seen Pride face paintings,” she observed from a concourse minutes before national anthems began echoing around Lumen Field. “It’s been really great, but I’m seeing a lot more Egypt and Iran and people cheering for their countries and singing their songs.”

Patti LuPone ‘Furious’
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: People Magazine
Patti LuPone was left “furious” after an LGBTQ+ cruise she is scheduled to perform on was allegedly banned from entering Turkey. On Friday, July 3, the 77-year-old Broadway star shared that she was “shocked” to learn that the gay cruise aboard Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady, on which she is scheduled to perform from July 5 to July 15, has been denied entry into the West Asian country. [Ed: what will it take to convince enlightened leftists that Islam *kills* gays.]

NYC Appropriates $7 Million For 'Trans Equity', Drag Queen Story Hours
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Greatness
Mamdani directs the taxpayer money to programs and services “to help empower the transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) community.” A massive $126 billion spending plan approved by the New York City Council earlier this week includes nearly $7 million for so-called ‘trans equity’ programs and drag queen story hours. The city council said, “Funding may support education programs, employment services, workforce development, healthcare navigation, legal guidance, community workshops, or academic research, among others.”

Florida Votes to Ban Illegal Immigrants from Public Colleges and Universities
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Gateway Hispanics
The Florida State Board of Education voted 6–1 on Tuesday to prohibit illegal immigrants from enrolling in the state’s 28 public colleges and adult education programs. Under the new policy, institutions within the Florida College System will only admit U.S. citizens or individuals lawfully present in the country. Applicants must attest to their legal status and provide supporting documentation before enrolling. The rule also applies to adult general education programs, including GED classes.

House vote sets up Senate clash over kids' online safety
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Axios
The House on Monday passed the KIDS Act, but key senators say the legislation has little chance of advancing in its current form. Why it matters: The vote sets up a showdown over kids' online safety as the White House works to align Congress behind legislation that would preempt some state AI laws. Driving the news: After garnering broad bipartisan support, House lawmakers fast-tracked a package of kids' online safety measures, including a version of the Kids Online Safety Act, and sent it to the Senate.

A major online safety bill for kids just passed the House.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNBC
Here’s what experts say parents need to know. On Monday, the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a package intended to protect minors from various dangers presented by online platforms such as social media and AI chatbots. The legislation includes measures regarding age verification, minors’ access to sexually explicit material, limits on “design features that result in compulsive usage,” and tools enabling parents to view the total time their child spends on a platform.

Waste Of The Day: Stolen Education Grants
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Real Clear Investigations
Topline: A North Dakota woman was convicted last month of five counts of theft for stealing $131,000 in state grants meant for after-school programs. Key facts: Faith Dixon, 47, was one of the top recipients of $2 million that the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction awarded in October 2021 for its Out of School Time program to support children impacted by school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett says America owes black women 'everything'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...'backbone of the Democratic Party'. Rep. Jasmine Crockett said in a Fourth of July message that America owes black women "everything," claiming they have played a central role in the country's history and continue to serve as the "backbone" of the Democratic Party. Speaking in a video posted on Independence Day, the Texas Democrat said black women have made sacrifices dating back to slavery and remain among the first to experience harm while continuing to contribute to American society.

Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Topic: Men's Movement
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. As an investigative reporter with almost two decades at ProPublica, many of those years focused on criminal justice, I have delved into countless cases gone wrong. On one occasion, I set out to report an article on a man unjustly convicted of murder — a case where an appeals court had belatedly found prosecutorial misconduct serious enough to overturn his conviction — only to have the man confess to me that in fact he had pulled the trigger. He recounted the victim’s dying words and told me, “I did what I had to do.” Sebold’s case would turn out to be far more complex than that one

Need Another Reason to Loathe Michelle Obama?
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: PJ Media
According to a Daily Mail report, Barack Obama’s wife personally torpedoed Cheryl Hines' return to the small screen when Larry David's new HBO series, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America, began casting. The show premiered last week. Higher Ground, the production company the Obamas own, produces it. Hines, 60, spent all 12 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm playing Larry David’s wife, and having her return for the new show made sense. But apparently, Obama couldn’t handle the fact that Hines is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. According to unnamed sources cited by the Daily Mail, that was disqualifying.

Grooming Gang Survivor Reminds Us UK Authorities Have Participated
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Moonbattery
Despite the media/government’s efforts to suppress the story, we all know by now about the Islamic grooming gangs responsible for raping many thousands of underage British girls. We know that the government is complicit, because it looked the other way so as not to be “racist” by objecting to crimes committed against whites by nonwhites. But many don’t realize that authorities have actively participated. Sammy Woodhouse grew up in Rotherham. At age 14, she was groomed by Islamic colonist and criminal gang leader Arshid Hussain. She was repeatedly impregnated.

Meet the woke warrior heading for Downing Street
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
James Purnell spent years promoting trans insanity at the BBC. Now he's whispering in Andy Burnham's ear. The news that Andy Burnham has appointed James Purnell as his chief of staff has been greeted with horror by the likes of Owen Jones and Zack Polanski. But just because the whiniest elements of the hard left loathe Purnell doesn’t mean his appointment is a good thing. For as smiley and reasonable as he appears, he embodies a problem with the modern left that’s every bit as pernicious as its economic incompetence. This is its obsession with imposing its fringe woke values on the rest of us.

The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Justor Daily
These remembrances reveal a century of women’s friendships in one Midwestern literary club. Their club, which is still active in Ypsilanti today, was established in 1878. “Not to be out done by the gentlemen of the Review Club, the ladies of this city have organized a Ladies Literary Club,” the local newspaper reported that summer. The purpose of the new women’s organization, like the men-only Review Club founded a few years prior, was a broadening of horizons—“the mutual improvement of its members through the study of literature, art, science, and the vital interests of the day,” according to its first constitution. The club members lived in a town of barely 6,000 people in the American Midwest, but every other Tuesday afternoon some 40 women would gather in a member’s living room to discuss the world. First, they explored Africa—its history and geography, its colonization and the slave trade, its production and commerce, and the wonders of the Pyramids—and then they moved on to the study of Asia.

A Tale of Two Reports
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
Two university studies address the reasons for higher education’s decline. A point that has generated much discussion is the decline in confidence in and support for higher education. Over the last ten years or so, the percentage of Americans who say they have a high degree of confidence in our colleges and universities has fallen, while the percentage who say they’re skeptical about the value of higher education has risen sharply. Many in the higher education establishment have dismissed this as having no importance—merely the result of increasingly vicious right-wing polemics aimed at one of the nation’s great engines of “progressive” influence, they say. Nothing to be concerned about.