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Leon Black Sues Congress To Avoid Epstein Testimony
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Between 2012 and 2017 - after Jeffrey Epstein got out of prison - billionaire Leon Black paid him roughly $170 million. Black has not provided a credible explanation as to why he paid Epstein amounts vastly exceeding those paid to other professional advisors - and instead of sitting down to explain it to Congress on Thursday, he sued the House Oversight Committee.

Washington prof who parodied univ 'land acknowledgment' wins $600K settlement
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FIRE
The University of Washington paid $600,000 after punishing Professor Stuart Reges for parodying a university-approved “land acknowledgment” in his syllabus. The payout comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held administrators liable under the First Amendment for retaliation and viewpoint discrimination. Today’s settlement concludes the legal battle that began with a 2022 lawsuit by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression on Reges’s behalf. Besides the monetary settlement, the agreement stipulates that the university cannot take any further action against Reges. While Reges’s appeal was pending, UW also rescinded and replaced the vague antiharassment policy used to punish the professor for his speech.

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About
Topic: Abortion
Source: 404 Media
Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion. The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases. The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about the incident, documents shared with 404 Media show. The tool was used in part to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.”

DOJ Sues Kansas School District
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
Over ‘Secret Gender Transitions’ in First-Of-Its-Kind Lawsuit. Stuart Varney and Lydia Hu discuss the DOJ suing a Kansas school district over secret gender transition policies. The lawsuit accuses the district of directing staff to help students transition without parental consent. A federal lawsuit accuses Kansas schools of secret gender transition policies, as Stuart Varney and Lydia Hu discuss the DOJ legal action. The district, which serves over 20,000 students, allegedly directed staff to transition students without parental consent. Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, warns that the department will not tolerate violations of federal law.

Nation’s largest school district bans AI in the classroom through 8th grade
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN
New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. The one-year moratorium will affect nearly 600,000 public school students, nearly two-thirds of the district’s total enrollment. As part of the policy rollout, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the district will “discontinue or disable the AI components of more than 38 previously allowed programs that do not meet our new safety and oversight standards.”

UK Government To Fund School Forcing Seven-Year-Olds Into Hijabs
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Leftist council rubber-stamps compulsory headscarves while British flags are outlawed... Barnet Hill Academy has operated as an independent Islamic day school since 2006, but until this week families paid more than £6,500 a year. Those fees will now vanish, as the Dedicated Schools Grant takes over. Voluntary-aided status is the mechanism. The local authority maintains the school and pays the bills. The governing body keeps the religious character, employs the staff and sets the admissions rules. Faith designation lets a VA school give priority to 100 per cent of places on religious grounds and appoint teachers by faith. The school's own uniform page is blunt. For girls in Years 3 and 4 a white hijab sits in the same list as the branded pinafore, black shoes and book bag. In Years 5 and 6 the hijab remains, with a jilbab or ankle-length skirt as the alternative lower garment.

Gloria Steinem, Journalist and Activist, Has Died Aged 92
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Breitbart
The death of the co-founder of Ms. Magazine and leader of the Women’s Action Alliance was confirmed through her foundation’s social media pages. In a post on Instagram, it said she “passed away peacefully” at her home in New York City, “surrounded by many who loved her.” “Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard,” the post said, per AP. “Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves. Gloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humor,” the tribute continued.

Virginia Mom Gets 6-Month Suspended Jail Sentence
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
...for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond. It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning, she says. Off he went while she made lunch. A passerby saw Sam and alerted security. One of the community's security guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers at Parkinson's door. CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect.

J.K. Rowling Criticizes Emma Watson, Calls Her ‘Ignorant’ in Fiery Response
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Comis Basics
J.K. Rowling has publicly shared her frustration with Emma Watson, revealing that their once-close friendship has fractured. In a long social media post, the Harry Potter author criticized Watson’s views on transgender rights, calling them “ignorant,” and shared the private note that marked the end of their personal connection. According to Rowling, their friendship began to strain in March 2022, after Watson’s appearance at the BAFTA Awards.

Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Ron Paul Institute
Author: by James Bovard
he Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the US Constitution. The Stanford Daily—one of the best-known college student newspapers in the nation—sued the Trump administration for changing its “immigration policy and pattern of enforcement, namely by arresting, detaining, and deporting students...

Parents sue California school district over field trip to mosque
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Fox 11 News
A group of parents from different religions filed a lawsuit against Palo Alto Unified School District in California and Palo Alto High School principal Brent Kline over a field trip to a mosque last year. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that students took a tour of the Muslim Community Association's mosque in Santa Clara as part of the high school's Social Justice Pathway curriculum last fall, according to the Palo Alto Daily Post. The parents in the lawsuit are Jewish, Hindu, and Zoroastrian.

Will the DOJ act on Epstein co-conspirators list issued by Massie?
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Hill
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to the House floor for one minute Monday to list potential co-conspirators of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Massie said it has been a year since President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act and the government continues to withhold more than 3 million files from the public. In light of this, the Kentucky Republican noted the Epstein Files Transparency Act II has been introduced to “bring the fight to the state courts, accountability to the Department of Justice and closure for survivors.” He added, “We want perpetrators of these crimes to be investigated and prosecuted.”

How States Dodge Welfare Reform’s Spending Constraints
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Cato Institute
Following the 1996 welfare reforms, states moved some recipients off TANF and onto the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Today, state legislators are shifting costs onto federal taxpayers by exploiting eligibility loopholes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and exploiting Medicaid’s waiver system to finance initiatives that are at best tangential to the delivery of health care services. To reverse this trend, Congress should expand the 1996 TANF reforms to other welfare programs, block-grant Medicaid and SNAP to align policy choices with their associated costs, and limit federal taxpayer exposure.

Lindsay Clancy And The Cult Of Deranged Women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
The two-times deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial convenes again today to deliberate. In the meantime, some will go to TikTok for late-and-breaking news and “expert legal” opinions. She was just sleep deprived. Three children is a lot. She is not perfect. And, my God. She’s already in a wheelchair. That should be punishment enough for strangling her three children. And, let’s not forget the various conspiracy theories surrounding this cold-blooded case of the murder of three innocent children. These women get their news on TikTok, after all. Yes, the Chinese do freaking hate us. Mindless, unproductive dopamine, late-and-breaking “news” and now, in-depth crime commentary from a washed-up, Hollywood hag.

Independent Thinking Can’t Be Force-Fed
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Economy
The new book ‘Unconventional Education and America’s Founding’ traces the pluralistic, self-led educations that prepared colonial learners to remake the world. Unconventional Education and America’s Founding, edited by Nasiyah Isra-Ul at the Foundation for Economic Education, arrives at an opportune moment because it approaches that question historically, instead of politically. Putting aside whether homeschoolers should get tax credits or if public charters improve math scores, the book asks what an educated public meant to at least a few architects of the American experiment.

J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions. "Why are we allowing the companies that are destroying this country to receive tax preferences?" he asked. "Why don't we seize the assets of the Ford Foundation, tax their assets, and give it to the people who've had their lives destroyed by their radical open-borders agenda?" Carlson had until then maintained an expression of earnest concern, but at the suggestion of punitive wealth redistribution, he was no longer able to restrain himself. He broke into an elated grin. The conservative columnist Ross Douthat later likened Vance's strategy to "burning his ships"—an attempt to earn the trust of conservatives by so offending establishment mores that he could never go back to being an elite in good standing with his former friends. It was a bet that paid off bigly.

Eye of the Beholder: Aesthetic Injury and the White House Ballroom
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
The Administration won a major victory before the Supreme Court this week, securing a 5-4 decision allowing the resumption of construction of the new White House ballroom. Notably, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a dissent with his three liberal colleagues to oppose the move. The case turns on the standing of challengers to bring the case. However, as a torts professor, what intrigued me was what the case says about aesthetic injuries. In torts, I teach aesthetic nuisance cases where courts tend to reject claims of injury due to eyesores and blight. Such claims are disfavored in both codes and cases: “Things merely disagreeable, however, which simply displease the eye or offend the taste, or shock an oversensitive or fastidious nature, no matter how irritating or unpleasant, are not nuisances.” 81 N.Y. Jur. 2d Nuisances § 17 (2014).

Former Feminist Speaks the Unspeakable Truth About Feminism
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: End to DV
In The Goddess That Failed, Janice Fiamengo eloquently expounds on the many ways that feminism has betrayed women, men, families, and civilization itself. It is a sobering picture. Fiamengo was once a card-carrying feminist. “I know feminism well, having being an adherent before I become a critic...I understand the psychology and the history of the movement because I lived inside it for many years.” Below are excerpts from the chapters of Fiamengo’s recently published, 215-page book...

Testosterone: Sex, Gender, and Death
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Libertarian Institute
The primary male sex hormone, testosterone, has been in the news of late. Students of social science may be familiar with the series of twentieth-century prison studies which had as their conclusion that high testosterone levels among incarcerated felons were associated with a propensity toward personal and violent crimes such as rape and murder. Correlation is not causation, but statistics are statistics all the same.