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Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
The lawsuit alleges that Netflix built "surveillance machinery" to monitor the activities of kids accounts and collects behavioral data on the users, even though it does not directly engage in behavioral advertising to children. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging that the streaming service was spying on kids by collecting user data without consent. “Netflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from Texans’ personal data without their consent, and my office will do everything in our power to stop it,” Paxton said in a statement. “Netflix is not the ad-free and kid-friendly platform it claims to be."

Trump Wants To Slash Child Care Costs By Getting Government Out Of The Way
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Put money in parents’ hands and let them decide. [Ed: gov should just out of the way....out altogether.] Child care in America has become a significant financial burden. For many families, it now rivals rent, a mortgage, or student loan payments. Democrats have been framing child care as a key issue for them heading into the midterms. “Child care continues to get more expensive," said Jaelin O'Halloran, a DNC spokesperson. "While Trump and Republicans have offered no plans to follow through on their promises to lower costs, Democrats are focused on bringing down costs and making life more affordable for working families."

Harvard Grad Students Rally Outside Garber’s Home
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Crimson
A small group of striking graduate student workers rallied outside Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76’s private residence early Friday morning, marking a new escalation in the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers’ ongoing strike as contract negotiations with the University remain stalled. Roughly 10 demonstrators gathered outside Garber’s home from about 6 to 6:30 a.m., chanting and writing “CONTRACT NOW” in pink chalk on the sidewalk. The group represented a small fraction of HGSU-UAW, which represents roughly 5,000 graduate student workers. “Garber, Garber, stop stonewalling; this is HGSU calling!” demonstrators chanted

Trump administration launches Moms.gov on Mother’s Day
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Hill
The Trump administration launched the website Moms.gov on Mother’s Day in an effort to help provide resources to expecting women and their families. The site’s tagline says it’s “addressing the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and ensuring the well-being of mothers and the health of American families.”

Marrying for power: Gendered alliances in mafias
Topic: Children and Family
Source: PLOS
Drawing on judicial records documenting 770 inter-clan alliances through 906 marriages among 623 ’Ndrangheta clans, we analyze how matrimonial ties relate to power and cohesion within the organization. Powerful clans occupy central positions in the marriage network, while alliances among less influential clans function as critical “load-bearing” ties—whose simulated removal fragments the network most rapidly. Contrary to a “bride-receiving” narrative, we do not find clear evidence that status alone determines gendered exchange patterns; powerful clans’ higher share of incoming brides (0.559 versus 0.437) is not statistically significant. Instead, an inverted-U relationship emerges: clans with moderately high bride-receiving shares (?55–60%) exhibit the highest centrality, whereas extreme senders or receivers are structurally peripheral. These findings are consistent with marriage operating as an organizational technology—where powerful families build overlapping ties to enhance resilience, and moderate gender asymmetries optimize both lineage consolidation and network brokerage. Overall, the ’Ndrangheta’s durability appears to depend as much on peripheral-to-peripheral alliances as on unions of powerful families, underscoring marriage’s dual role in maintaining cohesion and managing power.

More States Enact New Laws Curbing Teachers Unions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
The Teacher Freedom Alliance says more than 272,000 teachers have opted out of union membership... New organized labor reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week require a majority of members to be present for teachers union certification or recertification votes, increase fines for illegal strikes, and establish merit-based pay for educators. In Idaho, after July 1, teachers unions will be prohibited from collecting dues directly from members’ paychecks, using paid time off for union activities, or recruiting new members during school hours.

Meanwhile In Scotland...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
A trans Tamil immigrant on a temporary student visa has just been ELECTED as a Green Party MSP to Holyrood in Scotland – despite having no British citizenship, no permanent residency and no right to full-time work. Where else would this be allowed to happen? It’s insane. The candidate, Dr Q Manivannan (they/them), arrived in the UK a few years ago as a PhD student and was selected for the Green list in Edinburgh and the Lothians East. Scotland’s rules – relaxed under the SNP – explicitly allow non-citizens to stand for election and take office.

Education Department launches hiring spree in key office
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico
...roughly a year after mass layoffs. The Federal Student Aid office plans to hire 334 full-time employees by 2027, despite staffing cuts last year and efforts to send the department’s work to other agencies. The Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office saw some of the most significant staffing cuts at the agency last March during the administration’s government-wide reduction in force. Now, that same office is trying to hire 334 full-time employees by 2027 — a 45 percent increase from its staffing levels as of last month — according to the presentation delivered to FSA staff in mid-April.

New York City's declining public school enrollment projected
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
... to lose over 150K more as population declines. A Citizens Budget Commission study found NYC lost approximately 114,000 more domestic residents than it gained in 2025. According to a "Statistical Forecasting" prepared for the New York City School Construction Authority, New York City is projected to lose thousands of students in the 2034-35 school year. "Enrollment is projected to be 721,251 in 2034-35, which would be a decline of 153,000 students from the 2024-25 enrollment," the outlet reported.

Revolutionizing Education
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Melania Trump's Vision for AI-Driven Learning. John Solomon highlights First Lady Melania Trump's initiative to integrate responsible, non-woke AI education in American schools, showcasing an exciting experiment in Boca Raton, Florida, led by the philanthropic pop star Pitbull. This episode delves into how these charter schools are utilizing AI-driven software to allow students to interact with historical figures like George Washington and Amelia Earhart, fundamentally changing the way history is taught.

Rampant Sexism at the UN – Time for Nations to Withhold Member Dues?
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Mises Institute
or years, groups have complained about widespread anti-male sexism at the United Nations. Now, a leading woman’s magazine has added its voice to the growing cacophony of discontent. This past Wednesday Evie Magazine published a stunning critique of widespread sexism at the United Nations. Penned by commentator Lisa Britton, “The UN Is All About Equality, Except When It Comes to Men” reveals. “Boys and men face unique challenges globally: higher suicide rates, lower life expectancy, homelessness, overdose, educational disparities, child soldiers, war crimes, and workplace deaths that overwhelmingly affect them. Yet, the UN’s focus remains lopsided…It’s as if their struggles are invisible, or worse, irrelevant and dismissed.”

Ideological Insanity Has Gotten Way Way Worse In The UK...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
While the US has righted course, the UK has just become more and more insane... A major exam board has now signed off on gender-neutral language in GCSE French, Spanish and German exams – despite the terms being completely alien to how those languages are actually spoken in their home countries. The move, buried in new specifications for 2026 exams, hands students the green light to ditch standard masculine and feminine forms in favour of made-up “inclusive” pronouns, nouns and adjectives.

Revolutionizing Education
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Melania Trump's Vision for AI-Driven Learning. John Solomon highlights First Lady Melania Trump's initiative to integrate responsible, non-woke AI education in American schools, showcasing an exciting experiment in Boca Raton, Florida, led by the philanthropic pop star Pitbull. This episode delves into how these charter schools are utilizing AI-driven software to allow students to interact with historical figures like George Washington and Amelia Earhart, fundamentally changing the way history is taught.

Liberal NYC woman didn't 'want to put another black man in jail,'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...now regrets not working to prosecute lunatic before he pushed elderly teacher to his death. The 23-year-old woman recounted to the New York Post that she and a friend were on a subway in Manhattan on April 2 when Rhamell Burke approached them trying to talk to them. She said the crazed man stalked them and allegedly yanked her by the back of her head in an attempt to slam her on the ground as well as kicked her friend in the back. Burke was later arrested for the killing of retired teacher Ross Falzone on Thursday after the elderly man was thrown down the stairs.

Criminalizing Childhood: When the Justice System Fails America’s Youth
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Naked Capitalism
Does your community care about children? This deceptively simple question carries profound moral, social, and civic weight. Across the United States, children are too often treated not as developing citizens deserving care and opportunity, but as problems to be managed. Systems meant to safeguard youth—juvenile justice, labor laws, immigration enforcement, and foster care—can instead respond with punishment, neglect, or harm. Children bear the consequences of policies and practices they did not create, producing predictable cycles of disadvantage.

UK Equality Law Revamp Legislates Socialism
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Mises Institute
In recent years, many Western countries have introduced legal duties to promote equal outcomes or “equity,” under the auspices of anti-discrimination and human rights law. For example, Canada has an Employment Equity Act, which aims to implement “the principle that employment equity means more than treating persons in the same way but also requires special measures and the accommodation of differences.” Although these laws are often justified as measures to equalize opportunities, the legal framework implementing equality rights explicitly measures disparities in outcome. After all, achievement gaps are easy to measure, while it would be very difficult to track something so amorphous as “opportunity.” In the Canadian example, the aim is “to correct the conditions of disadvantage in employment experienced by women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.” This is tracked by keeping records of employment rates based on race.

Professor quantifies ‘curriculum degradation’ at University of Chicago
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
The University of Chicago has undergone a “curriculum degradation” in the past 13 years, according to a new analysis by an accounting professor. Professor Ivan Marinovic, who teaches accounting at Stanford University, analyzed language used in University of Chicago course titles and descriptions between 2012 and 2025 for his analysis, published at the Heterodox STEM Substack. He found the use of “progressive” language, such as “equity” and “intersectional” has doubled, compared to the use of “Western canon” words, such as “Bible” and “Western civilization.”

How ‘The View’ Landed at the Center of a Free Speech Battle
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Times [Reader Friendly]
The Trump administration’s focus on the show is testament to the enduring influence of an old-fashioned broadcast TV program started 29 years ago. President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to punish his perceived media critics has come for newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, The Des Moines Register and The New York Times; broadcast outlets like the BBC, NBC News and CBS News; and the late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. But now it is bearing down on a new opponent, one that remains politically potent and has a storied place in Mr. Trump’s oeuvre of media grudge matches — the long-running ABC daytime talk show, “The View.”

New Jersey's Iconic Diners Are Dying.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
This Is the Wrong Way To Save Them. Democratic state lawmakers want to give tax carveouts to certain restaurants. The real problem is New Jersey's tax code itself. New Jersey's diners are apparently in trouble. As many as 100 have shuttered in the past decade, according to Amanda Stone, the vice president of public affairs for the New Jersey Restaurant & Hospitality Association. The closures appear to be due to a combination of factors: continued aftershocks from the COVID-19 pandemic, rising food prices from tariffs and inflation, and changing consumer preferences.