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Indie Journalist Nick Shirley Faces Threats Ahead of Harvard Appearance
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: SSB Crack
Independent journalist Nick Shirley is set to attend a fireside chat at Harvard University on Wednesday night, facing significant online backlash amid a wave of threats. This event coincides with the somber anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which falls the day after Shirley’s planned appearance.

The Netherlands, Spain push for EU-wide minimum age on social media
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Euronews
The social media ban should be harmonised and enforced at European level, and extended to video games, AI chatbots and other risky digital services, the two countries said in a non-paper circulated on Friday. Restricting minors' access to social media has become an increasingly hot topic in the EU and beyond. France, Greece, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands are all considering or advancing national legislation to that effect.

Enes Kanter Freedom says he's received death threats
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Post Millennial
Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has revealed that he has received countless death threat messages on social media in the wake of his declaring that he is eligible to compete in the WNBA. The women’s basketball league has been in hot water as of late over the inclusion of trans-identified males in women’s sports. Speaking with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, Freedom said, “My DMs are full of pictures and videos of the moment that Charlie Kirk got shot. They're saying that I am next very soon, right? And this is unacceptable. And I'm getting death threats once every hour because of simply following the WNBA rules. But the commissioner of the, you know, WNBA, Cuckoo Kathy, I call her, stepped down because she couldn't take the pressure, but I just hope whoever the next commissioner is make the right decision and add the word biological in their collective bargaining, or I am playing in 2027.”

62,000+ Arrested For Speech-Related Offenses In Britain, Report Finds
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Greatness
...roughly 34 arrests per day. More than 62,000 people were arrested in Britain for communications offenses over a five-year period, according to a new civil liberties report warning that the country's increasingly broad speech restrictions are having a chilling effect on free expression. The findings were based on Freedom of Information requests to police forces across the United Kingdom. Big Brother Watch said the actual number of arrests could be higher because some forces did not provide complete data.

Florida Sues Netflix, Seeking Billions in Damages
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NBC News
State AG says streaming giant secretly harvested kids' data. Florida just added Netflix to its growing list of tech targets. On Wednesday, state Attorney General James Uthmeier sued the streamer, accusing it of luring families with promises of privacy and no ads while secretly building a data-hungry ad business and using design features that hook kids into watching more, NBC News reports. "Netflix told Florida families they could pay a monthly fee to escape Big Tech surveillance. That was false," Uthmeier said. "Netflix collected detailed data on children and families, designed its product to keep kids watching, and then commercialized that information to launch the advertising business it promised never to build."

Canadian doctor FINED for refusing to administer child sex change injection
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Ajaero attended medical school in Nigeria. He is Christian and said "his religion is an important part of his life." A Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a British Columbia family doctor pay $28,100 after he refused to administer a hormone-blocking injection to a trans-identified teen over the doctor’s religious and cultural beliefs. The tribunal found on September 1 that Dr. Henry Ajaero’s conduct was discriminatory. He has run a family practice in Delta since 2014, per CBC. At a March 2021 appointment, Ajaero had told the trans-identified teen and the teen’s mother that he would not inject Lupron, a medication typically used to treat prostate cancer and early-onset puberty, which has been used by doctors to halt a trans-identified child’s progression through biological puberty, claiming that it “pauses” it. He told the teen and mother he “did not feel comfortable administering it.”

NYC council moves to clamp down on press credentials
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the time refused to pull their press credentials. The New York City Council is set to introduce a new bill targeting the press, which would make it easier for city officials to remove the press credentials of journalists. The bill has been backed by NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin. The move comes after there was outrage over three "reporters," who called themselves the "Mangionistas," who were granted badges. Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the time refused to pull their press credentials. Video of the "reporters" went viral of them praising Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. [Ed: Three vocal supporters of Luigi Mangione—dubbed the "Mangionistas"—obtained official New York City press credentials and created a circus outside the courtroom.]

Austria's Headscarf Ban For Under-14 Schoolgirls Comes Into Force
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Remix News
and should extend to students of all ages as well as teachers... Austria's new nationwide ban on "traditional Muslim" head coverings, including hijabs and burqas, for girls under 14 in both public and private schools, has now taken effect as of Sept. 7, 2026. in Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland. The start date coincided with the start of the new school year. Austria's remaining states will follow with a ban next week as well.

As Wisc. SC starts new term, Planned Parenthood challenges abortion restrictions
Topic: Abortion
Source: Wisconsin Watch
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is targeting a 24-hour waiting period and limitations on accessing at-home medication abortion. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin filed a new lawsuit challenging Wisconsin abortion restrictions Thursday, just days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court returned to work with a newly cemented 5-2 liberal majority in place. The lawsuit, filed in Dane County against Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, argues that two Wisconsin laws violate the state constitution’s guarantee of personal liberty.

Sex-Trafficking Brothers Add Big Name to Clemency Push
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Real Deal
Alan Dershowitz has requested at least $500K for work for Alexander brothers: NYT. Three brothers convicted in a sprawling New York sex-trafficking case are turning to a familiar name in Trump-world as they eye clemency. Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander have paid Alan Dershowitz hundreds of thousands of dollars since hiring him in March 2025, nearly a year before their trial, according to financial records reviewed by the New York Times. Dershowitz, who helped defend President Trump during his first impeachment trial and has advised him on pardons, told the Times he's working as a consultant on "legal, constitutional and sentencing issues," though a letter he wrote to the brothers' mother also cites work on "executive clemency and judicial reversal."

Judge Rules West Point Violated Faculty's Free Speech
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Law & Crime
Judge Cathy Seibel says US Military Academy's restrictions breach First Amendment rights. A federal judge just told West Point it can't gag its own professors. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, US District Judge Cathy Seibel said the US Military Academy's policy restricting what faculty can publish or say in public violates the First Amendment, permanently blocking the school from enforcing it, per the Washington Post. The policy, adopted in early 2025 after President Trump ordered military academies to avoid promoting ideas deemed "radical" or "un-American," required professors to get approval before publishing articles, giving speeches at conferences, or even appearing on podcasts. "Close this case," Seibel instructed on Tuesday, per Law & Crime.

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.

Pedagogy of the Progressives:
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: AEI
[Ed: fascinating.] A Review of Syllabi from Graduate Schools of Education. Many graduate schools of education (GSEs) display a concerning ideological asymmetry, advancing dogmas grounded in progressive and critical theory frameworks rather than exposing prospective teachers to intellectually diverse ideas and training them in pragmatic instruction and classroom management methods. An investigation of 10 graduate education programs raises serious questions about whether GSEs are preparing teachers for the realities of the classroom or instead shaping teachers’ worldview with a belief system that is focused on immutable characteristics and activism while remaining actively hostile toward Western ideals and anything resembling traditional education.

What A Child Crimes Investigator Won’t Let Her Kids Do
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Kiss Channel
A police officer who investigates child sex crimes has gone viral after sharing the things she won’t let her own kids do in order to protect them from predators. Terra Avilla, who goes by @thegirlcop on TikTok, regularly shares helpful information relating to child abuse and domestic violence and recently posted two clips about the things her kiddos are banned from doing for their own protection. The cop, who is based in Connecticut, says that some of her tops may be “surprising, but they come from her years of on-the-job experience. In one video, Avilla shares three things she’ll never let her kids do. [Ed: actually, the list has now expanded to 5 things.]

Now They Think Babies Can Be Racist...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
A woman sat in front of a camera this week and told the internet she had witnessed a "racist baby"... Not a joke account. Not a sketch. A straight-faced lecture about an infant who looked at someone for a few seconds - and, in her telling, revealed the original sin of race hatred barely out of the womb. The woman declares that "watching children mirror racist behavior is WILD." She describes a baby staring at her 'friend of colour', the mother looking stricken, and then announces that the child is "literally mimicking" hostility toward "black and brown people." This is not an isolated freak-out. It sits inside a wider epidemic of deranged white leftist women. They police stares, invent motives for infants, and treat ordinary childhood as a moral emergency. These people staff HR departments, classrooms, nurseries and social-work offices. They write the guidance.

“The Funniest Thing”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Academic Jokes About Celebrating the “Kirkiversary” by Assassinating Nick Shirley. Will Rogers once observed that “Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” No one ever personified Rogers’ rule as much as University of California, Irvine instructor Matt Goldman, who cracked everyone up this week by joking about celebrating the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by alluding to the possible assassination of independent journalist Nick Shirley. Today is the anniversary of the murder of Kirk. In anticipation, Goldman posted a picture of Shirley with the line “Someone can do the funniest thing just before the Kirkiversary.” It was a response to an Instagram post by the Harvard Republican Club promoting a speech by Shirley.

Misandry and Australia’s Online Safety Act
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: James Nuzzo
Social media companies have a duty to squash hostile attitudes toward women, but not men, according to a new draft amendment. John Humphreys of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance recently published an informative article about an exposure draft of an amendment to the Online Safety Act 2021. The draft amendment was released earlier this week by the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts. Humphrey commented that this broad reform would “[r]equire social media to meet a vague “duty of care” that would be at the discretion of the eSafety Commissar,” and that the revised law would “threaten companies with fines over $100 million if Australia’s chief censor determines that content on the site is too misogynistic or mean.” Humphries comment about “misogynistic” content caught my attention...

Clancy Jurors Speak Up About The Lone Holdout
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
As the deadlocked jurors of the Lindsay Clancy trial are sprung from civic duty, several of the women on the jury opened up about what happened behind closed doors. To recap, no verdict was reached in the trial because one lone juror refused to find Lindsay Clancy, a woman who strangled her three young children to death (and admitted to this), not guilty by reason of insanity. But, but but…the Lone Juror admitted that he held doubts after watching a video,” said one juror.

There's No Market Failure in Choosing to Stay Home. So Why Subsidize It?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
J.D. Vance would like to give money to people for choices they're already making—without a workable plan to actually pay for it. Vice President J.D. Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to government subsidies. That's because the proposal corrects no market failure. It pays people for choices they're already making. It adds a new claimant class to a budget that cannot carry the ones already promised something. And it does all of this without a workable plan to pay for it.