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Results of Middle & High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Futurism
In an age of AI, getting good grades is a mirage. In a study that tracked nearly 27,000 students in China between the ages of 12 and 18 (grades 7-12), around 80 percent reported using AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance’s Doubao. The remaining 20 percent, who abstained from using AI, formed the control group.What the researchers from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong found, as reported by The Economist, point to an alarming trend. After six months, the homework scores of students who used AI rose by 18 percent across all subjects, while the time it took them to complete each assignment fell from 64 minutes to 45 minutes on average — a 30 percent reduction. But were they really learning, or were they using AI as a crutch to breeze through the assignments?

US taxpayers fund $230M in woke ‘intersectionality’ grants
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
... studying race, class and ‘privilege’: report. Taxpayers are funding $230 million in largely Biden-era grants to study woke “intersectionality” — the assessing of factors such as race and class to rate “privilege’’ and potential discrimination, a new report says. The Defense of Freedom Institute and Legal Insurrection Foundation, both right-leaning policy groups, said their review found 249 records of federal-assistance spending — propelled during the Biden era — that used the keyword “intersectionality.’’ “Race-obsessed ‘Intersectionality’ doctrine provides the toxic fuel for radical anarchist groups like the Turtle Island Liberation Front, and is the mothers’ milk for destructive anti-American and anti-capitalist agendas that dominate campuses,”...

Top GOP Gay Advocacy Group Drops the 'T' in 'LGBT'
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Red State
'Not the Movement We Supported and Fought For'. The Log Cabin Republicans group was established in the late '70s to combat discrimination and intolerance against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Melania Trump held a big fundraiser with LCR at Mar-a-Lago in 2024 for her husband, then-candidate and now president Donald Trump.

WNBA Team Debuts ‘Non-Binary’ Mascot In Game v. Sophie Cunningham’s Fever
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Trending Politics
The Toronto Tempo, the WNBA’s Canadian expansion franchise that is currently in its inaugural season, introduced its official mascots during a home game against the Indiana Fever on August 18. The pair — Dez, a Borealis Blue Snapping Turtle, and Dot, an Arctic Hare — debuted at halftime. “Dez and Dot made their debut at Scotiabank Arena and brought two very different kinds of energy – and a shared sense of rhythm – to the court for the first time,” the team announced on its official website.

Trump Administration Plans New Facility To House 3,000 Migrant Kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason.com
Many of Them Lack Legal Representation. Trump's mass immigration campaign is leaving migrant children alone to navigate a complicated immigration system that was once meant to protect them. Over 6,200 children have been detained since the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term. But despite ongoing legal challenges over the poor conditions in which detained undocumented children are held, the Trump administration is planning to build a new detention facility capable of holding 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children.

TikTok settles $400 million children’s privacy lawsuit
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, agreed to a $400 million settlement to resolve litigation regarding alleged violations of a children’s online privacy law, the Justice Department announced Friday. The Biden administration’s Justice Department filed the lawsuit against TikTok in 2024, accusing TikTok and ByteDance of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by letting children under 13 create regular accounts, collecting their personal data without parental consent and failing to delete kids’ data when requested.

Detroit schools offer students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
The district expanded its Visa gift card incentive to middle schoolers after high school absenteeism dropped by 9 percentage points. Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) paid students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance and is expanding the incentive program to middle schoolers after district officials say it successfully reduced chronic absenteeism. Now in its second year, the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative targets the winter months — from Jan. 5 to March 20 — when attendance historically dips across the district. "DPSCD is continuing the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative for the 2026–27 school year for high school students and expanding it to include middle school students," a district spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday. [Ed: remember, this is taxpayer money.]

India Honour Killings Expose Gaps in Law
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Human Rights Research Center
In the city of Agra, India, an 18-year-old pregnant woman died by drowning in the Chambal River from an alleged honour-based killing involving her father and brother-in-law. Police reports indicated that the accused attempted to coerce the young woman to enter the river voluntarily, and when she declined, they allegedly drowned her. Statements from the father reveal that the murder was motivated by social stigma surrounding pregnancy outside of marriage. To conceal the crime, the father created a suicide story and showcased photographs depicting a mock cremation to mislead investigators.

Missing From a Mass Wedding in India: Brides
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: New York Times [Reader Friendly]
A fraud case, in which dozens of grooms showed up for a wedding that never materialized, is an extreme example of scamming in a marriage industry long prone to it. Many scammers in India are lured by the huge sums of money flowing to its marriage market, in which families spend years saving up for a daughter’s wedding clothing, jewelry and dowry — the traditional, yet illegal, payment of cash or assets to the groom. Marriage scams are common enough that Indian newspapers run full-page ads with tips on how to avoid them.

British Protesters Jailed For Longer Than Migrant Who Sexually Assaulted Girl
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Two British men get 30 and 32 months while Ethiopian sex offender who sparked the protests served just 12... British men who protested outside an Essex asylum hotel have been locked up for far longer than the migrant whose sexual assaults on a 14-year-old girl and a woman triggered the demonstrations. Charlie Land, 24, and Jonathan Glover, 48, received 32 months and 30 months respectively at Chelmsford Crown Court for violent disorder during the July 2025 clashes at The Bell Hotel in Epping. The Ethiopian national at the centre of it all, Hadush Kebatu, got just 12 months.

Teen Drops Social Media Addiction Claims
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Against Meta, Google, & Snap, Ahead Of October Trial. Her attorney said she ended the case to resume her life after seeking accountability and stronger protections for young social media users. The plaintiff, identified in California court records only as P. M-Y., had alleged the owners of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat contributed to her social media addiction, depression, and self-harm. She dismissed the case without any payment from the three companies, according to a court filing and statements from the defendants. TikTok, also named in the suit, had settled earlier.

US' Once-Robust Barrier Against Measles Is Faltering
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ProPublica
Measles is back in a way the US hasn't seen in more than three decades. Federal data show that by July 23, the number of reported cases had already surpassed every year since 1991, with upward of 4,850 infections and three deaths since early 2025, including two unvaccinated girls in West Texas, per ProPublica. The disease is highly contagious yet preventable with a long-standing, widely available vaccine. Its steady spread, experts say, is a warning flare that the country's once-robust immunization shield is cracking. Reporter Patricia Callahan links the surge to eroding trust in public health and to policy shifts under President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who've questioned or recast long-held vaccine guidance. [Ed: no one ever mentions the flood of migrants who are unvaxxed as a factor in the rise of measles.]

Paper Loses Longtime Columnist Over Trans Piece
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Hill
Writer Matt Calkins quits after article on transgender athletes was spiked, insists it wasn't transphobic. Matt Calkins says he walked away from his job, and a specific unpublished column is why. The Hill reports that the longtime Seattle Times sports columnist announced on Thursday that he has resigned after the paper declined to run a piece built around two high school girls who objected to competing against transgender athletes in girls sports. In a Substack post, Calkins wrote that the column that argued supporting separate competition categories for "biological females and males" shouldn't automatically be labeled transphobic, "so let's stop throwing those labels around."

Trump moves to cancel American Bar Association accreditation of law schools
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Trump administration is moving to do away with the American Bar Association’s accreditation of law schools, taking a new step to escalate conservatives’ beef with the left-leaning legal group. The announcement came from David Barker, assistant secretary of education, through a report on Friday in the Wall Street Journal, which said the Education Department — by making this move — is escalating the Trump administration’s war with the premier legal group. The president and Republican lawmakers have been critical of the ABA’s decision not to rate Trump judicial appointees as high as they have Democratic-appointed judges.

Woman covertly filmed by Meta AI smart glasses...
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CBS News
raises privacy and consent concerns: "I had no say". A woman discovered she had been secretly filmed by a man wearing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses when friends and people she hadn't talked to in years sent her a video posted on social media. "It went viral. Across all platforms, probably over 200,000 views," Toluwa Omitowoju said. It's a growing trend with content creators increasingly using wearable AI tech to record everyday people in prank pickup line videos – often without their consent.

Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Erin in the Morning
Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights". The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much. In liberal democracies, advocacy groups are often free to criticize what they see as groups opposing the rights of those they advocate for. In the United States, for instance, the Southern Poverty Law Center designates groups opposing the rights of minorities as “hate groups,” an effective moniker that helps organizations and people avoid association with such movements. One of the most effective organizations at opposing hate and violence worldwide is Amnesty International, which has stood up to dictators and death squads to report accurately and advocate for globally marginalized people. Now, though, Amnesty appears to have met its greatest threat—not a government or a military junta, but the anti-trans activist and writer J.K. Rowling, and the anti-trans “gender-critical” movement she finances, who has successfully forced the organization as of this morning to issue an apology for calling anti-trans groups “anti-rights.”

Latest Physical Attack on Caitlin Clark Is So Outrageous
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Western Journal
Commentator Uses Football Term to Describe It. The Dallas Wings beat the Indiana Fever 91-85 on Thursday night, and most fans will likely remember the game as another sanctioned beatdown of the WNBA’s brightest star. Caitlin Clark finished her night with 10 points and 9 assists and was on the receiving end of one hit that was so physical the booth could only describe it in football terms. [Ed: term was tackle. Link to video of the horrendous assault is included.]

Pink-Clad Feminist Mob Rallies In Support Of Confessed Child Murderer
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Liberal women blame everyone except Lindsay Clancy, despite her open confession that she strangled her three helpless children... A mob of liberal women decked out in pink is taking to the streets in front of the Plymouth Superior Courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a rally in support of Lindsay Clancy during her ongoing murder trial. The group, which is often accused of being "terminally online", has been invading social media discussions for weeks to inject arguments in defense of Clancy, who confessed to the murder of her three helpless children. Now, these women (and a few beta husbands) are going offline and showing up en masse to explain why Lindsay Clancy should go free.

UK introduces ‘Catch and Release’ for wrongthink
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Graham Linehan
The UK plod are still acting as thought police, but leaving no paper trail. Jake Munro spent eight days in the south of Ireland with his girlfriend and their 6 year-old son. On the way home, four Welsh police officers pulled him out of the ferry queue at Pembroke Dock and took his fingerprints. Munro streams under the name Goth Daddy, is based in Northern Ireland, and has appeared on Tim Pool’s Culture War Podcast. He talks about wokeism and migration as much as he does goth and metal subculture. He worries about the future of the UK, for the same reason a lot of ordinary people are worried, which is the strain a sudden influx of military-age men is putting on European countries, represented most recently by these terrifying government pamphlets produced for them.