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'Banned' German Movie Inspired by Sexual Assaults by Migrants
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Twitchy
Posted in Full to X, Becomes Huge Hit. Uwe Boll is an interesting character. Born in West Germany, he's best known for being a terrible director, butchering big-screen adaptations of video games. In 2006, he challenged his harshest film critics to a "put up or shut up" boxing match dubbed Raging Boll. (He won every bout.) Boll met a setback this year with his new feature, Citizen Vigilante, starring Armie Hammer. The film was effectively banned in Germany, as it was not given a classification by the country’s film rating body, meaning it couldn't legally receive the certification required for public screenings. What was so offensive about the film? The movie tells the story of an American man in Europe who takes matters into his own hands when girls are raped and murdered by migrants. "The movie is dedicated to all the women in Europe who got left alone by the law," he told Jack Posobiec. "So many cases of random rapes, random stabbings, random violence happened based on mass migration."

Shakespeare Was Actually a Black, Jewish, Female Poet, New Book Claims
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
The author of a new book about William Shakespeare is claiming that the works of the famed playwright were actually written by a black, Jewish woman. The book, The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby by Irene Coslet, argues that Shakespeare was actually Emilia Bassano, a dark-skinned Jewish woman who was an English poet during the Elizabethan period. The Amazon description for the book, which says it is set to be released on March 30, questions if Shakespeare was indeed “a white man from Stratford.”

TX board approves adding Bible stories to required reading for public school students
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CBS News
Texas public schools will require students to read Bible stories under a reading list approved by the state's education board Friday, widening conservative efforts to bring more Christian teachings into U.S. classrooms. The Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by Republicans, approved the list of over critics who argued the titles lacked diversity and and blurs the separation of church and state. Under the mandate, more than 5 million public school students in Texas must read traditional literary works such as E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" and Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." They'll also be required to read Bible stories, including passages from the New Testament and excerpts from the Book of Job. The rollout will be staggered, starting with elementary school students in 2030.

Yale Looks to Bend the Knee on race-based admission
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Mediaite
Yale University has already sought settlement talks with the Trump Administration in the face of a widespread probe into its admission policies, according to a Friday New York Times report. One of the country's most elite universities apparently does not want the same high-profile, months-long fight with the government that its historic rival, Harvard, faced last year, The Times reported. Three sources told the outlet the government has launched an investigation of the New Haven, Connecticut-based school for giving preferential treatment to Black and Hispanic applicants at its medical school, and is also reviewing Yale's undergraduate and law school practices.

FIFA Folds
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Zero Hedge
Allows Rainbow Flags To Fly In Seattle Stadium Despite Objections From Iran, Eqypt Under FIFA’s World Cup stadium policy, it is prohibited for fans to bring in certain controversial polit. Both countries are predominantly Muslim, and homosexuality is illegal in Iran and criminalized in Egypt, but Hana Tadesse, a spokesperson for Seattle’s World Cup organizing committee, said on June 24 that FIFA considers the rainbow flag a statement of human rights and will allow fans to wave it inside Lumen Field.

California Court Orders Weinstein Resentenced
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian
Appeals panel upholds 2022 rape, sexual assault conviction. An appeals court on Friday upheld Harvey Weinstein's 2022 rape and sexual assault conviction in California but ordered his trial judge to resentence him. A three-judge panel from the California's 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously issued the decision. "We are disappointed by today's decision and respectfully disagree with the Court of Appeal's conclusions regarding the fairness of Mr. Weinstein's trial," Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in an email. "At the same time, the court correctly recognized that his sentence cannot stand."

The Turley-Wolfson Debate on Institutional Neutrality in Higher Education
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
I just returned from the University of Wyoming, where I debated the President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Todd Wolfson over the need for colleges and universities to maintain institutional neutrality. The debate was organized by the Steamboat Institute and was live-streamed. Given the interest in the debate and the polling results below, I am hopeful that we can prevail in this existential battle for higher education. Steamboat has now posted the debate in case you would like to hear the arguments on both sides of this issue.

Graham Platner welcomes attacks from 'fascists and bigots' over his support for trans rights
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Advocate
The Maine Democratic Senate nominee secured a national transgender rights PAC endorsement while pledging not to abandon LGBTQ+ Americans. Days after marching in the Portland Pride Parade, Graham Platner, Maine’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, is promising to fight federal attacks on transgender Americans as he heads into a nationally watched general election against Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. In an exclusive interview with The Advocate on Wednesday, Platner welcomed the endorsement from the Christopher Street Project, a political action committee dedicated to electing transgender rights advocates. The group’s executive director, Tyler Hack, said Platner represents the kind of Democrat needed not only to build a congressional majority but also to prevent transgender people’s rights from being negotiated away.

FIFA allows LGBT pride flags at Egypt-Iran match despite ban on ‘political’ items
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Washington Examiner
FIFA said on Thursday that fans will be permitted to bring pride flags to the World Cup match in Seattle between Iran and Egypt, despite Iranian objections and the soccer organization’s ban on “political items.” The World Cup’s draw prompted pushback from both countries when it was first decided in December because it is scheduled for June 26 at Seattle Stadium during the city’s Pride Weekend; each primarily Muslim nation has criminal penalties for homosexuality. Seattle organizers have branded the game as the “Pride match.”

Judge orders DOJ to produce, unredact sought after Epstein files
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Hill
On Thursday, a federal judge based in Washington, D.C., ordered the Justice Department to unredact additional pages of the Epstein files in a suit brought by attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang. The preliminary injunction orders redactions be removed in key documents of interest in the files, including “at least eight email exchanges with Mr. Epstein regarding a ‘torture video’ and sexual activity with young women, including minors” as well as interviews with a woman who said she was abused by President Trump as a minor.

How Many Girls on Testosterone Is Too Many?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: City-Journal
A new Oregon study shows that pediatric gender transitions aren’t as rare as advocates of the “affirming” model assured us. Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, we were assured, were reserved for a tiny number of carefully assessed children with severe and persistent distress. But when new data show that these treatments aren’t so rare, the same defenders suddenly change their tune: the numbers are no longer reassuring because they are small; now they are reassuring because they are large. More children receiving medical transition means that a previously hidden population finally feels safe enough to pursue the care it has always needed. Higher cross-sex identity persistence after social transition or administering puberty blockers means the interventions were obviously appropriate.

Mom of 7 Leans Into 'Agentic Parenting'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Cut
Startup founder-turned-homeschooling mom experiments with autonomous digital helpers. Groceries that appear without being requested aren't magic at Jesse Genet's house—they're the work of "Claire," one of several AI agents she's turned into her virtual household staff. Writing for New York Magazine, Lane Brown details how the ex-startup CEO and mother of seven has handed off much of her family's tasks to autonomous software that reads her calendar, orders food, buys items on Amazon, manages her children's homeschool, and even builds custom apps. These agents run on a rack of Mac minis and a Mac Studio at her rural California ranch, increasingly using local AI models. "Local models mean nobody can cut her off," Brown writes. "They mean that whatever her family tells AI never leaves the house ... and they mean, [Genet] says, 'if the apocalypse happens, I'll still have superintelligence at my fingertips.'"

The Crisis in the Humanities Is Not About Money
Topic: Unspecified
Source: The Quillette
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce. Did the humanities go woke because they went broke? That scenario has become one of the more persuasive explanations for the present crisis in the humanities. As their enrolments declined and federal funding shrank, and universities began sending money (and, thus, prestige) toward STEM and professional programs, the humanities went looking for support wherever they could find it. If serious funders wanted academic work to be framed in the language of social justice, then scholars were willing to adapt accordingly. Tyler Austin Harper recently made this case in The Atlantic, arguing that what looked like ideological capture may, in fact, be economic desperation.

Culture Of Grievance
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Thinker
When victimhood becomes social currency... Every civilization develops a moral language - a set of virtues that it celebrates and vices that it condemns. For much of human history, societies lauded courage, resilience, self-sacrifice, duty, honor, and perseverance. The individual who overcame adversity was admired. The citizen who contributed more than he consumed was esteemed. To endure hardship without surrendering one’s dignity was considered noble. Increasingly, however, modern Western society appears to have inverted this hierarchy. Today, victimhood often functions as a form of social capital.

Psychology Journal Under Fire For Retracting Publication Challenging Claims Of Racism
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
The editors reportedly declared that such conclusions are "inconsistent" with the publication's "values." We have previously discussed academic journals canceling publications that challenge the orthodox views of mainstream scholars. The latest such example can be found in the Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, which pulled the 2025 article of Arna Mitchell who questioned claims that psychology as a field is a tool of "white power." The editors reportedly declared that such conclusions are "inconsistent" with the publication's "values."

Identity politics and Trump hate lose to Islamist communism in NYC
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Washington Examiner
In New York City on Tuesday night, Democrats learned the hard way that hating President Donald Trump or being a power player in racial identity politics is no longer as important as embracing Islamist communism. The two notable losses in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries were Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman, who both lost to candidates endorsed by New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Espaillat is a beneficiary of the racial politics hierarchy Democrats have built over the past two decades as the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, but was pushed out by the rich, white Democrats in his district who preferred his opponent, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who wants to erase police, prisons, private property, and Israel from existence.

United Nations: Crisis of Credibility
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Men and Boys
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced that the United Nations faces “imminent financial collapse,” arising from member nations not paying their annual dues. The UN has become “more politicized, less principled, and increasingly disconnected from its founding mission,” according to one observer. Much of the problem lies with the failure of the United Nations to uphold its founding principles, including statements that affirm the need for gender equality:

The rise of ‘gray divorce,’
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
Americans age 50 and older are getting divorced—with almost half of all broken marriages in recent years coming from aging Gen Xers and Baby Boomers. Gray divorces doubled between 1990 and 2010, until they comprised about one in four of all divorces nationally... And though divorce has been dropping in most age groups across America, it has not among people 50 years and older. Michael Stutman, a top New York City divorce lawyer, thinks a “popular culture” shift around modern marriage expectations, coupled with staring down the barrel of mortality, could be playing a part.

Police Took 8 Minutes To Locate Henry Nowak's Fatal Stab Wound...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Then Performed CPR Directly Over It It just keeps getting worse... Serving and former Hampshire officers have now admitted that mandatory "Inclusion Matters" DEI training played a direct role in how they processed the incident. They described sessions that drummed in "white privilege" and "unconscious bias." One officer said: "we had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious bias." The outsourced trainer was described as "deeply hateful of white people and our culture." Officers feared career damage if they pushed back. This ideological environment framed the white teenager as the likely aggressor and gave credence to the attacker's fabricated claim of racial abuse.