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UN probe finds mass killings, gang rapes by Sudan’s RSF amount to genocide
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Al Jazeera
A UN Fact-Finding Mission found that the paramilitary’s systematic campaign of violence in Darfur amounted to genocide. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed genocide in the western city of el-Fasher, carrying out mass killings, gang rapes and deliberate starvation as part of an intentional policy, a United Nations investigation has found. The UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan released its findings on Wednesday, concluding that the RSF’s systematic campaign of violence against civilians during and after its siege of the capital of North Darfur state amounted to genocide, building on a February report that had already identified hallmarks of the crime.

More Than 2,800 Errors Identified in BC MAID Cases in 2024, Internal Report Finds
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Catholic Register
Page 3 of the “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Oversight 2024 Year End Report” states 4,169 individuals requested MAiD in 2024 — a nearly 10 per cent increase since 2023. However a bar graph from the report, included with this article, indicates a total of 4,190 MAiD cases in 2024. It also indicates the MAiD Oversight Unit found 2,807 errors among 51.9 per cent of “MAiD case outcomes” requiring corrective “follow-up.” The report says “follow-up” means obtaining missing information or clarifying existing information.

‘We will never use them’
Topic: Women, Minorities, and Guns
Source: The Guardian
the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns. A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent. For many public colleges and universities in California, keeping their campuses safe includes owning military-grade weaponry: AR-15s, stun grenades designed to cause temporary blindness and sonic weapons that resonate so loudly they are known in the armed forces as the voice of God.

Democrats Target Collins on Abortion
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
$2.5M ad campaign ties senator to Roe v. Wade reversal. Democrats don't currently have a candidate in Maine's Senate race, but they do have a message. A nonprofit allied with a top Senate Democratic super PAC is rolling out a $2.5 million TV and digital blitz in Maine aimed at chipping away at the Republican Sen. Susan Collins' image as a protector of abortion rights, Politico reports. The 30-second spot from Affordable Maine zeroes in on Collins' vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his role in toppling Roe v. Wade, and her refusal to disavow that vote. The group will also spotlight her support for dozens of Trump-appointed judges who have upheld restrictive abortion laws.

Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Brussels Passes It Anyway... Naturally, the scanning regime won...On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of "Chat Control," the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans. Only 276 voted to keep it.So naturally, the scanning regime won - thanks to a 'quirky' voting procedure in Brussels that allowed legislation to survive even though most MEPs who cast a vote opposed it. That should alarm anyone who still believes the word "parliament" is supposed to mean something.

Europe’s conservatives revive zombie bill on child abuse scanning
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
The fight against online child abuse material has heated up European politics for months, and has gotten everyone from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to tech mogul and X owner Elon Musk to speak up. Child rights groups say the EU bill is critical to protect children from pedophiles and predators. Critics say it comes with serious privacy and surveillance risks. In the latest headache for legislators, lawmakers on Thursday added an amendment to the controversial piece of legislation that would exempt end-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp and Signal from the scanning rules. In the end, both camps came out disappointed.

Planned Parenthood targets vulnerable Republicans with $47M midterm push
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
Planned Parenthood is investing a near-record $47 million into the November midterm elections aiming to unseat the Republicans who voted to cut off the organization from federal funding last year. The “We Decide” campaign from Planned Parenthood Votes — an independent Super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood — will target ads and voter outreach in battleground House races in Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The funding will also go toward key Senate races in Michigan, where Democrats are likely running against former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, and potentially Maine, even though Sen. Susan Collins (R) voted against the underlying bill that cut Planned Parenthood funding.

Censorship of Christians at Pride Parade
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: X. Sarah is Censored
A female officer stated they would be cited if they said anything “offensive.” When Penkoski responded that offensive speech is protected under the Constitution and is not a crime, the officer claimed it fell under disorderly conduct, stating, “Well, yes, that is the conduct.” Another officer further confirmed that citations would be based solely on whether others were offended. When Penkoski asked whether calling a biological male a “male” would result in a citation if someone took offense, the officer responded that if he continued doing so and someone found it offensive, he would be cited. Penkoski also pointed out that he was deeply offended by half-naked men walking around children at the event, but the officer dismissed the complaint, responding, “There’s really not much I can do about that.”

New Ted Cruz-aligned organization takes aim at right-wing antisemitism
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Jewish Insider
Allies of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are launching a new political organization aimed at countering antisemitism within the Republican Party, Jewish Insider has learned, led by Arielle F. Klepach, a former assistant U.S. attorney and senior counsel for the National Jewish Advocacy Center. The Front Line (TFL) will operate as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, meaning the group will not have to disclose its donors and can spend unlimited sums toward political activity, provided campaign finance is not its primary purpose and it does not contribute directly to campaigns.

North Carolina university gender studies minor sees enrollment decline
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Campus Reform
Of the nearly 20,000 students enrolled at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), 42 were enrolled in the Women’s and Gender Studies minor during the 2025–2026 academic year, a Campus Reform public records request has revealed. The number represents a 16 percent enrollment decline. 50 students were enrolled in the 2024-2025 academic year. In addition to the Women’s and Gender Studies minor, the Gender Studies & Research Center offers a Women’s and Gender Studies Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program. Records obtained by Campus Reform show the Women’s and Gender Studies Post-Baccalaureate Certificate has had no enrolled students during the past two academic years.

SoCal Education Leaders Stole Nearly $20M From Schools; Report
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Greatness
All fraud is harmful, but defrauding education dollars meant to help kids learn and succeed is especially hideous. The findings in this report should alarm every family, teacher, and civic leader...Jorge Armando Contreras, the former fiscal services director for the Magnolia Elementary School District in Orange County, was charged with altering school checks over several years to funnel $16.7 million into his personal accounts. Contreras was spending the money on everything from a luxury home and a BMW to designer clothes and pricey tequila and federal investigators found stacks of cash stuffed into a mini-fridge and luxury designer bags at his home.

U.K. Police Offer ‘Unreserved Apology’ and £25,000
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gateway Pundit
...to Irish Writer Graham Linehan After Armed Arrest at Heathrow Airport for ‘Gender-Critical’ X Posts. In September 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, best known for creating Father Ted and The IT Crowd, was arrested at Heathrow Airport over social media posts criticizing transgender ideology. Linehan was met by five armed officers on arrival in London and detained in connection with three posts made on X. The posts under investigation included one in which Linehan wrote that men entering female-only spaces were committing abusive acts and should be challenged, with police called if necessary. A second post read, “Make a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

Japan to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education for the first time
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: ABC Austalia
Japan is set to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education for the first time in schools, workplaces, universities and homes. Japanese media reports that the plan is designed to promote public understanding and awareness of gender and sexual diversity in the country, which has not legalised same-sex marriage. The draft program reportedly notes that LGBTQIA+ people can “experience confusion, anxiety and difficulties in daily life due to insufficient public understanding.” Schools, universities and workplaces will promote understanding of gender and sexual diversity under the plan.

Pronatalists Want To Boost Fertility W/ Blue Laws & Gov-Enlisted Fertility Influencers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The Institute for Family Studies wants to increase America's birth rate. Some of its ideas are a little far out. With U.S. birth rates now below 1.6 children per woman, IFS warns that cultural and sometimes political interventions are necessary to increase the fertility rate, as "the future of liberty for all of us depends on the future of family." And so, in pursuit of "the future of liberty," IFS proposes a litany of social-engineering policies that restrict freedom and empower the government. Many of the proposal's reforms are conventional and similar to the pro-family, big-government politics of Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.): doling out baby bonus money and child caregiver credits, eliminating marriage penalties in tax and benefit programs, and incentivizing more housing. As Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown has noted, many of these top-down pronatalist policies often fall short of meaningfully increasing the birth rate.

“It’s a Constitutional Thing”:
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Jonathan Turley
Rubio Deports Convicted Rapist Protected by Walz and Minnesota Pardon Board Minnesota. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has failed in his extraordinary effort to protect a Laotian rapist from deportation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that he revoked Tue Lue Vang’s legal status and removed him from the United States. After repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, Vang insisted it was “a cultural thing.” Well, this is a “constitutional thing” that the Secretary of State, not the Governor of Minnesota, determines who may remain in the United States after such a serious offense.

Who is Achraf Hakimi? A look at the controversial Morocco captain
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Yahoo Sports
As Morocco prepares to take on France in a World Cup quarterfinal at Boston Stadium (Gillette Stadium) on Thursday, July 9, in a rematch of a 2022 semi-final, what should be a competitive and hard-fought fixture between two of the world's top teams carries an unfortunate distinction. For the second time in seven World Cup matches in Foxboro, a player will go up against a national team from a country where he is currently facing rape charges. Atlas Lions captain and defender Achraf Hakimi, who plays for Ligue 1 giants and back-to-back Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain, is set to stand trial in France on a charge of rape stemming from an alleged assault in 2023. For his case, the 27-year-old strongly denies the allegations and says he looks forward to his day in court.

One issue on which teachers unions and conservative reformers agree
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
While disagreeing on most else, teacher unions and conservative education policy reformers share views on cellphone bans, AI guardrails in K-12 public schools. Teachers unions and education reformers are historically longtime rivals – frequently bumping heads over policies surrounding school choice, parents' rights, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices in K-12 schools. There's one issue, however, upon which these groups agree – that technology, creeping first via phones and now Artificial Intelligence, is interfering with student learning. "Social media and student personal device use have become a constant presence in our schools,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union. “And educators are seeing firsthand the serious impact they can have on student mental health, safety and learning.”

Hate studies experts won’t comment
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Experts on “hate” and “extremism” have ignored numerous requests to comment on allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center funded informants who used money to buy Ku Klux Klan hoods and cross-burning materials. A federal indictment alleges that more than $4 million in donor funds went to pay confidential informants within extremist groups. The latest indictment alleges some money was used for “recruiting new members and purchasing materials for cross burnings and Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods,” according to CBS News. The College Fix contacted seven university centers that study hate and extremism and asked for a reaction to the indictment

New Masculinity Puts the Cart Before the Horse
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: In His Words
Why Nature Comes First When Nurturing Boys. Some contemporaries are calling for a new masculinity, a message presented in all sorts of ways in our K-12 education, colleges, work-environments, public policy, therapy, and media institutions. Think of Liz Planks, For the Love of Men: From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity. There are others of course. One has to wonder how this “new masculinity” message might resonate with our children and the parents, communities, and institutions that aim to raise and support them. What thoughts, conversations, and activities come from this new age mindset? How do children and institutions internalize and exercise this new masculinity?