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— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 23:59:58 printer friendly
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California Cult Leader Gets 225 Years for Raping Followers
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: SF Gate
Hmong congregation founder Sansue Bee Vang abused women, children he claimed to lead. California has locked away a self-styled "prophet" who turned his religious group into a vehicle for sexual abuse. A judge on Tuesday sentenced 58-year-old Sansue Bee Vang of Oroville to 225 years to life in prison, the most that the state allows, after a Butte County jury in February convicted him of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape that involved members of his Hmong following, per SFGate. Prosecutors say Vang founded his sect—translated as "Belief in the Mother"—in Appleton, Wisconsin, then moved followers to Fresno in 2015 and later to Oroville, where they began building a temple and community on 170 acres and treated him as a prophet.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 15:41:54 printer friendly
LA DA Nathan Hochman says 81 percent of claims
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: New York Post
...in $4B sex abuse settlement may be ‘fraudulent'. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said that 81 percent of claims in a $4 billion settlement for sex abuse victims — the largest in US history – may be fraudulent. Nathan Hochman urged a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to stop payments until Dec. 31 amid an ongoing criminal investigation, which was launched in November last year, according to a motion filed on Thursday “The District Attorney’s Office believes the percentage of fraudulent claims in the related lawsuits seeking funds from this settlement may be as high as 81 percent,” Hochman’s office wrote in the court papers
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 12:35:47 printer friendly
Daughters of the American Revolution to Vote on Definition of ‘Woman’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Signal
Amid Criticism of Transgender Policy. The Daughters of the American Revolution currently allows men who identify as women to join, but the group will vote on a resolution to reverse that policy and formally define “woman,” the Daily Signal has learned. “Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will take an historic vote to define the word ‘woman’ on Friday, June 26, 2026, at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C.,” Laura McDonald, founder and president of Daughters Advocating for Restoration and a member of Daughters of the American Revolution since 2018, told the Daily Signal.

— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 11:00:04 printer friendly
Many Women Blindsided By Abortion Pill Complications,
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Daily Caller
New Study Shows. Many American women feel uninformed about the abortion pills’ potential complications, according to a new Charlotte Lozier Institute study.The study — first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation — found that 52.5% of participants cited bleeding as the abortion-related complication they desired more information on than was provided during the informed consent process. Forty-eight percent said pain was the complication they desired more information about, compared to 33.7% who mentioned mental and emotional health.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 10:49:51 printer friendly
Planned Parenthood Sues Alaska Over Abortion Telehealth Ban
Topic: Abortion
Source: Newsmax
Planned Parenthood sued Alaska on Thursday, seeking to overturn a state law that requires patients to travel to a medical facility to obtain medication abortions, arguing the restriction violates constitutional protections and unnecessarily limits access to care in one of the nation's most geographically challenging states. The lawsuit, filed in Alaska Superior Court, challenges a state statute that Planned Parenthood says effectively prohibits direct-to-patient telehealth medication abortions by requiring all abortions to be performed in a hospital or other approved healthcare facility.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 10:26:13 printer friendly
Articles Of Impeachment Filed Against Court Sex Escapades Judge
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Daily Caller
Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde filed articles of impeachment against Judge Eleanor Ross over her courthouse sex escapades. Clyde alleges that Ross, a sitting District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, engaged in an extramarital affair with a high-ranking Atlanta police officer and later made false statements during a judicial misconduct investigation.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 10:20:14 printer friendly
New Jersey moves to become sanctuary state for abortion, trans sex changes
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Post Millennial
If passed, the measure would make New Jersey the first state to explicitly criminalize interference with abortion or sex changes. New Jersey Democrats have advanced a measure that would criminalize those who interfere with access to transgender and reproductive health care. The measure was approved in the Assembly Appropriations Committee along party lines and cleared the way for a potential vote in the full chamber before it reaches Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill for her signature.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 20:32:11 printer friendly
DHS finds 146,000 missing and exploited kids brought to US under Biden,
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
says sanctuary city mayors are abetting child traffickers. Both Blanche and Mullin spoke about the administration’s efforts to bring human traffickers to justice. On Thursday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, alongside several other federal officials, held a press conference on 146,000 alien children that had been found and the administration's efforts to protect the unaccompanied migrant youth.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 14:17:49 printer friendly
ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Reason
Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. [...] According to a police report, facial recognition software concluded with 93 percent confidence that the suspect was Robert Dillon. [...] The ACLU is now suing the city of Jacksonville Beach, as well as the individual police officers and officials involved in the case. According to the lawsuit (PDF), the responding officer viewed security camera footage of the suspect but didn't take a copy; instead, he took pictures of the screen with his cell phone. "In the photos, the suspect image is low resolution, and the suspect's face is partially shadowed and off-axis," the lawsuit claims. When an investigator queried the facial recognition system, it was with the officer's grainy secondhand cell phone photos.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 08:50:44 printer friendly
Protesters Swarm Pro-Life Speaker in San Antonio
Topic: Abortion
Source: Jonathan Turley
as Organizers Call for Them to “Show Your Hate”. When hundreds of women gathered in San Antonio for Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit, protesters assembled to denounce them and disrupt their conference. One speaker told protesters to be “obnoxious” and to “show your hate” as a man dressed as death chopped the air with a sickle. Another speaker said that they were just showing that the “hateful values” have no place in San Antonio as another man in a costume mimicked the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Below is an example of what happens when speakers feed this rage addiction.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 08:02:38 printer friendly
Study Links Smartphones With Declining Fertility Rates
Topic: Children and Family
Source: KTLA
Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrates by reducing in-person social interaction, sexual frequency, and other conditions tied to unintended pregnancies. "One of the studies published in May is called 'The Collapse of Teen Fertility in the Digital Era' and the other, published just Monday, is titled 'Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 Carrier Monopoly,'" reports KTLA. "Both were chronicled in a New York Times piece by political writer Sabrina Tavernise on Monday." Slashdot reader sabbede submitted the story. From the report...
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 07:48:17 printer friendly
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The SPLC's Real Scam
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
... SPLC’s “hate list” has been treated as an authoritative source on extremism by virtually every legacy media outlet for years... It turns out that the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 17:15:58 printer friendly
Public Schools Are In A Downward Spiral
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Heartland
...nearly 64 percent of school parents say K-12 education is headed in the wrong direction... After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K-12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births has decreased steadily in recent years, with 690,000 fewer children born in 2024 than in 2007.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 17:05:08 printer friendly
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour: probe
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Global News
Billionaire Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, generated more than 6,000 sexual deepfake images per hour, Canada’s privacy commissioner found. “The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset,” privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.
— Saturday 13 June 2026 - 14:15:29 printer friendly
Anti-Semitism Will Get Worse if It Becomes a Good Career Choice
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Alan Dershowitz
There are plenty of committed antisemites out there who really believe that the Jews and Israel control the world and cause all its problems. These crackpots have always existed. Way back in the 19th century, August Bebel characterized antisemitism as “the socialism of fools.” It is still that: Many socialist fools who know nothing about the Middle East have become virulent anti-Israel bigots, with some crossing the line to overt and unapologetic antisemitism. The Democratic Socialists of America requires its members to be anti-Israel, regardless of what Israel does or doesn’t do. That is the blatant bigotry of fools, even if they, in their ignorance, actually believe it. [Ed: I am a critic of Israel and also of equating Israel with all Jews or assuming anything about them.]
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 17:39:22 printer friendly
Find some kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
How Health Officials Drummed Up Fake Support for Tobacco Bans in Massachusetts Towns. State health officials scouted towns, scripted hearings, recruited teen witnesses, and celebrated each ban as a "win." Massachusetts has a long and storied history of prohibition. The Puritans banned dice, cards, and gaming tables. The state was one of the first to ban alcohol and marijuana. Missing from this murderer's row of vices is tobacco—for now.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 15:18:18 printer friendly
“Not Like Classic Abuse Allegations”
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Jonathan Turley
Some people just like classic Coke. Others insisted on the original Reese’s recipe. New York Times writer Jodi Kantor went on CNN to explain why Democrats can vote for Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner despite multiple women coming forward to denounce him: this is really not the classic Me Too allegations that Kantor and others seem to prefer for outrage. Kantor won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse and was called forth by CNN to explain why it is ok for liberals to support an alleged abuser of women. A prior girlfriend has accused Platner of physically abusing her and even locking her into a room overnight. He is also accused of sexting women and dismissing rape victims.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 14:50:29 printer friendly
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Victory Girls Blog
Keep in mind, the indictment laid out what many of us have known for a very long time. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) abandoned its mission decades ago. That became very apparent a few years ago when the SPLC started labeling pro-lifers and parents as racist. It became more apparent when their “lists” of racist organizations included Christian organizations such as the Family Research Center, and conservative organizations such as Turning Point USA.
— Friday 12 June 2026 - 08:31:09 printer friendly
On the Kavanaugh Anniversary
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Jonathan Turley
Democratic Leaders Swap Me Too for Maine Below. “It’s clear the fix is in.” Those words from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). came with her vote against confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Warren was outraged that her fellow senators refused to believe a woman who came forward with a decades-old allegation against Kavanaugh that lacked any corroboration. It now appears that Kavanaugh’s former accusers are making the case that he was treated unjustly at their hands. At least they are now willing to swap “Me Too” for Maine.
— Tuesday 09 June 2026 - 18:55:52 printer friendly
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