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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Los Angeles Times {Reader Friendly)
...charged with felony eavesdropping. Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job. The officer, Daniel Flores, was charged with 16 felony counts of eavesdropping on or recording confidential communications — crimes that carry a sentence of up to 13 years in prison, if convicted. In a statement announcing the charges, L.A. Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said that while he found the recorded comments deplorable, Flores still violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which prohibits recording others without their consent.

ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AI.com
...to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges. It was just after 5 a.m. on a Monday morning when Christian Faith Madison stepped onto an Alabama interstate and into the path of an oncoming vehicle. The 29-year-old mother and accountant was pronounced dead at 5:31 a.m. in middle of Interstate 22 in Jefferson County on June 9, 2025. Madison’s death was one of many cases reported as a “pedestrian fatally struck” in the Birmingham area. Attorneys representing the executor of her estate and Madison’s young son say her death was no accident. They say Madison died by suicide after months of encouragement from ChatGPT.

Students Seek To AI-Proof Their Careers With Trades Over College
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Concerned about job security, more students and young workers are turning away from four-year degrees and toward vocational careers. For years, students were told the future belonged to college graduates with a four-year degree. Now, some of the fastest-growing opportunities are in skilled trades, where there is an escalating demand for labor and a higher level of job security amid the rise of artificial intelligence. Vocational schools and specialized training programs are seeing a surge of interest among Gen Z students and younger workers who are considering options beyond traditional higher education.

Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Associated Press
...and presence of Colombian mercenaries Associated Press. The teenage boy’s hands and legs were shackled to the anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup as Sudanese warplanes attacked. He saw another child chained to the steering wheel. As their captors sought cover, the terrified children were ordered to stay and shoot down the jets over the capital, Khartoum. If they tried to flee, they’d be killed by their captors — if the planes didn’t get them first. The boy, now 17, told The Associated Press that those who ordered him strapped to the gun were Colombian mercenaries providing military aid to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces against the army in the war, now in its fourth year. Another child said he was forced to carry out artillery strikes and beaten for disobedience.

Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Democrat-run Michigan just backed down after threatening therapists who use talk therapy to help children with 'gender dysphoria' accept their biology. On Thursday, the state agreed to a permanent federal court order barring it from ever enforcing House Bill 4616 - the 2023 law, signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, that threatened licensed counselors with discipline for engaging in ordinary talk therapy with minors experiencing gender dysphoria. U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering signed off on the stipulated judgment, and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented the counselors who sued, wasted no time declaring victory according to the Daily Caller.

China, In most countries, earning a PhD means writing a dissertation.
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: X, Mike Netter
In most countries, earning a PhD means writing a dissertation. Hundreds of pages of theory, research, and citations that very few people will ever read. China decided to try something different. Under a law passed in 2024, select universities can now award engineering doctorates based on physical prototypes, new techniques, or major installations instead of traditional papers. The rule is straightforward: build something that works in real life and at scale, and you can graduate.

Europe's Pride Parades Resume
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: AP News
Hundreds of thousands celebrate under heavy security in Amsterdam, Hamburg. Hundreds of thousands of people lined Amsterdam's canals on Saturday to watch the city's canal boat parade, the highlight of an annual Pride festival that this year was held a week after a deadly attack on a Pride event in Berlin. Openly gay Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten waved to crowds as he sailed in a small boat in the colorfully decorated parade of 80 vessels as techno music pumped from speakers along the route, the AP reports. The first Dutch prime minister to ever take part in the boat parade, Jetten said in a video posted on X that the event was more important than ever because worldwide the freedom and security of the LGBTQ+ community "is under pressure with new discriminatory legislation, lack of safety on the street or last week's terrible attack in Berlin."

Xavier Becerra’s campaign rocked by horrifying claims
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
,,,about missing migrant kids under his watch. Xavier Becerra faces a renewed scandal over his tenure as Joe Biden’s health secretary after a whistleblower came forward to expose the horrific levels of abuse and exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrant children faced while in detention in California. A caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex alleges children faced abuse and chaotic releases, were separated from young siblings, and sent to unverified addresses or secretly moved in the dead of the night — some never to be seen again — while the complex also accepted fake documents from sponsors. During his time as Biden’s health secretary from 2021 to 2025, the U.S. faced an overwhelming border crisis, with just under 480,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border. The HHS was the federal agency legally mandated to care for and protect unaccompanied migrant children.

40% Wouldn’t Hire Trump Voters: New Report Details Higher Ed’s Ideological Divide
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Black professors outnumber their Republican colleagues at 11 elite higher education institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Roughly 40 percent of college faculty would “oppose hiring a Trump supporter.” A quarter of faculty in social sciences and humanities departments would “support a campaign” to remove colleagues for expressing conservative views “in at least one of four topic areas.”

Georgia father sentenced to 15 yrs in deadly school shooting committed by son
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CBC
A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Colin Gray's sentencing comes days after his son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school 70 kilometres northeast of Atlanta. Colt Gray had pleaded guilty to murder and other charges. Judge Nicholas Primm, who also sentenced Colt Gray earlier this week, was blunt in addressing Colin Gray: "It is clear you failed as a parent." But he said punishing crimes of negligence is particularly hard because there was no intent to commit a crime.

Why a WNBA Team Was Forced to Apologize...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Townhall
...and Had Its Co-Owner Suspended and Fined. The Indiana Fever played the Seattle Storm on Tuesday, and two fans wore clothing that provoked a lot of angry fans at the Climate Change Arena: t-shirts from XX-XY Athletics, which is a company that has supported Cunningham’s stance on transgender athletes in women’s sports—it’s also a scientifically accurate piece of apparel. Founder Jennifer Sey has been vocal on this topic. The triggered Storm fans knew too, and these kids were approached by these crazy people. We later found out it was the co-owner of the Storm

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest in a flurry of suits filed against the social media giants that alleges their platforms are addictive and dangerous. The complaint was filed on behalf of four families from Texas, North Carolina, Minnesota and Tennessee whose children died over a 14-month period starting in July 2024 through September 2025.

How free childcare started winning US elections
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Guardian
‘Overnight, people realized how essential it was’. In a matter of weeks, Francesca Hong, an unlikely candidate for governor in one of the country’s most heated battleground states, will test a message that is at once radical and, to many, incredibly practical: the government should help pay for childcare. “When we talk about free childcare, you can connect to folks whether it’s on an economic argument or just purely that it’s the right thing to do for our kids,” said Hong, a democratic socialist running in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary on 11 August.

Trust In Higher Education Hits Another Low As The Public Rejects Institutional Bias
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education. One of the Gallup experts told Fox News that one of the key reasons for the continued slide in public trust is "the perception that there's a political agenda being taught." That perception is well documented after most departments purged their ranks of any republican, conservative, or libertarian faculty members. At the same time, many faculty oppose the long-standing principle of institutional neutrality for universities, the subject of a recent debate that I had with the President of the American Association of University Professors.

I Can't Believe Liberals Are Calling Homeschooling Child Abuse
Topic: Children and Family
Source: USA Today
These mornings became the foundation of my educational journey: from my years of homeschooling, my time in Catholic high school, and ultimately my experience as a student at the University of Notre Dame. Neither of us imagined that one day, progressive activists would smear our experience as “weird as f---,” or abusive. Yet those are the exact words that “I’ve Had It” podcast cohosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan recently used to vilify the over 3 million homeschoolers across America.

The Future of Race-Based Scholarships in Higher Education
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
It’s now been three years since the United States Supreme Court declared that race may never be used as a “negative” or operate as a “stereotype” in higher education. While that landmark case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, dismantled affirmative action in admissions, race still lingers as a factor in many other areas of higher education. One such area is financial aid—specifically grants and scholarships. The National Scholarship Providers Association estimates that 11% of all higher-education scholarships still contain eligibility requirements for race, ethnicity, or other demographic factors, even after SFFA. Race-based scholarships, though, are facing increasing scrutiny.

John Cleese: "Some Cultures Are Better Than Others"
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Zero Hedge
Python star has had enough of the Islamist takeover... Legendary Monty Python star John Cleese has drawn a clear line in the sand, declaring himself a "culturalist" who believes some cultures are superior to others. Cleese has also openly backed Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe amid the accelerating collapse of British norms under mass migration and parallel societies. The legendary comedian responded this week to ritual insults hurled at him for supporting Lowe by rejecting the tired "racist" smear from the usual uneducated quarters.

Straight People Have a Moment on X
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Hot Air
I'm honestly not sure who started this trend but it has definitely taken off with a number of people I follow. The trend is simple. It's this statement "That moment as a kid when you realize that you’re definitely straight." And along with that is a video or photo of some very attractive woman, often but not always someone who was on television or in films in the 1970s thru the 1990s.

Why Americans Soured On Higher Education
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Epoch Times
Here’s the irony. The ongoing college collapse is driven by knowledge, not ignorance... Even colleges can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Just 38 percent of Americans have high confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll. That’s down from 57 percent in 2015. Gallup found the three main reasons for this lack of confidence are political agenda, cost and not preparing students for a future career. This is a stunning—and much-needed—fall from grace. Many schools and politicians spent decades pushing ever more kids into college. Sen. Bernie Sanders even sponsored the “College for All Act.” It was endorsed by numerous left-wing groups, including the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.