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Lindsay Clancy's attorney hailed as 'feminist icon'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
As Reddington attempted to get to his car, one woman told him "having a man that understands what happens postpartum and our mental health and it being weaponized against us and us being scared to lose our children if we speak out about it, it means the world to us." Reddington argued in court that Clancy was suffering from medical mistreatment, that she had been prescribed too many pills and didn't have enough help from the many doctors that she was seeing with her mental health complaints. It was also argued that Clancy feared losing her children and that's why she wasn't more explicit with health care providers about how she was feeling before she killed them.

America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Economy
Chronic absenteeism is soaring. The government school monopoly has few incentives to change. Chronic absenteeism is defined as a student missing 10 percent of classes, roughly 18 days in a typical school year. About one in five American kids now fall into that category. In New York City public schools, the figure climbs to roughly one in three. Chicago Public Schools reported more than 40 percent of students as chronically absent in the 2024-25 school year. Among black students, the rate hit 45 percent; among Latino students it reached 41 percent. Ninth-graders logged 48.5 percent chronic absenteeism, while seniors hit an astonishing 72 percent.

Homeschooled Kids Outperformed National Averages
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Dallas Express
Homeschooled students scored substantially above national norms in reading, language, mathematics, social studies, and science, according to the first peer-reviewed nationwide homeschool achievement study of its kind in approximately 15 years. The findings arrive as homeschooling remains above pre-pandemic levels nationwide and Texas expands financial and extracurricular opportunities for participating families. Researchers cautioned, however, that the results demonstrate an association—not proof that homeschooling caused the higher scores.

HIJAB HOCHUL: Governor's Headscarf Ignites Backlash
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: South Shore Press
Governor Kathy Hochul is facing a fresh wave of criticism after appearing in a hijab during a New York City event with Muslim leaders — an appearance coming less than two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Hochul appeared Friday at an event publicized by the Islamic Center of New York, addressing religious and community leaders while wearing a black head covering. Images and video quickly spread across social media, drawing sharp criticism from conservative accounts.

Universities Could Lose Foreign-Student Certification
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
Over Internship Rule Violations, Trump Admin Says. A federal memo warned universities they could potentially lose certification for noncompliance with Curricular Practical Training rules. President Donald Trump's administration has issued a memo to universities aimed at restricting certain internship work authorizations for international students. Officials cautioned that schools failing to comply could have their certification to enroll foreign students revoked. The memo, which is dated Aug. 24 and issued by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the agency "has observed a rise in Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorizations that appear to violate regulatory requirements which permit CPT only where the training is an integral part of an established curriculum."

State Department Revokes Visa Of Iraqi National On FBI Terror Watchlist
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epoch Times
Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi is no longer present in the United States, according to a statement released Friday by Assistant Secretary Dylan Johnson. The revocation followed her placement on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terror Watchlist. No further details on the underlying intelligence were provided in the department's announcement. "Under President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suspected terrorists will never be allowed to remain in the United States," the statement read. Al Shakarchi was given the International Woman of Courage Award in 2022 by then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken and then-First Lady Jill Biden. The department said she had been recognized for her purported role in fighting corruption and her advocacy for "gender equity." The award recognized "women from around the globe who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equity and equality, and the empowerment of women and girls, in all their diversity."

Sacha Baron Cohen Ali G Movie Slammed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hollywood Reporter
as Racist, Activists Send 37,000 Emails to Theaters. "I thought I'd play it safe and bring this guy back,” wrote Cohen about the upcoming 'Ali G: Who Iz I?' movie, which is facing rising uproar. Sacha Baron Cohen‘s outrageous Ali G character is back after 24 years — and so is the controversy. With a new movie coming in October — Ali G: Who Iz I? — some activists are calling Cohen’s dreadlocked wannabe hip-hop star a racist caricature and urging theaters to boycott the Amazon-MGM Studios film. The movie is a mockumentary where cameras follow Cohen-as-Ali G, as the character attempts to stage a career comeback

Teachers Face New 'Punch in the Gut': Deepfakes
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Wired
Educators inserted into often-sexualized AI images struggle for protection, recourse. High school and middle school classrooms are colliding with one of AI's ugliest uses, but this time, it's not students being targeted. Wired reports on four educators in the US and UK who say students used AI tools to generate sexualized or otherwise compromising fake images and videos of them, then spread the content across TikTok, Snapchat, AirDrop, texts, and group chats. The teachers describe school investigations that ranged from tepid to more robust, with low-level student discipline like short suspensions or other in-school punishment, as well as a lingering sense that the images are still circulating beyond their control. "It felt like a punch to the gut," one substitute teacher in California tells the outlet of finding out about a phony pic of him circulating online that showed him in lingerie instead of his work uniform, as the original photo had depicted.

DOJ Sues Washington Over Granting In-State Tuition to Immigrant Students
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: KUOW
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Washington over state laws that allow undocumented immigrants to access in-state tuition and other financial assistance at public universities and colleges. The lawsuit alleges Washington has for over two decades “ignored” federal laws that bar immigrants without legal status from being eligible for state postsecondary education benefits like grants and student loans. Under a landmark state law passed in 2003, undocumented students can receive “resident student” status if they have a high school diploma or equivalent, live in Washington for at least a year, and file an affidavit declaring they either have already or will apply for permanent residency.

International applicants fall 10% as Trump focuses on student visa enforcement
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Campus reform
Common App data shows domestic applicants increased 4 percent while international applicants declined 10 percent during the 2025–2026 admissions cycle. The shift comes as the Trump administration moves to strengthen visa oversight, limit prolonged student stays, and increase scrutiny of foreign nationals who violate U.S. law.

Musk's X Loses 1st Amendment Challenge to NY's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Musk's X Corp., along with other social media companies operating in the state, must disclose whether and how it defines hate speech and disinformation. On Wednesday, a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by Musk's social media company challenging New York's "Stop Hiding Hate Act." The act requires social media companies operating in the state and generating more than $100 million in annual revenue to submit two reports per year to the New York state attorney general that disclose "whether and how platforms define hate speech, disinformation, extremist or racist content, harassment, and foreign political interference."

Lawmakers Want To Stop Kids From Nicknaming Their Pokémon
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The Safer GAMING Act would silence minors in every online game by default—and violate the First Amendment. It may sound Farfetch'd, but lawmakers are advancing a bill that would stop minors from nicknaming their Pokémon online—in violation of the First Amendment. Last month, the House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, a wide-ranging package of youth online safety bills. It includes the Safer GAMING Act, which would require interactive online video games to "limit communication between" players "under the age of 17" and "any other user."

Judge rules 1A protects child porn if AI used to create it
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Post Millennial
“Given the relentless advancement in artificial intelligence models, we have some concerns about the lines these cases draw, but we are not free to redraw them ourselves.” A federal appeals court has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual’s ability to possess AI-generated images depicting child sexual abuse material when the images do not depict a real person.

Anti-abortion leaders see Josh Hawley as possible 2028 force
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Examiner
During the 2024 presidential election, former Vice President Mike Pence was the most staunchly anti-abortion candidate, pressuring other Republicans in the primary to endorse a 15-week federal abortion ban. Pence was unsuccessful in his White House bid against his former boss, President Donald Trump. Two years later, the anti-abortion movement is searching for leverage inside a Republican Party dominated by Trump, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) could be its answer.

Men’s Health Is Being Silenced Again
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Lisa Britton
A federal office of men’s health is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. nvesting in men’s health doesn’t take anything away from women. The bill text literally says so in plain language. Funds for the proposed office “shall be derived from amounts authorized to be appropriated by other provisions of law, excluding any amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Office on Women’s Health… or any other office of women’s health.” Why keep telling the public otherwise? For background: the State of Men’s Health Act was introduced in the House on February 20, 2026, as H.R. 7602 by Democratic Rep. Troy Carter of Louisiana and Republican Rep. Greg Murphy of North Carolina. It would require the Government Accountability Office to study men’s health in the United States and direct HHS to establish an Office of Men’s Health.

J.K. Rowling vs. Amnesty
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Quillette
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided? On 31 July, Amnesty International publicly apologised for publishing an “anti-rights” briefing at the heart of a weeks-long public clash with author J.K. Rowling. The document, “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK,” purported to map a nationwide “anti-rights ecosystem” that included Beira’s Place, the Edinburgh sexual-violence support service established by Rowling in 2022. Transgender-rights activists have long criticised the charity for excluding transgender women from its services. Rowling was having none of it, and she launched a scathing public attack on an NGO that she said has “become a tyrant that persecutes those who don’t espouse what it decrees acceptable beliefs.” She invited any of the groups named on what she called Amnesty’s “blacklist” to apply to the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund for legal support. Amnesty quickly realised that it had picked the wrong fight. Its earlier, carefully calibrated expression of “regret” collapsed into a full mea culpa; it withdrew the briefing.

Four Forms of Numericide
Topic: Women's Health
Source: The Brownstone Institute
A recent article in the New York Times on the increasing rates of heart disease in young women (Why Are More Young Women Developing Heart Disease?) was amusingly frivolous and about as fact-free as an article about health advice can be. The key thrust of the article is that any woman who wants to preserve and improve her health should become informed of her “numbers.” Which is to say, she should know her blood pressure, cholesterol, BMI, and hemoglobin A1C (a measure of average blood glucose levels) which are claimed to be “important for assessing risk.” The Times quotes Dr Priya Freaney, director of the Women’s Heart Care program at Northwestern Medicine: “Knowing your numbers is your most powerful tool,” [she said] “And it’s never too early to start.”

Lindsay Clancy, The Left And The Blatant Disregard Of Children
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
The jury still deliberates a woman who brutally murdered her three young children. Was it postpartum depression or psychosis? Was Lindsay Clancy in her right mind (hence, no psychosis) because she actually sent her husband out on an errand before she strangled her three kids? There have been women who have defended Clancy-rushing to her defense for ending the lives of her children prematurely. “Justice for Lindsay!” they proclaimed, donned in various shades of pink.

Why Democrats cannot break free from the far left’s transgender demands
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
Make no mistake, Democrats are on the wrong side of the transgender debate given public opinion. Simply put, the DSA’s strong opposition to legislation banning biological males from competing in women’s sports has come to define where the national Democratic Party stands, much to its detriment. And while this problem did not suddenly become an issue – Democrats had been trending this way for years before the 2024 election – it is only getting worse and will continue to do so.Put another way, the far left’s and DSA’s veto over Democratic policy puts the entire party on the wrong side of another key issue. And unfortunately, all signs point to this problem continuing to be a drag on Democratic support in the midterms and into the 2028 presidential election.