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As Wisc. SC starts new term, Planned Parenthood challenges abortion restrictions
Topic: Abortion
Source: Wisconsin Watch
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is targeting a 24-hour waiting period and limitations on accessing at-home medication abortion. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin filed a new lawsuit challenging Wisconsin abortion restrictions Thursday, just days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court returned to work with a newly cemented 5-2 liberal majority in place. The lawsuit, filed in Dane County against Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, argues that two Wisconsin laws violate the state constitution’s guarantee of personal liberty.

Sex-Trafficking Brothers Add Big Name to Clemency Push
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Real Deal
Alan Dershowitz has requested at least $500K for work for Alexander brothers: NYT. Three brothers convicted in a sprawling New York sex-trafficking case are turning to a familiar name in Trump-world as they eye clemency. Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander have paid Alan Dershowitz hundreds of thousands of dollars since hiring him in March 2025, nearly a year before their trial, according to financial records reviewed by the New York Times. Dershowitz, who helped defend President Trump during his first impeachment trial and has advised him on pardons, told the Times he's working as a consultant on "legal, constitutional and sentencing issues," though a letter he wrote to the brothers' mother also cites work on "executive clemency and judicial reversal."

Judge Rules West Point Violated Faculty's Free Speech
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Law & Crime
Judge Cathy Seibel says US Military Academy's restrictions breach First Amendment rights. A federal judge just told West Point it can't gag its own professors. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, US District Judge Cathy Seibel said the US Military Academy's policy restricting what faculty can publish or say in public violates the First Amendment, permanently blocking the school from enforcing it, per the Washington Post. The policy, adopted in early 2025 after President Trump ordered military academies to avoid promoting ideas deemed "radical" or "un-American," required professors to get approval before publishing articles, giving speeches at conferences, or even appearing on podcasts. "Close this case," Seibel instructed on Tuesday, per Law & Crime.

Woman Dies After Pelicot-Like Rape Case in Austria
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CNN
An Austrian case drawing comparisons to France's headline-making Pelicot case has left a 39-year-old woman dead after an alleged sexual assault and her husband under investigation. The woman was discovered by her teenage daughter in their Marchtrenk home on June 26, near Wels, per CNN. Prosecutors say the bleeding, severely injured woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her 51-year-old husband initially told police she'd died during "rough sex," and authorities saw no crime, per the Telegraph. A later autopsy, however, indicated her death had come after a sexual assault. [Ed: this is a hideous but rare crime. Its real social impact is the explosion of attention that will land on the issue of rape, marital rape, sexual assault in general...]

Charlie Kirk Memorial Sparks Campus Divide
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Sat Lake Tribune
Classes are off, security is up, and tensions are high at Utah Valley University as a remembrance for Charlie Kirk lands on the anniversary of his killing. Turning Point USA is staging what it calls a "deliberate act of remembrance" for its founder on Thursday night at the Orem campus, drawing high-profile conservative speakers including Glenn Beck and Michael Knowles, per the New York Times. The memorial has split the 48,000-student campus. Some students praise Kirk as a free-speech martyr and plan to attend; others resent the university's one-day shutdown and describe the event as turning a trauma into a quasi-holiday. A left-leaning student group is organizing a protest, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Kirk's accused killer, Tyler Robinson, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges

Michigan Coaches Knew About Sexualized Hazing: Players' Suit
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: USA Today
School, longtime coach Red Berenson dispute claims. Rituals that players say crossed far beyond hazing and into "torture" are now at the center of a federal lawsuit against the University of Michigan's storied hockey program. Sixteen former players filed suit in Detroit alleging that, from 1984 to 2001, younger team members were routinely stripped, forcibly shaved, penetrated with razor handles, and subjected to other sexualized acts by veterans on the team. USA Today reports the complaint says coaches knew about the behavior, tied participation in the abuse to a player's standing on the team, and told those who objected to "be a Michigan man." The plaintiffs are not named in the filing.

How Charlie Kirk's Murder Chilled Speech at Utah Valley University
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
One year after Kirk was assassinated on campus, Utah Valley students fear expressing themselves. Yesterday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), my employer, released its annual College Free Speech Rankings. Our rankings use a mixture of student survey responses, college policies, and campus speech controversies to assess the free speech climates at America's top colleges. UVU's ranking fell from 71 out of 257 schools last year to 210 out of 261 schools this year. The deterioration of UVU's speech climate demonstrates something clear: Political violence corrodes a culture of free speech, regardless of someone's politics or administrators' responses. We know this because UVU students told us so.

Canadian doctor FINED for refusing to administer child sex change injection
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Ajaero attended medical school in Nigeria. He is Christian and said "his religion is an important part of his life." A Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a British Columbia family doctor pay $28,100 after he refused to administer a hormone-blocking injection to a trans-identified teen over the doctor’s religious and cultural beliefs. The tribunal found on September 1 that Dr. Henry Ajaero’s conduct was discriminatory. He has run a family practice in Delta since 2014, per CBC. At a March 2021 appointment, Ajaero had told the trans-identified teen and the teen’s mother that he would not inject Lupron, a medication typically used to treat prostate cancer and early-onset puberty, which has been used by doctors to halt a trans-identified child’s progression through biological puberty, claiming that it “pauses” it. He told the teen and mother he “did not feel comfortable administering it.”

Pro-abortion protesters disrupt bishops’ Mass at Westminster Cathedral
Topic: Abortion
Source: Life Site News
Pro-abortion feminist, “queer,” and “trans” activists stormed London’s famed Westminster Cathedral during a Mass at the start of a pro-life rally and March for Life. Fifteen Catholic bishops were reported to be concelebrating the pro-life Mass. The obnoxious interlopers positioned themselves in front of the sanctuary and unfurled a large banner that read: “Pro-life? That’s a lie! You don’t care if people die!” all the while shouting that same refrain. “This morning, members of the Feminist Strike Coalition disrupted an anti-abortion service at Westminster Cathedral hosting the far right group March for Life,” wrote “The Dyke Project” on Instagram

Eiffel Tower reopens after strike over limits on women staff
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Hindustan Times
...during BAPS delegation visit. Diane Davoine of the CGT union told The Associated Press anger grew among staff of the iconic 330-meter (1,083-foot) tower over the weekend after management told employees that female workers should ?not be in contact? with a visiting delegation from Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha.The group, known as BAPS, is a worldwide religious and civic organization within the Swaminarayan sect. It has been holding celebrations to mark the inauguration of a traditional stone temple in the French capital.

Amazon Sued Over Treatment of Pregnant Workers
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Newser
Former warehouse workers say they were denied basic accommodations. A group of former Amazon warehouse employees is suing the company for systemically discriminating against pregnant workers, accusing the company of denying them basic accommodations and penalizing some who took breaks to pump milk or time off for hospital visits. The four plaintiffs filed a proposed nationwide class action in a Brooklyn, New York federal court Tuesday, accusing Amazon of violating the 2022 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers with 15 or more workers to provide a "reasonable accommodation" for pregnancy and childbirth-related medical conditions, the AP reports. To refuse an accommodation, companies must show it would create "undue hardship" for the business.

Iowa’s University Reforms Show the Way Forward
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: City-Journal
Legislators in the Hawkeye State are rolling back DEI and rewriting general education requirements to include U.S. history and government. In early June, Iowa’s state legislature passed a bill mandating that all university students take two courses, one in U.S. history and one in government, to meet general education requirements. The courses must be broad enough to count as introductory surveys— no special topics or advanced studies may qualify—and restrictions govern who can craft and run them. Politicians in the Hawkeye State took this step because general education at public colleges and universities is a sprawling market of a thousand options, from which each student crafts a custom education.

Ukrainian SEX TAX
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Clash Report
Ukrainian MPs Pushing To Legalize Porn To Help Cover Budget Shortfall. Ukraine’s Parliament is considering legalizing pornography as lawmakers seek to tax thousands of OnlyFans creators, with supporters estimating the change could raise up to $25 million a year for defense-related needs. He says that would be enough to finance about 30,000 drones.

Three Clancy Jurors Break Their Silence After Judge Declares Mistrial,
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: People Magazine
Trash Lone Male Juror Holdout!. [Ed: to my recollection, this is unprecedented.] Jurors from a closely watched Massachusetts murder case are recalling how one of their own brought deliberations to a standstill. Three women who served on the Lindsay Clancy jury, including foreperson Roni Carlson, told NBC10 Boston they were left exasperated by a single male juror they describe as a holdout. Carlson said he acknowledged having reasonable doubt but still refused to vote that Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity. The panel's bitter split, which included shouting and name-calling loud enough for alternates to hear, ended with a mistrial last week.

Cesar Chavez Rape Accuser Sues Foundations
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AP News
Filing says foundations were negligent. A woman who once lived and worked at Cesar Chavez's famed La Paz compound has sued two nonprofits linked to him, alleging that he raped her there in the early 1970s and that the groups helped enable and conceal abuse. Filed in Kern County, California, the suit names the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the UFW Foundation, accusing them of negligence, violations of state civil rights law, and allowing what it calls a pattern of sexual misconduct by the late labor leader, the New York Times reports. The 86-year-old plaintiff says that the assault occurred around her birthday in 1973 and that she later felt pressured into additional sexual contact.

Clancy Jurors Speak Up About The Lone Holdout
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
As the deadlocked jurors of the Lindsay Clancy trial are sprung from civic duty, several of the women on the jury opened up about what happened behind closed doors. To recap, no verdict was reached in the trial because one lone juror refused to find Lindsay Clancy, a woman who strangled her three young children to death (and admitted to this), not guilty by reason of insanity. But, but but…the Lone Juror admitted that he held doubts after watching a video,” said one juror.

There's No Market Failure in Choosing to Stay Home. So Why Subsidize It?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
J.D. Vance would like to give money to people for choices they're already making—without a workable plan to actually pay for it. Vice President J.D. Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to government subsidies. That's because the proposal corrects no market failure. It pays people for choices they're already making. It adds a new claimant class to a budget that cannot carry the ones already promised something. And it does all of this without a workable plan to pay for it.

The Professional Fact-Check Is Dead
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: And Another Thing
The crisis of professional “fact-checking” is not new. For more than 15 years, observers have watched with alarm as the genre degraded itself for the benefit of petty partisan politics. Yet little has been written about the discipline in its present state. Its original raison d’être long discarded, it lingers now as a zombie, ambling aimlessly in pursuit of mindless satiation. Take Snopes, that relic of the early web that once existed to dismantle viral myths and spare the public from conspiracies, humorous hoaxes, and harmful falsehoods. Recently, it sought to calm concerns that the late Dolly Parton might have done something nice for Jews.

Mothers Aren't Just Embracing Lindsay Clancy'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Hot Air
They Are Embracing Clancyism. For most of us, the fact that Clancy clearly was having trouble with her mental health may help explain how she decided to kill her children, but for nobody I know does that excuse the fact that she chose to respond to her despair by killing her own children. Women have contributed over a million dollars to Clancy's parents to help fund her defense, lined roadways to cheer her on, and even concocted bizarre conspiracy theories to explain why everything is her husband's fault, despite Clancy never having denied strangling her own children. It's demonic. [Ed: even atheists would agree.]