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British Protesters Jailed For Longer Than Migrant Who Sexually Assaulted Girl
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Two British men get 30 and 32 months while Ethiopian sex offender who sparked the protests served just 12... British men who protested outside an Essex asylum hotel have been locked up for far longer than the migrant whose sexual assaults on a 14-year-old girl and a woman triggered the demonstrations. Charlie Land, 24, and Jonathan Glover, 48, received 32 months and 30 months respectively at Chelmsford Crown Court for violent disorder during the July 2025 clashes at The Bell Hotel in Epping. The Ethiopian national at the centre of it all, Hadush Kebatu, got just 12 months.

Teen Drops Social Media Addiction Claims
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Against Meta, Google, & Snap, Ahead Of October Trial. Her attorney said she ended the case to resume her life after seeking accountability and stronger protections for young social media users. The plaintiff, identified in California court records only as P. M-Y., had alleged the owners of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat contributed to her social media addiction, depression, and self-harm. She dismissed the case without any payment from the three companies, according to a court filing and statements from the defendants. TikTok, also named in the suit, had settled earlier.

US' Once-Robust Barrier Against Measles Is Faltering
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ProPublica
Measles is back in a way the US hasn't seen in more than three decades. Federal data show that by July 23, the number of reported cases had already surpassed every year since 1991, with upward of 4,850 infections and three deaths since early 2025, including two unvaccinated girls in West Texas, per ProPublica. The disease is highly contagious yet preventable with a long-standing, widely available vaccine. Its steady spread, experts say, is a warning flare that the country's once-robust immunization shield is cracking. Reporter Patricia Callahan links the surge to eroding trust in public health and to policy shifts under President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who've questioned or recast long-held vaccine guidance. [Ed: no one ever mentions the flood of migrants who are unvaxxed as a factor in the rise of measles.]

Paper Loses Longtime Columnist Over Trans Piece
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Hill
Writer Matt Calkins quits after article on transgender athletes was spiked, insists it wasn't transphobic. Matt Calkins says he walked away from his job, and a specific unpublished column is why. The Hill reports that the longtime Seattle Times sports columnist announced on Thursday that he has resigned after the paper declined to run a piece built around two high school girls who objected to competing against transgender athletes in girls sports. In a Substack post, Calkins wrote that the column that argued supporting separate competition categories for "biological females and males" shouldn't automatically be labeled transphobic, "so let's stop throwing those labels around."

Trump moves to cancel American Bar Association accreditation of law schools
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Trump administration is moving to do away with the American Bar Association’s accreditation of law schools, taking a new step to escalate conservatives’ beef with the left-leaning legal group. The announcement came from David Barker, assistant secretary of education, through a report on Friday in the Wall Street Journal, which said the Education Department — by making this move — is escalating the Trump administration’s war with the premier legal group. The president and Republican lawmakers have been critical of the ABA’s decision not to rate Trump judicial appointees as high as they have Democratic-appointed judges.

Woman covertly filmed by Meta AI smart glasses...
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CBS News
raises privacy and consent concerns: "I had no say". A woman discovered she had been secretly filmed by a man wearing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses when friends and people she hadn't talked to in years sent her a video posted on social media. "It went viral. Across all platforms, probably over 200,000 views," Toluwa Omitowoju said. It's a growing trend with content creators increasingly using wearable AI tech to record everyday people in prank pickup line videos – often without their consent.

Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Erin in the Morning
Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights". The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much. In liberal democracies, advocacy groups are often free to criticize what they see as groups opposing the rights of those they advocate for. In the United States, for instance, the Southern Poverty Law Center designates groups opposing the rights of minorities as “hate groups,” an effective moniker that helps organizations and people avoid association with such movements. One of the most effective organizations at opposing hate and violence worldwide is Amnesty International, which has stood up to dictators and death squads to report accurately and advocate for globally marginalized people. Now, though, Amnesty appears to have met its greatest threat—not a government or a military junta, but the anti-trans activist and writer J.K. Rowling, and the anti-trans “gender-critical” movement she finances, who has successfully forced the organization as of this morning to issue an apology for calling anti-trans groups “anti-rights.”

This photojournalist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CNN
“Don’t forget me.” This is the desperate plea of Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, who has spent more than two decades documenting life under the Iranian regime, including most recently the bloody crackdown on protests in January, the war with the United States, and a new campaign of repression currently underway. Moaiery, whose stories and photographs have appeared around the world, has now herself become a target and was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this month by an Iranian court with “activities in furtherance of the interest of the Zionist regime against national security.” She hopes to appeal the decision.

Home Office hands illegal migrants alarming guide on how ‘not to rape women’
Topic: Women's Health
Source: GBN Great Britain
The guidance highlights child rape is illegal 'even if they look older' or if 'it is allowed in another country'. The Home Office has today published a guide for illegal migrants on how "not to rape women" in Britain. It is just one of the resources available in a collection titled: "Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide for asylum seekers". Posters and information on rape, the age of consent and child abuse are among the guides to help asylum seekers "understand what is expected when living in the UK". [Ed: they have to be told not to rape women and children? Why were they let in?]

NJ Gov. Sherrill just signed a new NJ law on abortion.
Topic: Abortion
Source: North Jersey
Protesters interfering with those seeking abortions or transgender procedures will be subject to new criminal penalties in New Jersey under a law signed by Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Thursday, Aug. 20. The measure also will block attempts by other states that ban those procedures from taking any criminal or civil action against New Jersey providers treating out-of-state patients. “We won’t be intimidated,” Sherrill said at a signing ceremony at Planned Parenthood of Montclair. “We won’t back down. And we will get it done.” The new law was celebrated Thursday by abortion-rights supporters

The many questions surrounding Harry and Meghan's surprise return to U.K.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The National Post
It is understood from Buckingham Palace that there will be no change in their status — the couple will still not be working royals. Dozens of questions swirled Thursday as Prince Harry prepares to move back to the U.K. with his wife and children, six years after his departure sparked a bitter rift with the royal family. In a surprise move, Harry and Meghan “plan to leave the United States by the end of the month to settle in a private, non-royal residence, which is said to be located outside London,” The Daily Telegraph reported late on Wednesday.

Gavin Newsom dodges SAT question
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
...as 1000+ UC professors warn college students can’t do basic math. Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to take a position on a raging debate over standardized testing in University of California admissions — dismissing as “anecdotes” the alarming reports from college professors about students who can’t do basic math. The governor was asked at a Wednesday press conference in Hayward about an open letter from more than 1,200 UC professors, including Nobel prize winners and leading scientists, who warned of a “severe” crisis of incoming freshman who are unable to even do fractions, forcing educators to dumb down Calculus and other advanced courses. “Show me the data,” Newsom said.

Latest Physical Attack on Caitlin Clark Is So Outrageous
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Western Journal
Commentator Uses Football Term to Describe It. The Dallas Wings beat the Indiana Fever 91-85 on Thursday night, and most fans will likely remember the game as another sanctioned beatdown of the WNBA’s brightest star. Caitlin Clark finished her night with 10 points and 9 assists and was on the receiving end of one hit that was so physical the booth could only describe it in football terms. [Ed: term was tackle. Link to video of the horrendous assault is included.]

Pink-Clad Feminist Mob Rallies In Support Of Confessed Child Murderer
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Liberal women blame everyone except Lindsay Clancy, despite her open confession that she strangled her three helpless children... A mob of liberal women decked out in pink is taking to the streets in front of the Plymouth Superior Courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a rally in support of Lindsay Clancy during her ongoing murder trial. The group, which is often accused of being "terminally online", has been invading social media discussions for weeks to inject arguments in defense of Clancy, who confessed to the murder of her three helpless children. Now, these women (and a few beta husbands) are going offline and showing up en masse to explain why Lindsay Clancy should go free.

UK introduces ‘Catch and Release’ for wrongthink
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Graham Linehan
The UK plod are still acting as thought police, but leaving no paper trail. Jake Munro spent eight days in the south of Ireland with his girlfriend and their 6 year-old son. On the way home, four Welsh police officers pulled him out of the ferry queue at Pembroke Dock and took his fingerprints. Munro streams under the name Goth Daddy, is based in Northern Ireland, and has appeared on Tim Pool’s Culture War Podcast. He talks about wokeism and migration as much as he does goth and metal subculture. He worries about the future of the UK, for the same reason a lot of ordinary people are worried, which is the strain a sudden influx of military-age men is putting on European countries, represented most recently by these terrifying government pamphlets produced for them.

Woke 2.0 Will Be Worse
Topic: Unspecified
Source: The American Mind
It’s not what AOC wants you to think it is. Readers familiar with Dr. Seuss’s classic, The Cat in the Hat, will remember the twin chaos agents Thing 1 and Thing 2. “‘These Things are good Things,’” the Cat reassures the children whose mother has inexplicably left them under the supervision of a fish. “‘They are tame. Oh, so tame! / They have come here to play.’” The Things briefly feign innocence, then quickly reveal themselves to be marauding imps, knocking over nightstands and ruining the linens. “I do not like the way that they play!” says the son of the house. Now here comes Woke 1 and Woke 2.

Another Gender Medicine Whistleblower Steps Forward and More
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Manhattan Institute
Writing for the Free Press, Dr. Karla Solheim— formerly the chair of the Iowa Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)—explains how she was forced to resign from the ACOG because of her public criticism of the association’s endorsement of WPATH guidelines. Dr. Solheim performed hysterectomies at an LGBTQ clinic before an encounter with one young, “non-binary” patient requesting a hysterectomy, with no other plans to pursue medical transition, made her uneasy, prompting her to look more into the foundations of youth gender medicine. “I was floored to discover the research basis into gender medicine both for adolescents and adults was not just poor; it was fraudulent. I couldn’t understand how my medical association, let alone others in my field, could endorse it,”

They're Getting Revenge, Starting Today
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Lew Rockwell
Author: by Tom Woods
For Exposing Jason Arday. You know the story: a Cambridge academic, Jason Arday, was found to have plagiarized his dissertation, borrowed heavily from others in his published articles, produced essentially worthless research, called the police on a reporter and on a professor who asked questions about his resume, invented wild tales of athletic and academic achievement as well as philanthropic work, and (of course) accused his critics of “racism.” And then, late last week, he was found dead at his home in an apparent suicide. That would have been it, but the left — instead of the embarrassment it should feel at having promoted the greatest academic charlatan of the past ten years (and that’s saying something) — is trying to play the victim here

The Art of the Smear
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Andrew Doyle Substack
How to make a defamatory accusation without ever quite saying it. It’s a form of libel by sleight-of-hand. Perhaps we should call it prestidefamation. Here’s how it works. You take a series of unremarkable facts, out-of-context quotations and tenuous associations, arrange them in a suggestive manner, omit any contrary evidence, invite the reader to draw the worst possible conclusion and then congratulate them for drawing it. Edge has done precisely this. I have a long and well-documented record of opposing fascism and the far right. I’ve written books and articles about it, spoken about it endlessly on television, radio and podcasts. My latest book The End of Woke makes the case against all forms of authoritarianism, and opens with an epigraph explicitly attacking Nazi ideology. Yet Edge has managed to write an article insinuating that I support Nazis. It would be like writing a piece about Oscar Wilde’s robust and unwavering heterosexuality.