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Sophie Cunningham’s Gesture Towards the Portland Crowd
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Yahoo Sports
Sophie Cunningham entered the Indiana Fever's game against the Portland Fire on Friday night with a fair share of controversy on her back. Her stance on transgender athletes participating in women's sports did not earn the support of a section of fans. Many who disagreed had already made thier voice heard during Indiana's last game against the Seattle Storm, and things only got worse at Portland, leading Cunningham to respond during the game. "Sophie Cunningham getting HEAVILY BOOED in Portland…" wrote Brick Center, who uploaded the clip of Cunningham hitting back at the crowd that had been booing her by knocking down a three-pointer with 5:44 remaining in the first quarter.

Gender ideology suffers setbacks in counseling and medicine
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
...with legal settlements, reopened case. Health system pays fired physician assistant $410,000, introduces religious accommodations to opt out of "gender affirming care," preferred pronouns. Michigan "conversion therapy" law falls and Washington's is back in court.The application of gender ideology to psychology and medicine suffered blows in the Midwest and West Coast this past week, as Michigan and its flagship university threw in the towel in separate litigation and Washington found itself dragged back into court.

Court upholds staggering fines, digital scarlet letter
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
for woman who outed males in women's soccer. If you refer to transgender people by their sex online, Australia might pass on compelling the platform to censor your speech, at least if posted from abroad. Say it Down Under, though, and you risk fines approaching six figures and a digital scarlet letter. The New South Wales Supreme Court upheld fines of $95,000 Australian – roughly $66,000 U.S. – against women's sports activist Kirralie Smith and her group Binary Australia, as well as a court-written statement to be posted on their social media accounts for three months, for "transgender vilification" against male soccer players on women's teams. That vilification consisted of outing the players as males, whom Football New South Wales allows to compete against women under a 2023 "gender diversity policy," and posting public materials about them from their teams and league.

Boy George brushes off criticism from LGBTQ activists
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Post Millennial
... after pro-Israel stance, says Hamas wants to kill ‘queers'. Singer Boy George pushed back against LGBTQ activists who opposed his recent support for Israel, noting the treatment of homosexual people among members of Hamas. “When I say 'they want to kill every last one of us' I am also talking about us queers not just the Jewish community. When will you wake up?"

Record low number of schools restricting free speech, study finds
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Campus Reform
A new study from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has found that the number of schools maintaining restrictive policies on student expression has hit an all-time low. The organization’s annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report found that the number of overall schools with a “red light” rating fell to 13.2 percent, while just 9.8 percent of public schools earned the designation. Red light ratings are given to schools with policies “that clearly and substantially restrict free speech.” In the group’s first study published in 2006, 68.6 percent of schools earned red light ratings.

BBC airs documentary featuring 4 women accusing Jared Leto of sexual misconduct
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Post Millennial
[Ed: these are unproven accusations.] Jared Leto has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women who allege the incidents occurred when they were teenagers, according to a new BBC documentary examining accusations against the actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman. The BBC documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, features a total of 10 women who allege they had troubling encounters with Leto between 2002 and 2016, when he was in his 30s and 40s. Nine of the women are speaking publicly about their claims for the first time, according to Variety.

More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NPR
An estimated 26,000 children who entered the U.S. without parents or guardians are expected to be left without independent legal representation as soon as Monday, according to lawyers who help represent them. For more than two decades, the U.S. has been required by law to protect children who cross the border alone, because of fears that they could be easily exploited, abused or trafficked. After children cross the border unaccompanied, they are typically transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). A network of nearly 100 legal groups helps provide children who arrive in ORR custody with legal services, funded by Congress.

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."

Amnesty Apologizes to J.K. Rowling's Crisis Center for Women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Air
Two weeks ago I wrote about the brewing legal battle taking place between Amnesty International and dozens of groups it had labeled as "anti-rights" in a report it published. One of those organizations targeted by Amnesty was a rape-crisis center for women funded by author J.K Rowling. Rowling created Beira's Place after learning that the only crisis center for women in her hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland accepted "trans women" as well. Rowling decided this would not do since it meant traumatized women would be forced to share space with men in drag.

Hofstra Prof Files Complaint v. Colleague for Calling His Comments “Word Salad” . . .
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Recently, I wrote about the bizarre investigation of Hofstra University Professor Richard Himelfarb, who had referred to a colleague’s comments in a faculty meeting as “word salad.” The investigation was launched after a formal complaint from his colleague, Professor Santiago Slabodsky, chair of the Jewish studies program. While some of us called for the “word salad” complaint to be tossed, Slabodsky has now filed another complaint stemming from Himelfarb’s public campaign to clear his name, according to a letter from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

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.