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Dominican Sisters File Lawsuit to Block New York LGBT Law
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Washington Stand
A group of Catholic religious sisters is taking the Empire State’s Democratic government to court, citing religious liberty violations. For over a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, founded by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the American novelist Nathanial Hawthorne, have ministered to the sick and dying in New York. In 1901, the Sisters opened Rosary Hill House, providing hospice care for terminally-ill cancer patients. In 2024, however, the Sisters were notified that they could potentially face jail time for falling afoul of a New York law requiring the Sisters and other hospice care providers to assign rooms and beds according to patients’ gender identities rather than their biological sexes, to use patients’ “preferred pronouns,” to “accommodate patients’ desire for extramarital relations,” and a host of other policies in conflict with the longstanding moral teachings and practices of the Catholic Church.

Drugs, sexual blackmail
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Gray Zone
...shocking confession letter exposes Israel’s Red Crescent spy ring. A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups.

Do You Have a Right To Wear a Penis Costume in Public?
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Reason
A 62-Year-Old Alabama Woman Is About To Find Out. A police officer threw Renea Gamble to the ground and handcuffed her because her costume might have offended his kids. In October, millions of people took part in "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump. In one Alabama town, police arrested a woman in a lewd costume and threatened her with jail time—a clear violation of her First Amendment rights.

Biden DOJ worked with abortion-rights groups
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Examiner
...to track conservative activists and withheld evidence in FACE Act trials. Federal prosecutors in the Biden Justice Department worked closely with abortion-rights groups to track anti-abortion activists while withholding key evidence in FACE Act prosecutions, according to a 900-page report released by the DOJ on Tuesday detailing evidence of political bias under the Biden administration. The report, the first of several to be released by the Trump administration’s Weaponization Working Group, is based on a review of roughly 700,000 internal records and represents the most detailed account to date of how the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was enforced in the years following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

Jury selection starts for Harvey Weinstein’s latest retrial in a New York rape case
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AP News
After years of #MeToo infamy, legal peril and prison, Harvey Weinstein is again going on trial on a rape charge in New York City. Jury selection started Tuesday in the onetime movie mogul’s latest retrial, where jurors will weigh — for the third time — whether he raped hairstylist and Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel in 2013. It’s a more streamlined proceeding than the array of allegations that were aired at Weinstein’s previous trials in New York and Los Angeles. The Oscar-winning producer denies all the accusations and declared in court this winter that he had “acted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.”

New Finnish Study on Mental Health Outcomes Among Adolescents
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: LGB Alliance Australia
Referred for Gender Identity Assessment. A newly released Finnish study of 2,083 adolescents who contacted specialised gender identity services found high levels of psychiatric distress which was not reduced and sometimes increased following medical gender reassignment. The study, conducted by researchers from Tampere University Hospital and Helsinki University Hospital, was based on anonymised national health records and looked at 2,083 under 23-year-olds who contacted the two Finnish gender clinics in the period 1996-2019. They were compared with a control group of 16,643.

DOJ fires at least 4 prosecutors involved in FACE Act cases during Biden admin
Topic: Abortion
Source: CBS News
The Justice Department has fired at least four prosecutors who were involved in prosecutions under the FACE Act during the Biden administration, a government official familiar with the firings told CBS News. Among those fired Monday is Sanjay Patel, a longtime federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section who was placed on administrative leave last month, sources told CBS News at the time. The terminations occurred at about the same time a report on the FACE Act and the Biden Justice Department was being finalized.

ASU faculty refuse to vote on proposal to ban land acknowledgements
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
A recent proposal to end land acknowledgments at faculty business meetings for Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science was rejected before reaching the floor. Instead, professors approved a resolution to make a Native American land acknowledgement official policy and continue to read it before every faculty meeting. “My motion to keep meetings non-political and no longer have a required land acknowledgement read at the beginning of every meeting failed. And this is important: they voted to not even vote on it,” Professor Owen Anderson told The College Fix.

My News Mail-order dominates US abortion pill dispensing
Topic: Abortion
Source: Reuters
ince January 2023, pharmacies have filled about 2,700 mifepristone prescriptions monthly..U.S. pharmacies are largely filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone via mail-order in states permitting telehealth access to the medication, despite a 2023 FDA ?decision allowing retail pharmacies to dispense the drug, according to a study published ?on Monday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023 authorized retail pharmacies to provide mifepristone, the first of two pills used in medication abortion, during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. This followed a prior rule ?change permitting the drug to be shipped by mail without in-person dispensing requirements.

DEI Practices Reduce Productivity, Cost $94 Billion Annually:
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
White House Economic Report. “These estimates imply that DEI promotion has led to inefficient management, raising the cost of doing business,” Researchers calculated that DEI policies reduced output and lowered the country’s gross domestic product by about $94 billion each year, amounting to approximately $1,160 per year for families with two working adults. “These estimates imply that DEI promotion has led to inefficient management, raising the cost of doing business,” the report reads. “These costs lead the companies practicing DEI to hire fewer people and pay their workers less.” President Donald Trump commissioned the report, released by the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

US Fertility Rate Falls To All-Time Low
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NPR
710,000 fewer babies were born last year in U.S. compared with two decades ago. Women in the U.S. gave birth to roughly 710,000 fewer children last year compared with the nation's peak in 2007, according to preliminary data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lead researcher Brady Hamilton, a demographer with the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, said the latest one percent drop in "general fertility" from 2024 to 2025 is part of a long-running downward trend. Since 2007, there's been a decline in the general fertility rate [in the U.S.] of 23%," Hamilton told NPR.

‘Let My People Go,’ A Smoker’s Plea
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Libertarian Institute
A March 20 headline in the New York Post declared “Cigarettes are Back!” It seems that in liberal, health-conscious Hollywood, celebrities are smoking publicly and on magazine covers and cigarettes are big at the events, including in some instances provided to guests by the host. This is a good sign for those of us who oppose the nanny state, as the obsessive hatred of smoking has been one of the most egregious infringements on personal liberty in the last forty years.

Eric Swalwell and the Fall of a Made Man
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Jonathan Turley
The worst, however, may be yet to come. walwell has spent his entire career protected by an enabling establishment and media. He was a made man in Washington, and those who made him protected him despite years of rumors and allegations of misconduct. He was never much of a legislator. One 2025 study showed that he was outvoted in Congress by a colleague who had died months earlier. His value was his vicious signature. He was always first to a mob. When Sen. Susan Collins received death threats, it was Swalwell who mocked her. In running for governor, he not only pledged to arrest ICE agents but to deny them driver’s licenses and jobs. He trafficked in unadulterated rage to a nation of rage addicts.

Swalwell, Who Said We Should 'Believe Survivors,'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Western Journal
Issues Denial Saying We Shouldn't Believe Women Who Say They Survived Sex Abuse By Him. To cap Friday off, Swalwell issued a late-night denial video in which the man who once told America that we should “believe survivors” during the Brett Kavanaugh hearing — where such so-called “survivors” had not a trace of the evidence Swalwell’s accusers have — said that we shouldn’t believe his survivors. In the one-minute video — recorded, it appears, inside a hotel room with the curtains drawn, which isn’t a good look when you consider how much of Swalwell’s alleged sexual misconduct took place inside hotel rooms — the representative used the “nobody’s perfect” defense (which can usually be interpreted as “some sex happened while he was married, but it was totally consensual,” although he’s not going to tell you any of that directly) and said that the allegations that this conduct was coercive or abusive were lies.

The Department of Education: Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: by Wendy McElroy
In a world of loud events, the significance of quiet ones can be lost, especially when they are described in dry bureaucratic terms. On March 19, the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of the Treasury (USDT) announced the formation of the Federal Student Assistance Partnership (FSAP) to facilitate the renewed repayment of student loans. A March 27, 2026, headline on CBS News unpacked the announcement’s bureaucratese, “Education Department notices inform students in SAVE plan that their payments will soon resume.”

Lisa Kudrow says it's time to get back to jokes 'that might make people uncomfortable'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
"I feel like we've been too afraid to make jokes that might make people uncomfortable." In the interview with legendary American comedian and actress Lily Tomlin, Kudrow spoke about the state of American sit-coms, of which "Friends" was one of the most successful of all time.

Melania Trump tried to sweep the Epstein saga away, but she ended up reviving it
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CNN
The most plausible explanation for first lady Melania Trump’s out-of-the-blue address on the Jeffrey Epstein drama was that she was trying to make it go away. But her stunning on-camera statement Thursday from the White House Cross Hall — the spot where her husband last week spoke to the nation about the Iran war — will almost certainly have the opposite effect. “I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” she said, in a statement that was all the more remarkable since there had been no widespread public speculation about the matter in recent days. [Ed: I think she was just fed up...finally.]

The ban on Kanye West will backfire
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Andrew Doyle
We never seem to learn that suppressing offensive speech only amplifies it. Censorship is one of the first signs that a society isn’t working. A truly free nation can tolerate the expression of offensive opinions, even repugnant ones, because where debate and discussion are encouraged the worst ideas can be exposed and defeated. When a government sets limitations on speech, it is admitting that authoritarianism is easier than liberty. The news that Kanye West – these days self-styled as ‘Ye’ – has been banned from entering the UK is one such admission. He had been booked to headline the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, London, but the event has now been cancelled. The Home Office has claimed that West’s appearance ‘would not be conducive to the public good’.

How red states are killing college
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Unherd
Anti-DEI has created a red-tape nightmare. Voters...have been supportive as politicians in red states give speeches against local universities, legislators circulate viral clips denouncing campus ideology, and college presidents suffer ritual humiliation when called to explain what, exactly, happens in an Office of Inclusive Excellence. These voters imagine their representatives are putting an end to biased hiring practices, shutting down alienating classroom polemics, and making campuses safe for conservative speech. The reality, however, is much more complex. The opponents of DEI have weaponized regulation and are creating a Pandora’s box of tools that can be used and reused by successive administrations — all to the detriment of higher education.