Brigitte Macron’s use of sexist slur sparks outrage in France
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CNN News
Brigitte Macron was attending a performance Sunday by Ary Abittan, a stand-up comedian who was accused of rape by a former partner in 2021. Following a three-year investigation, the case was dismissed – a ruling later upheld by French courts. In a conversation with Brigitte Macron ahead of the show that was captured on camera and briefly published online, the comedian says he feels “scared” of protesters who interrupt his shows. Brigitte Macron replies: “If there are any stupid b*tches, we’ll kick them out,” before laughing, and insisting Abittan promise not to talk about “the problem” that evening, seemingly referring to the activists.

Egypt and Iran complain about planned World Cup ‘Pride’ match in Seattle
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: AP News
Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that is planned to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. Leaders in the nation’s soccer federations publicly rebuked the idea of playing the match June 26 at Seattle Stadium, which local organizers say will include a “once-in-a-lifetime moment to showcase and celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities in Washington.” In Egypt, the soccer federation issued a statement late Tuesday saying it sent a letter to FIFA “categorically rejecting any activities related to supporting homosexuality during the match.”

Denmark will compensate Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: ABC News
Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over cases of forcible contraception carried out by health authorities over decades starting in the 1960s. The Danish health ministry said Wednesday that women who were given contraception against their knowledge or consent between 1960 and 1991 can apply for individual payouts of 300,000 Danish kroner (about $46,000) starting next April. An estimated 4,500 women could be entitled to compensation. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.

Trump admin seeks denaturalization of convicted sex-offender from Ghana
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Post Millennial
The US Department of Justice has filed a civil denaturalization action in the US District Court for the District of Maryland, seeking to revoke the citizenship of Nicholas Eshun, a Ghanaian native who became a US citizen through an naturalization process available to US servicemembers, after he was convicted of attempting to sexually abuse a person he thought to be a 14-year-old girl. Federal officials say Eshun obtained citizenship under a legal provision reserved for members of the armed forces that requires at least five years of honorable service. But after he naturalized, the Marine Corps court-martialed Eshun and ultimately dishonorably discharged him following a conviction tied to attempted sexual abuse of someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.

Machado's Trip to Collect Nobel Peace Prize Was Like No
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian
Other Venezuela opposition leader evaded checkpoints, braved sea voyage to get to Oslo. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado pulled off a dramatic escape from her homeland this week, dodging military checkpoints and braving a risky sea voyage, all to collect the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Sporting a wig and disguise, Machado slipped out of a Caracas suburb where she'd been hiding for nearly a year and, with two aides, navigated through 10 military checkpoints on her way to a coastal village, reports the Wall Street Journal.

DOJ Scraps Disparate-Impact Rules After 50 Years
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Justice.gov
— Restores Equal Protection And Ends Race-Based Quotas In Federal Programs. Read the press release below..." The Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded in the principle of equal treatment under the law by eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations. “For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race.”

"Godless Demons": Teen Commits Suicide
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
After "Sextortion" As International Crime Ring Targets American Children. Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old West Virginia boy as part of a broader examination into sextortion networks that have increasingly targeted American teenagers, resulting in what experts describe as a national crisis of online predation, the New York Post reported. Bryce Tate, a student at Nitro High School in Cross Lanes, was discovered dead in his home on November 6 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The tragedy unfolded roughly three hours after he began communicating with someone who contacted him via text message around 4:30 p.m. His father, Adam Tate, has concluded that his son fell victim to a sophisticated extortion operation. Details shared with the Post indicate that the scheme began with photographs that were not artificially generated but rather appeared to show an actual girl who had previously been victimized herself.

NY Archdiocese Agrees To Mediation For Settling 1,300 Claims Of Sexual Abuse
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epoch Times
The church, which serves 2.5 million New York Catholics, said it is working to make available $300 million. The Roman Catholic Church in New York and more than 1,300 people who have accused its priests and lay employees of sexual abuse have agreed to enter mediation to resolve the claims. Announcing the negotiations on Dec. 8, the Archdiocese of New York said it hopes to reach a global settlement that would provide victim-survivors with “the most financial compensation possible.” Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has led the archdiocese since 2009, said in an open letter that “darkness has cast a shadow” on the church.

Court Upholds Trump’s Trans Military Ban
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: PJ Media
An appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of President Donald Trump’s ban on “transgenders” serving in the U.S. military. The Trump administration just scored a legal victory against woke insanity and for military reform. In the case of Nicolas Talbott, et al. v. United States, D.C. Circuit Court Judges Katsas and Rao ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s transgender ban. Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin shared a screenshot of the ruling. It shows that the administrative stay from March on Trump’s ban was lifted, and the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal was granted.

Australia has banned social media for kids under 16. How does it work?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Straits Times
The minimum age for users on most social media platforms in Australia – and around the world – is typically 13, although children often find ways to access them anyway. Under the new legislation, under-16s in Australia are not allowed to have their own social media accounts. Kids of all ages are still able to scroll through content without logging into an account, if the platform offers that capability, but they aren’t able to post, comment or message other users. Platform owners must prevent under-16s from creating accounts or evading the new restrictions. Companies that breach the law face fines of up to A$49.5 million (S$42.5 million). Underage kids and their parents won’t get penalised for breaking the rules.

Privacy concerns linger in reproductive health care despite HIPAA lawsuit’s dismissal
Topic: Abortion
Source: Kansas Reflector
The four lawsuits at the center of a Republican-led effort to ensure law enforcement can access reproductive health records are now mostly resolved, after attorneys for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed last week to dismiss the last remaining suit challenging the legality of a foundational health privacy rule. Paxton filed the lawsuit in September 2024 arguing that Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration illegally created a rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act barring certain reproductive health care information from being disclosed if a procedure such as abortion was obtained in a state where it is legal.

Climber Charged After Partner Dies in Winter Ascent
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Independent
Austrian prosecutors allege Thomas Plamberger's gross negligence led to death on Grossglockner. A mountain tragedy in Austria has taken a legal turn as climber Thomas Plamberger now faces grossly negligent homicide charges following the death of his partner, 33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner, on Grossglockner, the country's highest peak. Per Climbing.com, their winter ascent of the 12,461-foot mountain began on Jan. 18, with both considered experienced and well-prepared, according to Plamberger's lawyer. By that evening, however, severe weather had set in, and Gurtner, exhausted, was left about 100 feet from the summit while Plamberger descended to seek help. Rescue teams reached Gurtner the next day, but she'd already died from exposure. [Ed: I suspect this will balloon into a huge criminal case and may set precedent.]

OU Removes a 2nd Instructor Amid Gender Debate
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
Kelli Alvarez accused of viewpoint discrimination over refusing to excuse counter-protesters. A debate over a student's essay on gender norms isn't dying down at the University of Oklahoma, where a second instructor has now been removed from the classroom. Teaching assistant William "Mel" Curth was first suspended after giving student Samantha Fulnecky a zero on an essay in which Fulnecky cited her Christian beliefs to support traditional gender norms. Now, the situation has escalated further with assistant teaching professor Kelli Alvarez facing disciplinary action for allegedly offering excused absences to students who wanted to attend a Friday protest supporting Curth's return to the classroom, but not for those intending to counter-protest, report Fox News and the OU Daily.

Letitia James Moves to Chill Debate Over Transgender Policies
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
There was an interesting complaint filed in New York yesterday in which a group of parents and educators sued New York Attorney General Letitia James over a letter viewed as threatening those who are raising transgender policies in public meetings. While the legal basis for the complaint is likely to be challenged as premature by the state, the lawsuit exposes an effort that seems clearly designed to chill such public discussions of transgender issues.

Mixed-sex changing rooms are putting women at needless risk
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Trans-inclusive and gender-neutral policies have been a major boon for predators – and the data prove it. Well, knock me down with a feather. It turns out, when places where women get changed are opened up to any old Joe who fancies using them, creepy blokes will walk in. As revealed by new police statistics, mixed-sex changing rooms were the location of at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism in England and Wales in 2023.Obviously, the revelation that sexual abusers thrive in confined, CCTV-free spaces that women use to strip off and wash should be a surprise to no one. Nevertheless, research by the Women’s Rights Network found up to a third of Britain’s leisure centres have changing rooms that are ‘open to everyone’, regardless of gender, placing women at needless risk.

DOJ Steps in After Boys Get Punished for Telling the Truth
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Red State
The Department of Justice confirmed on Monday that they sued the Loudoun County School Board for allowing a biologically female student into the boys' locker room, then punishing the boys who dared to say, “Uh, this seems wrong.” You know, the kind of ordinary, instinctive response any functioning adult would expect from a teenage boy suddenly forced to change clothes next to a female student. And the boys got punished. This is where we are as a country. According to the DOJ, the board’s policy pushed gender ideology as a mandatory belief system and steamrolled students who couldn’t, in good conscience, deny biological reality. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon put it plainly: “Students do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate.” That’s a line that used to be basic civics. Now it sounds almost rebellious.

More Countries Are Coming for Kids' Social Media
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP News
Denmark, Malaysia to follow Australia's lead in 2026 [Ed: damn it!] Denmark is planning to follow Australia's lead and severely restrict social media access for young people, per the AP. The Danish government announced last month that it had secured an agreement by three governing coalition and two opposition parties in parliament to ban access to social media for anyone under the age of 15. Such a measure would be the most sweeping step yet by a European Union nation to limit use of social media among teens and children. The Danish government's plans could become law as soon as mid-2026. The proposed measure would give some parents the right to let their children access social media from age 13, local media reported, but the ministry has not yet fully shared the plans.

No More White Guilt
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: X Elon Musk
[Ed: make sure to click through the featured article.] WHITE GUILT IS DEAD: GEN Z IS DONE APOLOGIZING FOR HISTORY THEY DIDN’T WRITE. For years, young people in the West, especially white men, have been told they’re the problem...

My Parents Founded Autism Speaks After Vaccines Injured My Son.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Children
Now the Group Blames Genetics, Not Vaccines. My parents, Bob and Suzanne Wright, founded Autism Speaks after my son was injured by vaccines and regressed into autism. And yet today, Autism Speaks continues to deny the harm vaccines cause to millions of children. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website to state that there is no evidence supporting the blanket claim that vaccines do not cause autism, Autism Speaks chose to stay closed-minded. The organization responded to the CDC’s bold messaging shift with this statement: “We want to reiterate our long-standing perspective that vaccines do not cause autism.” That statement shows that, by default, Autism Speaks continues to protect those who may be responsible for harming millions of children each year when they stated. That’s interesting. Because Autism Speaks would not exist if my son, Christian, had not experienced a catastrophic adverse vaccine reaction that caused his severe autistic regression.

'Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Los Angeles Times
A tenured USC professor is arguing that universities need to fundamentally rethink their value proposition as AI rapidly closes the gap on human instruction and a loneliness epidemic grips the generation most likely to be sitting in their lecture halls. Eric Anicich, an associate professor at USC's Marshall School of Business, wrote in the Los Angeles Times that nearly three-quarters of 16- to 24-year-olds now report feeling lonely, young adults spend 70% less time with friends in person compared to two decades ago, and a growing majority of Gen Z college graduates say their degree was a "waste of money." Anicich points to a recent Harvard study finding that students using an AI tutor learned more than twice as much as those in traditional active-learning classes, and did so in less time.