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Kash Patel announces 305 arrests, 24 children recovered
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
Eleven federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA and ATF, united under President Trump's crackdown on violent crime. "Operation New Dawn represents a massive, whole-of-government approach under President Trump’s leadership to cracking down on violent crimes and crimes against children in great American cities," Patel told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. "This was a sweeping operation in Chicago that brought together 11 different federal agencies across the government who worked together to execute 305 arrests and recover 24 children — many of whom had been reported kidnapped or missing — as well as charging subjects with robbery, kidnapping, drug trafficking, child exploitation and more.

The ‘Pride Match’ that wasn’t
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Politico
Local organizers hoped rainbow flags would fill Lumen Field. They were largely outnumbered by lion-and-sun banners and tricolor facepaint. As a lesbian raised in Egypt, Noha Mahgoub could have chosen to dress for what local organizers branded a “Pride Match” in colors associated with either her sexual orientation or her ethnic identity. The 43-year-old Democratic legislative aide — one of the top staffers in Washington state government — chose the latter, arriving in a red Egyptian national team jersey, a black hat emblazoned with YALLA and red, white and black tricolor facepaint. “I’ve seen Pride shirts. I’ve seen Pride face paintings,” she observed from a concourse minutes before national anthems began echoing around Lumen Field. “It’s been really great, but I’m seeing a lot more Egypt and Iran and people cheering for their countries and singing their songs.”

NYC Appropriates $7 Million For 'Trans Equity', Drag Queen Story Hours
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Greatness
Mamdani directs the taxpayer money to programs and services “to help empower the transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) community.” A massive $126 billion spending plan approved by the New York City Council earlier this week includes nearly $7 million for so-called ‘trans equity’ programs and drag queen story hours. The city council said, “Funding may support education programs, employment services, workforce development, healthcare navigation, legal guidance, community workshops, or academic research, among others.”

Florida Votes to Ban Illegal Immigrants from Public Colleges and Universities
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Gateway Hispanics
The Florida State Board of Education voted 6–1 on Tuesday to prohibit illegal immigrants from enrolling in the state’s 28 public colleges and adult education programs. Under the new policy, institutions within the Florida College System will only admit U.S. citizens or individuals lawfully present in the country. Applicants must attest to their legal status and provide supporting documentation before enrolling. The rule also applies to adult general education programs, including GED classes.

House vote sets up Senate clash over kids' online safety
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Axios
The House on Monday passed the KIDS Act, but key senators say the legislation has little chance of advancing in its current form. Why it matters: The vote sets up a showdown over kids' online safety as the White House works to align Congress behind legislation that would preempt some state AI laws. Driving the news: After garnering broad bipartisan support, House lawmakers fast-tracked a package of kids' online safety measures, including a version of the Kids Online Safety Act, and sent it to the Senate.

A major online safety bill for kids just passed the House.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNBC
Here’s what experts say parents need to know. On Monday, the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a package intended to protect minors from various dangers presented by online platforms such as social media and AI chatbots. The legislation includes measures regarding age verification, minors’ access to sexually explicit material, limits on “design features that result in compulsive usage,” and tools enabling parents to view the total time their child spends on a platform.

Waste Of The Day: Stolen Education Grants
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Real Clear Investigations
Topline: A North Dakota woman was convicted last month of five counts of theft for stealing $131,000 in state grants meant for after-school programs. Key facts: Faith Dixon, 47, was one of the top recipients of $2 million that the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction awarded in October 2021 for its Out of School Time program to support children impacted by school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Judge grants narrow victory in Oregon Right to Life’s insurance suit
Topic: Abortion
Source: OPB
over abortion, contraception. The organization sought a broader injunction over an exemption for “religious employers” but the judge’s ruling was limited in scope. A federal judge in Eugene ruled Wednesday the nonprofit Oregon Right to Life does not have to abide by a 2017 state law that requires most private health insurance plans to pay for abortion and contraception. U.S. District Court Judge Mustafa Kasubhai previously held the state law violated the advocacy group’s First Amendment right to religious freedom.

Talarico Says Banning ‘Gender-Affirming Health Care to Trans Children’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart
... Is ‘Christofascism’. Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico was caught on video describing a “Christofascism movement” as he criticized legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and the state’s abortion law. During an appearance on Texas Impact’s Weekly Witness, Talarico argued that legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and Texas’s abortion ban stemmed from what he called a “Christofascism movement.”

Trump HHS Overhaul Prioritizes Religious Liberty
Topic: Abortion
Source: Newsmax
The Trump administration is making religious liberty a cornerstone of federal health policy, reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights to prioritize conscience protections and the free exercise of religion. The move, announced on Sunday, comes as the Justice Department released a report last Friday emphasizing religious liberty in disputes involving abortion, vaccine mandates, and gender-related medical treatments — issues that have become major flashpoints during President Donald Trump's second term.

Queen Camilla faces backlash from trans activists over meeting with J.K. Rowling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
Rowling said she understood from her "own life experience what the trashing of women’s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges". Despite the meeting's focus on reading, the palace's Instagram post quickly attracted criticism because it was published during Pride Month, with some users accusing the Royal Family of endorsing Rowling's views on gender identity. One commenter wrote they were "deeply disappointed" the Queen had given Rowling a platform "especially during Pride Month," while others filled the comments section with pro-trans slogans. Another described the decision as "deplorable."

Court says woman who regrets transition can sue therapist
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Center Square
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled the statute of limitations has not run out on a lawsuit against the therapist who recommended a woman wanting to transition her gender remove her breasts. In 2023, Soren Aldaco sued the providers who made her double mastectomy possible, including therapist Barbara Wood and her employer, Thriveworks. After struggling with her gender identity throughout her teenage years, Aldaco contacted the Crane Clinic to schedule a double mastectomy and was advised that to move forward she’d need a letter from a practitioner recommending her for the surgery, according to the high court’s opinion.

Woman passes out as she becomes the first ever to be caned for...
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Daily Mail
...'committing obscenity live with a man on social media' under Indonesian province's Sharia law. A woman has become the first person to be publicly caned in Indonesia's Aceh province for 'committing obscenity live with a man on social media' under its strict Sharia law. The punishment was handed down after she and her partner were accused of kissing during a TikTok livestream. Images show the woman kneeling and screaming in agony as a masked Sharia police officer repeatedly brings the cane down across her back.

Fury over freed gang ringleader who ‘can not be depor­ted’ Groom­ing boss farce
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Daily Mail
MINISTERS are under mount­ing pres­sure to find a way of deport­ing a notori­ous groom­ing gang ringleader freed from jail yes­ter­day. Home Sec­ret­ary Shabana Mah­mood was ordered to tackle the scan­dal after Down­ing Street ini­tially said vile Shabir Ahmed could not be kicked out of the coun­try because of a legal loop­hole. Des­pite being stripped of his Brit­ish cit­izen­ship, the pae­do­phile can­not cur­rently be removed because the 1971 Immig­ra­tion Act pro­tects Com­mon­wealth cit­izens who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.

Florida Votes to Ban Illegal Immigrants from Public Colleges and Universities
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Gateway Hispanics
The Florida State Board of Education voted 6–1 on Tuesday to prohibit illegal immigrants from enrolling in the state’s 28 public colleges and adult education programs. Under the new policy, institutions within the Florida College System will only admit U.S. citizens or individuals lawfully present in the country. Applicants must attest to their legal status and provide supporting documentation before enrolling. The rule also applies to adult general education programs, including GED classes.

The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Justor Daily
These remembrances reveal a century of women’s friendships in one Midwestern literary club. Their club, which is still active in Ypsilanti today, was established in 1878. “Not to be out done by the gentlemen of the Review Club, the ladies of this city have organized a Ladies Literary Club,” the local newspaper reported that summer. The purpose of the new women’s organization, like the men-only Review Club founded a few years prior, was a broadening of horizons—“the mutual improvement of its members through the study of literature, art, science, and the vital interests of the day,” according to its first constitution. The club members lived in a town of barely 6,000 people in the American Midwest, but every other Tuesday afternoon some 40 women would gather in a member’s living room to discuss the world. First, they explored Africa—its history and geography, its colonization and the slave trade, its production and commerce, and the wonders of the Pyramids—and then they moved on to the study of Asia.

A Tale of Two Reports
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
Two university studies address the reasons for higher education’s decline. A point that has generated much discussion is the decline in confidence in and support for higher education. Over the last ten years or so, the percentage of Americans who say they have a high degree of confidence in our colleges and universities has fallen, while the percentage who say they’re skeptical about the value of higher education has risen sharply. Many in the higher education establishment have dismissed this as having no importance—merely the result of increasingly vicious right-wing polemics aimed at one of the nation’s great engines of “progressive” influence, they say. Nothing to be concerned about.

American Education Is in Almost Irredeemable Decline
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Spectator
I will defend the use of “almost” only by noting that there are still educational institutions out there providing quality instruction. In virtually every city of size, there are at least a handful of options where kids won’t be indoctrinated into the kind of anti-American woke stupidity that has become virtually omnipresent in the public schools. And of course, there is the burgeoning panoply of resources available to homeschoolers, which stands as the silver lining to the mess we’re in.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore: How to improve young men’s mental health
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Stat News
States must lead in the effort to combat young men’s loneliness, despair, and disengagement. When we talk about men’s mental health, we tend to focus on what men are not doing: Not going to therapy. Not opening up. Not doing the work. If the hope was to shame men into better mental health, it has not worked. In Maryland, the male suicide nearly rate is four times the rate for women. Nationwide, suicide has climbed by more than a third since 2010 for young men. In Maryland and the country overall, the data track the same arc: rising deaths of despair, rising loneliness, rising disengagement from school and work. The data send a clear message: We need to stop treating our young men and boys as problems to be solved, and start treating them as people to be invested in.