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DOGE halts gruesome transgender mice grant
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
... intended to fine-tune male hormones for women: FOIA. "We are currently assessing exposure of short term (several weeks or less) androgens on reproductive parameters of female mice to model transgender men," University of California San Diego protocol says. The Biden administration's funding for transgender experiments on animals, intended to improve so-called gender-affirming care for humans, is coming to an early end as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency and Freedom of Information Act requests by a watchdog that opposes taxpayer-funded animal tests that are shining a light on the gruesome research.

Columbia faculty hold 'emergency vigil,' urge students to wear mask, skip class
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
...to protest Trump. Columbia University professors protest Monday in response to college's recent policy changes. A group of people continued marching and circling around the main gate of Columbia University on Monday afternoon, banging loud drums and chanting, "Long live the intifada." Their actions come shortly after Columbia University professors held what they called an "emergency vigil" in response to the college's agreement to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department following demands from the Trump administration.

This company is taking advantage of sextortion victims, some customers say
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: USA Today
The blackmailer was waiting. If the man didn't pay up, the scammer, known as a sextortionist, promised to release his nude images to his family, friends and government job. But each time he paid, the predator, who had pretended to be someone else on a dating app, increased the ransom. Desperate for a way out, he was relieved when a Google search brought him to the site of Digital Forensics Corporation (DFC). The Ohio-based company said they could try to get the explicit photos deleted, but it would cost $3,000. He says they asked for half the money up front via credit card and that he send a physical check for the rest. It seemed strange to him, but he complied.

Exposing The Chinese "Rent-A-Womb" Industry In America
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
...hotels and motels across the U.S. have reported an influx of pregnant Chinese women staying for months to give birth on American soil. Federal officials are targeting a long-running underground birth tourism industry in California, where Chinese nationals pay baby brokers to ensure their children are born as U.S. citizens. Authorities say pregnant women are often housed in upscale homes and apartments near Los Angeles—dubbed “baby farms” by locals. These illegal operations can charge over $100,000 per pregnancy, according to NewsNation. “This was an industry,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally. “These were criminal enterprises that operated here in the United States and also people in China who would recruit. The organizers... were responsible for the birth tourism of thousands of babies. They had a system in place.” McNally estimates that roughly 30,000 babies were born through these schemes.

Trans, Nonbinary People Are Fighting New Passport Policy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Associated Press
Meanwhile, Trump administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ community. A group of transgender and nonbinary individuals is suing the Trump administration over its passport policy, which bans changing gender markers on passports and bans the use of the "X" gender marker. The policy came about after President Trump issued an executive order on the first day of his second presidential term declaring that the country will only recognize two sexes, male and female, and further declares that those are "not changeable." The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs in the suit filed in Boston, the AP reports.

Statehouses Can't Shake Sexual Misconduct Claims
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
At least 14 state lawmakers were accused last year, per AP investigation. The #MeToo movement hit critical mass in 2017, toppling politicians and public figures across the country. Allegations of harassment and misconduct—some from many years prior—emerged. Many state legislatures responded by adopting or enhancing policies against sexual misconduct. In the years since, women's representation in US statehouses has reached an all-time high. But allegations continue to surface—at the state level and beyond. An AP investigation finds at least 147 state lawmakers across 44 states have been accused of sexual harassment or misconduct since 2017. Most allegations were reported during the first two years of #MeToo, but more have surfaced every year since.

With Depardieu Trial, France May See Its #MeToo Moment
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
Actor accused of groping 2 women during 2021 filming of Les Volets Verts. French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France, per the AP. Depardieu, 76, is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of Les Volets Verts or The Green Shutters. The actor denies any wrongdoing. Depardieu told the judges he was prepared to answer the court's questions. "We will be able to show in an impartial, objective and incontestable manner that all of the accusations are lies," his attorney, Jérémie Assous, told journalists massed outside the courtroom. "The truth will be obvious and the truth is on our side."

Disney Quietly Cancels Live-Action 'Pocahontas' Starring Dylan Mulvaney
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Babylon Bee
[Ed: yes, satire.] After watching its latest feature Snow White suffer a disastrous opening weekend at the box office, executives at Disney have decided to quietly cancel the studio's live-action version of Pocahontas starring Dylan Mulvaney. Studio executives notified Mulvaney that the project would not be moving forward after audiences resoundingly ridiculed Snow White, blasting every aspect of the film, from its poor production quality to its pushing of a "woke" agenda.

Michelle Obama Expresses Shock that Controversial School Lunch Program Unpopular
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart News
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is surprised that her school lunch program proved to be so controversial. Obama made the remarks during an appearance this week on the Not Gonna Lie podcast with Kylie Kelce, asserting that her decision to make a difference with school lunches — and her overall “Let’s Move” initiative — was “strategic” in nature. “I was trying to be strategic about aligning my agenda with something that was important to the West Wing. And I thought, ‘There’s no way that anyone is going to take issue with trying to make school lunches healthier, getting kids more active,'” she said.

Rate of French Women Assaulted on Public Transport Sores 86%
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Armageddon Prose
...For Some Odd Reason [Ed: the odd reason mentioned is migrants from areas that disrespect women] The “weird unknowable reason” is: the “migrants,” as the UN insists they be called. It’s always the migrants. If you see a story about subway rape literally anywhere in Europe at any time in any context, it was a migrant that did it. If the legacy media won’t identify the attacker in its coverage — if it can be bothered to report on it at all — that’s because it’s covering up this very critical, universal fact pattern.

Former Vogue Editor Admits...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gateway Pundit
Liberal Bias Keeps the Most Beautiful First Lady in History From Magazine. I’ll be very honest. I’ve talked to a lot of friends in the industry who are very liberal, a former colleagues at Vogue and other magazine I’ve seen some other designers, American designers, some of whom were very close friends with Ivana Trump and very much love Melania, but they have said point blank, ‘Yeah, sorry, no,’ people are too scared. They won’t do it because they are too worried about their own brand, their own reputation, and the bottom line. I think that’s really disappointing. I’m not saying across the board that’s going to be the case, but I don’t think we’re suddenly going to see a dramatic change. I mean, fashion houses like Oscar de la Renta, of course, he doesn’t do the designs anymore, but they’re historically more about fashion and beauty and the esthetic as they are than politics or even being bullied into dressing or not dressing someone.

Davidson College Investigates Student
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...for Speaking Out Against Palestinian and Transgender Positions. Davidson College officials have launched an investigation into a student, Cynthia Huang, the president of Davidson College’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. In two separate incidents, Huang spoke out against Palestinian and transgender claims. In a disciplinary letter, Mak Tompkins, Davidson’s director of student rights and responsibilities, wrote that she was accused of spreading “misinformation” that could foster Islamophobia and transphobia.

Why is the NHS siding with a racist paedophile?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
A nurse is fighting for her job after she ‘misgendered’ a sex offender, who then racially abused her. If a six-foot-tall convicted paedophile racially abused a black female nurse, who would you expect the NHS to defend? Incredibly, the Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust has allegedly taken the side of the racist paedo. All because the criminal in question identifies as transgender and the nurse in question ‘misgendered’ him.

Adolescence: Netflix Series Demonizes Young White Men And The Manosphere
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Zero Hedge
The show blames toxic masculinity and the anti-woke movement for a recent string of knife attacks against girls in Britain while ignoring the real cause. The progressive media is swooning over a new miniseries produced in Britain and distributed by Netflix called 'Adolescence', and after reviewing the story it's easy to see why. British government officials are hailing the show as a wake up call and are using it to promote online censorship of the "Manosphere". Leftist journalists are seeking to drum up artificial interest, calling it a "masterpiece" that exposes the toxic nature of masculinity. At a time when the political left is losing the culture war on almost every front it's not surprising that they would hyper-promote an otherwise forgettable series that panders to the woke demographic. Its depiction of a teen murder, driven by the terrible "evils" of conservative influencers who expose the irrational zealotry of feminism and DEI, is pure propaganda fodder. A desperate attempt to to double down on woke arguments that have been debunked for years. The creators of Adolescence cite a recent string of knife attacks against girls in Britain as the inspiration for the series, but in typical progressive fashion the production ignores the fact that the vast majority of these crimes were committed by minority and migrant males. The teen killer in Adolescence is a white British boy, not a minority.

America’s colleges are hoarding billions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The New York Post
— and yet still cry poor as Trump targets federal funding. Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I’d have found stories about the administration cutting grants to universities and detonating thousands of campus-related jobs horrifying. But the education sob stories now flying off the presses have a gigantic lie of omission. Take Johns Hopkins. NBC News was one of many to highlight the “grave consequences” the new administration’s policies have had on the famed institution, noting “the changes will also have an economic impact in Baltimore because the university is the largest private employer in Maryland.” NBC pointed out that “about half of Johns Hopkins’ funding last year came from federal research dollars, according to a letter from Ron Daniels, the university’s president.”

Brutal: Come see how poorly the Snow White remake is doing
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Not the Bee
...at the box office on opening weekend. Well, opening weekend is finally here, folks. And I'm pleased to report that it's looking as horrifically bad for Disney as we all thought it would...

The Vanishing White Male Writer
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Compact Magazine
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six. And then the doors shut. By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list, none in Vanity Fair’s, none in The Atlantic’s. Esquire, a magazine ostensibly geared towards male millennials, has featured 53 millennial fiction writers on its year-end book lists since 2020. Only one was a white American man.

"This Has Become So Absurd"
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
WaPo Comments Section Explodes After Transgender Op-Ed Reminds Democrats Why They Lost. While Jeff Bezos is trying to rebrand the Washington Post as a more moderate rag - causing mass resignations last month at the thought of being less partisan - he might want to check in with the paper's new Opinion editor after his last one rage-quit as part of the February freakout. The author of course then jumps into "the Trump administration's attacks on us," and insists "transgender women are not “really” men. We are women. We may have different histories than other women, but then, every woman has her own history." Make it stop...

Forget Woke Snow White.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Disney's Remake Is More Like Socialist Snow White. If you've heard anything about Disney's new live-action Snow White remake, it's probably that it's woke, that star Rachel Zegler is a "DEI princess," and that the movie caters to cringe left identitarianism. The long-in-the-works movie, most of which was shot in 2022, has been embroiled in online controversy for years, and most of the complaints were made by people who hadn't seen the movie. But I have. And the movie is indeed a trainwreck. The problem isn't that it's woke. It's that it's awful—and lamely, bluntly socialist.