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Actor Rob Schneider brings star power to lawsuit
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
,,,demanding UC Berkeley comply with records request. Actor Rob Schneider is lending his star power to a new lawsuit filed against the University of California, Berkeley, demanding the public institution hand over documents pertaining to a Turning Point USA event last November that faced aggressive protests. The event took place two months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated and featured Schneider, but it was preceded with protests filled with mayhem, as demonstrators banged against barriers, set off a smoke grenade, and screamed at attendees waiting in line. “I am suing the University @CalBerkeley for violating Free Speech,” the actor and comedian stated in a post on X on Thursday. In a video accompanying the post, he said “unfortunately the university allowed Antifa rioters to interfere with our event, to prevent people from entering.”

Second ‘Detransitioner’ Wins Settlement for Life-Altering Double Mastectomy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Benjamin Ryan
Camille Kiefel sued the two Oregon mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped for her a referral letter for a mastectomy after a single telehealth appointment. The malpractice lawsuit, in which Ms. Kiefel, 36, sought $3.5 million, had been set to enter what would have been a historic jury trial in the Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon, in January. But the parties entered a confidential settlement just days before the trial was slated to begin.

Mifepristone Returns to the Shadow Docket UPDATE
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Drug makers seek interim relief after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocks FDA rule allowing mifepristone prescriptions via telemedicine. In 2023, the Supreme Court stayed a district court order undoing the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone (aka RU-486), a medication used (in combination with misoprostol) to terminate pregnancies. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had partially stayed the district court's decision, but had left portions that would have restricted mifepristone's availability in place. One year later the case returned to the Supreme Court, only to be dismissed unanimously due to a lack of Article III standing in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. UPDATE Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito on Monday issued an order pausing a ruling that would restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone amid an appeal by the manufacturer.

Connecticut lawmakers pass bill to ban female genital mutilation
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Connecticut Post
The ritual mutilation of female genitals could result in five years in prison and $5,000 fines under legislation that took years to finally win approval in the Connecticut General Assembly, when the House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday night. The legislation, which recently won a 36-0 vote in the state Senate, next heads to Gov. Ned Lamont's desk for review. If signed into law, Connecticut would become the 42nd state to enact criminal penalties for female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision.

UN says Israel’s death penalty law perpetuates ‘racial discrimination’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Andolu Agency
Statement urges Israel to end policies, practices that amount to racial discrimination against, segregation of Palestinians. Israel’s newly adopted death penalty law perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians and amounts to a grave erosion of human rights, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said Friday. CERD expressed alarm about the law mandates, and urged Israel to immediately repeal it. "Those courts have exclusive jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while Israeli citizens and residents are explicitly excluded from its application," it said in a statement.

Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix
Over Forced Marriage Plot. Italian police say the 52-year-old demanded his daughter marry a Kurdish man chosen by the family and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. The 52-year-old man was tracked down by Taranto State Police after the authorities in southern Italy opened an investigation into domestic abuse and forced marriage following a complaint from the young woman last November. As reported by Il Giornale, prosecutors say the victim told officers her father had demanded she marry a Kurdish man selected by him and had threatened her with death if she resisted or tried to flee abroad. [Ed: it is important to recognize how destructive some cultural attitudes are to Western values and women's safety/rights.]

Texas sues schools for not displaying 10 Commandments
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: News Nation
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing two school districts for “openly refusing” to display donated copies of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms, a new state requirement. The lawsuit was filed against Round Rock Independent School District Leander Independent School District. “These rogue ISD officials and board members blatantly disregarded the will of Texas voters who expect the legal and moral heritage of our state to be displayed in accordance with the law,” Paxton’s office said in a news release. “Round Rock ISD and Leander ISD chose to defy a clear statutory mandate, and this lawsuit makes clear that no district may ignore Texas law without consequence.”

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hospitalized In Critical Condition
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Iranian human rights activist, remains in critical condition in a hospital in Zanjan, northwestern Iran, after collapsing in prison last week with severe cardiac distress. She was transferred by ambulance to the local hospital’s coronary care unit on Friday, May 1, 2026, following repeated episodes of loss of consciousness, extreme chest pain, and blood pressure fluctuations, the NY Times reports.

Education watchdog files Title IX complaint over UW's gender-inclusive policies
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
The central claim alleges the university is violating Title IX protections for women by refusing to give female students access to single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms. The Center Square) - A national parental rights and education watchdog group has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the University of Washington for “forcing” women to use bathrooms with men. Defending Education sent the 11-page complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Thursday. The central claim alleges the university is violating Title IX protections for women by refusing to give female students access to single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

Ernst seeks DOJ probe into $90M Planned Parenthood PPP loans
Topic: Abortion
Source: MSN
Sen. Joni Ernst alleges the Biden administration forgave over $90 million in COVID-era PPP loans to ineligible Planned Parenthood affiliates and concealed the transactions using the codeword “Benghazi.” She has requested a Department of Justice investigation into potential Federal Records Act violations, citing internal SBA emails as evidence. The dispute underscores ongoing tensions over pandemic relief oversight, transparency, and political accountability.

Canada, Push to Recruit Migrants into Military is Diasaster
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: National Pulse
According to the report, one training platoon consisted of 83 percent immigrants, leading to cultural and ethnic clashes, such as tensions between recruits from Cameroon and the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire). Many recruits failed to complete basic training, with fewer than half graduating. There were serious challenges in integrating recruits with little prior exposure to Western cultural norms, including respect for women and submitting to military discipline. KEY QUOTE: “For many candidates, it is the first time they have lived with members of a different sex, and for some, it is also the first time they have been expected to treat women as their peers.”

Drugmaker asks US Supreme Court to restore abortion pill access
Topic: Abortion
Source: Lebanon Democrat
A key manufacturer of the United States' most widely used abortion pill asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to restore access to the drug, a day after a lower court halted mail delivery of the medication. Mifepristone, which prevents pregnancy progression, is used alongside misoprostol, which empties the uterus, in the majority of abortions in the United States. It is approved for use up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy. Danco Laboratories, which manufactures mifepristone and is one of two companies distributing the drug in the United States, asked the top court to stay a Friday decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that temporarily blocked abortion providers from prescribing and shipping the drug nationwide.

$25 Minimum Wage Now with a Side of Justice and Equity
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Victory Girls Blog
...it feels like we’re still operating off the same post-George Floyd framework. Not a New Idea, Just a Bigger Number.
The federal minimum wage is still $7.25 and hasn’t moved in years, so of course this was going to come up again. States have already gone higher in a lot of places. But jumping to $25 federally is a different kind of move, especially when it’s being packaged as someting bigger than just a pay increase. And it’s not just a fringe idea. It’s all aboard for the progressive Democrats.

Is ‘Mission-Aligned Selection’ the New Workaround for Race-Based Admissions?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Do No Harm Medicine
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is changing the language it uses to refer to its preferred admissions strategies, potentially offering a fig leaf to medical education programs intent on engaging in ideologically motivated or racial admissions policies. Previously, the AAMC had touted the admissions practice of “holistic review,” which prioritizes softer attributes such as personal background and deemphasizes objective measurements of merit and academic aptitude. But, as Do No Harm has shown, many medical schools that promote holistic review are also admitting minority students at much higher rates than a merit-only review process would typically produce. Specifically, some of these students are less academically qualified than their peers. This raises questions about whether these schools are using holistic review to engage in racial discrimination. It is especially troubling as the AAMC was long a proponent of racial preferences in admissions, even submitting a brief to the Supreme Court to argue that the practice should continue.

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell's Anti-Communist Classic
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Hollywood twisted the story into an attack on capitalism, ignoring the book's stark warnings about left-wing collectivist ideology... Animal Farm, first published in 1945, is a tale specifically written as an allegory for the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Soviet Communism. Despite the characters being talking animals, the themes are dark and disturbing. It is a story about the naivety of the "underclass", the exploitation of the "have-nots" by communists seeking to use gullible people as weapons against their "imperialist" and capitalist enemies. It is a grotesque tragedy composed like a children's novel, which makes it all the more effective. It destroys the notion of "equity" and exposes the truth: There is no such thing as a socialist Utopia, there can only ever be socialist dystopia. And to get it, leftists are happy to sacrifice you and everything you love. Not only that, but they expect you to applaud them for it.

EU Wages Censorship Jihad on Social Media Emojis
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Armageddon Prose
Unsatisfied with merely censoring words, or combination of words, the current overlords of the continent and civilization that birthed the concept of free speech, in their endless quest for totalitarian control over hearts and minds, have moved on to combating problematic emojis.

The rise of the rainbow-haired killer
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Wilfred Reilly on the plots to kill Trump, the SPLC’s hate hoaxes and why so many mass shooters are trans. Wilfred Reilly – author of Hate Crime Hoax – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Wilfred and Brendan discuss the violent radicalisation of the American left, how ‘anti-racists’ fund the KKK and how woke is being rebranded. PODCAST

The Epstein mania turns lethal
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
No doubt we’ll learn more about the motives of Cole Allen, the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, during future court proceedings. But his rambling ‘manifesto’, emailed to family members minutes before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, gives us a good idea of what was driving him. ‘I am a citizen of the United States of America’, he writes. ‘What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a paedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’ That’s right, Allen believes that the US president is a paedophile and a rapist. Yes, there are also critical but vague allusions to US foreign policy in Allen’s missive. But it’s the distinctly Epstein Files-inspired claim that Trump and ‘many other criminals in this administration’ have been engaged in the sexual abuse of minors that is used to seemingly justify Allen’s actions.

Trans 'Animal Farm' star says keeping men out of women's sports is 'genocide'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
[Ed: the Left is becoming stranger by the second.] “At the heart of every genocide is dehumanization [and] when we stop seeing our fellow citizens as human, then we can commit violence against them with impunity, take away their rights." Cox, who appears in the upcoming film Animal Farm, made the remarks during a red carpet interview for the movie.