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Trump Makes Harvard Freeze Total
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: USA Today
McMahon tells university it won't receive grants in the future, either, unless demands are met. Education Secretary Linda McMahon informed Harvard on Monday that the university will receive no new federal grants until it meets the Trump administration's demands. The administration already froze $2.2 billion in federal research grants, and President Trump said he wants to pull the school's tax-exempt status. "Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the federal government, since none will be provided," McMahon wrote to university President Alan Garber, USA Today reports. "Harvard will cease to be a publicly funded institution, and can instead operate as a privately-funded institution, drawing on its colossal endowment, and raising money from its large base of wealthy alumni."

Trump Administration Makes Surprise Move on Mifepristone
Topic: Abortion
Source: CBS News
In a perhaps surprising move from the Trump administration, the Department of Justice is continuing a legal course first plotted by the Biden administration in a case involving the abortion drug mifepristone. As CBS News reports, when the Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling in favor of the abortion pill last year in this case, three states (Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho) were able to revive the case. The states claimed the US Food and Drug Administration's easing of restrictions on the drug (allowing it to be prescribed via telemedicine and distributed via mail) was illegal, Reuters reports. Justice Department attorneys on Monday asked a federal district court to dismiss the lawsuit, thus continuing the Biden administration's legal course in the case, the AP reports.

Russell Brand Makes First Court Appearance in Criminal Rape Case,
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Vanity Fair
While Tucker Carlson Asks Trump to “Rescue” Him. Tucker Carlson has asked Donald Trump to grant Brand asylum in the US, saying "Britain is no longer a free country." A month after he was charged with five criminal counts including rape, indecent assault, oral rape, and sexual assault, Russell Brand made his first appearance in UK court Friday. The British comedian/actor turned conspiracy-focused social media star was released on conditional bail at the end of the proceedings, and was instructed to return to court at the end of the month. The same day, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson tweeted support for Brand, and begged president Donald Trump to intervene on the alleged rapist's behalf.

A guide to the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CNN
The federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will begin this week. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, transportation to engage in prostitution and sex trafficking. If convicted on all counts, he could face up to life in prison. The embattled music mogul has been in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn since his September 2024 arrest.

NIH investigates Biden last-minute $89 billion grant
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
...to ‘seemingly dormant’ University of California nonprofit. Nonprofit founded in 2022, never raised nor spent a dime. The National Institutes of Health will look into an $89 billion, 25-year grant awarded to the Alliance for Advancing Biomedical Research in the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration. The nonprofit “operate[s] exclusively for the benefit of” the University of California system, according to its tax filings.

Afghanistan: Taliban restrictions on women’s rights intensify
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: UN News
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have followed through on decrees aimed at erasing women from public life in the country and restricting their freedom of movement, the UN mission to the country (UNAMA) said in its latest human rights report published on Thursday covering the first quarter of 2025.

A father battles Canada’s suicide machine
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Unherd
His autistic daughter has been cleared for MAiD. On 31 January, 2024, Wade was running out of time. He had tried everything to persuade his 28-year-old daughter, Marge, that she could get better. But Marge had been scheduled to die by assisted suicide at 2 p.m. the next day at the family’s home in Alberta, Canada. He was horrified. Marge was autistic, vulnerable, and had no diagnosed physical illness. Her autism made her different from her peers — and lonely, no doubt — but Wade knew this was no reason to terminate a young life.

At Weinstein Trial, Judge Uses Gavel for First Time in 13 Years
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
'He was the one who raped me ... He did that': accuser, in contentious spat with defense lawyer One of Harvey Weinstein's accusers broke down in tears and cursed on the witness stand on Friday as a defense lawyer questioned her account of the former Hollywood mogul forcing oral sex on her nearly two decades ago. "He was the one who raped me, not the other way around," Miriam Haley told jurors, per the AP. "That is for the jury to decide," Weinstein lawyer Jennifer Bonjean responded. "No, it's not for the jury to decide. It's my experience. And he did that to me," Haley said, using expletives as tears began streaming down her face. At that point, Judge Curtis Farber halted questioning and sent jurors on a break. Haley, her eyes red and face glistening, didn't look at Weinstein as she left the witness stand.

One Country Just Banned Trans Athletes From Competing in Women’s Soccer
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Townhall
England. Men who think they are “transgender women” will no longer be permitted to play on women’s soccer teams in England going forward, the sports governing body said on Thursday. Reportedly, The Football Association amended its rules that allowed athletes to compete corresponding to their so-called “gender identity”

Dark Woke
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Intelligencer
It’s official — the cringiest Democratic phrase of 2025 is “dark woke.” Brat Summer, indeed, is over. No need to hear aging pundits contemplating the nature of Brat and what it all might mean for a British pop star to casually endorse Kamala Harris. Brat, with its bright, irreverent greens, is last year’s aesthetic. Now it’s all about dark woke, which is, if the media coverage is to be believed, all about Democrats cursing. “It’s an attempt to step outside the bounds of the political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing,” the New York Times recently reported. “And it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point.”

‘Protect the Dolls’ is trans activism at its creepiest
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The celeb-fronted t-shirt campaign unwittingly reveals the weird misogyny of the gender cult. When Tilda Swinton and a host of lesser-known fashion and showbiz faces (I had personally never heard of Pedro Pascal or Troye Sivan) put on one of these hilariously over-priced garments – £75! – and smiled self-servingly for the cameras, did they have no inkling of how the use of the word ‘dolls’ would play? Not after all the years when we gender realists declared so many times that women are born, not made? That ‘female’ is not a costume you can wear in the way that Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs wore the skins of his victims?

Trans women aren’t legally women: What the UK Supreme Court ruling means
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Al Jazeera
The ruling concluded a long-running dispute between feminist advocacy groups and the Scottish government. The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” refer to a “biological woman and biological sex” under UK equality laws, bringing a long-running court battle between feminist groups and the government of Scotland to an end. Wednesday’s ruling is expected to have far-reaching consequences for policies on whether and how spaces and services reserved for women should be extended to include “trans women” – those born male who have transitioned socially or medically or who identify as women – such as changing rooms, domestic violence shelters and medical services.

Why ‘Conservative Feminism’ Is A Total Lie
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Daily Wire
[Ed: I disagree...but I like to present decent arguments whenever I find them.] Feminism is not compatible with any meaningful definition of conservatism. Whatever conservatism is trying to conserve — like marriage, the family, western civilization itself — feminism militates against. And yet many feminists have become mouthpieces in the movement, and are accepted as such, as long as they wear a MAGA hat and say that they don’t like illegal immigration or whatever.

When Good Academics Do Bad Things
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college. As anyone who’s been around a Canadian university in the last decade or so will know, most of the material contained in courses such as Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy doesn’t actually consist of practical insights into how to go about the day-to-day job of working in Indigenous communities. Instead, there’s an enormous focus on academic jargon and faddish abstract concepts lifted from American campuses—such as intersectionality, privilege hierarchies, critical studies, anti-capitalism, and, yes, decolonisation.

Denounced, Cursed, and Ghosted: What Harvard’s Antisemitism Report Found
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Free Press
Harvard University released its long-overdue report on campus antisemitism exactly 10 days after Trump officials demanded to see it. The findings are disturbing. Nearly 60 percent of Jewish students at Harvard said they had experienced “discrimination, stereotyping, or negative bias on campus due to [their] views on current events,” according to the 311-page report. The report said that 73 percent of Jewish students expressed discomfort sharing their political opinions, while 75 percent believed there was an “academic or professional penalty” for expressing their views at Harvard.

How idea of charging women with murder infiltrated the anti-abortion movement
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Abolitionists’ have migrated out of the fringes and moved toward the center of movement alongside Republicans’ penchant for punishment. So far this year, lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation that would treat fetuses as people and leave women who have abortions vulnerable to being charged with homicide – a charge that, in several of these states, carries the death penalty. Once seen as politically toxic, this kind of legislation has become more popular in the years since Roe v Wade fell, erasing the national right to abortion. This likely comes as no surprise to Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law and one of the foremost commentators on the US abortion wars. The anti-abortion movement, she writes in her new book Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, has really “always been a fetal-personhood movement” – one that is so emboldened, it is increasingly unconcerned with public opinion or even democratic norms.

Leftists Declare It 'Frightening' That "Children Will Be Taught To Love America"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
[Ed: well in fairness, there's a lot not to love right now. But it was conceived in a wonderful manner. In final analysis, how about letting children make up their own minds?] Deputy Chief Of Staff Stephen Miller gave a press conference Thursday in which he outlined how “Cancerous, Communist Woke Culture” will be kept out of taxpayer funded schools and instead “Children will be taught to love America.”

ESG Is Coming for Your Candy Bars
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
As climate and equity proposals lose steam, activist investors are targeting junk food, soda, and alcohol in the name of corporate responsibility. Once a Wall Street buzzword, ESG—Environmental, Social, and Governance—has become a political flashpoint and a corporate headache. Investor enthusiasm for ESG is clearly waning. The Manhattan Institute's Proxy Monitor project has tracked such proposals for years. In 2024, it found that zero environmental or social policy proposals received majority shareholder support at Fortune 250 companies. But that doesn't mean ESG is going away. Instead, it's evolving—and its next battleground could be your favorite candy bar or soda.

Another Lia Thomas?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Townhall
A Transgender Swimmer Crushed the Competition at a Championship Event. A so-called “transgender athlete” reportedly “obliterated” the competition in five races a national swimming championship, according to the New York Post. The athlete, Ana Caldas, reportedly dominated the five individual events he entered in the women’s 45-49 age group division in the U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship. This occurred in San Antonio, Texas. “A man who goes by the name Ana swam five events at the U.S. Masters Swimming National Championship,” women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines wrote on X. “He won them all.”