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Bot Students Siphon Millions in Financial Aid from US Community Colleges
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Voice of San Diego
Fraud rings using fake "bot" students have infiltrated America's community colleges, stealing over $11 million from California's system alone in 2024. The nationwide scheme, which began in 2021, targets open-admission institutions where scammers enroll fictitious students in online courses to collect financial aid disbursements. "We didn't used to have to decide if our students were human," said Eric Maag, who has taught at Southwestern College for 21 years. Faculty now spend hours vetting suspicious enrollees and analyzing AI-generated assignments.

Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Independent
...or lose Trump trade deal. Sir Keir Starmer must embrace Donald Trump’s agenda by repealing hate speech laws in order to get a trade deal over the line, a Washington source has told The Independent. The warning came after the US vice-president suggested a UK-US agreement may be close, with the White House “working very hard” on it. He told UnHerd: “I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of both countries.”

Ghana, Elderly Women Accused of Witchcraft and Sorcery Face Attacks
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CBS News
The West African nation of Ghana is living a literal witch hunt: hundreds of elderly women suspected of witchcraft and sorcery are facing violent reprisals that can escalate to lynching and murder. Amnesty International asked Monday (14) for the Ghanaian government to criminalize these accusations and the ritual attacks. Back in 2023, the parliament passed legislation that made it a criminal offense ‘to declare, accuse, name or label someone as a witch’ but the bill is yet to be signed into law. [Ed: cherish the Western attitude toward women and reason.]

WA Dem lawmakers use 'unprecedented abuse of power'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The New York Post
...to shut down debate, pass bill to gut parental rights. “This is bigger than one bill. It’s about whether the people’s voice matters. Right now, House Democrats are making sure it doesn’t.” The controversy centers on a procedural rule change implemented by House Democrats earlier this session, eliminating a 132-year-old provision dating back to 1893. That rule had required a two-thirds supermajority to cut off debate on bills or amendments. Under the new rule, a simple majority is now enough to end discussion, granting the majority party significantly more control over floor proceedings. Republicans argue that Democrats used this new authority to suppress debate on amendments tied to the high-profile parental rights bill, including one that would have removed the emergency clause—effectively blocking any potential public referendum. “The debate on the amendment was about whether the people’s voice matters,” Corry said. “House Democrats have made it crystal clear: they don’t trust or value the will of the people.”

Trump Orders IRS to Draw Up Plans to Rescind Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CNN News
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices. A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said.

Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Epstein Client Lists
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Judicial Watch
“Simply put, the Justice Department needs to respond to public demands for transparency under law and release the Epstein files under FOIA,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records regarding Jeffrey Epstein, including any records on the identities of clients or associates of Epstein (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-01056)). Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department after it failed to adequately respond to four separate FOIA requests for records concerning Jeffrey Epstein, including a specific request for records “depicting the identities of clients or associates of Jeffrey Epstein.”

Trump Launches Investigation Into Colleges Over Transgender Fencing Scandal
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Wire
'The nation watched as a female competitor bravely took a knee ... after discovering that her opponent was a male.' A special administration task force formed by President Donald Trump has launched investigations into the University of Maryland and Wagner College after they failed to protect a female athlete penalized for refusing to compete against a male who identifies as a female, The Daily Wire can first report. The Title IX Special Investigations Team — a joint Education Department and Justice Department project — launched a directed investigation Monday into the University of Maryland over allegations that it not only allowed a male athlete to compete in the women’s category of the USA Fencing Tournament, but also allowed that male athlete to use women’s-only intimate facilities.

Marriage Crisis: Japan’s Birth Rate Falls To Record Low Despite $25B Gov Intervention
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Wire
The number of annual marriages on the island nation dipped below 500,000 for the first time in 90 years in 2023. Japan’s population plummeted for the 14th year in a row in 2024, declining by nearly 900,000 people despite massive government spending aimed at encouraging childbirth. New data released on Monday by Japan’s Internal Affairs Ministry shows the number of Japanese nationals declining by 898,000, marking the steepest annual decline since authorities began keeping records in the 1950s.

Hungary Passes Constitutional Amendment To Ban Public LGBTQ+ Events
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: AP News
Hungary’s parliament on Monday passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics call another step toward authoritarianism by the populist government. The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines with 140 votes for and 21 against. It was proposed by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition led by populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

UK's top court says legal definition of woman refers to biological sex
Topic: Women's Health
Source: Reuters
The United Kingdom's highest court ruled on Wednesday that the definition of a woman under equality legislation referred to "biological sex", but it said trans people would not be disadvantaged by its landmark decision. The Supreme Court's judgment related to whether a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate, a formal document that gives legal recognition of someone's new gender, is protected from discrimination as a woman under Britain's Equality Act.

Top Ukrainian Official Backs Conscription For Women: Apply 'Israeli Model'
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Zero Hedge
Armed forces of Ukraine has "a lot of different jobs"... Ukrainian leaders continue to brainstorm ways to replenish the military's ranks, amid slow but steady gains by Russian forces along frontlines in Donetsk. Casualties on either side are believed to be in the hundreds of thousands, as the tragic conflict grinds on endlessly. The Ukrainian presidential administration's deputy head, Col. Pavel Palisa, has this week raised eyebrows by backing mandatory conscription for women while citing the Israeli model. Palisa advanced the idea that military service should be a national obligation for all men and women, and this is where current discussions on recruitment should focus.

HHS Wants You to Snitch About Gender-Affirming Care
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Erin in the Morning
Tips on providers can now be sent in. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), run by famed vaccine skeptic and legacy hire Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has launched an online portal for “whistleblowers” reporting medical providers if they offer gender affirming treatment to trans people—an alarming escalation of President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on trans people’s health care.

Cultural Factors Drive 'Disproportionate' Crime Among Migrant Groups
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Remix News
...says Renowned Swiss Psychiatrist. “Afghans are reported more than five times, Moroccans more than eight times, and Tunisians more than nine times more often than Swiss nationals for serious violent crimes.” Following the release of his new book, The Dark Sides of Migration, Swiss forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok has called for European asylum policy to finally take migrant crime statistics into account, claiming that certain migrant groups are “disproportionately criminal” due to cultural factors.

Hundreds of International Student Visas Abruptly Revoked
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Associated Press
Students shocked by unexpected revocations allege unjust visa terminations. At least 600 students across 90 colleges have been affected, but advocacy groups say the true number could be hundreds more. Students in several states are suing, accusing the Trump administration of denying them due process, including four students in Michigan who report getting little or no explanation as to why their visas were being abruptly revoked. Some of the email notifications listed a "criminal records check" as the reason, but none of the impacted students had been charged or convicted of any crimes, their attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union says. Some of them had minor infractions, such as speeding or parking tickets, while others had none, he says.

Jury selection to begin in Harvey Weinstein's retrial
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Euronews
Seven years after allegations against him first emerged, Harvey Weinstein is back in court. But even if the retrial ends in not guilty verdicts, the disgraced movie mogul will remain behind bars at Rikers Island. The last time a New York City jury sat in judgment of Harvey Weinstein, the ex-movie studio boss was convicted of rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Five years later, that landmark #MeToo verdict is gone - wiped away on appeal - and Weinstein is set to go on trial again, beginning today with jury selection.

Harvard in the news
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Gilbert Doctorow
who is right in the confrontation between the university and Donald Trump? Cooptation of [Harvard by] the outlying majority (women) and minorities (people of color) came in spurts. Like so much social engineering, it was in a great hurry and the principle of meritocracy applied initially yielded to the overriding principle of inclusiveness. In that sense, one can draw a straight line from the 1960s to our presidential elections in the 21st century when voting for a black or for a woman has come to outweigh merit. More generally, those social engineering experiments at Harvard of our day have led to the overthrow of traditional Judeo-Christian values in a headlong rush towards globalization and Davos culture. Like it or hate it, our Harvard was out front in shaping the Political Correctness of today.

Aboriginal men are murdered and missing far more than aboriginal women.
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: The National Post
A proper inquiry would explore both. The RCMP's refusal to compile data is a shocking abdication of responsibility — perhaps worthy of a Charter challenge. Canadian society is witnessing a large-scale and highly vocal campaign to draw attention to the fate of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Calls for a full-scale government inquiry reverberate in our politics, mass media, universities and public debate. And the Conservative government has been assailed for dismissing these calls on grounds that most of the murders of aboriginal women are committed by aboriginal men, usually their partners. We know who killed them, say the Conservatives, so we don’t need an inquiry. The problem for a longtime leftie like me is that this argument is largely correct, even though Stephen Harper says it is.

The story about boys online that Adolescence misses
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Washington Examiner
Less than a month after its Netflix debut, the limited series Adolescence is already influencing public debate on internet safety and the troubling role of social media in young people’s lives. The four-episode drama follows a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a female classmate. As the story unfolds, we learn this innocent-looking child was immersed in the misogynistic world of the online “manosphere” — a dark subculture of male influencers that glorifies dominance, control, and hatred toward women. Netflix has announced that it will make the series available to screen for free in secondary schools across the United Kingdom, a move that earned praise from Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The Left now thinks that women are physically stronger than men
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
If you have a young daughter, here’s some advice. Drive to a remote location and leave her in the woods for a few weeks. She could emerge as the next Olympic athlete — and smoke LeBron James in basketball. That’s the thinking behind The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body, a forthcoming book by Starre Vartan. It argues that women are actually the psychically stronger sex, but that culture brainwashes them to think they are weak. It’s a nonsense argument that the Left and the media are going to love. Expect to see Vartan on CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times.