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Friday a Big Test for Amazon's $75M Bet on Melania Trump
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Market Watch
One film sure to draw much attention upon its release on Friday will be Melania, a documentary about first lady Melania Trump's return to the White House. The film from Amazon MGM Studios will actually debut Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, newly rebranded as the Trump Kennedy Center, but the industry will be closely following opening weekend numbers after that. MarketWatch reports that it's expected to be shown in about 2,000 theaters in the US and 5,000 worldwide, but the details are under wraps.

Detransitioner was only 12 yrs old when doctors began her medical transition
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Blaze
Detransitioner Chloe Cole joined BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales at AMFEST to expose what she calls the medical abuse behind youth gender transitions — and why the damage is permanent. “I speak on behalf of this community of people who have been harmed and then ignored by our own doctors who harmed us. The detransitioners, people who have been through the gender transition process and gone through the medical parts and then came back out of it embracing the way that God has beautifully created us,” Cole told Gonzales. “I was only 12 when they started putting me down this route ...

Michael Knowles BLASTS Dylan Mulvaney and woke theater
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...in new interview with Libby Emmons. Editor-in-Chief of The Post Millennial Libby Emmons and Michael Knowles sat down for the first episode of The Pod Millennial, where they spoke about how woke culture has entered the theater, highlighting how the casting of Dylan Mulvaney in the Broadway musical “Six” as Anne Boleyn. Emmons, addressing the show’s casting of Mulvaney as one of the female characters, said, "What they've got now is this new casting choice where they have cast Dylan Mulvaney, the trans sensation of ‘Days of Girlhood,’ who is going to be playing Anne Boleyn. The show won Tony a few years ago. And of course, Dylan Mulvaney's 'Days of Girlhood was a big splash for everybody. I don't know if you win Emmys for TikTok series. But he definitely got a trip to the White House to tell Joe Biden all about how important it is to trans kids. Now he's playing this on Broadway, and I'm super interested to know what you think about this.”

Nearly 1/3 of kids can’t use books when starting school
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Sky News
– and try to swipe them like phones. Staff also report around 28% of children started school unable to eat and drink independently, and 25% had difficulty with basic life skills. In an annual survey of primary school staff by early years charity Kindred Squared, teachers estimated 26% of the children in their reception class this year were having frequent toilet mishaps, rising to more than one in three (36%) in the North East. Over half of staff said children's and parents' excessive screentime was a key factor in children not being ready for school.

Arab-American Muslim Woman's Discrimination Claim Can Go Forward
Topic: Unspecified
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
...Over Cancellation of Law Firm Job Offer for Statements Related to October 7 Actions. Moynihan personally described that Chehade is "a vocal and active supporter of the Palestinian movement," that she "seems to encourage and advocate for others to resist and not through peaceful means," and that she "does not appear to be sympathetic to the loss of life in Israel." Despite Moynihan's strong statement, Eileen Ridley, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Partner, stated her preference was "to let [Chehade] start and have a conversation with her." Foley's Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Alexis Robertson, was also in favor of Chehade starting work as planned. Patton's notes from speaking with Robertson stated: "we have tolerated other harmful rhetoric in the past." Foley changed course on October 21.

EU probes Elon Musk’s X following Grok sexual images
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Politico.EU
European Commission’s move follows explosion of sexually explicit deepfakes of women and children. The Commission will decide whether X met EU requirements to protect users when it integrated Grok into the social media platform and its underlying algorithm. X is already under investigation on several fronts under the EU’s Digital Services Act, which regulates social media platforms, and was in December fined €120 million for lapses in transparency. Penalties can reach up to 6 percent of X’s annual global revenue.

Pediatricians Break With CDC on Vaccine Schedule
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN News
American Academy of Pediatrics urges broader child immunizations than revised CDC schedule. The Department of Health and Human Services is standing by the CDC's changes, saying the revised lineup "continues to protect children against serious diseases while aligning U.S. guidance with international norms." A spokeswoman accused the AAP of being upset that the CDC "eliminated corporate influence" when it replaced members of a key vaccine advisory panel with new members including an anti-vaccine activist. The AAP, representing about 67,000 pediatricians, calls vaccines a proven shield against preventable disease; 27 states and Washington, DC, have already said they won't fully adopt the CDC's new childhood schedule, according to health policy group KFF. CNN reports that the CDC schedule was long considered the nation's guide to vaccinations but many doctors are now opting for the AAP's version. "The science hasn't changed," says Dr. Claudia Hoyen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland. "We will continue to follow the science."

Infant vaccination mortality paper censored by platform
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
...that welcomes pre-peer review research. Preprints.org, operated by open-access publisher MDPI, cited its "withdrawal policy" as a whole, but no specific reason, for removing the paper by Children's Health Defense researchers. They found worse risks by race and sex. Twelve years after a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted through his lawyers to withholding a "statistically significant finding" on black babies from his peer-reviewed study finding no link between autism and vaccination, a preprint server that hosts research before peer review erased a study that also found a racial vaccination link.

‘Mr. President, it’s now time’
Topic: Abortion
Source: CNN News
As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that would achieve a key goal of its allies in the anti-abortion movement by ending the availability of abortion pills by mail. The lawsuit, brought by Louisiana against the President Donald Trump-appointed health officials, is one of several pressure points the anti-abortion movement is pressing to push the administration to limit access to medication abortion, which now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States.

Americans Pay Over a Billion $ a Year to Subsidize Illegal Aliens’ College Education
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Judicial Watch
Although a 30-year-old federal law prohibits giving illegal aliens discounted in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, 22 states and the District of Columbia still do it and the cost to American taxpayers is over a billion dollars annually. In an effort to force the violators to stop offering undocumented students the pricey benefit, a U.S. senator has introduced a bill (Put American Students First Act) to specifically prevent any alien who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence from obtaining in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education. The proposed measure notes that section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 already bans states from granting discounted tuition and fees to students not lawfully present in the U.S. simply because they live—albeit illegally—in that state unless the same rates are also offered to citizens of the United States regardless of residence.

Post-Roe battle over abortion pills reaches Kentucky gas stations
Topic: Abortion
Source: FOX News
KY Attorney General Russell Coleman issues subpoenas to gas stations running Mayday Health ads targeting 'vulnerable' residents. With the March for Life marking nearly three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Kentucky has launched an investigation into out-of-state groups advertising mail-order abortion pills, citing a post-Dobbs law that bans the drugs’ delivery into the state. The march's organizers now see new meaning in their annual demonstration following the landmark Dobbs decision, and states around the country are taking sides on whether abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," as then-President Bill Clinton put it, or liberally permitted or strictly prohibited. In Kentucky, lawmakers responded by passing House Bill 3 in 2022, banning the mailing or delivery of abortion-inducing drugs.

Fla. Black Democrats decry state’s stance on affirmative action
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Jax Today
Calling it an attack on people of color, House and Senate Democrats on Thursday decried a legal memo issued this week by Attorney General James Uthmeier that said numerous affirmative action laws are discriminatory. “Racial discrimination is wrong. It is also unconstitutional,” he wrote. Uthmeier’s memo, issued Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, said state laws giving preferences to minorities or requiring quotas are racially discriminatory. The attorney general said he would refuse to “defend or enforce” such laws.

Trump administration announces expansion of 'Mexico City' aid restrictions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: NBC News
...to include DEI and gender. The Trump administration will expand the "Mexico City" policy that restricts U.S. aid to foreign organizations that provide or promote abortions to include advocates of "radical gender ideologies" and diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Vice President JD Vance announced Friday at the March for Life.

“Go ICE”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
[Ed: this is not a pro or anti-ICE issue; it is about freedom of speech.] Some of us in the free speech community have been writing about the hypocrisy of many in the media and academia suddenly championing free speech values after years of silence (or support) over censorship of conservatives, libertarians, and contrarians. A good example can be found in the Chicago area, where a physical education teacher is on administrative leave and faces possible termination after posting two words (“Go ICE”) on Facebook in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Local leaders and groups are demanding that he be fired, even though a posting opposing ICE would likely have been heralded rather than condemned.

Failing French Pres. Macron Wants To Ban Under-15 Kids From Social Media
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Gateway Pundit
A failing lame-duck President polling in the 16-18% range, fresh from the historic low of 11% approval, he needs some issue that will help him back into the good graces of the French voters who don’t trust him, and believe he has been a failure as head of state. Usually, Macron tries to find it in ‘global warming’, but that con is not working anymore – so he tried to be a ‘warrior leader’ meddling in Ukraine, and lately sent an astonishing 15 soldiers from the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade to Greenland. What a Napoleon, right? Now, it appears that ‘Le Petit Roi’ has found a new cause that can make him appear in a positive light for part of the French society.

Western feminists are worse than useless for Iranian women’
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Spiked Online
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the ‘progressive’ handmaidens of Islamist misogyny. As many as 30,000 protesters may have been killed by Iranian security services earlier this month, on 8 and 9 January alone. This was an unprecedented display of brutality, even by the standards of the Islamic Republic. Even more striking still has been the muted response in the West. Anti-government protesters are fighting for freedom, democracy and against religious tyranny. Many of those bravely battling against the regime are women, desperate to overthrow harsh Islamic strictures, including forced veiling. So where is the solidarity from Western ‘feminists’ and ‘progressives’?

New Woke Star Trek "Starfleet Academy" Series Is Embarrassing Critical Failure
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Hollywood refuses to learn. Woke politics do not sell, not today and not in the 32nd Century.... The charm of Star Trek as a concept is that the franchise offers a relatively positive vision of humanity's future rather than the predictable doomsday scenarios that have saturated television for decades. Setting aside the show's strange ties to the RAND Corporation and Gene Rodenberry's pandering to the United Nations, Star Trek essentially imagines a civilization in which the politics of today have become irrelevant and humans have moved on to the stars.

Shakespeare Was A Black Jewish Woman – Claims Feminist Historian
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Sceptic
"Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash..." One of the positive sides to radical feminist historical scholarship is the opportunity to learn about revelations that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The latest is that William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman” according to a new book covered in the Telegraph.

Will Trump’s DHS ‘Zone Out’ the First Amendment?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James Bovard
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday called for Minneapolis to “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights and do so peacefully.” Since 9/11, “free speech zones” have been one of the biggest constitutional shams around. Both major political parties have used “free speech zone” restrictions to seek to silence dissent. As I wrote in 2004 in The Baltimore Sun, the Democratic National Convention that year was downright bizarre...