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Sad reason world’s second-largest city has shut all schools
Topic: Children and Family
Source: News.au
The world’s second-largest city has closed its schools as it faces a dangerous health crisis. In-person classes had already ceased at primary schools in India’s capital New Delhi last week and as of Monday, the order has been expanded. “With the imposition of GRAP-4 from tmrw (tomorrow), physical classes shall be discontinued for all students, apart from Class 10 and 12,” Chief Minister Atishi, who uses one name, wrote on X late on Sunday. “All schools will hold online classes, until further orders.”

Judge Strikes Down Wyoming's Anti-Abortion Laws
Topic: Abortion
Source: Cowboy State Daily
State can appeal the decision to its highest court. A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights. Since 2022, Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens has ruled consistently three times to block the laws while they were disputed in court. The decision marks another victory for abortion rights advocates after voters in seven states passed measures in support of access, the AP reports. The state can still appeal Owens' decision to the state Supreme Court, Cowboy State Daily reports.

Nancy Mace Bill Takes Aim at New Trans Rep
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Hill
Sarah McBride made history earlier this month by becoming the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, but another House member isn't exactly giving her the warmest welcome. The Hill reports that on Monday, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a bill that would bar transgender women from women's restrooms at the US Capitol, with William McFarland, the House sergeant-at-arms, tasked with enforcing the legislation. "Sarah McBride doesn't get a say," Mace told reporters on Monday, per CNN. "I mean, this is a biological man." Mace added that McBride "does not belong in women's spaces, women's bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, period, full stop."

Authorities: 2 Cops Accused of 'Complete Betrayal' to Women
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Associated Press
Both Missouri officers stole nude pics from female drivers' phones during traffic stops, per indictments. Two ex-police officers in Missouri were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes—pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos. Former Missouri State Highway Patrol officer David McKnight, 39, and former Florissant officer Julian Alcala, 29, face federal charges that accuse them of depriving the rights of several women, as well as destroying evidence, reports the AP. A rep for the FBI's St. Louis office tells CNN that the cases aren't linked, calling them "a matter of coincidence."

'Jews & Homosexuals Are No Longer Safe In Berlin', Warns City's Police Chief
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Remix News
Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik warns Jews and homosexuals face rising threats in Arab-majority areas amid anti-Semitic crimes, protests, and budget shortfalls... In a wide-ranging interview with Berliner Zeitung about security risks, anti-Semitic danger zones in Berlin, and the effects of austerity measures on police work, Slowik warned that the German capital has become less tolerant in areas with high Arab populations and the police have insufficient resources to tackle the problem.

How German Imperialism Rebranded Itself as Feminist
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Jacobin
Last year, Germany’s Foreign Office spelled out guidelines for a “feminist” foreign policy, focused on defending marginalized women. Today in Gaza, this same ministry is arming the deadliest war on women and girls this century. The German Foreign Office first announced its guidelines for a “feminist foreign policy” back in March 2023, yet public debate over the meaning of this policy has never been more heated than in the past month. On October 21, the international research organization responsible for the development of the concept, the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), along with the human rights NGO HÁWAR.help, hosted a press conference on the topic “preventing femicides, legalizing abortions.”

Texas Board Votes to Approve Controversial Curriculum
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN News
Critics say Bible-heavy public school curriculum is akin to 'religious indoctrination'. A new Texas public school curriculum criticized for focusing too much on Christianity passed a preliminary Texas State Board of Education vote on Tuesday. A measure to reject the state-produced Bluebonnet Learning curriculum was defeated in an 8-7 vote, with three Republicans siding with the board's four Democrats, the New York Times reports. It is up to schools whether they adopt the curriculum—but those who do so can get an extra $40 per student per year. A final vote on the curriculum is expected Friday.

'People Will Remember Gisele Pelicot'
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: The Telegraph
French woman who has become 'feminist hero' testifies at her ex-husband's mass rape trial. "Today I am known around the world, whether I like it or not. People will remember Madame Pelicot, much less Monsieur Pelicot." Those were among the final words of Gisele Pelicot as she testified for what may be the last time at the trial of her former husband and 50 other men who are accused of raping her while she was unconscious over a decade-long period. Pelicot took the stand for the third time Tuesday as the trial winds toward a conclusion in France, the Telegraph reports. Pelicot's rare choice to hold the trial publicly has made the 71-year-old a "feminist hero," the New York Times reports.

Okla school boss prepares for a post-Education Dept era that empowers parents .
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
"We're going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C.," Trump said in a policy video. "We're going to close up all those buildings all over the place.......we're going to send it all back to the states." With President-elect Donald Trump getting another term next year, many school choice activists, including Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, are hopeful that the Department of Education will be abolished and education policy will return to the states.

Two-Parent Families Are The Key To Safer Cities
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
It has been well documented how the rise of fatherless homes has led to a concurrent rise in incarceration rates... Looking at cities in Ohio, Zill found that there was a much crime rate in cities where two-parent families were in the minority. For instance, only 44 percent of mothers in Springfield, Ohio, were married during the period of 2018–2022. The percentage was even worse in Cleveland with only 33 percent being married, and in Youngstown, which reported only 32 percent were married. Cincinnati fared marginally better at 46 percent. In contrast, in Cleveland Heights, 63 percent of mothers were married and in New Albany, Ohio, 91 percent were. [Ed: author seems to conflate 2 partners with marriage.]

Woke leader of Scientific American quits after delivering viral anti-Trump screed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Worldnetdaily
'I've decided to leave after an exciting 4.5 years'. The woke editorial chief of the Scientific American, apparently the nation's oldest magazine with a launch date of 1845, has delivered a vitriolic anti-Trump screed. And then quit.

Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Associated Press
He has vowed to use federal money as leverage. Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.” The president-elect wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. He wants to abolish diversity and inclusion offices. He wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports. Throughout his campaign, the Republican depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left. Now that he’s won the White House, he plans to use federal money as leverage to advance his vision of education across the nation.

Germany: Police Raid Pensioner's House
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Remix News
Drag Him To Court After He Retweets Meme Calling Green Minister "Idiot". Massive police repression in Germany as war against free speech and basic human rights ratchets up under left-liberal government...The Bamberg prosecutor’s office indicates that this constitutes a federal criminal offense of “hatred.”

Denzel's Gay-Kiss Story Is Fizzling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Variety
Actor had said filmmakers maybe 'got chicken,' but director Ridley Scott says it never happened. Denzel Washington's assertion that filmmakers cut his gay kiss out of Gladiator II seems to have been overstated. "No, that's bulls---," director Ridley Scott tells Variety of the claim. "They never did. They acted the moment—it didn't happen." And the actor himself is now saying the flap is "much ado about nothing," describing a kiss he gives to a character he soon kills as a mere "peck." The AV Club connect the dots: "Perhaps we can interpret these comments together to mean that there was no 'gay kiss' in the script; that Washington 'acted the moment' and improvised a 'peck' in a take that simply didn't get used, but that a gay kiss getting cut out of homophobic cowardice 'didn't happen.'"

Malala 'Shocked' at How Quickly Afghan Women Lost Rights
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: BBC News
Activist reflects on the state of Afghanistan in advance of documentary release. Malala Yousafzai, the crusading activist who has been fighting for the rights of women and girls since childhood, says she's been shocked at how quickly those rights have been eroded in Afghanistan since the Taliban retook control in 2021. "I never imagined that the rights of women would be compromised so easily," the 27-year-old tells the BBC, reflecting on the morality laws that have stripped women and girls of dozens of rights relating to everything from travel and education to clothing, singing, and even making eye contact. "The restrictions are just so extreme that it does not even make sense to anybody." It was in neighboring Pakistan where Yousafzai was shot by a member of the Taliban as she sat on a school bus at age 15.

How universities teach students to shame
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Unherd
Alexander Rogers's death is a tragic example. Oxford colleges are suffocating places, stuffed to the gunnels with competitive and perfectionistic types, precocious in some ways and very immature in others. Everybody knows everybody else, adolescent hysteria and gossip can travel fast, and an atmosphere dominated by a few loud personalities can feel extremely claustrophobic. In this respect, smaller colleges are probably the worst. I learnt this lesson the hard way. Early on during my time at Oxford, after an alcohol-fuelled encounter during Freshers Week, I descended gingerly into the quad the next morning. On a noticeboard at the college entrance where people would usually read official missives about exams or prizes, some third year had stuck up a bit of A4 gloatingly informing fellow students, tutors, and passing tourists of my liaison. Beneath such a weirdly personal prank, darker emotions were presumably lurking, but 19-year-old me was incapable of analysis, conscious only of burning shame.

Free speech for students disappears
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Just the News
...if SCOTUS doesn't protect 'Only Two Genders' shirt: groups. "There Are Only Two Genders." "Let's Go, Brandon!" The Gadsden flag and "Don’t Tread On Me.” Nondisruptive student expressions of protest, ideology and humor face elimination in public schools if the Supreme Court doesn't rebuke a federal appeals court that approved bans on "demeaning message[s]" that could "poison" the school environment, free speech, religious freedom, conservative and pro-life groups told the high court in friend-of-the-court briefs. They were joined in their support of censored Massachusetts student Liam Morrison by the Republican attorneys general of South Carolina, West Virginia and 16 other states, as well as by a Colorado student who last year was banned from wearing a backpack with the Gadsden flag – a supposed "slave trade" symbol – until his governor intervened.

The impotent rage of the flailing woke elites
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The Guardian flouncing off X is a hilarious sign of the times. So the Guardian has flounced off of X. With characteristic pomposity it announced this week that it will no longer post its articles on this ‘toxic media platform’. X has become a volcanic mess of noxious opinion since evil Elon Musk took over, say the crybabies of Kings Place. So they’re off, to Bluesky, whatever that is. Quite how X’s users will cope without such fine journalism as ‘My toddler is vegan. What’s the problem?’ and ‘What if the mega-rich just want rocket ships to escape the Earth they destroy?’ remains to be seen.

Why Didn’t Abortion Work?
Topic: Abortion
Source: Powerline
Throughout the campaign, Kamala Harris stayed as quiet as she could on nearly every issue, with one notable exception: abortion. On that topic, she expounded freely and often. It turns out that Democrats thought the abortion issue would sweep them to victory. The New York Times explores the mystery of what went wrong...