MSNBC’s Joy Reid Blames “White Women” for Kamala’s Election Loss
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Daily Fetched
Joy Reid laid the blame on “white women voters” for Kamala Harris’s brutal election loss to President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Reid, who appeared increasingly depressed throughout the clip of the network’s election coverage, said that “black voters came through for Kamala Harris” and “white women voters did not.” Why does Reid feel the need to bring race into everything? Meanwhile, co-host Rachel Maddow admitted that Harris failed to do better than Joe

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Topic: Individualist Feminism
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Report Finds 'Dispiriting' Drop in Kids Reading for Pleasure
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Number has dropped sharply in recent years, UK's Nationan Literacy Trust says. "For a report focused largely on reading enjoyment, much of this is not an enjoyable read," a report from the UK's National Literacy Trust states. The report found that the proportion of children 8 to 18 years old who enjoy reading in their spare time has fallen to the lowest level since the survey of children about their reading habits began in 2005, the Guardian reports. The survey found that just 34.6% of children read for pleasure, down from almost two-thirds in 2016 and down 8.8% from the previous year.

Trump’s win is a referendum on men competing in women’s sports
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
—even MSNBC admits it. Trump and Republicans ran ads opposing men in women’s sports in nearly every state. President-elect Donald Trump won a decisive victory on Tuesday, and while Democrat pundits try to figure out what would make Americans vote the bad orange man into a second term in the White House, some woke up on Wednesday and realized that there's one culture war battle that Trump and his supporters have decisively won: keeping men out of women's sports. This was barely an issue at the national level when Trump ran in 2016 on a promise to deal with border security, and while Democrats were planning to remake Title IX to allow men to compete in women's sports in 2020, and many women, who were clued in to what was really going on with the trans takeover of women's identities, were screaming out to be heard, it was not yet an issue for the GOP.

Daniel Penny labeled ‘the white man’ by prosecutor at manslaughter trial
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The New York Post
On day two of his manslaughter case, Daniel Penny ceased having a name. He became merely “the white man.” During the prosecution’s opening statements on Friday, they asked why Penny, 26, did “not see Mr. Neely’s humanity.” On Monday, the Marine Corps veteran — facing 15 years for the subway chokehold that killed mentally ill homeless man Jordan Neely — was reduced by the same prosecution to his race and sex.

Women's Volleyball Coach Suspended Indefinitely for Complaint v. Male on Team
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Stand
Five women's volleyball teams in the Mountain West Conference have refused to compete against the San Jose State University (SJSU) team with a transgender-identifying biological male player. This trend started with Southern Utah University, and with each team that has chosen to forfeit in the name of fairness in women's sports, support has grown. However, it appears the assistant coach for SJSU's volleyball team, Melissa Batie-Smoose, is now facing punishment for filing a complaint against the male. Batie-Smoose noticed that having a biological male, the transgender-identifying Blaire Fleming, on the women’s team affected the other players. Out of concern, she chose to break the silence by filing a Title IX complaint with the school. This action, however, cost the coach her position. The university released a statement to OutKick that said they take “all reports and complaints seriously.” However, after reviewing Batie-Smoose’s complaint, they chose to suspend her indefinitely. [Ed: punished for doing the right thing.]

Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division
Topic: Unspecified
Source: The Verge
...which fought for a free and open web / The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce in late October. While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the Mozilla Corporation — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be lessened going forward. “Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” Brandon Borrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”

Treasury Calls for Financial ‘Inclusion’ of Homeless, Transgenders...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: MRCTV
Ex-Cons, Immigrants, Refugees, Etc. The Treasury Department has put out its first-ever “National Strategy for Financial Inclusion in the United States” calling on financial institutions to “address disparities” by lowering their standards and amending their business practices. The goal of the “national strategy” is to increase “inclusion” of so-called “underserved” groups, which it says financial institutions have historically excluded and discriminated against: “This inaugural National Strategy for Financial Inclusion in the United States establishes a framework and set of priority objectives to facilitate consumers’ ability to equitably access safe and useful financial services to meet their financial needs and achieve their financial goals, thereby promoting an inclusive financial system that works to reduce rather than compound disparities.”

Coloring, puppets, crafts: Elite universities prep students for election results
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Harvard, Virginia Tech, and Georgetown offer preschool-level activities for their students. Students at elite Georgetown University can find a safe space tomorrow to color and drink hot chocolate. As Washington, D.C. goes into lockdown over potential election violence, the Catholic Jesuit university is offering students a way to decompress, according to The Free Press. “In recognition of these stressful times all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day,” Jacelyn Clevenger, student engagement director, wrote in an email. There will be a “Legos Station,” “Milk and Cookies,” and tea and cocoa, according to the email.

College Volleyball’s Spartan Meltdown
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
In a scathing Title IX Complaint obtained by Quillette, a San José State University women’s volleyball coach explains how her school’s aggressively enforced transgender-inclusion policy created a toxic environment for female athletes. On 26 October, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Division I women’s volleyball team was scheduled to host a Mountain West Conference match against the San José State University (SJSU) Spartans. It was a game that everyone knew would never take place, because UNR’s players had publicly declared they wouldn’t be showing up—notwithstanding the stubborn insistence of UNR officials that the university “intend[ed] to move forward with the match as scheduled.” When it became clear that UNR would be required to pay the Spartans’ travel costs if UNR forfeited the match on game day—as everyone knew they would—the location of the (by now, completely imaginary) match was changed to the Spartan Gym in San Jose, California. But of course, when game time arrived, that gym was empty—as everyone knew it would be—because members of the UNR team were busy conducting a press conference explaining why they’d stayed home. And the whole farce concluded with SJSU winning by forfeit.

UK budget: a pittance for crumbling, asbestos riddled schools
Topic: Children and Family
Source: World Socialist Web Site
The UK Labour government’s first budget since coming to office in July does nothing to reverse the cuts to education since 2010 or make schools safe. The UK school estate is in a dangerous, dilapidated state, with ill maintained buildings, some literally crumbling and many thousands riddled with deadly asbestos. [Ed: the answer if to privatize schools, of course.]

Abortion Rights Measures Fail in 3 States, Pass in 6
Topic: Abortion
Source: Newser
Missouri votes to overturn near-total ban on abortions. Reproductive rights didn't just factor into the presidential race: The issue of abortion was on the ballot in 10 states on Tuesday, and results were mixed. A look at partial results: Florida: Voters rejected an abortion rights amendment and kept in place Gov. Ron DeSantis' 6-week ban, per the AP. The initiative failed to reach the required 60% threshold for passage—it was at 57% with nearly all votes counted, per the Hill. The measure faced an uphill battle in the red state where Donald Trump, a Florida resident, said during the campaign that he would vote against it. The Hill notes that Florida is now the first state to defeat an abortion rights amendment since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

TX AG Sues Dr for Prescribing Gender Transition Chemicals to Minors
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Stand
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed suit against El Paso doctor Hector Granados for prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12 in violation of state law. "Granados unlawfully treated 21 patients with testosterone or puberty blockers for the purposes of transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex in violation of SB 14," the lawsuit alleged.

LGBTQ+ organizations eye legal challenge
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Edmonton Journal
...of Alberta's new transgender policies if passed. "It's impossible to overstate the seriousness of the risks that the Smith government is imposing on the population right now, so both because what she's done is illegal, unconstitutional, and because it will cause such severe harm, we will be challenging it in court". [Ed: of course, I disagree with this sentiment.]

Iran Student Strips
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Off the Press
A now-viral video shows the young woman in a bra and panties in the courtyard of Tehran’s Azad University, while other footage shows her soon being shoved by men into a car and being driven away. The unidentified student was protesting security forces who had ripped her clothing earlier while confronting her for not wearing a headscarf, which Iranian law demands for all women in public, Iran International reported. After the woman stripped in protest, she was filmed from above sitting on a wall — with one man approaching her and making a phone call before casually walking away as bemused students looked on. A university rep said, “Campus security intervened and handed the individual over to law enforcement authorities,” blaming the incident on “an indecent act by a student.”

To Whom Do Children Belong?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Archedelia.
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), in particular surrogacy, and the effect it is likely to have on law by way of a re-conception of the human being that necessarily follows if we permit reproduction to be recast in the transactional mold of consumerist and industrial society. Whatever your positions on the various forms of baby-politics (IVF, abortion, etc.), this paper will help you to see what is at stake when we dissociate reproduction from the fundamental relational setting in which it naturally occurs. For my own part, the quandaries of surrogacy are such that I am not sure it is to be condemned in every case — for example, as a gift from a fertile woman to an infertile woman with whom she is intimate friends. But it is not a gift economy that is emerging on this front, it is an industry.

Joe Biden: the first trans-activist president
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The outgoing president sacrificed women’s rights and children’s safety at the altar of gender ideology. Under the Biden-Harris administration, so-called trans rights have been sanctified, becoming a holy mission for the mainstream left. Last year, Biden claimed on Transgender Day of Visibility that ‘transgender Americans shape our nation’s soul’. In the same speech, Biden claimed there is an ‘epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls’, although all the evidence would suggest it is actual women and girls who are being put most at risk from his trans-rights crusade, as sex-based rights are corroded and women’s spaces are thrown open to any man who claims to be a woman.

What’s so triggering about The Canterbury Tales?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
University students are being treated like oversensitive morons. Over the past decade, universities have slapped ‘trigger warnings’ on everything from children’s books to entire fields of law. They have warned archaeology students about bones, theology students about the crucifixion and forensic-science students about dead bodies. In 2022, it was reported that over 1,000 books on university reading lists – including classic works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare – warned students about everything from racism and sexism to murder and suicide. Now, The Canterbury Tales can be added to this list of shame.

Is Dawn Butler Britain’s most ridiculous MP?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The Labour MP for Brent East is living proof that identity politics rots the mind. Apparently, Kemi Badenoch’s victory in the Tory leadership race is a win for ‘white supremacy in blackface’. At least, that’s according to a post on X that was reshared by Labour MP Dawn Butler. Astonishingly, the MP for Brent East seems to genuinely believe that the first black female leader of a major UK party is, in the words of a tweet by writer Nels Abbey, a ‘member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class’. Butler swiftly deleted the tweet, but the internet is forever and evidence of the offending post was quickly preserved.

How Long Can Universities Defer Maintenance?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
Organizations that don’t have to make a profit—such as governments—are more susceptible to deferring maintenance than are private profit-making companies. For a profit-making firm, the ultimate costs of deferred maintenance are potentially so high that they can make the difference between success and bankruptcy. So maintenance in private firms is rarely deferred. In contrast, governments hardly ever go bankrupt, and non-profits rarely do. In fact, Comptroller Regan pointed out that “deferred maintenance” (sometimes called DPR) has become a widely accepted term in many political circles. The term is “not even viewed as a pejorative,” wrote Regan; “it sounds like a government program!”