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Parents of 2-yr-old girl who died from fentanyl overdose charged with murder
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ABC News
The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died of a fentanyl overdose in the family's California apartment have been charged with murder, according to the San Francisco district attorney, who alleged the couple showed a "conscious disregard for human life." The charges come two months after the toddler's death, which the medical examiner ruled to be acute fentanyl toxicity, according to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. The child's parents -- 38-year-old Michelle Price and her boyfriend, 43-year-old Steve Ramirez -- were both initially charged with felony child endangerment, possession of fentanyl and possession of drug paraphernalia, prosecutors said.

New $1,700 Education Tax Credit Starting in 2027: Who Qualifies
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Elite Consulting
A new education tax credit is coming in 2027, and it could help families save up to $1,700 on their federal taxes. This credit is part of a larger tax law called the One Big Beautiful Bill. While the name may sound unusual, the benefits could be very real for many taxpayers. This new credit rewards people who donate to approved education charities. It also supports families who want more school options for their children. Below, we break down what this new tax credit is, how it works, who may qualify, and what you should do now to prepare.

Supreme Court snubs anti-abortion flyer case
Topic: Abortion
Source: Court House News
...leaving school political speech off docket. The case involved a local chapter of Students for Life of America seeking to hang ads at a public high school emblazoned with photos of protesters holding “Defund Planned Parenthood” signs. A freshman identified as E.D. sought to hang flyers for a local chapter of the national organization Students for Life of America at Noblesville High School in the fall of 2021. But a dispute over a political photo included in the advertisement led the clubs to be shut down.

Judge rules transgender people won’t face criminal charges
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: AP News
... for using Idaho public restrooms. A judge ruled Tuesday that transgender people won’t face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms that match their gender identities. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford puts on hold enforcement of key components of a law adopted in March — and set to take effect July 1 — that went further than laws in other states to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use in public places, including privately owned places where restrooms are open to the public.

Education Department Losing Two Key Divisions
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NPR
Special education and civil rights enforcement in schools are moving elsewhere. The Education Department continues to shrink in President Trump's second term, as he promised it would. The White House is moving two of the department's most important responsibilities—special education and the enforcement of civil rights in schools—to other federal agencies, reports NPR. Special ed will move to Health and Human Services, and civil rights will move to the Justice Department.

Radical Woke Mount Sinai Hospital Exposed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Center Square
DEI, Child Sex Changes & Epstein Ties Prioritized Over Patients The aristocrats.. Consumer protection organization Consumers’ Research began a campaign Monday highlighting New York City-based nonprofit Mount Sinai Hospital's prioritization of what Consumers' calls the hospital's woke and political ideology as well as having what it says are questionable partnerships such as ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Executive director of Consumers’ Research Will Hild told The Center Square that “Mount Sinai is another example of a nonprofit hospital that has seemingly abandoned its core mission of patient care in favor of a radical political agenda.”

Fla AG sues TikTok over violations of law blocking children under 14 from accounts
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
"TikTok knowingly deceives parents," AG James Uthmeier said. "...We have zero tolerance for companies that prioritize profit over children's safety." he lawsuit, filed in St. Lucie County, seeks financial damages and a court order requiring TikTok to comply with social media restrictions in Florida. "TikTok knowingly deceives parents and allows children to be exposed to harmful and inappropriate content in direct violation of Florida law," Uthmeier said in a statement. "We have zero tolerance for companies that prioritize profit over children's safety." The suit centers on Florida's H.B. 3, which took effect in January 2025 and prohibits children under 14 from having social media accounts while requiring parental consent for users under 16. [Ed: sorry to hear this.]

The backlash to SF Giants players’ Pride Night protest isn’t going away
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
The Pride Night backlash isn’t going away anytime soon for the San Francisco Giants. The Giants held their annual celebration of San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community on Friday night, with the team wearing special hats with a rainbow-colored “SF” logo as part of the evening. But four of the five pitchers the Giants used in Friday’s loss to the Cubs protested the commemoration, with three pitchers — Landon Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker — writing a Bible verse on their Pride Night hats, while Sam Hentges elected to not wear the rainbow-logo hat at all.

U.N. calls on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse crackdown on women
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Washington Times
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Monday calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their crackdown on women and to combat militant groups inside Afghanistan that Pakistan accuses of carrying out cross-border attacks. China’s U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong, whose country sponsored the resolution, said the hope is that the Afghan government will “take more proactive measures to protect human rights, especially the rights of women, and project an image of openness, inclusivity and responsibility.” The resolution extends the U.N. political mission in Afghanistan until June 17, 2027, and authorizes it to support humanitarian aid deliveries “without discrimination” and to promote national and local governance “without any discrimination based on sex, religion or ethnicity, with the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women, … minorities, youth and persons with disabilities.”

Cuba Details Toll of Oil Blockade on Children's Health, Daily Life
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP
Report says shortages are dangerously disrupting health care system. Some of Cuba's sickest people are feeling the effects of the US energy blockade, with surgeries delayed, kidney dialysis treatments disrupted, and children with cancer facing a higher risk of death, according to a report published Monday by Cuban state-run media. The survival rate for children with cancer has fallen to 65% from 85% before the energy restrictions began in January, according to the report released by Cubadebate. It said that 100,000 children younger than 7 are no longer receiving the daily liter of milk previously provided by the state and that the country's 16-vaccine immunization program for infants is at risk, the AP reports

Small town bakery counters pride month
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Christian Post
...faces backlash for promoting biblical values. [Ed: so only gays can publicly celebrate their values, Christian or not, LGBT or not.] A Minnesota bakery owner from a multigenerational Christian family is offering an alternative to pride month and celebrating the biblical model of family life through special doughnut and coffee sales. Joshua Streblow, owner of Carl’s Bakery in Granite Falls, Minnesota, said the monthlong promotion celebrates "the beauty of God’s design and the beauty of God’s declared word with respect to these designs.”

California Will Now Certify Firms as 'Gay'
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Hot Air
What do you get when you combine woke, DEI, special subsidies, and technocrats? A bureaucratic standard for "gayness." An actual, legal process to determine the sexual preferences of contractors. It all stems from an already absurd program to force utilities to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to be awarded to contractors that the state certifies as "gay." No, this is not a parody. This is real life.

Editor's Note on the UFC Bash
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Racket News
Once upon a time Northeast liberals just didn’t know why people liked NASCAR or the WWE. Now they’ve moved all the way from, “I don’t know it and I don’t get it, but whatever,” to “That shit I’ve never watched and don’t understand must be somewhere between porn and lynching!” Here’s Substack’s own Cox Richardson comparing the UFC bash to “the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century”: You have to be mad as a March hare to equate the UFC with lynching, but that’s where we are, I guess.

Why the UKs social media ban would never work in America
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
British children may benefit from the United Kingdom’s newly announced ban on social media access for those under 16, but American children and parents should not expect similar legislation here. After months of preparation, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that the United Kingdom would ban children under 16 from using almost all major social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, X, and YouTube. The ban is set to take effect next spring. But the ban may not be entirely free of politics. While most major social media platforms are included in the age restriction, Bluesky, widely viewed as a haven for users fleeing Elon Musk-owned X, is notably not included in the new restrictions.

Based Chinese Abuse Black ‘Stress Relief Doll’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Armageddon Safari
Progressive Meltdown Ensues. Endowed with something an expat friend of mine once called a strong “cultural immune system,” the natives of the Orient are notoriously insensitive to the pleas from Social Justice™ people in the West that they walk on eggshells so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of subscribers to globo-homo race communism. They exhibit a striking disregard for accusations of racism, transphobia, sexism, or really any –ism that so permeates and saturates the Western liberal mind.

Perpetual victimhood and racial tribalism of Karmelo Anthony’s defenders
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Karmelo Anthony case in Texas is bringing out the worst of the racebaiting perpetual victims who try to continuously divide society with their racist worldviews. Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. Anthony was under the tent of another high school as it rained, was asked to leave multiple times, and stabbed Metcalf in an altercation where witnesses testified that Anthony was the aggressor. This all happened because Anthony was aggressive, and because he brought a knife to a high school track meet in the first place. He was sentenced to a maximum of 35 years.

Heterofatalism
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: by Wendy McElroy
Politics should never address anyone’s sexual orientation. In a just society, every human being is equal without regard to race, religion, sexuality, or any other secondary characteristic. But many laws and tax-funded policies today reflect “social justice” that prioritizes secondary characteristics over the primary one of a shared humanity. Being black, homosexual, or trans becomes far more politically important than being an individual. Since the goal of social justice is to “equitably” redistribute status and wealth throughout society, there has been a forced transfer of power from those with secondary characteristics viewed as oppressive — such as heterosexuality — to those with ones viewed as victimized — such as being transgendered. Society becomes balkanized, with one class of people automatically in conflict with others.

What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
itting on a park bench in the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen, Barbara Elek is nervously refreshing her emails. She and her husband Levi are waiting to find out if Barbara is pregnant, after their third round of IVF 10 days ago. "If it doesn't succeed, then obviously I'll be devastated, and then the last resort will be trying to make sure that, at least financially, we don't lose everything," she says. Like many other young Hungarian couples Barbara, 33, a social worker and Levi, 34, a chef, were eligible for tens of thousands of pounds in interest-free loans and subsidies when they promised to have two children. But they've struggled to get pregnant naturally and if they can't prove they have a child on the way by 1 November then it is possible they may have to pay back those loans with penalty interest.

Kathy Ruemmler's Rewrite of History
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown
At least one Epstein survivor denounced the NYT for giving Epstein's fixer an unchecked platform to rationalize her association with the sex predator. Usually when a controversial figure wants to “tell my side of the story,” it is the role of journalists to put that story into context — in other words, to balance the subject’s desire to rewrite history or present themselves in a positive light by presenting facts and context so that the reader can decide whether the figure is being genuine and truthful. In this case, Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, was given a wide birth in the New York Times Thursday to explain her role in associating with Jeffrey Epstein and advising him how to handle the public fallout of his sex trafficking scandal.