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Texas State to host ‘Trauma-Informed Yoga’ and ‘Condoms Cocoa and Consent’ events
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
The events are described as using a 'lens of empathy and safety to create a safe space for those who have experienced trauma.' The language presents a growing trend in higher education to adopt therapeutic frameworks that prioritize emotional comfort and lived experience as pivotal components of wellness. Texas State University’s Health Promotion Services, Students Against Violence (SAV), and HealthyCats are hosting a series of university supported events revolving around sexual health, drugs, consent, and trauma-informed practices.

Latest Epstein Emails Reveal Bill Gates Slipped Wife Antibiotics For STD
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Zero Hedge
He Got From Russian Hookers. Democrats thought that the firehose release of Epstein files would "finally" bring down Trump. Instead, not only is that not happening (one can argue the latest batch of docs further cements Trump's claim that he had distanced himself far enough from Esptein in recent decades as this admission from Epstein himself to his favorite scribe Michael Wolff reveals), but it is taking down Democratic "thought titans", each one bigger than the next: first it was Larry Summers, then Bill Clinton, now it's Bill Gates. [Ed: hat tip to Brad who comments, The headline isn't "Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees in UFO", but it's as close to that as I ever expect to see.]

Turning Point USA announces Kid Rock
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Politico
... as rival headliner to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. [Ed: and the culture wars continue.] The counter event, dubbed the “All American Halftime Show,” is being promoted as a celebration of “faith, family and freedom” and will livestream Sunday evening across the group’s social platforms. Kid Rock, a longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, will be joined by country artists Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett.

Judge tosses case claiming Northwestern Law discriminated against white men
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The College Fix
Northwestern University has convinced a federal judge in Chicago to toss a lawsuit filed against the school alleging it discriminates against white men in its faculty hiring process. The case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis, an Obama-appointee, who agreed with Northwestern’s argument that the plaintiff organization, Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences, lacked standing because it failed to show its members had actually applied for open positions at the law school, Reuters reported.

Clintons Agree to Testify About Epstein
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: USA Today
Committee had recommended starting the contempt process. In an email sent Monday night, their lawyers said the Clintons would appear for depositions on dates to be arranged and asked that contempt proceedings be dropped. The House Rules Committee already had resolutions to hold the Clintons in criminal contempt under consideration, per USA Today. A statement from their spokesmen accused Comer of refusing to negotiate in good faith but said the Clintons "will be there." The move follows a standoff in which the Clintons argued the subpoenas were invalid and politically motivated, while seeking limits on the duration and scope of any questioning.

How Americans Are Fighting a British Censorship Invasion
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
A new bill in Wyoming aims to defend Americans against the U.K.’s online regulators. A new bill in Wyoming aims to defend Americans against the U.K.’s online regulators. The Online Safety Act has crippled free speech in the United Kingdom. Most Americans may assume they're safe from censorship on this side of the Atlantic, but the U.K. is now attempting to enforce the Online Safety Act on U.S. companies.

Trans lunacy is still thriving in New York
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
New York AG Letitia James fired a staff member for opposing the medical transitioning of children. Until 22 January, Glenna Goldis was an assistant attorney general in the office of the New York state attorney general. But on that Thursday, Goldis was dismissed for alleged ‘disruptive public speech’.

FTC Warns 42 Law Firms Over DEI Hiring
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Zero Hedge
President Donald Trump has signed orders aimed at dismantling DEI policies. The Trump administration is still going after DEI - or 'diversity, equity and inclusion' (i.e. white people are the scourge of the earth) - this time, in Big Law. On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent letters to 42 law firms warning them about "potentially unfair and anticompetitive employment practices" involving DEI, after they all participated in an anti-white program run by "Diversity Lab," a "for-profit DEI-consultancy business."

"Melania" Outdoes Industry Expectations
Topic: Unspecified
Source: AP
Paying audiences appear to be bigger fans than critics so far. Lifted by a black-tie screening at the White House and a Kennedy Center premiere, Melania debuted this weekend with a better-than-expected $7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film's release was unlike any seen before, the AP reports. Amazon MGM Studios paid $40 million for the rights, plus some $35 million to market it, making it the most expensive film billed as a documentary ever. Directed by Brett Ratner, who had been exiled from Hollywood since 2017 after he was accused of sexual misconduct, the film about the first lady debuted in 1,778 theaters.

DOJ Mistakenly Publishes Nude Images in Epstein Case Files
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Telegraph
Unredacted images expose possible victims, raising alarm over privacy failures. The federal government's massive document dump in the Jeffrey Epstein case has now created a new problem of its own, the New York Times reports. As part of its attempts to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Justice Department posted more than three million pages of records online Friday, along with 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The law requires officials to obscure sexually explicit material and information that could identify victims. Yet a New York Times review found nearly 40 nude photos—apparently from Epstein's personal collection—left fully visible, including both bodies and faces of at least seven young women or possibly teenage girls, in locations that appeared to include his private island and bedrooms.

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.”

The Liberal Arts on Campus
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: James G. Martin Center
ANNOUNCEMENT. "I’m delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural issue of From the Academy, a new digital magazine published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Longtime followers of academic reform may recognize the name of our magazine from Russell Kirk’s column of the same name, which ran for 25 years in the pages of National Review. Now, we are reviving the spirit of that column. From the Academy will feature serious discussion of the critical issues in higher education. Each quarterly issue will be devoted to a single pressing topic. Our first issue, linked to below, tackles the decline of the liberal arts—and why we must not give up on truly humane education. It features essays by Russell Kirk’s widow, Annette Kirk, and his daughter, Andrea, as well as St. John’s College president Walter Sterling and Alvino-Mario Fantini, who serves as editor-in-chief of The European Conservative. It also features state and campus spotlights, interviews, and policy ideas."

Progressive Moral Reasoning and Iran’s Revolt
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order. The Iranian revolt of 2026 has exposed a profound flaw in Western progressive thinking. While people in Tehran and Mashhad and dozens of other Iranian cities risk their lives in the name of secular nationalism and constitutional law, progressive activists in the West seem to have nothing to say. If a movement isn’t checking the usual boxes of Western identity politics, they tend to view it as confusing, suspicious, or even reactionary.

What’s driving the huge rise in abortions?
Topic: Abortion
Source: Spiked
Britain is experiencing a crisis of motherhood. There has been a significant rise in the number of abortions carried out in England and Wales over the past few years. According to government statistics published at the start of the year, abortions increased by 11 per cent in 2023 compared with 2022. This follows on from a 17 per cent increase in abortions in 2022 compared with 2021.

Why Mamdani's 'Free Child Care' Won't Work
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care. "While families with young children comprise about 14 percent of the city's population, they comprise about 30 percent of the set of New Yorkers who are leaving the city," said Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at a visit to a day care center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, where he hyped his plans for those families. Mamdani ran on the most ambitious universal child care proposal in the country: free day care for all kids ages 6 weeks and above. Apparently, this pitch was compelling to the city's beleaguered parents: The self-styled socialist won by a hefty margin.

Michael Knowles BLASTS Dylan Mulvaney and woke theater
Topic: Unspecified
Source: The Post Millennial
in new interview with Libby Emmons. “Dylan Mulvaney tried to take a shortcut, because something tells me that he would much rather just get attention than actually convey the truth of the story." 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.

“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.