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Library Dads
Topic: Father's Rights
Source: Good News Network
Once upon a time, in a little town called Atlanta, there was a dad who decided on a lark to take his 4-month-old baby girl to the library. He didn’t know it at the time, but the Georgia native had planted the magic bean that would grow into a giant beanstalk of brotherhood and paternity, known simply as the Library Dads. Khari Arnold founded the group after his weekly outings with his daughter Ariah resulted became a keystone in his relationship with her. Not only did it become their special time together, but Ariah showed signs of developing those early literacy skills so vital to success and satisfaction in all walks of life.

UK rape trial collapses after accuser admits using AI chatbot to prepare testimony
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Human Events
The case, heard at Lewes Crown Court, was halted after the complainant, identified only as C, admitted using an AI chatbot before testifying. Following the disclosure, counsel for the defendant, identified as R, argued that the court could no longer determine whether the complainant's evidence reflected her own recollection or had been shaped by AI. The Crown Court concluded that a fair trial was no longer possible.

He Tried to Blame His Sex Crimes on Autism, Gets 30 Years
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Associated Press
Ex-Citigroup exec Edward Gene Smith sentenced after prosecutors slam his 'inflammatory nonsense'. A Harvard-educated ex-managing director at Citigroup Inc. who blamed autism for his actions was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for sex crimes that prosecutors say occurred over a decade. Edward Gene Smith, 50, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Paul A. Engelmayer after pleading guilty to sex crimes, receiving child pornography, and obstructing justice, per the AP. His lawyers wrote to the judge that autism spectrum disorder was the "primary driver" of his crimes. The lawyers said Smith had been "devastated to learn that his understanding of his relationships with the women he thought of as his girlfriends was wrong and that they experienced their encounters with him as nonconsensual sexual abuse and even rape."

SpaceX's xAI Sues State Over Law Targeting 'Nudify' Apps
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: CNBC
Company says Minnesota deepfake penalties violate First Amendment protections. Elon Musk's AI outfit is taking Minnesota to court over a law that hasn't even kicked in yet. SpaceX-owned xAI on Monday sued state Attorney General Keith Ellison, arguing that Minnesota's new crackdown on "nudify" apps tramples the First Amendment by imposing an overly broad, content-based restriction on AI image tools, reports CNBC. The law, set to start on Saturday, is directed at apps and sites that let users generate nonconsensual sexual images, with fines of $500,000 per explicit deepfake.

Trump Makes Supreme Court Plea on E. Jean Carroll
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: NBC News
He cites presidential immunity ruling to challenge $83.3 million defamation award. President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to toss out the $83.3 million defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll, arguing that the justices' own presidential immunity ruling now shields him from liability. In a petition filed Tuesday, Trump's lawyers say his comments denying Carroll's sexual assault allegation were "official presidential statements" made while in office and therefore protected—calling this the first case in which a court has hit a president with damages for on-the-job conduct, reports the New York Times.

Criminal “Villification”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Australia Court Upholds Conviction, Fine, and Compelled Speech in Transgender Case. We have followed the evisceration of free speech values in the United Kingdom and other Western nations. Australia has been one of the most chilling examples of how a population can be conditioned over time to view free speech as a threat. The country now criminalizes and regulates an ever-expanding range of speech, including political and religious viewpoints. The most recent example is the Supreme Court of New South Wales upholding a conviction for ‘vilification’ after women’s rights campaigner Kirralie Smith and the publication Binary Australia referred to two transgender individuals as men due to their biological sex. That led not only to $95,000 in fines but also to a sentence of compelled speech.

Regulations Are Keeping Families Smaller Than They Want to Be
Topic: Children and Family
Source: City-Journal
A new report finds that in states with more flexible childcare regulations, the fertility gap—the range between a woman’s desired number of children and achieved fertility—is smaller. Vermont, for instance, is the most heavily regulated state. If its regulations more closely matched those of a state like North Carolina, its fertility gap would shrink from 0.78 to 0.68 children per woman—a 12.5 percent change. In other words, “overzealous childcare regulations are one obstacle keeping Americans from having as many kids as they want”

Melania Trump files motion for sanctions against Michael Wolff over tossed lawsuit
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: FOX News
Wolff had his lawsuit against first lady dismissed in March. Wolff unsuccessfully sued Melania Trump to keep her from suing him for $1 billion for alleged defamatory statements he made about her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier this year, a federal judge tossed Wolff’s lawsuit against the first lady, calling it a "contorted" effort and "not how the federal courts work." Melania Trump is now seeking costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in these proceedings, along with other appropriate relief, saying Wolff’s lawsuit was "a fundraising drive and a political spectacle."

The Left Is Using Kids As A Trojan Horse For Total Online Surveillance
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American thinker
The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage... It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is "for the kids," history tells us it is time to do three things: grab your Bill of Rights, lock your wallet, and check your firearms. The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage. Because leftists' true intentions - total state control and the systematic dismantling of individual liberty - are entirely unpalatable to the average citizen, they must cloak their radical agendas in the warm blanket of public safety.

Education Department Repeals Harmful Disparate-Impact Regulations
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Liberty Unyielding
On Thursday, the Department of Education repealed some of its disparate impact regulations, which led some school districts to make discipline decisions based on race. Under Obama and Biden, the Education Department used disparate-impact regulations to undermine school safety and pressure school systems to allow more misbehavior by minority students. Race-conscious curbs on suspensions led to violence in some school districts.

Ex-JPMorgan Banker Makes Salacious Claims in Lawsuit
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Reuters
A lawsuit that first grabbed attention for its graphic claims is back, now with broader civil-rights allegations against one of Wall Street's biggest banks. Former JPMorgan Chase banker Chirayu Rana has shifted his case from state to federal court, accusing the firm's leveraged-finance team of systemic racial discrimination and reiterating earlier claims that he was sexually assaulted by a colleague, reports the Wall Street Journal. "We don't believe there's any merit to these claims," says a bank spokesperson on behalf of the defendants, per Reuters. "While numerous employees cooperated with the investigation, the complainant refused."

Federal Court Rules For Woman Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Mimi Weiss worked for Kaiser Permanente for 20 years before being terminated. Kaiser Permanente wrongly fired an employee who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine because she gave proper notice to the company of her religious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, a federal appeals court has ruled. Mimi Weiss, who worked for Kaiser Permanente's The Permanente Medical Group for 20 years before being fired, "plausibly alleged that she provided notice of her religious conflict with the mandate in her initial request for a religious exemption," Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest wrote on July 24 for a unanimous panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Cracker Barrel Dumps CEO After Woke Logo Fiasco
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have yet to fully recover from outgoing CEO Julie Masino's brief "woke" rebranding effort last year. The family-dining chain quickly restored its iconic "Old Country Store" logo and nostalgic aesthetic. Still, the failed overhaul now appears to have cost Masino her job after exposing a serious failure of brand stewardship.

People Have Got To Try Being Normal About Caitlin Clark
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
...Sophie Cunningham, and the WNBA. All publicity is good publicity, right? The WNBA received a lot of publicity last week—but most of it had nothing to do with the league's All-Star Game. The biggest furor was over USA Today columnist Nancy Armour's piece complaining about Caitlin Clark's flopping. This was not a normal "National Sports Star Is Actually a Flopper" contrarian take. Armour claimed Clark's "histrionics…are putting other people in danger" off the court. "It seems there is a white nationalist faction to Clark's fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic," Armour wrote. Then came the inartful paragraph, invoking the lynching of Emmett Till, that you have to read to believe:

DEI By Any Other Name is Still Just as Sinister
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Mises Institute
Despite opposition from the Trump administration and the backlash against its implementation, DEI still has not disappeared from our body politic. It takes on other names, but not other forms. In Alabama, one of the states where DEI in public institutions is banned by legislation, it has been reported that the University of Alabama renamed their DEI office “Opportunities, Connections, and Success.” After a few more nomenclatural iterations, it was transformed into the Office of Community Impact (OCI). It is described, as would be expected, in language carefully tailored to avoid mention of any “divisive concepts.” After all, President Trump banned hiring “Chief Diversity Officers” but he said nothing against hiring a “Vice President of Community Impact.”

Berlin shaken by attack on Pride March:
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Le Monde
'I never thought this could happen in the most queer-friendly city in the world'. On Saturday night, a woman died and 29 people were injured after a man drove a van into a group of participants in the Tiergarten park. After a lengthy manhunt, the suspect, Abdul Ballout, was shot dead by police on Sunday evening in Spandau. Ballout, born in 2005 in Berlin, had long been known to police. This German with Lebanese roots was convicted in 2022 for assault and extortion. He had notably been identified and placed under surveillance from age 16 for his ties to Islamist circles in Berlin. According to the city's public prosecutor's office, he had attempted several times during 2025 to join the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria.

JK Rowling has forced Amnesty into retreat
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Unherd
It is hard to persuade the reluctant masses that women can have penises, and so fear has become a substitute for reason. Just as parents invoke the bogeyman to control unruly children, politicians and NGOs now warn of Donald Trump and the ever-looming spectre of the far-Right. That is precisely the tactic adopted by Amnesty UK in its reports “Like A Snowball” and “A Growing Threat”. Rather than treating sex-realist organisations as groups with whom it simply disagreed, both reports placed them within the same supposedly sinister ecosystem as ultra-hardline Christian groups and far-Right movements. The strategy ultimately backfired: the second report was quietly withdrawn after many of those named challenged its allegations and instructed lawyers.

The myth of medieval childhood
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Works in Progress
Growing up, I acquired a vague idea that medieval people did not view childhood as we do. I was told they saw children merely as defective or incomplete adults, and that they did not love their children as we love ours, perhaps as a way of coping with high infant mortality. As I grew older, I came to associate this idea with the name of Philippe Ariès, a French historian who argued in the 1960s that medieval childhood was profoundly remote in these ways. Ariès’s work never attained complete acceptance in academia, but it was vastly influential on the wider public.

League of Women Voters Declares War on Women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daniel Greenfield
In 2020, Bryce ‘Lindsay’ Hecox, who is a man, sued Idaho over the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, demanding to be allowed to compete against women playing for the Boise State cross-country team. After graduating high school, Mr. Hecox, who had a mediocre high school track record as a man, decided he was really a woman and sued to play on the women’s team. His lawsuit contended that playing against other men “would be inconsistent” with his gender identity, while playing against women was part of his “treatment plan for gender dysphoria.” Speaking in defense of women’s sports were over 100 female athletes and coaches, dozens of female Olympic athletes, Women’s Declaration International, the International Consortium on Female Sport, the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, and the Women’s Liberation Front while arguing against the existence of women’s sports was the League of Women Voters.