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This One Insane Graph Explains The Lindsay Clancy Defender Dynamic
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Federalist
More than half of all leftist white women younger than 30 have been told by a medical provider that they have a mental health issue. The Lindsay Clancy murder trial seems to be an open and shut case. Her attorney freely admits that she did indeed strangle her three children to death. That should be it, right? She’s found guilty after a short trial and sent to prison (although she deserves far worse). Yet this case has become an internet firestorm. TikTok-addicted women, itching for the chance to be the amateur sleuth who breaks open the case...

Forget the Population Bomb. The New Fear Is a Population Implosion.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Overpopulation panic is sooooo 20th Century! Welcome to the era of depopulation dread. Nearly six decades ago the world was allegedly in the midst of an apocalyptic "population explosion." Today the fear among some economists is the opposite: that the world in this century is on track to experience a steep global population implosion. When the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, world population stood at just over 3.5 billion and the global total fertility rate was just under 5 children per woman. As a dire consequence of these trends, he declared, "The battle to feed all of humanity is over." He further predicted that in "the 1970's the world will undergo famines—hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." His solution was "population control," to be imposed "by compulsion if voluntary methods fail." Ultimately, Ehrlich asserted, "The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself into oblivion."

Lindsay Clancy's three child victims forgotten amid crowds of support
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
Hundreds gathered outside Plymouth Superior Court in pink as the murder trial nears closing arguments. Writer Bethany Mandel, a mother of six, says Cora, Dawson and Callan have been cast aside as crowds rally behind Lindsay Clancy. "We all know her name. Very few people know the names of her children," she told Fox News Digital. Lindsay Clancy, 36, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all younger than 6 — who were discovered strangled at the family's home in January 2023. The prosecution wrapped up its case Monday morning, after which her defense attorney began presenting arguments, contending that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time she killed her children.

In Some States, Disparate-Impact Policies Are Hanging On
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: City-Journal
The Trump administration is pushing to eliminate the approach at the federal level, but states like Maryland continue to pursue “corrective action” for demographically disparate results. The Trump administration has taken great strides this year to get rid of disparate-impact doctrine—the idea that demographic disparities of any kind are evidence of discrimination, regardless of intent. Another major step was taken on July 23, when the Department of Education announced that it was rescinding decades-old disparate-impact regulations, meaning that the department now requires evidence of discriminatory intent rather than relying on demographic data alone to determine whether a civil rights violation has been committed. Following up, the department sent a Dear Colleague letter to schools on August 18 reminding them that discipline policies must “neither favor nor disfavor” students based on race.

WNBA says Enes Kanter Freedom, Royce White not eligible for draft
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, who have both declared their intentions to join the WNBA draft and have stated that they identify as transgender, are not eligible to play in the women’s basketball league. This comes amid concerns raised by women’s sports advocates and athletes about trans-identified men playing against women. A league source told Front Office Sports that the two former NBA players’ recent declarations are “simply publicity stunts,” and that the league is “not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league or use this topic to demean or marginalize others.”

U.S. Repro Watch: Six Updates You Won’t Want to Miss, 8.24.26
Topic: Women's Health
Source: Center for Reproductive Rights
A report found maternity care is harder to access; a former federal prosecutor sued the Justice Department; and more news on U.S. reproductive rights. U.S. Repro Watch provides periodic updates of the latest news on U.S. reproductive rights. Here are six recent updates you won’t want to miss...

Results of Middle & High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Futurism
In an age of AI, getting good grades is a mirage. In a study that tracked nearly 27,000 students in China between the ages of 12 and 18 (grades 7-12), around 80 percent reported using AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance’s Doubao. The remaining 20 percent, who abstained from using AI, formed the control group.What the researchers from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong found, as reported by The Economist, point to an alarming trend. After six months, the homework scores of students who used AI rose by 18 percent across all subjects, while the time it took them to complete each assignment fell from 64 minutes to 45 minutes on average — a 30 percent reduction. But were they really learning, or were they using AI as a crutch to breeze through the assignments?

US taxpayers fund $230M in woke ‘intersectionality’ grants
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
... studying race, class and ‘privilege’: report. Taxpayers are funding $230 million in largely Biden-era grants to study woke “intersectionality” — the assessing of factors such as race and class to rate “privilege’’ and potential discrimination, a new report says. The Defense of Freedom Institute and Legal Insurrection Foundation, both right-leaning policy groups, said their review found 249 records of federal-assistance spending — propelled during the Biden era — that used the keyword “intersectionality.’’ “Race-obsessed ‘Intersectionality’ doctrine provides the toxic fuel for radical anarchist groups like the Turtle Island Liberation Front, and is the mothers’ milk for destructive anti-American and anti-capitalist agendas that dominate campuses,”...

Top GOP Gay Advocacy Group Drops the 'T' in 'LGBT'
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Red State
'Not the Movement We Supported and Fought For'. The Log Cabin Republicans group was established in the late '70s to combat discrimination and intolerance against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Melania Trump held a big fundraiser with LCR at Mar-a-Lago in 2024 for her husband, then-candidate and now president Donald Trump.

WNBA Team Debuts ‘Non-Binary’ Mascot In Game v. Sophie Cunningham’s Fever
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Trending Politics
The Toronto Tempo, the WNBA’s Canadian expansion franchise that is currently in its inaugural season, introduced its official mascots during a home game against the Indiana Fever on August 18. The pair — Dez, a Borealis Blue Snapping Turtle, and Dot, an Arctic Hare — debuted at halftime. “Dez and Dot made their debut at Scotiabank Arena and brought two very different kinds of energy – and a shared sense of rhythm – to the court for the first time,” the team announced on its official website.

Trump Administration Plans New Facility To House 3,000 Migrant Kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason.com
Many of Them Lack Legal Representation. Trump's mass immigration campaign is leaving migrant children alone to navigate a complicated immigration system that was once meant to protect them. Over 6,200 children have been detained since the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term. But despite ongoing legal challenges over the poor conditions in which detained undocumented children are held, the Trump administration is planning to build a new detention facility capable of holding 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children.

TikTok settles $400 million children’s privacy lawsuit
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, agreed to a $400 million settlement to resolve litigation regarding alleged violations of a children’s online privacy law, the Justice Department announced Friday. The Biden administration’s Justice Department filed the lawsuit against TikTok in 2024, accusing TikTok and ByteDance of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by letting children under 13 create regular accounts, collecting their personal data without parental consent and failing to delete kids’ data when requested.

Detroit schools offer students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
The district expanded its Visa gift card incentive to middle schoolers after high school absenteeism dropped by 9 percentage points. Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) paid students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance and is expanding the incentive program to middle schoolers after district officials say it successfully reduced chronic absenteeism. Now in its second year, the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative targets the winter months — from Jan. 5 to March 20 — when attendance historically dips across the district. "DPSCD is continuing the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative for the 2026–27 school year for high school students and expanding it to include middle school students," a district spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday. [Ed: remember, this is taxpayer money.]

India Honour Killings Expose Gaps in Law
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Human Rights Research Center
In the city of Agra, India, an 18-year-old pregnant woman died by drowning in the Chambal River from an alleged honour-based killing involving her father and brother-in-law. Police reports indicated that the accused attempted to coerce the young woman to enter the river voluntarily, and when she declined, they allegedly drowned her. Statements from the father reveal that the murder was motivated by social stigma surrounding pregnancy outside of marriage. To conceal the crime, the father created a suicide story and showcased photographs depicting a mock cremation to mislead investigators.

Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Conservative
Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. s the journalist Eve Hartley noted last week in the Wall Street Journal, European powers are mulling longer terms of military conscription as well as drafting women, not just men, for warfare. Denmark has already implemented both changes, and Hartley contends that Copenhagen’s NATO allies are “seeking inspiration from the gender-equal program.” Both Norway and Sweden already subjected women to military conscription before Denmark joined its Scandinavian brethren. If the trend really is gaining steam in response to the Russia–Ukraine War, it marks an especially perverse consequence of the otherwise worthy campaign for greater gender equality in Western societies. Instead of women gaining greater personal liberty, they will become equal victims with men of militarized government serfdom.

‘Rape Leaflets’ for Migrants Enrage British Public—and Prove Trump’s Point
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: New York Post
Something extraordinary happened in Britain this week: Our leftist government acknowledged a truth it has long denied. Our leaders admitted they are importing men who are so backward, so misogynistic and so out-of-whack with Western values that they don’t understand that rape is wrong. The woke fools who run this country conceded, after years of denial, that President Donald Trump and the rest of the supposedly “racist right” were correct all along: Europe is being overrun by brutish men from afar who think they can do whatever the hell they want to women. Of course, the Home Office didn’t say so outright.

Girl Fight! Enes Kanter Freedom Gets Kicked Out Of WNBA Game
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
For those who have been following this saga, you knew that this was inevitable. Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White decided to declare that they were women now, and announced that they were entering the WNBA draft. The league complained about “bad-faith actors,” but then kicked the can down the road because they can’t actually SAY that a woman is a biological female adult. If they state the truth, a majority of the players, coaches, and owners will freak out – not to mention the fan base. If they don’t say it, then what is their rationale for keeping Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White out of the draft? We’ve already established that the collective barganing agreement states that “only women can play in the WNBA,” but fails to provide a definition. Any lawyer worth their degree is going to be able to make the WNBA look stupid in court if they deny Freedom and White the chance to enter the draft.

Is Academia Riddled With Fraud
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Bell
An interivew with Doug Casey. [Ed: guess what his answer is.] Casey and Smith argue that Western institutions are rotting on multiple fronts at once: academia is riddled with fraud and DEI bloat, the U.S. government’s debts — including 9 million defaulted student loans and $1.3 trillion in annual interest expense now exceeding both the defense and Social Security budgets — can never be repaid, and Europe is being overrun by migration it lacks the will to stop. Casey dismisses the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday, whose career he calls a fraud built on plagiarism, saying his apparent suicide “might be the only honorable thing the guy has done”

Is Academia Riddled With Fraud
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Bell
An interivew with Doug Casey. [Ed: guess what his answer is.] Casey and Smith argue that Western institutions are rotting on multiple fronts at once: academia is riddled with fraud and DEI bloat, the U.S. government’s debts — including 9 million defaulted student loans and $1.3 trillion in annual interest expense now exceeding both the defense and Social Security budgets — can never be repaid, and Europe is being overrun by migration it lacks the will to stop. Casey dismisses the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday, whose career he calls a fraud built on plagiarism, saying his apparent suicide “might be the only honorable thing the guy has done”