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Cash-Strapped Ukraine Gripped by Preparatory “Female Mobilization” Info-Drive
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Simplicius
A whirlwind new media campaign has been orchestrated around plying society to the acceptance of mobilizing the female population of Ukraine. Ex-Defense Minister Reznikov first broke the ice by discussing the new “stricter” mobilization procedures being promised by Zelensky’s government, which include tightening various rules as well as potentially changing the draft age. But at the 0:30 second mark, he states that for Ukraine to make it, it must look to other states which have successfully solved manpower issues, and elevates Israel to the exemplary role

Child stunting is Pakistan's hidden economic crisis
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Asian Age
Nearly four in every ten Pakistani children are chronically malnourished. This is not merely a public health concern or a humanitarian tragedy. It is one of the greatest threats to Pakistan's long-term economic growth and competitiveness because it undermines the country's most valuable asset: its human capital. According to the National Nutrition Survey 2018, 40.2% of Pakistani children under five are stunted, a figure that has remained stubbornly high for more than two decades. More recent assessments by Unicef and the World Bank suggest only modest improvements despite repeated policy commitments. Stunting is often misunderstood as simply being short for one's age. In reality, it is the physical manifestation of chronic undernutrition during the most critical period of human development. The first 1,000 days – from conception until a child's second birthday – shape brain development, immunity, learning capacity and future productivity. When nutritional deprivation occurs during this narrow window, much of the damage becomes irreversible.

Taxpayers Funding $230 Million In Federal Grants Tied To 'Intersectionality'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Greatness
According to the report, about $140 million has been spent, while another $90 million remains obligated. The Defense of Freedom Institute and Legal Insurrection Foundation identified 249 federal assistance records that used the term "intersectionality," an ideological framework that examines race, sex, class and other characteristics in assessing discrimination and privilege. According to the report, about $140 million has been spent, while another $90 million remains obligated. Funding surged during former President Joe Biden's administration, peaking at $80.1 million in 2023, before declining under President Donald Trump.

Judge: Ghislaine Maxwell's Bid for Freedom Is 'Meritless'
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Reuters
Federal judge rejects legal argument of Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator. Ghislaine Maxwell just hit another legal dead end. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday refused to overturn her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, reports Reuters. Maxwell made the case that her conviction was a miscarriage of justice, but US District Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote that her claims were based on "speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods," per the AP.

Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed pulls no punches while taking aim at Usha Vance
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Irish Star
El-Sayed referenced Vance's wife, Usha, has he hit back at the vice president's comments. "So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…," he wrote on X. Usha is the daughter of Indian immigrants and the first ever practicing Hindu second lady. El-Sayed appeared to be suggesting that Usha may have faced hostility if she'd have met Vance's white Midwestern grandfather, who died when the vice president was 13 years old.

Abdul El-Sayed compares child sex change castration to circumcision
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...in jaw-dropping interview. “Circumcision is different than castration!” Watters replied. “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?” El-Sayed asked Watters as the two debated whether the government should prohibit sex-change surgeries on minors. Watters initially appeared shocked before El-Sayed asked, “Jesse, are you?” “Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that’s a personal question, doctor!” Watters responded. El-Sayed then suggested the question demonstrated an inconsistency in Watters' position, saying, “You probably should want to move on.”

LA Council Hears Bizarre Pitch For Homeless ‘Sex Relief’ Centers
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: American Liberty News
A public commenter urged the Los Angeles City Council to establish private facilities where homeless residents could masturbate or meet sexual partners, producing a viral moment that quickly drew national attention. The speaker presented the idea as a form of “sex relief” for people living on the streets, arguing that homeless residents lack private places to engage in intimate activity.

The Evolutionary Roots of the Male Mental Health Crisis
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Psychology Today
It’s striking how long men’s troubles have gone unnoticed. Men account for roughly 80% of suicides in the United States and nearly three out of every four “deaths of despair,” a term coined by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton for the combination of deaths due to drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths, and suicides (Case & Deaton, 2021; Reeves, 2022). And this pattern extends past mortality as well: Among Americans aged 25 to 34, 47% of women now hold a bachelor’s degree compared to 37% of men, a gap that did not exist as recently as 1995 (Pew Research Center, 2024), while the share of men ages 25 to 54 outside the labor force entirely has roughly doubled since the 1970s, rising from 5.8% to 11.4% (Bengali et al., 2023).

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...

Only 35% Of Women Under-25 Have Positive View Of Men;
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: End of the American Dream Blog
Survey Finds 'Heteroflexible' Is The Fastest Growing Sexual Orientation In America. Our culture is being transformed at a pace that is difficult to comprehend... The numbers that I am going to share with you in this article paint an undeniable picture about where our society is heading. That doesn’t mean that the trends that we are witnessing now are permanent. We have been through so many societal pivot points in recent decades, and it is probably inevitable that there will be more. But without a doubt there have been some very clear long-term cultural shifts that have radically changed how we relate to one another and to the world around us.

US colleges working to inject DEI into AI for classroom use
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
"The goal of these institutions of higher education is to implement DEI ideology into AI before it can be fully integrated into America’s education system." A new report from Defending Education has revealed how institutions of higher education in the United States are working to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology into artificial intelligence before the use of AI becomes fully integrated into the education system in the US. The organization found a number of colleges and universities that are undertaking this work, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; Virginia State University; and Morgan State University.

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.