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Federal court upholds Michiganders’ constitutional right to an abortion
Topic: Abortion
Source: Michigan Independent
A federal appeals court recently affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit from anti-abortion advocates challenging the Michigan Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment. In a win for reproductive rights advocates, a federal court upheld Michiganders’ constitutional right to an abortion in an opinion issued this month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on May 26 affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss Right to Life of Mich. v. Gretchen Whitmer, a lawsuit challenging Article I, Section 28 of the Michigan Constitution, also known as the Michigan Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment.

Student sues after U. Tennessee rejects research due to ‘cultural appropriateness’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Lawyers for a University of Tennessee PhD student hope their client’s case, scheduled for trial next year, will reshape how public universities regulate social science research through academic oversight and the authority of Institutional Review Boards. The case, Issak v. University of Tennessee, centers on Idil Issak, a PhD student whose anthropology research involved interviewing Ethiopian domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. After the university’s Institutional Review Board repeatedly delayed and restricted her project, Issak filed her lawsuit, arguing that the mandatory research review violated her First Amendment rights. At the center of the case is a constitutional question: Is interview-based academic research protected speech?

Stanford student government outraged
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Campus Reform
...after university makes mandatory 'Beyond Sex Ed' consent program optional. Stanford student government leaders are criticizing the university’s decision to make a “Beyond Sex Ed” education program optional for first-year students. The program itself taught students about 'safe sex' practices through student experiences. For the upcoming 2026–27 academic year, the student-developed program will be converted into an online module, according to a report from The Stanford Daily. “Beyond Sex Ed” is described on a Stanford University New Student Orientation website as a “core NSO program that features stories from current students to start a conversation about sexuality.”

One In Three American Men No Longer Working
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: American Greatness
Several economic shifts are contributing to the decline... The number of American men participating in the workforce has fallen to one of its lowest levels in nearly two decades, according to new federal labor statistics. Just 66 percent of men age 20 and older were employed or actively seeking work as of April, according to data released earlier this month by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure has dropped sharply from 73 percent in 2006 and now sits near levels last seen during the fallout from the 2008 financial cri

Pediatric Gender Medicine Faces Legal and Policy Shifts in US and Abroad
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Manhattan Institute
In a 5-2 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling from February and restored access to pediatric medical transition procedures at Children’s Hospital Colorado. In January, Children’s Hospital Colorado announced it would no longer provide cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to dysphoric youth under 19, citing the threat to Medicaid funding. In response, four trans-identified minors and their families charged the hospital with violating the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. In an 18-page dissent joined by Justice Carlos Samour, Justice Brian Boatright argued that the lower court injunction should have been upheld. “From my perspective, CHC’s decision to terminate gender-affirming care for minors was plainly not ‘because of’ petitioners’ gender identity, sex or disability,” Boatright wrote. “It was a decision driven by the direct threat to the viability of the entire hospital.”

The View's Whoopi Goldberg blames Trump for Ebola response in Africa
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Mill
Goldberg said, "you know what’s really bothering me, you know, he’s doing all of this, people are dying all over the world, right?" On Thursday’s episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg criticized President Donald Trump for not acting enough in regards to the Ebola outbreak currently taking place in Africa. "That’s what I’m talking about," said Goldberg. "When I look at all of the stuff that’s happening around the world, I think to myself, what are you doing? You—this bounces back and bites you in the butt. When people are ill and they’re traveling and there’s a possibility of bringing it, it means people can bring it here too."

Former U.S. attorney general Bondi to testify about Epstein files
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CBC
...in closed hearing. Survivors will be waiting. When Donald Trump's former attorney general Pam Bondi appears Friday before the House Oversight Committee she won't be under oath and the hearing about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case will be closed to the public. Epstein survivors are hoping for answers and will be there on Capitol Hill, just the same. As Bondi testifies, one of the roughly half dozen Epstein survivors waiting outside the hearing room will be Canadian Sharlene Rochard. "We're hoping to get a lot of information from Bondi if she's willing to speak," Rochard said.

Man arrested for threats to kill Erika Kirk ahead of TPUSA event in San Antonio
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: KSAT
Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of a making a terroristic threat. A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening to kill Erika Kirk ahead of her appearance next week at a Turning Point USA event downtown. Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.

Families Sue US Over Secret RSV Trials on Black Infants
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Times
Two families say their babies were used as test subjects in a government-backed vaccine trial they never agreed to, and that the babies died soon after. A new lawsuit accuses the US government of wrongful death, lack of informed consent, and civil battery over a mid-1960s experiment in Washington, DC, involving an early respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine known as Lot 100, per the New York Times. The suit says Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King, who were just a few months old at the time, were given three doses at a children's clinic serving low-income Black families. Each of the boys later died of RSV and bacterial pneumonia. Their families say they had no idea the babies were part of an experimental trial.

Mom Gets 35 Years for Hosting Sex-Filled Teen Parties
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NBC News
Los Gatos' Shannon O'Connor had been convicted on dozens of charges involving boozy gatherings. A Silicon Valley mother who turned her home into a hub for teen drinking and sex has been ordered to spend up to 35 years and 10 months in a California prison. Shannon O'Connor, also known as Shannon Bruga, was sentenced on Thursday following her March conviction on dozens of charges stemming from parties in Los Gatos, where prosecutors said she supplied booze to minors and orchestrated sexual encounters, including nonconsensual activity, between them, per NBC News.

Dennis Quaid Files to End Child Support Payments
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: People
His twins are graduating from high school soon Dennis Quaid is asking a court to cut off the nearly $14,000 he sends each month in child support to ex-wife Kimberly Buffington. In a May 20 filing, the 72-year-old actor petitioned to end his $13,750 monthly payments for twins Thomas and Zoe, who turn 18 this year and are set to graduate high school in June, according to documents obtained by People. Quaid points to the pair's 2018 divorce agreement, which says child support can stop "when a child completes 12th grade (if still under 19 and a full-time high school student) or reaches the other enumerated endpoints, whichever occurs first."

Gamers Raise $100K for Gay Player Facing Deportation
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: NBC Washington
Ludovic Mbock, who has no criminal record, could be sent to jail in his native Cameroon. After weeks in immigration detention, Street Fighter gamer Ludovic Mbock is back on the tournament circuit with an ankle monitor under his pants and a six-figure show of support behind him. The Washington Post's Gene Park reports that the 39-year-old Cameroon native—widely regarded as one of the world's best players of Street Fighter character Chun-Li—was picked up by ICE in February during what had been a routine immigration check-in he'd attended for two decades. He came to the US as a teenager with a green card secured through his mother's marriage, which later dissolved. The green card was revoked and he was reportedly placed on an order of supervision, meaning he had to check in to review a work permit. The Department of Homeland Security now describes him as an "illegal alien."

From Gilead to Ladyland
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Guardian
After visiting an island brothel in Bangladesh, the novelist was inspired to write an imagined uprising. She explores the radical fictional worlds where women have the power. In the spring of 2024, I am finally able to visit Banishanta, the island in southern Bangladesh that has been haunting my dreams. When I arrive I find it is little more than a long patch of grey mud, with a string of flimsy huts lining a craggy shore. Thirteen years earlier, I was on a boat on my way to the Sundarban mangrove forest when a guide casually pointed out the island and told me it was a state-licensed brothel that had been there since the time of the British.

Salon Hot Take: Salon Hot Take:
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Trump’s Vulgarity Is Poisoning Public Life The comrades at Salon strike again. It seems as if none of the writers at this outfit look in the mirror. What did they say this time? Trump’s vulgarity is poisoning public life. According to Chauncey DeVega, Trump is the reason public life is toxic in 2026. DeVega cites a Washington Post (of course) article that analyses Trump’s “violent” rhetoric. WaPo claims profanity is the “hallmark” of Trump’s second term. From WaPo:

Daily Mail lies
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gray Zone
Oct 7 victim saved from rape by non-existent Muslim prohibition on violating scarred women. The latest Oct. 7 rape hoax propaganda piece from The Daily insists that the only reason a woman at the Nova music festival wasn’t raped by Hamas members is that she had a scar – and falsely claims that “scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists.” In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted to leave by Hamas militants only avoided being sexually assaulted by showing her captors her scar.

‘It’s not a nice world to bring children into
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years. Stacey Waring, 40, a nurse from Nottingham, says global uncertainty has made her think twice about starting a family. She is one of an increasing number of people having either no or fewer children, contributing to a national and global picture of falling birth rates. In 2025, births in England and Wales fell for the fourth year in a row to their lowest level in nearly half a century, according to the Office for National Statistics (O

Henry Nowak and the evil of 'anti-racism'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: BBC News
The police watchdog is investigating after a young murder victim was arrested and handcuffed as he lay dying. First-year university student Henry Nowak, 18, had been stabbed multiple times with a 21cm (8in) ceremonial knife when officers in Southampton arrived at the scene in December. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary apologised after 23-year-old killer Vickrum Digwa was found guilty of murder on Thursday. The trial heard that Digwa lied to police, falsely claiming he was the victim and alleging he had been subjected to racist abuse.

Boston’s Pride Month Has Officially Jumped The Shark
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s city is helping support a “Trans Period Pride” event at the Boston Public Library, and somehow that is a real sentence. The event includes a “consciousness raising conversation” about transgender menstruation, catered food, and free period underwear. Pride Month has officially jumped the shark, then asked taxpayers to fund the landing.

British Ofcom Investigates Airing of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change a “Hoax”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
One of the most critical components of the British censorship system is Ofcom, the Office of Communications, which regulates the broadcasting, internet, telecommunications, and postal industries. The most recent controversy is detailed in the Telegraph, with Ofcom investigating GB News over the simple replaying of a Trump interview in which he called climate change a “hoax.” Ofcom is investigating GB News for failing to challenge Trump’s characterization, even though many people share his views on climate change. It is a breathtaking demonstration of the censorship culture in the United Kingdom.