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Democrats Using Black Athletes As Pawns In Redistricting War
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
The Congressional Black Caucus, aligned with the NAACP, is urging black college athletes to avoid Southeastern Conference schools in Southern states as a form of economic pressure against Republican-drawn redistricting maps that eliminate majority-black congressional districts. The campaign is called "Out of Bounds,” and is essentially asking young black athletes to forfeit their best shot at a professional sports career so Democratic lawmakers can make a political statement about redistricting. NAACP calls for black athletes to boycott college sports in south

As the world looked on in shock while multiple wildfires ravaged areas outside of LA
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Babylon Be
As the world looked on in shock while multiple wildfires ravaged areas outside of Los Angeles, California Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference to assure victims that he was diverting millions of dollars toward the state's emergency DEI initiatives. Tens of thousands of residents had been ordered to evacuate as the fires spread across areas including Pasadena, Pacific Palisades, and the surrounding communities, with no indication that any of the blazes were close to being contained. Newsom vowed to not rest until much-needed relief funding was funneled to the state's DEI programs.

Woman Fired by University Over Kirk Post Gets $225K
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Associated Press
A woman fired by an Indiana university over her Facebook post criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was killed will receive $225,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused her former employer of violating her free-speech rights, the woman's attorneys said Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union announced the settlement in a federal lawsuit it filed last year on behalf of Suzanne Swierc against Ball State University President Geoffrey Mearns, the AP reports.

Packers Player Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: ESPN
Star running back held without bond as investigation remains ongoing. The Green Bay Packers running back was arrested Tuesday in Wisconsin on multiple domestic violence-related charges, including a felony count of strangulation and suffocation, according to the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department and Brown County jail records. The 28-year-old is also facing four misdemeanor counts tied to battery, criminal damage to property, domestic abuse, disorderly conduct, and intimidation of a victim, and was being held without bond. [Ed: DV charges are often bogus, which doesn't mean that this one is.]

TX Woman Arrested After FB Post Over Unsafe Brown Drinking Watert
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
A woman in Trinidad, Texas, was arrested after she posted on Facebook raising concerns about the safety of the city's discolored drinking water, according to Fox 4. ennifer Combs posted the message on April 6 to her citizen-watchdog group page, Southern Belle Watch, urging residents who had been sickened by the city's tap water to come forward. "We have received reports that some citizens have been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water. This is a serious public health concern that deserves immediate attention," she wrote. "If your water looks discolored, contains sediment, has a strong odor, or you have experienced related health issues, please send us a message. We are gathering information and reporting findings to the state."

UK, Labour’s trans guidance ‘poses danger to women’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Telegraph
Campaigners say code of practice warning staff not to question people’s genders ‘risks harassment’. The updated code of practice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) states that information about sex is “sensitive” and should be treated as “special category data”. The guidance approved by Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary and equalities minister, was published last week after months of delays. It says trans people should not be asked what sex they are before using lavatories or changing rooms. It also warns firms it would not be “practical or appropriate” for staff to challenge individuals they suspected were using the wrong facilities.

US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Caller
The U.S. is currently facing a continuously worsening fertility crisis, according to analysts. While the nation’s fertility rate has been declining for decades, it dropped to a new record low in 2025. Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that deregulation, improving fertility care and bringing down costs related to raising children could help boost the declining birth rate. The U.S. general fertility rate was 53.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 2025, down from 53.8 in 2024, according to National Center for Health Statistics data published in April. [Ed: then stop blocking immigration.]

MLB Player Escapes Punishment in Sex Abuse Case
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Newser
Wander Franco declared criminally responsible for sexual abuse of a minor. Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence for it, a Dominican judge ruled Monday. Judge José Antonio Núñez, in his decision, considered that Franco had been the victim of extortion and blackmail by the minor's mother, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually trafficking her daughter. "It seems contradictory to declare criminal responsibility and at the same time exempt him from punishment. The court has granted Wander Franco a judicial pardon due to the particular circumstances that made him a material victim, but not a legal one," explained Núñez. The judge justified the judicial pardon as a "logical and legal reasoning."

Abortion pill case widens anti-abortion activists’ rift with Trump
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
After a string of disappointments, conservative activists are demanding action from the FDA, DOJ and other agencies. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to preserve access to telehealth abortions has escalated anti-abortion activists’ frustrations with the Trump administration and ramped up the groups’ pressure campaign directed at the White House. With the high court unwilling for now to curb the availability of drugs used in more than two-thirds of abortions, abortion opponents are demanding the federal agencies President Donald Trump oversees take immediate action or risk depressing conservative turnout in the upcoming midterm elections.

Christian foster parents win major First Amendment settlement in case against DCYF
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
DCYF had lost a bid to have a lawsuit against the agency dismissed, with a federal district court ruling in late April that a rule requiring foster parents to socially “transition” foster children plausibly violates the First Amendment. Washington’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families has agreed to a permanent injunction that will bar state officials from forcing foster families to embrace gender ideology for children in their care. Wednesday's injunction from District Court Judge David Estudillo said that the agency was not allowed to impose restrictions on foster family licenses based on religious beliefs.

Wave of child abuse cases shakes schools in Paris
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
A school assistant will go on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of sexual mistreatment of young children in his care. It is the latest case in a year-long scandal that has shaken the school system in the French capital, where some 15,000 such assistants - known as animateurs - are employed as non-teaching staff. Currently enquiries are under way at nearly 100 Paris crèches, kindergartens and junior schools where animateurs have been accused of inappropriate, aggressive or sexualised behaviour.

A Setback for Second Amendment Rights on Campus
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
A legislative effort to eliminate gun-free zones on public college campuses has died. But for its student sponsor, the fight isn’t over yet. On Thursday, an effort to eliminate gun-free zones on New Hampshire college campuses fizzled out in the state Legislature, when the Senate voted against a committee of conference to renegotiate the bill with House leaders. Despite the setback, proponents of the legislation say they're not done. We'll be pursuing this with a legal challenge," says state Rep. Sam Farrington (R–Rochester), who sponsored the bill, which would have also allowed students to carry nonlethal weapons such as pepper spray and mace

AOC Beclowns Herself in Alabama, Residents Not Amused
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Another day, another stunt by AOC that blows up in her face. This time channeling her inner Temu Malcom X and shouting for New Yorkers to “pull up on Alabama” while she was in Montgomery. And while standing on a stage surrounded by bullet-proof glass. You can’t make this stuff up. "Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that “the North” travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi to fight what she described as political injustice." [Ed: well, she just lost the South.]

The Demonization Of Men (And Everyone Else Too)
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Brownstone Institute
...use public monies to single out 49% of the population as constituting a lurking threat to each and every member of the other 51% of the population, The question is whether in the attempts to eradicate the problem it is morally and legally responsible to use public monies to single out 49% of the population as constituting a lurking threat to each and every member of the other 51% of the population, with all that such signaling produces in the realm of generating widespread social distrust within the population. “But Tom, are you suggesting that sexual violence, however defined is not predominantly male-on-female in nature?” Of course, not.

How Feminism Victimized Women, Became a Form of Mental Illness
Topic: Women's Health
Source: End to DV
Around the world, young women are facing a profound mental health crisis (1). Compared to men:
· Canada: Girls in grades 7-12 are far more likely to experience fair to poor mental health, compared to boys.
· Denmark: Females 16-24 are twice as likely to have poor mental health.
· Finland: Fifteen-year-old girls are twice as likely to have depressive symptoms.
· Sweden: Females 16-29 are twice as likely to have severe anxiety.
· United Kingdom: A recent study found young women are more angry, pessimistic, and left-wing than their male peers (2).
· United States: Females 18-21 years old are twice as likely as men to report a broad range of problems such as “Felt nervous all/most of the time in past 30 days.” (1, Figure 1)

Conservative Justices Resurrect the Comstock Act, Threatening Abortion Access Nationwide
Topic: Abortion
Source: MS Magazine
A 19th-century law once used to police contraception, abortion and queer expression is finding new life in today’s Supreme Court battles over reproductive freedom. On May 1, the New Orleans-based Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the mailing of mifepristone, a common abortion medication. (The pill is also used in miscarriage care; has shown promise in treating fibroids, endometriosis, some cancers, depression and chronic inflammatory illnesses; and is currently being studied as a once-weekly contraceptive.) Their ruling restricted distribution and use of the medication to in-person clinic visits only, even as the number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics has continued to shutter over the past year.

This is a ‘Jackie Robinson moment,’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...but not the one Hakeem Jeffries thinks it is. “It’s a Jackie Robinson moment.” That declaration by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries struck a curious chord because Jeffries was calling for Black athletes to boycott SEC conference teams to protest not the existence but the elimination of racial discrimination. Jeffries was upset that the court had ended racial gerrymandering designed to guarantee the election of non-white (and largely Democratic) House members. It was as if Jackie Robinson were to join a protest calling for the return of race-based discrimination in baseball.

Ressa at Dartmouth
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
In the global anti-free speech movement, Maria Ressa stands apart. The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Columbia professor has used her celebrated position to call for censorship in the name of tolerance and diversity. She is showered with accolades as she calls for curtailing speech with a highly sophisticated, though at times Orwellian, pitch. In the cause of tolerance, she calls for viewpoint intolerance, particularly in the regulation of speech on the Internet. That was evident this week as she spoke at Dartmouth’s Division of Institutional Diversity and Equity Social Justice Awards. The most insidious aspect of this campaign is how academic and other groups regularly portray Ressa as a free speech advocate.

The DJ Who Brought America Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, and 'Cows With Guns'
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Reason
After 55 years, Dr. Demento has finally retired from the airwaves. When Barret Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, recently ended his weekly show, he had spent 55 years spinning weird, silly, or otherwise strange songs on the radio or online. No mere fringe figure, he was an influential figure in American comedy and one of the most important cultural libertarians of his era. That might seem far-fetched to people who grew up in a post-SNL, post-Seinfeld world. But in the early 1970s, all that lay in the future. Television shows still had to pass strict censorial review to be aired, and the same code policed much of what could be heard on mainstream radio. Hansen's program pushed against those strictures.