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Olivia Rodrigo pledges to bankroll Planned Parenthood after Trump cuts funding
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Post Millennial
Rodrigo was awarded Planned Parenthood's Catalyst of Change Award in 2025. Olivia Rodrigo is really into abortion. Her new plan is to hold a festival of all women recording artists and donate proceeds from ticket sales to Planned Parenthood, which delivers surgical abortions and abortion pills, and other women's and girls' charities. This comes after the Trump administration and Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which defunded Planned Parenthood so that federal funds could no longer be used by the group to pay for the killing of unborn American children.

Appeals court lets Florida revive suit against pediatricians group
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
A full federal appeals court has cleared Florida to resume a lawsuit accusing the American Academy of Pediatrics of misleading the public about the safety of gender-transition treatments for minors, pausing a lower court injunction that had blocked the case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled Wednesday that it would rehear Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s appeal with the court’s active judges sitting en banc — an unusual move that bypasses the standard three-judge panel — and that it was staying a preliminary injunction entered by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois, according to the court’s order. Judge Kennelly, a Clinton appointee, ruled June 2 and formally entered the injunction June 8, finding Mr. Uthmeier’s Florida lawsuit was likely brought in bad faith to retaliate against the group’s advocacy.

Fifth Circuit Rules Against In-State Tuition For Illegal Aliens
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: PJ Media
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Trump admin and against woke states or universities that try to provide special tuition breaks to illegal aliens...Brett Shumate, who serves as the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division, celebrated the court win on Thursday, July 9. This is a victory not only for the Trump administration, which is trying to enforce laws at the state level against law-breaking foreigners, but also for American taxpayers, who perforce contribute to public universities that then give special deals to illegal aliens. Meanwhile, many Americans can’t afford to attend college.

Record High 53% Of Gang Rape Suspects Were Foreigners In 2025 In Germany
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix News
80% of the victims were German citizens...The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD). countries

Texas to investigate 'shadow DEI program' at SFA University
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...censoring of politics after Charlie Kirk assassination. Texas is set to investigate what was reported to be a "shadow DEI program" at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in Nacogdoches, Texas, after a complaint was made to Texas about a possible violation of the state's ban on DEI practices at universities, where after Charlie Kirk’s death, an office in the school allegedly banned some political speech, but not left-wing expression. After Texas announced a ban on discriminatory DEI practices at colleges, the state launched the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman last year in order to be a watchdog on DEI practices and has been receiving complaints from students.

Women Over 40 Are Now Having More Babies Than American Teenagers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Birth rates among women ages 40–49 increased 24% nationwide between 2015 and 2024... Americans are increasingly reaching major life milestones later than previous generations, and parenthood is no exception. While overall U.S. fertility rates have fallen for decades, births among women over 40 are moving in the opposite direction. Rising education levels, delayed marriage, and high housing costs have all contributed to a growing share of women waiting longer to have children. Using newly published research based on National Vital Statistics System data, this map, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows where births among women ages 40–49 are most common across the country.

Homeland Security: World Cup operation led to arrests, rescues in Kansas City
Topic: Children and Family
Source: KMBC
Agents said they have arrested 14 people, identified nine victims of human trafficking and recovered eight missing children. "Unfortunately, most of these children are runaways and reported missing from their families or care providers, but they end up on the streets or with these traffickers," Sabatini said. They said most of the children recovered were teenagers, and several were from the Kansas City metro area.

Harvard Medical School Tries Healing Itself
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
The Report includes eleven proposals for reform and states outright that higher education should be devoted to the pursuit of truth. It includes a vital corollary: “HMS should articulate general principles and reasonable boundaries for activism by students and faculty”. The Report makes clear that these reforms will require comprehensive administrative action. In remarkably blunt language, the Report explains what has gone wrong with HMS, describing how HMS has been reshaping itself into an Orwellian dystopia.

Two boys who identify as girls drop lawsuit following SCOTUS ruling
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
A federal judge had granted a court order that allowed the teenage boys to compete against girls while the case proceeded. Two teenage boys who identify as girls withdrew their lawsuit in New Hampshire following a Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on boys competing in girls' sports. Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle filed lawsuits against New Hampshire's ban on males competing on female sports teams, and in 2024, they amended their complaint to include a challenge to Trump's executive order last year that aimed to protect females from having to compete against males in sports, the Associated Press reported.

Trump admin launches crackdown on school sexual misconduct
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
—California districts could lose $50 MILLION in funding. “Our schools must protect America’s children. Parents should never have to wonder whether their kids’ school employs and protects sexual. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is expected to send letters to school districts nationwide Friday reminding them of their obligations under federal law to promptly investigate allegations of sexual abuse and harassment and prevent educators accused of abusing students from quietly moving to other schools, which is colloquially known as “passing the trash.”

Publisher Pulls Lauded Slavery History Book Amid Questions
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Newser
A major publisher appeared to pull a prizewinning history book about a prominent South Carolina slaveholding family and its role in the abolitionist movement, after several scholars accused the author of misleading readers about details that were central to what reviewers had described as a groundbreaking narrative. The book, “The Grimkes,” and its author, the historian Kerri K. Greenidge, received widespread acclaim when the book was released in 2022 by Liveright Publishing.

State Drops Time Limit in Rape Cases With DNA
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Propublica
Massachusetts' current deadline is 15 years. Massachusetts is preparing to change one of the country's most restrictive deadlines for prosecuting rape. Gov. Maura Healey said she will sign a budget bill that lets prosecutors bring charges at any time if a suspect is later identified through DNA—even after the current 15-year limit for cases involving adult victims has run out. The change would take effect as soon as Healey signs the $63.4 billion spending plan, ProPublica reports, which she's pledged to do by July 11. Healey pushed for the shift after a WBUR/ProPublica investigation found that roughly 47 other states give prosecutors more time in rape and similar sexual assault cases.

We Know Who’s Buying US College Campuses—the Senate Must Act
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Newsweek
The ideological transformation of American college campuses is not organic. "We are two Muslim women who have each had a death warrant, a fatwa, placed on our heads—not for committing a crime, but for opposing the extremists who claim to speak for our faith. One of us, Anila, came to America from Pakistan and built a life here as a public school teacher. After September 11, Anila founded an organization to empower Muslim women and confront extremism. The other, Dalia, fled Egypt after Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023."

Muslim Child Marriage In Gaza and Afghanistan Isn't Our Fault
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Daniel Greenfield
Even if the media would rather blame America and Israel for an Islamic practice. The BBC ran a story about Afghan men selling daughters as young as five years old into the sex slavery known as Islamic marriage. Rather than blaming the Koran and the example set by Islam’s pedophile founder Mohammed who married his most prominent ‘wife’ Aisha at the tender age of seven, the radical state media outlet instead blamed the Trump administration. The BBC complained that “the US – once the top donor to Afghanistan – cut nearly all aid to the country last year” without explaining that the aid was cut because the money was going through the UN to the Taliban which is once again hosting Al Qaeda and aiding Islamic terrorists.

2 Psychologists Go At It Over Kids' Mental Health
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Atlantic
Jonathan Haidt blames phones, socials for decline; Peter Gray blames schools, restrictions on freedom. Writing for the Atlantic, Kaitlyn Tiffany digs into psychologist Peter Gray's upcoming book, Restoring Childhood, which takes direct aim at Jonathan Haidt's hugely influential The Anxious Generation, published in 2024. Haidt blames smartphones and social media for today's youth mental-health crisis and backs strict limits on kids' screen use. Gray, however—once Haidt's ally in the "free play" movement and a co-founder, along with Haidt, of the nonprofit Let Grow—now calls that argument "immoral" and says it fuels a broader pattern: Whenever kids struggle, adults respond by taking away one more freedom. He calls it a "knee-jerk reaction," adding that Haidt's tome "is helping to jerk some of those knees even further."

California Puts Abortion Pill Reversal on Trial
Topic: Abortion
Source: Washington Stand
Pro-life organization Heartbeat International (HBI) is on trial in a California court for daring to inform women that the effects of the abortion pill can sometimes be reversed. "Heartbeat International is fighting for one thing: The ability to tell women the truth when they call seeking help after taking the first abortion pill and regretting their decision," HBI general counsel Danielle White said in a statement to The Washington Stand. "Women deserve to know all of their options. They don't lose that right after beginning a chemical abortion."

That Gay Cruise Ship Denied Entry Into Turkey?
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Hot Air
Egypt Just Said 'No" Too. The Gay cruise that got rejected from Turkey is now being denied entry into… Egypt… Are people this oblivious about the Middle East and gay rights there? Funny thing the only country they would prob have fun in is Israel… if only they could their biases aside and go.

Seven years later, a campus cancel culture incident heads to trial
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
‘Instead of removing the disruptors, the university chose to escort Laffer out of his own lecture‘. Nearly seven years ago, a campus speech hosted by conservative students featuring famed economist Arthur Laffer abruptly ended as vocal leftwing protesters interrupted his talk and campus police got involved. Next week, a jury is scheduled to decide if that shutdown in November 2019 was a violation of students’ First Amendment and equal protection rights. The lawsuit was filed in 2020 on behalf of Young America’s Foundation and College Republicans against the State University of New York at Binghamton administration and progressive student activists involved in the incident.

Pronatalists Want To Boost Fertility W/ Blue Laws & Gov-Enlisted Fertility Influencers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The Institute for Family Studies wants to increase America's birth rate. Some of its ideas are a little far out. With U.S. birth rates now below 1.6 children per woman, IFS warns that cultural and sometimes political interventions are necessary to increase the fertility rate, as "the future of liberty for all of us depends on the future of family." And so, in pursuit of "the future of liberty," IFS proposes a litany of social-engineering policies that restrict freedom and empower the government. Many of the proposal's reforms are conventional and similar to the pro-family, big-government politics of Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.): doling out baby bonus money and child caregiver credits, eliminating marriage penalties in tax and benefit programs, and incentivizing more housing. As Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown has noted, many of these top-down pronatalist policies often fall short of meaningfully increasing the birth rate.