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Pro-abortion protesters disrupt bishops’ Mass at Westminster Cathedral
Topic: Abortion
Source: Life Site News
Pro-abortion feminist, “queer,” and “trans” activists stormed London’s famed Westminster Cathedral during a Mass at the start of a pro-life rally and March for Life. Fifteen Catholic bishops were reported to be concelebrating the pro-life Mass. The obnoxious interlopers positioned themselves in front of the sanctuary and unfurled a large banner that read: “Pro-life? That’s a lie! You don’t care if people die!” all the while shouting that same refrain. “This morning, members of the Feminist Strike Coalition disrupted an anti-abortion service at Westminster Cathedral hosting the far right group March for Life,” wrote “The Dyke Project” on Instagram

Eiffel Tower reopens after strike over limits on women staff
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Hindustan Times
...during BAPS delegation visit. Diane Davoine of the CGT union told The Associated Press anger grew among staff of the iconic 330-meter (1,083-foot) tower over the weekend after management told employees that female workers should ?not be in contact? with a visiting delegation from Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha.The group, known as BAPS, is a worldwide religious and civic organization within the Swaminarayan sect. It has been holding celebrations to mark the inauguration of a traditional stone temple in the French capital.

Amazon Sued Over Treatment of Pregnant Workers
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Newser
Former warehouse workers say they were denied basic accommodations. A group of former Amazon warehouse employees is suing the company for systemically discriminating against pregnant workers, accusing the company of denying them basic accommodations and penalizing some who took breaks to pump milk or time off for hospital visits. The four plaintiffs filed a proposed nationwide class action in a Brooklyn, New York federal court Tuesday, accusing Amazon of violating the 2022 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers with 15 or more workers to provide a "reasonable accommodation" for pregnancy and childbirth-related medical conditions, the AP reports. To refuse an accommodation, companies must show it would create "undue hardship" for the business.

Iowa’s University Reforms Show the Way Forward
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: City-Journal
Legislators in the Hawkeye State are rolling back DEI and rewriting general education requirements to include U.S. history and government. In early June, Iowa’s state legislature passed a bill mandating that all university students take two courses, one in U.S. history and one in government, to meet general education requirements. The courses must be broad enough to count as introductory surveys— no special topics or advanced studies may qualify—and restrictions govern who can craft and run them. Politicians in the Hawkeye State took this step because general education at public colleges and universities is a sprawling market of a thousand options, from which each student crafts a custom education.

Ukrainian SEX TAX
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Clash Report
Ukrainian MPs Pushing To Legalize Porn To Help Cover Budget Shortfall. Ukraine’s Parliament is considering legalizing pornography as lawmakers seek to tax thousands of OnlyFans creators, with supporters estimating the change could raise up to $25 million a year for defense-related needs. He says that would be enough to finance about 30,000 drones.

Three Clancy Jurors Break Their Silence After Judge Declares Mistrial,
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: People Magazine
Trash Lone Male Juror Holdout!. [Ed: to my recollection, this is unprecedented.] Jurors from a closely watched Massachusetts murder case are recalling how one of their own brought deliberations to a standstill. Three women who served on the Lindsay Clancy jury, including foreperson Roni Carlson, told NBC10 Boston they were left exasperated by a single male juror they describe as a holdout. Carlson said he acknowledged having reasonable doubt but still refused to vote that Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity. The panel's bitter split, which included shouting and name-calling loud enough for alternates to hear, ended with a mistrial last week.

Cesar Chavez Rape Accuser Sues Foundations
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AP News
Filing says foundations were negligent. A woman who once lived and worked at Cesar Chavez's famed La Paz compound has sued two nonprofits linked to him, alleging that he raped her there in the early 1970s and that the groups helped enable and conceal abuse. Filed in Kern County, California, the suit names the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the UFW Foundation, accusing them of negligence, violations of state civil rights law, and allowing what it calls a pattern of sexual misconduct by the late labor leader, the New York Times reports. The 86-year-old plaintiff says that the assault occurred around her birthday in 1973 and that she later felt pressured into additional sexual contact.

Pervs Distraught as Meta Bricks Their Smart Glasses Remotely
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Futurism
"There's always new ways to get around the safeguards that are in place." Earlier this month, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company said it would crack down on customers who modified the spectacles to disable or cover up their lights that indicate when they’re recording, amid incredible public backlash against how the glasses are being used to film people without their consent — girls and women especially — and harass them. Now, it looks like more than a few weirdos have gotten the ax. On Tuesday, Meta said it’s bricked the photo and video-taking capabilities on thousands of its smart glasses users, as part of a software update that was reported by Semafor.

Father of slain kids Patrick Clancy threatens legal action
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Post Millennial
against true crime influencers claiming he did it, not Lindsay. "Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign." An Attorney for Patrick Clancy, the former husband of Lindsay Clancy and the father of the three kids she admitted to killing, has released a new statement threatening legal action against “conspiracy theorists” who have spread claims that Patrick Clancy was involved in the children’s killings. [Ed: he has a god case under existing defamation and libel laws.]

Dobbs’s Near-Total Destruction of Abortion Rights Across the South
Topic: Abortion
Source: The New Republic
Anti-abortion lawmakers are forcing women to travel hundreds of miles to obtain health care. Thousands of patients across the Southeastern United States are now being forced to travel more than 250 miles to access abortion care in North Carolina, according to a study recently published by The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, completed by Dr. Kelsey Loeliger and her colleagues, quantified the South’s increasingly desperate abortion landscape, documenting the out-of-state abortion cases in North Carolina in the first year since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

Gen Z men with college degrees now have same unemployment rate as non-grads
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Fortune
For young Americans who stopped school after high school, the job hunt hasn't looked this good in years. A Burning Glass Institute analysis finds that unemployment for 22- to 34-year-olds without degrees is near the lowest levels seen since 2003, just as conditions for similarly aged college grads are among the weakest outside the Great Recession and the pandemic, reports the Wall Street Journal. The split reflects basic supply and demand, with too few people in trades and hands-on service work as older workers retire and immigration wanes, and more degree-holders than ever as AI chips away at entry-level white-collar tasks (though some experts say there's more nuance to how artificial intelligence plays into the job market).

Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Deutsche Welle
The employees protested against the removal of the site's female workers due to a request by a visiting Hindu group. The tower's operating company apologized for the decision. Visitors to the tower on Monday saw a message that says its opening is "delayed for operational reasons." The staff released a statement in which they condemned "professional instructions that led to female employees being sidelined, replaced and made invisible because of their sex" during the religious group's visit. Around 100 men from the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) spiritual movement were visiting the landmark.

70 children among 100 Palestinians laid to rest in mass Gaza funeral
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Cradle
Palestinian families have waited years for rescue teams to be able to recover the remains of relatives killed during Israel's genocide in Gaza. Civil Defense crews spent days recovering the dead, which included 70 children, largely by hand amid severe equipment shortages and ongoing restrictions. Among them were 55 people recovered from a single family home after a three-day operation by rescuers. Israel struck the home of the Malka family on 19 November 2023, where 60 members of the family were sheltering.

‘So vulnerable:’ Trump admin’s MAHA chiefs declare war on kids’ screen addiction
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Parents are being given a toolkit to unplug their kids dubbed the 5 D’s: discuss, do, delay, divert and disconnect. Overweight, nearsighted, depressed and anxious. Many of America’s children are in the midst of a health crisis, and the Trump administration’s MAHA chiefs are declaring war on a primary cause: kids’ addiction to their tablet, phone and video screens. “They are so vulnerable. So we had to sound the alarm, and here we are. We're doing something about it,“ said Dr. Stephanie Hirodopoulos, the director of national health communications for the U.S. Surgeon General. Last week, most of the government’s top medical experts — including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Mehmet Oz — assembled with Big Tech executives, educators and state officials to devise an action plan for getting children off their devices and into other life activities.

Mothers Aren't Just Embracing Lindsay Clancy'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Hot Air
They Are Embracing Clancyism. For most of us, the fact that Clancy clearly was having trouble with her mental health may help explain how she decided to kill her children, but for nobody I know does that excuse the fact that she chose to respond to her despair by killing her own children. Women have contributed over a million dollars to Clancy's parents to help fund her defense, lined roadways to cheer her on, and even concocted bizarre conspiracy theories to explain why everything is her husband's fault, despite Clancy never having denied strangling her own children. It's demonic. [Ed: even atheists would agree.]

The Professional Fact-Check Is Dead
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: And Another Thing
The crisis of professional “fact-checking” is not new. For more than 15 years, observers have watched with alarm as the genre degraded itself for the benefit of petty partisan politics. Yet little has been written about the discipline in its present state. Its original raison d’être long discarded, it lingers now as a zombie, ambling aimlessly in pursuit of mindless satiation. Take Snopes, that relic of the early web that once existed to dismantle viral myths and spare the public from conspiracies, humorous hoaxes, and harmful falsehoods. Recently, it sought to calm concerns that the late Dolly Parton might have done something nice for Jews.

Grasping the Suicidal Stupidity of Gays for Gaza
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Moonbattery
Police in Arizona have confirmed that a shooting at a Tucson gay bar that left three people dead, including the shooter, was a hate crime. The suspect, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, was new to the Tucson area and did not know the victims, the Tucson Police Department said in a news release Tuesday night. While searching his home, detectives found a note that “indicated he acted alone and that this shooting was a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” the department said.

This school year, families are seeking more educational opportunity.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
The start of a new school year brings a familiar ritual: Backpacks are packed, first-day photos are snapped, and families send children to school with optimism about the year ahead. That optimism is backed by a significant investment. This year, American families are expected to spend more than $43 billion preparing for school — a reflection of how deeply parents believe education can shape their children’s future. That hope is real, but so is the frustration many families feel. 62% of Americans think K-12 education is on the wrong track nationwide, and only 37% believe K-12 schools are headed in the right direction. Those numbers should not be read as an indictment of teachers or local schools. They point to something more constructive: families need resources so students can access learning opportunities and thrive.

Against the Stay-at-Home-Mom Subsidy
Topic: Children and Family
Source: National Review
Over the weekend, it was reported that the Trump administration — particularly Vice President Vance — is pushing a plan to open up a federal childcare subsidy program to stay-at-home parents who care for their own children. This proposal could offer around $9,000 per year to such parents whose income is low enough to qualify, in lieu of subsidies for paid childcare. Proponents suggest that this measure would simply establish neutrality between parenting choices, putting stay-at-home mothers on equal footing with those who decide to work. Program recipients could quit their jobs and stay home with their kids without losing government benefits. The change would thus eliminate a welfare cliff for traditional families.