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Nancy Mace Claims Congressional Harassment Records Prior to 2004 Destroyed
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Washington Examiner
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on Monday that congressional sexual harassment and misconduct records prior to 2004 were destroyed. Mace, who is running for governor of South Carolina, posted a photo on X of two binders that she claimed were the “results of my subpoena of Congress’s sexual harassment slush fund.” “Nine members. One thousand pages. All records prior to 2004 were destroyed – which tells you everything you need to know about how long this has been buried,” Mace wrote.

Grooming gangs inquiry: UK scandal explained
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Week
Three-year statutory investigation will look into how gangs operated as well as alleged cover-ups by institutions such as the police and local authorities. So far only the Oldham area has been confirmed for investigation. Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, told a home affairs committee that other cities should be included as well, adding “I personally can’t say this enough.” There has been “growing pressure” for an inquiry into Bradford “to address allegations that the scale of abuse was covered up”, said The Telegraph. It came after a dossier drawn up by child abuse lawyer and Conservative MP Robbie Moore claimed at least 7,975 children in Bradford had been at risk of sexual exploitation between 1996 and 2025.

Italy’s Meloni Denounces Deepfake Lingerie Picture of Her That’s Gone Viral
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: AP News
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her — posing in bed, wearing lingerie — and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her. Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that Meloni should be “ashamed” of herself. Meloni warned against sharing such images on social media without verifying them.

Backlash erupts over viral video of CAIR leader
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
A video circulating widely on social media that appears to show a prominent California Muslim advocacy leader urging supporters to be "strategic" about how they express certain views publicly is drawing backlash and renewed scrutiny of the organization’s ties to state funding. In the video, Billoo appears to caution against posting certain views publicly, using an example to illustrate what she described as a lack of "strategic" judgment.

EEOC Sues NYT for DEI-Related Race and Sex Discrimination
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: EEOC
Federal lawsuit alleges news publisher failed to promote a white male employee because of his race and sex. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, The New York Times chose not to promote a well-qualified white male employee because of his race and/or sex. The New York Times has a well-documented commitment to enacting race and sex conscious decision making in the workforce through its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. In The New York Times’s 2021 “Call to Action” and throughout numerous other publications, the company stated goals and action plans to increase non-white and female representation in its leadership positions.

House sexual harassment payouts exceeded $300,000
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Just the News
Nancy Mace promised accountability for the victims and the House paid out approximately $338,000 to settle the cases. One former lawmaker was targeted in sexual assault lawsuits three times and the House cumulatively paid out $115,000 to dismiss them. The House Oversight panel subpoenaed information detailing the government payouts after a March committee vote, seeking a full accounting of payouts made before the settlements ended in 2018, according to Politico.

Education Dept. Opens Title IX Investigation Into Smith College
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Associated Press
Administration will look at whether all-women's school is in violation for admitting trans women The US Department of Education opened an investigation Monday into Smith College, an all-women's institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. The probe by the department's Office of Civil Rights will look at whether the college violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education. The move is the latest by the Trump administration—whose rhetoric has frequently included attacks on trans people—to limit transgender rights in the US, reports the AP. The administration has said that Title IX prevents trans women from participating in women's sports, suing several states and launching investigations into schools for not complying. Smith College, a private liberal arts school founded in 1871, has admitted trans women since 2015, along with many other elite women's colleges.

Posting Video of 10-Year-Old Hockey Player's "Tantrum"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Isn't Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. In Mufarreh v. Google, Inc., decided Friday by the Illinois Appellate Court (Justice Raymond Mitchell, joined by Justices Sharon Oden-Johnson and Thaddeus Wilson), a 10-year-old hockey player and his parents sued an anonymous video poster, and sought to discover the poster's name: "[i]n a competitive youth hockey game[,] Mufarreh missed the final penalty shot, losing the game, and had a severe emotional response on the ice. Among other things, he screamed, threw his hockey stick, gloves, and helmet, and fell to the ground."

Moms for Liberty takes New York for America's 250th birthday bash
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
The group of happy warriors have had 565 school district wins across the US since their founding just five years ago. The guests all met in their finery at Battery Park while regular New Yorkers in their Saturday afternoon best glanced at the parade, the signs waved by the Liberty crown-wearing guides, and smirked away. The 600 guests were gathered to board a boat for Ellis Island, where the non-profit was hosting a bash to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The British took the harbor in 1776 and used New York City as their base of operations for the Revolutionary War, but Saturday night, it was all about Moms for Liberty.

Horrifying "Rape Festival" Sparks Worldwide Outrage
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Videos circulating on social media out of Nigeria have ignited shock and horror after appearing to show groups of men chasing, stripping and sexually assaulting women in broad daylight during a traditional “fertility" festival in the country’s southern Delta State, according to news.com.au. The incidents unfolded on March 19 during the Alue-Do festival in Ozoro, a triennial rite in the Uruamudhu community of the Ozoro Kingdom. Intended to invoke blessings for married women struggling with conception, the event involves processions to a community shrine. Local customs reportedly advise single women to remain indoors. However, footage depicted young women fleeing through crowded streets, pursued by mobs who tore at their clothing, groped them and subjected them to public humiliation while bystanders filmed and, in some cases, appeared to cheer.

Taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark announces...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Mail UK
... 'Muslim only' day featuring modest dress and Halal-slaughtered meat. A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash by organizing a Muslim-only day to celebrate Eid. Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a 'modest dress code' and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat. Posters for the event say it will be 'for Muslims only' to create a 'family-friendly environment', with tickets starting at $55 each. [Ed: a private company can screen customers in a discriminatory manner; a public (tax funded) one cannot.)

Actor Rob Schneider brings star power to lawsuit
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
,,,demanding UC Berkeley comply with records request. Actor Rob Schneider is lending his star power to a new lawsuit filed against the University of California, Berkeley, demanding the public institution hand over documents pertaining to a Turning Point USA event last November that faced aggressive protests. The event took place two months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated and featured Schneider, but it was preceded with protests filled with mayhem, as demonstrators banged against barriers, set off a smoke grenade, and screamed at attendees waiting in line. “I am suing the University @CalBerkeley for violating Free Speech,” the actor and comedian stated in a post on X on Thursday. In a video accompanying the post, he said “unfortunately the university allowed Antifa rioters to interfere with our event, to prevent people from entering.”

Second ‘Detransitioner’ Wins Settlement for Life-Altering Double Mastectomy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Benjamin Ryan
Camille Kiefel sued the two Oregon mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped for her a referral letter for a mastectomy after a single telehealth appointment. The malpractice lawsuit, in which Ms. Kiefel, 36, sought $3.5 million, had been set to enter what would have been a historic jury trial in the Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon, in January. But the parties entered a confidential settlement just days before the trial was slated to begin.

Former Georgetown Admissions Officer Discusses Use of Essays
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Jonathan Turley
to Circumvent Affirmative Action Rulings. After the historic ruling in the Harvard and North Carolina cases barring the use of racial criteria in admissions, administrators and academics admitted what they had long denied: that race was having a major role in admissions. In anticipation of the rulings, many schools eliminated standardized testing, including the California system. Without objective scores, there is less ability to identify the use of non-scholastic criteria for admissions. By eliminating or devaluing standardized testing, admissions offices can use the more subjective essays to achieve the same race-based results. I wrote about how administrators were already preparing to use essays as an indirect way to achieve the same identifications and preferences in admissions. The essay “prompts” encourage students to effectively self-identify by discussing incidents where they faced discrimination.

More on the EEOC Lawsuit Against the NY Times
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Air
In case you missed it yesterday, a white male employee of the NY Times filed an EEOC complaint claiming he was passed over for a promotion because of his race. The EEOC then filed a lawsuit against the NY Times accursing the paper of racial discriminatin. When I wrote about all of this it yesterday, I had to rely on the accounts published by various newspapers describing the lawsuit. Not surprisingly, the NY Times' own story about it left out a lot of detail. For instance, here's what the Times published dismissing the main claim in the lawsuit.

From DEI To Equal Protection: A New Direction In Civil Rights Policy
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Real Clear Wire
Progressives defended these manifestly unconstitutional and unlawful actions... The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services (2025) that whites, men, and heterosexuals are not held to a higher standard in discrimination cases.

Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Amsterdam Bans Advertisements Featuring Meat and Fossil Fuels. In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed similar limitations on advertising for products in the United States, from alcohol to tobacco. However, the Dutch law reflects how this tendency can metastasize into shielding citizens from unhealthy choices or influences.

Elites And Their Contempt
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Brownstone Instiute
We live in a world where the elites view the common man as a problem to be solved... The elites themselves seem to view the common people with at least implicit contempt. They desire entire blocks to be shut down for their own amusement. The common man, including those who wait upon them, should be relegated to buses or walking so as not to encroach upon their experience. This is their party, and the city is lucky to have them there. We live in a world where the elites view the common man as a problem to be solved and the leaders elected by the common man anxiously present themselves as lapdogs to these elites, forgetting any sense of duty or obligation to those who placed them in power.

Is ‘Mission-Aligned Selection’ the New Workaround for Race-Based Admissions?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Do No Harm Medicine
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is changing the language it uses to refer to its preferred admissions strategies, potentially offering a fig leaf to medical education programs intent on engaging in ideologically motivated or racial admissions policies. Previously, the AAMC had touted the admissions practice of “holistic review,” which prioritizes softer attributes such as personal background and deemphasizes objective measurements of merit and academic aptitude. But, as Do No Harm has shown, many medical schools that promote holistic review are also admitting minority students at much higher rates than a merit-only review process would typically produce. Specifically, some of these students are less academically qualified than their peers. This raises questions about whether these schools are using holistic review to engage in racial discrimination. It is especially troubling as the AAMC was long a proponent of racial preferences in admissions, even submitting a brief to the Supreme Court to argue that the practice should continue.