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Appeals court overturns ruling in favor of 'conversion therapy' ban
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Christian Post
An appeals court panel has revived a lawsuit from two counselors challenging a Missouri city’s ban on counseling minors away from a transgender or homosexual identity. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a per curiam ruling last Thursday reversing a district court ruling against counselors Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenreich, citing the Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazarin March. The case involves ordinances of Kansas City and Jackson County that restrict so-called LGBT conversion therapy for minors while allowing therapy for minors that affirm LGBT identity.

College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Futurism
Are you smarter than a 4th grader? Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.” According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — a forum for 38 high-income, predominantly Western countries — a not insignificant number of adult students enrolled in higher education are now reading and doing math at a level which, in a more functional society, would be alarming for a middle schooler.

56% of U.S. Adults Support Social Media Ban for Everyone Under 16
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The anti-social media crusaders have popular support. That should worry online freedom advocates. As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, most U.S. adults want to curtail children's freedom online. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 56 percent of Americans support banning anyone under 16 from using social media sites. The poll, which surveyed 9,750 U.S. adults from May 26 to June 1, reflects growing bipartisan support for restricting children's access to social media as governments in Australia and the U.K. move toward age-based limits.

Metsola heads for clash with her own Parliament over child abuse bill
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
The bill to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online would allow tech companies to legally scan their services for the content. Police, investigators and child rights activists say the bill is critical to stop pedophiles from spreading the illegal content online, but privacy groups, cyber experts and tech officials have warned the rules enable mass surveillance of internet users. The issue has heated up politics in Europe in past years and drawn in everyone from tech mogul Elon Musk to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to weigh in on the issue.

Call Her Daddy podcasters threatened Barstool
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Post Millennial
...with 'fake' sexual harassment allegations to get out of contract, Dave Portnoy claims. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has alleged in his newly released memoir that Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, hosts of the popular podcast Call Her Daddy, had planned to break their contracts with Barstool using "fake" sexual harassment claims. Call Her Daddy was owned and distributed by Barstool Sports between 2018 and 2021. The podcast is now hosted solely by Cooper. Portnoy said that Cooper and Franklyn had not expressed dissatisfaction with their pay and contracts until they met with YouTuber Logan Paul.

Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN
The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the court let a 5th Circuit order stand without explanation or noted dissents. CNN notes that the Supreme Court's decision "doesn't resolve the case but rather will allow Texas to enforce the law while the litigation continues to play out."

Teachers’ Unions Are Losing One of Their Government Perks
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Economy
Should taxpayers be required to subsidize unions’ lobbying for more taxpayer subsidies? Three states say “no, spend our money on students.” Should taxpayers be required to subsidize unions’ lobbying for more taxpayer subsidies? Three states say “no, spend our money on students.” Teachers’ unions have long enjoyed access to public payroll systems and facilities that no private entity receives. Recent legislation in three states demonstrates a better path: public funds are redirected toward improving student outcomes, not strengthening union infrastructure. Idaho got the ball rolling on April 10, when Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 516a. The law prohibits the use of public resources and facilities for union activities. Districts are now barred from collecting dues through payroll systems, hosting union meetings or trainings at school sites during work hours, or granting paid leave for political advocacy. The bill’s supporters argue that public resources should be directed toward educational functions rather than union operations.

Conservatives Push to Renew Planned Parenthood Ban
Topic: Abortion
Source: Newsmax
Conservative groups are pressing congressional Republicans to renew a federal ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood after a one-year restriction expired Friday, arguing the lapse reverses what they had hailed as one of the movement's biggest policy victories since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The provision, enacted last year as part of Republicans' budget reconciliation law, barred Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and other large abortion providers for non-abortion health services.

New Michigan Law Will Protect Kids’ Lemonade Stands
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Good News Network
In Michigan, a prospective law would eliminate virtually all regulations on that ole’ chestnut: the childhood lemonade stand. If it can be believed, state house Representative Cam Cavitt (R-Cheboygan), had the issue brought to his attention after the local health department in his district demanded that some children pay repeated fees to run their lemonade stands. The parents reached out to Cavitt, who introduced common sense protections for the classic child-run, non-alcoholic beverage stand, and it passed overwhelmingly in the state house.

Female officer pummeled by mob at North Charleston 'teen takeover' block party
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Post Millennial
“Attacks on law enforcement are unacceptable and those responsible will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The safety of our residents and visitors remains our highest priority." The North Charleston Police Department released a statement following the circulation of a viral video showing a female officer being attacked by a black mob. Police said the violence that erupted during a neighborhood block party in the Chicora-Cherokee community spiraled out of control, resulting in multiple arrests and the seizure of several firearms and a makeshift spear.

Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Economy
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire. Rolling Stone is a perfect example of how entrepreneurs enrich themselves by enriching the lives of consumers. Unfortunately, the magazine’s left-leaning editorial stance rarely acknowledged that reality. More than personalities or anecdotes, de Leon’s story focuses on the magazine’s content. There is more detail on individual writers, articles, and editorial coverage than some readers will want. Still, he makes a compelling case for how, to quote the book’s subtitle, “a magazine born in the 1960s changed America.”

Lupita Nyong'o bashes Homer for 'very masculine' Odyssey
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...brags about her 'screen time' as a woman while social media ROASTS new trailer. Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey is drawing renewed controversy after actress Lupita Nyong'o questioned how Homer portrayed women in his ancient Greek epics, asking what she would say to the legendary poet if given the chance. "I would be like so Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women considering how little time you spent with them?" she said to YouTube channel Jake Take's.

Lupita Nyong'o bashes Homer for 'very masculine' Odyssey
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...brags about her 'screen time' as a woman while social media ROASTS new trailer. Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey is drawing renewed controversy after actress Lupita Nyong'o questioned how Homer portrayed women in his ancient Greek epics, asking what she would say to the legendary poet if given the chance. "I would be like so Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women considering how little time you spent with them?" she said to YouTube channel Jake Take's.

LEGO Faces Backlash Over Pride-Themed Content Aimed At Kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Greatness
“This isn't 'inclusion'... It’s sexualizing childhood and grooming the next generation with adult themes...” The Denmark-based toy company LEGO is facing criticism after promoting Pride-themed content on social media and its website. Parents accused the company of introducing LGBT themes to a brand primarily marketed to children. Although LEGO produces some building sets for adults, the company markets most of its products to children. Many young consumers follow the brand on social media. In a recent Instagram post, LEGO celebrated Pride Month with the caption, “Pride moments built, brick by brick. Swipe to see more of our LEGO colleagues’ stories.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett says America owes black women 'everything'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...'backbone of the Democratic Party'. Rep. Jasmine Crockett said in a Fourth of July message that America owes black women "everything," claiming they have played a central role in the country's history and continue to serve as the "backbone" of the Democratic Party. Speaking in a video posted on Independence Day, the Texas Democrat said black women have made sacrifices dating back to slavery and remain among the first to experience harm while continuing to contribute to American society.

Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Propublica
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened. As an investigative reporter with almost two decades at ProPublica, many of those years focused on criminal justice, I have delved into countless cases gone wrong. On one occasion, I set out to report an article on a man unjustly convicted of murder — a case where an appeals court had belatedly found prosecutorial misconduct serious enough to overturn his conviction — only to have the man confess to me that in fact he had pulled the trigger. He recounted the victim’s dying words and told me, “I did what I had to do.” Sebold’s case would turn out to be far more complex than that one

Need Another Reason to Loathe Michelle Obama?
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: PJ Media
According to a Daily Mail report, Barack Obama’s wife personally torpedoed Cheryl Hines' return to the small screen when Larry David's new HBO series, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America, began casting. The show premiered last week. Higher Ground, the production company the Obamas own, produces it. Hines, 60, spent all 12 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm playing Larry David’s wife, and having her return for the new show made sense. But apparently, Obama couldn’t handle the fact that Hines is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. According to unnamed sources cited by the Daily Mail, that was disqualifying.

Grooming Gang Survivor Reminds Us UK Authorities Have Participated
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Moonbattery
Despite the media/government’s efforts to suppress the story, we all know by now about the Islamic grooming gangs responsible for raping many thousands of underage British girls. We know that the government is complicit, because it looked the other way so as not to be “racist” by objecting to crimes committed against whites by nonwhites. But many don’t realize that authorities have actively participated. Sammy Woodhouse grew up in Rotherham. At age 14, she was groomed by Islamic colonist and criminal gang leader Arshid Hussain. She was repeatedly impregnated.

Meet the woke warrior heading for Downing Street
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
James Purnell spent years promoting trans insanity at the BBC. Now he's whispering in Andy Burnham's ear. The news that Andy Burnham has appointed James Purnell as his chief of staff has been greeted with horror by the likes of Owen Jones and Zack Polanski. But just because the whiniest elements of the hard left loathe Purnell doesn’t mean his appointment is a good thing. For as smiley and reasonable as he appears, he embodies a problem with the modern left that’s every bit as pernicious as its economic incompetence. This is its obsession with imposing its fringe woke values on the rest of us.