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British Police Raid Islamic Group Accused Of Sex Trafficking And Slavery
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Sometimes "coexistence" is simply not possible... At least nine members of a Cheshire Islamic group have been arrested in a raid of 500 British police officers as part of an investigation into sexual offenses, slavery and forced marriage. Officers received reports of human trafficking, rape, and other crimes involving members of a group known as the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, based in Crewe. Seven men and three women were taken into custody, according to a statement from the Cheshire Police, who said the investigation was initiated because of allegations made by a woman who was previously part of the group in 2023.

Bombshell sex harassment suit against Lorna Hajdini, JPMorgan
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: New York Post
...branded ‘complete fabrication’ as John Doe unmasked. [Ed: no idea what to think of this one.] A former JPMorgan staffer who sources identified as Chirayu Rana has been accused of making fabricated sexual-harassment claims against a high-ranking executive at the bank after an internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing, The Post has learned. Multiple sources told The Post that 35-year-old Rana, now a principal at investment firm Bregal Sagemount, is the man who brought the bombshell lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini earlier this week. Rana’s suit, filed on Monday under the pseudonym John Doe, accused the 37-year-old executive director of turning him into her “sex slave” by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra and threatening to slash his bonus if he did not comply.

Chicago Schools to Bus Students to Anti-Trump May Day Protests Using Tax Dollars
Topic: Children and Family
Source: PBS
Chicago labor unions, community groups, students and other advocates are expected to participate in events around the city on Friday in recognition of May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day. Thousands of Chicagoans are expected to participate in a May Day rally and march starting at Union Park, 1501 W. Randolph St., and ending at Daley Plaza downtown. Other related actions are scheduled in different parts of the city in the morning ahead of the march.

CRISPR Genome Editing and the Future of Down Syndrome Treatment
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The ethics of using safe gene therapies to improve the health and cognition of Down syndrome children and adults.Deaf children can now hear thanks to a new treatment that repairs a defective gene. Researchers associated with the biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals unveiled the successful gene therapy last week. One patient, who was treated at 18 months old, Travis Smith, can now hear. Overall, 80 percent of participants (aged 10 months to 16), saw significant improvement in hearing, and 42 percent achieved normal hearing, including the ability to hear whispers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already approved the treatment.

Fed Appeals Court Refuses to Rehear Trump Appeal of $83M
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
E Jean Carroll Defamation Judgment. The 2nd Circuit's decision means this would be the second Carroll case to potentially reach the Supreme Court. Trump had sought a hearing by the full 12-judge Second Circuit Court of Appeals, but a majority of the judges denied Trump's motion. The development now allows Trump to appeal the case directly to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for Trump argue he has presidential immunity from Carroll's accusations. Trump's quest for appeals began after a federal jury found that Trump defamed Carroll when he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s.

Newfoundland's only university advertises five professor jobs
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Mail UK
...that BAN straight white men from applying. A Canadian university is advertising five research positions, but applicants must be a part of the LGBTQ+ community to apply. Memorial University of Newfoundland posted five new Canada Research Chair (CRC) positions that are open to current employees of the liberal arts school, but there's a catch. In order to be eligible to apply, the applicant has to be a member of an equity group, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ people, a woman, Indigenous, a racialized person, or a disabled, according to the job postings viewed by the Daily Mail. The five-to-seven-year gig, which pays up to $200,000 CAD ($145,000 USD) annually,...

The Gallows Law: Israel Moves Toward Executing Palestinian Children
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Antiwar
According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither. The death penalty law, passed by Israel’s Knesset on March 30, mandates capital punishment for Palestinians convicted of carrying out deadly attacks. The legislation, often referred to as the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists’ law, requires that executions be carried out swiftly, within 90 days, while sharply limiting avenues for appeal or commutation, according to human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

SCOTUS To Decide Whether Colorado Can Deny Funding For Catholic Preschools
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
A federal appeals court held that Colorado could withhold the ‘universal preschool’ money over Catholic teachings.The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a significant religious liberty case that pits Colorado’s universal preschool funding program against Catholic schools’ faith-based admissions and operational policies. Earlier this week, the Court granted certiorari in an unsigned order (no dissents noted), limiting review to two questions from the petitioners’ November 2025 petition. Arguments are expected in the Court’s October 2026 term.

Bill Cassidy’s still attacking RFK Jr. Now it’s about abortion.
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
The senator said the health secretary needs to rescind Biden-era rules expanding access to abortion pills. At a hearing of the Senate Health Committee he chairs, Cassidy said Kennedy should have withdrawn policies adopted under President Joe Biden that allowed people seeking to end their pregnancies to get pills prescribed by telehealth and have them shipped through the mail. That has made it easier for people to have abortions in states, like Louisiana, that have banned the procedure following the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling ending the constitutional right to abortion. “Why has the department not acted with greater urgency on reinstating the in-person dispensing requirement?” Cassidy asked.

LA Schools Shifting Back to Pen and Paper
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NBC Los Angeles
Los Angeles schools are about to look a lot more old-school. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to sharply scale back student screen use in classrooms, reversing years of pushing one-to-one devices and digital lessons. Under the policy, students won't use screens at all until second grade; after that, the district will cap and track screen time by grade level and steer teachers toward more pen-and-paper work, per the Los Angeles Times. The move also authorizes blocking or limiting access to YouTube and games like Roblox and Fortnite, and would bar elementary and middle school students from using devices during lunch, recess, and passing periods except for teacher-approved work.

FCC mulls reform to TV rating system amid parental concerns over trans content
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Currently, the TV industry uses a voluntary rating system that it created, which the FCC determined met the requirements established in legislation from 1996. The Federal Communications Commission is exploring the possibility of updating its TV rating system to reflect parental concerns about the inclusion of transgender content in shows currently rated appropriate for children. "Recently, parents have raised concerns that controversial gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children’s programs without providing any disclosure or transparency to parents," the FCC wrote in a notice. "Specifically, the industry guidelines that parents rely on are rating shows with transgender and gender non-binary programming as appropriate for children and young children, and doing so without providing this information to parents, thereby undermining the ability of parents to make informed choices for their families."

Sexual violence and forcible transfer in the West Bank
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Norwegian Refugee Council
This report documents gender-based and sexualised violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank in contexts where Israeli forces were present and did not prevent or halt the violence, nor effectively investigate the abuses. In these circumstances, such violence is not occuring in isolation. It operates within a coercive environment that contributes to the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities.

199 Vermont public schools keep students' gender transition secret
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...from parents: Defending Education study. The study found that 37 school districts representing more than 52,480 students have such policies in place intended to support gender dysphoric students who may not have a supportive home environment.

Indiana Ban on "Instruction" "on Human Sexuality"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
...in Pre-K to Third Grade Upheld by Seventh Circuit .From Smiley v. Jenner, decided yesterday by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Candace Jackson-Akiwumi and Doris Pryor: Indiana law establishes curriculum requirements for certain schools within the state. In 2023, the state General Assembly passed Indiana House Enrolled Act 1608 [codified at Section 20-30-17-2], which added a new curriculum limitation: "A school, an employee or staff member of a school, or a third party vendor used by a school to provide instruction may not provide any instruction to a student in prekindergarten through grade 3 on human sexuality."

Pomona College Black Student Union demands more power
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
The college president, the dean of students, the athletics director and the deans of both admissions and financial aid are all black. Pomona College does not have a racism problem, but you'd never know it from the knots the school is tying itself into over a few "incidents" that have been drummed up into a massive kerfuffle. There has been a great deal of noise made about these incidents, and together they have been said to be part of a pattern of racism.

DePaul U Creates the “Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice” With Lori Lightfoot
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
This week, DePaul University is moving from merely woke to academic insomnia. The university is teaming up with former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to create an institute dedicated to journalism and “racial justice.” As trust in the media plunges, DePaul is moving to double down on advocacy journalism with the “Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice.”

Baby The Tragedy of Socialized Fertility
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Mises Institute
The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out it is with children. In centrally planned economies, administration does not confine itself to markets; it reaches into the most intimate aspects of life. When provisioning is socialized, fertility ceases to be private, and population becomes a variable to forecast and regulate. Reproductive incentives are altered, strategies are reshaped, and the fitness landscape is rewritten by policy constraints rather than natural scarcity. To analyze reproductive behavior, we begin with a framework I previously developed that integrates game theory, evolutionary biology, and praxeology.

The Marriage Gap Is America's Most Overlooked Source of Inequality
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Every dollar of well-intentioned government assistance comes with a behavioral price tag that we've largely refused to count. The most consequential inequality in America is not the wealth gap or the wage gap. It may not be the racial opportunity gap. The marriage gap is wreaking havoc. And unfortunately, it's the gap that gets the least attention. I'm a libertarian. I don't care whom, or if, you marry. Yet I'm reminded that there is a problem by a new report from the American Enterprise Institute.

Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Washington Times
The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot and no technology of any kind. In fact, there’s no pen or paper, either. Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” It’s a testing method as old as Socrates and making a comeback in the AI age. A growing number of college professors say they are turning to oral exams, and combining a variety of old-fashioned and cutting-edge techniques, to help address a crisis in higher education.