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Zuckerberg apologizes for child sexual abuse ads on Instagram
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Oligarch Watch
In a Tuesday meeting with Indian government officials, Mark Zuckerberg apologized for child sexual abuse material and AI-generated deepfake content that had appeared on Meta’s platforms in the country, according to local media utlets.Zuckerberg’s apology came one month after the BBC reported that Instagram had run ads for the promotion and sale of child sexual abuse images in India. After the government ordered Meta to remove the ads, the company agreed and said it would bolster its detection systems.

Turning the page on reading. America faces a literacy crisis with no happy ending in sight.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: World
America is facing a literacy crisis with no happy ending in sight. Nearly one-quarter of U.S. adults—21%—are illiterate, and 130 million people can’t read a simple story to their children or sound out more than a few basic words. The problem isn’t confined to high school dropouts, those with disabilities, and non-­English speakers. It affects university students, working professionals, and those who grew up speaking English at home. It goes beyond the inability to enjoy books, skim websites, and write emails. Medication instructions, ingredient labels, and posted warnings can conceal deadly risks from nonreaders.

Sudan’s invisible children – born in war with no legal identity
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The BBc
...especially the children of rape. A 17-year-old Sudanese girl holds a young child in her arms with a heavy calm that belies her age and the concerns she has for his future. "This son of mine has no father, no birth certificate and no national number," Amira, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, tells the BBC. Looking down at him, she speaks slowly as if still trying to grasp the details of what has happened to her since the civil war erupted in Sudan. She and her family used to live in the eastern neighbourhoods of el-Fasher, a city that came under siege from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been in a brutal power struggle with the military since April 2023.

UK Police Literally Have An 'Elite Squad' To Flag Spicy Social Media Posts...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Britain's latest free speech assault is underway... An elite police unit set up by the Labour government has already flagged more than 100 social media posts to local forces, monitoring online "protest related activity" in a move critics brand a sinister step toward state control of speech. The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, created in the wake of the 2024 Southport riots, began operations in February. Freedom of Information figures obtained by the Telegraph and reported today show it has made 106 referrals of "suspicious" posts to forces across the country.

Sophie Cunningham's own coach defends opposing player DiJonai Carrington
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...after violent flagrant foul against her. Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White defended opposing player DiJonai Carrington after the Chicago Sky guard was ejected for a flagrant 2 foul on Fever guard Sophie Cunningham during Saturday night's 90-86 Indiana win. Carrington chased Cunningham, who has been in the spotlight for her opposition to men in women's sports, on a first-quarter drive and struck her around the head and neck as Cunningham went up for a layup.

U of Michigan to hide freshmen grades from transcripts in mental health move
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
Incoming University of Michigan freshmen will have their first-semester grades kept off their transcripts under a new policy aimed at easing academic pressure and addressing concerns over student mental health. The policy will begin in fall 2027 and apply to first-year students in the university's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Students will still receive traditional letter grades during the semester, but their final grades will appear on transcripts only as a "P" for pass or "NC" for no credit.

NY 3rd-5th graders fail basic reading tests with more than half not even proficient
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
Preliminary results released this week by the state Education Department that 57% of 3rd graders, 52% of 4th graders and 57% of 5th graders failed to make the grade on their 2025-26 English Language Arts tests. City kids in grades 3-8 saw a 6% drop in their ELA scores from last year, with just about half overall rating proficient.

Paxton secures first-of-its-kind detransition clinic
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
"This historic settlement is a resounding defeat for the radical gender ideology that has preyed on Texas children under the guise of ‘care.'" The $10 million settlement, which Paxton announced as finalized on Wednesday, revealed the new details surrounding what will happen next. Texas Children's Hospital has three months to open the clinic, which will offer free medical care to people who want to reverse their sex change treatments. The clinic must be finished by the end of October.

Date night, anyone? NYC launching free babysitting program for parents
Topic: Children and Family
Source: ABC 7
New York City is giving parents a chance for a night off through a new pilot program that will provide free child care for hundreds of families next month. Mayor Mamdani announced the launch of "Parents' Night Out," a city-sponsored program that will offer free babysitting for up to 500 children on Aug. 16 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WNBA To Hold 'Listening Sessions'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
After Second Former NBA Star Says He's A Woman, Declares For Draft. NBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women's basketball. "I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women's basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention," Engelbert wrote in the memo, which was sent Friday afternoon and obtained by The Associated Press and ESPN. I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism."

"We're Here To Destroy The White Race"
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Democratic Socialist Of America Hero Declares War On West. "We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they're gonna f**k your sisters and then your daughters. We're here to destroy the White Race, Bitch." Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has emerged as an increasingly visible, if unofficial, spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America's rapidly expanding political action network. He campaigned for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong while cultivating close ties with socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Teacher Exposes Chaos
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Remix News
Violence, Drugs, & Prostitution At 75% Migrant School In Germany. A special education teacher in the Rhineland says police are called to her school several times a week, nearly 40 percent of pupils failed to obtain a school-leaving certificate this year, and staff are increasingly being threatened or assaulted

University of California weakens due process in student discipline cases
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Campus Reform
At some campuses, only a small fraction of conduct cases would now qualify for a formal hearing under the updated system.
The University of California says the revised system is meant to improve consistency and clarity, while narrowing hearings to the most serious cases. The updated Policies Applying to Campus Activities, Organizations and Students policy, known as PACAOS 100, took effect systemwide and changed how the UC system handles disciplinary referrals sent to student conduct offices.

Jason Arday’s Cambridge Grift Ends
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
— But the Post-BLM Reckoning Has Just Begun. So he’s gone: Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s scandal-ridden professor, has resigned. The “rock-star academic” famous for his long hair and tall tales has fallen on his sword following media exposés of his plagiarized Ph.D. dissertation and his fabulist claims of racial oppression. Yet while the disgraced dreadlocked prof might be shuffling off into ignominy, this disaster is far from over. We need to ask why so many prestigious institutions — not only Cambridge but the entirety of English academia — fell for this man’s grift. The real story here is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it — the inevitable consequence of the intellectual class’ craven cave to the cult of BLM.

'Privileged Idiot' DSA Co-Chair Has Absolute Porridge For Brains
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
The Democrat party has been freaking out about the Democratic Socialists of late - despite striking similarities between their policies - because while Democrats are happy to sweet talk voters into socialist ideas that signal maximum virtue, they don't actually want to enact policies that would make blue-city budgets even more dire than they are. In short, the party is panicking because the voters they radicalized are electing radicals... So what better way to let progressives see what they're voting for? Trot out a co-chair of the DSA with maybe two brain cells to rub together, ask her simple questions, and watch her implod

AOC Plans To Harvest And Freeze Eggs For Votes
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Well, none of us saw that coming. But then again, it is AOC so anything goes. This time it’s the grand and icky announcement that she’s going through the regimen to harvest and freeze her eggs. “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has started the process of freezing her eggs — and is using a vlog on Instagram to give her lefty fans mundane updates such as her taking hormonal injections. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 36, revealed in a weekend post that she had been saving up for and contemplating the procedure for some time — hailing herself as a “badass” for taking on what tens of thousands of women have already gone through."

The Tip of the Iceberg
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years. The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet.

DiJonai Carrington Forced to Act
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Yahoo Sports
DiJonai Carrington faced a significant and swift wave of backlash from fans following the "White Privilege" post she aimed at the Indiana Fever after her ejection for a foul on Sophie Cunningham. The reaction, it appears, has gotten to her. And she has now been forced to act. Carrington has now set her Threads account to private after BrickCenter described her as being "clowned by fans." BrickCenter shared both a screenshot to support the claim and a screen recording of the fan reactions flooding her comments. The overwhelming majority of the comments were against Carrington for her post.

Teachers Unions Have Become the Democratic Party’s ‘Money Laundering Scheme'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Signal
Moms for Liberty CEO Says. Tina Descovich, the group’s CEO, says her claim does not stem from her own personal opinion, but from years of tracking union resolutions, curricula, and meetings, as well national education data. The Department of Education’s 2025 National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed that a record 32% of high school seniors cannot read proficiently, and almost half cannot do basic math. Fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading scores also fell, continuing a collapse that began before the COVID-19 school closures.