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Supreme Court Rules, Again
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Supreme Court Rules, Again, That Different Standards for Discrimination Plaintiffs Are Unconstitutional.
A federal appeals court has lifted a block on President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California after a lower judge ruled that the president had to cease the federalization of the troops amid the LA anti-ICE riots. Late on Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary administrative stay following an emergency motion by the federal government, per Fox News. The appellate court ordered responses by June 15, with a reply due June 16 and a Zoom hearing scheduled for June 17.

The Most Common Reasons Not To Have Kids Are Financial
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Commonly, financial reasons, also including housing and childcare costs, made up the top 2 or even top 3 of the issues most often cited for lower fertility... A new survey by the UN Population Fund shows that the most common reasons people name for not having more children are financial in nature. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, among 14 countries surveyed, respondents named financial limitations or job instability as the most common reasons to have fewer children than they desired in all.

Weinstein Mistrial Declared as Jury Foreperson 'Bails Out'
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Hollywood Reporter
He will be tried on rape charge a 3rd time. The judge in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes case declared a mistrial on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreperson said he wouldn't continue deliberating. Deliberations were ended Thursday, a day after the jury delivered a partial verdict in Weinstein's sex crimes retrial, convicting the ex-studio boss of one of the top charges but acquitted him of another. Both of those charges concerned accusations of forcing oral sex on women in 2006. Those verdicts still stand.

The Colorado Supreme Court just redefined what a grandparent is
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Not the Bee
First, let's cover the tragic background: in 2020, Brandon Sullivan killed his wife Amanda and then himself. The couple left behind a 2-year-old son and two infant twins. Amanda's parents, Suzanne and August Nicolas, took charge of the children and later adopted them as their own. However, Brandon's parents still wanted to see their grandchildren, so they filed for grandparent visitation rights, and those rights were granted. But the Nicolases didn't want to share their grandchildren with the parents of their daughter's murderer.

Watch: Polish MEP Destroys LGBTQ Exhibition
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Remix News
Gets Banned From Polish Parliament Building. Prominent right-wing Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun destroyed a pro-LGBT exhibition on Wednesday in the Polish parliament. The organization “T?czowe Opole” had created the exhibit to present photos and accounts of young homosexual, bisexual, and transgender people from the Opole region, and displayed it in the Sejm during an action-packed day as lawmakers were in full attendance to debate the confidence vote in Prime Minister Donald Tusk, writes the Do Rzeczy news portal.

Sex Crimes Spark Three Nights Of Anti-Immigration Riots In N. Ireland
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Homes, businesses, police attacked as patience with open borders evaporates. In the wake of yet another alleged sex crime perpetrated by non-natives, a city in Northern Ireland has been rocked by three consecutive nights of anti-immigration riots. In this case, two 14-year-olds arrested on Sunday stand accused of attempted oral rape of a teenage girl on the previous night. The ensuing wave of arson, vandalism and anti-police violence -- which has left more than 32 officers injured -- has spread from Ballymena to other towns, prompting authorities to deploy reinforcements from the area and to request 80 officers be dispatched from across the Irish Sea.

U. Louisville ‘LGBTQ+ Students of Color’ scholarship
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
...draws federal civil rights complaint. The Equal Protection Project recently filed a federal complaint against the school, alleging it violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. Specifically, the complaint by the Legal Insurrection Foundation project identifies six scholarships it says violates the law. For example, the “A&S McSweeny Fellowships” are only open to “historically underrepresented ethnic/racial groups,” a list that excludes white and Asian applicants.

Al Sharpton seemingly suggests all Latinos are same as activists plan 'Day of Defiance'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
Sharpton made the comments during an online town hall meeting as over one thousand protests are slated to take place across the country on Saturday. Sharpton made the comments during an online town hall meeting hosted by on Tuesday by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in preparation for the protests. “All Latinos are one, they don’t even have a distinction of different countries they’re from,” Sharpton asserted. “All blacks are one.”

Entire Fulbright Scholarship board quits, citing Trump admin actions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: ABC News
The government-funded, non-partisan program was established by Congress in 1942. The 12-member board alleged the Trump administration "usurped the authority of the Board" by denying Fulbright awards to "a substantial number of individuals" who were selected for the 2025-2026 academic year. The board also alleged the administration is currently "subjecting" an additional 1,200 international Fulbright recipients to "an unauthorized review process and could reject more."

Wisconsin Breaks From CDC
Topic: Women's Health
Source: The Epoch Times
Keeps COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendation For Pregnant Women. Wisconsin’s health department is keeping in place its recommendation that pregnant women and all children receive one of the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, diverging from guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said on June 4 it is continuing to recommend COVID-19 vaccination for people aged 6 months and older.

California Public Schools Are Losing Kids While Special Interests Profit
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
...the declining student population required much more taxpayer money. New numbers from the California Department of Education show a continued drop in public school enrollment in the 2024–2025 school year. Despite fewer students, TK-12 education spending continues to increase, begging the question of whether taxpayers are getting value for money. The 5.8 million students counted for the just-concluded school year represents a reduction of 31,000 from 2023–2024 and 380,000 (or 6 percent) from before the pandemic. But the drop in traditional public school enrollment is even worse than these headline numbers suggest. The totals include charter schools which added 75,000 students since the 2018–19 school year. Netting out charters yields an enrollment drop of 8 percent, and this is despite the fact that a new grade, Transitional Kindergarten, was added during the period.

“I Feel Afraid Inside There”: Partial Mistrial Declared in Weinstein Case
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Jonathan Turley
The Weinstein trial took an unexpected turn today after New York Judge Curtis Farber declared a partial mistrial. The order followed a refusal of the foreperson to return to deliberations due to being bullied. In the trial, Weinstein faced one charge of rape in the third degree and two charges of criminal sexual act in the first degree. On Wednesday, the 12-person jury found him guilty of one count of a criminal sexual act against former Project Runway assistant Miriam Haley, but not guilty of the other count of a criminal sexual act against former model Kaja Sokola. That left the rape charge related to aspiring actress Jessica Mann. However, the jury foreperson had sent a note to the judge and said “I feel afraid inside there. I can’t be inside there.” He alleged that jurors were pressuring him to change his mind and threatened him that “Oh we will see you outside.”

The fall of Pride is upon us
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Spiked Online
Gender ideology is the enemy of gay and lesbian rights. The ghoulish, fleshy public spectacle that is Pride Month 2025 has little to say beyond exhibitionism and hedonism. It certainly has nothing to say about the UK Supreme Court ruling in April that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex – a ruling that upheld the lesbian and gay right to single-sex associations. It has nothing to say about the Supreme Court justices observing that, had the judgment gone the other way, the protected characteristic of same-sex orientation would be rendered ‘meaningless’. It offers no praise or thanks to the lesbian interveners in the Supreme Court case for fighting for lesbian and gay rights. In fact, it is angry that they did so.

Simone Biles drafts social media apology to Riley Gaines
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Not the Bee
...but is it really an apology? Over the weekend, Simone Biles went on a bile-filled rampage against Riley Gaines for her unorthodox belief that men aren't women and therefore shouldn't compete against women in sport. We covered that here and here. On Tuesday, the famed Olympian took to X to walk some of it back in a carefully crafted apology to Riley, and I really want to know what y'all think of this... [Ed: my vote? NOT an apology.]

Why Canada could be the last holdout for trans pseudoscience
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Canadian doctors are battling for their ‘right’ to ply experimental drugs to children. Canada seems determined to be the last country in the West clinging to ‘gender medicine’ for kids. While the US, UK, Sweden, Italy and others are banning puberty blockers and other dangerous procedures, the Great White North remains committed to this increasingly discredited medical fraud.

The fall of Pride is upon us
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Gender ideology is the enemy of gay and lesbian rights. The ghoulish, fleshy public spectacle that is Pride Month 2025 has little to say beyond exhibitionism and hedonism. It certainly has nothing to say about the UK Supreme Court ruling in April that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex – a ruling that upheld the lesbian and gay right to single-sex associations. It has nothing to say about the Supreme Court justices observing that, had the judgment gone the other way, the protected characteristic of same-sex orientation would be rendered ‘meaningless’. It offers no praise or thanks to the lesbian interveners in the Supreme Court case for fighting for lesbian and gay rights. In fact, it is angry that they did so.

Free Speech Unmuted
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Free Speech, Public School Students, And "There Are Only Two Genders". My co-host Jane Bambauer and I discuss the First Amendment rules pertaining to public school students. The occasion: The Supreme Court just declined to consider a federal appeals court case that led a public school to punish a student for wearing a T-shirt saying "There Are Only Two Genders." Did the lower court get that right?

WHY DOES AMERICAN HIGHER ED WORK SO POORLY?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
A review of Rich Vedder’s latest book, Let Colleges Fail. At this rate, we may have little choice but to watch a lot of them fail. What has gone wrong? In his latest book, Let Colleges Fail, economics professor Richard Vedder employs his insights to answer that question. The book’s subtitle, “The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education,” further elucidates his point of view. Consumers enjoy the results of markets where wide-open competition prevails, because the drive to succeed weeds out entities that fail to provide good value for the money. The problem in higher education, Vedder observes, is that competition is greatly hampered. Colleges can get into financial trouble just like failing businesses, “but, typically, third parties come to their rescue—governments allocate emergency funds and private donors respond to appeals for support,” he writes.

Professor Sends Email Encouraging Campus To Join LA Protests Against ICE
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
“Why is GCC allowing their teachers to directly [organize] against ICE and interfere with authorities?” An English instructor at Glendale Community College recently sent an email encouraging the campus community to join in protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The call came as riotous demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles have included destruction of property, looting, arson incidents, and the injury of at least five police officers.