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Mayor Mamdani interview sparks disagreement over rape statistics
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: WPIX
An uptick in rape reports to the NYPD has drawn significant attention online this week after Mayor Zohran Mamdani addressed the trend. NYPD data shows that there's been a 6.6% increase in rape reports over the past year and a 30% increase over the past two years. Rape and felony assault are the only major crimes that have increased in recent years. In a budget hearing earlier this year, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch attributed the jump in felony assault to domestic violence reporting. In an interview with PIX11 News' Dan Mannarino, Mamdani addressed the increase in rape reports, referencing a 2024 state law that expanded the legal definition of rape.

PC Crime Reporting and the British Grooming Gangs’ Migrant Connection
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Gateway Pundit
On June 22, 2026, three brothers, Amar, Kamar, and Kamran Ilyas, of Sheffield, were sentenced to a combined 40 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of five girls between 2004 and 2008, when the victims were as young as 12. One victim was abused by all three brothers. Amar Ilyas, who fled to Pakistan while on bail and was sentenced in absentia, was convicted of 20 offences against the five victims. The case was not officially described as a grooming gang by prosecutors or investigators, although it shared several characteristics with cases that carry that label. It involved multiple offenders acting against multiple underage victims over a prolonged period, repeated sexual exploitation, and familial coordination, with one victim abused by all three brothers. The perpetrators were Pakistani, the ethnicity most commonly associated with such cases.

UK to change law so ringleader of Rochdale grooming gang can be deported
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The BBC
The home secretary will change the law so the freed ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang can be deported, the BBC has been told. As first reported by the Telegraph, Shabana Mahmood is expected to set out on Monday how she plans to amend the 1971 Immigration Act which currently stops Shabir Ahmed being removed from the UK. Ahmed, 73, was jailed for 22 years in August 2012 for a number of child sexual offences including rape. He was released on licence last week.

Charlottesville's Lee statue melted down
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Charlottesville's Lee statue melted down, transformed into 'racial diversity' monument "To transform the very material of a monument is to acknowledge that history cannot be erased, but it can be reimagined." Charlottesville's Lee statue melted down, transformed into 'racial diversity' monument Image Libby Emmons Brooklyn NY Jul 13, 2026 4 minute read A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was at the heart of the Charlottesville protests in 2017, followed by the Unite the Right rally where Heather Heyer was killed. The rally was funded in part by the SPLC

GOP Lawmakers Rebuke Elissa Slotkin Saying SAVE Act Would Hurt Women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart
Speaking at a town hall, Slotkin said that the SAVE Act was designed to “rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.” She also said it would “disenfranchise all married women,” adding that they would have to show their birth certificates at the polls if they have a married name. Sen. Rand Paul and other lawmakers clapped back in posts on X, dismissing her claims as “false.” “This talking point from the Left is not only false, but it also paints women as incapable, which we all know is not the case. Showing up to the polls to vote with an ID that proves you’re an American citizen – whether you’re married or not – is common sense. We need to pass the SAVE America Act,” said Rand Paul.

Supergirl becomes DC's biggest flop since Catwoman in 2004
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Adjusted for inflation, Supergirl performed even worse than Catwoman. As of this past weekend, Supergirl has made $108 million globally and would need $22 million more to even match DC's poor release of "Blue Beetle," which brought in $130 million during its 2023 release.

Abortion rights are on the ballot in 4 states. Here's what to know
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Times
Idaho voters will decide whether to roll back the state’s abortion ban, the secretary of state told the group behind the initiative in a letter Monday, joining three other states where abortion will be directly on the ballot on Nov. 3. Voters in Virginia and Nevada - both states where abortion is already legal through at least 24 weeks of pregnancy - are considering state constitutional amendments to create a right to abortion. And in Missouri, which in 2024 became the first state to use a constitutional amendment to undo an abortion ban, voters are being asked to override that to bring back an abortion ban, with limited exceptions, and to write into the state constitution a ban on some gender-affirming care for minors.

AI pushing the expected rise in college closures, analysts say
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
Artificial intelligence is driving a surge in expected college closures by automating repetitive office roles that long have been reserved for liberal arts graduates, recent analyses show. Huron Consulting Group estimates, as reported by the Hechinger Report, that 442, or 26%, of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit campuses will close or merge over the coming decade. That would affect 670,000 students. The nonprofit trade publication has noted that AI automation is accelerating this downsizing by reducing the perceived market value of many four-year degrees, hurting enrollment at tuition-dependent campuses.

Researchers Identify Age of Fertility Wall for Women
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
Even IVF with donor eggs can't fully offset age-related decline after 49, study finds. Women in their late 40s may be hitting a fertility wall that even young donor eggs can't fully knock down, new research suggests. An Italian team tracked 1,774 women undergoing IVF with donor eggs and found that success rates dip notably from age 49. Women aged 35–40 had about a 54% chance of getting pregnant and a 46% live birth rate; for those 49 and older, those figures fell to roughly 43% and 32%, per the BBC. The likelihood of a successful birth over several IVF rounds was also significantly lower for women over 49: 62.5% compared to 80% for those 35–40, per a release. Miscarriage risk doubled in the older group, rising from 24% to 38%

New Germany sex-crime figures reignite migration fight
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: FOX News
...as exploitation probe expands. Researcher warns failed asylum screening and weak integration policy are fueling organized sexual exploitation across Europe. Germany recorded 751 cases categorized as group rapes in 2025, according to the federal government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry submitted by the opposition Alternative für Deutschland party. All parties represented in the Bundestag German federal parliament may submit formal questions requiring government responses, a key tool through which opposition lawmakers scrutinize federal policy.

Olivia Rodrigo pledges to bankroll Planned Parenthood after Trump cuts funding
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Post Millennial
Rodrigo was awarded Planned Parenthood's Catalyst of Change Award in 2025. Olivia Rodrigo is really into abortion. Her new plan is to hold a festival of all women recording artists and donate proceeds from ticket sales to Planned Parenthood, which delivers surgical abortions and abortion pills, and other women's and girls' charities. This comes after the Trump administration and Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which defunded Planned Parenthood so that federal funds could no longer be used by the group to pay for the killing of unborn American children.

RFK Jr. Wants the Gov To Teach Everyone How To Cook Again
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Can we trust the federal government and its ever-changing nutrition guidelines, to teach us how and what to cook? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a plan for your kitchen, and he has been unusually specific about it. In a recent interview with U.S. News, the secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services laid it out. Medical students will take cooking classes, then "go out into the communities and teach people how to cook in a mobile unit." The roughly 5,000 uniformed officers of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps are "taking nutrition classes and developing teaching kitchens." A new federal platform will post recipes for eating well on $10 a day, plus videos on grocery shopping and—his words—"how to use cutlery and cutting boards." The diagnosis behind the whole program, offered at a conference in March: "people have forgotten how to cook."

Ann Widdecombe: Britain’s last Battleaxe
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Unherd
We have grown simpering and sentimental.Ann Widdecombe was murdered in her Devon home, a bungalow in a small community at the edge of Dartmoor National Park. Just the kind of place, in fact, where Orwell might have pictured old maids hiking to Communion through the mist: and the last on earth where, you’d imagine, something so horrifying might happen (outside an Agatha Christie novel, at least). A few days later, a man was arrested in Rotherham. Subsequent statements from police have been contradictory and confusing: after local bobbies initially played down any suspicion of political motives, today Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that counter-terrorism police were taking over the investigation.

A Case of Campus Cancel Culture Finally Goes to Trial
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot
So that's the core of the case. Was Laffer told by university police to leave or was it "suggested" that he should leave. Either way, what's clear is that the police didn't make much of an effort to defend Laffer's right to speak. It looks like they decided it was easier to just push him to leave. Here's the full video showing what happened from the moment the event began and 45 minutes after that. What I see is a mob of bullies using their numbers to silence the speech of someone they don't like. This is the heckler's veto in action.

Believe All Women - Unless They're Inconvenient
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The American Spectator
From Biden and Cuomo to Ellison and Swalwell, the Left's commitment to believing women appears to depend on the politics of the accused. The political Left has spent years promoting the slogan "Believe All Women," using it as a powerful weapon against conservatives, especially during critical events like the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. But this mantra has never been about seeking justice or protecting victims; instead, it serves as a cynical tool for gaining power - a way to undermine opponents while conveniently overlooking the serial abusers, gropers, and predators within their own ranks.

A gonorrhea vaccine fails - and reveals a much bigger problem
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Alex Berenson Substack
with the studies health bureaucrats use to push flu and Covid jabs. Last year, England began offering gay and bisexual (aka gay) men a vaccine for gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted bacterial infection often called “the clap.” Though not fatal, gonorrhea is unpleasant and increases risk for HIV. Like other sexually transmitted diseases, it is far more common in gay men. English authorities offered the vaccine, originally designed for meningitis, after studies showed it cut infections by about 40 percent. The shot could have a “huge impact,” England’s top vaccine regulator told the BBC. Or not.

Why are women & gay men backing a movement that undermines their rights?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Andrew Doyle
The fiercest advocates of gender identity ideology are often those with the most to lose from it. Last week saw yet another victory for women’s rights in the US. The Supreme Court upheld state bans on males participating in girls’ sports. Predictably, the ruling was split along party lines, with the six Republican appointees supporting single-sex sports and the three Democrat appointees voting against. Riley Gaines has been quick to note the perversity of so-called ‘progressives’ working against women. ‘Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor ruled against women having equal protection under the law,’ she posted on X. ‘Liberal women, yet again, prove to be the biggest hurdle women face.’

First Amendment Protects Universities From Florida's Stop WOKE Act
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
In the U.S., government officials aren’t allowed to fight ideas they don’t like with censorship. The cure for a regime of establishment-approved ideology does not come from government censorship of conversations. That should be clear to anybody who believes in freedom, and it's a point strongly made by a federal appeals court in overruling Florida's Stop WOKE Act. Saying the First Amendment is incompatible with "an official government line—in a college classroom of all places," the court overruled the state's effort to battle ideological orthodoxy by imposing its own orthodoxy.

US Men's World Cup Team Required To Split $12.8M Payout With Women's Team
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Headline USA
"...this policy treats men's soccer as a piggy bank for 'fairness'..." America’s fleeting interest in soccer may once again have abated following a humiliating World Cup defeat to Belgium last Monday, in a game that saw President Donald Trump become personally involved over a red-card dispute. But the high-profile flop in the first elimination round was not the only indignity that the U.S. athletes must endure. A collective bargaining agreement means that the team will have to share its $16 million prize pot (minus a 20% cut for the U.S. Men’s Soccer organization) with the U.S. women’s team.