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Influencer: After Down Syndrome Diagnosis, We Aborted
Topic: Abortion
Source: Healthline
YouTuber Jesse Ridgway says he and spouse have received death threats after they ended pregnancy YouTuber Jesse Ridgway says he and his wife, Ashley, chose to end a pregnancy after learning their fetus had Down syndrome, and he's now explaining the decision directly to his followers. In an Instagram story posted this week and later shared by Ashley, the 33-year-old influencer wrote that the couple made "the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to trisomy 21," adding that the choice followed consultations with doctors, genetic counselors, friends, and family, per People. He also noted that he was told 90% of women who receive a Down syndrome diagnosis end up having an abortion, though Healthline reports that stat in the US is more like 67%.

Disney exec has AI 'son,' causing staffers to be disturbed
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
"This is the kind of Pandora’s Box stuff that science fiction movies are based on." A Disney executive is reportedly disturbing a number of employees because of a “relationship” he has developed with an AI chatbot that he refers to as his "son." The bot is personified as a child-like avatar similar to a young boy.

Ohio State University Reaches $100 Million Settlement
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epoch Times
With Nearly 300 Sex Abuse Survivors. Strauss, who killed himself in 2005, was employed by Ohio State's athletic department and medical staff for nearly two decades. The settlement with 279 of the 280 former students was ratified by the university's board on Wednesday. It followed years of litigation over accusations of decades of abuse by Richard Strauss. The abuse occurred from 1978 to 1998, the year he retired from the faculty.

American Views Are Shifting on Same-Sex Marriage
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Hill
American backing for same-sex marriage has slipped a few points, though it remains solidly in majority territory. A new Gallup survey finds that 65% of adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized as legal, down from 68% last year and 69% in 2024, reports the Hill. In 2022, that number reached as high as 71%, per the AP. Opposition, meanwhile, has climbed to 32%, up from 23% two years ago, per the Hill. The poll, conducted May 1-17 among 1,001 adults, has a 4-point margin of error. [Ed: I'm sorry to see this, but the trans stuff being rammed down people's throats is causing a backlash.]

‘It Hurt’: Graham Platner’s Exes Accuse Him of Getting Physical
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Mediaite
...and Other ‘Unsettling’ Behavior in Bombshell NY Times Story. Ex-girlfriends of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, accused him of demeaning women, calling his controversial tattoo “my Totenkopf,” and even getting physical in a bombshell New York Times report. The most serious allegations come from Lyndsey Fifield, “a Virginia conservative” who reportedly dated Platner between 2013 and 2015, and disputed his claim that he was unaware of the connection between the tattoo across his chest. “After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as ‘my Totenkopf,'” reported the Times‘ Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer.

Dems replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in latest woke rewrite of NY law
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New ork Post
Mom’s not the word. A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws — a gender-neutral rewriting that’s expected to spark a flood of similarly clunky legislation. “Mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent” or “parent” in family court along with in domestic and education law, under the legislation, passed this week by state Democrats.

Botched ruling on pregnancy 'fairness' law
Topic: Abortion
Source: Just the News
...opens floodgates to abortion, pro-life coalition warns. Democrats, atheists, Jewish and Christian groups back Catholic bishops' challenge to EEOC regulation, court ruling on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, saying they obliterate First Amendment rights of religious and pro-life groups.

DEI ban ‘doesn’t do anything’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Undercover video raises legal questions about UT Austin.
UT Austin claims full compliance with Texas' DEI ban after an undercover video showed an employee stating the law has limited impact, merely creating extra work for staff.
Accuracy in Media's Adam Guillette criticizes the DEI ban's effectiveness, alleging that universities are circumventing the law by altering job titles and curriculum without true compliance.
Progressive student activists are protesting against the DEI restrictions, claiming they undermine academic freedom, while university officials note changes aimed at compliance and streamlining academic program decisions.
Guillette argues that Texas higher education institutions require further reforms to prohibit the promotion of identity politics and focus on education rather than activism.

New Study Finds Average College Professor 'Only Slightly Less Left' Than Bernie Sanders
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
FIRE's data suggest that the range of opinions at American universities is far too narrow. In the U.S., the average college professor who donates to political candidates is "only slightly less left on the political spectrum than Bernie Sanders." That's the top-line finding from a new study of American academics' political donations, commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The study scored academics' political ideologies based on the voting records of the candidates to which they donated. It found that academics are increasingly donating to far-left politicians like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

BBC presenter apologises for misquoting Nigel Farage
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: BBC News
Chorley said Farage had used the phrase "white cold rage" instead of "pure cold rage". On its flagship evening news show Newsnight, presenter Matt Chorley repeatedly claimed Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for a "white cold rage" in response to the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak. Yet Farage said no such thing. He called for "pure cold rage" - a measured, determined pushback against institutional failures and anti-white bias in policing and justice.

A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice
Topic: Children and Family
Source: PJ Media
A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn't the latest headline out of Minnesota - look a little further north. In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets picked up a story too sensational not to be true: Hundreds of indigenous First Nations children had been buried in unmarked graves at residential schools run by the Catholic Church in British Columbia.

We need a reckoning with ‘anti-racism’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The Henry Nowak tragedy must bring an end to Britain’s institutional identitarianism. There’s been a collective realisation over the past seven days in Britain that a doctrine that divides individuals into passive ethnic-minority victims and privileged white oppressors has now become both a seemingly legitimate mode of thinking and a tacit state policy. The events surrounding the death of Henry Nowak in Southampton last December were not only distressing on a human level, but alarming because it made clear how a diseased ideology had become a grim reality. A man was left to die, assumed guilty because he was white, while the man who was last week found guilty of his murder was presumed innocent because he wasn’t. [Ed: guilty of being white.]

Cultural Marxism has turned accusations into instant guilt in the West
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
"They gave the benefit of the doubt to the brown, and they gave no benefit of any doubt to the white, and they immediately aggressed him." Joshua Lisec appeared on Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec, where he delivered his breakdown of cultural Marxism and its real-world impact on the West's institutions, including law enforcement responses in violent incidents in light of after the murder of Henry Nowak in the UK.

As feds pull back student loans, states should reform cosmetology licensing
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Trump administration is pulling back federal student loans for cosmetology schools — and it’s a great opportunity for states to stop forcing aspiring beauticians to take on debt just to practice their trade. Under the administration’s proposed “Do No Harm” rule, colleges and trade schools can no longer enroll pupils using federal student loans if their graduates earn less than early-career workers with only a high school diploma. The logic is that postsecondary education should, at a minimum, make people better off than those who never went to college. If graduates can’t clear this basic benchmark, they are unlikely to be able to afford their loan payments.

Media Wants To Know Why Men Are Walking Away From Liberal Society?
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Zero Hedge
Establishment journalists are desperate to understand why men are ignoring modern women and progressive modernity in general...but they don't want to hear the real answer... Recent surveys paint what might seem like an apocalyptic picture: In the US, around 45% of men ages 18-25 do not approach women anymore to engage in dating or relationships. Over 42% of all men have no interest in seeking out women for relationships or casual dates. Around 30% of men over 40 years old have never been married and are not necessarily seeking marriage. In light of ongoing concerns about population decline around the world, the first thing most people might say is that men need to "step up" and fulfill their role in order to save the human species from a "Children Of Men" movie scenario. However, this suggests that it's men's fault and that checking out of the current system is a bad thing. It's a narrow minded view.

If Judge Ross's "Improper Sexual Activity"
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
"Greatly Damage[s] [Her] Credibility as a Judge," Does That Satisfy the Standard for Impeachment? The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council may have thought Judge Eleanor Ross's apology was sufficient to keep the reprimand private, but those not wearing a robe continue to see a problem. Representative Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee is starting to discuss an investigation. "The House Judiciary Committee's top Republican said his staff is looking at possible congressional action after a Georgia federal judge had an affair in her chambers, in earshot of clerks, and lied to judiciary officials about it."

Facing the Big Zero
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
The University of Oregon Grapples With a Budget Crisis After Years of Woke Excess. It appears that being unrelentingly woke means that you need fewer dormitories. The University of Oregon is facing a major budget crisis and will cut $65 million from its budget and close dorms due to low enrollment. That growing crisis, however, did not stop Oregon from burning almost a million dollars fighting against free speech. It also did not induce its faculty to offer greater intellectual diversity and tolerance to prospective students. Oregon is a cautionary tale for a generation of academic social warriors, but also an opportunity for those who want to restore balance in higher education.

The moral woke abyss that got Henry Nowak killed
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
So this is the moral abyss wokeness has dragged us into. A society where a dying teenage boy can be roughly handcuffed by cops because someone accused him of being racist. A hellish dystopia where the last thing a kid hears as he gasps his final breaths is a politically correct police officer reading him his rights. A nightmare world where not even the victim of a vicious stabbing can escape the haughty suspicion of the state’s DEI-trained goons. The cruel, lonely death of Henry Nowak has caused a storm here in the United Kingdom. It should send a shiver down your spine too — for it provides a chilling insight into the barbarism of wokeness.

Bill Gates Public Image Takes Hit After Epstein Files
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: OK Magazine
Bill Gates' public image has suffered significant damage due to unsealed documents, photographs, and ongoing congressional investigations linking him to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to an explosive exposé by the Wall Street Journal. “Justice Department files show that Gates met with Epstein multiple times despite concerns from his then-wife, that Epstein knew about some of Gates’ extramarital relationships and that two of Gates’ close advisers had exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein for years up until 2019, the year he died,” wrote Emily Glazer in a WSJ story titled “Bill Gates’ Image Is Cracking.”