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Gaza Devastation Drives Surge in Child Marriages
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP News
'I thought I was protecting them,' says one desperate widow who married off daughters, 13 and 14 In a tented camp in Gaza, one mother's desperate calculation is playing out across an entire war zone. The AP follows "Majda," who lost her husband and eldest son to Israeli airstrikes and, fearing hunger, harassment, and homelessness, agreed to marry off her 13- and 14-year-old daughters to men who promised shelter and support. "I thought I was protecting them," she said. "Fear was slaughtering me." Instead, the girls describe repeated rapes, beatings, miscarriages, and high-risk pregnancies—abuse they eventually fled, only to be pressured back to their husbands.

Taliban child marriage law has NO minimum age for girls
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Daily Mail
The Taliban has introduced a new family law with no minimum age for marriage, prompting warnings from rights groups that the rules risk normalising child weddings in Afghanistan. UN Women's special representative in Afghanistan, Susan Ferguson, said the new legislation represented 'another serious development' in the erosion of women's rights nearly five years after the group returned to power. The agency warned the rules failed to establish a minimum age for marriage and mark a departure from laws in force before the Taliban takeover in August 2021, when Afghanistan criminalised forced child marriage

Zelenskyy alleges Russia is abducting Ukrainian kids and training them to fight
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CBS News
[Ed: I do not believe anything Zelensky says but this story is making the news.] Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CBS News in an exclusive interview that his government has evidence that Russia is abducting Ukrainian children and training them to fight against fellow Ukrainians. It is an allegation that may constitute a war crime, according to the International Criminal Court. This is the first time that Zelenskyy has publicly made this accusation, which goes beyond the documented evidence that Russia has a state-sponsored program of taking Ukrainian children to camps for reeducation or "Russification." "When these children grow up and they push these boys to the battlefield," Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy said "yes have evidence"

Dem lawmakers gripe about the 'economic violence'
Topic: Women's Health
Source: FOX News
,,,of not being paid to stay home from work when menstruating. Rep. Adelita Grijalva used the phrase while promoting a bill that has 28 Democratic cosponsors and zero Republicans. "Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day's pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice. It’s economic violence," Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., said during a press conference on May 21.

Platner Staffers Bodycheck Journalists Asking Questions About His Sexting Scandal
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Townhall
More mayhem has been unleashed by the Graham Platner campaign amid his massive sexting scandal that broke just yesterday. Staffers from the Platner campaign physically interfered with reporters who attempted to question the candidate about the breaking news.

The FCC Wants Warning Labels for Shows With 'Transgender' Content
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
But free speech advocates are pushing back. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering new content ratings for TV shows that depict or discuss gender identity. Doing so would be well outside the FCC's legal authority, and some free speech organizations warn that such a request could constitute a violation of the First Amendment. At the direction of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, broadcasters developed content ratings for TV shows, patterned after the ones for movies. The TV ratings span TV-Y (appropriate for all children) to TV-MA (mature audiences only), plus more specific content labels for suggestive dialogue, bad language, sexual content, and violence. They also established the TV Parental Guidelines Oversight Monitoring Board (TVOMB) to administer the new ratings.

Seattle To Declare "State Of Emergency" To Protect Transgender Refugees?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Seattle is flooded with trans people relocating from red states, and they're demanding emergency provisions as "refugees"...
The ultimate claim to victimhood is the claim that a group of people are "refugees" from mass persecution or "genocide." The political left covets this victim status more than anything else because, within first world liberal societies, refugees have immediate political capital and access to easy money. Within every leftist narrative there is an agenda for power and a life without adult responsibility. It is perhaps ironic that thousands of progressive activists and LGBT advocates are leaving red states over imaginary oppression after they spent years attacking conservatives for escaping blue states over very real medical tyranny. At least conservatives never called themselves "refugees."

Federal court upholds Michiganders’ constitutional right to an abortion
Topic: Abortion
Source: Michigan Independent
A federal appeals court recently affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit from anti-abortion advocates challenging the Michigan Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment. In a win for reproductive rights advocates, a federal court upheld Michiganders’ constitutional right to an abortion in an opinion issued this month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on May 26 affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss Right to Life of Mich. v. Gretchen Whitmer, a lawsuit challenging Article I, Section 28 of the Michigan Constitution, also known as the Michigan Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment.

Student sues after U. Tennessee rejects research due to ‘cultural appropriateness’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Lawyers for a University of Tennessee PhD student hope their client’s case, scheduled for trial next year, will reshape how public universities regulate social science research through academic oversight and the authority of Institutional Review Boards. The case, Issak v. University of Tennessee, centers on Idil Issak, a PhD student whose anthropology research involved interviewing Ethiopian domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. After the university’s Institutional Review Board repeatedly delayed and restricted her project, Issak filed her lawsuit, arguing that the mandatory research review violated her First Amendment rights. At the center of the case is a constitutional question: Is interview-based academic research protected speech?

Stanford student government outraged
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Campus Reform
...after university makes mandatory 'Beyond Sex Ed' consent program optional. Stanford student government leaders are criticizing the university’s decision to make a “Beyond Sex Ed” education program optional for first-year students. The program itself taught students about 'safe sex' practices through student experiences. For the upcoming 2026–27 academic year, the student-developed program will be converted into an online module, according to a report from The Stanford Daily. “Beyond Sex Ed” is described on a Stanford University New Student Orientation website as a “core NSO program that features stories from current students to start a conversation about sexuality.”

One In Three American Men No Longer Working
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: American Greatness
Several economic shifts are contributing to the decline... The number of American men participating in the workforce has fallen to one of its lowest levels in nearly two decades, according to new federal labor statistics. Just 66 percent of men age 20 and older were employed or actively seeking work as of April, according to data released earlier this month by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure has dropped sharply from 73 percent in 2006 and now sits near levels last seen during the fallout from the 2008 financial cri

Pediatric Gender Medicine Faces Legal and Policy Shifts in US and Abroad
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Manhattan Institute
In a 5-2 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling from February and restored access to pediatric medical transition procedures at Children’s Hospital Colorado. In January, Children’s Hospital Colorado announced it would no longer provide cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to dysphoric youth under 19, citing the threat to Medicaid funding. In response, four trans-identified minors and their families charged the hospital with violating the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. In an 18-page dissent joined by Justice Carlos Samour, Justice Brian Boatright argued that the lower court injunction should have been upheld. “From my perspective, CHC’s decision to terminate gender-affirming care for minors was plainly not ‘because of’ petitioners’ gender identity, sex or disability,” Boatright wrote. “It was a decision driven by the direct threat to the viability of the entire hospital.”

X Users NUKE Communist Seattle Mayor
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Gateway Pundit
After She Posts This Absolutely Humiliating Photo of Herself Trying to Pander to Muslim Men. Marxist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s attempt to pander to her Muslim constituents on one of their holy days ended up backfiring in spectacular fashion. On Saturday, Wilson posted a very curious Instagram image of herself celebrating Eid al-Adha, with an all-Muslim male audience looking on in the background. It was as if the men were looking at potential prey, knowing that communists like her are useful idiots. Wilson, though, was totally clueless.

"It's All So Tiresome": UK's Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Off-Guardian
...the report wails about “a wave of radicalized children” who pose “a real risk to society”... The UK government’s “consultation” on social media harm is over, and – brace yourselves – it turns out they’re going to have to do something about it. I know, I was shocked too. The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it’s the meme of the day. It’s a sentiment originally taken from a new report submitted to the consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

From Gilead to Ladyland
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Guardian
After visiting an island brothel in Bangladesh, the novelist was inspired to write an imagined uprising. She explores the radical fictional worlds where women have the power. In the spring of 2024, I am finally able to visit Banishanta, the island in southern Bangladesh that has been haunting my dreams. When I arrive I find it is little more than a long patch of grey mud, with a string of flimsy huts lining a craggy shore. Thirteen years earlier, I was on a boat on my way to the Sundarban mangrove forest when a guide casually pointed out the island and told me it was a state-licensed brothel that had been there since the time of the British.

Salon Hot Take: Salon Hot Take:
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Trump’s Vulgarity Is Poisoning Public Life The comrades at Salon strike again. It seems as if none of the writers at this outfit look in the mirror. What did they say this time? Trump’s vulgarity is poisoning public life. According to Chauncey DeVega, Trump is the reason public life is toxic in 2026. DeVega cites a Washington Post (of course) article that analyses Trump’s “violent” rhetoric. WaPo claims profanity is the “hallmark” of Trump’s second term. From WaPo:

Daily Mail lies
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gray Zone
Oct 7 victim saved from rape by non-existent Muslim prohibition on violating scarred women. The latest Oct. 7 rape hoax propaganda piece from The Daily insists that the only reason a woman at the Nova music festival wasn’t raped by Hamas members is that she had a scar – and falsely claims that “scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists.” In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted to leave by Hamas militants only avoided being sexually assaulted by showing her captors her scar.

‘It’s not a nice world to bring children into
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years. Stacey Waring, 40, a nurse from Nottingham, says global uncertainty has made her think twice about starting a family. She is one of an increasing number of people having either no or fewer children, contributing to a national and global picture of falling birth rates. In 2025, births in England and Wales fell for the fourth year in a row to their lowest level in nearly half a century, according to the Office for National Statistics (O

Henry Nowak and the evil of 'anti-racism'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: BBC News
The police watchdog is investigating after a young murder victim was arrested and handcuffed as he lay dying. First-year university student Henry Nowak, 18, had been stabbed multiple times with a 21cm (8in) ceremonial knife when officers in Southampton arrived at the scene in December. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary apologised after 23-year-old killer Vickrum Digwa was found guilty of murder on Thursday. The trial heard that Digwa lied to police, falsely claiming he was the victim and alleging he had been subjected to racist abuse.