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JD Vance refers medical child sex change providers to DOJ
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...for prosecution over fraud. The Trump administration on Thursday released a new report detailing how hospitals have placed profits over the safety of children in prescribing so-called “gender affirming” medical treatments, such as sex-change surgeries and hormones. Vice President VD Vance announced that he has referred the matter to the Department of Justice.

The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling the Family’s Will to Reproduce
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Mises Institute
The total fertility rate needed to sustain a population is 2.1. Averaged over 2020–2024, South Korea’s stands at 0.78, Taiwan’s at 0.89, and Hong Kong’s at 0.79. Mainstream demography still treats these as cultural anomalies, when they are in fact the terminal readings of a century-long experiment in administrative intervention. The standard explanation blames housing costs, changing values, or the burden of raising children in a modern economy. Examined through the lens of praxeology—the deductive logic of human action—that explanation gets the causation backward. Childbearing is, at bottom, a long-horizon investment: a rational actor accepts a low time preference, sinking two decades of capital and labor into a payoff that only matures across generations.

AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: New York Post
...worth over $1.4M to write ‘manifesto’ book. American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found. Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.

Emily Moreno sues ex Max Miller over nude photo of 2-year-old daughter
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
[Ed: I remember when such photos were considred normal and cute.] As concerns grow that the domestic abuse allegations could derail Republican hopes of keeping his seat red come November, Miller has sought to push back on all allegations of impropriety brought against him, professing his innocence, and even calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation into himself, saying he has “absolutely nothing to hide.”

'Safe Space': New Taxpayer-Funded Berlin Pool For 'Blacks Only' On Fridays
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Remix News
Taxpayers are funding anti-White racism and discrimination in Berlin, which is a pattern seen across Germany time after time... A temporary open-air pool erected outside Berlin’s iconic theater was supposed to represent the ultimate low-barrier urban oasis. Instead, a plan to allow only Black people to attend on Fridays has sparked outrage and accusations of racism. Conceived as a free, non-commercial refuge requiring no identity checks — though reliant on a competitive online reservation system — the €300,000 project was introduced to the public as a shared summer meeting point. However, the organizers have implemented a protocol that excludes anyone non-Black one day a week, a clearly discriminatory practice.

DC Bomb Squad Called Out Over a Sex Toy
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: WTOP
That 'blue-and-black electronic device' wasn't a bomb, but it closed down Wisconsin Ave. for 2 hours. An object left outside a D.C. firehouse on Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown that prompted a bomb squad response turned out to be a sex toy for men. The item, described as an “electronic sex portable pump device” in a D.C. police report, was cleared around 9 a.m. Wednesday. Police responded to the firehouse just after 7 a.m. for the report of a suspicious electronic device. A member of the firehouse told police someone left the device, which had “wires exposed,” according to the report, near the firehouse.

Republicans introduce bill banning federally funded research
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Campus Reform
...on gender transitions for minors. Sen. Tommy Tuberville joined Sen. Mike Lee in introducing the Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act on Aug. 3. The bill would prohibit federal funding for research or publications supporting gender-transition interventions for minors. Supporters of the bill point to a federally funded $428,296 research grant awarded to Seattle Children's Hospital to improve access to transgender medical procedures through telehealth for rural and BIPOC gender-diverse youth.

Men Without Meaning
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Quillette
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose. A curious paradox sits at the heart of many advanced economies. Employers complain constantly about labour shortages. Governments respond by importing record numbers of migrants to fill vacancies. Yet at the same time, a growing number of men have quietly withdrawn from work altogether. These men are not showing up in unemployment queues or appearing in dramatic economic statistics. In many cases, they are not even looking for jobs. Instead, they exist in a liminal space between participation and withdrawal, cycling through gig work, periods of welfare dependence, disability payments, online entertainment and increasingly isolated lives.

Trans issues take center stage as Tafoya, Flanagan clash
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...in explosive Minnesota senate race. "When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grownups to listen and to believe them," Flanagan said of trans-identified kids. Tafoya has made recent fraud revelations in her state a core piece of her campaign, with “Stop the Fraud” displayed in bold letters on her campaign website. The former sports reporter has also taken a strong stance in the ongoing cultural debate over men competing in women’s sports, calling Sophie Cunningham a hero while blasting the WNBA. “I’m losing faith in this league,” Tafoya told Fox News’ Dan Dakich. “I have talked about this when this league had its inaugural first three, four seasons. I was one of the three play-by-play voices. It was Robin Roberts, Hannah Storm and myself, and I worked with Reggie Miller, and we had a blast. And it was a celebration of these women. This league has now somehow morphed into something that feels like activism on display.”

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs late-term abortion bill into law
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Monday signed a bill lifting the restriction on abortion at or after 24 weeks, making the state’s abortion law one of the broadest in the country. “We’ve heard so many stories –– stories that are filled with a lot of pain and anguish and heartache and a lot of trauma,” Healey said at a press conference in her office at the Massachusetts Statehouse, surrounded by lawmakers and advocates. “We heard stories about the worst moments of a person’s life, of a couple’s life.”

Florida surrogate fights to keep custody of triplets
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...after Chinese 'dad' believed to be human trafficker can't get US visa to retrieve them. A Florida woman who carried triplets as a surrogate for a single man in China found herself in an international custody battle after the children’s father failed to arrive to collect them. Kyla Simpson gave birth to three boys in November 2024 for Ted Zhou, a single man from China who had arranged the surrogacy. Zhou did not arrive after the birth, later explaining that he was still trying to obtain a US visa. Simpson agreed to take the children home while Zhou sorted out a plan to retrieve the children. She began caring after the babies, including breastfeeding them. As time passed, however, Simpson began growing suspicious of Zhou. She noticed that he had not given any of the children his last name and that payments he had promised for their care arrived late and only after she demanded them.

Surrogacy Contracts, Abortion, and Peonage
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Some questions for liberals and conservative to think about. A tragic case in Texas has given me an opportunity to rethink the relationship between surrogacy contracts, abortion, and peonage. In short, a couple from California signed a surrogacy contract with a woman from Alaska. A fertilized embryo was implanted in the Alaska woman. At the 20-week mark, the child was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease that would require multiple surgeries to survive. Pursuant to the surrogacy contract, the couple ordered the woman carrying their child to terminate the pregnancy. The woman refused and she traveled to Texas where the abortion would have been illegal. The Texas Attorney General intervened, and sought a TRO to ensure the child would receive medical care. The child has now been born. The couple from California gave him one name and the woman from Alaska gave him another name. Now there will be a contest for custody. Presumably this dispute will be adjudicated by the Texas courts. All the while, the baby will face weeks of risky surgeries.

The Alice-in-Wonderland World of the WNBA
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Mises Institute
Author: William B. Anderson
Officials quickly labeled Carrington’s deliberate foul as a Flagrant 2, which meant immediate ejection. After she marched off to the Chicago dressing room, she bizarrely put on social media, “WHITE PRIVILEGE” in all caps while tagging the Indiana Fever. Although Carrington since has tried to walk back her comments, claiming they were not aimed at either her or the Fever, the truth is that they could not have been aimed at anything else unless she had randomly written down both things simultaneously. Not surprisingly, at this writing three days after the incident, the WNBA leadership still has not made any official comment about Carrington’s social media post.

Inside Utah's Trans-Marxist Militia
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Cougar Chronicle
From Cuba Revolutionary Trips And Rifle Training To Declaring War On Landlords. Over the last few years, individuals and groups tied to violent and extremist LGBTQ activism have been emerging in the heart of Utah. In May, we exposed how extremist students and clubs at UVU have been responsible for vandalism, violent threats and rhetoric, and even justifying the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Some even left the words “bella ciao” on the sidewalk during left-wing protests. In September 2025, the FBI opened an investigation into Armed Queers of SLC in connection to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Since then, no updates have been released. Today, we are shining a light on a problem Utah's leaders and media are ignoring: the rising trans militia.

Letter on Jason Arday From Cambridge Vice Chancellor Is Objectively Funny
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Air
Arday's autobiography drops today, completing the humiliation of our entire cultural elite. Cambridge University hired and labeled Arday the best scholar in his discipline in the world, the BBC and other media outlets spent enormous effort promoting him as a wunderkind who made Einstein look like a hack, and now Simon and Schuster, a storied publishing house, is actually releasing Arday's book, despite the fact that his book was so obviously a pack of lies long before it got near publication. The police even investigated journalists for questioning Arday's qualifications. Shut up or else!

Sex Between Teens Should Not Be A Child Abuse Issue
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Moon of Alabama
It seems obvious that this is a case of teenage stupidity which has nothing to do with child exploitation. Jt turns out that the ‘child’ in this ‘child abuse’ case wasn’t a child at all – that the sex two teens had in this case was consensual – and that the video thereof, which a length of only 43 seconds, was never publicized: Tyler Boebert is facing five felony charges for allegedly filming a 43-second video of himself and an underage female which local authorities have deemed to be child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a copy of a criminal affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.

The WNBA has a black entitlement problem
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Washington Examiner
The politburo of the Women’s National Basketball Association continues to be mired in controversy after an excessively hard foul by Chicago Sky player Dijonai Carrington on the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham during a game over the weekend. Carrington’s contact drew the ire of Cunningham supporters everywhere, as it was vicious (and arguably intentional). As malevolent as Carrington’s foul was, basketball history is rife with such fouls — including some committed by Cunningham herself. Nevertheless, the problem wasn’t Carrington’s foul; the problem was Carrington blaming white privilege for being held accountable for the foul. It’s indicative of the black entitlement problem corroding the WNBA.

Sophie Cunningham Has a New Unexpected Ally
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Townhall
Sophie Cunningham earned more than a few enemies when she said that men have no place in women's sports. But she also gained fans and supporters, and they far outnumber the haters. That's because the vast majority of people agree with Cunningham, even if they never say so publicly. Right now, it turns out Cunningham has a famous ally in her corner: actor Hugh Laurie.

“Niceness as Whiteness”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Professors Denounce Niceness as White Privilege. We have previously discussed how many professors seem to compete in finding new forms of racism in every facet of society and education. Astrophysics, math, runoffs, science, statistics, and meritocracy have all been denounced as racist. In this academic cottage industry, professors secure publications and speaking opportunities by identifying racism in the expressions, images, or entire fields. Even time itself has been declared racist. Now, however, academics have found another undiscovered continent of white privilege: niceness.