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PAPERS, PLEASE: UK and EU push forward with mass surveillance
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Human Events
...infrastructure under the guise of protecting children. Last September, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the UK would get a mandatory national digital ID. The Estonian model was cited approvingly. Labour MPs believed the pitch was narrow and reasonable-sounding, especially considering Starmer had just given a migration speech so hardline it was compared to Enoch Powell’s "Rivers of Blood." The ID, called a BritCard would stop illegal Channel crossings, and prove people's right to work and residency status. However, it wasn’t long before Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, put his foot in it. He admitted the card "could have much wider uses in the future."

Brandon Gill grills Smithsonian director over 'racist' Mickey Mouse
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
... politeness, 'white supremacy culture'. Tuesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Brandon Gill pressed Anthea M. Hartig, who serves as director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, over a white supremacy Mass Action Toolkit the museum promoted under the director's tutelage and her comments on Mickey Mouse being rooted in racism. "Would you say that the goal of history is to be objective?" Gill asked Hartig.

Chaotic Bodycam Video Shows Trans Florida Student Confront Cop
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Over 'Misgendering' Before Arrest. Newly released police bodycam video shows a University of Central Florida student confronting a campus officer over pronouns before being pepper-sprayed, tased, and taken away in handcuffs. The footage shows Jarrett Vick, a 27-year-old blue-haired UCF student from Treasure Island, Florida, shouting at an officer who had arrived at a campus building on an unrelated call. The video was recorded in February 2025 but released Friday by the YouTube channel Inside The Blue TV.

NIH Gave Pediatrician Nearly $1/2M to Study BIPOC Youths’ Gender-Affirming Care
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Judicial Watch
Charged with making important discoveries that improve health and save lives, the nation’s medical research agency gave a pediatrician and professor at a public university nearly half a million dollars to research gender-affirming care for youth in rural communities who identify as black, indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which annually disburses tens of billions of dollars in research grants, initiated the award during the Biden administration but some of the money flowed under Trump, even after the president banned taxpayer dollars for such initiatives advanced by the left. “Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology,” reads an order issued by Trump on the day of his 2025 inauguration. “Each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.”

This Sex Robot Is Going To 'Teach' Your Kids In Schools
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
A $57,000 silicone-skinned humanoid with botox lips... A rural New York school district on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to become one of the first in the United States to place a lifelike humanoid robot in front of high school students. Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will introduce "Sally," an M-Series robot built by Realbotix, to assist in coding, robotics, and AI classes for 11th and 12th graders. Sally comes with brown hair, silicone skin, a Western New York accent, upper-body movement, and facial expressions. She remains seated and cannot walk the room. Students will log in with unique identification codes so the machine can recognize them and pick up previous interactions.

DOJ Probing Harvard Over Financial Aid Programs Linked To China-Based Sources
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
Harvard had disclosed nearly $4.5 billion in foreign funding of which $630 million came directly from sources in China, the DOJ said. The Justice Department (DOJ) said on July 20 that it was investigating whether Harvard University violated Title VI by excluding American students from financial aid programs funded by China-based sources. Universities are required by federal law to report gifts and contracts from foreign sources that exceed $250,000 in a year. Harvard had disclosed nearly $4.5 billion in foreign funding, of which $630 million came from sources based in China - the university's largest source of foreign funding - the department said.

‘When she turns eight they will take her’
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian
...rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage {Islam}. Sima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four. Sitting with her children in their mud-brick room in Badghis province, Sima says: “After the Taliban entered the country, I had just finished the sixth grade and was supposed to start the seventh. But two months later, my father pressured me immensely to marry my cousin. After being beaten by my father several times, I was forced to accept.” At 13, Sima became a bride inside the compound where she still lives, and where she has given birth to her children

US Democratic senators demand Pentagon release investigation
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Anadolu Agency
... into deadly Iran school strike. 'There is no justification for withholding an unclassified accounting of what happened, what went wrong,' senators write in letter. A group of Democratic senators is pressing the Pentagon to immediately release its findings of an investigation into a US military strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 175 people, including children. Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and 23 other senators in demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper make public the Pentagon’s review of the Feb. 28 strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab.

‘Trumpian politics’: Abortion battle flares over law pushed by Madrid conservatives
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico.EU
Critics say an expansion of benefit entitlements pushed by Spain’s People’s Party could open the door to restrictions on terminations. A push by Spain's conservatives to encourage families to have more children has thrust abortion back into the national political arena. At the center of the fight is a new law introduced by the regional People's Party government in Madrid that allows families to claim certain benefits linked to family size before a child is born. The PP says the measure is a "sensible, useful and necessary" response to Spain's slumping birth rate — one of the lowest in Europe — and has promised to implement it nationally if it returns to power next year. But the law has become a culture-war flashpoint

Where Men Outnumber Women Around The World
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Zero Hedge
Men outnumber women in just one-third of countries, yet the global population still includes roughly 42 million more men than women... Russia offers one of the region’s most prominent examples. Higher male mortality, shorter male life expectancy, historical wartime losses, and alcohol-related deaths all contribute to its ratio of 86.4 men per 100 women.

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.

Jennifer Seibel Newsom Earning Side Eye Even From Democrats
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
As Gavin Newsom scrambles to keep is congenital Presidential ambitions alive, his ‘First Partner’, Barbie Jennifer Seibel, is drawing such negative attention that even Democrats aren’t buying the OrangeManBad excuse. "A sizable share of Democrats support the federal probe into California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife as the duo claims President Donald Trump is directing a politically motivated attack against them, a new survey shows. A Daily Mail/JL Partners poll found 27% of Democrats support the probe into California’s first couple, with 14% saying they “somewhat support” the investigation and 13% saying they “strongly support” it."

Doug Casey on Trump Accounts and the Coming Raid on Retirement Savings
Topic: Children and Family
Source: International Man
International Man: The government is now offering “Trump Accounts” for children, with a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible kids born from 2025 through 2028. Why do you think the government wants this money held in an IRA-style structure instead of simply giving families direct ownership and control?

Doug Casey: My understanding is that once the money goes into the Trump account, it can’t be withdrawn at all until January 1 of the year the child turns 18. Then it’s treated like a regular IRA. With exceptions for education or the purchase of a first house. 60 years hence, it’s supposed to be tax-free. But 60 years is a long time, especially when it comes to government programs. We don’t even know if the US will exist in its present form 60 years from now. Forget about the dollar; it definitely won’t exist in its present form.

The Great Academic Purge
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: State of the Day
Tucked inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law almost exactly a year ago is a new law federal bureaucrats have referred to as the “do no harm” test. Technically named “STATS” – Student Tuition and Transparency System – this test is part of the Earnings Accountability rule. It will eventually require universities to gather data on student outcomes in certain majors. If those majors fail to report earned income higher than median workers without a college degree, they will lose federal funding. Seems like common sense. Why should taxpayers foot the bill on (astronomical) college debts for educations that have no hope of ever paying back the money?

Gallup: Higher Education Hits Another Low in Public Trust
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...as the Public Rejects Institutional Bias. According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. One of the Gallup experts told Fox News that one of the key reasons for the continued slide in public trust is “the perception that there’s a political agenda being taught.” That perception is well documented after most departments purged their ranks of any republican, conservative, or libertarian faculty members. At the same time, many faculty oppose the long-standing principle of institutional neutrality for universities, the subject of a recent debate that I had with the President of the American Association of University Professors.

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses”
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Daily Bell
Are Afraid to Use Them in Public. Meta’s camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports. Influencers, mostly men, have been using the glasses to inconspicuously — and non-consensually — capture footage of themselves approaching women and attempting to hit on them, interactions they’ve then posted online for content. Some wearers have even attempted to extort victims of covert recordings for cash. That’s on top of serious allegations of alleged privacy breaches by Meta itself.

Academics persist in being ’20’ on the ’80-20? issue of trans women in female sports
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: The College Fix
It’s been almost two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. which allows states to ban biological males — or “trans females” — from competing on (biological) female sports teams. If ever there was an issue that separates the common sense-adhering general public from the critical-theorizing academy — a so-called “80-20? issue, if you will — this is it. It’s also an example of what Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy.” Taken by itself, no, allowing men to compete as women won’t collapse our society; however, the mindset behind such certainly will. If we let it.

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."