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Art Degrees Take Longest to Pay Off in UK
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hobbes Independent
...as Performing Arts Graduate Wait 39 Years. Art degrees rank among the worst-paying university qualifications in the UK, with teaching close behind, according to an August 2026 higher education report from Edumentors. The study examined how long graduates take to recoup the cost of university, including tuition fees and earnings they forgo while studying. Performing arts graduates take 39 years to earn back the money they gave up by going to university. Psychology remains one of the UK’s most popular degree subjects, yet graduates still need 16 years of work to cover tuition and other study costs. Education and teaching degrees take nearly 30 years to break even, despite almost all graduates securing jobs within a year of completing their studies.

NYC Mamdani sues City Council to block $10K payments for teacher aides
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday sued the City Council to block its new bill that will give teacher aides a one-time $10,000 payment that he warns could set a dangerous precedent. The Council passed the bill last month with a veto-proof majority, and it lapsed into law Wednesday without the mayor's veto, which council members would likely have overridden, according to the City Reporter.

Federal Judge Orders Release of Virginia Giuffre’s Case Files at Last
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: New Republic
Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell is going to be unsealed. A federal court in Manhattan last week ordered the public release of the files from Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against the accomplice and partner of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, following eight years of litigation from the Miami Herald, reported Julie Brown, the investigative journalist for the newspaper best known for uncovering Epstein’s crimes. Maxwell had been fighting to keep the lawsuit details under wraps, but her arguments were not enough to convince U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska, who ruled that the Epstein Files Transparency Act supersedes the grand jury arguments Maxwell cited to keep the records sealed.

Biological Parents of Baby Gabriel File $100,000 Lawsuit
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
Against Surrogate Who Refused Demand to Abort Their Son. The biological parents of the child birthed by surrogate mother McKenna West are suing her more than $100,000 for keeping the baby rather than abort it at their request, according to a report. Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed filed a countersuit against West, a 28-year-old nurse from Alaska, weeks before she gave birth in Texas to their baby, who was born with a serious and rare heart defect, TMZ reported. They agreed to pay West $60,000 to carry their child — with an abortion clause that allowed them to terminate the pregnancy if there were issues with the fetus, according to the lawsuit.

Congressional probe targets consulting reports that helped make DEI quotas
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
...a boardroom standard. Four unreplicated consulting reports became the evidentiary basis for hiring quotas — and the data behind them has never been released for scrutiny. House Republicans have accused a major consulting group of making misleading claims about DEI that led to billions of dollars in lost revenue.

“Difference, Power & Oppression”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
OSU Requires Students to Take Courses on How to “Disrupt” the “Systems of Oppression” in the United States” As many criticize higher education for pursuing indoctrination over education, Oregon State University (OSU) appears to be doubling down on a mandatory woke curriculum. The university is under fire for its mandatory undergraduate courses on “Difference, Power & Oppression” (DPO). Much of the rhetoric on the university’s website reads more like the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) than an institution of higher education. OSU requires all undergraduate students who enrolled after the summer of 2025 to complete two “Difference, Power & Oppression” (DPO) courses as part of its Core Education curriculum, including “Difference, Power & Oppression Foundations” and “Difference, Power & Oppression Advanced.”

Planned Parenthood Fraud Appeal Dismissed by Full Fifth Circuit
Topic: Abortion
Source: Bloomberg Law
Planned Parenthood’s appeal of an interim ruling cannot be considered by the Fifth Circuit, the full court held Wednesday, returning the case to a federal district court that previously said the nonprofit’s attorneys aren’t immune from a False Claims Act lawsuit. The case involves Medicaid fraud claims brought by a whistleblower referred to as “Alex Doe,” who conducted an undercover investigation to determine whether Planned Parenthood and its affiliates provided fetal tissue to researchers and tissue procurement companies. Doe claims that Louisiana and Texas terminated the Medicaid eligibility of three Planned Parenthood affiliates in response to his investigation, but the affiliates continued to bill Medicaid in violation of the federal anti-fraud statute.

Judge tosses Justice Department’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Cited incidents were ‘too isolated,’ judge rules. A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday, ruling that the cited incidents were “too isolated and episodic” to prove ongoing civil rights violations. “Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day,” U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns stated in the ruling. The Trump administration is not satisfied with the ruling, according to The Hill.

Trump DHS Announces HUGE Change to Student Visa Program
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: DHS Gov.
For decades, foreign students have been able to come to the United States on a student visa and stay in the country for decades, as long as they were still enrolled in a class or two. That ends now. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has announced a new set of rule changes to the student visa program, first and foremost, the amount of time that a foreign student can spend here. They’re limiting it to four years, the amount of time typically needed to obtain a college degree. The changes were made in July, but this is getting noticed now because the new policy goes into effect next month.

CA failed to protect female inmates from sexual abuse by staff, DOJ report
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: ABC 7
DOJ reports an environment of sexual abuse by staff inside state women's prisons. “The findings in this report are unacceptable; they’re unconscionable,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said. DOJ announced Thursday the results of a years-long investigation into two California women’s prisons, concluding they failed to protect the women incarcerated from sexual abuse by prison staff. “The Department concluded that these systemic deficiencies grievously violate prisoners’ rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments,” a DOJ statement reads. Investigators said they uncovered

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.

The Cruelty Of DEI We should stop these absurd games...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
Author: by Jeff Tucker
This past week ended with shock and sadness at the news that Jason Arday ended his own life in the midst of an investigation over his intellectual credibility. He was the vaunted education sociologist at Cambridge University, media darling and beneficiary of a big book contract, the toast of the town, and the subject of countless hagiographic profiles in media venues.

Psychiatry as Diabolical Pseudoscience
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Armageddon Prose
The Sordid Tale of Lindsay Clancy. If you ever had any doubt that the field of psychiatry is populated by degenerate sociopaths who practice alchemical witchcraft with seemingly no remorse for the lives they destroy, I present to you the grilling of Lindsay Clancy’s psychiatric nurse, who prescribed psychotropic drug after drug after drug until she achieved the catastrophic results that, in retrospect, seem inevitable.

Former NBA player Royce White officially declares for WNBA Draft
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...as 'transgender woman,' Matt Gaetz to serve as legal counsel. "As of the signing of the attached declaration, Ms. White identifies as a transgender woman." Former NBA player Royce White has officially declared for the WNBA Draft, with former Congressman Matt Gaetz serving as White’s legal counsel and signing off on the declaration. This comes as the WNBA has been in headlines in recent weeks over the inclusion of trans-identified males in women’s sports, sparked by Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham coming out in support of protecting women’s sports.

Will Don Lemon Overturn the Central Law Defending Abortion Clinics?
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Daily Signal
‘One of the Greatest Ironies in the Universe’. That’s right, the left-leaning opponent of President Donald Trump is aiming to overturn part of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the notorious FACE Act that abortion activist groups urged the Justice Department under President Joe Biden to weaponize against pro-life protesters. Lemon is only challenging the law’s protections for churches, not abortion clinics, but if a court sides with him, that ruling could in turn undermine the entire law, one legal expert says. If the motion succeeds, “it would be one of the greatest ironies of the universe that it was Don Lemon that was responsible for invalidating the very law that was put in place to protect abortion clinics in this country,” Jeremy Dys, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute, told the Daily Signal in an interview Monday.

Colleges Train Future Teachers to Push Woke Agenda
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Real Clear Education
This back-to-school season, children are not safe from teachers steeped in woke ideology. Many teacher training programs are riddled with far left politics parents do not want and children do not need. Texas is one such state, having prohibited public school employees in 2021 from teaching lessons marinating in race and sex discrimination. Under Texas law, a teacher may not instruct students that people living today bear historical blame, or deserves to be treated differently, because of his or her race or sex. Someone needs to tell the University of Texas at Austin

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.