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Ex-Texas doc who lost medical license over child sex changes
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
now works at OHSU's pediatrics department. A former Texas doctor who surrendered her medical license after being sued by the state for unlawfully providing irreversible sex change drugs to children has relocated to Portland, Oregon. Dr. May Lau has been hired as an associate professor of pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), online records show.
Lau surrendered her license in October 2025 shortly after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a Rule 11 agreement with Lau that barred her from practicing medicine in Texas during litigation. The lawsuit for violating state law remains ongoing.

Model recruiter who introduced young women to Epstein found dead in France
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CNN
A French professional model recruiter who for over a decade arranged for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to meet multiple models, was found dead in his home near Paris on Monday. Daniel Siad’s body was found in his house in Colombes, a suburb of the French capital, Marie-Céline Lawrysz, deputy public prosecutor at the Nanterre Judicial Court, told CNN in a Wednesday statement. An autopsy will be performed on the body to determine the cause of death.

Tokyo urges men to wear shorts to work
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: BBC News
but some women say it’s ‘leg hair harassment’.As temperatures rise this summer, Japanese men are baring more leg at work than ever before. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is pushing company employees to ditch their usual suit and tie for more casual attire, featuring t-shirts, trainers - and shorts. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike introduced "Tokyo Cool Biz" in April, hoping to expand on her signature cool down initiative which has now become a widely recognised annual summer tradition. Almost four months in, the newly allowed shorts in the office policy is getting mixed reviews.

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

The UK Censors The Net 'For The Children'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Britain is discovering what happens when the state appoints itself the parent of a nation. On June 15, Starmer stood at Downing Street to announce that Britain would ban under-16s from social media, after intense pressure from campaigners. Possibly his last meaningful political action before resigning on June 22. Additionally, the now-departed PM has left the door open to curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds. The country that gave the world the liberal philosophy America's Founders drew on is now imposing digital ID and information bans. The justification is public safety. A framing that has a habit of expanding well beyond its original scope. Banning under-16s from social media is framed as "giving children back their childhoods"; in reality, it has a much darker undertone.

Motherhood You Know How This Happens, Right?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Mises Institute
Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood. Openness is a common theme in the recent book by economist and social scientist Catherine Pakaluk titled, Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth. In this book, Mrs. Pakaluk seeks to uncover the reasons why only five percent of women are having five or more children, and why—despite numerous government programs in countries around the world—most women are decidedly not. In fact, most of the world is currently at below-replacement fertility rate. In our current culture family planning is the norm. If a child is conceived without planning, it is an “accident” or a “surprise.” In the book Peter and Wendy, Mr. Darling considers their financial situation upon the birth of their first child...

Teachers union power isn’t helping students
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten titled her keynote address at this year’s convention “Building Our Power to Create a Better Future.” But after listening to the speech, one was left to wonder: A better future for whom? Conspicuously absent was any serious discussion of how teachers might educate students better than they do now. Teachers unions might consider how to help students improve their reading and math skills, for example, but they don’t.

The Great Menopause Grift
Topic: Women's Health
Source: The Brownstone Institute
We can see fearmongering everywhere, but the most brazen current example is the full-frontal assault on menopause. If you’ve read a newspaper or scrolled through social media lately you might be asking yourself: Why the heck is everyone getting worked up about menopause? Are hot flashes taking over the planet? Are women really as angry as the media portrays them to be? And the drugs: who do you believe about whether the drugs will help or harm you? These are good questions, focusing on a condition that every woman—our mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers and so on – went through, back to the dawn of time. The fearmongering today bypasses the fact that most women who arrive at the end of their periods get through this phase without serious discomfort or suffering.

A Step-by-Step Guide to AI in Schools — How Much to Use and When
Topic: Children and Family
Source: 74 million
Weber: Let artificial intelligence help build critical thinking in elementary school, teach AI literacy in MS, use it for personalized learning in HS. Every few years, a new technology enters schools. Television beamed lessons from the best teachers into classrooms. Computers and the internet gave students access to a wealth of information, right at their fingertips. Interactive whiteboards, tablets and Chromebooks were sold as the future of education. Now, it is artificial intelligence. And educators must ask: What does this innovation help students learn that they couldn’t without it? [Ed: a contrary view to the following piece.]

The philosopher who wants schools to slow kids down
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Big Think
Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education. As Biesta put it in a conversation with Big Think, such a task is much harder than being told what to do: “It’s being confronted with your own freedom, when you need to figure out: What do you do if no one tells you what to do?” This is the space Biesta — a widely influential philosopher of education and professor of public education at Maynooth University in Ireland — has struggled to defend for decades. He argues it’s been shrinking in schools that prioritize speed, efficient learning, and measurable outcomes. To him, nothing has done more to minimize that space than AI: a machine almost designed to hurry us past the moment of not-knowing before we have had any real chance to inhabit it.

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?