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‘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.

UK to change law so ringleader of Rochdale grooming gang can be deported
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The BBC
The home secretary will change the law so the freed ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang can be deported, the BBC has been told. As first reported by the Telegraph, Shabana Mahmood is expected to set out on Monday how she plans to amend the 1971 Immigration Act which currently stops Shabir Ahmed being removed from the UK. Ahmed, 73, was jailed for 22 years in August 2012 for a number of child sexual offences including rape. He was released on licence last week.

Charlottesville's Lee statue melted down
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Charlottesville's Lee statue melted down, transformed into 'racial diversity' monument "To transform the very material of a monument is to acknowledge that history cannot be erased, but it can be reimagined." Charlottesville's Lee statue melted down, transformed into 'racial diversity' monument Image Libby Emmons Brooklyn NY Jul 13, 2026 4 minute read A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was at the heart of the Charlottesville protests in 2017, followed by the Unite the Right rally where Heather Heyer was killed. The rally was funded in part by the SPLC

GOP Lawmakers Rebuke Elissa Slotkin Saying SAVE Act Would Hurt Women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart
Speaking at a town hall, Slotkin said that the SAVE Act was designed to “rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.” She also said it would “disenfranchise all married women,” adding that they would have to show their birth certificates at the polls if they have a married name. Sen. Rand Paul and other lawmakers clapped back in posts on X, dismissing her claims as “false.” “This talking point from the Left is not only false, but it also paints women as incapable, which we all know is not the case. Showing up to the polls to vote with an ID that proves you’re an American citizen – whether you’re married or not – is common sense. We need to pass the SAVE America Act,” said Rand Paul.

Supergirl becomes DC's biggest flop since Catwoman in 2004
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Adjusted for inflation, Supergirl performed even worse than Catwoman. As of this past weekend, Supergirl has made $108 million globally and would need $22 million more to even match DC's poor release of "Blue Beetle," which brought in $130 million during its 2023 release.

Abortion rights are on the ballot in 4 states. Here's what to know
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Times
Idaho voters will decide whether to roll back the state’s abortion ban, the secretary of state told the group behind the initiative in a letter Monday, joining three other states where abortion will be directly on the ballot on Nov. 3. Voters in Virginia and Nevada - both states where abortion is already legal through at least 24 weeks of pregnancy - are considering state constitutional amendments to create a right to abortion. And in Missouri, which in 2024 became the first state to use a constitutional amendment to undo an abortion ban, voters are being asked to override that to bring back an abortion ban, with limited exceptions, and to write into the state constitution a ban on some gender-affirming care for minors.

AI pushing the expected rise in college closures, analysts say
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
Artificial intelligence is driving a surge in expected college closures by automating repetitive office roles that long have been reserved for liberal arts graduates, recent analyses show. Huron Consulting Group estimates, as reported by the Hechinger Report, that 442, or 26%, of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit campuses will close or merge over the coming decade. That would affect 670,000 students. The nonprofit trade publication has noted that AI automation is accelerating this downsizing by reducing the perceived market value of many four-year degrees, hurting enrollment at tuition-dependent campuses.

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."

Ann Widdecombe: Britain’s last Battleaxe
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Unherd
We have grown simpering and sentimental.Ann Widdecombe was murdered in her Devon home, a bungalow in a small community at the edge of Dartmoor National Park. Just the kind of place, in fact, where Orwell might have pictured old maids hiking to Communion through the mist: and the last on earth where, you’d imagine, something so horrifying might happen (outside an Agatha Christie novel, at least). A few days later, a man was arrested in Rotherham. Subsequent statements from police have been contradictory and confusing: after local bobbies initially played down any suspicion of political motives, today Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that counter-terrorism police were taking over the investigation.

A Case of Campus Cancel Culture Finally Goes to Trial
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot
So that's the core of the case. Was Laffer told by university police to leave or was it "suggested" that he should leave. Either way, what's clear is that the police didn't make much of an effort to defend Laffer's right to speak. It looks like they decided it was easier to just push him to leave. Here's the full video showing what happened from the moment the event began and 45 minutes after that. What I see is a mob of bullies using their numbers to silence the speech of someone they don't like. This is the heckler's veto in action.

Believe All Women - Unless They're Inconvenient
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The American Spectator
From Biden and Cuomo to Ellison and Swalwell, the Left's commitment to believing women appears to depend on the politics of the accused. The political Left has spent years promoting the slogan "Believe All Women," using it as a powerful weapon against conservatives, especially during critical events like the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. But this mantra has never been about seeking justice or protecting victims; instead, it serves as a cynical tool for gaining power - a way to undermine opponents while conveniently overlooking the serial abusers, gropers, and predators within their own ranks.