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Xavier Becerra’s campaign rocked by horrifying claims
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
,,,about missing migrant kids under his watch. Xavier Becerra faces a renewed scandal over his tenure as Joe Biden’s health secretary after a whistleblower came forward to expose the horrific levels of abuse and exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrant children faced while in detention in California. A caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex alleges children faced abuse and chaotic releases, were separated from young siblings, and sent to unverified addresses or secretly moved in the dead of the night — some never to be seen again — while the complex also accepted fake documents from sponsors. During his time as Biden’s health secretary from 2021 to 2025, the U.S. faced an overwhelming border crisis, with just under 480,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border. The HHS was the federal agency legally mandated to care for and protect unaccompanied migrant children.

40% Wouldn’t Hire Trump Voters: New Report Details Higher Ed’s Ideological Divide
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Black professors outnumber their Republican colleagues at 11 elite higher education institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Roughly 40 percent of college faculty would “oppose hiring a Trump supporter.” A quarter of faculty in social sciences and humanities departments would “support a campaign” to remove colleagues for expressing conservative views “in at least one of four topic areas.”

Georgia father sentenced to 15 yrs in deadly school shooting committed by son
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CBC
A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Colin Gray's sentencing comes days after his son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school 70 kilometres northeast of Atlanta. Colt Gray had pleaded guilty to murder and other charges. Judge Nicholas Primm, who also sentenced Colt Gray earlier this week, was blunt in addressing Colin Gray: "It is clear you failed as a parent." But he said punishing crimes of negligence is particularly hard because there was no intent to commit a crime.

Why a WNBA Team Was Forced to Apologize...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Townhall
...and Had Its Co-Owner Suspended and Fined. The Indiana Fever played the Seattle Storm on Tuesday, and two fans wore clothing that provoked a lot of angry fans at the Climate Change Arena: t-shirts from XX-XY Athletics, which is a company that has supported Cunningham’s stance on transgender athletes in women’s sports—it’s also a scientifically accurate piece of apparel. Founder Jennifer Sey has been vocal on this topic. The triggered Storm fans knew too, and these kids were approached by these crazy people. We later found out it was the co-owner of the Storm

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest in a flurry of suits filed against the social media giants that alleges their platforms are addictive and dangerous. The complaint was filed on behalf of four families from Texas, North Carolina, Minnesota and Tennessee whose children died over a 14-month period starting in July 2024 through September 2025.

How free childcare started winning US elections
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Guardian
‘Overnight, people realized how essential it was’. In a matter of weeks, Francesca Hong, an unlikely candidate for governor in one of the country’s most heated battleground states, will test a message that is at once radical and, to many, incredibly practical: the government should help pay for childcare. “When we talk about free childcare, you can connect to folks whether it’s on an economic argument or just purely that it’s the right thing to do for our kids,” said Hong, a democratic socialist running in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary on 11 August.

Nearly 60,000 children orphaned in Gaza
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New Arab
...as Israel’s genocide destroys families and care systems. Speaking to The New Arab, Director General of Taawon Dr Tareq Emtairah said the number of children orphaned by the war has reached close to 60,000 — around six percent of Gaza's child population — a scale he described as unmatched by anything the Palestinian non-profit development organisation had seen in earlier assaults on the enclave. The estimate is detailed in Taawon's new report, Lighting the Path for Orphaned Children in Gaza – A Call to Action, which warns that the unprecedented number of children who have lost one or both parents will require sustained, long-term support extending far beyond the immediate humanitarian response.

xAI Sues Minnesota Attorney General Over Anti-Deepfake Law
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Epoch Times
Companies that allow users to generate nude images of real people face fines of $500,000 per violation under state law. Musk's company xAI, maker of the popular Grok AI tool, is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to block the law, which is set to kick in on Aug. 1. Violators can be fined up to $500,000 for each image. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, approximately 117 million people had used Grok as of March 1 this year. If 100 of those users violated Minnesota's law, it could cost the company $50 million in fines.

Howard Defends Unenrolling 500 Students
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Associated Press
The school 'adhered to its policies,' interim president says [Ed: colleges should be run like businesses] The interim president of Howard University said over 200 of the more than 500 first-year incoming students who were unenrolled for the fall semester have been readmitted to the Washington, DC, school. In an interview with the AP on Wednesday, Wayne AI Frederick defended the way the historically Black university handled the initial unenrollment, saying many students and their families apparently misunderstood the communicated financial obligations they were expected to meet before the start of instruction in August. "There were no issues as far as what we communicated," Frederick said, adding that the school had been clear since March about unpaid balances for tuition that were due by mid-July.

Senate Unanimously Opposes Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Hill
Democratic senator says she wanted to get both parties on the record. The Senate just told the White House, in unison, to keep its hands off Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence. In a unanimous voice vote Wednesday, senators approved a resolution opposing any presidential pardon or clemency for Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate serving 20 years for sex trafficking-related crimes, the Hill reports. The measure, introduced by Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, is symbolic and not legally binding, but it puts both parties on record against leniency for Maxwell. "It's frankly horrifying that Trump would entertain the idea of clemency for even a second for a convicted sex trafficker," Rosen said on the Senate floor.

FTC Alleges Hims & Hers Violated Users' Privacy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CBS News
Regulator says telehealth firm also made it challenging for users to cancel. A fast-growing telehealth brand is in the FTC's crosshairs. Regulators on Wednesday sued Hims & Hers, accusing the online health provider of quietly feeding users' sensitive medical data to advertising platforms including Meta and Snap, despite pledging to keep that information private, reports CBS News. The company's stock dropped nearly 15% after the complaint landed in federal court in Northern California.

Library Dads
Topic: Father's Rights
Source: Good News Network
Once upon a time, in a little town called Atlanta, there was a dad who decided on a lark to take his 4-month-old baby girl to the library. He didn’t know it at the time, but the Georgia native had planted the magic bean that would grow into a giant beanstalk of brotherhood and paternity, known simply as the Library Dads. Khari Arnold founded the group after his weekly outings with his daughter Ariah resulted became a keystone in his relationship with her. Not only did it become their special time together, but Ariah showed signs of developing those early literacy skills so vital to success and satisfaction in all walks of life.

The Future of Race-Based Scholarships in Higher Education
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
It’s now been three years since the United States Supreme Court declared that race may never be used as a “negative” or operate as a “stereotype” in higher education. While that landmark case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, dismantled affirmative action in admissions, race still lingers as a factor in many other areas of higher education. One such area is financial aid—specifically grants and scholarships. The National Scholarship Providers Association estimates that 11% of all higher-education scholarships still contain eligibility requirements for race, ethnicity, or other demographic factors, even after SFFA. Race-based scholarships, though, are facing increasing scrutiny.

John Cleese: "Some Cultures Are Better Than Others"
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Zero Hedge
Python star has had enough of the Islamist takeover... Legendary Monty Python star John Cleese has drawn a clear line in the sand, declaring himself a "culturalist" who believes some cultures are superior to others. Cleese has also openly backed Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe amid the accelerating collapse of British norms under mass migration and parallel societies. The legendary comedian responded this week to ritual insults hurled at him for supporting Lowe by rejecting the tired "racist" smear from the usual uneducated quarters.

Straight People Have a Moment on X
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Hot Air
I'm honestly not sure who started this trend but it has definitely taken off with a number of people I follow. The trend is simple. It's this statement "That moment as a kid when you realize that you’re definitely straight." And along with that is a video or photo of some very attractive woman, often but not always someone who was on television or in films in the 1970s thru the 1990s.

Why Americans Soured On Higher Education
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Epoch Times
Here’s the irony. The ongoing college collapse is driven by knowledge, not ignorance... Even colleges can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Just 38 percent of Americans have high confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll. That’s down from 57 percent in 2015. Gallup found the three main reasons for this lack of confidence are political agenda, cost and not preparing students for a future career. This is a stunning—and much-needed—fall from grace. Many schools and politicians spent decades pushing ever more kids into college. Sen. Bernie Sanders even sponsored the “College for All Act.” It was endorsed by numerous left-wing groups, including the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.

Jack Reacher Star's Latest Movie Flops After Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Enter Alan Ritchson, who smartly kept his mouth shut through most of the filming for Jack Reacher. Unfortunately, Hollywood has a way of energizing people's worst impulses and a lot of actors feel compelled to loudly virtue signal in order to stay in the good graces of industry elites. Ritchson has been increasingly unhinged in recent months and his latest rant went off the deep end into violent territory when it comes to Trump and conservatives.

The Amazonian trap
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Desert News
Heteropessimism is tempting young women away from love and marriage. Here are 3 steps to escape that trap. Many young American women are embracing this Amazonian strategy of detachment from men, minus the sword and the horse. They’re doing it by deleting dating apps, posting “boy sober” TikToks, enjoying Sunday brunches spent with just female friends, and hardening their conviction that men are more trouble than they’re worth.

How Jane Austen Understood the Purpose of Marriage
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Free Republic
When Jane Austen wrote her masterpiece “Pride and Prejudice,” marriage was placed at the very heart of the culture. Consider the novel’s famous opening lines, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” We soon discover that it is not only a gentleman with a fortune who thinks about marriage. A woman’s education, her social life, the future care of her children and parents, her father’s connections and fortune, all play into her highest hope that one day she may become married, have children of her own, and cultivate their prospects in kind. Society as a whole turns on married life in Austen’s world. Austen was a keen observer of the social pressures surrounding marriage. One might go as far as to say that the burden on young people in her time was much greater than in our own. But it is neither a social obligation nor the mere fact of its cultural importance that led Austen to defend marriage. Perhaps the greatest novelist of all time, Austen prized marriage because of the prospect of happiness it offers to husband and wife. If a man and woman marry for love, this elevates the chances of social goods that naturally flow from a happy marriage for children and the wider society.