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Family Caregivers Pay Dearly for Their Loved Ones
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NPR
Those caring for a loved one spend an average of $11.5K a year, as their own incomes shrink.A new report says it's not gas or rent quietly hollowing out many Americans' wallets—it's caring for loved ones. An AARP survey of more than 2,500 family caregivers finds they now shell out an average of $11,508 a year from their own pockets, about 60% more than five years ago and roughly a third of their annual income. Those costs—largely food, housing, and medical bills—have climbed at more than double the pace of overall inflation, reports NPR. The financial hit doesn't stop there: many caregivers cut hours or leave jobs entirely, compounding the strain. Roughly 63 million Americans now provide ongoing care, and that number is expected to grow.

Meta, Snap Face a Reckoning Over Teen Safety
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Trading View
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) and Snap (NYSE:SNAP) are heading into a fresh legal test over allegations that their social media platforms contributed to mental health problems among young users. Jury selection began Wednesday in Los Angeles in a case involving two plaintiffs who allege that features including autoplay and endless scrolling encouraged compulsive use, contributing to depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

More Americans Are Falling For Romance Scams.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epoch Times
Here's How They Entice You...Using promises of love, overseas criminal networks use trafficked workers and AI to scam people out of their life savings. The FBI is hunting down the networks... Romance scams make up a large share of fraud perpetrated against Americans, with scammers often contacting victims through online dating apps, social media, or professional networking sites such as LinkedIn.

College Student Files Official ETHICS COMPLAINT Against Sen Elissa Slotkin
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
...for Her Threats to Young People Thinking of Working for Trump. A University of Chicago student has filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Elissa Slotkin for her recent suggestion that college graduates who work for the Trump administration might be prosecuted. “Senator Slotkin, if you thought this was over, you’re wrong,” said student Michael Bicksel in a video he posted on X on Oct. 22 as he held up a copy of an ethics complaint he filed with the U.S. Senate. “The complaint was submitted to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics and argues that Slotkin proposed using congressional investigations and potential prosecutions to frighten young people away from serving in a Republican administration,” Fox News reported.

Top Women's Podcast Promotes Divorce Because "There's Always Something Better"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
[Ed: there is no one and thing better than my husband.[ If you want to know why 60% of men in the US (35-years-old or younger) have never been married and say they don't plan on getting married, study the behavior of modern women and you will find your answers in abundance. In other words, women are the problem. Around 43% of first-time marriages in the US end in divorce. But that's just the beginning - 67% of second marriages end in divorce and 75% of third marriages end in divorce. In 1960, the national divorce rate was less than 1%. What happened? The cancer of feminism happened. Women are psychologically far more likely to embrace group cooperation, group compliance and communal orientation. Feminism taps into these inherent collectivist tendencies and uses female group-think to encourage destructive and morally reprehensible behavior in individuals. Many women follow along; some fear being ostracized from the group, and others simply love the feeling of power that the mob gives them.

Trump and Epstein’s intrasexual competition
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown
Former Miss Switzerland contestant accuses Trump of ‘brutal’ rape after event attended by Jeffrey Epstein. A new sex allegation has surfaced against President Donald Trump by a former Miss Switzerland contestant who alleges that he brutally raped her during one of his beauty pageants events in 1993. The details of her story mirror those of other women who have accused Trump of sexual abuse and even rape. But what’s also noteworthy about this story is the gawking and grinning Trump and Epstein did at these model gatherings. They hardly seemed interested in the business of modeling; if true, it was as if they were engaged in an intrasexual competition.

Massachusetts Lesbian Bar That Went Viral for Requiring Face Masks in 2026
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX
...is Closing Permanently. Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a Massachusetts lesbian bar that went viral for its masking policy last month, announced Monday that it would be closing and seeking a buyer for the business. “WE ARE CLOSING. We have put our lives on hold to foster networks of care, resources, and a home base for organizing. It’s time we pass it on. We’ve been fighting since the beginning to fill out the team, and we still don’t have a board/leadership to manage workers owned Co-op transfer. We are SOFT CLOSING effective immediately, all BOOKED events will CONTINUE, otherwise we are CLOSED,” the bar wrote on Instagram.

Lesbian bar shuttering after being dragged by MA LGBTQ patrons
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...for allowing mask-free night. The Covid-conscious lesbian bar in western Massachusetts that went viral in September after LGBTQ people grew angry that one night per week would be mask-optional has announced that it is closing down. A post to Last Ditch’s Instagram account announced that it was undertaking a “soft closing” effective immediately, and that booked events would continue through the winter.

California’s Latest CAASPP Test Scores Reveal a Continuing Education Crisis
Topic: Children and Family
Source: California Policy Center
Last week, the California Department of Education released CAASPP (state standardized test) results for the 2025-26 school year. While Governor Newsom says the scores are evidence of “continued progress,” the numbers tell a different story. In a continuation of California’s chronically poor academic performance, just under half (49.3 percent) of California public school students scored at or above proficient in English language arts (reading, writing and comprehension). And in keeping with the historical trend, math proficiency continues to lag further behind, with just 38.6 percent of students scoring at or above proficient. A mere 36 percent of students scored at or above proficient for science.

US DOJ Is Reviewing Forceful Ejection of Brandi Kruse and Fans
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
...Wearing XX-XY Shirts at Friday’s Portland Thorns Female Soccer Game. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing a confrontation at a professional women's soccer match in Portland, Oregon after video captured women’s sports supporters forcibly escorted out by stadium security after being struck with a flagpole by other spectators projecting pro-transgender messaging. "The Justice Department is aware of these reports and will review the matter thoroughly. Where the facts and the law warrant action, the Department will not hesitate to act," a department spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

L.A. Teachers Union Flunks Math, Blames Billionaires
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Faced with LAUSD's "high risk" of insolvency due to plummeting enrollment and increased hiring, the union is railing against a "fake independent analysis" and pushing for two separate wealth taxes. Californians facing not one but two wealth-tax initiatives on next week's ballot may well be asking themselves how all these tens of billions of forcibly extracted dollars will be spent. The answer, based on new studies and weary observation: horribly. Take the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the country's second largest. In July, L.A. County Superintendent of Schools Debra Duardo designated the LAUSD as a "lack of going concern," due to its ongoing operating deficits, exacerbated by fresh salary increases for unionized workers. The state's longstanding school Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCAMT) then issued a damning report in September, placing the district at a "high risk" for fiscal insolvency. Why? Because payroll was expanding while enrollment was collapsing.

We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian
[Ed: new word that anti-male feminists are using to describe the world they live in.] Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the progress we have made on all fronts: women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights etc. It has birthed an authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity. It has consolidated the billionaire class who are driven by the mindset summed up in the slogan “move fast and break things.” Or, one might say, grab things, rape things.

What's Going on With the APA?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Air
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece about what has been happening at the American Psychological Association. The APA is now in danger of losing its accreditation authority over antisemitism. Last month, a bipartisan advisory board to the Education Department voted 7-4 to recommend suspending recognition of the APA’s Commission on Accreditation. The vote followed testimony alleging the group tolerated a “pervasive culture of antisemitism” in psychology programs and professional settings.

Rome picks a side: LGBT ‘pilgrimage’ welcomed, Latin Mass shut out
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Life Site News
Rome picks a side: LGBT ‘pilgrimage’ welcomed, Latin Mass shut out OpinionTo oppose the traditional Mass is to oppose the Mass, and to oppose the Mass is to oppose the Catholic faith itself.Catholics who love the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) have now been forcefully shut out from St. Peter’s Basilica. Pro-sodomy “pilgrims” have been deliberately welcomed. All within the span of just a little over a year, under the helm of Pope Leo XIV. A line has been drawn in the sand.The latest move against traditional Catholicism from the Vatican is so remarkable because it is so concrete and clear [Ed: warning, this is a very biased site but the information is interesting.]

Gen Z: Rapey Bros or Lying Hos?
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
The scandal at libertine, Leftist Cornell gave every pussy-hatted Lindsay Clancy fan a chance to pivot and point at males, especially the young ones. In a moment of supreme irony, Cornell Professor Kate Manne meets with Katie Couric to blame Gen Z males while ignoring Gen Z females and her employer’s enthusiastic promotion of Free Sex on campus. Of course, making men the punching bag for every disappointment in a woman’s life has long been the bread and butter of Second-wave hacks for decades. And that Manne and her misandrist diatribe is getting nod-alongs from Katie Couric is too perfect for words.

The Children Saved by Flock
Topic: Children and Family
Source: City-Journal
Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint. No one talks about the dozens of children they’ve rescued. America is gripped by a panic over Flock’s network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), driven by stories of abusive cops and people wrongly jailed because of what critics call a creeping surveillance state. The outcry has produced angry congressional hearings, hundreds of cancelled contracts, and the physical destruction of hundreds of cameras by vandals who have been cheered on even by some policy professionals. Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced legislation to defund states that don’t ban the cameras; theirs is the third proposal to do so this session. Largely absent from this discussion are stories like Allie’s, which is not unique: dozens of other children have been returned safely to their parents thanks in part to ALPR technology.

Universities Now Prefer Conformity Over the Pursuit of Truth
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Economy
The recent scandal at Cambridge revealed how invested the academy is in pushing an ideology — even punishing dissenters who insist on telling the truth. Not long ago, universities and academics were revered (perhaps naively) for their unflinching pursuit of facts. The scientific method, tenure, academic freedom, and peer review are all set up to encourage innovative minds to follow the truth “wherever it may lead.” The Latin “veritas” is etched on their marble arches and woven into their seals. Truth is valuable. Mechanisms that help us tell what is true, that push us to correct our errors, are an essential part of the feedback loop.

‘Woke Madness’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: BBC News
Scottish Museum Removes Mummy from Display Over ‘Lack of Consent’. Glasgow Life, which manages Kelvingrove, said it had taken the decision to remove the painted coffin containing the remains of Nekht in the "absence of consent from the deceased individual or their descendants". Nekht is thought to have lived at some point between 1985 and 1797 BC and was excavated at Beni Hasan in Middle Egypt during digs carried out in the early 20th century. The remains were donated to the city of Glasgow in 1923.

UC Professor: Let’s Convene “People’s Tribunals”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
...for the “Dezionization” of Higher Education University. University of California Merced History Professor Sean Malloy is the latest academic to go full Madam Defarge in higher education. Malloy is calling for the assemblage of tribunals to “dezionize” universities. He has explained that “People’s Tribunals” go beyond ridding universities of zionists “but also confronting the role of Zionist organizations, donors, Regents, and administrators in repression targeted at members of the university community.”