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70 children among 100 Palestinians laid to rest in mass Gaza funeral
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Cradle
Palestinian families have waited years for rescue teams to be able to recover the remains of relatives killed during Israel's genocide in Gaza. Civil Defense crews spent days recovering the dead, which included 70 children, largely by hand amid severe equipment shortages and ongoing restrictions. Among them were 55 people recovered from a single family home after a three-day operation by rescuers. Israel struck the home of the Malka family on 19 November 2023, where 60 members of the family were sheltering.
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 21:00:38 printer friendly
‘So vulnerable:’ Trump admin’s MAHA chiefs declare war on kids’ screen addiction
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Parents are being given a toolkit to unplug their kids dubbed the 5 D’s: discuss, do, delay, divert and disconnect. Overweight, nearsighted, depressed and anxious. Many of America’s children are in the midst of a health crisis, and the Trump administration’s MAHA chiefs are declaring war on a primary cause: kids’ addiction to their tablet, phone and video screens. “They are so vulnerable. So we had to sound the alarm, and here we are. We're doing something about it,“ said Dr. Stephanie Hirodopoulos, the director of national health communications for the U.S. Surgeon General. Last week, most of the government’s top medical experts — including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Mehmet Oz — assembled with Big Tech executives, educators and state officials to devise an action plan for getting children off their devices and into other life activities.
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 20:18:45 printer friendly
The hate crime hoax that is costing one of Calif’s biggest school districts
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Washington Examiner
The saga began in 2022, when Fresno Unified School Board Trustee Keshia Thomas claimed that teacher and legendary Bullard High School football coach, Don Arax, called her son the N-word at practice. Arax was forced out of his coaching position in the middle of his 24th season as a result (he was not technically fired, as he maintained his teaching position). As you could guess, Arax filed a defamation lawsuit. In a 2025 deposition, Thomas said that she never claimed Arax called her son the N-word (even though she did), and she has since issued a non-apology “apology” for accusing Arax of doing so (even though she said in a deposition that she did not).
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 18:57:20 printer friendly
Dr. Robert Malone On Well-Being & 'Mental Illness' In Women
Topic: Women's Health
Source: Malone News
Back in 2020, Pew Research Center surveyed more than 11,000 Americans. Political scientist Zach Goldberg subsequently examined the underlying data and broke the results down by age, sex, race, and political ideology. What he found was rather remarkable. Among white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal, 56.3% reported that a doctor or other health-care provider had diagnosed them with a mental health condition.
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 17:50:40 printer friendly
They/Them Communist Activist Declares Ozempic "Fascist" Plot
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
America's socialist leadership increasingly looks less like a political movement and more like a circus where the clowns run the show. Its most radical theorists openly advocate dismantling capitalism and the institutions underpinning the Western order while romanticizing communist regimes defined by nation-killing economic ruin and political repression. Rather than building a credible working-class movement, these clowns have marginalized themselves through far-left extremism and become objects of national ridicule. The latest clown show comes from Da'Shaun L. Harrison, an Atlanta-based writer, activist, and self-described Afropessimist, anarcho-communist, abolitionist, and trans theorist who uses they/them pronouns.
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 17:41:24 printer friendly
For the First Time, Older Adults Outnumber Young Kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Axios
Worldwide shift is driven by longer lifespans, falling fertility rates. For the first time in recorded history, the world now has more people 65 and older than children under 5, a shift driven by falling birthrates and longer lives, per a new US Census report. In 2023, more than 71% of the global population lived in countries at or below the 2.1-births-per-woman "replacement" level, up from 45% a decade earlier—a tipping point that arrived much earlier than expected, Axios reports. The world's two most populous countries, China and India, now have fertility rates below replacement level, as do Bangladesh, Mexico, and Vietnam.
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 15:14:31 printer friendly
Mother of alleged sexual assault victim pleads for notice
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Just the News
The mother of a female wrestler who alleges she was sexually assaulted during a match with a male wrestler, whose sex was hidden from them, is testing the limits of recent Supreme Court precedents on parental rights in public schools, arguing the school has an affirmative duty to stop the girl from unwittingly wrestling another male. On behalf of her daughter Kallie Keeler, Stephanie Brown is seeking an emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal to force the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and Puyallup School District to either "withdraw her daughter from male matchups or tell her about upcoming ones."
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 08:26:10 printer friendly
Teachers Can’t Plaster Walls With Pride Flags, Second Circuit Rules
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Legal Insurrection
A Biden appointee affirmed schools can put reasonable limits on employees using classroom space to promote sexual ideology to kids. Three teachers at Connetquot Central High School in Bohemia, New York, challenged school officials who asked them to remove “pride flags” and “pride stickers” in a classroom and on classroom doors. A three-judge panel, led by lesbian Biden-appointee Judge Alison Nathan, ruled that the stickers and flags amounted to government speech. “Under Garcetti v. Ceballos…and its progeny, when public employees’ speech ‘owes its existence’ to their ‘professional responsibilities,’ the Government—their employer—can control the content of that speech without implicating their First Amendment rights,” Judge Nathan (pictured) wrote.
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 23:40:18 printer friendly
'America’s Got Talent' alum charged with murder of 4-year-old nephew
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...who drowned in pool unattended. According to the arrest investigation, the children were allowed to walk roughly 0.2 miles to the building’s swimming pool without adult supervision. Surveillance footage reportedly showed the child slipping into the pool and struggling before sinking below the surface, according to a report by WTVC. The boy remained in the pool for nine minutes before he was discovered.
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 17:38:29 printer friendly
Florida bans illegal immigrants from state universities
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Washington Times
The ban will take effect in the 2027-2028 academic year. “Glad to see the Board of Governors ratify the prohibition on illegal alien students at our colleges and universities,” he wrote on social media. “Always need to put Floridians — and Americans — first.” Republican Lt. Gov. Jay Collins also voiced his support on social media. “Florida’s public universities are for students who are here legally. Period,” he wrote. “Florida taxpayers should not be expected to subsidize opportunities for people who broke our laws to come here.” [Ed: just get gov. out of education and problems like taxpaid education for 'illegals' will not arise.]
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 16:36:51 printer friendly
Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Gothamist
Mount Sinai Health System reached a deal with the Trump administration to end gender-affirming care for minors in order to resolve a federal investigation into the hospital’s practices, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
According to the announcement, Mount Sinai will also pay a “monetary penalty” and will allocate $2 million to provide free medical services to patients suffering from what the DOJ described as the “harmful consequences” of care they received at Mount Sinai as children. The DOJ said it was investigating potential violations of federal law by Mount Sinai but did not share the conclusions of that investigation. Gothamist previously reported that Mount Sinai stopped providing services such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans and gender-non-conforming children earlier this year, but the health system never made a formal announcement.
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 16:30:56 printer friendly
UN Demands African Statues In London To Atone For Slavery
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
The United Nations has decided that Britain has not grovelled enough. After years of toppled statues, boarded-up war memorials and official lectures about "colonialism," a UN human-rights committee now wants the country that ended the Atlantic slave trade to fill its public squares with statues of "people of African descent," The globalist body also suggests Britain should rewrite what children are taught, and treat historic slavery as a live brief for migration policy and hate-speech enforcement.
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 10:14:32 printer friendly
Trump Admin Drafts Vance-Led Plan To Give Childcare Payments To Families
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Trending Politics News
The Trump administration is drafting a federal rule that would let some married couples receive child-care subsidy money even if one parent stays home with the children. The idea is being advanced as a priority of Vice President JD Vance and would use an existing pot of money originally set up to help working parents pay for outside care. The Child Care and Development Fund, a roughly $12 billion Health and Human Services program created in the 1990s
— Sunday 06 September 2026 - 23:10:20 printer friendly
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Jennifer Welch Refuses To Walk Back Erika Kirk Attacks
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Jennifer Welch calls herself a “woman’s-woman”. Just the other day, this self-proclaimed “woman’s-woman” appeared with Piers Morgan, who grilled her on her disparaging comments and opinion of Erika Kirk. he conversation went something like this: "PM: …One is Erika Kirk. So, we have the case against Tyler Robinson moving to trial now … all the evidence is pretty overwhelming that he did do this and you’ve said things like … ‘Erica Kirk is a terrible person, I think Erika Kirk was married to a racist homophobe, a grifter, and I think she has picked up exactly where Charlie Kirk left off."
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 17:35:02 printer friendly
Revoking NEA’s charter is a good step
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
...toward holding teachers’ unions accountable for failing kids.A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the National Education Association’s congressional charter.What’s to consider? The union, the nation’s largest representing teachers, clearly hasn’t met its obligations under the charter; Congress should revoke it pronto.Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is urging colleagues to reconsider the NEA’s charter specifically over its links to a number of far-left nonprofits, including the Zinn Education Project and Rethinking Schools, and its alleged out-of-control financial mismanagement
— Tuesday 08 September 2026 - 13:04:45 printer friendly
Feminine liberation Ludwig von Mises and the Feminine Liberation
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Mises Institute
It is worth recalling how, in his work Socialism, Ludwig von Mises explained—in the section regarding Contractual Marriage—that it was actually capitalism that enabled women’s emancipation; the greater financial resources made possible by capital accumulation allowed them to become independent of male domination...
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 23:05:33 printer friendly
Beds for the Homeless Are Not Detention Centers
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: In His Words
House Bill Aims to Block Mandated Shelter and Treatment for the Homeless. Democratic lawmakers introduced the “No Homeless Detention Centers Act” (H.R. 10231) on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. The bill, sponsored by Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL) and other Democrats, would prohibit HUD funds from being used to force people experiencing homelessness into shelters or other facilities. The bill identifies some reasons that lead to homelessness, such as economic hardships and domestic abuse. Some of the other reasons listed in the bill are a set of concerns (some plausible and some questionable) and a list of identity groups. Males are not listed as an identity group, even though males account for...
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 19:11:32 printer friendly
Will the Supreme Court Hear the 'Case About Swinging Dicks'?
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Reason
Olympus Spa—an all-female, nude establishment in Washington state—sued after the government said it had broken the law by refusing to accept a preoperative transgender woman. But the case is more complicated than it looks. "This is a case about swinging dicks," wrote Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in March. "You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion. You're not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa—some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing."
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 18:19:32 printer friendly
Nobody wants effeminate-looking men waving pom-poms as NFL cheerleaders
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
Like much of what the NFL does anymore at the crossroads of public relations and cultural warfare, the nation’s preeminent sports league has once again taken the liberal, progressive (though I would argue they should truly be called regressive) side in its cultural warfare campaigns. A social media video of a male cheerleader for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles received quite the reaction online. As an Eagles fan, this is nothing new since the Eagles’ first male cheerleader debuted in 2019. Nevertheless, the response was as one would expect: People don’t want this. I have no doubt that male NFL cheerleaders are the warped brainchild of a liberal, Democratic, socialist ideologue who kneels at the altar of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
— Monday 07 September 2026 - 17:46:10 printer friendly
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