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Source: Zero Hedge
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"Operation Ghostbusters" Exposes Kenyan Student Loan Scam
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
There's ghost students in the halls of American colleges, and they're sending your money to Kenya... The US Department of Justice has announced the first arrests in an ongoing investigation launched in April called "Operation Ghostbusters", and the results are not surprising. Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald held a press conference this week detailing the discovery of a fraud pipeline exploiting US college loan programs. The underlying fraud relies on "ghost-student" schemes using stolen identities for FAFSA/aid, and has been ongoing since at least 2021. The investigation that grew into Operation Ghostbusters was opened by the FBI’s Richmond Field Office after a referral from the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General. According to the Justice Department, criminal actors allegedly stole or used personal information of U.S. citizens (often people who had never attended college) to create fraudulent FAFSA accounts.

UK Social Media Ban May Lock Out 100,000+ Teens Without ID
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Guardian
Under the UK's planned social media ban, more than 100,000 British teenagers aged 16 and 17 could initially be locked out of social media because they lack a passport or driving license that may be needed as a fallback for age verification. The Guardian reports: Ofcom, the UK's online watchdog, said about 150,000 16- to 17-year-olds do not own a passport or driving licence, which are likely to be needed to access age-restricted platforms. The Australia-style ban on under-16s accessing social media services, including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, is due to come into force next spring. The head of Ofcom, Melanie Dawes, said "motivated children" would seek to bypass the restrictions, as has happened in Australia.

Judge Blocks Expediting Migrant Children’s Asylum Cases, For Now
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reuters
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing new policies that immigrant rights groups said were designed to fast-track the deportations of unaccompanied children ?seeking asylum.
US District Judge Brendan Hurson in Greenbelt, Maryland, issued a temporary restraining order preventing US Citizenship ?and Immigration Services from dramatically shortening the amount of notice children get for asylum interviews and restricting their ability to reschedule them, preventing US Citizenship ?and Immigration Services from dramatically shortening the amount of notice children get for asylum interviews and restricting their ability to reschedule them.

Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Engadget
The lawsuit was brought by an 18-year-old woman from Mississippi known as K.D.B who, according to Reuters, has "described staying awake for hours scrolling social media, losing focus in class and engaging in self-harm using methods shown in social media videos." Jury selection kicked off earlier this week in Los Angeles. On Friday, K.D.B's lawyer announced that she had reached a settlement with Meta after previously settling with TikTok and YouTube. "We remain committed to improving safety for kids on social media apps and holding tech companies accountable, and we are pleased to have brought this matter to a just resolution on behalf of our client," attorney Emily Jeffcott said in a statement.

Births hit lowest half-year total since 1977 in England and Wales
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Right to Life UK
The number of babies born in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level for any calendar half-year in nearly 50 years. Figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that there were 287,236 live births recorded in the first six months of 2026, a decrease of 2,406 births compared to the first half of 2025, when there were 289,642 live births recorded – and the lowest number for any calendar half-year since 1977. The latest total is around a fifth below the first half of 2012, when 360,256 live births were recorded

Texas AG Ken Paxton Wants to KILL Trans People!
Topic: Unspecified
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
The United States finally has its first gender detrasitioning clinic, a resource that is desperately needed. It’s at Texas Children’s Hospital, but sadly it wasn’t the result of the butchers in white coats finally finding their conscience and coming to their senses. No, it was thanks to a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which the hospital settled out of court. Part of the settlement involved opening a clinic to help kids and youth transition back to living as their biological sex. The clinic concentrates on patients under the age of 21, but also has obstetric and gynecologic care for older patients.

Sophie Cunningham says FBI monitoring 20 people suspected of stalking her
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Post Millennial
"The more you're visible on TV, you're gonna get more fans... But there's also a lot of, like, kind of crazy people too." Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham revealed in a recent podcast appearance that the FBI is keeping its eyes on around 20 people over concerns involving the WNBA star. Cunningham said that she has had to deal with stalkers, with one currently being in jail.

1 charge against Russell Brand reduced by London judge in UK sex case
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Post Millennial
In the ongoing trial of Russell Brand in the UK, a judge reduced one of his charges. In the London trial, which began earlier in October, Brand has been facing three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault related to allegations by six women. On Tuesday, Justice Bennethan of the Southwark Crown Court reduced the indecent assault charge to attempted indecent assault, per the Hollywood Reporter. The judge told the jury there was “insufficient evidence” to support the charge, and told the jury they should find Brand not guilty of the allegation that had been made against him.

Black enrollment tanks at Harvard after SCOTUS affirmative action ruling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
The Supreme Court ended affirmative action a few years back, meaning that universities could no longer discriminate in favor of specific students based on their skin color. Prior to this ruling, Ivy League universities and many others had policies requiring them to fill their freshman classes with quotas of black students and Hispanic students, basically with those who were not Asian or white. Once schools were forced to put an end to this practice, enrollment for black students declined. The Harvard Crimson reported that the number of black students has dropped again for the third straight year since affirmative action was scrapped. The Harvard Crimson calls the practice "race-conscious admissions," but according to the Supreme Court, it was just discriminatory against Asian and white students.

Missouri mom secures free speech win
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
...after school district censored her over Facebook 'thumbs-down'. Supreme Court precedent has determined it is illegal for government officials to restrict constituents' access to official social media accounts. Public school employees are considered state government officials. A Missouri mom secured a free speech victory this week after she complained that her child's school district blocked her access to the district's Facebook page over her criticism of a new hire. The Liberty Justice Center warned the Kearney School District on behalf of Annie Palmer that its actions violated the First Amendment, after the district deleted her comments and blocked her from its official Facebook page in April because of her criticism regarding the hiring of a new school principal.

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.

“You are White-Presenting”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Texas Judge Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Testing After Bar Complaint. Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas has been suspended pending psychiatric testing and the resolution of a bar complaint after a bizarre hearing in April 2026. In the hearing, Brown, a Trump appointee, went on a racial diatribe against a lawyer, Ezra Young, over his race. Young was accused of being White. When Young informed her that he is Hispanic, Judge Brown went on to say that he is “white-presenting” in continuing her racial browbeating.

School Choice Is Under Attack Again
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Signal
Apparently, in Ohio, allowing parents to decide where their children go to school is now a constitutional problem. On Oct. 15, a three-judge state appeals court ruled that Ohio’s EdChoice school voucher program violates the state constitution, potentially jeopardizing the educational future of roughly 180,000 students who rely on it. The ruling has been put on hold pending an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, so families can continue using their vouchers for now.

Florida Woman In Burka: Prank? Protest? Islamic Intimidation?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
The old saying that “all politics is local” was definitely brought to the fore when a woman, in a full tent burka, stepped up to the comment section of a county commissioner’s meeting to blast a recording of the Islamic call-to-prayer. We have questions. So what was the purpose of the Burka Person? Was it a subversive protest by clearly demonstrating what could easily happen with the expansion of mosques akin to New York City where the call-to-prayer has grown in frequency and volume.

Wives for Sale, Poisoned Husbands, and 12-Year-Old Brides:
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The Grim Reality of Preindustrial Marriage. Preindustrial marriage was not the fairy tale that many people imagine. Some assume that in the villages of yore, life was simpler, love and marriage came easily, and most of our ancestors lived happily ever after in contented, wedded bliss. In reality, limited partner choices, widely tolerated domestic abuse, and frequent early deaths meant marriage was fraught with challenges. In short, marriage wasn't always happily ever after. People in the past faced few options when it came to marriage. The number of potential partners in one's tiny village was low—the few available choices might all be one's cousins, increasing the risk of birth defects in any resulting children.

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.