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Nicki Minaj meets Trump in Oval Office to support wealth-building 'Trump Accounts'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
The rapper’s appearance marked another high-profile moment in her increasingly visible relationship with conservative politics. Rapper Nicki Minaj became one of the most talked-about guests at a White House luncheon celebrating the launch of President Donald Trump’s savings initiative for children, niclnamed Trump Accounts. Trump singled out Minaj with a highly public display of praise. During the event at the White House, Trump asked Minaj to stand before the crowd and praised the rapper as “so respected and so hot,” while also calling her a “great friend” of what he described as “common sense.” The remarks quickly spread online, drawning a range of reactions.

Taxpayer abortion funding resumes with legislation expiring on July 4
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Center Square
Abortion is once again funded with federal tax dollars through Medicaid, as the legislation preventing taxpayers’ money from such a use expired on the 250th anniversary of the United States’ existence. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s Director of Communications Kelsey Pritchard told The Center Square: “As we celebrated the 250th anniversary of our nation founded on the right to life, funding resumed to the Big Abortion businesses.”

Australia's Teen Social Ban for Teens Has Early Problem
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reuters
Major platforms aren't verifying ages, study finds. Australia's attempt to lock out teens from social media is running into trouble at login. A new follow-up study by a team that helped design the system found major platforms are largely skipping the basic step of checking whether users claiming to be 16 actually are. On 50 test accounts created after the law took effect—with ages set to 16 on sign-up—none were asked to prove their age, reports Reuters. All the accounts remain active across nine platforms, including Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X.

Federal Appeals Court Rules Sex Offenders
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
Have a Constitutional Right to Live With Their Children. The ruling could open the door to challenges against state laws governing the conduct of released sex offenders.The new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit arises out of an Alabama case but could help reshape strict sex offender residency laws in the other two states in the circuit—Florida and Georgia—and serve as persuasive authority elsewhere. At the heart of the case is the constitutional doctrine of substantive due process, which protects certain fundamental rights that are not explicitly listed in the U.S. Constitution but deeply rooted in U.S. history and tradition, including the right of parents to live with and raise their children

Medicaid funding resumes for Planned Parenthood
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
Last year, Republicans were successful in using the party-line One Big Beautiful Bill Act to achieve their long sought-after goal of defunding Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood cited the defunding as the reason for the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections. The new funding will be a lifeline for the organization’s network of clinics and their patients. Medicaid is a significant revenue stream for Planned Parenthood, accounting for more than $800 million. In addition, more than half?of?Planned Parenthood’s?patients?rely?on Medicaid for their health?coverage, the organization said.

Are State Courts More Protective of Transgender People than Federal Courts?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Fulcrum
As the U.S. Supreme Court deals another blow to trans rights, a new survey finds that almost 55 percent of related state cases from 2022 to 2024 had a positive impact on trans lives. In an article published in The Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, I conducted a comprehensive survey of state court cases that impacted the rights and lives of trans people between 2022 and 2024. The survey showed state courts have an essential role to play in protecting trans people in an increasingly hostile political environment. Amongst some ominous signs for trans rights, there were important signals of hope in the survey.

Refugee rapists can now be deported
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Human Events
...after Sweden petitions UN for change in guidance. Sweden has secured changes to United Nations refugee guidance after a controversial court ruling had allowed an Eritrean migrant convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl to remain in the country. The offense had been deemed not sufficiently serious enough to allow for the revocation of his refugee protections. The change now gives guidance that rape is an offense great enough to allow nations to remove a refugee who is guilty of that offense. Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell announced that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has agreed to revise its guidelines following pressure from the Swedish government.

Appeals court overturns ruling in favor of 'conversion therapy' ban
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Christian Post
An appeals court panel has revived a lawsuit from two counselors challenging a Missouri city’s ban on counseling minors away from a transgender or homosexual identity. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a per curiam ruling last Thursday reversing a district court ruling against counselors Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenreich, citing the Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazarin March. The case involves ordinances of Kansas City and Jackson County that restrict so-called LGBT conversion therapy for minors while allowing therapy for minors that affirm LGBT identity.

College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Futurism
Are you smarter than a 4th grader? Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.” According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — a forum for 38 high-income, predominantly Western countries — a not insignificant number of adult students enrolled in higher education are now reading and doing math at a level which, in a more functional society, would be alarming for a middle schooler.

56% of U.S. Adults Support Social Media Ban for Everyone Under 16
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The anti-social media crusaders have popular support. That should worry online freedom advocates. As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, most U.S. adults want to curtail children's freedom online. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 56 percent of Americans support banning anyone under 16 from using social media sites. The poll, which surveyed 9,750 U.S. adults from May 26 to June 1, reflects growing bipartisan support for restricting children's access to social media as governments in Australia and the U.K. move toward age-based limits.

Metsola heads for clash with her own Parliament over child abuse bill
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
The bill to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online would allow tech companies to legally scan their services for the content. Police, investigators and child rights activists say the bill is critical to stop pedophiles from spreading the illegal content online, but privacy groups, cyber experts and tech officials have warned the rules enable mass surveillance of internet users. The issue has heated up politics in Europe in past years and drawn in everyone from tech mogul Elon Musk to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to weigh in on the issue.

Call Her Daddy podcasters threatened Barstool
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Post Millennial
...with 'fake' sexual harassment allegations to get out of contract, Dave Portnoy claims. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has alleged in his newly released memoir that Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, hosts of the popular podcast Call Her Daddy, had planned to break their contracts with Barstool using "fake" sexual harassment claims. Call Her Daddy was owned and distributed by Barstool Sports between 2018 and 2021. The podcast is now hosted solely by Cooper. Portnoy said that Cooper and Franklyn had not expressed dissatisfaction with their pay and contracts until they met with YouTuber Logan Paul.

Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN
The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the court let a 5th Circuit order stand without explanation or noted dissents. CNN notes that the Supreme Court's decision "doesn't resolve the case but rather will allow Texas to enforce the law while the litigation continues to play out."

Activists Push California To Recognize 'Black English' In Preschool Classrooms
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Greatness
...is Ebonics making a comeback? Progressive California education activists are urging the state to recognize “black English” in preschool classrooms, claiming the approach would strengthen literacy development and affirm the language spoken by many black children. Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (BlackECE), a nonprofit advocacy organization, is promoting what it describes as an effort to challenge “harmful language hierarchies and affirm black English as a legitimate, rule-governed language rooted in black history, culture, and community.”

What We Told Boys About Fertility (and What We Didn’t)
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Psychology Today
We taught boys about sex, but not about their reproductive future. For a girl, thinking about motherhood is seen as normal. But a boy who thinks about his fertility or future fatherhood early is often viewed very differently. We wonder why he's already thinking about being a father? It seems slightly strange to us. We question it in a way we rarely question girls. We place girls’ thoughts about future children within the context of motherhood. But for boys, we have no real narrative for that.

Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Economy
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire. Rolling Stone is a perfect example of how entrepreneurs enrich themselves by enriching the lives of consumers. Unfortunately, the magazine’s left-leaning editorial stance rarely acknowledged that reality. More than personalities or anecdotes, de Leon’s story focuses on the magazine’s content. There is more detail on individual writers, articles, and editorial coverage than some readers will want. Still, he makes a compelling case for how, to quote the book’s subtitle, “a magazine born in the 1960s changed America.”

Lupita Nyong'o bashes Homer for 'very masculine' Odyssey
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...brags about her 'screen time' as a woman while social media ROASTS new trailer. Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey is drawing renewed controversy after actress Lupita Nyong'o questioned how Homer portrayed women in his ancient Greek epics, asking what she would say to the legendary poet if given the chance. "I would be like so Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women considering how little time you spent with them?" she said to YouTube channel Jake Take's.

Lupita Nyong'o bashes Homer for 'very masculine' Odyssey
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...brags about her 'screen time' as a woman while social media ROASTS new trailer. Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey is drawing renewed controversy after actress Lupita Nyong'o questioned how Homer portrayed women in his ancient Greek epics, asking what she would say to the legendary poet if given the chance. "I would be like so Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women considering how little time you spent with them?" she said to YouTube channel Jake Take's.

LEGO Faces Backlash Over Pride-Themed Content Aimed At Kids
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American Greatness
“This isn't 'inclusion'... It’s sexualizing childhood and grooming the next generation with adult themes...” The Denmark-based toy company LEGO is facing criticism after promoting Pride-themed content on social media and its website. Parents accused the company of introducing LGBT themes to a brand primarily marketed to children. Although LEGO produces some building sets for adults, the company markets most of its products to children. Many young consumers follow the brand on social media. In a recent Instagram post, LEGO celebrated Pride Month with the caption, “Pride moments built, brick by brick. Swipe to see more of our LEGO colleagues’ stories.”