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Will Trump Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Her Lawyer Thinks So.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Forbes
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney said she isn’t pushing for a presidential pardon while associate Jeffrey Epstein remains a major news story, Politico reported Friday, but the lawyer is optimistic that President Donald Trump will eventually pardon her—though the president hasn’t given any indication that he will. Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus told Politico that he hasn’t yet spoken to the Trump administration about trying to secure a pardon or commutation for Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein’s alleged abuse.

Clarence Thomas SLAMS progressivism as threat to Americans' natural rights
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Progressivism "requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights." Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at the University of Texas in Austin on Wednesday night and he lashed out at the horrible political philosophy of progressivism, saying that it's anathema to the Declaration of Independence and the goals set forth in that document. He praised the ethos of the Founding Fathers and urged Americans to not be "passive spectators" in American liberty, but to uphold the Declaration of Independence. He spoke about his career, realizing early on in Washington, DC, that he had to define his principles and their worth. "What are your principles worth to you?" He said he asked himself.

Taxpayers on the hook for $18 MILLION
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Post Millennial
...to pay off sexual harassment settlements against congressmen. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said on Wednesday, "A friendly reminder that House Oversight subpoenaed the records of the congressional sexual harassment slush fund and we will be releasing them. Maybe we’ll see more resignations, you never know."

The Rape Army:
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Dissident
IDF Officially Allows Rape Against Palestinian Detainees. After the IDF rapists were questioned by Israeli military police, “right to rape rallies” took place outside of Sde Teiman, where members of the radicalized Israeli public demanded the IDF militants be freed. In March of this year, the Israeli army dropped the charges against the five IDF militants , a move that was celebrated by Israel’s genocidal Defense Minister, Israel Katz, who said, “The role of the IDF’s legal system is to defend and protect soldiers who are bravely fighting monsters in war – not the rights of Nukhba terrorists”.

62-Year-Old Protester Acquitted on All Charges for Wearing Penis Costume
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Reason
The judge felt there was probable cause for an arrest but he declined to go so far as to convict. After three hours of testimony, a judge acquitted her of all charges—a welcome result for her free speech rights. In October 2025, Jeana Renea Gamble wore the offending phallus—holding a "No Dick-Tator" sign—at a "No Kings" protest. Responding to the scene, Cpl. Andrew Babb of the Fairhope Police Department threw Gamble to the ground and arrested her for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

The Case Against Social Media “Addiction”
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Cato Blog
A movement is underway to classify heavy social media use as a form of addiction. Advocacy groups, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and a growing number of lawmakers are treating the proposition as settled science. In a landmark California trial in early 2026, a jury found Meta and Google negligent for designing platforms that allegedly caused mental health harm, awarding $6 million in damages. In Congress, the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that would require social media platforms to prevent specified harms to minors, including “compulsive usage,” and to disable addictive product features by default, has advanced out of committee in both chambers.

Idaho law ends use of public funds for teachers’ union
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a measure prohibiting public schools from using taxpayer-funded resources to support teachers’ unions, a move supporters say restores government neutrality while critics argue it limits educators’ ability to organize. The legislation, House Bill 516, bars school districts from facilitating payroll deductions for union dues and restricts the use of public resources to assist union activities. The law is set to take effect July 1. Supporters of the measure, including the Freedom Foundation, which prompted the report, argue that allowing payroll deductions amounts to indirect taxpayer support. [Ed: this needs to happen in every state.]

Zelensky signs law criminalizing antisemitism
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jerusalem Post
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a new law criminalizing antisemitism and making it punishable by up to eight years in prison. The new law – signed on Holocaust Remembrance Day – amends Article 161 of the Criminal Code on the violation of citizens’ equality based on their race, nationality, religious beliefs, or disability. This now features the words and “manifestations of antisemitism,” according to the draft law seen by The Jerusalem Post. Part one of the article relates to deliberate actions aimed at inciting hatred or manifestations of antisemitism and at humiliation of honor and dignity. [Ed: interesting, given Ukriane's deep involvement inthe Holocaust.]

Yale Panel Delivers Scathing Report on Higher Education
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Yale .pdf
High costs, opaque admissions, free speech issues have put colleges and universities in the dog house. Colleges aren't just caught in the higher-ed backlash; they helped create it, a new Yale report concludes. A faculty committee at the university says institutions like its own share major blame for collapsing public confidence in college, pointing to soaring sticker prices, confusing financial-aid schemes, opaque admissions, grade inflation, and battles over free speech. The 10-professor panel says universities have tried to be "all things to all people—selective but inclusive, affordable but luxurious, meritocratic but equitable," without clearly stating their core mission, making it harder for the public to judge whether they're delivering on their promises, reports the New York Times.

First Lady Lobbies House Panel to Overhaul Foster Care System
Topic: Children and Family
Source: USA Today
First lady Melania Trump returned to Capitol Hill this week to press lawmakers to move on a set of bills tied to her foster care initiative. At a roundtable with members of the House Ways and Means Committee, Trump framed the effort as an ethical obligation, saying that children in the US foster system are "our moral equals" and that updating federal policy is "a moral imperative." She urged Congress to act on legislation aimed at improving support for current and former foster youth, USA Today reports, particularly around education and the transition to adulthood.

California Provides Sex-Change Procedures to Homeless Illegal Aliens
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: City-Journal
In San Francisco, ideology rules. Last month, we received a report from a whistleblower who claimed that illegal aliens were staying in San Francisco’s homeless shelters. Following up on the tip, we visited numerous publicly funded shelters in San Francisco, and spoke to employees and residents about their policies, sometimes through a translator. We discovered not only that the shelters were housing illegal immigrants but also that they were apparently housing a population of male-to-female “transgender” illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain “gender-affirming care.” And, to our shock, state and local governments apparently are providing it.

Elon Musk’s Grok Continues Generating Sexualized Deepfakes on X
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Let’s Data Science
Elon Musk's AI system Grok, developed by xAI and deployed via X, is still producing nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images and videos of real people. An NBC News review identified dozens of such images posted publicly to X in the past month, and advocacy researchers warn the tool enables large-scale, gendered abuse. Despite a January pledge to stop abusive deepfakes and the introduction of content restrictions, users have found prompt and workflow techniques that bypass protections and elicit sexualized edits from Grok and Grok Imagine. The ongoing generation and public posting of these images creates reputational, psychological, and legal harms and raises urgent questions about model safety, moderation engineering, and platform liability.

What Other States Can Learn from Florida’s School Choice Success
Topic: Children and Family
Source: City-Journal
The Sunshine State’s innovative school-choice programs are setting the standard nationally. School choice is still coming into its own. Only five states—Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, New Hampshire, and West Virginia—currently provide universal programs that give residents unrestricted use of public funds for any educational option. The biggest state on that list, Florida, also leads in school-choice investment. The Sunshine State allocates 11.2 percent of its total education budget to these programs. Its experience provides valuable insight into how real choice shapes families’ educational decision-making and provides lessons for other states to follow.

What (and How) Should Our Students Be Taught Today?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Brownstone Instiute
Rhetoric is the linguistic art of using language precisely to gain power over one’s audience or interlocutors; by employing various figures of speech – such as metaphor and metonymy – one is able to distract someone with the purpose of subtly getting them to identify with what these tropes represent. The contemporary equivalent of rhetoric, which similarly employs figural tropes, is discourse. Discourse is language, but not in an innocuous, descriptive, or constative form. Rather, it is language, where meaning and power converge, and where meaning actually serves power. Put differently, discourse is the linguistic guise of ideology, which is unavoidably inscribed in language. Such discourses are usually inscribed in the underlying assumptions and contexts which operate tacitly in one’s teaching and learning, and unless teachers are aware of this, they may remain unwitting agents for these discursive interpellations.

Agentic AI Comes for Teaching
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James
Zev van Zanten considers Canvas's new professor bot. Will agentic AI let teachers spend more time teaching, or will it remove even more of the human touch from the academy? This is one of higher education’s most important questions following the release of the now-defunct Einstein and Canvas’s own agentic AI teaching agent. Canvas, an online-learning-management system operated by Instructure Holdings, is used by 50 percent of all students in North America. This market share means that any changes the firm makes reverberate throughout higher education. Canvas’s new AI agent, IgniteAI, lets professors delegate tasks such as rubric generation, grading, and the creation of course-specific Canvas sites. The hope is that this development will free up the time currently wasted by professors on the minutiae of deadlines, web design, and administrative tasks so that teachers can spend their days teaching.

College Graduates Are Losing the Clone War
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Of Two Minds Blog
College grads, it may be time for different approach, not just in getting a job but in life. My own experience is the value lies not in fighting the commoditization war but in bypassing it completely, in effect obsoleting the entire corporate-HR commoditization. Find small businesses, try to meet the boss / owner, find out what they do, and if it's of interest, write them a letter or call them. Don't say, "I want a job." Say "I'm interested in your business and work, I want to learn more, can I come by?" The self-employed entrepreneur you're nurturing within you will observe, ask questions, and if there is some small opportunity to help, offer to help without compensation, just because you find it interesting.

FTC's Probe of Media Matters for America Is Blatant Assault on Freedom of Speech
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
In the guise of investigating "potentially unlawful advertiser boycotts," the commission is punishing the organization for its views. In November 2023, about a year after Elon Musk took over Twitter, Media Matters for America made a splash with a report claiming that the platform, by then rebranded as X, was "placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content." Musk responded by threatening a "thermonuclear lawsuit" against Media Matters, while Stephen Miller, now a White House deputy chief of staff, suggested that "conservative state Attorneys General" should investigate the organization for "fraud."

Most Young Australians Successfully Evade the Country's Social Media Ban
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The anxious generation is proving more tech savvy than regulators. Among the great many bogeymen of the current moment is social media, which stands accused of making young people anxious and unhappy. Whatever the merits of those charges—and they're debatable—politicians have predictably tried to address concerns by applying the blunt instrument of coercive law to kids' online activities rather than simply let parents help their children make better choices. The experience in Australia now shows the subjects of the law have, once again, proven cleverer than law enforcers.

How many Swalwell-style creeps are Democrats protecting?
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: FOX News
The op-ed argues Swalwell's misconduct was an open secret in DC for over a decade before his gubernatorial bid. The most amazing thing, though certainly not the most disgusting, about the revelations of sexual impropriety by Democrat California Rep. Eric Swalwall is that somehow this man thought he could run for governor despite the horrifying allegations hanging over his head. The most obvious answer as to why the TikTok video-producing congressman thought he could pull this off is that he believed the Democratic Party and its media allies would protect him. Frankly, he was correct about that, right up until he wasn’t.