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Ex-Supermodel Accuses Ex- Modeling Exec of Rape,
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Associated Press
Trafficking Carre Otis hopes complaint against Elite's Gerard Marie will spur others to come forward. Former American supermodel Carre Otis filed a complaint on Friday in a Paris court alleging she was raped and trafficked by Gerald Marie, the former European head of the Elite Model agency, in a move her lawyer said is meant to encourage other potential victims to come forward. Marie has denied the allegations and can't be prosecuted over Otis' case due to France's statute of limitations, per the AP. But the complaint could allow other women, whether their cases are time-barred or not, to join the proceedings, Otis' lawyer, Mathias Darmon, said in a statement. The complaint, seen by the AP, alleges rape of a minor and human trafficking.

Graham Platner Has Made #MeToo Dems and Their Enemies Switch Sides
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Reason
The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine is accused by The New York Times of abuse and toxic behavior. In response to fresh allegations that Platner, the presumptive Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, was abusive in his past relationships, conservatives who in the past have been correctly discerning of the motivations behind certain sexual misconduct claims are now heralding these accusations as all but confirmed. In fact, they have assailed The New York Times, which published a detailed story about Platner's dating history and alleged violent episodes, for not going further in its indictment. Meanwhile, many Democrats who gleefully and uncritically embraced the "believe all women" mantra of the #MeToo era are broadly dismissive of the Times story, even though the evidence of wrongdoing is arguably more compelling in this case.

Tennessee governor signs ‘Women’s Safety and Protection Act’ into law
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Campus Reform
Tennessee law now defines legal terms such as 'female,' 'male', and 'sex.' Tennessee has advanced legislative action to protect women in college dorms and other public facilities. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed state bill S.B. 0468, also known as the “Women’s Safety and Protection Act,” into law on May 22. According to the bill summary, the new legislation, “clarifies and reconciles the meaning of sex, female, male, and related terms in state law to provide protections for women and girls against sexual assault, harassment, and violence in correctional facilities, juvenile detention facilities, domestic violence shelters, dormitories, and restrooms, or where women have been traditionally afforded safety and protection from acts of abuse committed by biological men.”

Students join teachers in violent protests over cuts to education in Brussels
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Human Events
Students join teachers in violent protests over cuts to education in Brussels. A large demonstration over education reforms turned chaotic in Brussels on Thursday, with clashes breaking out in and around the city centre as police moved in to disperse crowds. Teachers took up the protests earlier in the week over cuts to education, with students joining them on Thursday. "I can understand that the teachers are angry, that they are worried, and that they have questions. But this is unreasonable. They must return to the classroom and stop inciting the youth, including on the basis of disinformation," said Georges-Louis Bouchez, chairman of the centre-right Reformist Movement party.

UK police in force that failed Henry Nowak
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
...felt 'pressured,' 'controlled' after mandatory DEI training. The force previously held a day-long course titled “Inclusion Matters,” which covered topics such as racism, so-called unconscious bias, and the “importance of being an ally.” Officers with Hampshire Police, the force facing intense scrutiny over its handling of the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak, gave negative responses to a mandatory DEI program, saying they felt “controlled and pressured” during the training.

Influencer: After Down Syndrome Diagnosis, We Aborted
Topic: Abortion
Source: Healthline
YouTuber Jesse Ridgway says he and spouse have received death threats after they ended pregnancy YouTuber Jesse Ridgway says he and his wife, Ashley, chose to end a pregnancy after learning their fetus had Down syndrome, and he's now explaining the decision directly to his followers. In an Instagram story posted this week and later shared by Ashley, the 33-year-old influencer wrote that the couple made "the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to trisomy 21," adding that the choice followed consultations with doctors, genetic counselors, friends, and family, per People. He also noted that he was told 90% of women who receive a Down syndrome diagnosis end up having an abortion, though Healthline reports that stat in the US is more like 67%.

Disney exec has AI 'son,' causing staffers to be disturbed
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
"This is the kind of Pandora’s Box stuff that science fiction movies are based on." A Disney executive is reportedly disturbing a number of employees because of a “relationship” he has developed with an AI chatbot that he refers to as his "son." The bot is personified as a child-like avatar similar to a young boy.

Ohio State University Reaches $100 Million Settlement
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Epoch Times
With Nearly 300 Sex Abuse Survivors. Strauss, who killed himself in 2005, was employed by Ohio State's athletic department and medical staff for nearly two decades. The settlement with 279 of the 280 former students was ratified by the university's board on Wednesday. It followed years of litigation over accusations of decades of abuse by Richard Strauss. The abuse occurred from 1978 to 1998, the year he retired from the faculty.

American Views Are Shifting on Same-Sex Marriage
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Hill
American backing for same-sex marriage has slipped a few points, though it remains solidly in majority territory. A new Gallup survey finds that 65% of adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized as legal, down from 68% last year and 69% in 2024, reports the Hill. In 2022, that number reached as high as 71%, per the AP. Opposition, meanwhile, has climbed to 32%, up from 23% two years ago, per the Hill. The poll, conducted May 1-17 among 1,001 adults, has a 4-point margin of error. [Ed: I'm sorry to see this, but the trans stuff being rammed down people's throats is causing a backlash.]

‘It Hurt’: Graham Platner’s Exes Accuse Him of Getting Physical
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Mediaite
...and Other ‘Unsettling’ Behavior in Bombshell NY Times Story. Ex-girlfriends of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, accused him of demeaning women, calling his controversial tattoo “my Totenkopf,” and even getting physical in a bombshell New York Times report. The most serious allegations come from Lyndsey Fifield, “a Virginia conservative” who reportedly dated Platner between 2013 and 2015, and disputed his claim that he was unaware of the connection between the tattoo across his chest. “After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as ‘my Totenkopf,'” reported the Times‘ Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer.

Dems replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in latest woke rewrite of NY law
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New ork Post
Mom’s not the word. A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws — a gender-neutral rewriting that’s expected to spark a flood of similarly clunky legislation. “Mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent” or “parent” in family court along with in domestic and education law, under the legislation, passed this week by state Democrats.

Botched ruling on pregnancy 'fairness' law
Topic: Abortion
Source: Just the News
...opens floodgates to abortion, pro-life coalition warns. Democrats, atheists, Jewish and Christian groups back Catholic bishops' challenge to EEOC regulation, court ruling on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, saying they obliterate First Amendment rights of religious and pro-life groups.

Brown Eggs Canceled for Offending the Climate
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Moonbattery
The advantage of a totalitarian ideology is that it can be applied to everything. For example, global warmism dictates even what color eggs should be offered for sale. The moonbats at HuffPost report from the UK: "Retailer Sainsbury’s has pledged to stop selling brown eggs under their own brand as part of their sustainability program, moving to white-shelled versions instead." Here’s why:

U Of Oregon Grapples With Budget Crisis After Years Of Woke Excess
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
It appears that being unrelentingly woke means that you need fewer dormitories... It appears that being unrelentingly woke means that you need fewer dormitories. The University of Oregon is facing a major budget crisis and will cut $65 million from its budget and close dorms due to low enrollment. That growing crisis, however, did not stop Oregon from burning almost a million dollars fighting against free speech. It also did not induce its faculty to offer greater intellectual diversity and tolerance to prospective students. Oregon is a cautionary tale for a generation of academic social warriors, but also an opportunity for those who want to restore balance in higher education.

We need a reckoning with ‘anti-racism’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The Henry Nowak tragedy must bring an end to Britain’s institutional identitarianism. There’s been a collective realisation over the past seven days in Britain that a doctrine that divides individuals into passive ethnic-minority victims and privileged white oppressors has now become both a seemingly legitimate mode of thinking and a tacit state policy. The events surrounding the death of Henry Nowak in Southampton last December were not only distressing on a human level, but alarming because it made clear how a diseased ideology had become a grim reality. A man was left to die, assumed guilty because he was white, while the man who was last week found guilty of his murder was presumed innocent because he wasn’t. [Ed: guilty of being white.]

Cultural Marxism has turned accusations into instant guilt in the West
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
"They gave the benefit of the doubt to the brown, and they gave no benefit of any doubt to the white, and they immediately aggressed him." Joshua Lisec appeared on Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec, where he delivered his breakdown of cultural Marxism and its real-world impact on the West's institutions, including law enforcement responses in violent incidents in light of after the murder of Henry Nowak in the UK.

As feds pull back student loans, states should reform cosmetology licensing
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Washington Examiner
The Trump administration is pulling back federal student loans for cosmetology schools — and it’s a great opportunity for states to stop forcing aspiring beauticians to take on debt just to practice their trade. Under the administration’s proposed “Do No Harm” rule, colleges and trade schools can no longer enroll pupils using federal student loans if their graduates earn less than early-career workers with only a high school diploma. The logic is that postsecondary education should, at a minimum, make people better off than those who never went to college. If graduates can’t clear this basic benchmark, they are unlikely to be able to afford their loan payments.

Media Wants To Know Why Men Are Walking Away From Liberal Society?
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Zero Hedge
Establishment journalists are desperate to understand why men are ignoring modern women and progressive modernity in general...but they don't want to hear the real answer... Recent surveys paint what might seem like an apocalyptic picture: In the US, around 45% of men ages 18-25 do not approach women anymore to engage in dating or relationships. Over 42% of all men have no interest in seeking out women for relationships or casual dates. Around 30% of men over 40 years old have never been married and are not necessarily seeking marriage. In light of ongoing concerns about population decline around the world, the first thing most people might say is that men need to "step up" and fulfill their role in order to save the human species from a "Children Of Men" movie scenario. However, this suggests that it's men's fault and that checking out of the current system is a bad thing. It's a narrow minded view.

If Judge Ross's "Improper Sexual Activity"
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
"Greatly Damage[s] [Her] Credibility as a Judge," Does That Satisfy the Standard for Impeachment? The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council may have thought Judge Eleanor Ross's apology was sufficient to keep the reprimand private, but those not wearing a robe continue to see a problem. Representative Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee is starting to discuss an investigation. "The House Judiciary Committee's top Republican said his staff is looking at possible congressional action after a Georgia federal judge had an affair in her chambers, in earshot of clerks, and lied to judiciary officials about it."