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TX Gov. Abbott Threatens Grand Prairie's State Funding
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Texan
Over Previously 'Muslim Only' Water Park Event. Gov. Greg Abbott’s office notified Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen to cancel the “DFW Epic Eid Celebration,” a Muslim event to be held at the city-owned Epic Waters Indoor Water Park.The Public Safety Office (PSO) sent the letter to Jensen on Wednesday regarding the event celebrating the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. ...“Epic Waters is owned by the City and managed by a third-party operator,” the City of Grand Prairie said in a Tuesday statement. “Like other City-owned facilities, it is available for rental by individuals and organizations.”The city said they have been in contact with the Epic Waters...

Ukraine is a global surrogacy hub - but that could be about to end
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
Prior to the war, Ukraine was widely cited as the world's second commercial surrogacy hub behind the United States. While the conflict significantly impacted surrogacies, they have nearly bounced back to pre-war levels, experts have told the BBC World Service. But Ukraine's parliament is now considering a bill that would introduce stricter oversight of the surrogacy industry and effectively ban access to foreigners, who make up 95% of the intended parents. The proposals have widespread support across Ukraine's parliament.

Nancy Mace Claims Congressional Harassment Records Prior to 2004 Destroyed
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Washington Examiner
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on Monday that congressional sexual harassment and misconduct records prior to 2004 were destroyed. Mace, who is running for governor of South Carolina, posted a photo on X of two binders that she claimed were the “results of my subpoena of Congress’s sexual harassment slush fund.” “Nine members. One thousand pages. All records prior to 2004 were destroyed – which tells you everything you need to know about how long this has been buried,” Mace wrote.

Despite SCOTUS Ruling, NJs AG Is Still Targeting First Choice Pregnancy Centers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Townhall
On April 29, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of First Choice Pregnancy Resource Centers, a pro-life organization that helps expectant women and mothers. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin subpoenaed First Choice, demanding a decade's worth of documents, including statements on abortion pill reversal, any information it provided to clients and donors, documentation identifying personnel, copies of every First Choice advertisement and donor solicitation, and information about any outside organizations First Choice worked with. First Choice Executive Director Aimee Huber called the subpoenas a "fishing expedition."

Disney cruise ship staffers among 28 arrested in massive child porn operation
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: New York Post
Families hoping to make memories on a cruise were unknowingly surrounded by alleged child predators working aboard the ships, according to law enforcement officials. U.S. Customs and Border Protection boarded five cruise ships, including a Disney cruise docked in San Diego, between April 23 and 25 as part of ongoing Child Sexual Exploitation Material enforcement operations, a CBP spokesperson told The California Post. “After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew members from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all subjects were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or...

Grooming gangs inquiry: UK scandal explained
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Week
Three-year statutory investigation will look into how gangs operated as well as alleged cover-ups by institutions such as the police and local authorities. So far only the Oldham area has been confirmed for investigation. Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, told a home affairs committee that other cities should be included as well, adding “I personally can’t say this enough.” There has been “growing pressure” for an inquiry into Bradford “to address allegations that the scale of abuse was covered up”, said The Telegraph. It came after a dossier drawn up by child abuse lawyer and Conservative MP Robbie Moore claimed at least 7,975 children in Bradford had been at risk of sexual exploitation between 1996 and 2025.

Italy’s Meloni Denounces Deepfake Lingerie Picture of Her That’s Gone Viral
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: AP News
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her — posing in bed, wearing lingerie — and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her. Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that Meloni should be “ashamed” of herself. Meloni warned against sharing such images on social media without verifying them.

Backlash erupts over viral video of CAIR leader
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
A video circulating widely on social media that appears to show a prominent California Muslim advocacy leader urging supporters to be "strategic" about how they express certain views publicly is drawing backlash and renewed scrutiny of the organization’s ties to state funding. In the video, Billoo appears to caution against posting certain views publicly, using an example to illustrate what she described as a lack of "strategic" judgment.

EEOC Sues NYT for DEI-Related Race and Sex Discrimination
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: EEOC
Federal lawsuit alleges news publisher failed to promote a white male employee because of his race and sex. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, The New York Times chose not to promote a well-qualified white male employee because of his race and/or sex. The New York Times has a well-documented commitment to enacting race and sex conscious decision making in the workforce through its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. In The New York Times’s 2021 “Call to Action” and throughout numerous other publications, the company stated goals and action plans to increase non-white and female representation in its leadership positions.

House sexual harassment payouts exceeded $300,000
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Just the News
Nancy Mace promised accountability for the victims and the House paid out approximately $338,000 to settle the cases. One former lawmaker was targeted in sexual assault lawsuits three times and the House cumulatively paid out $115,000 to dismiss them. The House Oversight panel subpoenaed information detailing the government payouts after a March committee vote, seeking a full accounting of payouts made before the settlements ended in 2018, according to Politico.

Education Dept. Opens Title IX Investigation Into Smith College
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Associated Press
Administration will look at whether all-women's school is in violation for admitting trans women The US Department of Education opened an investigation Monday into Smith College, an all-women's institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. The probe by the department's Office of Civil Rights will look at whether the college violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education. The move is the latest by the Trump administration—whose rhetoric has frequently included attacks on trans people—to limit transgender rights in the US, reports the AP. The administration has said that Title IX prevents trans women from participating in women's sports, suing several states and launching investigations into schools for not complying. Smith College, a private liberal arts school founded in 1871, has admitted trans women since 2015, along with many other elite women's colleges.

Posting Video of 10-Year-Old Hockey Player's "Tantrum"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Isn't Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. In Mufarreh v. Google, Inc., decided Friday by the Illinois Appellate Court (Justice Raymond Mitchell, joined by Justices Sharon Oden-Johnson and Thaddeus Wilson), a 10-year-old hockey player and his parents sued an anonymous video poster, and sought to discover the poster's name: "[i]n a competitive youth hockey game[,] Mufarreh missed the final penalty shot, losing the game, and had a severe emotional response on the ice. Among other things, he screamed, threw his hockey stick, gloves, and helmet, and fell to the ground."

Moms for Liberty takes New York for America's 250th birthday bash
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
The group of happy warriors have had 565 school district wins across the US since their founding just five years ago. The guests all met in their finery at Battery Park while regular New Yorkers in their Saturday afternoon best glanced at the parade, the signs waved by the Liberty crown-wearing guides, and smirked away. The 600 guests were gathered to board a boat for Ellis Island, where the non-profit was hosting a bash to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The British took the harbor in 1776 and used New York City as their base of operations for the Revolutionary War, but Saturday night, it was all about Moms for Liberty.

1 in 5 councils ban swearing
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Campaign for Freedom
Councils in England and Wales have introduced a swathe of bizarre bans that will turn ordinary people into unwitting criminals. Councils have used Public Spaces Protection Orders (which allow them to ban any activity they judge to have a ‘detrimental effect on the quality of life’) to introduce over 1000 new laws, each of which can contain dozens of separate restrictions. These orders are not subject to democratic or legal scrutiny: they can be brought through by a single unelected council officer, and do not require public consultation or full council assent.

Fight over sexual misconduct cases in Congress poised to intensify
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: The Hill
The battle over sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill is primed to escalate. For much of this year, the focus of efforts to curtail sexual wrongdoing has been squarely centered around three figures facing high-profile allegations — Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Cory Mills (R-Fla.) — which forced the first two to resign from Congress last month. But more recent revelations that the Ethics Committee is also probing several other members — combined with the news that congressional offices have paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds to settle similar allegations in the past — have sparked a new wave of protest from victims’ rights advocates in the Capitol, who are now clamoring for accountability, more transparency and an overhaul of the way that lawmakers police themselves.

Former Georgetown Admissions Officer Discusses Use of Essays
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Jonathan Turley
to Circumvent Affirmative Action Rulings. After the historic ruling in the Harvard and North Carolina cases barring the use of racial criteria in admissions, administrators and academics admitted what they had long denied: that race was having a major role in admissions. In anticipation of the rulings, many schools eliminated standardized testing, including the California system. Without objective scores, there is less ability to identify the use of non-scholastic criteria for admissions. By eliminating or devaluing standardized testing, admissions offices can use the more subjective essays to achieve the same race-based results. I wrote about how administrators were already preparing to use essays as an indirect way to achieve the same identifications and preferences in admissions. The essay “prompts” encourage students to effectively self-identify by discussing incidents where they faced discrimination.

More on the EEOC Lawsuit Against the NY Times
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Air
In case you missed it yesterday, a white male employee of the NY Times filed an EEOC complaint claiming he was passed over for a promotion because of his race. The EEOC then filed a lawsuit against the NY Times accursing the paper of racial discriminatin. When I wrote about all of this it yesterday, I had to rely on the accounts published by various newspapers describing the lawsuit. Not surprisingly, the NY Times' own story about it left out a lot of detail. For instance, here's what the Times published dismissing the main claim in the lawsuit.

From DEI To Equal Protection: A New Direction In Civil Rights Policy
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Real Clear Wire
Progressives defended these manifestly unconstitutional and unlawful actions... The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services (2025) that whites, men, and heterosexuals are not held to a higher standard in discrimination cases.

Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Amsterdam Bans Advertisements Featuring Meat and Fossil Fuels. In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed similar limitations on advertising for products in the United States, from alcohol to tobacco. However, the Dutch law reflects how this tendency can metastasize into shielding citizens from unhealthy choices or influences.