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Jury selection to begin in Harvey Weinstein's retrial
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Euronews
Seven years after allegations against him first emerged, Harvey Weinstein is back in court. But even if the retrial ends in not guilty verdicts, the disgraced movie mogul will remain behind bars at Rikers Island. The last time a New York City jury sat in judgment of Harvey Weinstein, the ex-movie studio boss was convicted of rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Five years later, that landmark #MeToo verdict is gone - wiped away on appeal - and Weinstein is set to go on trial again, beginning today with jury selection.

Outrage Erupts As CBS Downplays Child Sacrifice As 'Cultural Practice'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Townhall
CBS News is facing backlash for a bizarre attempt to downplay the horrors of ancient child sacrifice, suggesting that the ritual killings practiced by pre-Columbian civilizations were “not violent” but rather a means of “connecting with celestial bodies.” In a shocking display of moral relativism, the outlet framed the gruesome act of child sacrifice not as the barbarism it clearly was but as a “culturally significant” practice—sparking outrage from critics who say this is just the latest example of the corporate media bending over backward to excuse evil in the name of academic spin.

Librarians in UK Increasingly Asked To Remove Books
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles. Requests to remove books from library shelves are on the rise in the UK, as the influence of pressure groups behind book bans in the US crosses the Atlantic, according to those working in the sector. Although “the situation here is nowhere [near] as bad, censorship does happen and there are some deeply worrying examples of library professionals losing their jobs and being trolled online for standing up for intellectual freedom on behalf of their users”, said Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip). Ed Jewell, president of Libraries Connected, an independent charity that represents public libraries, said: “Anecdotal evidence from our members suggests that requests to remove books are increasing.” The School Library Association (SLA) said this year has seen an “increase in member queries about censorship”.

Showdown Looms Over Trump's DEI Ban In Public Schools
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
Low-income rural districts that publish DEI statements required by state law but don’t necessarily engage in the practices are caught in the crossfire. Several blue states have joined New York in resisting federal efforts to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in public schools. Leaders in California, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Washington said they wouldn’t provide a signed statement to the federal government by an April 24 deadline to certify compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting practices such as diversity training, affinity groups by race and gender, preferential hiring practices by race, and classroom curricula that include progressive ideologies such as critical race theory.

British PM Purges Historical Artworks; Replaces Them With 'Diverse' Dawbings
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Mail
Out with Shakespeare and Churchill, and in with… crayon scribbles... Sir Keir Starmer was last night accused of being in thrall to ‘the wokerati’ after the full list of the paintings removed from No10 since he moved in was revealed. Portraits of historic figures such as Elizabeth 1, Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare were among the 69 works of art ‘deinstalled’ from the Government Art Collection since the election. The revelation comes after a long Freedom of Information battle with the Tories. Among their replacements are Altar, a scene from the 2023 Falmouth Reggae Festival in Cornwall by Denzil Forrester. Other paintings include All Things Being Equal, by the Nigerian abstract artist Nengi Omuku, which ’employs the human body as a medium to convey internal experiences’ by ‘using oil paint on strips of Sanyanan indigenous fabric from pre-colonial Nigeria‘. Then there is Almond Clasp by the British-Ghanaian Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who specialises in ‘brooding portraits of Black life’, and Still (III) by Christina Kimeze, who currently has an exhibition ‘inspired by the resurgence of roller skating in Black communities’.

Mass. Couple Accused of ‘Kidnapping’ Their Own 5 Children from State Custody
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Boston Broadside
The parents, who homeschool their children, stated to their pediatrician that they were opposed to their new baby receiving the shots based on their sincerely held religious beliefs. Despite citing religious exemptions which are law in Massachusetts, the father, Isael Rivera is being held in Worcester County Jail on a $200,000 bond or 20K cash bail, while the couple’s five children have reportedly been taken into custody by Child Protective Services (CPS).

More than 20 colleges join initiative to address male enrollment decline
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The College Fix
A new partnership between nearly two dozen colleges and universities aims to tackle the steep decline in male enrollment — an effort that is very much needed, two scholars told The College Fix. In a stark shift in higher education demographics, men are now earning two of every five college degrees, and are more likely than women to drop out of college. These trends are highlighted in a recent report from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Honduras’ Trafficking Nightmare: A Veteran-Led Fightback Begins
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Uncover DC
Aerial Recovery is striking back against Honduras’s human trafficking crisis, driven by gangs like MS-13, which traps countless children in exploitation. The veteran-led organization recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Honduras’s Ministerio Público, the nation’s attorney general’s office, empowering its team with vital resources to rescue victims and dismantle trafficking networks. The landmark partnership marks a pivotal step in Aerial Recovery’s mission to end exploitation. This MOU enhances the organization's fight against human trafficking and sexual exploitation with a sharp focus on rescuing and supporting vulnerable children.

Administration Immediately Hits Back at Harvard, Freezes Funding
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CNBC
Within hours of Harvard's announcement that it would not comply with the Trump administration's policy demands, federal officials said $2.2 billion in multiyear grants to the university would be frozen, along with a $60 million contract, the New York Times reports. "Harvard's statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's most prestigious universities and colleges—that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws," said the US General Services Administration and Department of Education in announcing the freeze. CNBC reports that Harvard is more equipped than most universities to fight the administration; its endowment is $53 billion, $10 billion more than the second-largest endowment, which is held by Yale.

Harvard, Columbia Plunge in Law School Rankings Amid Anti-Semitism Backlash
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Free Beacon
Harvard and Columbia Law Schools both plummeted in the 2025 U.S. News ranking amid ongoing controversies over campus anti-Semitism, while Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin joined the prestigious "T14" list. Harvard slipped to No. 6—its lowest ranking ever—while Columbia fell to No. 10. By contrast, Vanderbilt and UT Austin—which work to combat campus anti-Semitism, according to the Anti-Defamation League—climbed 5 and 2 spots, respectively, to tie for No. 14. The ranking marks Vanderbilt's first-ever appearance in the "T14," a longstanding label for the top 14 law schools in the United States, according to legal commentator David Lat.

Indo-Canadian couples choosing sons over daughters: study
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: CBC
"Learning their baby's gender may be one of the most treasured moments for parents. But new research suggests that in some Canadian families — in the Indo-Canadian community especially — parents are not leaving the baby's sex to chance." "Canadian-born women with two daughters have roughly the same chance of having a boy or a girl, but Indian-born women in Ontario gave birth to 196 boys for every 100 girls." "The study suggests that this boy baby boom may be linked to second trimester abortions."

Woman who punched, bloodied pro-life activist Savannah Craven arrested
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Post Millennial
...charged with assault Brianna J Rivers, 30, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault. The New York woman who sucker-punched Live Action pro-life activist Savannah Craven has been arrested and charged for the attack caught on camera. Brianna J Rivers, 30, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault for brazenly punching Craven on camera while the two were debating the topic of abortion, per the New York Post. [Ed: I don't think this arrest would have happened a year ago.]

The White House’s Clumsy Attack on Harvard
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The City-Journal
...rusade against the university is unquestionably justified, but its methods may not pass muster in court. The Trump administration’s war on higher education has entered its hottest phase yet. On April 14, the administration froze $2.26 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, in response to Harvard’s rejection of administration demands for reform. News of the university’s defiance ricocheted around the globe. The fate of the White House’s academic reform efforts depends heavily on how the coming showdown concludes. The present conflict began in on April 11, when representatives of the Trump administration’s Joint Anti-Semitism Task Force sent a demand letter to the Harvard president and the head of the Harvard Corporation (the university’s equivalent of a board of trustees). The April 11 mandate is much more sweeping and detailed than the task force’s March 13 demand letter to Columbia University.

Time to break the culture of silence on grooming gangs
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Spiked Online
Tribal loyalty and victimhood narratives stopped many British Pakistanis from speaking out. Earlier this month, the UK government’s safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, delivered yet another betrayal to grooming-gangs victims. Having promised to hold five local inquiries in areas where the gangs were operating, Phillips announced that there would now only be one local inquiry – in Oldham. It seems that we are still awaiting a true national reckoning with the large-scale, decades-long rape and abuse of thousands of young girls at the hands of groups of largely British Pakistani men. A reckoning, above all, with the culture of silence and denial that allowed these men to get away with their heinous crimes for so long.

The UK’s free-speech crisis is about to get so much worse
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The Crime and Policing Bill could unleash terrifying new censorship powers. The UK government’s Crime and Policing Bill poses a formidable threat to free speech in the UK. The bill, which is currently at the committee stage in the House of Commons, promises to keep our streets ‘safe’ by giving courts a new power to issue ‘respect orders’. These orders are potentially so draconian and wide-ranging that they could well end up being used for very different purposes – including silencing anyone who says anything online that the authorities disapprove of.

How child soldiers heal after the trauma of war
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Science News
Shadows into Light looks at the mental health of Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers. For more than two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt has followed the lives of children (now adults) who returned home after being forced to fight in the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002. Thousands of children unwillingly participated in the violent conflict as soldiers, spies and laborers. Many took part in attacks on their own neighbors and relatives, many faced sexual violence, many witnessed unspeakable atrocities. In her new book, Betancourt, director of Boston College’s Research Program on Children and Adversity, shares what she has learned about the factors that have helped some of these people recover and even thrive.

Some Companies Start Getting the Memo: PRIDE, DEI Don't Pay
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: NewsMax
During the next approximately six short weeks, plus or minus, you'll be told, no make that lectured to, ad nauseum in the print and broadcast media, that June is PRIDE month. Not to be confused with HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day, Transgender Day of Visibility, Asexuality Day, Lesbian Visibility Day, Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Harvey Milk Day, International Drag Day, LGVBTQ History Month or National Coming Out Day.

“Scam”: Gen Z Is “Not Participating” In “Paid For” Protests
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Wokespy
[Ed: I hope he is correct. I have no real info on this as a phenom.] Turning Point founder and CEO Charlie Kirk shared a post on X Wednesday detailing how Gen Z is not participating in the allegedly paid-for protests occurring across the country. “They were told college was the only way to succeed. LIE,” Kirk posted. “They were told they’d never own a home and like it. LIE. Young men were told they were toxic. LIE. Young women were told to be childless boss babes to be happy. LIE.”

The casual tyranny of banning silent prayer
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’ have become tools of thought control. Pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted earlier this month for standing outside an abortion clinic with a sign reading: ‘Here to talk, if you want.’ She was fined £20,000 for twice breaching the clinic’s ‘buffer zone’. Tossici-Bolt’s case proved so shocking that it caught the attention of US vice-president JD Vance and the US State Department. Last month, the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour wrote on X that it was ‘monitoring her case’ and reiterated that ‘it is important that the UK respect and protect freedom of expression’.