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EU probes Elon Musk’s X following Grok sexual images
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Politico.EU
European Commission’s move follows explosion of sexually explicit deepfakes of women and children. The Commission will decide whether X met EU requirements to protect users when it integrated Grok into the social media platform and its underlying algorithm. X is already under investigation on several fronts under the EU’s Digital Services Act, which regulates social media platforms, and was in December fined €120 million for lapses in transparency. Penalties can reach up to 6 percent of X’s annual global revenue.

Pediatricians Break With CDC on Vaccine Schedule
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN News
American Academy of Pediatrics urges broader child immunizations than revised CDC schedule. The Department of Health and Human Services is standing by the CDC's changes, saying the revised lineup "continues to protect children against serious diseases while aligning U.S. guidance with international norms." A spokeswoman accused the AAP of being upset that the CDC "eliminated corporate influence" when it replaced members of a key vaccine advisory panel with new members including an anti-vaccine activist. The AAP, representing about 67,000 pediatricians, calls vaccines a proven shield against preventable disease; 27 states and Washington, DC, have already said they won't fully adopt the CDC's new childhood schedule, according to health policy group KFF. CNN reports that the CDC schedule was long considered the nation's guide to vaccinations but many doctors are now opting for the AAP's version. "The science hasn't changed," says Dr. Claudia Hoyen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland. "We will continue to follow the science."

Infant vaccination mortality paper censored by platform
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
...that welcomes pre-peer review research. Preprints.org, operated by open-access publisher MDPI, cited its "withdrawal policy" as a whole, but no specific reason, for removing the paper by Children's Health Defense researchers. They found worse risks by race and sex. Twelve years after a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted through his lawyers to withholding a "statistically significant finding" on black babies from his peer-reviewed study finding no link between autism and vaccination, a preprint server that hosts research before peer review erased a study that also found a racial vaccination link.

‘Mr. President, it’s now time’
Topic: Abortion
Source: CNN News
As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that would achieve a key goal of its allies in the anti-abortion movement by ending the availability of abortion pills by mail. The lawsuit, brought by Louisiana against the President Donald Trump-appointed health officials, is one of several pressure points the anti-abortion movement is pressing to push the administration to limit access to medication abortion, which now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States.

Americans Pay Over a Billion $ a Year to Subsidize Illegal Aliens’ College Education
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Judicial Watch
Although a 30-year-old federal law prohibits giving illegal aliens discounted in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, 22 states and the District of Columbia still do it and the cost to American taxpayers is over a billion dollars annually. In an effort to force the violators to stop offering undocumented students the pricey benefit, a U.S. senator has introduced a bill (Put American Students First Act) to specifically prevent any alien who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence from obtaining in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education. The proposed measure notes that section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 already bans states from granting discounted tuition and fees to students not lawfully present in the U.S. simply because they live—albeit illegally—in that state unless the same rates are also offered to citizens of the United States regardless of residence.

Post-Roe battle over abortion pills reaches Kentucky gas stations
Topic: Abortion
Source: FOX News
KY Attorney General Russell Coleman issues subpoenas to gas stations running Mayday Health ads targeting 'vulnerable' residents. With the March for Life marking nearly three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Kentucky has launched an investigation into out-of-state groups advertising mail-order abortion pills, citing a post-Dobbs law that bans the drugs’ delivery into the state. The march's organizers now see new meaning in their annual demonstration following the landmark Dobbs decision, and states around the country are taking sides on whether abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," as then-President Bill Clinton put it, or liberally permitted or strictly prohibited. In Kentucky, lawmakers responded by passing House Bill 3 in 2022, banning the mailing or delivery of abortion-inducing drugs.

Fla. Black Democrats decry state’s stance on affirmative action
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Jax Today
Calling it an attack on people of color, House and Senate Democrats on Thursday decried a legal memo issued this week by Attorney General James Uthmeier that said numerous affirmative action laws are discriminatory. “Racial discrimination is wrong. It is also unconstitutional,” he wrote. Uthmeier’s memo, issued Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, said state laws giving preferences to minorities or requiring quotas are racially discriminatory. The attorney general said he would refuse to “defend or enforce” such laws.

Trump administration announces expansion of 'Mexico City' aid restrictions
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: NBC News
...to include DEI and gender. The Trump administration will expand the "Mexico City" policy that restricts U.S. aid to foreign organizations that provide or promote abortions to include advocates of "radical gender ideologies" and diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Vice President JD Vance announced Friday at the March for Life.

Gen Z students are so unprepared for college that 'coddling' profs
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The New York Post
...have started reading aloud to them. Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, according to a shocking new report. Instructors at universities across the country — including top programs — detailed to Fortune how they have had to change their curriculum and teaching style to accommodate their Gen Z pupils — who are more focused on TikTok than printed text. “It’s not even an inability to critically think,” Jessica Hooten Wilson, a professor of great books at Pepperdine University told Fortune. “It’s an inability to read sentences.”

Spanish prosecutors drop sexual assault complaint against Julio Iglesias
Topic: Father's Rights
Source: Toronto City News
Spanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain’s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter. Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors had opened an investigation studying allegations that the 82-year-old Grammy-winning global singing star had sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.

Failing French Pres. Macron Wants To Ban Under-15 Kids From Social Media
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Gateway Pundit
A failing lame-duck President polling in the 16-18% range, fresh from the historic low of 11% approval, he needs some issue that will help him back into the good graces of the French voters who don’t trust him, and believe he has been a failure as head of state. Usually, Macron tries to find it in ‘global warming’, but that con is not working anymore – so he tried to be a ‘warrior leader’ meddling in Ukraine, and lately sent an astonishing 15 soldiers from the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade to Greenland. What a Napoleon, right? Now, it appears that ‘Le Petit Roi’ has found a new cause that can make him appear in a positive light for part of the French society.

Western feminists are worse than useless for Iranian women’
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Spiked Online
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the ‘progressive’ handmaidens of Islamist misogyny. As many as 30,000 protesters may have been killed by Iranian security services earlier this month, on 8 and 9 January alone. This was an unprecedented display of brutality, even by the standards of the Islamic Republic. Even more striking still has been the muted response in the West. Anti-government protesters are fighting for freedom, democracy and against religious tyranny. Many of those bravely battling against the regime are women, desperate to overthrow harsh Islamic strictures, including forced veiling. So where is the solidarity from Western ‘feminists’ and ‘progressives’?

New Woke Star Trek "Starfleet Academy" Series Is Embarrassing Critical Failure
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Hollywood refuses to learn. Woke politics do not sell, not today and not in the 32nd Century.... The charm of Star Trek as a concept is that the franchise offers a relatively positive vision of humanity's future rather than the predictable doomsday scenarios that have saturated television for decades. Setting aside the show's strange ties to the RAND Corporation and Gene Rodenberry's pandering to the United Nations, Star Trek essentially imagines a civilization in which the politics of today have become irrelevant and humans have moved on to the stars.

Shakespeare Was A Black Jewish Woman – Claims Feminist Historian
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Sceptic
"Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash..." One of the positive sides to radical feminist historical scholarship is the opportunity to learn about revelations that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The latest is that William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman” according to a new book covered in the Telegraph.

Will Trump’s DHS ‘Zone Out’ the First Amendment?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James Bovard
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday called for Minneapolis to “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights and do so peacefully.” Since 9/11, “free speech zones” have been one of the biggest constitutional shams around. Both major political parties have used “free speech zone” restrictions to seek to silence dissent. As I wrote in 2004 in The Baltimore Sun, the Democratic National Convention that year was downright bizarre...

35 Days Overdue: Where Are The Epstein Files? - Democrats
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Democrats.org
Over one month after Donald Trump's Justice Department was legally required to release all of the Epstein Files, he Trump administration has failed to comply with the law and has released less than ONE PERCENT of the files — a majority of which were incomplete, heavily redacted, or had already been made public through previous disclosures. Trump and his DOJ have delayed the release of the files for months — despite the House and Senate voting almost unanimously to make them public — providing endless excuses while denying long-overdue justice for Epstein’s victims and transparency for the American people. Congressional Republicans have all but forgotten about the Epstein Files, with one House Republican even saying, “I don’t give a rip about Epstein.”

The FCC Wants To Police How Many Conservatives Appear on The View
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
The equal-time rule is an antiquated regulation that becomes more obsolete with each passing year. This week, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr announced new directives for TV networks to follow in order to maintain their broadcasting licenses. "For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as 'bona fide news' programs—even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes," Carr wrote Wednesday on X. "Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities."

In-depth discussion with the prof who just won a major free speech victory
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges put a satirical land acknowledgement on his course syllabus. The university administration wasn’t happy about it. But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Professor Reges’ syllabus was protected by the First Amendment.

The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian (UK)
That has consequences for us all. A year ago, I was in north-east Syria, in the Kurdish-dominated area known as Rojava, listening to some of the most determined women that I have ever met. On my first day there, I went to a huge conference where one after another, women in Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian dress roused the audience to chants of “Jin! Jiyan! Azadi!” (Woman! Life! Freedom)!. When I visited, this region of Syria had for more than a decade been governed not by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but by an autonomous administration (the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or Daanes). Its commitment to equal rights has been remarkable – every institution it set up relied on power-sharing between men and women. No wonder many of the women I met there sounded optimistic about their future. “This will be a century of women’s freedom,” one said to me. “We are in solidarity with women in resistance throughout the world.”