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MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
The vote followed weeks of clashes, as national governments pushed the European Parliament to drop its privacy objections to the rules. The European Parliament on Thursday voted down rules that would allow technology companies to scan for child abuse online — and immediately drew the ire of top-level officials. Lawmakers voted not to extend a temporary law that allows platforms to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The law will expire next Friday, at which point scanning for the content will become illegal in Europe. In rejecting the rules, lawmakers resisted pressure from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, four European commissioners, tech giants Meta, Google and Microsoft and numerous children’s charities in past weeks.

California renames Cesar Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CNN
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31. The state Senate approved the legislation earlier in the day with bipartisan support. The change comes after allegations became public last week that Chavez had sexually abused girls and women during his days building a major farmworker labor rights movement in the 1960s in California’s agricultural heartland. Among those who accused him was Dolores Huerta, who co-led the movement that eventually became the United Farm Workers.

DOJ opens investigations into 3 medical schools over alleged race-based admission
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Just the News
The investigations, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, are into Stanford University, the Ohio State University and the University of California San Diego. Dhillon's office requested the schools provide seven years of data about applicants’ race, standardized test scores, relations to donors, zip codes and other educational information by April 24.

Planned Parenthood Ill To Pay $500K For ‘Segregating Employees By Race’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: EEOC
...discriminated against white employees through illegal DEI training, the EEOC says. Planned Parenthood of Illinois (Planned Parenthood) violated federal law when they segregated employees by race, subjected white employees to harassment, and engaged in disparate treatment against white employees regarding terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found as part of a class investigation into charges brought by multiple Planned Parenthood employees.

DOJ probing Ca, Maine for allowing trans-identified males in women's prisons
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
"Keeping men out of women’s prisons is not only common sense – it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights." The Department of Justice announced that it has notified governors Gavin Newsom of California and Janet Mills of Maine that it is conducting federal investigations into their states’ housing of trans-identified males alongside female inmates in their prisons. The investigation is looking into whether officials in the states have engaged in a "pattern or practice of violating the constitutional rights of female prisoners" who are being housed at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in San Bernardino County, the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Madera County, and the Maine Correctional Center in Windham (MCC Windham).

UK Tests Social Media Curfews, Time Caps for Teens
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNBC
Government will also test complete bans for a portion of 300 in pilot study. British teens are about to become test subjects in a government experiment on life with less scrolling. The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology will run a six-week pilot study involving 300 teenagers, imposing different limits on social media use, after lawmakers rejected a nationwide under-16s ban, per CNBC. One group of parents will remove or disable selected apps using parental controls; another will cap popular platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat at one hour a day; a third will enforce a nighttime blackout from 9pm to 7am; a fourth group will face no restrictions. The trial feeds into a broader "digital wellbeing" review closing May 26 that has already garnered 30,000 responses from parents and children, per the BBC.

Spanish woman, 25, dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Washington Times
Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25. EDITOR’S NOTE - This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, international helplines can be found at www.iasp.info/suicidalthoughts. For nearly two years, Castillo pursued her right to die after her father put up a lengthy legal battle when a medical body in Catalonia approved her request for euthanasia in 2024.

An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Block Club Chicago
Alpha School, a pricey private school with campuses nationwide, uses artificial intelligence to instruct students. AI schools have been praised by the Trump administration, but researchers say there’s limited evidence the model works. Bean bag chairs, soundproof booths and portable whiteboards make Alpha Schools look more like a tech startup than a school. But its biggest break from tradition is not the design: It’s an education model that uses artificial intelligence to teach core subjects while adults in the room serve as “guides,” not teachers.

Olympics Ban Trans Athletes From Women's Events
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Guardian (UK)
IOC leader says it would be unfair to allow 'biological males' to compete against women. Transgender athletes have been barred from women's events at future Olympics under a sweeping new rule announced by the International Olympic Committee. "It would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category," said IOC president Kirsty Coventry, reports the Guardian. Going forward, athletes in women's categories will be subject to a one-time DNA test, and those without typical XX chromosomes—including some with differences in sex development (DSD)—will be barred, reports the New York Times. The IOC says the move follows an expert review suggesting athletes born with male sex markers retain physical advantages even after testosterone suppression.

Canada’s Insane ‘Anti-hate Legislation’ Passes Final House Vote
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Protestia
Canada took a giant leap forward last night in its quest to persecute and criminalize Christianity after its House of Commons voted 186-137 to adopt Bill C-9, otherwise known as the Combatting Hate Act, advancing it to the Senate. While religious freedom has long been considered a protected value in Canada, at least in theory, the government’s new hate speech legislation, which was supported by the Liberal and Bloc Québécois MPs, seeks to drastically curb that back. Presently, the law exempts “hateful or antisemitic speech” if it is based in good faith on the interpretation of a religious text due to a sincerely held religious belief. Bill C-9 strips that protection away.

Church of England installs first female archbishop in 1,400-year tradition
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Human Events
"We are very excited and grateful to God that this has happened," Onyango said. "We feel affirmed, you know, by one of us being at the top of the church." The Church of England has formally installed its new archbishop of Canterbury, marking a first in the institution’s long history. Sarah Mullally has become the 106th person to hold the role, and the first woman to do so. The ceremony took place on Wednesday at Canterbury Cathedral, following a tradition dating back more than 1,400 years. It began with Mullally knocking three times on the cathedral’s west door before being admitted by local schoolchildren. The service lasted about 90 minutes and was attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales, along with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Christian Pamphlet is ‘Hate Speech,’ Finland’s Supreme Court Rules
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
The court found that certain statements in the 2004 pamphlet constituted criminal ‘insult’ under Finland’s hate speech statutes. A 2004 pamphlet explaining traditional Christian views of sex and marriage is “hate speech,” Finland’s Supreme Court ruled on March 26, fining a member of parliament, a Lutheran bishop, and a church group hundreds of dollars. The verdict, the culmination of years of prosecutions, sends a chilling message on free speech, advocates warn. The Supreme Court of Finland delivered a split decision in a closely watched case involving Paivi Rasanen, a longtime lawmaker and former interior minister. Also convicted was Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola, whose church foundation published the pamphlet.

Britain Is Bringing Back the Blasphemy Laws
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The American Conservative
and the Free Speech Union is Taking the Government to Court. The government is trying to make criticism of Islam illegal. Reed has officially adopted a definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”—“Islamophobia” by another name—and announced that a government-appointed “special representative,” a so-called “czar,” will record complaints and ensure that anyone who falls foul of the definition is “appropriately” dealt with. The definition is to be rolled out across the police, the NHS, schools, universities, local authorities, museums, libraries, and—in Reed's own words—“public and private organizations more widely.” So everywhere, basically. Diversity officers, safeguarding leads, and HR consultants will be rubbing their hands with glee.

US Senate Republicans launch probe of abortion pill makers
Topic: Abortion
Source: Reuters
...escalate pressure on FDA. U.S. Senate Republicans launched an investigation into abortion pill manufacturers on Wednesday and called on the U.S. ?Food and Drug Administration to crack down on online sales of the ?drug mifepristone, the latest escalation in a years?long political battle over access to medication abortion. The probe is led by Republican Bill Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. ?It follows months of criticism by conservatives that the FDA has moved ?too slowly in reviewing the safety protocols surrounding mifepristone, particularly after ?former President Joe Biden's administration eased in?person dispensing requirements and expanded telehealth access.

Chicago Politicians Shameful Silence About Sheridan Gorman’s Murder
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
I include Illinois politicians as well, are shamefully silent over Sheridan Gorman’s murder. Sheridan and several of her friends were walking along Chicago’s lakefront when they were accosted by an illegal, and Sheridan was murdered. "An illegal Venezuelan migrant accused of executing a Loyola University Chicago freshman from New York entered the US under the Biden administration, and was released under Chicago’s sanctuary city laws before the killing, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday. Jose Medina-Medina, 25, allegedly murdered 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman early Thursday morning while she walked along the Chicago lakefront with her friends, according to a DHS release obtained by Fox News."

Two Verdicts in Two Days: How American Courts
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Naked Capitalism
Are Rewriting the Rules for Big Tech and Children. Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify. On March 24, 2026, a Santa Fe jury ordered Meta to pay US$375 million for violating New Mexico’s consumer protection laws. The next day, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google’s YouTube negligent in the design of their platforms, awarding almost $6 million in damages to a single plaintiff. The dollar figures are drawing headlines, but a $375 million penalty against a company worth $1.5 trillion is a rounding error. The award is less than 2% of Meta’s $22.8 billion net income in 2025. Meta’s stock rose 5% on the day of the New Mexico verdict, indicating how the market assessed the effect of the penalty on the company.

Contrary to Allegations, Data Show Little Fraud in Arizona School Choice Program
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Education freedom is under attack, including baseless accusations. Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has long waged war against the state's school choice programs, reserving particular venom for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA), which allow much per-pupil education funding to follow students to their preferred schooling. She's been assisted in her crusade by some media outlets which have amplified inaccurate stories about ESAs. But the ESA program remains not just wildly popular but, according to researchers, also well-managed.

Some cultures are misogynistic – it’s not ‘racist’ to say so
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Spiked Online
There’s a reason for the correlation between illegal immigration and threats to women. Available statistics clearly show a wildly disproportionate number of undocumented immigrants are alleged to have committed sex crimes. A 2025 analysis by the Centre for Migration Control found that foreign nationals were three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as their British counterparts. In the same year, the Telegraph identified 109 men from just 50 asylum hotels who had been charged with violent offences within just a 12-month period. These included 44 sexual offences.

Tucker Carlson’s sickening praise for Sharia tyranny
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Author: by Brendan O’Neill
The crank right is joining the woke left in the toilet of jihad chic. Carlson really has lost it. Also on that pod, he sang the praises of Sharia law. He contrasted a place like New York City – where people are ‘shitting on the sidewalk’ and ‘having sex in ATM vestibules’ – with Sharia-ruled nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, where order rules and people are happy. They are? Even the gays, who in Saudi Arabia can be put to death for their acts of love behind closed doors? I’m as opposed to public shitting as the next person, but give me the occasional sight of a crackhead’s stool over the state murder of homosexuals, the forced veiling of women and the outlawing of religious conscience any day of the week.