More of the Nashville Trans Shooter's Manifesto Just Dropped
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Townhall
The Tennessee Star has published 90 pages of the manifesto belonging to the "transgender" Nashville shooter who slaughtered six victims, including three children, at a private Christian elementary school on March 27, 2023. According to the never-before-seen excerpts legally obtained by the local newspaper, Covenant School killer Audrey "Aiden" Hale, a 28-year-old biological woman who identified as a "transgender man," wrote about wanting "a boy body in heaven" and craving "brown love." “If God won't give me a boy body in heaven, then Jesus is a f*gg*t," Hale wrote on one page. On another, she said, "Brown love is the most beautiful kind."

Smokers under 30 must show ID to purchase tobacco products, FDA says
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
The new rule raises the age requirement for customers who need to show photo ID for tobacco purchases. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that people who appear under 30 will now be required to show photo identification to purchase tobacco products, raising the previous age verification requirement by three years. The rule, finalized on Thursday, also said retailers cannot sell tobacco products through vending machines in places where people under 21 are present or allowed to enter at any time. Previously, these vending machines were not permitted only in places where people under 18 were allowed. Set to take effect on Sept. 30, the new rule looks to build on federal efforts to protect young people from accessing tobacco products.

U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism.
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Mondoweiss
Here is their plan. Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education. Many of these policies being instituted share a common formula: more militarization, more law enforcement, more criminalization, and more consolidation of institutional power. But where do these policies originate and why are they so similar across all campuses? The answer lies in the fact that they have been provided by the “risk and crisis management” consulting industries, with the tacit support of trustees, Zionist advocacy groups, and federal agencies. Together, they deploy the language of safety to disguise a deeper logic of control and securitization.

Democrats' abortion rights push in New York is at risk of backfiring
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
Once a vehicle for boosting turnout, Democrats worry opponents are making inroads with voters. Democrats are squabbling over an effort to guarantee abortion rights in New York — a fight that is threatening to upend the party’s plans to win control of the House. Democratic consultants for swing seat candidates are increasingly anxious that a well-organized campaign by conservatives to sink a proposed state constitutional amendment on abortion could hurt the party’s candidates in battleground seats. For now, top New York Democrats are not planning to open up their coffers to respond to those attacks.

Book Publishers Sue Fla Over Law Banning Sexually Explicit Books From Schools
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: American Greatness
Parents and conservative activists supported such a bill... A coalition of book publishers and individual authors have filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida over its law banning sexually explicit books from school libraries in the state. As the Daily Caller reports, the lawsuit was filed in the Orlando Federal Court on Thursday by a group of over a dozen publishers and authors, claiming that the bill signed into law in May of 2023 by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is a violation of both the First and 14th Amendments. The law, the plaintiffs claim, “interferes” with their ability to produce and distribute “constitutionally protected” books, insisting that the law is too vague in its description of “sexual conduct.” [Ed: bizarre lawsuit...but one I will watch in case it sets a precedent. You never know these days.]

Irish teacher jailed for 3rd time after refusing to use students' preferred pronouns
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Irish Examiner
A judge in Ireland sent evangelical Christian teacher Enoch Burke to jail for the third time because he refused to comply with a court order that prevents him from trespassing at Wilson’s Hospital School, where he has protested gender ideology policies. Mr Burke was sent back to Mountjoy Prison by Mr Justice Michael Quinn, during Monday's vacation sitting of the High Court, for breaching the terms of an injunction granted by Mr Justice Alexander Owens last year.

German podcast forced by court to delete episode over 'misgendering'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
"In Germany, a person who was born biologically male and is legally considered a woman can no longer be called a man." A German podcast was ordered by a court to delete an episode after the hosts referred to a transgender-identifying biological male as “a man” and used male pronouns when speaking about him. The episode of the podcast "Hoss and Hopf," hosted by Kiarash Hossainpour and Philip Hopf, discussed Laura Holstein, a biological male formerly known as Nicholas who identifies as female. Holstein, a balding male, has gained attention over several months for demanding access to female-only spaces, such as a women's gym, with support from the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency. The Frankfurt am Main Regional Court ordered the podcasters to remove the episode in which they spoke about Holstein. Additionally, both Hossainpour and Hopf were prohibited from referring to Holstein as a man.

Von der Leyen pressures EU countries to swap women in as commissioner picks
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Politico EU
[Ed: gender over merit.] European Commission president’s drive for gender equality looks to fall short. Ursula von der Leyen is piling pressure on EU countries to nominate women for the next European Commission as she seeks to stave off the potential humiliation of presenting a male-dominated team. Two EU officials pointed to a risk of “embarrassment” for an institution that publicly promotes gender equality and has a “commissioner for equality” role if von der Leyen falls significantly short of parity. Such a failure, they said, risked overshadowing the fact that three of the EU’s most important jobs will be held by women: von der Leyen as European Commission president, Estonia’s nomination of Kaja Kallas as the head of the EU’s diplomatic service, and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

City of Dreams puts up billboards in Hollywood and Los Angeles
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...highlighting the plague of child slavery. The billboards say "12 million children are trapped in modern slavery" right in the heart of Hollywood and Los Angeles. The new blockbuster film City of Dreams has erected billboards in the heart of Hollywood and Los Angeles, highlighting the plague of child slavery in a city that's known for it. The move has raised eyebrows and stopped traffic as the film debuts in select theaters across America.

Mani once sang of freedom in Afghanistan.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Now, silenced, she’s desperate to escape. Will Australia help? This brave journalist and young women like her are bearing the brunt of the failed democratisation project: ‘Hope is fading’. In the final days of the Afghan republic – in defiance of a looming takeover by the Taliban – the Hazara journalist Mani sang revolutionary poems in public in Kabul about women, freedom and justice. Now she is on the run, waiting for the Australian government to grant her a humanitarian visa.

US Schools In Mad Dash To Spend COVID Cash As Deadline Looms
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Districts can request additional time to spend down the money if the U.S. Department of Education approves the expenditure. The $122 billion program aimed at boosting learning recovery in the wake of the pandemic expires Sept. 30, leaving just 30 days. According to Georgetown University's Edunomics lab, which tracks how the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds have been spent, nine districts have yet to submit more than $30 million of previously granted funds for reimbursement.

Who wants to be weighed in the workplace?
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Spiked Online
‘Health MoTs’ for middle-aged men are the latest harebrained scheme from Starmer’s nanny state. It has often been said that, just as Prussia was an army with its own state, Britain is now a healthcare system with its own country. Keir Starmer’s Labour government is certainly driving that point home. It has announced this week that the NHS is to begin a new absurdly named ‘Health MoT’ service starting next month. That’s right, the British state is set to treat older members of the public like cars, and check whether they’re still ‘roadworthy’. Under the scheme, NHS staff will turn up at any place of work enrolled in the scheme at some point in the next six months. They will then proceed to weigh any employees over the age of 40, check their blood pressure and measure their cholesterol. A failed Health MoT could then lead to said employees being offered blood-pressure medication, statins to reduce cholesterol or even a referral to a weight-loss clinic. Although it should be said that the Health MoTs are not mandatory. Not yet, at least.

This Texas Woman Was Jailed for Her Journalism. Is She the Future of Media?
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Reason
Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court. "They figured that this would shut me down," says Priscilla Villarreal. "But what they did was create a monster." Villarreal is a journalist here in the Texas border town of Laredo. She is at the center of a major First Amendment battle that her attorneys hope to take to the Supreme Court. She has become an unlikely face in the fight for a free press. Or is she not that unlikely at all?

Preventing the Next Wave of Progressive Radicalism Before It Arrives
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Quillette
Can ideological capture on campus be empirically studied? Recent developments suggest that the influence of social-justice ideology on American university policies has finally crested, and may even be in retreat. Both Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced that they will no longer be requiring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statements from candidates seeking jobs or promotions. Harvard, along with Stanford University, has also announced a policy of neutrality on political and social controversies, a move that likely reflects the toxic spillover from the campus controversies that erupted in connection with Hamas’s 7 October 2023 terrorist attacks and the Israeli military invasion of Gaza that followed. Meanwhile, at the University of Pennsylvania, officials are mulling over strategies to recruit more moderate and conservative voices as a means to balance the otherwise (overwhelmingly) progressive slant of its faculty. While these institutions constitute just a small fraction of American universities, they act as bellwethers within higher education more broadly, as their policy shifts often influence decision-makers at less well-known schools.

‘Woke’ discriminatory corporate policies withering away
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Law Enforcement Today
The idea of “woke” Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies continues to wither away. That’s good news for the firearm and ammunition industry, which has been the focus of corporations seeking to force public policies by the might of their corporate largess. It turns out that those lofty ideals aren’t so lofty after all. They’re more of a millstone weighing them down and more corporations are ditching their ESG programs. BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, announced last week a cut for support of shareholder proposals for ESG initiatives to a low of 4.1 percent. That’s down from 6.7 percent in 2023 and 47 percent from 2020-2021.

We need to kick men out of women’s football
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Spiked Online
Sutton United’s women’s team pulled out of a recent fixture following disquiet over their new trans recruit. It’s a shame that whenever women’s sport makes the headlines these days, it’s often because a man has ruined it. Over the weekend, a South East Regional Women’s League football match became national news not due to the hard work and dedication of the players, but because of a biological male intruding on their sport.

Britain – Goodbye Free Speech And Margaret Thatcher
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Victory Girls Blog
We lament the war on free speech here in the United States. We need look no further than France and Great Britain to see this is a global issue. The arrest of Pavel Durov in France is a threat to freedom of speech everywhere. In Britain, they are arresting and jailing citizens for social media posts. In other nutty news, the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer removed the portrait of Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher from the walls at No. 10 Downing Street because it was “unsettling”. No surprise that a Fascist would find a freedom lover “unsettling”.

Brazil’s ban on X is a taste of things to come
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
The global crackdown on free speech is getting more aggressive by the day. The Brazilian elites loathe X for precisely the same reason as the elites across the rest of the democratic world do – they blame it for the spread of so-called disinformation, particularly since it was taken over by Musk and its content-moderation policies were relaxed. Just as disinformation has been blamed for Brexit in the UK and Trump’s election in the US, it is blamed in Brazil for the 2018 election of right-wing firebrand Jair Bolsonaro – and especially for his supporters’ storming of the Brazilian congress in 2023 after he failed to win re-election (a kind of ‘January 6’ tribute act). Essentially, elites believe that fake news, by boosting populist movements, poses a direct challenge to their rule.

UK's Online Safety Act, Canary In The Coalmine For Canada Under Online Harms Act?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
Is speech more harmful than action? We need to talk about Julie Sweeney. She’s a 53-year-old English woman who used to live in Church Lawton, Cheshire, and she once had a Facebook account. Today, she’s in prison, serving a 15-month sentence after being convicted under new Criminal Code provisions in the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act. From all available accounts, Ms. Sweeney had—at least until this summer—lived without causing any trouble or having any negative interactions with the local constabulary. Then, on Aug. 3, she lost her temper during the height of the British riots that ensued following the murders of little girls in a Taylor Swift dance class and wrote something really nasty on a local community group Facebook page.

Green activism is polluting kids’ films
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Leonardo DiCaprio’s new cartoon is thinly veiled eco-propaganda. No wonder the public hated it. Environmental propaganda, in particular, is everywhere you look. This isn’t even confined to nature documentaries. Lectures about climate change are now shoehorned into every possible form of entertainment. Even Doctor Who has started preaching to viewers about the harms of plastic pollution. Children’s content is by no means spared from this. Earlier this month, Appian Way Productions, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, released a new animated film called Ozi: Voice of the Forest. The film follows a young, topknot-sporting orangutan who battles against an evil corporation hellbent on destroying her rainforest home. Ozi fights back by learning how to use a tablet and becoming an online influencer.