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Students ditch loan debt by moving overseas
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...even when payments are as little as $60 per month. One borrower cited in the report had payments exceeding $600 per month on roughly $80,000 in debt before eventually moving to Southeast Asia. A report from The New York Times breaks down a growing trend of student loan borrowers leaving the United States and abandoning repayment altogether, as delinquency and default rates climb to levels not before seen. According to the report, more than 40 million Americans hold federal student loan debt, with roughly 7.7 million now in default. While most borrowers remain in the system, some are opting for a more drastic solution by relocating overseas, putting distance between themselves and American collectors.

More and More Schools Are Souring on Chromebooks
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Times [Reader friendly]
Schools curb personal laptops, other tech amid concerns over learning, behavior. For years, giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft have fiercely competed to capture the classroom and train schoolchildren on their tech products in the hopes of hooking students as lifelong customers. For more than a decade, tech companies have urged schools to buy one laptop per child, arguing that the devices would democratize education and bolster learning. Now Google and Microsoft, along with newcomers like OpenAI, are vying to spread their artificial intelligence chatbots in schools. But after tens of billions of dollars of school spending on Chromebooks, iPads and learning apps, studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students’ academic results or graduation rates. Some researchers and organizations like UNESCO even warn that overreliance on technology can distract students and impede learning.

Students ask SCOTUS to protect 'Let's Go Brandon' shirts
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Just the News
...school backs off 'We ?? ICE' suspension. Lower courts confused how to interpret vulgarity exception to students' First Amendment rights, SCOTUS petition says. Legal threat expunges pro-ICE student's record at school that allowed crude anti-ICE posters, walkout. Five months before the nation's largest federal appeals court affirmed that elementary school students have the same First Amendment rights as older students, a different federal appeals court authorized teachers and administrators to clamp down on student expression that they subjectively interpret as code for profanity.

'Drugged, raped, impregnated,' Alawite women recount kidnappings in new Syria
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Cradle
The Syrian government denies its supporters are abducting Alawite women despite detailed reports from international media and rights groups. Abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority are “more common, and more brutal,” than Syria’s extremist-led government has acknowledged, a New York Times (NYT) investigation published on 3 April has found. In November, the Syrian government, led by former ISIS commander Ahmad al-Sharaa, denied that Alawite women and girls are being abducted, claiming that in dozens and dozens of cases, they had run away from home to be with lovers.

UCLA Wins 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Title
Topic: Women's Health
Source: AP
Bruins storm past South Carolina Gamecocks 79-51. It's mission accomplished for UCLA. Gabriela Jaquez, Lauren Betts, and the rest of the UCLA seniors secured the first NCAA women's basketball national championship in school history—a goal that was set after losing in the first Final Four last season. Jaquez scored 21 points, Betts added 16, and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday in the title game, the AP reports. The near-record lopsided victory completed the Bruins' journey through this year's March Madness. The Bruins ran through their opponents this season with their only loss coming in November, to Texas in a Thanksgiving tournament. "It's immeasurably more than I could ask or imagine," UCLA coach Cori Close said. "It's beyond my wildest dreams."

Australia accuses major tech firms of ‘failing to obey laws’ re online child account ban
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP News
Australia is considering bringing court action against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube after alleging they are not doing enough to keep Australian children younger than 16 off their platforms. Australia banned young children from holding accounts on 10 social media platforms in December.

Kagan turns on liberal ally Jackson with footnote jab over free speech
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: FOX News
Kagan said Jackson's dissent ignored the "well-settled distinction" between viewpoint-based and content-based speech restrictions. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drew fire from an unlikely colleague on Tuesday over her lone dissent in the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision finding Colorado’s ban on so-called "conversion therapy" for minors violated free speech rights. Fellow liberal Justice Elena Kagan criticized Jackson for failing to acknowledge case law that governs when speech can be regulated in the medical field, marking a rare public break between two justices typically aligned in cases centered on high-profile cultural issues.

Gen Z Women Are Ditching The 'Girlboss' Lie For Tradwife Life, Putting Family First
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
[Ed: I have no stance on this issue since it is purely a matter of choice. But an interesting trend, if true.] Gen Z women are rejecting the decades-long feminist push that told them family comes second to careers or ‘fame’ and ‘independence’ at all costs. Fox News host Lara Trump breaks down the new reality playing out among young women. The clip highlights a fresh EduBirdie study showing young women ranking their dream lives, with the “tradwife” path—stable marriage, children, and a focus on home and family—coming in at a commanding 47 percent. The old “girlboss” dream of luxury, money, and solo hustle scores just 23 percent.

Trump admin moves Title X family planning program away from contraception
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico
... towards conception. New guidance, and the promise of a new rule, are expected to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood starting in 2027. The Trump administration on Friday took the first step toward reviving and expanding the conservative overhaul of the Title X family planning program that happened the first time Trump was president — changes that previously led to an exodus of reproductive health providers and a steep drop in the number of patients served. Hours after the White House released a budget that proposed the wholesale elimination of the program, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly posted new guidance for clinics around the country that provide birth control and other sexual health services to millions of low-income people. Several changes could take effect when the clinics reapply for funding in January 2027.

Student Op-Ed from Calif Hits Nail on the Head About Women and Gun Rights
Topic: Women, Minorities, and Guns
Source: Bearing Arms
Writing that gun rights are women's rights, which they are, Grace Rutherford started talking about Suzanna Gratia Hupp, who was famously disarmed by Texas law when the Luby's Cafeteria shooting in Killeen, Texas, happened. She was there, but her gun was in her vehicle, so she was powerless to do anything except watch people die. Then Rutherford notes: "While anyone may need a gun to protect themselves after undergraduate life, women are especially in need of such protection because of our physical weakness when compared to men."

The “Manosphere” Smear
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Lisa Britton Substack
How a Lazy Label Is Hurting the Boys and Young Men Who Need Our Help. I’ve spent years writing about the very real struggles facing our boys and men—falling educational outcomes, sky-high suicide rates, declining life expectancy, and a culture that too often treats traditional masculinity as something to mock rather than celebrate. Yet every time someone dares to speak up for them, the same tired accusation gets hurled: “You’re part of the manosphere.” The term itself is ridiculous. It’s an absurdly broad label that lumps together everyone from thoughtful academics like Richard Reeves, who’s doing groundbreaking work on boys’ issues through the American Institute for Boys and Men, to podcaster Joe Rogan, to the far more controversial Andrew Tate. Some critics have even tried to paint advocates like me—women who simply believe fathers matter and boys deserve compassion—as part of this supposed shadowy network.

From Gaza to Minab, the Same Story – Children Paying the Price of War
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Antiwar
Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is true – but for children, it is something else entirely: a confusing, disorienting fate that defies comprehension. There are children who live only briefly, experiencing whatever life manages to offer them: the love of parents, the camaraderie of siblings, the fragile joys and inevitable hardships of existence. There are over 20,000 children in this category who have been killed in Gaza over the span of roughly two years.

The Demise Of Trial By Jury
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Greatness
From the O. J. Simpson trial to Britain’s "swift courts," justice now bends to identity. Faced with the undeniable reality that juries in multiracial, fragmented societies cannot be trusted to deliver blind justice, the political and legal elites have chosen to quietly execute the institution rather than address the demographic root cause. This trajectory has culminated in contemporary U.K. reforms that represent a significant shift in the architecture of the legal system. The latest breaking U.K. government news confirms this terminal retreat. In March 2026, Justice Secretary David Lammy formally announced the most significant contraction of the criminal justice system in 800 years. Under the newly outlined proposals, jury trials are about to be scrapped for almost everything. Only defendants accused of murder, rape, manslaughter, and a handful of select “public interest” cases will retain the right to be judged by their peers. The vast majority of criminal cases, offenses carrying a likely sentence of three years or less, which encompass grievous bodily harm, complex frauds, severe assaults, and robberies, will be diverted to a new tier of “swift courts.” In these newly established tribunals, a lone judge will act as both the arbiter of fact and the dispatcher of sentence, entirely bypassing the citizenry.

Why so many children are now classified as ‘disabled’
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Spiked Online
These figures have almost doubled since 2015, when around seven per cent of parents reported that their child had a disability. This massive expansion in the number of children deemed to be disabled has been driven by a dramatic increase in the number of kids diagnosed with so-called behavioural issues, such as autism and ADHD. According to the DWP, ‘behavioural issues’ now account for two-thirds of childhood disabilities. The reason I’m no longer surprised by the rise and rise of childhood disability is that I have been tracking this development for well over three decades. Back in 1996, I remember when UK government officials discovered that between 1985 and 1996, there had been a 40 per cent increase in the proportion of British people who consider themselves disabled. According to the survey, the increase was much higher among teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19. It seemed that the younger you were, the more likely it was that you would have a disability.

Was the death of woke greatly exaggerated?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Washington Examiner
Conservatives may be setting themselves up for failure by preemptively claiming victory in the culture wars. There has certainly been a pendulum swing away from wokeness in recent months and years. Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter, now X, dealt a massive blow to cancel culture. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret for aiding Democrats in their quest to silence Republicans on social media, and major corporations have rolled back profit-killing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives en masse. While these developments are worthy of celebration, the Right must take a “trust but verify” approach.

Andrew Garfield’s cowardly swipe at JK Rowling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Another dullard celeb has embraced the fantasy thinking of trans ideology over women’s hard-won rights. Celebrities are not known for their common sense. From apologism for genocidal regimes to slathering themselves in Korean snail slime, they are a remarkably stupid caste. Nowhere is this clearer than in their treatment of JK Rowling, where the approved line among those with more Botox than brain cells is that her insistence that biology is real is ‘dangerous’. The latest dullard sleb to bleat about Rowling is Andrew Garfield. The Los Angeles-based star of Spider-Man told Hits Radio last week that he still enjoys the Harry Potter films, despite the ‘controversy’. He declined to name their creator, instead referring to her as ‘she that shall remain nameless’ – a nod to Lord Voldemort, the series’ arch villain, variously described as ‘You Know Who’ and ‘He Who Must Not Be Named’.

Warren and Ocasio-Cortez’s Confused Childcare Economics
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Cato Institute
“It’s basic supply and demand,” Elizabeth Warren said in a recent video as she and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revived their latest push for government-subsidized childcare. Her argument was an example of what the late British economist David Henderson called “DIY Economics”: a “common sense” appeal to economic reasoning that falls apart when you think through its microeconomics. In Warren’s account: Childcare is expensive because there are too few workers, too few workers because pay is too low, and the fix is for the government to subsidize care, raise pay, and draw more workers into the industry.

Poison Ivey
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Jonathan Turley
Chicago Bulls Release Forward After He Speaks Out Against Pride Month. This week, the Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey for “conduct detrimental to the team.” No, Ivey did not assault anyone or gamble on games. He did not call for violence. Ivey expressed his opposing religious beliefs, including criticizing the NBA’s Pride Month celebrations. There is no question that private companies have the right to control employees’ on-the-job speech, including barring demonstrations such as kneeling during the national anthem. However, the Ivey controversy exposes the hypocrisy of sports associations and teams in the combination of corporate virtue signaling and athlete speech limitations.

The Smithsonian Wants a Women’s Museum
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
But Doesn’t Know What a Woman Is. A Smithsonian women’s history museum is moving forward, with Congress weighing how it will be funded and where it will go. Whether we even need a women’s museum is a separate question. But if taxpayers are going to be asked to help pay for it, there’s a pretty basic standard that should come with it. The institution behind it should know what a woman is. Right now, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Back in normal times, what I’m about to bring to you might have passed as an April Fool’s joke. But today, it is not. Unfortunately. The Daily Wire tells us that the Smithsonian wants to create a museum for women. Okay. However, they have no idea what the hell they are doing. Or, maybe they do and that’s even more nefarious.