August 28, 2026

04 Culture

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A Texas court filing from two parents against an AI company character.ai alleges their chatbot “poses a clear and present danger…by actively promoting violence.” One family alleges the company’s chatbot told their 17-year-old teen that killing his parents was a “reasonable response” to them attempting to limit his “screen time.”

Character.AI Sued After Chatbot Allegedly Encouraged Kid to Kill Parents for Limiting Screen Time– legalinsurrection.com
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A lawsuit has been filed in Texas against Character.AI, an AI chatbot company, alleging that their chatbot suggested to a 17-year-old user that killing his parents was a “reasonable response” to restrictions on his screen time. Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are also named as co-defendants

The 17-year old referenced in the case has autism. The parents discovered the disturbing exchanges after the boy’s behavior had deteriorated substantially after he began interacting with the chatbot when he was 15.

The teen, who is now 17, also allegedly engaged in sexual chats with the bot.

The parents claim in the lawsuit that their child had been high-functioning until he began using the app, after which he became fixated on his phone.

His behavior allegedly worsened when he began biting and punching his parents. He also reportedly lost 20 pounds in just a few months after becoming obsessed with the app.

In fall 2023 the teen’s mother finally physically took the phone away from him and discovered the disturbing back-and-forth between her son and the AI characters on the app.

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New data obtained from Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec reveals 15,300 Canadians legally committed physician-assisted suicide, which accounted for 4.7 percent of Canadian deaths. Canada also leads the world in organ donations through euthanasia, mostly due to a law that makes every Canadian an organ donor upon death unless they explicitly request not to be.

People with disabilities are vastly overrepresented in Canada’s latest assisted suicide figures– www.lifesitenews.com
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(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — On February 6, 2024, after obtaining the euthanasia data from Alberta, Ontario, and Québec, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition published an article stating that there were approximately 15,300 euthanasia (MAiD) deaths in Canada in 2023.

On July 8, 2024 we published an article with links to the euthanasia data from Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Québec. We again predicted that there were about 15,300 euthanasia deaths in 2023.

On December 11, 2024, Canada’s Ministry of Health released the Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying which indicates that there were 15,343 reported euthanasia deaths representing 4.7 percent of all deaths in 2023.

Why did Canada’s Ministry of Health wait until December 2024 to release the 2023 euthanasia data when the report essentially concerns numbers and data while lacking information on the actual reason for people wanting to be killed by euthanasia?

Interesting data in the report:

  • Of the 15,343 reported euthanasia deaths: 95.9 percent were Track 1 deaths (the person was deemed to have a terminal condition); 4.1 percent were Track 2 deaths (the person was deemed as not having a terminal condition).
  • People with disabilities accounted for 33.5 percent of the Track 1 euthanasia deaths and 58.3 percent of the Track 2 euthanasia deaths. In 2022, 27 percent of Canadians were people with one or more disabilities. People with disabilities are over-represented in Canada’s euthanasia statistics.
  • 95.8 percent of those who died by euthanasia were Caucasian (White) while fewer than 1 percent were First Nations people. In 2022, 69.8 percent of Canadians euthanized were Caucasian and 5 percent were First Nations people.

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The Network Contagion Research Institute released a report called “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias.” The study reveals that efforts by institutions to force their employees (directly or indirectly) to go through DEI training is creating more hatred, more division, than it alleges it will eliminate.

From the Report, “While not representative of all DEI pedagogy, ‘anti-racism’ and ‘anti-oppression’ pedagogy and intervention materials have seen widespread adoption across sectors like higher education and healthcare.”

This means the catastrophic effects of forcing an ideology of hate on people is about to hit most of our major institutions, including healthcare, a fact that has already caused this writer to reduce dependence on the current healthcare system as it exists today.

Diversity Training Linked to Increased Animosity Toward Others– www.dailysignal.com
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion has made society meaner—mean enough to accept Hitlerian terms when describing out-groups and seeking to exact revenge on perceived oppressors.

This was all common sense to many of us years ago, but it’s nice that we now have a study that substantiates our perception.

The report, released Nov. 25 by the always-good Network Contagion Research Institute and titled “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias,” describes how groups that were exposed to writings by DEI retailers Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo reacted compared to control groups that were instead given anodyne texts on technical material.

Every time, members of the groups under the spell of Kendi and DiAngelo or similar writers looked for discrimination under every bed, found offense in “microaggressions” that did not exist, and, more worryingly, sought to penalize those they wrongly identified as having committed these transgressions.

Lest we forget, this comes from an approach that promised “better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone,” according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. DEI is “the key to growth,” according to activist Jesse Jackson, and something that “creates safer and fairer workplaces,” according to Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.

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The state of Oregon is pushing for a change in their rules, a regulation change, that will force healthcare companies to pay for giving children puberty blockers and/or mutilating their genitalia and/or removing their breasts because the “World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)” declared that destroying children is “medically necessary.”

Oregon is a “Transgender Sanctuary State,” meaning it is compelled to force trans preferences on everyone else in their state, using violence in the form of the state gun to do so. It should be noted that “transgenderism” is a social construct, not a scientific “fact,” a construct that violates the religious and ethical standards of many of the peoples under Oregon’s oppressive thumb.

Oregon to Force Health Insurers to Cover Trans Surgeries for Minors › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The state of Oregon is proposing a rule that will force all health insurers in the state, public and private alike, to cover genital mutilation surgery for minors who believe they are “transgender,” threatening the loss of state licenses for insurers who refuse.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the proposal from Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) follows the guidelines set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which declares that the removal of children’s genitals are “medically necessary.” Following a law passed in 2023 making Oregon a so-called “trans sanctuary state,” the state has largely followed the orders of WPATH and other medically dubious organizations that support the false and scientifically-debunked idea of “transgenderism.”

Oregon has already forced insurers to guarantee that children can receive puberty blockers and other forms of hormone treatment. The escalation to full genital surgery, set to take effect next year, would be the most radical move yet. DCBS spokesman Mark Peterson said that this rule will dictate “what insurance companies are required to cover and how they provide that coverage.”

The new rule will also force insurers to contract with multiple “gender doctors” in order to prevent long wait times. Any health plan employees who are responsible for denying such claims have to take WPATH’s training sessions in order to “demonstrate their experience with gender-affirming treatment.”

The rule was unveiled on October 30th, with public comment closing on Tuesday. It will formally take effect on January 1st.

Oregon is following WPATH’s orders even despite the organization coming under greater scrutiny. A report from the Economist detailed how WPATH manipulated its own research to produce the outcome it desired based on ideology rather than hard science. The group also suppressed a commissioned research report regarding transitioning minors due to the report’s failure to show benefits that were initially promised. Even the Biden-Harris Administration has cracked down on the group, forcing it to raise the minimum age for recommended “transgender care.”

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Babies murdered in Planned Parenthood Clinics whose bodies manage to survive the slaughter intact are being sold to a University that is conducting “experiments” on the murdered child’s body. The report came from The Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

They learned of this program through emails obtained through a FOIA request that reveals a “Research Plan” to find and harvest the babies needed for these experiments. The plan was formally approved in 2018 by the University of California San Diego, who would purchase the dead children from Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood Sold ‘Viable’ Fetuses For Experiments– thefederalist.com
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Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report.

Published by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the emails detail a “Research Plan” that documents the harvesting of babies for experimentation on their bodies. The plan was submitted to and approved by UCSD’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2018. The heavily redacted communications were obtained by the group via open records request.

According to the records reported by CMP, researchers unveiled plans in their submission to “collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.” The researchers further noted that patients with “viable nonanomalous … fetuses” would partake in the analysis.

Planned Parenthood will gather “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” the submitted plan reads. The abortion provider aimed to harvest babies from “up to 2,500 patients,” according to the plan.

As noted by CMP, the “majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.”

 

Rep. Chip Roy urges colleagues to axe Clinton law used to toss peaceful pro-lifers in prison– www.theblaze.com
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Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) is urging his colleagues to vote before year end or in early January on the repeal of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. While Republicans might have enough votes — and will have a trifecta as of January — it is unclear whether they have the requisite will.

“We’re after the election now, so I feel like we ought to put it out there this year. Go ahead and vote on it,” Roy
told the Daily Signal, “so that more Americans can’t get persecuted.”

The FACE Act, ratified by President Bill Clinton in 1994, is supposed to protect access to churches and abortion facilities but has been
weaponized by the Biden Department of Justice to lock up peaceful pro-life protesters, such as Paulette Harlow, 75; Jean Marshall, 74; Joan Bell, 76; John Hinshaw, 69; Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising director of activism Lauren Handy; and 89-year-old concentration camp survivor Eva Edl.

According to the legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, “the DOJ brought at least 26 charges against pro-life individuals under the FACE Act in 2022. What were the total number of charges against abortion activists who obstructed or vandalized pro-life pregnancy centers in the wake of the Dobbs decision that year? Zero.”

‘Free Americans should never live in fear of their government targeting them because of their beliefs.’

Chicago’s Incoming Top Prosecutor Vowed To Target Pro-Lifers Amid Rampant Crime– dailycaller.com
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The incoming top prosecutor for Chicago will set up a special office to target pro-life demonstrators while the city continues to reel from crime.

Eileen Burke, former Cook County assistant state attorney and judge in the First District Appellate Court, will replace Kim Foxx as Cook County state attorney, winning 60.82% of the vote, according to the unofficial tally. One of her flagship policies is the creation of a “Choice Protection Unit” that would specifically target pro-life activists with potential prosecution, according to her campaign platform. Pro-life demonstrators have long faced prosecution from federal and state authorities for protesting near abortion clinics.

“Illinois has had a 70% increase in out-of-state visitors coming to our state for abortion services. Inevitably, we will also see an increase in Anti-Choice protesters attempting to interfere with that right,” Burke’s campaign website reads. “In order to do that and fulfill the mission of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office to protect victims and uphold the laws of the State of Illinois, Eileen O’Neill Burke will create the office’s first CHOICE PROTECTION UNIT (CPU).”

The office also plans to train its prosecutors to defend hospitals sued by pro-life organizations for malpractice, according to her campaign website.

‘Social justice’ terms may be common in higher ed — but not in society: poll– www.thecollegefix.com
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ANALYSIS: Blacks and Hispanics don’t use terms academics have created for them like ‘Latinx’ and ‘BIPOC’

Chances are if you work or study at a higher education institution, you have heard terms like “anti-racism,” “Latinx,” and “BIPOC.”

But a new poll suggests these are a language of Ivory Tower elites and not average Americans — including the people to whom these terms refer.

The YouGov poll, conducted last week, asked people about 30 “social justice” terms, their familiarity, and usage.

These included “toxic masculinity,” “white privilege,” and “woke,” as well as “patriarchy,” “reproductive” and “environmental justice,” “critical race theory,” and “decolonization”

More than half of those polled had never even heard of the term “BIPOC,” which stands for black, indigenous, and people of color. That includes 54 percent of black people and 51 percent of Hispanics.

Biden Takes Parting Shot at Catholics With His Vile Medal of Freedom Choice – RedState– redstate.com
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Lest we feel too kindly towards feeble old Joe Biden after he was unceremoniously dumped by his own party in favor of his mid-wit vice president, with some even surmising that Biden could have voted for Donald Trump, consider this: He just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards.

Richards, of course, is the staunch pro-abort who was the longtime president of Planned Parenthood. RedState has written extensively about this vile woman, with our own Brandon Morse having this to say about her back in 2016:

Many of you already know her as the director of Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant. I like to refer to her as the most unelected official in America.

She who gets half a billion dollars a year from the taxpayers to not only carry out the most vile practice in the world, but also use her industry as a partisan influence in politics as she stands on a soapbox to tell those same taxpayers they’re bad for not getting on board with her views, as her “non-profit” sold off baby parts.

This woman is responsible for the deaths of over 300,000 children a year.

Chip Roy Says Republicans Should Repeal FACE Law Biden Used to Put Pro-Life Americans in Prison– www.lifenews.com
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Congressman Chip Roy said Congress should vote by the end of the year to repeal the law used by the Biden Department of Justice to throw pro-lifers in prison.

“Obviously, we need to move the bill forward, and it would be critical because of what we’re seeing with respect to the persecution of Americans being put in jail,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal.

Roy introduced a bill on Sept. 19, 2023, to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced a Senate version of the bill the next month.

Critics have accused the Biden administration’s DOJ of weaponizing the FACE Act against pro-lifers while failing to charge pro-abortion vandals for the hundreds of attacks on pro-life pregnancy help centers since the leak of the draft Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in May 2022.

 

Iraq is set to pass a new bill that will lower the age of consent in the country from 18 to 9, meaning children can effectively be legally raped by adults. One Iraqi lawmaker fighting the demonic bill, Raya Faiq, said of the bill, “This is a catastrophe for women. This law legalizes child rape.”

Iraq Proposes New Law to Lower ‘Age of Consent’ for Girls from 18 to 9 Years Old – ‘Legalizes Child Rape’ | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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While liberal women in the U.S. meltdown over President Donald Trump’s decisive victory on election day by shaving their heads and joining the “4B” movement vowing to stay away from men, girls in other parts of the world face actual oppression and abuse.

A draft of new legislation in Iraq proposes lowering the age of consent for girls from 18 to 9 years old in a move that women’s rights activists say would “legalize child rape.”

According to France24, the bill would allow citizens to choose either religious authorities or the civil judiciary to decide family affairs, including setting a new minimum age for girls to marry.

The proposed changes to the “personal status law”  would also deprive women of the right to divorce and impact child custody and inheritance.

Raya Faiq, who is fighting against the bill, told The Guardian, “This is a catastrophe for women. This law legalizes child rape.”

France24 reports:

Amnesty International’s Iraq researcher Razaw Salihy said the proposed changes should be “stopped in their tracks”.

“No matter how it is dressed up, in passing these amendments, Iraq would be closing a ring of fire around women and children,” she said.

According to the proposed changes, “Muslims of age” who want to marry must choose whether the 1959 Personal Status Law or Sharia Islamic rules apply to them on family matters.

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Possible genocidal maniac and Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine proponent Bill Gates has called on himself and fellow globalists to form a “new religion” that would keep humans occupied after AI allegedly takes over their jobs. He made these statements on the “Possible” podcast that is co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Gates said “The potential positive path is so good that it will force us to rethink how should we use our time. You know, you can almost call it a new religion or a new philosophy of, okay, how do we stay connected with each other, not addicted to these things that’ll make video games look like nothing in terms of the attractiveness of spending time on them.”

Bill Gates Calls for Globalists to Create a ‘New Religion’ for the Public– slaynews.com
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called on globalists to create a “new religion” to keep humans occupied in the AI-dominated near future.

According to Gates, members of the general public will soon have a lot of time on their hands when machines have replaced them in the workplace, “if all goes well,”

Gates argues that artificial intelligence will ensure that alleged issues such as “disease and enough food or climate” will be “solved problems.”

Because humans will have extra free time, Gates is calling on globalists to consider “how do we take advantage of that?”

According to Gates, giving the public “a new religion or a new philosophy” is the answer.

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NBC USES “ENTERTAINMENT” TO INCITE VIOLENCE AGAINST PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS – An episode of NBC’s “Law & Order” portrayed Pro-Life activists as being dangerous terrorist bombers who are trying to hunt down and kill IVF doctors. The episode, “The Meaning of Life,” offers other Pro-Unborn-Murder-Killer tropes, while allowing for a scintilla of pro-life counter through their largely DNC-CCP activist characters.

10 States Have Ballot Measures for Abortions Up to Birth. Please Vote No– www.lifenews.com
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Abortion is “on the ballot this November.” In ten statesextreme abortion measures will be put before voters. Last month, a panel of pro-life experts discussed the threat of these state ballot initiatives and amendments that, if passed, would expand abortion “rights’’ and even add abortion as a protected right in many state constitutions. 

The panel was put together by the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and co-hosted by the House Values Action Team. It featured four abortionists-turned-pro-life OBGYNs who shared their stories and expertise to debunk the numerous lies being spun about these proposals and to help Christians spread pro-life truth during this critical election season. 

Kamala Harris hemorrhaging support among young men — and Planned Parenthood’s deleted meme hints at why– www.theblaze.com
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Democrats are panicking over recent polling data indicating Kamala Harris is not only deeply unpopular with American men, broadly speaking, but increasingly with young male voters.

The Harris boosters at Planned Parenthood Action recently posted then quickly deleted a meme that unintentionally illustrated the alienating approach that might be causing Democrats’ retention problems with young men.

The PPA posted the “Girl Explaining” meme, which features a disheveled young woman with an exposed midriff yelling into the face of an exhausted and ostensibly apathetic young man at a concert.

Biden-Harris Want to Use Obamacare to Make Americans Fund Birth Control– www.lifenews.com
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The Biden administration on October 21 proposed making over-the-counter contraception free for everyone who has commercial health insurance.

According to an article in Roll Call, President Joe Biden stated, “Today, my Administration is taking a major step to expand contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. This new action would help ensure that millions of women with private health insurance can access the no-cost contraception they need.”

The article explains that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor and Treasury jointly proposed the rule, which would “require insurance plans to cover OTC contraceptives at no cost and without a prescription for individuals with commercial insurance plans.”

The article continues, “Health plans would also be required to tell beneficiaries about the policy and would expand their required coverag

Hurricane Helene Disrupted Abortion Care in the South– www.scientificamerican.com
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CLIMATEWIRE | ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — North Carolina’s only abortion provider west of Charlotte has been closed since Hurricane Helene because it lacks potable water.

The monthlong closure of the Asheville Planned Parenthood has forced patients to travel hours for care. It has also strained other abortion clinics in North Carolina, which have seen increases in appointments over the last two years as neighboring states have limited or banned procedures following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court.

“This is a very harmful loss of access for patients in North Carolina and also surrounding states and region,” said Julia Walker, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. “But this would not have been such a harmful and impactful storm if we had laws that allowed more access for people to obtain care.”

An episode of NBC’s “Law & Order” portrayed Pro-Life activists as being dangerous terrorist bombers who are trying to hunt down and kill IVF doctors. The episode, “The Meaning of Life,” offers other Pro-Unborn-Murder-Killer tropes, while allowing for a scintilla of pro-life counter through their largely DNC-CCP activist characters.

NBC’s ‘Law & Order’ Portrays Pro-lifers as Terrorist Bombers– www.newsbusters.org
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Last night, NBC’s Law & Order portrayed pro-lifers as terrorist bombers who target IVF (in-vitro fertilization) practitioners.

In the episode, “The Meaning of Life,” on Thursday, an IVF doctor named Sarah Heartwood (Erica Sweany) is left in an irreversible coma after receiving a bomb-laden package.

Heartwood’s husband is a well-known atheist author. Law enforcement initially suspects the bomber is a Muslim plumber who attacked her husband at a book lecture. When the plumber provides an alibi, NYPD next arrests a black man who delivered the package. Of course, neither the Muslim nor the black man are the killer. The real killer turns out to be a “random white guy,” in the words of one of the detectives. Surprise!