Gender Apartheid Considered in Discussions Among United Nations Member States

United Nations member States are formulating their positions on a proposed treaty to to prevent and punish crimes against humanity, with consideration  of making gender apartheid a crime within this treaty. 

Gender apartheid is being included in the discussions in a time when we are in the midst of a destructive global backlash against women’s rights, as a growing number of places are working openly to weaken women’s rights protections.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/07/14/gender-apartheid-should-be-an-international-crime

Red States Rank High for Worst Quality of Life

Each year, CNBC’s annual rankings of state business climates — America's Top States for Business — considers Quality of Life among ten categories of competitiveness.

For 2025, states ranking as the worst for quality of life were all red states.

Led by Tennessee, other states were Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Utah, and Texas. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/americas-worst-places-quality-of-life-top-states-for-business.html

Episcopal Church Refuses to Help Settle "Refugees" from South Africa

 In a country with a huge disparity between the wealth of whites and blacks, South African native Elon Musk has stepped in set up a program to allow white people from South Africa to come to the United States as "refugees."

Kudos to the Episcopal Church for refusing to resettle white Afrikaners, saying they are morally opposed. 

The Episcopal Church is part of the global Anglican Communion, that includes the leadership of the late Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65988/episcopal-church-white-afrikaners-ends-partnership-u-s-government?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwY2xjawKPtHZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFoS2ttY1dRNzZKTmdWMnI3AR7APYbDYpiRu7e84ieAaaEWNFmRs1hQOWtZrsZiQzQOGTbVCFPRK0JamXYXfQ_aem_ore-MadLWnvfE7FzpczWgQ

Chicago Cubs Reject Sponsorship of Tesla

The Chicago Cubs have told Musk and Tesla that advertizing all over historic Wrigley Field is not in the best interest of their team. 

According to insiders, Tesla had offered a high seven-figure deal to place prominent advertising in and around Wrigley Field, including digital signage, scoreboard features, and sponsored EV parking zones. However, the Cubs declined — and made it clear that this wasn’t just business, but a values-based decision.

https://tintinhthanh.online/posts/holy-shit-chicago-cubs-reject-elon-musks-tesla-ad-at-wrigley-field-cubs-give-elon-musk-a-very-good-reason-for-rejection-t-tienbip.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawKM3ZRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTUXQ1WWxVcThjV0puZlc5AR6DSZS_R7hPe2OasFDPo2TijYWmaw5fCvn3vALgviIVc8S1gx3Mns7FpCbdIQ_aem_b7d_6TKtu54ibCiWWQn7OA

Clemson Graduation - Why Diversity is Wonderful!!

Grace Clements, the youngest daughter of Clemson President Jim Clements, graduated alongside eight other students from the ClemsonLIFE program for people with intellectual disabilities.

No dry eyes in the arena. This is terrific.

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/05/09/clemson-universitys-president-daughter-go-viral-with-tear-jerking-graduation-moment/

Trump's Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Events

Trump and his hierarchical followers have shown their true colors again.

Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.

Events have been quietly canceled or moved to other venues. And in the wake of the cancellations, Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance has disassociated itself from the Kennedy Center.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/26/politics/kennedy-center-lgbtq-pride-events-canceled-hnk/index.html?Date=20250426&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1745659055&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawJ6iJZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFRbGdBekt0U3dvTWxGQURkAR5VQHaOne4inBu1TFm2U8pLO6qTJWcSG6Qq55gCh89TJYxw_0or4Nv0ijnW6g_aem_qSdd_bdMYaIxamZN7E7xiQ

Natalism: Failure if Men Don't Step Up

According to Michelle Goldburg in an article in the New York Times,  if "Trump really wanted to arrest the decline in America’s fertility rate — which reached a historic low of 1.62 births per woman in 2023 — the best thing he could do is resign in concert with his entire administration. The crude chauvinism his presidency represents is a major impediment to the creation of healthy families."

"The administration is led by an old-fashioned sexist who has bragged that he has never changed a diaper. “I’ll supply funds, and she’ll take care of the kids,” Trump once boasted to a radio host. Elon Musk has taken this notion to grotesque lengths; a Wall Street Journal expose describes him hitting up women on the internet to incubate the legion of children he hopes to breed in advance of a coming apocalypse. While he has 14 known children, The Journal reports, the real number could be much higher."

"It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that in one 2022 survey, a majority of young women said they probably wouldn’t date a Trump supporter. The most recent season of the reality show “Love Is Blind” dramatized this political mismatch, with two progressive women ditching their fiancés over their politics. Growing alienation between the sexes will naturally make it harder for them to pair up and have kids."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html