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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police shut down one of the largest paedophile networks in the world last month in an operation spanning 35 countries, the EU's law enforcement agency Europol said on Wednesday. Europol said 79 suspects had been arrested for sharing and distributing child sexual abuse material on a platform known as Kidflix. Some of those arrested are suspected of having abused children themselves, it said.

The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) will be holding a conference titled “Lead With Pride Summit: Out, Proud, and Moving Forward!” at the Westin in Anaheim at the end of April, 2025. The summit is every bit as horrific as it sounds and will be attended, if last year’s summit is any metric, by district superintendents, County Office of Educations personnel, administrators, teachers, DEI managers, activists, Education College professors, and drag queens from around the State.

Two bills that would strengthen protections for transgender people and gender-affirming care won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Friday. They come as transgender rights and protections are put on shaky ground at the federal level under the Trump administration, which has issued orders to recognize only two unchangeable genders, stop offering non-binary passport gender markers, and attempts to stop funding care for transgender minors.

Los Angeles County plans to pay $4 billion to settle nearly 7,000 claims of childhood sexual abuse that allegedly occurred inside its juvenile facilities and foster homes, dwarfing the largest sex abuse settlements in U.S. history.The mammoth settlement, which still needs to be approved by both the county claims board and county supervisors, is a billion dollars more than what county officials had anticipated as the worst-case scenario to resolve a flurry of lawsuits — and far more than other organizations notorious for allowing unchecked sex abuse have paid victims. The Boy Scouts of America, by comparison, agreed to pay...

President Donald Trump has directed the NIH to study 'regret' after transgender people transition, as he continues to clamp down on 'wokeness' in government agencies. Several NIH staff members who spoke under the condition of anonymity, confirmed the directive to Nature. Two weeks ago, Matthew Memoli, who was acting NIH director at the time, sent an email that was obtained by Nature. It outlined two areas of research the Trump administration wants to fund concerning the transgender experience. The first focus is 'regret and detransition following social transition as well as chemical and surgical mutilation of children and adults' and...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (Gray News) - A special education teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy at school during a tutoring session. According to the Downers Grove Police Department, Christina Formella, 30, sexually assaulted the boy in a classroom at Downers Grove South High School during a tutoring session before school in December 2023. Formella worked there as a special education teacher and soccer coach. The boy’s mother discovered the alleged sexual assault when she looked through a text message thread on her son’s phone and reported it to police on March 15. Formella was taken into custody...

There’s some very encouraging news about those who have been pushing homosexuality and gender confusion to our children and on our culture. When you first look at a couple of recent news items, you might think these activists are stronger than ever, but consider the rest of the story. We can all cheer over the fabulous executive orders from Trump on gender ideology and DEI, and the ripple effects are being felt far and wide. Yet we know this isn’t going to stop the most committed troublemakers. So let’s look at what’s playing out and why it’s important.

It was disgustingly called “Kidflix” and contained almost 100,000 videos A massive darknet international pedophile child porn network calling itself “Kidflix” has been discovered and shut down by Europol. Investigators stated that site shockingly had more than 91,000 child porn videos on it, with around three new videos being uploaded to its servers every hour. Users were paying a fee for access to stream and upload their own videos of child sex abuse. They were able to make payments via cryptocurrencies to avoid a paper trail, and were given the incentive of earning tokens to spend on the site by...

SNIP Instead, they pushed forward, adding the COVID vaccine to the routine childhood schedule, with the expectation that babies receive three doses by just nine months of age.She added that the shots are still under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for children under 12—not fully FDA approved—and yet they remain on the official vaccine schedule.Tucker was horrified when Dr. Bowden mentioned a disturbing fact: “According to the CDC, 9 million American children have gotten the latest version of these COVID shots,” she said.Clearly caught off guard, Carlson asked, “Actually?”“Yes,” Bowden confirmed.“Still?” he pressed.“Yes. Yes. 9 million [kids]—12% [of US children have...

Democrats in CO are now pushing bill HB25-1312 which would take “misgendering” & “deadnaming” into account during custody hearings. Colorado father gagged for refusing to let his 13-year old son be sterilized. For that, Colorado courts stripped him of his parental rights - banning him from even talking to his child about gender, medical treatment, or the court case. "I haven't slept well forever... I'm afraid for my child."

Disgraced ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran — who spent years in federal prison for a $200,000 bribery scheme to rig a mayoral election — has been arrested and charged for having hundreds of sickening child sex abuse videos on his phone, according to authorities. Halloran, 54, was busted at Miami International Airport on Saturday as he arrived in the US for a layover flight from Cuba, Local 10 News reported. He was found with 1,362 child-sex videos hidden on his iPhone — including about 35 videos of “prepubescent” girls being victimized, according to a federal criminal complaint obtained by the outlet.

A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating funding for legal counsel for unaccompanied migrant minors. Appointed by former President Joe Biden, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday that will stop the Trump administration from ending the funding while the merits of the underlying case play out. In her Tuesday order, Martínez-Olguín said that advocates had raised legitimate questions about whether the administration violated the 2008 law, warranting a return to the status quo while the case continues. The Trump administration on March 21 terminated a contract...

There’s an old saying about foxes guarding henhouses. It turns out the Presbytery of Western North Carolina has taken that metaphor and cranked it up to eleven, not just letting the foxes guard the chickens, but setting up a cozy little Airbnb for them right inside the coop. Because, in their infinite wisdom, they’ve decided that teenage boys—sorry, “girls”—should bunk with actual girls at youth retreats. What could possibly go wrong? The policy, officially titled the Child & Youth Protection Policy—because irony is dead—was adopted in 2020 and claims to create a “safe and secure environment for children and youth.”...

Parents are in an uproar over a coloring book created by Planned Parenthood, which was reportedly distributed to children on a field trip at the Kentucky Science Center. The museum hosted five local schools for an event called Health and Wellness Days, with students ranging from 8 to 13 years old. Groups present included the University of Louisville, Louisville Metro EMT, Norton Pediatric Neurology, the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), and more. The museum said Planned Parenthood requested to be a vendor at the event, and was given permission to attend, according to Taylor U’Sellis, senior manager of marketing...

A California policy that prevents schools from requiring staff to disclose a child’s gender identity or sexual orientation to his or her parents may be in violation of a federal law, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday.The federal agency’s Student Privacy Policy Office, which oversees the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA), is investigating instances in California where school personnel in various districts allegedly hid information from parents and assisted students with their gender “transition,” a March 27 news release notes.The Department of Education alleged that AB 1955, which took effect on Jan. 1, conflicts with FERPA, which gives...

Imagine being a child and riding your bicycle to school, only to be struck in a crosswalk by a car, and the driver leaves the scene. Imagine being the parent of that child. Yes. It happened. Jackie Traynere, Will County Board Member and DuPage Township Administrator, was involved in an accident the morning of March 11, 2025. After leaving the accident scene, Traynere arrived at the Bolingbrook Police Station where according to the police reports, she said she was stopped at a red light while a child was crossing the crosswalk on his way to school. Traynere said she started...

Pics at link...................... The Kentucky Science Center is red-faced after kids at a March 21 health event got handed adult coloring books featuring genitalia and Planned Parenthood cheerleading. [Warning: Sexual Content] Parents flipped out, understandably not thrilled their 8-year-olds were doodling downstairs diagrams. The Kentucky Science Center responded to the backlash with this Facebook post: Planned Parenthood initially swore they didn't pass out the spicy sketchbooks (of course), calling it a smear campaign. ‘We want to be clear: the coloring book currently being circulated online was not distributed at the event,' Allen said in a written statement. ‘Claims suggesting otherwise...

Earlier this month, the co-founder of one of the country’s first legal abortion facilities, Horace Hale Harvey III, died. Harvey had founded the Women’s Medical Group (later renamed Women’s Services) in 1970 in Manhattan; at that time it was the largest freestanding abortion facility in the world. But it is Harvey’s co-founder in the abortion business — staunch environmentalist Barbara Pyle — who, while only briefly mentioned in tributes to Harvey, ideologically influenced an entire generation of children. Barbara Pyle As Live Action News previously reported, Pyle told the New York Times in a 1971 interview that the abortion facility...

According to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday, the Trump administration is looking into turning off the federal funding pipeline to one of its most controversial recipients, the euphemistically named Planned Parenthood, as they investigate where the money is actually going.

A North Carolina mother and her son can sue a public school system and a doctors' group for allegedly giving the boy a COVID-19 vaccine without consent, the state Supreme Court ruled. Smith was vaccinated in August 2021 at age 14 despite his opposition at a testing and vaccination clinic at a Guilford County high school, according to the family's lawsuit. The teenager went to the clinic to be tested for COVID-19 after several cases among his school's football team, the lawsuit says. He did not anticipate that the clinic would also be administering vaccines. He told staff at the...