The Real Reason Birth Rates Are Falling – Lyman Stone

Don’t spoil your daughters so that you can benefit society’s fertility rates.

Women tend to marry and have children based on their father’s, or the fathers’ around them when they grew up, income and wealth. So if daughters are spoiled, they are less likely to have children because less men will seem good enough to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv4Y0eXCcFI

Republican SCOTUS Justice’s BS Is EXTREMELY Dangerous

Supporters of textualism act like it is a simple way of reading the law, but judges who practice textualism often claim a clear text is ambiguous or an ambiguous text is clear based on what fits their political or ideological bias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSPi9CYjAQ

Japan warns of China’s military moves as biggest strategic challenge

Japan warns of China’s military moves as biggest strategic challenge

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/japan-warns-of-chinas-military-moves-as-biggest-strategic-challenge-00452924?fbclid=IwY2xjawLkrDZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoQXCbzOTHpflr60WAQdKd_4HluiG-N_Y_HGE-AXzCBfxgPMTDg9sgOrMDKm_aem_T4XFQAUSSikBC104n2OOCQ

Russia’s increasing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine ‘unbearable,’ says top EU diplomat

“Russia is increasingly using chemical weapons in Ukraine in an effort to subdue the country by causing as much pain and suffering as possible, Europe’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday.

Most countries around the world, including Russia, have signed a 1993 international convention banning the use, production, development or stockpiling of chemical weapons. Russia is one of 65 countries to have not only signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, but also ratified it.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-increasing-use-chemical-weapons-ukraine-unbearable-says-top-eu-diplomat-kaja-kallas/

Federal judge blocks ‘roving’ immigration arrests amid Los Angeles crackdown

“The judge found that many of those swept up in immigration raids were taken to the basement of a federal building in Los Angeles to a room known as “B-18” meant to temporarily house arrestees while they are being processed. Frimpong found that many detainees were held there for hours without access to counsel.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/federal-judge-blocks-roving-immigration-arrests-amid-los-angeles-crackdown-00449914