Paris Hilton's advocacy against child abuse

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Paris Hilton: Stop institutional child abuse

By Paris Hilton

In my 2020 documentary, "This is Paris," I revealed a secret I had kept for more than 20 years: When I was 16, I was taken from my home in the middle of the night and spent almost two years at a series of residential treatment facilities. My parents had been conned into believing that my diagnosed attention deficit disorder behavior would be fixed with “tough love.”

I’m still processing the trauma, doing the hard work it takes to tell the whole story in a memoir that will be published next year. It takes all my courage to talk about it, but I couldn’t stand knowing that children as young as 8 years old are being sent to these “troubled teen” programs by parents who don’t know and government agencies that don’t care.

The last stop on my terrible journey was Provo Canyon School, a lockdown facility where I was sent after I escaped from a couple boot-camp type places.

HBCU team's bus searched for drugs, but CRT is the problem?

By Rex Huppke

I heard how sheriff’s deputies in Georgia recently pulled over a bus carrying a women’s lacrosse team from a historically Black university and then searched the players’ luggage for drugs and brought in a drug-sniffing dog and generally treated the student-athletes like potential smugglers.

And I wondered to myself: Now why on earth would white deputies in Georgia do this to a bus full of young people from a historically Black university in Delaware?

It was a real head-scratcher.

Overturning Roe could be hellish for men, too

By Amanda Jayne Miller

Many unsuspecting men do not yet know that their lives are on the precipice of changing radically. Unless the leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade is drastically altered, the nearly 50-year-old ruling, which guarantees women the constitutional right to an abortion, appears poised to fall.

Numerous authors have decried the collision course this will put American women of childbearing age onto, with predicted outcomes ranging from the need for women (at least those who can afford to do so) to travel out of state to America devolving into an Atwoodian hellscape. But it seems that no one is talking about the impact the end of Roe might have on the other half of the population: men.