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🇺🇸 AMERICAN MEN ARE SPEAKING. WHO IS LISTENING TO THEM? A remarkable new survey by the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM) and Third Way, ahead of the US midterm elections, reveals something that should unite people across the political spectrum. 76% of men believe boys’ and men’s issues aren't taken seriously. This extraordinary finding transcends political divisions: 🔹 74% of Democrats 🔹 77% of Independents 🔹 79% of Republicans And 78% believe fathers receive insufficient support from government and their communities. These findings from 1,001 registered male voters aged 18–49 deserve attention far beyond America, including in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Other results are equally revealing: ❤️ 87% prioritise training therapists, teachers and coaches to better address boys’ and men’s mental health challenges. 📚 85% support programs addressing boys’ learning and behavioural difficulties. 👨‍👧 77% prioritise paid family leave for fathers, while 82% support better childcare options, including outside normal working hours. 🛠️ 82% support expanding apprenticeships, including in health and education. 💔 75% consider addressing male suicide, overdose deaths and shorter life expectancy important. 🏠 65% believe homeownership is financially out of reach, while 55% say the same about marriage and starting a family. Perhaps most troubling, 80% felt expected to find their own path to success, while 92% believe struggling males encounter at least some judgement rather than wholehearted support. And here's something that challenges prevailing stereotypes: 69% recognise systemic problems facing boys and men, while 71% recognise systemic problems facing women and girls. Men aren't demanding that women's concerns be ignored. They're asking for compassion, fairness and meaningful support for themselves too. Another surprise? Despite political obsession with culture wars, men's leading concerns are cost of living (59%), jobs and the economy (54%), and government corruption (38%). What are the implications? For America, neither political party can afford to dismiss men's concerns or take their votes for granted. For Australia and other English-speaking democracies, these findings raise urgent questions about boys' educational underachievement, male suicide, declining workforce participation, fatherhood support and men's economic opportunities. These challenges deserve serious investigation and practical, evidence-based solutions, not ideological stereotyping or political point-scoring. Men want opportunity, economic security, meaningful work, healthier lives and the chance to be good fathers. This isn't a competition between the sexes. Supporting men and boys strengthens families, communities and society as a whole... Congratulations to Richard V. Reeves, AIBM and Third Way for listening to men rather than lecturing them. Equality must include men and boys. Empathy must include fathers. Compassion must never depend on someone's sex. The message to political leaders is unmistakable: STOP DISMISSING MEN'S STRUGGLES. START LISTENING. START ACTING. 🔗 thirdway.org/memo/what-are-m… #MensEqualityMonth #MenAndBoys #MensMentalHealth #Fatherhood #GenderEquality #MalePositive #AIBM @aibm_org

UK speech regulator Ofcom asked Meta, WhatsApp, X and TikTok for ongoing data on what people in Britain post, who sees it, how much gets taken down, and how fast, all broken down by age. The companies asked why. The UK High Court has now ruled that Ofcom doesn’t have to say. The platforms, on the other hand, had to prove in detail that complying would be a burden. X said it would cost millions of pounds and hundreds of hours of work. The court said that wasn’t detailed enough. Data sorted by age requires the platforms to know every user’s age, and a regulator that can demand it on a whim is laying the groundwork for digital ID one request at a time. reclaimthenet.org/uk-high-co…

Leftist Abdul supporter attacks @teameffujoe and @basedinmalibu then threatens to kill everyone after a table debate…

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Far-left extremists have vandalised a hotel in the Victorian town of Ballarat because the publican openly supports One Nation. Two cars left in the carpark overnight by random patrons were also damaged. noticer.news/ballarat-pub-va…

France just voted for a fiscal Iron Curtain. And if you have a startup in France, you’re probably already on the wrong side of it. On Friday, the French National Assembly passed an amendment extending the “exit tax” holding period from 2-5 years to 15 years. How it works: you move out of France, and the state calculates the gain on your shares as if you had sold them. Money you never received. That tax bill hangs over your head, and if you sell before the period ends, you pay. 2 to 5 years was already painful. 15 years is almost twice the median time it takes a European startup to get acquired or go public (about 8.5 years, per PitchBook). In other words, virtually every exit falls inside the window. There are two ways to get talent and capital as a country: 1/ You attract them because you offer something better: quality of life, safety, a fair social contract, a playground worth playing in. 2/ You keep the ones you already have and build walls so they can’t leave. The USSR tried option 2. It’s called ruling by coercion. It’s an unstable equilibrium, and it’s a loser’s strategy. Why is this happening now? In every human society, value creation follows a power law. A small minority pays most of the taxes. When the social contract breaks for that minority, they look at the map. The world is big and borders are thin. A state facing this has two possible responses. “Why are they leaving?” And it fixes the root cause. “How do we stop them from leaving?” And it fixes nothing. France picked option 2. When you’re installing padlocks, you’ve already lost. “This only affects the ultra-rich.” Wrong. Do the math: The rule applies as soon as you hold €800k in shares, or 50% of a company. Take two cofounders with about 45% each after their first round. A valuation of roughly €1.8M is enough for each of them to cross €800k. Pre-seed rounds today routinely price at €10-20M. At €10M, each cofounder holds about €4.5M in shares. And a solo founder who keeps more than 50% is in scope at any valuation. Your shares cost you basically nothing, so almost the entire valuation counts as gain. At roughly 30%, that’s over a million euros of tax on money that only exists in a spreadsheet. The targets aren’t heirs on yachts. They’re any founder who raised a pre-seed and might one day want to build somewhere else. This is only a first reading. The same vote passed last year and was dropped from the final law. That’s still a big problem. It means the idea comes back every year, and every year it passes. What this reveals is a country that has given up on winning and is squeezing whatever it can from the people still there until there is nothing left. Winning countries don’t build walls. They build the playground where the best people want to come play.

Now that's spooky! U. Florida offers class on ‘werewolf romance’ and ‘Mexican-American vampires.' thecollegefix.com/u-florida-…

BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates makes $445,000 a year. She called school choice "racist" yet sends her kid to a private school. Not a single child is proficient in math in 50 public schools in Chicago.