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Pediatric Gender Medicine Faces Legal and Policy Shifts in US and Abroad
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Manhattan Institute
In a 5-2 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling from February and restored access to pediatric medical transition procedures at Children’s Hospital Colorado. In January, Children’s Hospital Colorado announced it would no longer provide cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to dysphoric youth under 19, citing the threat to Medicaid funding. In response, four trans-identified minors and their families charged the hospital with violating the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. In an 18-page dissent joined by Justice Carlos Samour, Justice Brian Boatright argued that the lower court injunction should have been upheld. “From my perspective, CHC’s decision to terminate gender-affirming care for minors was plainly not ‘because of’ petitioners’ gender identity, sex or disability,” Boatright wrote. “It was a decision driven by the direct threat to the viability of the entire hospital.”

The View's Whoopi Goldberg blames Trump for Ebola response in Africa
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Mill
Goldberg said, "you know what’s really bothering me, you know, he’s doing all of this, people are dying all over the world, right?" On Thursday’s episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg criticized President Donald Trump for not acting enough in regards to the Ebola outbreak currently taking place in Africa. "That’s what I’m talking about," said Goldberg. "When I look at all of the stuff that’s happening around the world, I think to myself, what are you doing? You—this bounces back and bites you in the butt. When people are ill and they’re traveling and there’s a possibility of bringing it, it means people can bring it here too."

Former U.S. attorney general Bondi to testify about Epstein files
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: CBC
...in closed hearing. Survivors will be waiting. When Donald Trump's former attorney general Pam Bondi appears Friday before the House Oversight Committee she won't be under oath and the hearing about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case will be closed to the public. Epstein survivors are hoping for answers and will be there on Capitol Hill, just the same. As Bondi testifies, one of the roughly half dozen Epstein survivors waiting outside the hearing room will be Canadian Sharlene Rochard. "We're hoping to get a lot of information from Bondi if she's willing to speak," Rochard said.

Man arrested for threats to kill Erika Kirk ahead of TPUSA event in San Antonio
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: KSAT
Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of a making a terroristic threat. A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening to kill Erika Kirk ahead of her appearance next week at a Turning Point USA event downtown. Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.

Families Sue US Over Secret RSV Trials on Black Infants
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Times
Two families say their babies were used as test subjects in a government-backed vaccine trial they never agreed to, and that the babies died soon after. A new lawsuit accuses the US government of wrongful death, lack of informed consent, and civil battery over a mid-1960s experiment in Washington, DC, involving an early respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine known as Lot 100, per the New York Times. The suit says Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King, who were just a few months old at the time, were given three doses at a children's clinic serving low-income Black families. Each of the boys later died of RSV and bacterial pneumonia. Their families say they had no idea the babies were part of an experimental trial.

Mom Gets 35 Years for Hosting Sex-Filled Teen Parties
Topic: Children and Family
Source: NBC News
Los Gatos' Shannon O'Connor had been convicted on dozens of charges involving boozy gatherings. A Silicon Valley mother who turned her home into a hub for teen drinking and sex has been ordered to spend up to 35 years and 10 months in a California prison. Shannon O'Connor, also known as Shannon Bruga, was sentenced on Thursday following her March conviction on dozens of charges stemming from parties in Los Gatos, where prosecutors said she supplied booze to minors and orchestrated sexual encounters, including nonconsensual activity, between them, per NBC News.

Dennis Quaid Files to End Child Support Payments
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: People
His twins are graduating from high school soon Dennis Quaid is asking a court to cut off the nearly $14,000 he sends each month in child support to ex-wife Kimberly Buffington. In a May 20 filing, the 72-year-old actor petitioned to end his $13,750 monthly payments for twins Thomas and Zoe, who turn 18 this year and are set to graduate high school in June, according to documents obtained by People. Quaid points to the pair's 2018 divorce agreement, which says child support can stop "when a child completes 12th grade (if still under 19 and a full-time high school student) or reaches the other enumerated endpoints, whichever occurs first."

Gamers Raise $100K for Gay Player Facing Deportation
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: NBC Washington
Ludovic Mbock, who has no criminal record, could be sent to jail in his native Cameroon. After weeks in immigration detention, Street Fighter gamer Ludovic Mbock is back on the tournament circuit with an ankle monitor under his pants and a six-figure show of support behind him. The Washington Post's Gene Park reports that the 39-year-old Cameroon native—widely regarded as one of the world's best players of Street Fighter character Chun-Li—was picked up by ICE in February during what had been a routine immigration check-in he'd attended for two decades. He came to the US as a teenager with a green card secured through his mother's marriage, which later dissolved. The green card was revoked and he was reportedly placed on an order of supervision, meaning he had to check in to review a work permit. The Department of Homeland Security now describes him as an "illegal alien."

James Talarico Regrets Going Full Woke
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
With the backlash to wokeness in full swing, it was probably inevitable that some political figures would come to regret the things they said and tweeted back when progressive cultural signaling felt necessary, roughly from 2014 to 2024. Republicans are out to destroy James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Texas's Senate seat, by resurfacing his most eye roll inducing takes from that time period, like when he said god was "non-binary" or when he promised to run a "non-meat" campaign in Texas in order to fight climate change. (For good measure, he was wearing a COVID-19 mask; this was in April 2022.)

Senior banned from Loudoun County high school graduation
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...after speaking up about trans peeper in school bathrooms. A transgender student at Loudon County's Freedom High School has been accused of filming students in the bathroom at school but when a victim is spoke out after he and his brother were filmed, he was the one suspended and banned from graduation.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home targeted in apparent ‘swatting’ incident
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: NBC News
Police in Virginia said they “quickly determined that the report was fictitious.” An apparent “swatting” incident targeted the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday night, police confirmed to NBC News.Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said Thursday that the call was received through the police department’s nonemergency line just after 9 p.m. ET. “Officers immediately coordinated with Supreme Court Police personnel assigned to the residence and quickly determined that the report was fictitious,” Fairfax County police said in a statement. “No additional police resources were utilized.”

Germany's Most-Wanted Woman Gets 13 Years
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The guardian
After three decades underground, Germany's most-wanted woman is facing more than a decade behind bars. A court on Wednesday sentenced 67-year-old Daniela Klette, a former member of the Red Army Faction, to 13 years in prison for a string of armed robberies carried out long after the far-left militant group disbanded, the Guardian reports. Judges found her guilty on six counts of aggravated robbery tied to kidnappings for ransom and illegal possession of military-grade weapons, concluding a tightly guarded 14-month trial. Prosecutors had sought the maximum 15-year term.

Prosecutor Denies Probe Focused on E. Jean Carroll
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Newser
Sources now say investigation is focused on a nonprofit, not Carroll herself The top federal prosecutor in Chicago says his office has not opened a probe into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll, despite reports saying the Justice Department has done just that. Andrew S. Boutros says his office "has not opened—and has never opened—a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll." One of the AP's sources clarified to the outlet that the probe is actually focused on a nonprofit that helped fund Carroll's lawsuit against President Trump. Sources who spoke to the Guardian say that nonprofit is backed by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn.

Sweden Cracks Down
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Gateway Pundit
Parliament Bans Cousin Marriage After Years of Mass Migration Fallout. Sweden’s parliament, presently controlled by center-right, conservative majority, has taken a decisive step in confronting a controversial practice increasingly linked to migration, unanimously voting to ban cousin marriages and other close-relative unions in what many see as a long-overdue correction to decades of failed integration policies. The new law, according reports from the Swedish press, introduces a blanket prohibition on marriages between cousins, as well as a wider ban on unions between other close relatives. It is scheduled to come into force on July 1, 2026.

DOJ accuses UCLA of allowing activists to assault Jewish students
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
... block them from campus during pro-Palestinian protests. The Department of Justice is suing the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), accusing the university of allowing Jewish and Israeli students to be assaulted, blocked from campus buildings, and driven from parts of campus during anti-Israel protests that erupted after the October 7 Hamas terror attacks in 2023. Protests were ongoing at UCLA in 2024 where pro-Palestinian students set up encampments, trained themselves in hand to hand combat, and refused to let Jewish students walk through.

Boston’s Pride Month Has Officially Jumped The Shark
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s city is helping support a “Trans Period Pride” event at the Boston Public Library, and somehow that is a real sentence. The event includes a “consciousness raising conversation” about transgender menstruation, catered food, and free period underwear. Pride Month has officially jumped the shark, then asked taxpayers to fund the landing.

British Ofcom Investigates Airing of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change a “Hoax”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
One of the most critical components of the British censorship system is Ofcom, the Office of Communications, which regulates the broadcasting, internet, telecommunications, and postal industries. The most recent controversy is detailed in the Telegraph, with Ofcom investigating GB News over the simple replaying of a Trump interview in which he called climate change a “hoax.” Ofcom is investigating GB News for failing to challenge Trump’s characterization, even though many people share his views on climate change. It is a breathtaking demonstration of the censorship culture in the United Kingdom.

American Mom in Berlin Learns to Let Her Kid Roam
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Business Insider
Turns out 'he's more capable than I gave him credit for,' writes Kate Chrisman. An American mom living in Berlin is learning to loosen the reins on her school-age son—and watching him rise to the occasion. Writing for Business Insider, Kate Chrisman describes finally letting her third-grader walk the 15 minutes to school alone, something many German kids start doing a year or more earlier, to the bafflement of parents who ask, "Why so late?" Chrisman details how local norms and infrastructure—walkable cities with safe transit, for example—make independent kid commutes feel routine, grating against what is considered normal in the US.

Yale drama grad Lupita Nyong'o admitted
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...she 'had no idea what The Odyssey was' after being cast as Helen of Troy. Director Christopher Nolan caused a stir when he cast African actress Lupita Nyong'o in the dual roles of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra in his upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, but it turns out Nyong'o "had no idea" what the ancient Greek Homerian epic even was. Nyong'o attended Yale University. "I really had no idea what The Odyssey was," she told Elle Magazine in a recent interview. "I was like, 'oh, snap, I don't know the first thing about this.' So it was a crash course. I picked up the books and read them immediately. I have this film to thank for my Greek mythological education." She read The Odyssey, she revealed, and listened to the audiobook of The Iliad, read by Audra McDonald. "It is the best audiobook I have ever listened to."