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Case of Religious Schools That Ban LGTBQ+ Families Heads to SCOTUS
Topic: Children and Family
Source: LGTBQ Nation
Colorado Catholic preschools say they shouldn't be excluded from state funds over admissions policies. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case of a group of anti-LGBTQ+ Catholic pre-schools in Colorado, which believe they should receive money from a state-run, taxpayer-funded preschool program, even though the schools violate the program’s nondiscrimination provision by rejecting children who have LGBTQ+ parents. The Archdiocese of Denver, which runs 34 preschools, says the state program’s nondiscrimination provision violates the Church’s First Amendment right to practice freedom of religion without being excluded for its religious doctrine, which recognizes neither same-sex relationships nor transgender people.

Scientists Pinpoint Culprit in Pregnancy Sickness
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Nature Genetics
Study identifies gene, raising hope for treatments for debilitating condition. Scientists have their most solid lead yet on what drives the most severe form of morning sickness. A sweeping analysis of nearly 11,000 people with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)—the debilitating nausea and vomiting that can land pregnant patients in the hospital—points to one hormone gene as the main player: GDF15. The study, published in Nature Genetics, found 10 genes tied to higher HG risk, with GDF15 emerging as the strongest signal across multiple ancestral groups.

House Ethics Panel Asks Victims to Come Forward
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Politico
The House Ethics Committee publicly asked Monday that victims and witnesses report sexual misconduct involving lawmakers or staff members to the panel, an unusual step even as criticism of the way Congress polices such cases is building. In a statement, the committee said it has adopted a "more aggressive and robust approach" to sexual misconduct over the past decade, the Washington Post reports, and noted it has opened 20 such investigations since 2017. The biggest obstacle the investigations face, the panel said, is persuading victims and witnesses to come forward. The committee pledged to protect their "confidentiality and safety."

French Prosecutors Summon Elon Musk
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: ABC News
Over Allegations of Abuse Images, Deepfakes on X. Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris on Monday, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content. The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — have been summoned for “voluntary interviews," while other employees of the platform are scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. It remains unclear whether Musk and Yaccarino will travel to Paris. A spokesperson for X did not respond to questions from The Associated Press and Yaccarino’s current company, eMed, did not answer a request sent to the press email.

Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Case Over Hiding Student’s Gender Identity
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CBS News
The case involves an 11-year-old girl. The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a legal battle testing whether a public school violates parents' rights when it encourages their child's social gender transition without their knowledge or consent.
In declining the appeal from Massachusetts parents who sued their child's school district, the high court left untouched a lower court ruling that rejected their claim that their rights had been violated. But the justices may have another opportunity to weigh in on the simmering issue of parental rights in public schools, since a similar case brought by parents in Florida is awaiting action by the high court.

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: BBC News
From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing. In the months before my son was born, my partner and I attended an active birth workshop, a breastfeeding session and the hospital-run antenatal course, read a small pile of pregnancy and baby books and scrolled through loads of websites. Our notepads quickly filled up.

Will Ukraine End Up Forcibly Conscripting Women To Fight On The Frontline?
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix News
There is no full mobilization of women yet, but Kiev is reportedly considering the move as their male population dwindles... Since Ukraine’s population has shrunk dramatically, the army’s number one problem is no longer the lack of weapons, such as ballistic missiles and air defense systems, but the lack of soldiers to operate them, writes Világgazdaság. The authorities in Kyiv, however, must bring the army size required by Commander-in-Chief Zelensky (800,000 active soldiers), and since the number of men eligible for military service (between the ages of 18 and 60) is slowly running out, the Ukrainian leadership is now trying to fill the gaps by conscripting women.

Russia Urges HIV Testing for One-Third of Population as Cases Rise
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Moscow times
Even so, World Health Organization data show Russia’s HIV prevalence at 890 cases per 100,000 people. That is comparable to several African countries such as Guinea (874), Liberia (944), Chad (771) and Ethiopia (601), and is markedly higher than in European countries including France (358), Britain (191) and Sweden (171). The total number of people living with HIV in Russia rose by 35,000 in 2025 to reach 1.25 million, according to Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for AIDS Prevention and Control.

School districts pay more than $200k
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Just the News
District fired counselor for confirming secret gender transitions to journalist who already had evidence, while another blocked mom for protesting "Progress Pride" flag. SCOTUS-rebuked district accused of violating new precedent. The Alliance Defending Freedom said Indiana's South Madison Community School Corporation paid $195,000 in damages, attorney's fees and costs to resolve its three-year-old lawsuit on behalf of Kathy McCord, allegedly fired for confirming to a journalist the district was surreptitiously hiding students' identification as the opposite sex from their parents. The Hoosier State banned gender secrecy policies in schools shortly before McCord sued, though Superintendent Mark Hall implied in an email to a parent that the new law didn't apply to its "gender support plans," which McCord internally opposed because "she felt like she was lying to parents" by not telling them about their children's in-school gender identity.

From Epstein files to ousting colleagues, women in Congress flex their power
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: USA Today
The pair of congresswomen who helped force out two male lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct and extramarital affairs told USA TODAY that ethics should be a bipartisan issue. When two of their colleagues faced mounting accusations of sexual assault and misconduct last week, the two most powerful leaders in the House of Representatives – both men – refused to demand their resignations. Women in Congress weren't having it. In a matter of days, rank-and-file female lawmakers banded together across party lines to oust Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales. Rather than face being removed from office after embarrassing votes of their peers, the California Democrat and Texas Republican resigned within an hour of each other.

Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Washington Times
[Ed: this would bankrupt NYC, if the free grocery stores don't do it first.] Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a child care center where they read to preschoolers and led a singalong. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a week ago, is also trying to build a working relationship with Republican President Donald Trump. Obama and Mamdani did not take questions after reading the book “Alone and Together” to the children and leading a singalong of “The Wheels on the Bus.”

For family of medical providers, Idaho criminal trans bathroom ban was last straw
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Idaho Capital Sun
This year, Idaho Legislature approved trans bathroom ban, forcing teachers to out trans kids to parents, and re-banning LGBTQ+ pride flag displays by government. Michael and Dr. Angie Devitt, both medical professionals, watched their trans daughter, Eve, testify against a bill years ago that outlawed gender-affirming care for minors. But this year’s criminal transgender bathroom ban — described by advocates as the most extreme in the nation for extending to private businesses — was the couple’s last straw. So early this month, Michael Devitt notified patients that his practice, Focus Physical Therapy, would shut down at the end of August as his family prepared to move out of Idaho. “Obviously, this law is a disaster for families like ours,” he wrote in a letter. “We can no longer take a road trip across our beloved state, or even enjoy a family night out at a restaurant, or a movie, without running the risk of Eve being charged and sent to a prison merely for using the facilities.” [Ed: I have not reviewed the Idaho law, and I think this may be a biased take. But FYI.}

India Parliament blocks Modi's bid to redraw voting boundaries
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Washington times
... alongside seat quota for women A bill to reserve a third of seats for women lawmakers failed to pass in the lower house of India’s Parliament on Friday, along with a separate, linked proposal to expand the national legislature by redrawing voting boundaries. The measure was seen as one of the most significant changes to India’s political system since independence from British colonial rule in 1947, but fell short after two days of debate involving both government and opposition lawmakers. It sought to mandate implementation of 33% representation for women in Parliament and state legislatures, a move aimed at increasing female participation in a system where women remain underrepresented.

Epsom rape case exposes falling trust in police
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Unherd
Surrey Police’s investigation of an alleged rape in Epsom, a commuter town to the south of London, provides a masterclass in how not to manage a 21st-century information vacuum. Reports of a gang rape, in a churchyard near a local nightclub, led to rumours that the suspects were immigrants or asylum seekers. Inevitably, allegations emerged that police officers were suppressing details. Surrey’s lethargic comms response then invited comparisons to Merseyside Police’s much-criticised reaction to the 2024 disorder in Southport. As tensions mounted, there were a series of protests in Epsom this week. The police response was to deploy officers in riot gear, leading to allegations of two-tier policing. Why, critics asked, didn’t the police deal with pro-Palestine protesters as robustly?

‘Intersectionality’ – The Destructive Ideology Balkanizing the Country
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Legal Insurrection
So intersectionality is essentially a group identity theory. It started relatively simply, as a way in which you can view different forms of discrimination. So it started as an employment law theory and the theory was, with regard to black women, that there are two forms of oppression working on them, or two forms of discrimination, one sex discrimination and one race discrimination. So far it’s understandable. But it has morphed into the dominant ideology on campuses and increasingly in radical circles in society.

Boston Mayor Wu Demonstrates How Political Sausage Is Made
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Victory Girls Blog
Boston’s woke Mayor Michelle Wu is funding a new program that gives “queer and trans” migrants up to $500 for massages, yoga classes and creative healing — despite the city being crushed by a nearly $50 million deficit. The so-called “wellness allowances” are being handed out by a nonprofit called OUTnewcomers and is backed by the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, the group revealed Wednesday. “We’re offering $250–$500 wellness allowances for LGBTQ+ migrants in Boston to support their mental health and well-being through non-clinical care including yoga, meditation, creative healing, peer support, hair salon/ acupuncture & massages appointments and gym memberships etc.,” an advertisement blasted out by the group reads.

Critics of Education Department changes
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Hill
...see difficult path to restore agency after program closures. Another office at the Department of Education is on the chopping block after a year of efforts to dismantle the federal agency, pushing the hope of restoration for certain programs further out of reach for opponents. The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), used to support English language learners, is the latest of dozens of programs that have been broken up or moved by the Education Department to fulfill President Trump’s campaign promise to shut down the agency.

Chicago Public Schools Will Hold Official 'Civic Day of Action’ on May 1
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Twitchy
So Students Can Protest. Late in the 19th century, May 1 came to be known as International Workers' Day or just plain May Day. As you know, it's turned into a day of protest for communists and their Marxist allies in groups like Antifa, the pro-Hamas movement, and the Chicago Teachers' Union. That's the same union that famously tweeted in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.” The teachers' union, along with Mayor Brandon Johnson, fought to close the schools that day so that teachers and students would be available for anti-capitalist, anti-Trump marches. They lost, and school will be in session in Chicago Public Schools on May 1. However, they're calling it an "official civic day of action" during which students will be able to go on "field trips" to massive communist demonstrations.

A literary revolution is sweeping South Korea - and being led by women
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: BBC News
The Old Woman With the Knife is Gu Byeong-mo's story about Hornclaw, a legendary assassin in her 60s contemplating retirement while navigating loneliness. In Kim Cho-yeop's sci-fi anthology - If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light - a once-famous scientist stranded on a defunct space station dedicates her life to reuniting with her family located light years away. After her sister's suicide, author and singer Lang Lee unpacks the trauma, from the Korean war to domestic violence, that haunts the women in her family in her new memoir. There is a touch of the smash hit K-pop Demon Hunters in Esther Park's The Legend of Lady Byeoksa - a tale of a cross-dressing female demon-slayer's doomed love in the Joseon era.