“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them

Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.

ProPublica

This women’s roller derby league is standing up for trans athletes by suing their county

A women’s roller derby league in New York is suing their county over an ordinance that bans female sports teams with transgender athletes from using local facilities.

Advocate

Hal Malchow Is Going to Die on Thursday. He Has One Last Message for Democrats.

The pioneering Democratic consultant has been planning his death for decades.

Politico

Kamala Harris Asserts ‘Healthcare Crisis’ In Landmark Visit To Abortion Clinic

“Many of you have asked why am I here at this facility,” Harris was quoted by USA Today after touring the St. Paul Health Center – Vandalia, which remained open to patients during her visit. “It is because right now in our country we are facing a very serious health crisis, and the crisis is affecting many, many people in our country, most of whom are frankly silently suffering.”

International Business Times

Death of Nex Benedict spurs calls for action, help for LGBTQ teens and their peers

“The system didn’t not just just fail Nex,” said Cathy Renna, director of communications for the National LGBTQ Task Force and a longtime activist. “It failed the kids who attacked them.”

USA Today

Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected

Former president appeared at Ohio rally for Bernie Moreno, who is competing in a split GOP Senate race

Rolling Stone

Meet Siren, the Trans Music Collective Making Love Songs for the Future

The new Black and brown collective made up of Asanni Armon, s.e.r, Demi Vee, PHARAOH RAPTURE, WHATSGOOD!, and SunChild just released its first album.

them

Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US

A Gallup poll released this week based on telephone interviews of more than 12,000 Americans finds that about 1 in 13 U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+, including less than 1 in 100 of the total population who say they are transgender. But a higher proportion of the youngest adults identified as LGBTQ+ — a little over one-fifth of those born from 1997 through 2005.

AP News

Polls overestimated Trump in the primary. Don’t expect that to translate to November.

Trump’s margins were smaller in nearly every primary state than the polls indicated, but that doesn’t mean surveys showing him leading President Joe Biden are wrong.

Politico

Supreme Court refuses to lift ban on Texas university drag show, sparking free speech concerns

A controversial decision reverberated across the academic and LGBTQ+ communities on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court opted not to intervene in a dispute over a drag show ban at West Texas A&M University, leaving a student group’s plans for a campus event in limbo. The court’s decision, delivered in a brief unsigned order without any noted dissents or explanation, effectively upholds the university’s prohibition against hosting a “PG-13” drag show planned by the LGBTQ+ student group Spectrum WT.

Advocate

More than a dozen female athletes sue NCAA over their transgender participation policy

Riley Gaines and other athletes say the policy violates their Title IX rights.

ABC News

Former Vice President Mike Pence Says He’s Not Endorsing Donald Trump In The 2024 Election

Trump’s 2024 campaign, according to Pence, presents him as abandoning the conservative stance on the “sanctity of human life” and cutting the national debt.

International Business Times

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case alleging government censorship of social media

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about whether the government can persuade social media companies to remove content from platforms.

The Center Square

State Department plans to fly Americans out of Haiti. But some can’t make it to the plane

“From Port-au-Prince, there is no way that you can safely travel to Cap-Haïtien,” said Andy Faller, who has been stuck in Haiti with his wife and their 6-year-old and 7-year-old adoptive children. “We are stuck here.”

Miami Herald

Schumer’s rebuke of Netanyahu shows the long, fragile line the US and allies walk on interference

Schumer’s stinging rebuke of Netanyahu — the senator said the Israeli leader had “lost his way” and was an obstacle to peace — was certainly provocative but it was hardly norm-breaking. U.S. leaders, as well as American allies, are more frequently butting into electoral politics beyond the water’s edge.

AP News

Iceland volcano erupts for fourth time since December and forces evacuations

A volcanic system in Iceland erupted for the fourth time since December on Saturday, the country’s meteorological office said, spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air in sharp contrast against the dark night sky.

The Telegraph

Last Generation stages protests across Germany

Climate activists changed tactics slightly, blocking streets without gluing themselves to the pavements in Berlin and other major cities, as well as targeting a liquefied natural gas terminal on the island of Rügen.

Deutsche Welle

Inside Haiti’s descent into anarchy — what life is like under the rule of a gangster named Barbecue

Gang violence was already rampant in Haiti but it exploded in late February while the unelected and unpopular prime minister, Ariel Henry, was overseas.

ABC News

Tens of thousands protest Netanyahu government, call for elections

Across the different protests, speakers denounced not only the members of the governing coalition, but also those who sit in the opposition or are seen as checks on Netanyahu in the war cabinet.

Jerusalem Post

Cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas expected to resume in Qatar

Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to resume in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday, according to Egyptian officials.

USA Today

Venezuela’s Maduro Accepts Party Nomination, Will Seek Third Term

“We’ll go to a new victory,” the 61-year-old said as he accepted his ruling PSUV party’s official nomination to be its candidate in elections from which the state apparatus has excluded his main rival — the favorite in opinion polls.

International Business Times