AL Political Reporter: “Transgender youth in Alabama can once again receive medical treatment for gender dysphoria as a federal judge has issued an injunction against the Alabama law seeking to criminalize the care. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, allowed the law to go into effect last Sunday…

AR Times: “Niko Omilona, a YouTube entertainer, visited Harrison and found it not at all racist, but he was directed to the source of much of the city’s reputation to Zinc and the home and church of KKK leader Thomas Robb. Omilona said he was a BBC interviewer and Robb spoke with him at length,…

WFAE: “In 1974, author John Egerton wrote a book titled “The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America.” He believed the South, and the entire country had become stronger as a result of the civil rights movement. Still, he remained skeptical, writing: “The South and the nation are not exchanging strengths as much as they…

Planned Parenthood: “Abortion is still legal. It’s still your right. But the Supreme Court is prepared to end your constitutional right to abortion. Our country is facing an abortion access crisis.  By this summer, 26 states could move to ban abortion — affecting 36 million women, plus more people who can become pregnant. This is…

HuffPo: “Former Vice President Mike Pence will campaign with Georgia’s incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp the day before this month’s GOP primary in his most significant political break with former President Donald Trump to date. Kemp’s campaign announced Friday morning that Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Kemp on Monday, May 23rd, the day before the vote. That…

HuffPo: “Three Louisiana state troopers were arrested and charged this month with simple battery after violently arresting a Black motorist two years ago, The Associated Press reported Thursday. In body camera footage obtained by the AP, the three troopers can be seen on top of Antonio Harris, the motorist, following a high-speed chase. Harris had surrendered to…

Slate: “On Wednesday, without a word of explanation, the nation’s most radical appeals court reinstated a Texas law that imposes sweeping censorship on social media companies. The statute—which Republicans passed in retaliation against the perceived liberal bias of “Big Tech”—forces these companies to disseminate hateful expression, dangerous misinformation, and foreign propaganda, among other objectionable speech. It empowers aggrieved…

NY Times: “The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that investigations of parents with transgender children for possible child abuse could continue, after an emergency appeal by state officials including Gov. Greg Abbott. The ruling reversed lower-court decisions that had temporarily halted the inquiries statewide. But the court said neither Mr. Abbott nor the attorney…

Political Wire: “Louisiana’s state House gutted a controversial abortion bill that could have charged women who abort their pregnancies with murder, removing language that criminalized mothers and instructed the state to ignore any federal law making abortion legal,” the Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports.

WaPo: “As the first light of day flickers across the Croatan Sound, Scott Lanier surveys the gray, barren tree trunks that stand in every direction, like massive gravestones marking the once-vibrant landscape. “The forest is just retreating,” says Lanier, manager of this 160,000-acre federal wildlife refuge near North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Lanier first came here…