🌃 New York City hosted its first Parents’ Night Out event as part of an initiative to “make it easier to raise a family in the greatest city in the world” by giving parents and caregivers in the city time to do … whatever they want.
A federal judge halted a major land deal in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge
In 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, serving the Trump administration, approved a land exchange involving 490 acres of Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
The deal involved the construction of a road connecting the remote town of King Cove to an airport for emergency evacuations. However, 10 miles of that road would cut directly through the refuge’s protected wetlands.
On August 18, Judge Sharon Gleason sided with environmental groups and Alaska Native groups, ruling that the Interior Department’s land exchange violated several federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
Why is this good news? Izembek’s wetlands are home to one of the world’s largest beds of eelgrass, which feeds a quarter-million migratory birds every fall and provides refuge for more than 200 species, from brown bears to Pacific salmon. Alaska Natives have argued that construction would disrupt not just the environment but also the lives of local tribes, who subsist from the land through hunting and fishing.
‘Bearded, burly’ trans men are entering women’s restrooms in Kansas to protest the state’s anti-trans bathroom ban
In early August, three self-described “bearded, burly” transgender men wearing yellow “Compliance Crew” shirts used the women’s bathrooms at a municipal water park in a Kansas town.
Part of a protest group, the men were acting in compliance with a new anti-trans bathroom ban in the state — requiring people to use the bathroom that matches the sex listed on their birth certificate — to bring attention to the “absurdity” and unintended consequences of the new law.
Putting their own safety at risk in an effort to protect others, the police were called on the men, who then had to provide “uncomfortable descriptions” of their bodies and genitalia to the officers.
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