And another day of racist hatred, exposure to extreme heat, GOP Presidential candidates eliminating the DOE, a kiss in Spain, harassment in Antarctica, banned books, free school meals, child failure, and the man who ‘screwed up’ college football comes to a close:
“The spectacle Trump is making over becoming an inmate is not just annoying. It’s concerning. Koolaid drinkers kids are watching, and thinking that a life of crime is not only acceptable, but heroic.” — Annie C
Jacksonville shooting is the latest incident of fatal violence driven by racist hatred. The killing of three Black people at a Dollar General store in Florida Saturday afternoon was the latest act of American gun violence motivated by racist ideology, a national scourge that federal officials have described as one of the most lethal forms of modern domestic terrorism.
Should you be masking with new COVID variants? Experts weigh in. "People 65-plus and people who are immunocompromised should strongly consider masking during flu, RSV, COVID season while in indoor public spaces," said Dr. Céline Gounder, a CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News. "And for everyone else — it all depends on what their risk tolerance is."
Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US. A historic heat wave that began blasting the Southwest and other parts of the country this summer is shining a spotlight on one of the harshest, yet least-addressed effects of U.S. climate change: the rising deaths and injuries of people who work in extreme heat, whether inside warehouses and kitchens or outside under the blazing sun. Many of them are migrants in low-wage jobs.
2024 Republicans want to eliminate the Education Department. What would that look like? Multiple Republican presidential candidates made it clear at this week’s debate that the Department of Education is in danger if they are elected...None of the 2024 candidates during Wednesday’s debate detailed how they would handle eliminating it, but conservatives have longed to see many of its tasks either completely eliminated or absorbed into other departments...“Although the effort to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education is grounded in the backdrop of a cultural war, this effort is also a direct affront to civil rights.” -- This is most definitely an affront to civil rights. “School choice” is code for “let’s make sure only wealthy white kids get a decent education.” It guarantees inequity. And as we all know, Republicans strive for inequity.
Republican candidates' threats of US strikes in Mexico spark worries. As the Republican race for the White House in 2024 ramps up, threats by the party's presidential candidates to launch military strikes on Mexico's drug cartels are being taken increasingly seriously, sparking worries on both sides of the border. -- No Republican should ever again be US President.
Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don’t correspond with gender assigned at birth. Florida education officials on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against state college employees who violate a new law barring them and students from using restrooms or changing facilities for a gender other than the one assigned at birth. The move by the state board of education comes as LGBTQ advocates have criticized the law as a larger effort to erase them from Florida schools and society.
Germany approves self-ID to make transitioning easier for trans people after year in legal limbo. The legislation, dubbed the Self-Determination Act, aims to make it easier for trans and non-binary people to change their names on legal documents such as birth or death certificates.
Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from visiting popular national park. Afghanistan's acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women had not been observing hijab inside the park. He called on religious clerics and security agencies to forbid women from entering until a solution was found.
France to ban wearing abaya dress in schools. France will ban children from wearing the abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women – in state-run schools, the country’s education minister has said ahead of the back-to-school season. France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious signs in state schools since 19th-century laws removed any traditional Catholic influence from public education, has struggled to update guidelines to deal with a growing Muslim minority.
FIFA suspends Spain soccer federation president Luis Rubiales for 90 days after World Cup final kiss. FIFA suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales from office on Saturday while its disciplinary committee investigates his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final, which included kissing a player without her consent…FIFA has given no timetable for a ruling by its disciplinary panel. The body’s disciplinary judges can impose sanctions on individuals ranging from warnings and fines to suspensions from the sport.
Spain’s football federation accuses World Cup winner of lying about kiss from president. On Saturday, the federation doubled down on its accusations of lying against Hermoso. In a since deleted statement, the RFEF said, “We have to state that Ms. Jennifer Hermoso lies in every statement she makes against the president” and again threatened legal action. It is unclear why the RFEF chose to delete the statement from its website.
Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers. Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research center in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish. The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72% of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica. But the problem goes beyond the harassment, The Associated Press found. In reviewing court records and internal communications, and in interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, the AP uncovered a pattern of women who said their claims of harassment or assault were minimized by their employers, often leading to them or others being put in further danger.
Requests to ban books hit a 21-year high. See which titles were the most challenged.Books with LGBTQ+ themes have been among the most-challenged titles since 2016, according to ALA archives. Two of these top 13 books — Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison — were some of the first to draw complaints from parents at North Hunterdon High School in New Jersey in the fall of 2021, librarian Martha Hickson told CNN. Both titles were the top two challenged books in 2021. “They labeled both books as pornographic and obscene,” Hickson told CNN. “It quickly became clear that the pattern that existed was that they (parents) did not like books that had LGBTQ+ themes.” -- Time to read the 13 books on this list.
Alabama wants to be the 1st state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen. Nitrogen hypoxia is caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, depriving them of oxygen and causing them to die. Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air inhaled by humans and is harmless when inhaled with oxygen. While proponents of the new method have theorized it would be painless, opponents have likened it to human experimentation.
Schoolkids in 8 states can now eat free school meals, advocates urge Congress for nationwide policy. Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont, Michigan, and Massachusetts will make school breakfasts and lunches permanently free to all students starting this academic year, regardless of family income, following in the footsteps of California and Maine. Several other states are considering similar changes and congressional supporters want to extend free meals to all kids nationwide.
A Washington Special Education School That Was Accused of Harming Kids Is Now Barred From Taking New Students. The state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction launched the investigation after a Seattle Times and ProPublica series last year revealed that the Northwest School of Innovative Learning had long been the subject of allegations that it abused students, misused isolation rooms, let unqualified aides lead classes, and lacked basic educational materials, including textbooks.
Why failure is your child’s best tool. Similar to exercising to become physically stronger, failing makes us emotionally stronger. Also, like exercise, failure operates on a Goldilocks principle. You need to experience “just the right amount” of setbacks to feel pain, learn from it, repair and become stronger...Many parents and guardians keep checking to see whether their child is OK or if they’re going to make the same mistake again. Don’t. At a certain point, it benefits your child more to understand from you that their bad experience, whether by their own bad decision or someone else’s, doesn’t define who they are. It’s time to see new things in them.
This 17-Year-Old Invented A Blockchain-Enabled Fingerprint Scanner To Address The Global Identification Crisis. Her solar-powered fingerprint scanning device enables users to create unique biometric digital identification without relying on internet access.
Simone Biles wins a record 8th US Gymnastics title a full decade after her first. Biles is all but assured of returning to the gym where she captured her first world title in 2013. Over the course of two electric nights at the SAP Center, she served notice that even after a two-year break following the Tokyo Olympics, in gymnastics there is the one referred to as the GOAT and there is everyone else.
Meet the man who thinks he ‘screwed up’ college football with a Supreme Court win. Andrew Coats, the lawyer who convinced the Supreme Court in 1984 to allow universities to maximize football revenue, leading to a sweeping upheaval today, looks back with regret on the landmark case he successfully argued...These massive deals have caused the value of televised college football games to skyrocket in recent decades, largely at the expense of student-athletes who, in all sports, regularly travel thousands of miles for routine games once within reach of short plane rides or bus trips. -- College sports is not about, you know, sports. It’s not even about student-athletes or education. It’s all about making money. Bring in the athlete, chew ‘em up, then spit ‘em out. Then bring in the next one and repeat. Stop watching football. All of it. At all levels.
RIP Bob Barker. He was 99.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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