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May 28, 2022

Is George P. Bush's crushing defeat in Texas the end of the line for a Republican Party dynasty?

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, facing multiple scandals but very popular with conservatives for his legal crusades against President Biden’s administration, walloped challenger George P. Bush by a more than two-to-one margin in the GOP primary runoff election Tuesday.

Bush, who was the last elected member of his family’s political dynasty – which over four generations has produced two presidents, a vice president, a senator, two governors and a congressman – was long viewed as a rising star in the GOP and was elected and re-elected to the statewide office of Texas land commissioner. He acknowledged in a statement Tuesday night that "things didn’t go as we planned."

And in the wake of his defeat, Bush’s political future and the survival of his family’s brand are very much in doubt."History has shown there can be second acts in American politics, so I wouldn’t say never. But I think that he is politically greatly diminished from the results last night," longtime Texas based GOP strategist Brendan Steinhauser told Fox News.

And he predicted that in the short term "I think it’s more likely he goes into the private sector."

May 28, 2022

Arizona man's threats against LGBTQ community and Target prompting police investigation

May 28, 2022

Bullied kid writes "I hope you make some more friends" in his own yearbook. High schoolers step in

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/high-schoolers-step-in-after-classmates-won-t-colorado-6th-grader-s-yearbook/vi-AAXO0pB

High schoolers step in to help after 6th grader says no one signed his yearbookWESTMINSTER, Colo. (KDVR) — It is the time of year when kids are signing each other’s yearbooks. But what happens when no one wants to sign yours?

That happened to Brody Ridder, a sixth grader at The Academy of Charter Schools in Westminster.

“I went up to people and I asked them can you sign my yearbook and some of them were like no,” he said.

He collected two or three names from classmates and two notes from his teachers. Brody said it made him feel “useless,” especially after a tough school year due to bullying.

“They just annoy me to the point where I cry at lunch and I just have to leave early and it’s getting on my nerves and recently they started getting physical and I don’t like it,” he said.

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The soon-to-be seniors rounded up as many students as possible to sign Brody’s yearbook even though none of them had ever met the middle schooler.

“We walked in and we were like where’s Brody at? Is Brody Ridder in here? And they’re like yeah he’s in the back and we’re like Brody! We’re here to sign your yearbook bud,” Lightfoot said.

According to the teens, people were lining up to fill the void in Brody’s book. Some even played “rock, paper, scissors” to see who could sign first.

https://kdvr.com/news/high-schoolers-step-in-to-help-after-6th-grader-says-no-one-signed-his-yearbook/

May 28, 2022

SCOTUS likely to issue setback for LGBT

Supreme Court likely to drop school voucher bombshell

But the court will also soon be handing down a decision in another case that could cause an earthquake for public education.

The case is Carson v. Makin, which was brought to expand voucher policies that provide public money for private and religious education. The case involves a program in Maine that allows the state to pay for tuition at private schools in areas where there is no public school — so long as that private institution is “nonsectarian in accordance with the First Amendment.” Two families, along with a libertarian institute, brought a suit asking that courts require the state to include sectarian religious schools in the program.

Similar requests have been rejected by lower courts. But, as my Post colleague Robert Barnes reported, during hearings last December in Carson v. Makin, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court — who represent the majority, “seemed ready … to extend a line of recent rulings favoring religious interests” and “were critical” of the Maine program that disallowed public funds from going to religious instruction.
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Privatization of public education gaining ground, report says
In Carson v. Makin, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court is likely to require Maine officials to use public funding to subsidize religious teaching and proselytizing at schools that legally discriminate against people who don’t support their religious beliefs. A ruling in favor of the families would “amount to a license to outsource discrimination,” according to Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education. He is also an attorney and a professor of education.

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“The Supreme Court is just a few small steps away from transforming every charter school law in the U.S. into a private-school voucher policy,” he writes. “Further, the nation may be facing a future of religious organizations proselytizing through charter schools that have been freed from obeying anti-discrimination laws — with LGBTQ+ community members being the most likely victims.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-likely-to-drop-school-voucher-bombshell/ar-AAXNNUR

May 28, 2022

Restaurant hires, then fires woman on same day after learning she's pregnant, feds say

ALouisiana restaurant hired a woman and then fired her the same day after a manager discovered she was pregnant, according to federal officials.

Now, the restaurant must pay her $30,000.

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On May 26, the restaurant resolved a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit that was filed in September 2021 by the EEOC, court records show.

The case dates back to April 18, 2019, when, after an interview with a manager, the woman was hired as a hostess at Bourne’s House, according to the lawsuit.

That night, after the manager discovered that the woman was pregnant, he messaged her, stating “Hey, I’m sorry to tell you this, but I’m not gonna be able to hire you. I didn’t realize that you were expecting a baby. I’m afraid by the time I get you trained good, you’ll have to be off to be a mom. I’m sorry,” court documents show.

The woman was told the position was not “suitable” for her because of her pregnancy and she was told to reapply after she gave birth, the complaint states.

A couple of months later, the woman reapplied for a position in person. Court documents state that after she left, one of the restaurant’s employees wrote down “pregnant” on the woman’s application and she was not rehired.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/restaurant-hires-then-fires-woman-on-same-day-after-learning-she-s-pregnant-feds-say/ar-AAXOsIC