NEW - Italian government has backed a bill to ban lab-produced meat and other synthetic foods to protect Italy's food heritage
The free speech group PEN America says book bans in public school libraries this year are on pace to top last year's high mark, when there were more than 2,500 instances of book bans in U.S. schools. Most of those books were LGBTQ- or race-related.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1164284891/book-bans-school-libraries-florida
A crowd gathered in the back corner of the store, browsing through newly installed, rainbow-colored shelves displaying multiple copies of some 65 books currently banned from various Florida schools. It was opening night for the shop's "Banned Book Nook," and customers with ice cream cones in one hand helped themselves to novels, memoirs and biographies with the other.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1164284891/book-bans-school-libraries-florida
Last night I couldn’t get sleep. Between battling two roaches in the house and one of my dogs who needed to be rushed out of the house every hour, it’s been rough. I was supposed to go to the kitchen today, but I went to the vet instead. Pest control will be here Thursday to spray again. Hopefully, tonight is a better night.
I just saw my second roach in the house tonight (we get the house sprayed regularly 😳). The first one I squished to death, and the second one was in the tub so I poured 1/2 a bottle of bleach on it before I turned on the faucet to wash it down the drain (it was still alive 😳). The drain is closed and there’s bleach and water in the tub now.
I may never sleep again.
Calls will be made in a few hours.
"Performers, business owners and parents voice opposition to drag show restrictions at Texas Senate committee hearing" During the hearing, dozens of drag performers and their allies testified against these bills and also said efforts to criminalize certain drag performances were attacks on Texans’ First Amendment rights, while others said the legislation took away Texas parents’ rights to decide what content or culture their children are exposed to.
https://www.rawstory.com/performers-business-owners-and-parents-voice-opposition-to-drag-show-restrictions-at-texas-senate-committee-hearing/
Stickier Than We Thought: Exciting Discovery Could Lead to New Alzheimer’s Therapies -
It wasn’t even contemplated that little girls can have their periods in third grade or fourth grade,” Gantt said in her testimony. “If we are preparing children to be informed adults, we need to inform them about their bodies and that’s something very basic.”
Republicans get ready to pass a bill where teachers can’t even talk about menstruation.
Because reasons. Just not good biological reasons. When dumb men decide things…
THIS. IS. DUMB.
In response to widespread BOOK BANS IN SCHOOLS, people in Utah and Florida are demanding the BIBLE be removed, for reasons including “Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,”.
Utah:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/book-ban-lawmaker-very-sad-that-a-parent-is-using-his-law-to-ban-the-sex-ridden-bible/ar-AA191Qt5
Florida:
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094740651/florida-man-asks-schools-to-ban-the-bible-following-the-states-efforts-to-remove
RECALL
Scenic Fruit Company of Gresham, Oregon is recalling frozen organic strawberries sold to Costco, Aldi, KeHE, Vital Choice Seafood, PCC Community Markets and frozen organic tropical blend sold to Trader Joe’s due to an outbreak of Hepatitis A illnesses.
Judges are VERY tired of the MAGAt lawyers that obstruct and block
On her final day as the top judge in the District of Columbia on Friday afternoon—in her final act—Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell did more than grant the Justice Department permission to question former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. She actually took the rare step of handing over the lawyer’s notes to federal prosecutors, according to a person familiar with the arrangement.
What Do U.S. Elections Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion https://youtu.be/GwnAzt_LvPo
July 2020...
Is 1/6, everything?
What Does America’s Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion https://youtu.be/kwkvTBgTO7A
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