A Teacher’s Union is Suing a Mother, and other links

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• A Teacher’s Union is Suing a Mother For Repeated Attempts to Know What Her Kindergartener is Learning -- “...in April, Nicole emailed the principal of her school in the South Kingstown School District asking for the kindergarten curriculum—and whether it would include teaching children politically charged materials, including those influenced by Critical Race Theory and gender theory, holding them out to be true.”
• Biden ‘checking’ if he can overrule states and order universal masks in schools -- “I don’t believe that I do [have that power], thus far.“We’re checking that.”
• CENSORED: Pro-vaccine doctor Francis Christian, over Covid-19 vaccine safety concerns -- “Dr. Francis Christian, Clinical Professor of General Surgery, released a statement on June 17 noting that he is pro-vaccine but stating that the principle of ‘informed consent’ are being violated.
• COVID-19 in Iceland: Vaccination Has Not Led to Herd Immunity, Says Chief Epidemiologist -- “While data shows vaccination is reducing the rate of serious illness due to COVID-19 in Iceland, the country’s Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason says it has not led to the herd immunity that experts hoped for.”
• ‘Dad’ Star Jamie Foxx Talks About His Roots -- “Foxx credits his grandparents for adopting him at seven months and raising him in a good home. His grandma Estelle ensured he had a piano to play and classical piano lessons.”
• Denmark Abolishes All Corona Measures -- “Danish parliament recently decided in Copenhagen that all Corona measures should be ended from October 1. There will therefore no longer be a mask requirement and the test regime will be abolished.”
• Forty percent of migrants released in Texas border city test positive for COVID-19, officials say -- “The city of Laredo, Texas, has refused to take in migrants who have been bused in from elsewhere on the border after discovering 40% of them tested positive for the coronavirus, according to two local government officials.”
• Hall of Fame goaltender and Chicago Blackhawks legend Tony Esposito dies at 78 -- “Esposito joined the Montreal Canadiens for the 1968-69 season, his first NHL team and only the third American college player to be selected by an NHL team.”
• Knowles Chapel Methodist - Org. 1875, Hancock County -- “The church was established in 1875 in a typical log cabin on property owned by W. T. Knowles.”
• Lawsuit alleges Kentucky med student expelled for anti-abortion views -- “The suit claims that former student Austin Clark had a series of testy confrontations with faculty after he invited an anti-abortion speaker to campus in 2019.”
• Nagasaki marks 76th anniversary of atomic bombing -- “At 11:02 a.m., the moment the B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb, Nagasaki survivors and other participants in the ceremony stood in a minute of silence to honor more than 70,000 lives lost.”
• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigning over sexual harassment -- “By turns defiant and chastened, the 63-year-old Democrat emphatically denied intentionally mistreating women and called the pressure for his ouster politically motivated.”
• Remove ‘male’ and ‘female’ from birth certificates? Here’s why the country’s largest group of physicians recommends it. -- “Now, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest association of physicians, has taken a significant step in easing that burden. In a June report, the AMA’s LGBTQ advisory committee advised the organization to push for removing sex labels from the public part of the birth certificate.”
• Scientist Leading WHO Team Investigating Origins Of Pandemic Reverses Course, Reveals China Pressure Tactics -- “Dr. Steven Quay and UC Berkeley emeritus professor of physics Richard Muller explained in The Wall Street Journal back in June that the genomic structure of COVID-19 was unlike anything discovered in nature, which is the strongest evidence the coronavirus was altered in a lab.”
• Texas determines sexual reassignment surgery for children is ‘child abuse’ -- “‘Genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse,’ Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Jaime Masters said in a press release. ‘This surgical procedure physically alters a child’s genitalia for nonmedical purposes potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children’s bodies.’”
• Texas governor’s ban on mask mandates dealt second legal blow -- “The temporary order by Judge Tonya Parker issued late on Tuesday allows officials in the state’s second-most populous county to require masks indoors, despite Abbott’s July order against such mandates.”
• Time’s Up leader resigns after criticism about Cuomo ties -- “The leader of Time’s Up, the #MeToo-era organization founded by Hollywood women to fight sexual harassment, resigned under fire Monday for advising Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration behind the scenes in its effort to discredit one of Cuomo’s accusers.”
• Vietnam concerned over vaccine supply as COVID-19 cases near record -- “The country has recorded more than 246,500 infections, the overwhelming majority of those since late April.”