Caring -- mind, body & spirit
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| FAMILY |
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| EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE |
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| EDUCATION |
DRESS CODE FIGHTS ROIL SCHOOLS AND COURTS: Increasingly
vocal students who say their schools' dress codes discriminate against girls —
and take to social media to amplify their complaints — likely will find little
help from the federal government. The Education Department's civil rights
office has rarely investigated complaints about unfair dress codes — under both
Republican and Democratic administrations. That's because the Reagan
administration scrapped a line in the department's Title IX regulations that
said schools can't "discriminate against any person in the application of
any rules of appearance."
— The move essentially pushed dress codes off the radar of
federal civil rights investigators in the Education Department,
meaning students who want to challenge their schools' policies have mostly had
to do so in court. And schools facing lawsuits have pointed to the Reagan
administration's decision to defend their dress codes, arguing federal Title IX
regulations say nothing about dress codes.
— Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties
Union, are making the case in court that many schools have dress
codes that violate Title IX because they unfairly target girls, especially
girls of color. [POLITICO's Morning Education, May 29,
2018]
INTERNET GROUP WEIGHS IN AT FEC — The Internet
Association is giving its views on the Federal Election Commission's dueling proposals for disclosures by online political ads. The trade group,
which represents tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter, says neither
alternative is optimal, but prefers the approach backed by Republican FEC
Chairwoman Caroline Hunter. That would let advertisers link to a disclaimer
(i.e. "Paid for by X"), if the disclaimer message takes up more than
10 percent of the ad. IA called that a "far more suitable approach with
respect to audio and video on the internet" and said it "will allow
the Commission's regulations to remain relevant as technologies and innovations
in content delivery evolve on the internet." [POLITICO's Morning
Tech, May 29, 2018]
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| PUBLIC LANDS |
It was unprecedented when Trump SLASHED
the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National
monuments. And now, The New York Times is
reporting that it happened only so giant corporations could drill for oil and
gas!
But we shouldn’t be surprised – Trump’s
administration is FULL of corruption. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt alone are both facing CASCADES of ethics
complaints.
Our public lands are PUBLIC treasures,
not lots to be auctioned off to Big Oil and Big Gas in backroom deals.
Friends of the Earth is leading the fight to stop fossil fuel extraction on
our public lands – but right now, we’re planning our strategy and
need the input of 30,000 grassroots activists by midnight tonight:
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| MARIJUANA |
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| HEALTHCARE |
TRUMP: 'MY TWO ALEXES' HAVE 'PHENOMENAL PLANS' COMING SOON
— President Donald Trump on Tuesday night teased that HHS Secretary
Alex Azar and Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will soon announce health plans.
"I have my two Alexes ... coming out with plans that are
phenomenal plans, phenomenal plans," the president said in a rally in
Nashville. "They'll be out over the next four weeks [and] it's going to
cover a tremendous amount of territory." See 48-second clip.
— What the president could've been
referencing. Trump specifically mentioned association
health plans, which would let small businesses and trade groups band together
to buy health care. The Trump administration also is expected to finalize its
regulations on short-term health plans.
Both association and short-term health plans could allow for
cheaper coverage options that are exempt from certain Obamacare patient
protections and benefit rule. However, insurance companies and policy experts
have warned that the new plans could be poorly regulated, destabilize the
individual insurance market and put patients at risk. [POLITICO Pulse, May 30, 2018]
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| READ |
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| WOMEN’S RIGHTS = HUMAN RIGHTS |
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| JEFFERSON BEAUREGARD SESSIONS III Attorney General |
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| PUTIN |
PORTER'S SWAN SONG: The U.S. income gap
is "problematic" and an impediment to national prosperity, Eduardo
Porter argued Tuesday in his final "Economic Scene" column in the New
York Times.
"The children of poverty who survive will
most likely hobble through life with mediocre educations," Porter writes,
"lagging their more affluent peers even before their first day in school
and then falling farther behind, deprived of the resources that disadvantaged
children in other advanced nations routinely enjoy."
"Unequipped to cope with the demands of a
labor market in furious transformation, they will give 'social mobility' a new,
all-American meaning," writes Porter, "the tendency to move in and
out of prison. It's hard to believe any country could waste so many resources
and prosper." Morning Shift will miss Porter's fine column, which had a
six-year run in the Times business section. [POLITICO's
Morning Shift, May 30, 2018]
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| POLITICS |
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| JAMES MATTIS Secretary of Defense |
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| RACE |
STARBUCKS WORKERS LINK RACE AND WAGES: Minority
employees at a Starbucks in Miami International Airport demanded higher wages
Tuesday, the same day the company shut stores nationwide for anti-bias
training. Workers pushed for a $5 hourly boost at an impromptu press conference
organized by Unite Here. (The airport's Starbucks, operated by a subcontractor,
did not close down for training).
Unite Here spokeswoman
Rachel Gumpert said Starbucks should prove its commitment to racial
justice by raising wages for its workforce, which is 43 percent minority.
"Starbucks is wading into racial justice territory without doing justice
by its black workers," said Gumpert. The company did not respond to
request for comment [POLITICO's Morning Shift,
May 30,2018]
SANOFI -- the maker
of Ambien -- on ROSEANNE BARR blaming her racist
comment on using the drug: "People of all races, religions and
nationalities work at Sanofi every day to improve the lives of people around
the world. While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not
a known side effect of any Sanofi medication." [Playbook Power Briefing, May 30, 2018]
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| SCREEN |
‘YOU CAN’T CONTROL ROSEANNE
BARR,’ ABC/Disney president Ben Sherwood told the New York Times in March after the
comedian tweeted a bizarre right-wing conspiracy theory that President Donald
Trump is secretly disrupting a Democratic-tied, child sex-trafficking ring. And
Barr’s toxic Twitter feed was a punchline just two weeks ago at ABC’s Upfront event,
with the comedian introducing Sherwood as “the guy who really writes most of my
tweets.”
— But you can cancel Barr’s
show, “Roseanne,” as the network proved Tuesday following
widespread condemnation of her racist tweet directed at former Obama
adviser Valerie Jarrett. Barr wrote that Jarrett, who is black, could be the
baby of the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes.” ABC Entertainment
president Channing Dungey said Barr’s comment was “abhorrent, repugnant and
inconsistent with our values” and announced the show was done.
— ABC responded swiftly to
the Jarrett tweet, but it wasn’t the only problematic post Tuesday. Barr also
tweeted a conspiracy theory about liberal philanthropist George Soros that was amplified by Donald Trump Jr. And Barr
has made racist cracks before, such as tweeting in 2013 that Obama national
security adviser Susan Rice, who is also black, is a “man with big swinging ape
balls.” Fox News anchor Shep Smith noted Tuesday that “it's not as if ABC
did not know it had a show whose star is racist.”
— The network nevertheless rebooted “Roseanne,” part of a post-2016
election strategyto reach Trump voters. The ratings were very strong
out of the gate, and Barr’s reckless rants on Twitter could presumably be
tolerated while she was good for business — until finally she wasn’t. As
POLITICO’s Jason Schwartz writes,
“The fallout of a damaging social media campaign or advertiser boycott could do
far more harm than Trump to a company as large as Disney.” [Morning Media,
May 30, 2018]
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