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Dem Lawmaker Touts Mutilation of Children as ‘Safe and Effective’
A Democratic state lawmaker took to social media on Tuesday and urged Michigan children to reach out to her office if they want to undergo gender-changing surgery.
Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) urged Michigan children who are confused about their gender to reach out to her office.
Her announcement comes after the University of Michigan stated its health centers would no longer be providing transition surgeries and hormone treatments for minors. “The University of Michigan, including Michigan Medicine, is one of multiple institutions across the country that has received a federal subpoena as part of a criminal and civil investigation into gender-affirming care for minors.
In light of that investigation, and given escalating external threats and risks, we will no longer provide gender affirming hormonal therapies and puberty blocker medications for minors.” Click here to read more.
Illinois lowers standards making more students seem “proficient”
Most Illinois students are struggling to read or do math at grade level on their end of year state assessments. The State Board of Education’s solution? Lower the standards.
The board of education approved a plan to lower the scores needed to be considered proficient in reading and math on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness. It also determined the scores needed to be considered proficient in reading and math for 11th graders as the state moves from the SAT to ACT as the state-required assessment for high school students.
The most recent state data available shows only 41% of students in third through eighth grade could read at grade level in 2024 and just 31% in 11th grade. In math, 28% of third through eighth graders were proficient and 26% of 11th graders
New proficiency rates will be implemented on the 2025 Illinois Report card released in October, leaving Illinoisans unable to compare scores to previous years’ proficiency rates.
Lowering proficiency benchmarks will inflate the percentage of students meeting proficiency standards this year and moving forward, but it will do little to improve students’ actual performance in core subjects. Click here to read more.
Users Sue Amazon Prime Video for Removing Media Purchases from Their Library
Users have been “purchasing” media on Prime Video (movies, television shows) only to realize months later that their purchases no longer exists in their media library. That’s because Amazon only sells a limited-time license to its users so that they watch the movie in perpetuity until the company loses the rights.
If the tech giant loses the rights to that version, the movie can be replaced with a different cut, like the one for theaters. And if Amazon loses the rights to the film altogether, it’ll completely disappear from the viewer’s library.
So should Amazon be able to say a consumer is “buying” that movie? Some people don’t think so, and they’ve turned to court.
Filed on Friday in Washington federal court, the class action lawsuit accuses Amazon of doing a “bait and switch” to mislead consumers into a “purchasing” media they do not actually own under false labels.
“On its website and platform, the company tells consumers they can ‘buy’ a movie. But hidden in a footnote on the confirmation page is fine print that says, ‘You receive a license to the video and you agree to our terms,’ the complaint says,'” noted the outlet. Click here to read more.
Federal appeals court says misdated ballots still valid
Ballots returned to county election offices with incorrect or missing dates still count as valid, according to a federal opinion issued Tuesday.
A three-panel judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit said Pennsylvania’s mandate that mail-in votes with dating errors must be set aside violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
The unanimous decision found that leaning on dates to “back stop” failures with the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors, or SURE, “betrays a misunderstanding of Pennsylvania’s election laws.”
“While the Commonwealth has raised legitimate interests related to voting, we see only tangential links, at best, between these interests and the date requirement that Pennsylvania imposes on mail-in voters,” the panel wrote. “The date requirement does not play a role in election administration, nor does it contribute an added measure of solemnity beyond that created by a signature. And only in the exceedingly rare circumstance does it contribute to the prosecution of voter fraud.” Click here to read more.
School bus monitor sent to the ER with bite marks after being attacked by a student and her mom
A school bus monitor in Louisiana was sent to the emergency room after she was allegedly attacked by a student and her mother.
The attack was caught on camera.
It happened on Thursday on an Orleans Parish school bus.
Video shows a McDonogh 35 High School student and her mother beating the bus monitor, who appears to fight back.
The bus monitor’s husband, Johnny Jackson, said she was sent to the emergency room with multiple injuries, including bite marks.
“What’s happening with our youth? How disrespectful our youth have become ... and rebellious,” Jackson said.
Jackson said the student and her mother attacked his wife, Tamika Jackson, while she was working her shift as a monitor on the school bus. Click here to read more.
