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☆ Canada Supreme Court justice on indefinite paid leave after he had a fight in Arizona hotel over his alleged 'creepy' behavior toward female guests while drunk
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Canadian Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown is on paid leave after he got into fight while on vacation. Brown allegedly drunkenly followed guests from the hotel bar back to their rooms, per a police report. The Justice was reportedly punched twice in the face during an altercation with one guest he followed. Crump and representatives for the Supreme Court of Canada did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. The police report continued: "To protect the women and to prevent the drunk, creepy, unwanted male from entering the hotel room uninvited Crump punched the male a few times."
☆ A Tennessee high school club tried to put up flyers for transgender awareness month. The school said they were illegal.
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A school club in Tennessee tried to put a flyer that defined the word "transgender" in November. But the principal of Northeast High School rejected it, a 17-year-old member of the club said. After the poster was rejected, Elizabeth came up with other ideas in an effort to get the word out about Transgender Awareness Month. Elizabeth said the experience raised her awareness about the extent to which trans rights are threatened in the state of Tennessee. The Tennessee law is part of a wave of legistion focused on trans people largely fueled by anti-LGBTQ sentiment in the United States.
☆ Memphis drag queen fears Tennessee drag ban bill would empower strangers to call the cops on her for how she dresses
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A bill that would outlaw drag is poised to head to Tennessee Gov. Bella DuBalle, a Memphis-based drag queen, said the bill is "terrifying" and puts her at risk. The bill identifies "male and female impersonators" — drag kings and drag queens — as adult cabaret performers. Tennessee's public drag ban proposal is one of the latest anti-LGBTQ bills making their way through legislatures across the country. Outside of drag, DuBalle identifies as nonbinary and said she worries the way she dresses could run her afoul of the law if it's passed.
☆ I've taught a racial justice unit at a Christian college in Florida for 12 years. Now an angry parent might get me fired.
  + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
A Florida professor says his job is in jeopardy after a parent complained about a racial justice unit in his writing course. Sam Joeckel has incorporated a racial justice unit into his writing course for 12 years. I've been teaching a racial justice unit in my English classes at the Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida for 12 years. And then, when we finally do get to the racial justice unit, he asks me just a few questions that he has in his notes. He didn't voice any concern during that meeting about the racial justice unit.
☆ An Oklahoma teacher faced death threats after she helped students access banned books. She says she's more scared for students than for herself.
  + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
An Oklahoma teacher who helped students access banned books faced death threats. Summer Boismier left her teaching job and now works at the Brooklyn Public Library. The threats still rattle her, but she's more worried that teens and kids are losing access to books. Boismier resigned from her teaching job and moved 1,500 miles away from her home to Brooklyn, New York, where she began working for the Brooklyn Public Library. That alone shows how much of a demand there is for legislators to stop censoring books, Boismier said.
☆ A South Dakota mom says she has to drive 230 miles to seek gender-affirming care for her 13-year-old trans kid
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed a bill that bans gender-affirming health care for trans youth. To get gender-affirming care for her son, she now has to drive more than 230 miles out of state. South Dakota Gov. The family also has deep ties to South Dakota, and their 7-year-old child is comfortable and settled in the state.
☆ Iowa now has its own version of a 'Don't Say Gay' bill, requiring parental consent for nicknames that don't match a kid's 'biological sex'
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Iowa lawmakers are considering a bill to limit gender identity and expression in the classroom. The bill is similar to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" legislation, which forbids discussion of gender expression, identity, and sexual orientation in kindergarten classrooms through third grade. The text of the "Don't Say Gay" bill specifies that such discussions are not "age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students." The Iowa law would prohibit the discussion of gender identity from kindergarten through third grade. Limits on gender expression in the classroom can create a culture of fear, she said.
☆ I'm a 17-year-old trans kid in Utah, and I'm uprooting my life because of a law that bans gender-affirming care
  + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Luka, a 17-year-old trans kid living in Utah, is moving to Portland to evade the ramifications. Then I learned I'm trans. They really, really helped me figure out who I am and helped me feel comfortable living as who I am. So I'm planning to leave Utah. So I'm making the decision to leave Utah as soon as I can.
☆ Here's everything you need to know about the history and meaning of drag
  + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Drag culture has centuries of history behind it, from Ancient Greece to the Harlem Renaissance. Here's a guide to drag culture in the US and how what it means today. But in drag, cis men don't have to present as women, and cis women don't have to present as men. But at the end of the day, Giuliani wasn't actually participating in drag culture, Walsh said. There's been a lot of grassroots-level organization around drag recently, Walsh said, partly in response to the uptick in violence against drag culture.
☆ I'm a Florida teacher who's been forced to cover up the books in my classroom. Here's why I'm suing Ron DeSantis.
  + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
This year, a new law in Florida requires that all books in public schools be vetted for children. High school social studies teacher Don Falls said he covered up his books to comply with the law. The district recently began implementing a new Florida law requiring all books in a public school to be vetted by a trained media specialist. Many teachers, including Falls, chose to cover un-vetted books in their classrooms rather than remove them. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis openly said in his swearing-in inauguration that this is the state where woke goes to die.
☆ Nearly 70% of all reported sexual assaults on US cruises since 2010 happened on ships run by Royal Caribbean or Carnival
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Carnival Cruise Line has the most reported sexual assaults since 2010, DOT data shows. But Carnival, with a fraction of Royal's fleet size, has recorded nearly double the number of reported sexual assaults aboard its ships since 2010. On Royal Caribbean and Carnival cruises, an overwhelming majority, or 82%, of the reported sexual assaults were found to have been committed by passengers, data showed. DOT data revealed that the majority of reported sexual assaults on Princess Cruises were attributed to crew members. A 2013 congressional report found that up to a third of reported sexual assaults aboard cruise ships involved minors.
☆ A passenger alleges she got HIV after being raped by a Princess Cruises crew member
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
A woman sued Princess Cruises on January 3, alleging she was raped by a crew member on a ship. Princess faced a similar lawsuit in 2019 by a woman who alleged she was raped by a crew member. Princess Cruises did not immediately return Insider's request for comment. The majority of all reported sexual assaults aboard a Princess Cruises vessel since 2010 involved a crew member, according to Insider's analysis. Of 17 reported sexual-assault incidents since January 2010, Princess Cruises employees were accused in 15 cases — or about 90% of them, DOT data shows.
☆ 'The beginning of another kind of pandemic': Burned-out nurses say staffing shortages are only getting worse
  + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
New York nurses are celebrating after a strike resulted in an agreement to improve staffing ratios. Staffing ratios help nurses provide patients with proper nursing care as they need it. Last week, more than 7,000 nurses walked out of hospitals in New York over demands for better pay and safer staffing. At that point, patient care can become compromised because nurses may not be able to respond to the needs quickly enough. The fewer nurses there are in a given hospital, the more those nurses are asked to work overtime.
☆ Alabama's attorney general threatened to prosecute people seeking abortion pills. A day later, he walked it back.
  + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he'd prosecute people who take abortion pills. A day later, Marshall walked back his remarks and said only abortion providers would be prosecuted. Prosecuting people for taking abortion pills would not have been legal in the state of Alabama, civil-rights experts told Insider. The FDA authorized brick-and-mortar pharmacies across the country to pursue certification to carry abortion pills, a move that could expand abortion access nationwide. Kay Ivey in 2019, specifically says abortion providers can be held criminally liable, but people who get abortions cannot be.
☆ Frogs freeze their bodies and platypuses detect electric fields: Here are 10 incredible ways animals survive treacherous environments
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Molly Sequin | Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Wood frogs freeze their bodies. Nikola SolicTo survive the winter, up to 60 percent of Alaskan wood frogs' bodies freeze solid. This allows them to survive temperatures as low as -80 degrees Fahrenheit. To achieve this semi-frozen state, the frogs build up high concentrations of glucose (up to 10 times the normal amount) in their organs and tissues. The sugar solutes act as "cryoprotectants," preventing their cells from shrinking or dying.
☆ A New York man was unwittingly scammed out of his childhood home. For 12 years, he fought to regain control. He's now facing eviction: 'I want my house back'
  + stars: | 2022-10-04 | by ( Molly Grace | Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Since he was a child, the home was a site of cookouts and family gatherings, Jackson told Insider. Since he was a child, the home was the site of cookouts and family gatherings, Jackson told Insider. That's when he drove out to his local district attorney's office. He told the Nassau County district attorney's office what happened, and the office referred it to the US Attorney's Office, his lawyers told Insider. When reached for comment, a spokesperson for the Nassau County district attorney's office said records prior to 2011 have been destroyed.
☆ Trump's high-profile deposition could be delayed because he's holed up at Mar-a-Lago as Hurricane Ian batters Florida
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The lawsuit accuses Trump of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme. Trump's legal team fired back a response to Quinn and his team on Wednesday, accusing them of making "disingenuous and misleading statements" and attempting to cancel the deposition. Trump's team also asked that the deposition be conducted remotely to meet the court's deadline for discovery. It's unclear if Trump's legal team will shift the deposition's location to Bedminster or if they will ask to hold it at a later date. Trump raked in $8.8 million from a multi-level marketing company, ACN, between 2005 and 2015.
☆ Mike Pence's former chief of staff said it's 'absurd' that Donald Trump thinks he can declassify documents by 'thinking about it'
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A former Mike Pence aide said it's "absurd" that Donald Trump claimed he can declassify documents with his mind. "If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, 'It's declassified,'" Trump said earlier this week. Marc Short, who served as Pence's chief of staff in the White House, said his claim is "absurd" in an interview with CBS News. Trump has so far denied all assertions of wrongdoing, saying initially that he had "declassified" the documents. Under the Presidential Records Act, presidential records must be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration upon leaving office.
☆ GOP Sen. Ted Cruz doubles down on his anti-gun control stance: Violence 'is actually the only thing that does' stop violence, he told crowd at event
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Sen. Ted Cruz reiterated his stance against gun control on Saturday at the Texas Tribune Festival. Addressing a crowd, Cruz suggested violence is the "only" thing that stops violence. There have been hundreds of mass shootings in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive. President Joe Biden after the shooting urged Congress to act on gun control legislation. There have been hundreds of mass shootings in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which collects statistics on gun-related injuries or deaths.
☆ A QAnon supporter who told police to 'go arrest the vice president' at the Capitol riot and then scaled the walls of the Capitol building and chased an officer up a staircase has been convicted for Ja
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Douglas Jensen of Iowa was convicted on Friday for his participation in the Capitol riot, the AP reported. Jensen showed up at the riot wearing a shirt that showed his support of the QAnon movement. He showed up at the riot wearing a T-shirt that had a "Q" on it, representative of his commitment to the QAnon movement, they alleged. In the midst of the scene, he also told officers to "go arrest the vice president," prosecutors said, per the AP. Two days after the riot, Jensen turned himself in to the Des Moines Police Department because "he thought he was in trouble," the statement of facts says.
☆ A Colorado man who showed up to the Capitol riot wearing a 'Guns don't kill people, Clintons do' shirt and got into a 'tug-of-war' with police received a 30-month prison sentence
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Thomas Patrick Hamner from Colorado was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his participation in the Capitol riot. Hamner showed up to the riot with a "Guns don't kill people, Clintons do" shirt. At the riot, he engaged in a "tug-of-war" with officers over a bike rack being used as a barricade, the DOJ said. Hamner showed up to the riot wearing a "Guns don't kill people, Clintons do" shirt, according to evidence compiled by investigators. The Capitol riot left five people, including one police officer, dead.
☆ A former federal prosecutor says he's waiting to see Trump punished for inciting the Capitol riot because his 'foot soldiers' who showed up on January 6 have been convicted and imprisoned
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Glenn Kirschner said he's waiting for Donald Trump to face consequences for his role in the Capitol riot. Kirschner, speaking on MSNBC, said he's watched his "foot solders" get tried and imprisoned. But Donald Trump "hasn't had one moment of accountability visit him yet," he said. He added, "You know, Donald Trump, who gave the order, he has a tee time virtually every morning and is enjoying his liberty. He hasn't had one moment of accountability visit him yet and let's hope to heck that change after the midterms."
☆ Ex-prosecutor: Trump 'can hire lawyers that will wear down the government' and get away with 'damage' while low-level crimes are prosecuted 'aggressively'
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Ex-prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, a frequent Trump critic, said "ruling class criminals" use their resources to escape accountability. He told MSNBC that people like Trump escape any serious repercussions while low-level crimes are prosecuted aggressively. "We seem to only hold folks accountable for those low-level crimes where the damage is discrete as opposed to the ruling class criminals," he said. Kirschner continued by saying that a group of individuals that he refers to as "ruling class criminals" use their resources to get them out of trouble. ... We seem to only hold folks accountable for those low-level crimes where the damage is discrete as opposed to the ruling class criminals."
☆ Trump thought he'd be assassinated after he authorized the deadly drone strike that killed top Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani: book
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trump worried that he'd be assassinated by the Iranian government for authorizing a strike that killed the Iranian military commander. Trump told several of his Florida friends about his fears at a cocktail party, two journalists wrote in an upcoming book. In public, though, Trump bragged about the strike, saying he took out a "noted terrorist." Trump told several confidantes about his fear, according to a report from The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of the forthcoming book "The Divider" by journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker. In public, though, Trump talked up the drone strike to Republican donors in Florida, recounting the minutes that led up to the deadly event.
☆ Trump often candidly criticized women politicians for their looks, saying Nikki Haley has a 'complexion problem' and claiming Nancy Pelosi got 'plastic surgery': book
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trump openly criticized Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi for their appearances, according to an upcoming book. And he said Pelosi is "an example of why women should be careful about plastic surgery," per the book. And he said he "would not pick Nikki Haley, his United Nations ambassador, as a running mate because she had a 'complexion problem.'" In 2020, for example, Trump shared a series of messages aiming insulting and sexist jabs at Hillary Clinton and Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams. We're not going to have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president, we're not gonna have it, we're not gonna put up with it," Trump said.
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