Happy Friday, everyone! We’re celebrating Paul Bunyan Day with a list of random facts about the tales of the mighty lumberjack compiled by somebody else.
Pat Conroy
- Georgia’s heartbeat bill has now been challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood.
- Meanwhile, Warner Brothers is moving a Clint Eastwood movie to Georgia for production, citing authenticity, despite the calls for boycotting the state.
- There has been a Hepatitis A outbreak in northwest Georgia, affecting more than 200 people.
- The U.S. Census Bureau is predicting Georgia will be a majority-minority state in nine years.
Alice Walker
- The second group of (randomly selected) Democrats debated last night. Kamala Harris was not having what Joe Biden was serving.
- Trump has publicly told Putin not to meddle in the 2020 election.
- The FDA has expanded its recall of blood pressure drugs.
- The Supreme Court will hear the Dreamers case next term.
- Meanwhile, the Court refused to hear a case on the Alabama abortion ban, which remains blocked.
- The Court also has allowed partisan gerrymandering to continue while blocking the citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
- White supremacist propaganda is up for a third year on college campuses across the country.
Flannery O’Connor
- Sounds from a distant galaxy: radio pulses several billion light years away was picked up by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
- People share really odd stuff online – particularly their “talents”.