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Good morning, Portland! And happy Last Day of Summer, whatever that means these days.
Here are the headlines!
⢠In case you missed this enraging news yesterday: A Newberg School District staffer went to school in blackface last week (?), claiming to be dressing as Rosa Parks (??) to protest the district's vaccine mandate for school staffers (???). Everything's going great at the Newberg School District!
Here you can hear from the local reporter who's been breaking all the Newberg news lately:
Hereâs tonightâs episode of @TheStoryKGW, where @HaggertyNews and I discuss the Newberg Blackface incident.
â Ryan Clarke (@RyanTClarke) September 21, 2021
Dan connects the last monthâs worth of stories to this inflection point, and points out the absurdity of it all. Show starts around the 15:00 mark. https://t.co/kcSsPGf2z6
⢠Yesterday, a Multnomah County judge ruled that the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) acted illegally when live-streaming protests last summer, because of a law prohibiting cops from surveilling people who are not suspected of a specific crime. "Standing up to injustice is important to me; having my own government deliberately put me at risk for broadcasting my location and political stance â known as âdoxxingâ â is unbelievable," one protester suing PPB said in a press release.
⢠Texas' new six-week abortion ban relies on vigilante citizens to sue abortion doctors for its enforcementâand we now have our first lawsuit of this nature. Texas doctor Alan Braid publicly admitted to violating the ban, and is now being sued by an Arkansas lawyer with a history of tax evasion. In a Washington Post op-ed, Braid said the move was part of a legal strategy, writing that "I fully understood that there could be legal consequencesâbut I wanted to make sure that Texas didn't get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested."
⢠Absolutely shameful:
The White House condemned the use of a whip-like cord against Haitian migrants near a riverside camp in Texas. Reuters witnesses saw a U.S. border guard on horseback unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face https://t.co/pma6y9RJVq pic.twitter.com/KMSGGJPEx2
â Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2021
⢠Up in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau narrowly won a third term in a "snap parliamentary election" last nightâbut Trudeau failed to secure a parliamentary majority for his Liberal Party.
⢠Johnson & Johnson has been working on a two-dose version of its COVID-19 vaccine, and now says it has developed one that is 94 percent effective against symptomatic infection.
⢠Abolish Facebook:
During a meeting in Washington, D.C. in 2019, Mark Zuckerberg agreed to not fact-check political posts if the Trump admin would steer clear of any âheavy-handed regulations,â venture capitalist Peter Thiel told an associate, according to a new book. https://t.co/fHlR5K2LK0
â The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 20, 2021
⢠The Oregon Legislature has been trying to draw up a new Congressional map following the 2020 Censusâbut Democrats and Republicans have been unable to work together, with Republicans stalling the process and claiming the majority Democrats' plan would unfairly favor their party. Yesterday, House Speaker Tina Kotek went back on a deal that allowed Republican input on the redistricting, so now Democrats will have the power. Get ready for another Republican walkout!
⢠At Oregon State University, ticket sales and attendance for football games has fallen drastically this year, following a requirement that all attendees be vaccinated against COVID or have a recent negative test.
⢠And finally: I have never in my life watched a single segment of Dancing With the Stars, but that doesn't mean I'm not stoked that the show finally got gay.
jojo siwa looks so cute omg they got my vote pic.twitter.com/MrjpPlA2ga
â athena (@mymyatwaterIoo) September 21, 2021