Some news items you might have missed:
• Arizona Mirror: Republicans in the Arizona state Senate have introduced a bill that would bar teachers from using the pronouns or names that a student requests unless written parental permission is obtained first.
• Mississippi Free Press: A bill that would prohibit transgender minors from accessing trans-inclusive health care could become law after the Mississippi House passed it by 78-28 vote this afternoon.
Terrible.
Mississippi rushes a ban on gender affirming care through its state house.
It is now the first trans medical ban on trans youth to pass a full state house this year.
Mississippi could be the first gender affirming care ban enacted in 2023.https://t.co/1e4iYEBAgr
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) January 20, 2023
• New York Times: A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump and one of his lawyers together to pay nearly a million dollars in sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit against nearly three dozen of Trump’s perceived political enemies, including Hillary Clinton.
• NBC News: Richard Barnett, on trial for his part in the invasion of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, now says he regrets participating in the violent insurrection. #OfCourseHeDoes
“I shouldn’t have put my feet on the desk,” said the Arkansas man photographed on Jan. 6 with his feet up in then-Speaker Pelosi’s office.
“I regret going … It was not what I expected or worth two years of lost life for me and my family.” https://t.co/oqSmwm8MbW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 20, 2023
• Axios: Iowa House Republicans are proposing restrictions on the state’s food stamp benefits including no white rice, no sliced cheese and no fresh meats.
• Politico: Admitted liar Rep. George Santos (R-NY) denies ever being in drag but a Wikipedia entry credited to “Anthony Devolder” in 2011 bragged that he not only participated in drag shows but won several pageants.
George Santos has claimed that reports of him performing in drag are “categorically false.”
But in a 2011 Wiki post under an alias name, he appears to have confirmed that he participated in drag shows as a teen and claimed to win several pageants. https://t.co/qVd3jzKw38
— POLITICO (@politico) January 20, 2023