Ezra Miller, Elephants + More News Stories

Some news items you might have missed: • LGBTQ Nation: Police in Stamford, Vermont charged non-binary actor Ezra Miller with felony burglary for allegedly stealing bottles of liquor from a man’s home. This is just the latest in a string of legal troubles for the actor. • WJLA: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin believes school teachers should out students to their parents.

Teachers aren’t allowed to inform parents of their kids’ sexual orientation & gender identity without student permission in many Virginia school districts, including Fairfax & Loudoun Counties.

Will Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Board of Ed change that? We askedhttps://t.co/v5HJH02bs0 — Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 9, 2022

• CBS News: A unanimous three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the House Ways and Means Committee can obtain several years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Expect the Donald to appeal. • Raw Story: Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano reportedly ended his interview with the January 6 committee regarding his actions at the Capitol building just 15 minutes having answered zero questions.

GOP’s Doug Mastriano abruptly ends Jan. 6 interview after refusing to answer ‘a single question’: report https://t.co/Buy2e5EJ19

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 9, 2022

• Washington Post: A church in Texas produced a production of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton in which the characters Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler Hamilton talked about how Jesus “saved” them. It was followed with a sermon with language that compared being gay to alcohol and drug addiction. • NPR: 34-year-old elephant Nam Pheung visits an ice cream vendor after spending a day being photographed with tourists at a park in Ayutthaya province, Thailand.⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDsvogtlNy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link