Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• ACC to relocate athletic championships from North Carolina
• SoCon suggests it may move hoops from North Carolina
• Court denies Virginia GOP's challenge on felon voting rights
• Serbian transgender army veteran celebrates new beginnings
• Man sentenced in $31 million mortgage scam conspiracy case
• McCartney, Starr reunite on blue carpet for Beatles documentary

Bad News

• Transgender patients face fear and stigma in the doctor's office

Today's news round-up

Good News

• US Army gives combat medics new type of tourniquet
• 'Bea Arthur' LGBT Homeless Shelter Slated for Completion in Feb. 2017
• We will rock you: ​Asteroid named after late singer Freddie Mercury

Bad News

• Video shows vandals destroying popular Oregon rock formation
• 40 killed in wave of bombings targeting government-allied parts of Syria

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Clinton leads Trump by eight points: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• Illinois latest state to expand domestic workers' rights
• Hundreds protest in Istanbul over transgender woman's murder
• Ole Miss won’t play 'Dixie' at football games anymore: What changed?
• Libyan forces say they capture mosque, prison from Islamic State in Sirte

Bad News

• Egypt state TV orders female hosts to lose weight
• 'Un-Islamic' cultural heritage in jihadists' crosshairs
• Galaxy’s Robbie Rogers says opponent used homophobic slur
• Man accused of unprovoked attack on interracial couple
• An Ethiopian medalist just led a protest that could land him in jail

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Bud Light Appears To Pull Sponsorship Of Ted Nugent Concert
• Egypt military says killed leader of Islamic State in Sinai

Bad News

• High court: School can block transgender teen from boys room
• Ugandan police break up gay pride event, briefly arrest some
• Bangladesh shuts 'objectionable' news sites

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Court strikes down "discriminatory" North Carolina voter ID law
• Kansas: Kobach will not appeal ruling on voting rights
• U.S. judge strikes down parts of Wisconsin voter ID law: report
• The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign This guy is a total amateur. He gets nothing in writing, and falls for the "great exposure" crap. As performers I know say, "People die from exposure." But this is straight from the Trump playbook: Stiff the little people. See below:
• Judge orders Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees in Doral painter’s lawsuit
• Congresswoman Trolls Melania Trump By Wearing Her Dress To DNC Hilarious!
• With Degree Debunked, Melania Trump Website Is Taken Down
• Former St. Louis police officer gets 52 months in prison for punching handcuffed man
• 6 public workers charged in Flint water crisis
• Russian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics for doping

Slightly Good News

• Turkey's Erdogan dropping lawsuits for insults against him I'm guessing most of the people he's suing have already been dismissed from their jobs. They wouldn't have any money to pay him even if he won. "Insulting" a politician should not be illegal. But as I keep saying, Turkey is not a democracy.

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Washington State: I-1515, the 'bathroom initiative,' fails to make November ballot
• Same-sex couples win birth certificate lawsuit
• Mike Huckabee paying $25,000 for playing 'Eye of the Tiger'
• Iraq PM says key base taken back from Islamic State
• Islamic State conflict: Nato surveillance planes to help US-led coalition

Bad News

• Ohio: Bakery takes online heat for refusing same-sex pair The refusal is bad. The heat is good.
• Texas: Pride picnic postponed after group says they received threat of violence

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• 2 years in prison for man who sent spam to Facebook users
• Bill Gates endorses genetically modified mosquitoes to combat malaria
• Apple cites Trump as it turns its back on GOP convention, says report

Bad News

• Obama says climate change already damaging national parks
• Egyptian court sentences 2 Al-Jazeera employees to death
• Radiohead fans attacked at Istanbul record shop

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Intel Chief Defends Rights of Transgender Community
• Drummer Defends Stanford Student Convicted in Rape Case. Her Band Pays a Price. What she doesn't seem to understand is that this type of rape is just as bad as someone dragging a struggling victim off and assaulting them.
• Federal judge bars Alabama from blocking gay marriage
• 14-Year-Old Transgender Girl Shares Inspirational Story of Overcoming Her Bullies
• 5 Rikers Officers Convicted in Beating of Inmate
• Washington's National Cathedral to remove Confederate flags from windows
• Iraqi Troops Enter Southern Fallujah for First Time in 2 Years
• Libyan forces enter main Islamic State bastion

Bad News

• Singapore Has Told Foreign Companies to Stop Sponsoring an Annual LGBT Event
• Black students more likely to be suspended: U.S. Education Department
• Pakistani teen burnt alive by her mother for choosing own husband

Today's news round-up

Good News    

• Top U.S. auctioneers refused to sell gun from Trayvon Martin shooting
• Man Pleads Guilty After Pulling Woman’s Hijab Off on Plane
• Anti-Abortion Laws Don’t Reduce Abortion Rates, But Birth Control Does
• UK man jailed for IS-inspired plot to attack US troops
• 5 Boko Haram leaders arrested; dozens of captives freed
• Sweet Honey in the Rock protesting during NC shows
• Event celebrates Salt Lake City street named for Harvey Milk
• Chicago mayor to replace police review board with more independent watchdog
• Walter Scott family attorney: Federal charges against Michael Slager could be a ‘turning point in history’
• Barber arrested for pulling gun on customer, says he 'doesn't cut black hair'  It's good he was arrested.

Bad News

• Police responded to 17,000 calls to Tampa Bay Walmarts in a single year, taxpayers pick up the bill I've said many times that Walmart is dangerous. In addition, it's expensive to the taxpayers--even the ones who don't shop there.

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Alabama chief justice faces ouster after gay marriage fight
• WGA Panel Sees More Viewer And Network Acceptance of LGBT Themes

Bad News

• North Carolina lawmaker dismisses U.S. deadline to change bathroom law
• Girl says she was thrown out of her prom for wearing a suit
• Egyptian court recommends death penalty for journalists, Mursi verdict postponed
• Turkey jails Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul
• Rolling Stones get no satisfaction from Trump on song ban
• Polish government to take control of WWII museum

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Jacksonville Sheriff officer arrested, fired for punching woman in handcuffs
• 'Lost' Medieval Music Performed for First Time in 1,000 Years

Bad News

• Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races
• Rare IS group bombings in southern Iraq kill 33
• Turkey: 'IS' link to deadly Gaziantep blast

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Obama plans 250 more U.S. troops for Syria, boosting force to 300
• Bangladesh police arrest student over professor's murder

Bad News

• Gov. Scott Vetoes Popular Dental Care Bill for Poor Floridians
• Dutch journalist detained in Turkey for Erdogan tweet Turkey is not a democracy.
• Eurovision Song Contest Entrant Suffers Homophobic Treatment In Russian Airport

I ♥ NYC

H/T Signe Pierce

Cartoon of the day

These guys are great!

Some of the musicians in the subway are wonderful.

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Pearl Jam, Boston cancel N.C. concerts over anti-LGBT law
• Tennessee: Transgender bathroom bill dead for year
• Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti pledges to protect transgender people's rights
• New York City cracks down on 'upskirting" crimes against women
• High Desert State Prison trainee charged in 2014 shooting death of inmate
• US to Send 200 More Troops to Fight ISIS in Iraq
• Report: Islamic State Annual Revenue Down Nearly 30 Percent
• Nigerian forces repel Boko Haram attack near Niger border: army

Bad News

• UPDATE: Police: Father "recklessly" waving gun killed daughter, 4
• IS rockets kill Syrian children in southern Turkey

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Springsteen cancels show because of North Carolina law
• Conventions pulling out of Charlotte, citing House Bill 2
• State backs off plan to single-out doctor who successfully sued to help sick kids

Bad News

• Facebook provides a home for illegal arms sales in Libya
• Gay slur aimed at hairdresser 'not homophobic' - French ruling I get the feeling the tribunal was homophobic.
• U.S. judge in Boston ordered Apple to help law enforcement examine iPhone

Classical music mashup

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Today's news round-up

Good News

• Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signs executive order protecting LGBT state employees
• Is There Something Unique about the Transgender Brain?  It seems to be a good summary of the current scientific thinking. (I do think that this is yet another misuse of the word "unique," as well as the term "transgender"--it is not a synonym for "transexual.")
• Sorry, grammar nerds. The singular ‘they’ has been declared Word of the Year.
• Tech at the symphony: Boston orchestra loaning patrons iPads I don't know how well the iPads would work, but I'd love to have a view of the conductor's from the front, instead of just the rear. Views of the soloists wouldn't be bad either.

Bad News

• Four dead in suicide attack at Cameroon mosque
• Six Niger soldiers killed by mine near Nigerian border: reports
• Islamic State offensive raises risk for Libya’s oil sector
• Top Chinese university hacked by IS infiltrator: reports

Animation of the day

A few of them are otherwise engaged.

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