Mid-Morning Reads for National Paul Bunyan Day (June 28)

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”.