Daily Links: 12/13/17 – Egypt sends singer to prison over music video

Shaimaa “Shyma” Ahmed

• Your government on religion: Egypt sentences a pop singer to two years in prison over a racy music video.

• USA Today editorial board rips into Trump: “A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes.”

• Two of Trump’s bottom-of-the-barrel picks for the federal judiciary, the ghost-hunter unanimously deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association and the bigot who said trans kids were “Satan’s spawn”, will not be confirmed.
  (via @KFILE)

• Bermudan Parliament just voted to repeal same-sex marriage, which a top court had legalized back in May. If the governor signs it, Bermuda will become the second place in the world (after California) to rescind the legalization of marriage equality. Bermudan voters oppose gay marriage 2–1.

• Virginia high school teacher gets fired for manhandling and throwing a student out of class for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Again: Students having the right to ignore the Pledge has been federal law since 1943. It’s amazing how many teachers still haven’t gotten the memo.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• I didn’t know Carl “Soggy Akkadian” Benjamin had any alt-Right sympathies that were still unrevealed.

• Finally, Trump and Fox News can try all they want, but they just can’t make the majority of Americans give a damn about their “War on Christmas”.

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