Daily Links #104: Education Dept. to ignore trans student bathroom complaints

Education Sec. Betsy DeVos

• The Department of Education ^{[secretary pictured]} will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from trans students blocked from using their rightful bathrooms.

• In better news, a second federal judge has blocked Trump from ending DACA.

• Vermont state police demonstrate cops’ knack for turning would-be suicide victims into murder victims.
  (via @fark)

• Alabama prosecutor and sheriff declare that reforming civil asset forfeiture will force police to arrest more people to keep the money flowing, except when they’ll have to arrest fewer people because busts won’t be profitable anymore. How refreshing of them to admit they’re in it for the money.
  (via @RickHorowitz; retweet @Popehat)

• Parents of the year here sue their transgender son to bar him from undergoing hormone therapy because it would violate their religious beliefs, also tell him to kill himself because he’s “going to hell anyway”.

• As a chaser, here’s a funny (to me) piece about Creationists Intelligent Design advocates getting angry at Wikipedia for “censoring” ID – by calling it a “religious argument” and “pseudoscience”.

• Evidence is mounting that the dinosaur-killing asteroid may have been helped by massive volcanic activity in India.

• I was going to write up a post about this inane Tucker Carlson diatribe before I realized I’m not nearly that bored and masochistic.

• Finally, good kitties:
  (via Joe.My.God.)

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