Can Catholic schools receive government funds refuse children of gay or trans parents

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sST7maDw1F0

 

A Texas Evangelical Pastor's Warning to Christians About Islamophobia

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/brM1KHHodJk

 

Michigan Supreme Court considers scope of civil rights law

It involves a former social work professor at Calvin University whose contract wasn’t renewed after he officiated a same-sex wedding for a colleague. His lawyers argued that amounted to sex-based discrimination by association…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-10-09/michigan-supreme-court-considers-scope-of-civil-rights-law

Jim Crow 2.0 is here

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QVBHg-2dAcQ

 

The Supreme Court faces another term jam-packed with controversy

Among others: St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton, Colo., wants the state funding guaranteed in the state's universal pre-k law. But it doesn't want to admit LGBTQ students or students with gay or trans parents. The parish maintains such admissions would violate church's right to the free exercise of religion. The state counters that funding the church school would violate the state's anti-discrimination law…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/03/nx-s1-5986341/supreme-court-term-religion-guns-environment-immigration

 

Black Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trial

Dozens of Black employees at Tesla’s flagship plant in California said they were subject to racist slurs, unequal pay and promotions, and bullying by supervisors on a daily basis, a situation management did little to nothing to fix… 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/black-employees-accuse-tesla-fostering-discrimination 

 

St. Mary Catholic vs. Roy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peydLoOeajw 

Catholic preschools ask SCOTUS for taxpayer-funded discrimination!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m4zFwTDev8I?is=ThOdMHxi2eP6d186&themeRefresh=1

This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

The move marks a fundamental shift for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Without this data, it will be much harder for the agency to identify widespread cases of discrimination in hiring and promotions, experts and former employees of the commission say. And, they warn, it will bring the Trump administration one step closer to reshaping the commission from an independent watchdog into an arm of the executive branch narrowly focused on advancing the political grievances of Donald Trump’s base…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/02/eeoc-workplace-discrimination-data-trump

 

"Abdul, what is your plan to bridge the gap between the Black community ...

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tupJ8LBUGcM

Judge orders Virginia county to replace Confederate names it restored to schools in 2024 | PBS News

Confederate army officers' names are "vestiges" of Shenandoah County's segregationist history that required separate schools for Black and white students. 

"The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact," Urbanski wrote…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-orders-virginia-county-to-replace-confederate-names-it-restored-to-schools-in-2024

 

Auchter's Art: Weird names

This week, voters here in Michigan chose a man named Abdul El-Sayed to be Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate. Like him, don't like him. Like his policies, don't like his policies. Vote for him in November, don't vote for him. Your choice. But don't fall for the BS and demonize him because of his name.

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/opinion/2026-08-07/auchters-art-weird-names

 

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit

 

Federal judge asks Michigan high court to weigh in on limiting state civil rights law

The lawsuit was filed by the anti-abortion rights organization Right to Life of Michigan. The legal action claims the recently adopted provision of Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act places the organization in an impossible position. The provision forbids discrimination in hiring or promotion based on exercising the right to have an abortion...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-07-14/federal-judge-asks-michigan-high-court-to-weigh-in-on-limiting-state-civil-rights-law

 

Republicans are moving to eliminate majority-Black districts in the South

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uHowAyWYJDs

 

Student files civil rights suit against U-M alleging retaliation for support of Palestinian rights

In the complaint filed by the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, Walker, who is Black and Muslim, accused the university of discriminating against him for his advocacy for Palestinian rights. 

“Defendants acted against Plaintiff Walker because of the content of his speech and the viewpoints he expressed, as well as his racial and religious identities,” the suit reads. “As a result, Defendants subjected Mr. Walker to a deliberate and unlawful pattern of harassment and retaliation.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-05-22/student-files-civil-rights-suit-against-u-m-alleging-retaliation-for-support-of-palestinian-rights

 

Doge slashing of humanities grants in 2025 ruled biased and unconstitutional

US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/doge-humanities-grants-unconstitutional

 

Federal discrimination watchdog sues New York Times for editor snub - POLITICO

Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s sole Democratic appointee, blasted the Republican majority’s decision to file the lawsuit as politically motivated. 

“I fear this litigation is driven not by the merits, but by a desire to advance the administration’s political agenda, which weakens civil rights protections for workers and undermines employer efforts to advance equal employment opportunity,” Kotagal wrote in a statement posted on social media…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/federal-discrimination-watchdog-new-york-times-lawsuit-00907157

 

A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination

Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/hative-hawaiian-scholarship-program-lawsuit

 

Supreme Court takes up another clash between religious and LGBTQ+ rights - POLITICO

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from the state’s universal pre-K program because they won’t agree to accept children with same-sex parents...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/supreme-court-catholic-schools-religion-colorado-00880551