Friday Politics Roundup | Elon Musk’s antisemitism; Big Tech getting sued; Johnson reject separation between church & state; Pennridge civil rights complaint; big payout in Central Bucks; book recs

Elon Musk rips off the mask and jumps on the antisemitic conspiracy bandwagon on that platform formerly known as Twitter. Yeah, the one he owns. 

New Republican Christian nationalist Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson calls the separation between church and state a “misnomer” and a “misunderstanding” of the true intent of the Founders. 

A judge has cleared the way for a slew of lawsuits against Meta and other tech giants to go forward. 42 state attorneys general and multiple school districts are suing the companies as knowingly designing their platforms to be addictive for kids, despite knowing about the harm those platforms induce. 

Pennridge School District faces a new federal Civil Rights complaint over “the district’s ongoing discriminatory policies, practices, and an environment perceived as hostile due to ongoing race- and sex-based harassment.” The outgoing school board majority only poured fuel on the fires of discrimination, enacting overtly discriminatory policies. 

Central Bucks School Board votes to give outgoing superintendent Abram Lucabaugh a $712,000 golden parachute after he abruptly resigned following the results of this month’s elections. Newly elected school board members say, not so fast. 

A federal judge also ordered Lucabaugh not to delete any documents related to a federal lawsuit alleging retaliation against Central Bucks teacher Andre Burgess, who filed a federal discrimination complaint on behalf of a transgender student. 

Doylestown’s own Pink has teamed up with PEN American to give away more than 2,000 banned books during her shows in Florida this week. 

Book recommendations: Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World; Rebecca Campbell, Aboreality; Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race.

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