A California Democrat was restrained by his fellow lawmakers when he stood up and began moving toward a Republican member during debate over a bill about schools informing parents when children announce new gender identities. According to video of the Thursday incident, Assemblyman Dr. Corey Jackson, a Democrat, reacted to something inaudible said by Assemblyman Bill Essayli, a Republican. Both assemblymen represent neighboring districts in the southern part of the state, southwest of Los Angeles.   “You’d better watch yourself,” Jackson can be heard saying several times. “He’s not going to smack his gums over here today,” Jackson said. Jackson then got up from his chair and began physically pushing against lawmakers who were trying to restrain him. “I went blank. I lost it,” Jackson later told the Los Angeles Times. Debate on AB 1955 in the CA Assembly just went off the rails. Bill would prohibit California schools from having parental notification policies if a student is transgender. @billessayli had his mic cut for discussing bill from last year, lawmakers raise numerous points of… pic.twitter.com/mcxVkBKnJ7 — Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) June 27, 2024 Now getting very chaotic in the Assembly. Multiple members hold back @AsmCoreyJackson as he shouts at @billessayli. pic.twitter.com/BILPHalCFJ — Alexei Koseff (@akoseff) June 27, 2024 The bill at the center of the incident, Assembly Bill 1955, would prohibit school districts from having policies that require schools to tell parents when their child expresses a new gender identity. It would also shield teachers who supported children’s new gender identities from retaliation. “LGBTQ+ pupils have the right to express themselves freely at school without fear, punishment, or retaliation, including that teachers or administrators might ‘out’ them without their permission,” the bill reads. “Policies that require outing pupils without their consent violate pupils’ rights to privacy and self-determination.” The Assembly ultimately voted 61-16 in favor of the bill, which goes to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for consideration. Newsom has not yet signed it. Before the situation on the floor spiraled, Assembly Speaker Jim Wood (D) had interrupted Essayli, the Republican. “I am tired of being interrupted by you,” Essayli told the speaker, prompting Wood to cut his microphone. A vote to allow Essayli to continue with the floor debate failed. Then Assemblyman Rick Chavez Zbur, a Democrat from Hollywood, took the floor and began speaking about his personal coming out as LGBT. Essayli raised a point of order over Zbur talking about his personal life, and the situation deteriorated from there. At one point, Essayli compared the Democrat leadership to “the Chinese Communist Party.” When he was eventually allowed to speak, Essayli told his fellow lawmakers, “We stand with you. We do not want anyone to be bullied or hurt or erased or any of this stuff.” “When a child is going through this, it’s a very difficult and emotional time,” Essayli said. “We do not believe that the government — the schools — have any authority to withhold information from parents at all, period.” The bill comes in the wake of parental notification policies in several major school districts in California, which have been challenged by the state attorney general.

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News Bando Stone and the New World Donald Glover Is Unprepared for Survival in Bando Stone and the New World Glover’s Childish Gambino alter ego provides the soundtrack. By Molly Templeton | Published on July 1, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share How many of us, in the year of our climate change 2024, have not thought about whether or not we have practical skills for a post-apocalyptic landscape? How many youths raised on YA dystopias have not become aware that they do not know how to use a bow and arrow, nor forage tubers, nor identify non-poisonous mushrooms? When the world falls apart, I will be scrabbling for huckleberries in the woods with the deer, and I know it. It seems that Donald Glover has figured this out, now, too, based on the trailer for Bando Stone and the New World, in which Glover plays a musician (Bando Stone, natch) who seems to wake up in some semi-distant future (given the vines over his front door) where he is one of a few survivors. What they’ve survived is unclear, but there are weird neon boxes and too-big animals and even the regular-sized seem really, really mad. Wisely, after finding the post office empty, Bando Stone hoofs it to the local mini mart for supplies. How he gets from the mini mart to the Lost-esque landscape seen later in the trailer, I have no idea. But first he meets a woman (Jessica Allain) who has several important things: a child, a large gun, and some survival skills. If we are speaking broadly, the ability to make art is also relevant to humanity’s survival, though movies and TV tend to overlook that. Perhaps this movie will be different? Perhaps not. Glover also directed the film, and his alter ego Childish Gambino provides the soundtrack. The screenplay is credited to Evi Wilder, a name that seems only to exist in relation to this film. Another alter ego? Bando Stone and the Lost World is coming as an exclusive IMAX event sometime this year.[end-mark] The post Donald Glover Is Unprepared for Survival in <i>Bando Stone and the New World</i> appeared first on Reactor.

News A Vicious Circle Mattson Tomlin Will Adapt His Own A Vicious Circle Comics as a Screenplay Time-traveling assassins? Sure, why not. By Molly Templeton | Published on July 1, 2024 Image: Boom! Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Boom! Studios If you don’t yet recognize the name Mattson Tomlin, that is likely to change in the next few years. The co-writer of Matt Reeves’ The Batman sequel, Tomlin is also set to write the next Game of Thrones spinoff, Aegon’s Conquest. He’s also the writer of the movie adaptation of the BRZRKR comics co-created by Keanu Reeves; and—and—he’s the showrunner for Netflix’s animated Terminator Zero. Oh, and now he’s going to adapt his own comics. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Tomlin will write the screenplay for the adaptation of A Vicious Circle, the comic he created with artist Lee Bermejo. What’s more, Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) is producing the film. According to THR, A Vicious Circle has been a hit for its publisher, Boom! Studios, “with over 100,000 copies of the first two issues sold worldwide to date and the book translated in multiple languages.” A Vicious Circle is assassins and time travel. Here’s the comic summary: Shawn Thacker is a trained assassin from the future who seeks revenge on the only other man with his affliction—each life they take forces them both to involuntarily travel between vastly different past and future eras. Spanning from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond, the two mortal rivals are locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years, all to alter the course of history. Two issues of the comic exist; the third is in stores August 7th. No casting or production timeline has been announced for the film.[end-mark] The post Mattson Tomlin Will Adapt His Own <i>A Vicious Circle</i> Comics as a Screenplay appeared first on Reactor.