Texas School District Tells Mom Learning Details of Her Son Being Bullied Will Cost Her $7,000

Plus: Feminism in 2022: Silencing Women With Politically Incorrect Views December 14 2022 Good morning from Washington, where taxpayers finance a record-high bailout of a Teamsters union. Rachel Greszler has hair-raising details. In Texas, school officials tell a mom to pay up to find out what happened to her bullied son. Tony Kinnett gets the story. On the podcast, our Virginia Allen and Tyler O’Neil discuss the unusual downfall of a gender-fluid Energy Department official. Plus: Katrina Trinko on the silencing of nonconforming women, and Mary Margaret Olohan on a senator’s beef with the Pentagon as well as Biden’s celebration of trampled religious beliefs. Ten years ago today, a 20-year-old fatally shoots 20 first graders and six employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, using firearms owned by his mother, whom he had killed at home. ANALYSIS [Texas School District Tells Mom Learning Details of Her Son Being Bullied Will Cost Her $7,000]() [Texas School District Tells Mom Learning Details of Her Son Being Bullied Will Cost Her $7,000]() By Tony Kinnett A mother of a middle school student was shocked when the local school district charged her over $7,000 to disclose how many bullying reports it had received since 2015. [More]() COMMENTARY [Feminism in 2022: Silencing Women With Politically Incorrect Views]() [Feminism in 2022: Silencing Women With Politically Incorrect Views]() By Katrina Trinko Robin Keller may be one of the first persons post-Dobbs to face professional consequences for having pro-life views, but if leftists have their way, she won’t be the last. [More]() COMMENTARY [What Taxpayers, Workers, and Retirees Need to Know About Record $35.8 Billion Bailout of This Private Union Pension]() [What Taxpayers, Workers, and Retirees Need to Know About Record $35.8 Billion Bailout of This Private Union Pension]() By Rachel Greszler The Biden administration gives an appalling, no-strings-attached bailout to a private union pension plan. [More]() ANALYSIS [Lesson Biden Administration Should Take From Sam Brinton Fiasco: Put Competence Before Identity]() [Lesson Biden Administration Should Take From Sam Brinton Fiasco: Put Competence Before Identity]() By Virginia Allen Sen. Tom Cotton tweets: “Sam Brinton, let’s call it what it is: a person clearly unfit for a high-level national security role was hired because the Admin prioritizes wokeness over competence.” [More]() NEWS [Lankford Vows to Block DOD Nominees Until Biden Admin Explains Why It Denied Military Religious Accommodations]() [Lankford Vows to Block DOD Nominees Until Biden Admin Explains Why It Denied Military Religious Accommodations]() By Mary Margaret Olohan Thousands of service members haven’t been told whether their religious exemptions to the COVID-19 mandate will be granted—and many have been denied. [More]() NEWS [3 Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok Nationwide]() [3 Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok Nationwide]() By Samantha Aschieris Permitting TikTok in the U.S. is “like allowing the U.S.S.R. to buy up The New York Times, [The] Washington Post, and major broadcast networks during the Cold War," says Rep. Mike Gallagher. [More]() NEWS [DeSantis Asks for Florida Grand Jury to Investigate COVID-19 Vaccines]() [DeSantis Asks for Florida Grand Jury to Investigate COVID-19 Vaccines]() By Brett Rowland Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to look into the sudden deaths of people who got a COVID-19 vaccination in Florida, based on autopsy results. [More]() NEWS [Biden Signs Radical Respect for Marriage Act Into Law, Surrounded by LGBTQ Lawmakers and Drag Queens]() [Biden Signs Radical Respect for Marriage Act Into Law, Surrounded by LGBTQ Lawmakers and Drag Queens]() By Mary Margaret Olohan “Biden’s celebratory signing of the so-called ‘Respect’ for Marriage Bill will inevitably be used to marginalize people of faith who seek to live out their beliefs,” says CatholicVote President Brian Burch. [More]() [LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg] [Donate to The Daily Signal]() [Find us on Facebook]() [Find us on Facebook]() [Follow us on Twitter]() [Follow us on Twitter]() How are we doing?We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [letters@dailysignal.com](). The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 [(800) 546-2843]() Add [morningbell@heritage.org]() to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.]() -