Curated from US news | The Guardian — Here’s what matters right now:
Cities fight back as purge of street art broadens from Pulse nightclub memorial to bike lane designed by fourth-graders A battalion of transportation workers armed with cans of black paint has been deployed to open a new front in Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke”, while young students trying to make their schools safer have joined the LGBTQ+ community as targets of Florida’s Republican governor. The saga began with the state moving in the dead of night to paint over a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside Orlando’s former Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were killed in a 2016 shooting. The city’s mayor, Buddy Dyer, called the erasure of the memorial to the mostly LGBTQ+ victims “a cruel political act”. Continue reading...
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Original reporting: US news | The Guardian