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Class Struggle: “Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as labor unions rallied in solidarity with high school students who have spent two weeks blockading schools to protest understaffing, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated buildings. Marches were held in more than 40 cities, from Caen in the north to Marseille in the south, as activists, teachers, parents and university students joined swelling protests that had spread to hundreds of schools across the country.” Thankfully, President Trump is adding his calming and reasoned voice to the chaos. “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!” Here’s the latest from the NYT and The Guardian.

+ Measles and Chumps: Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. And Gov. Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York. Meanwhile, Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children.

+ Brad’s Pit: “A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid. No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said — they needed to work.” But she made a big mistake for the MAGA-minded. The example she used was a white guy named Brad. Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white.

+ On the Rocks: “Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” (The fact that you don’t understand what that means is evidence that he deserved it.)

+ Justice Denied: This seems worrisome. “President Trump invited infamous election denier Tina Peters to the White House to discuss plans for the midterms.”

+ You Don’t Know Me But I’m Your Brother Father: “Goessling, who recently went public with his story, had seen the Doobie Brothers perform twice, once in the 1980s and again in the early 1990s, without knowing that the man onstage was his biological father.” Adopted man discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers is his biological father.