Good morning Her Campus! With a break-neck news cycle, there is no possible way for you to stay on top of every story that comes across your feeds—we’re all only human, after all.
But, life comes at you fast. So grab a cup of coffee and settle in for this quick and dirty guide to stories you might’ve been sleeping on (like, literally. It’s early.)
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Brought #TakeAKnee to the House of Representatives
Following Trump's remarks at an Alabama rally this past Friday, in which he referred to football players who kneel during the national anthem as, "sons of bitches," people are not happy — and congresswoman Sheila Jackson of Texas is one of them. On Monday night, after giving a speech about the racist undertones of Trump's comments, Lee knelt symbolically, saying it was meant to be in honor of the First Amendment and a stand against racism.
"I refuse to accept that as a standard of leadership for the highest office in the world,” Lee said of President Trump.
If "disrespecting our heritage"&"everything we stand for" was a fireable offense, you Mr. Trump would no longer be President.
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) September 23, 2017
A Man Who Believes Homosexuality Should Be Illegal Just Won the Alabama Senate Primary
Roy Moore, who has a history of making some seriously racist and homophobic remarks, has won the Alabama Senate primary against the Republican establishment's favored candidate, Sen. Luther Strange, Buzzfeed News reports. He will run in the special election race in December against Democrat Doug Jones, who is a former U.S. attorney, to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacant seat. In contrast, Moore has been removed from the Alabama State Supreme Court multiple times throughout his career, and once suggested that 9/11 was a punishment to the U.S. for turning away from Christianity. So that's reassuring.
BREAKING: Roy Moore has won the Alabama Senate runoff election, beating incumbent Luther Stange, CNN projects https://t.co/pKefQQi68Gpic.twitter.com/HQFfFRTohm
— CNN (@CNN) September 27, 2017
Don't Freak Out or Anything, but Coffee May Have a Cancer-Causing Ingredient
Starbucks lovers, take note: a nonprofit group in California is suing Starbucks and around 90 other coffee brands and companies for not posting warnings that their products could contain acrylamide, a possibly cancer-causing chemical that sometimes occurs as part of the coffee roasting process, Cosmopolitan reports. While the coffee industry has asserted before that the amount of acrylamide in coffee is so insignificant that it is outweighed by the benefits of drinking coffee, but the lawyer taking on the coffee companies said that the goal of the lawsuit is to motivate companies to remove it from their products entirely — which, TBH, would make me feel a lot better about my multiple-cups-a-day habit.
What to look out for...
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