Friday Politics Roundup | Actors and writers strike; AZ heat; anti-teacher union conference; anti-teacher union bill; Pennrige teachers still no contract & how you can help

<p>SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Guild of America, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) <a href='https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/7/21/23802591/writers-strike-2023-wga-sag-aftra-ai-artificial-intelligence-actors'>continue their strikes</a> as Hollywood and streaming services face a reckoning. </p> <p><a href='https://www.wispolitics.com/2023/u-s-rep-fitzgerald-introduces-bill-to-reform-the-national-education-association-federal-charter/'>Rep. Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin</a> just introduced new legislation to attack the National Education Association’s charter in order to gut teacher union power. </p> <p><a href='https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christian-nationalist-political-operative-chad-connelly-is-organizing-secret-meetings-between-gop-presidential-candidates-and-right-wing-pastors/'>Chad Connelly, a Christian nationalist operative</a> and former “faith outreach director” for the Republican National Committee, runs a voter mobilization organization called Faith Wins. Connelly has organized dozens of secret meetings between top Republican presidential candidates and right-wing pastors, giving pastors the opportunity to grill the candidates on political issues and pray over them.</p> <p>A <a href='https://whyy.org/articles/whitemarsh-township-freight-train-derailment-montgomery-county/'>train derailed in Whitemarsh Township</a> in Montgomery County on Monday. We all got lucky. Turns out most of the cars were <a href='https://whyy.org/articles/whitemarsh-township-train-derailment-environmental-impacts-rail-safety-reform/'>carrying Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) and toxic chemicals</a>. A bomb train that luckily did not go off.  </p> <p>And are you ready for the launch of a<a href='https://www.freedomfoundation.com/teacher-conference/first-annual-teacher-freedom-summit-a-success-for-the-future-of-public-education/?utm_campaign=housefile-updates&amp;_hsmi=267172784&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_iYl-i4pCi5HGqBcuFrPeWFwCnmaIl7E8qrmOkKtK_TBBvU6N4i-QrBRXlNx4UVpIzKudHOMcn3PekjahsISz7MkTBMA&amp;utm_c