Happy Monday! This is what happened over the weekend.
1. Update: HB 2 is still bad.
Quick recap of where we’re at in regards to the five pages of dogshit known as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
- Over 120 business leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, signed onto a Human Rights Campaign letter opposing HB 2, saying, “This is not a direction in which states move when they are seeking to provide successful, thriving hubs for business and economic development.”
- One of those signing the letter, Bill Maris of Google Ventures, also banned future investment in North Carolina until “the voters there fix this.” So much for the idea that this isn’t hurting North Carolina’s economy.
- Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Vermont governor Peter Welch added their names to the growing list of executives banning publicly-funded travel for their governments’ employees to North Carolina.
Meanwhile, a Yale law professor gave the News & Observer quite a hot take.
“The Republicans have done them a favor,” said William Eskridge Jr., a Yale law school professor who teaches about gender, sexuality and the law. “It’s like some Republicans were on salary for the gay rights groups and ACLU.”
In other words, it’s a rousing success.
2. UNC’s men’s basketball team is going back to the national championship
UNC easily defeated Syracuse 83-66 in Saturday night’s Final Four matchup, and will face Villanova (who crushed Oklahoma 95-51 in the other Final Four game) tonight for the national championship. It’s UNC’s first title game appearance since 2009, when they won by beating Michigan State.
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