Daily News Roundup
NOTABLE QUOTES
J.B. Shurk contributor to The Federalist: There’s never any time, it seems, to stop and ask: who will be empowered to judge which Americans are “crazy” or “extremist” or “spreading lies”? Who will be given the authority to decide which Americans have unalienable rights and which Americans do not? When rights are reduced to nothing more than government “privileges,” after all, it matters a great deal who will be handing out those “gifts.”
Charlie Savage reporter for the NYT: President Biden’s top aides are weighing whether he can or should take a series of executive actions to help women in Republican-controlled states obtain abortions if the Supreme Court eliminates a woman’s right to end her pregnancy, according to senior administration officials.
Katherine J. Wu writing for The Atlantic: Two and a half years and billions of estimated infections into this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2’s visit has clearly turned into a permanent stay. Experts knew from early on that, for almost everyone, infection with this coronavirus would be inevitable. As James Hamblin memorably put it back in February 2020, “You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus.” By this point, in fact, most Americans have. But now, as wave after wave continues to pummel the globe, a grimmer reality is playing out. You’re not just likely to get the coronavirus. You’re likely to get it again and again and again.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) in a June 16, 2022 tweet: Today I asked Fauci a simple question: Are there any studies that show a reduction in hospitalization or death for children that take a booster? His answer: No Then why is the government recommending it?
Shawn Fleetwood contributor to The Federalist: Known as the “DeSantis Education Agenda: Putting Students First, Protecting Parents’ Rights,” the program is a statewide agenda for school board candidates and members who are committed to advancing DeSantis’s priorities at the local school board level. In addition to furthering the academic success of Florida students, the push is also aimed at empowering the role of parents in their children’s education, as well as preventing far-left agendas from infiltrating the state’s public school systems. In a statement provided to The Federalist, DeSantis championed the launch of the agenda, saying that “Florida has delivered the most student-focused, parent-centered education agenda in the nation” at a time when “curriculum in states around the country are being used as opportunities to indoctrinate innocent children.”
Matt Margolis contributor to PJMedia: The transgender movement is coming for your children. The younger they are, the more impressionable they can be. They’ve succeeded in making it trendy to be non-binary or queer or whatever other buzzwords they come up with, and they’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to bring your kids into their cult. And they’re going to come for them at increasingly younger ages.
David Horowitz founder of FrontPage Magazine: Given the prejudices and bigotries that are endemic to human beings of all races, Americans can be proud of their racial past and its contribution to human freedom. The raw facts are these: Slavery was an inherited system, which Americans abolished in little over a generation. There never was a successful revolt by the slaves themselves. If whites had been as universally racist as Leftists maintain, blacks in America would still be slaves, and not the most prosperous, most privileged and free-est blacks in the world today, including all of black Africa and the West Indies.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who has said little about our southern border in a June 16 tweet: We must give Ukraine the tools they need to defend their homeland.
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Solomon: Trump demands equal time on TV networks to counter Jan. 6 hearings
Kept by congressional Democrats from putting on a defense, former President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that television networks airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings provide him equal time to present his side. “I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!” Trump said in a midday statement posted on his Truth Social media site, just before the Democrat-led panel began its third, televised hearing on the Capitol riots. “The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia-type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!),” the 45th president also said.
Martinez reporter for Politico: We’re tracking Donald Trump’s endorsement track record through the 2022 primaries. Get caught up here:
• May 3: Ohio and Indiana
• May 10: Nebraska and West Virginia
• May 17: Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina and Pennsylvania
• May 24: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and the Texas runoffs
• June 7: California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana and South Dakota
• June 14: South Carolina, Nevada, North Dakota and Maine
THE GREAT GLOBAL RESET
(Exposing evil) 6/15/22 Blaze TV: Glenn Beck: Pathway to Servitude: The TRAITORS Who Created the Global Supply Crisis
In his episode “Famine & Blackouts: How Biden-Made Disasters Will Cripple America,” Glenn exposed the new global-based rule changes that gave the World Health Organization expedited authority over our nation. He traced the changes to the SEC and revealed Bank of America’s fawning praise for climate-related market changes. So, Glenn decided to dig further, and what he uncovered shocked him. Financial records, dark money groups, and groups tied to the U.N. and the World Economic Forum are all pushing for a total reorganization of our financial system. You never voted for globalist leadership outside our borders, but IT IS HAPPENING. Glenn reveals the foreign actors who are REALLY running our country right now and the domestic TRAITORS who are helping to fund the implementation on Main Street, USA. There will be catastrophic consequences for this betrayal of America First ideas. If you think food, gas, and labor shortages are bad now, just wait until all of this goes through. [NOTE: Explains the Democrat led war on our Second Amendment]
Watch the 48:10 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_P6tskdrrs&t=28s
U.S. SUPREME COURT
Caralle: Supreme Court rules AGAINST a bid by Republican states to defend a Trump policy that would have put limits on migrants who would likely be dependent on government benefits
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against allowing states to defend a change in immigration law by former President Donald Trump that would impose limits on the amount of immigrants allowed in the country who would rely on government benefits. Republicans sought in the case Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco to uphold a rule by Trump, and rejected by President Joe Biden, that would expand the definition of ‘public charge’ to deny migrants entry into the country if they would primarily depend on the government for their income. While the rule never took effect, the 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court bench officially denied this GOP request in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts along with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch concurring on Wednesday.
JANUARY 6
Solomon: ‘Bloody War.’ Capitol Police first warned about violence two weeks before Jan. 6 riots, memos show
Capitol Police received alerts from both U.S. Homeland Security and District of Columbia authorities about potential violence at the Capitol more than two weeks before the Jan. 6 riots, a pre-Christmas warning that flagged online chatter about waging a “bloody war,” concealing guns, and burning down the Supreme Court, according to internal memos obtained by Just the News that reveal much earlier and persistent red flags about the tragedy. “Right-wing extremists are talking about tunnels below the Capitol Complex and the allegiances of USCP officers,” Capitol Police intelligence expert John T. Nugent Jr. wrote in an e-mail Dec. 21, 2020 sent to a distribution list of the department’s Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INJUSTICE
Dunleavy: Garland should investigate attacks on anti-abortion groups as domestic terrorism: GOP
More than 100 House Republicans are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the rash of attacks and vandalism targeting anti-abortion groups as acts of domestic terrorism. The letter was signed by at least 124 House Republicans and was co-authored by Reps. Scott Franklin (R-FL), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), and Mike Johnson (R-LA). “We write to express serious concerns over recent attacks targeting religious organizations and crisis pregnancy centers and request the Department of Justice respond with how its National Security Division plans to investigate these acts of domestic terrorism,” the Republicans said. “Since the draft Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health U.S. Supreme Court opinion was leaked on May 2, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court Justices and pro-life advocates have experienced heightened threats and violence.” The DOJ unveiled a new domestic terrorism unit in January during a hearing on the Capitol riot , and the FBI has said it considers the riot domestic terrorism. The Republicans pointed to 18 U.S. Code § 2331, which defines domestic terrorism as activities that “involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws” that are intended to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or through threats of violence.
FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL
C-SPAN: Heated Exchange between Sen. Rand Paul & Dr. Anthony Fauci on Vaccines and Royalties
Watch the 7:37 minute exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ICBBK-d-C0
Rappoport: The Babies and The Vaccine
Protecting your baby from a virus that doesn’t exist, with a killshot […] So you’ve had your eight-month-old baby injected with the COVID vaccine. Of course. And the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t exist. I’ve heard that. But it’s not the issue for us. What is the issue for you? Making a fashion statement. How so? We need to stay in the forefront of trends. Why? Why wouldn’t we? Have you seen the federal database that records vaccine injury and death reports? Of course. So you know your baby could die from the shot. Yes. And that doesn’t matter to you. Not as much as being able to tell our friends we had our baby vaccinated. You, as parents—- That’s a misunderstood term. We don’t consider ourselves parents. The State is the parent. We’re the monitors. Monitors?
Read more: https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-babies-and-the-vaccine
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Raleigh: In Starker Terms Than Ever, China Threatens War Over Taiwan
China’s defense minister threatened to go to war over Taiwan at the Shangri-La Dialogue Conference in Singapore last weekend. The annual conference was organized by the United Kingdom-based International Institute of Strategic Studies and aims to bring Asian and Western defense ministers together to discuss security issues through friendly dialogue. But it was less a dialogue and more a war of words. China was defiant and confrontational and the Biden administration continued to be ambiguous and uninspiring, but Japan surprisingly stepped up its game. The Chinese delegation was led by China’s Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe, who insisted that the “Development of the military of China is never intended to threaten others or to seek hegemony. China is never a threat and has never threatened any others.” Yet Wei quickly discredited his own talking point by repeatedly threatening war over Taiwan.
In his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sideline of the Singapore conference, Wei declared, “If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost.” He further vowed that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would “smash to smithereens any Taiwan independence plot and resolutely uphold the unification of the motherland.” International observers, including Taiwanese officials, pointed to Wei’s defiant language as evidence that China is in fact “the source of major unrest in the region.”
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/17/in-starker-terms-than-ever-china-threatens-war-over-taiwan/
Hayward: China: U.S. Could ‘Spark World War III’ by Diversifying Mineral Supply Chains
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday warned the United States could “spark World War III” by pushing too hard to decouple from the Chinese minerals industry by developing its own supply. After a little throat-clearing and harrumphing about how “it’s reasonable for any country to diversify its supply chains that involve critical resources,” the Global Times said China would consider it tantamount to an act of war if the U.S. diversifies too much because Beijing sees decoupling as preparation for “an all-out conflict” with America’s “strategic competitors” that could escalate into “World War III.” In the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. and its NATO allies could have no plausible reason for decoupling from peaceful China except “anxiety” that they would lose their supply of precious minerals by starting a war.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA
Townhall.com: People who Joe Biden thinks are smarter than he is: – All the women in his life – Kamala Harris – His sister – Stacey Abrams – Hunter Biden
Watch the 1:04 minute video: https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1536800342658232322?cxt=HHwWhMC9rZ7x59MqAAAA
Horowitz: ‘Radicals’ Are Racist Criminals
The crisis currently facing our nation is a crisis of faith – faith in the Constitution that has shaped our destiny, faith in the rule of law, and faith in the principle of equality before the law. The root cause of the lawlessness that is consuming our country is the monopoly of the executive power in Washington by a political party that has fallen under the control of the radical Left. This Left describes itself as “progressive,” but is focused on the goal of “re-imagining” American institutions and principles, in other words of dismantling the constitutional order that created the prosperity and freedoms that have shaped this country since its beginnings. Having been born into this political Left and then rejected it, I have acquired an intimate perspective on its nature, and the threat it poses to the American future, which is grave. I was raised by Communists who always referred to themselves as “progressives,” and were sworn enemies of America and its institutions, as was I. We saw ourselves as warriors for social justice, acting on the “right side” of history. […] The principal weapon progressives have developed to advance their destructive agendas is race. But in responding to their attacks, Republicans – and conservatives generally – have displayed an unsteady hand. For example, Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have referred to slavery as “America’s original sin,” in an effort to provide a compromising view. And they have often conceded that America had a regrettable racist past, and wrung their hands over it. Well and good, but to leave it at that does a grave injustice to the American reality. For there never was a moment in American history when there was not a white movement calling for the abolition of slavery and racism, and even willing to lay down their lives for it.
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/radicals-are-racist-criminals-david-horowitz/
Center for Renewing America: PRIMER: BIDEN’S WOKE WAR ON POLICE
Background The White House announced a new executive order on the two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd aimed at promoting “accountable policing.” The protests and violent riots that erupted across the country following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer led to an estimated $2 billion in property damages and over 30 deaths. These riots were encouraged or excused by prominent progressive politicians, glamorized by left-wing media outlets, and organized by extremist organizations like Black Lives Matter who weaponized the radicalism of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into street-level militancy. Analysis The new executive order from President Biden perpetuates woke ideology in policing instead of improving public safety: Immediately amplifies CRT propaganda that America has a “legacy of systemic racism in our criminal justice system and in our institutions more broadly.” The implication of this opening is that there is current pervasive and widespread racism in policing, which has no basis in reality and is not supported by empirical data. Requires all federal law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to . . . […] Instructs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to create . . .
Read more: https://americarenewing.com/issues/primer-bidens-woke-war-on-police/
(The Orwellian Ministry of Truth is resurrected) Citizen Free Press: Kamala launches new WH Ministry of Gender Truth…
Kamala Harris announced the launch of a “Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse” Thursday at the White House. Harris praised the task force in her remarks as a means for societal progress, saying, “No one should have to endure abuse just because they are attempting to participate in society.”
A memo on the task force released by the White House condemned “gendered disinformation” and proclaimed the administration will be “developing programs and policies to address online harassment, abuse, and disinformation campaigns targeting women and LGBTQI+ individuals who are public and political figures, government and civic leaders, activists, and journalists in the United States and globally.” The memo suggested that online “harassment” has devastating costs for democracy itself by “undermining people’s ability to exercise their human rights and participate in democracy, governance, and civic life.” […] The memo didn’t mention Antifa groups doxxing politicians or other dangerous leftist activity online.
Read more/Watch the 48 second video: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/kamala-launches-new-wh-ministry-of-truth/
Mack: Exxon Mobil Fires Back at Biden: ‘Support US Resource Development’
Exxon Mobil has fired back at President Joe Biden’s calling out U.S. energy producers amid rampant inflation and rising gasoline costs, placing blame on the oil companies and saying they need to ”work with my administration to bring forward concrete, near-term solutions that address the crisis.”
Exxon Mobil not only laid out its investments and communication with the Biden administration, but a press release Wednesday blasted the administration’s energy policies and made a call for Biden to act. ”In the short term, the U.S. government could enact measures often used in emergencies following hurricanes or other supply disruptions – such as waivers of Jones Act provisions and some fuel specifications to increase supplies,” the release read.
Read more: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/exxon-mobil-energy-inflation-gas-prices/2022/06/15/id/1074623/
Arama: Peter Doocy Nails WH in a Lie and Complete Contradiction on Inflation, Oil Production
But on Thursday, when Fox’s Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre if this meant that the Biden team was backing off their stated goal of ending fossil fuels, she said no. They were still intent on stopping fossil fuels, and that they “don’t need” to drill. […] She’s supposed to be the press secretary. She’s supposed to be explaining all their positions on issues. If she descends into word salads and isn’t comprehensible, then we have an even bigger problem. Doocy wouldn’t let her off the hook. He nailed her on that lie — pointing out inflation is worse here than in a boatload of countries.
Read more/Watch the four video clips: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/16/peter-doocy-nails-wh-in-a-lie-and-complete-contradiction-on-inflation-oil-production-n579457
CLIMATE EMERGENCY: IT’S POLITICAL
McCue: 6 Truths About The Environment The Biden Administration Would Like To Censor
White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy took left-wing censorship a step further by proposing tech companies must shut down conversations that challenge the administration’s narrative on energy last Thursday. “The tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation,” McCarthy said in an interview with Axios. Let’s play along with McCarthy’s hypothetical in which “disinformation” means the facts and opinions not specifically spoon-fed to Americans by the government. Here are six truths about the environment that the Biden administration would probably censor. 1. The Green New Deal could harm the environment. The left’s plan to employ “WWII-type mobilization to address the grave threat posed by climate change” is not only too radical to garner widespread support, but also introduces problems for the ecosystem. Even put aside the $5 trillion price tag that switching from coal and nuclear to 100 percent renewable energy would cost. Policies that would drastically reduce production of fossil fuels domestically would not stop consumption of these fuels globally. Alternatively, production of these fossil fuels will continue to happen in places where standards are not as high as in the United States, resulting in more toxins being released into the environment. In addition, so-called “green energy” requires rare earths and other components that currently are controlled by countries that destroy the environment for political and economic gain, such as China. Wind farm components and electric car batteries contain many major toxins and require huge amounts of energy to assemble and put online, while providing low-quality energy in return. 2. A mass shift towards low-gas cars is only immediately feasible for the rich, and never for transportation. . . .
THE BIG GUY’S DAUGHTER
EXCLUSIVE: Florida woman who found Ashley Biden’s diary in ‘halfway house’ is under FBI investigation for SELLING the journal in which president’s daughter recalled ‘showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate)’ and details of her drug and sex addiction
A Florida woman who found Ashley Biden’s private diary is being investigated by the FBI – not for stealing the journal but for selling it, DailyMail.com has learned. The diary’s explosive contents include Ashley’s speculation that showering with her father, then-Senator Joe Biden, as a young girl may have contributed to her sex addiction. ‘I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),’ she wrote in a January 2019 entry. After a stint in rehab, the president’s daughter, now 41, briefly lived in a Palm Beach home often used by recovering addicts, and left her diary there when she moved back to Philadelphia in June, 2020. […] The New York Times first reported a Justice Department probe over the diary in November 2021, and confirmed that the diary is authentic. But the Times neglected to include in the story that its pages contained deeply concerning information that the president’s own daughter believes his alleged showering with her could have helped create her sex addiction.The Times’s November story said that a Biden family representative reported the diary and other items belonging to Ashley were stolen in an alleged burglary. But a source close to the investigation told DailyMail.com that Harris is not being investigated for theft. […] ‘I have always been boy crazy,’ she wrote. ‘Hyper-sexualized @ a young age … I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate).’ Despite entertaining the possibility that Joe could have been inappropriate with her as a child, at other times Ashley appeared grateful to her parents.
THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN
NG: Producer for Gay Teen Romance Comedy Says Series’ Move to Disney+ ‘Expands Our Audience in a Really Exciting Way’
The showrunnner of the gay teen high school rom-com series Love, Victor has praised Disney’s decision to move the show to Disney+ after first releasing it on Hulu, saying the family-friendly streaming service will give the show a bigger audience. In an interview with IndieWire, Love, Victor head writer and executive producer Brian Tanen also attacked Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, calling the legislation “really terrible and draconian.” […] “I also think it’s especially meaningful in the current political climate, where state governments especially are enacting these really terrible and draconian laws, where they’re trying to suggest that gay topics are not appropriate for children,” he said.
Brown: Transgender kids OK for hormones at 14, surgery at 15, health group says
A leading transgender health group has lowered its recommended minimum age for kids to get medical help transitioning — saying hormone therapy can start at 14 and some surgeries at 15. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health said it was changing its advice on when teens should be able to get treatment because it is unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment. The changing advice comes as many experts — including a former board member of the group — fear irreversible treatments are already being given to kids who would otherwise outgrow their gender questioning. The updated advice — set to be published later this year — suggests . . . […] Transgender Psychologist Erica Anderson, 71, resigned her post as a board member last year after voicing concerns about “sloppy” treatment given to kids without adequate counseling. She has since warned that tit has “gone too far,” warning that many are making life-changing decisions because it’s “trendy” and pushed on social media.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/trans-kids-ok-for-hormones-at-14-surgery-at-15-health-group/
THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON WOMEN
Fromm: Biologic Men Are Crushing Women’s Sports
Title IX was signed into law on June 23, 1972, almost 50 years ago, giving women equal opportunities and representation in all sports, from elementary school through college. The supporters of Title IX clearly recognized that women should have equal opportunity to compete in sports. They knew men and women are physically, emotionally, and mentally different. For example, men generally have stronger upper bodies, while women usually have stronger lower bodies. Men have larger lung capacities and hearts. Also, women have an extra layer of fat for childbearing. Because of the differences between men and women, it would not be fair or reasonable to have them competing against each other. A man who puts in the same amount of effort and hours will always be stronger than a woman who does the same. It’s not inequality, it’s biology. The purpose of Title IX was to protect women from these differences and allow them to excel in their own sports. In full disclosure, I am active in athletics. I am a three-sport high school varsity athlete (swim, soccer, and track), have played club soccer for five years, am a summer swim coach, assistant coach for a boys’ club soccer team, and work out at the gym regularly. I have a substantial experience with athletics, and not just female sports. I have trained with, and coached, both boys and girls. Once boys reach about age 10, they are almost certainly stronger than their female counterparts. [NOTE: The author is a senior in high school and has been homeschooled since preschool]
Read more: https://thepricklypear.org/biologic-men-are-crushing-womens-sports/
OTHER NEWS
Woodhouse: The Criminal Order Beneath the ‘Chaos’ of San Francisco’s Tenderloin
The epicenter of the political earthquakes rattling San Francisco’s progressive establishment is a 30-square-block neighborhood in the center of downtown known as the Tenderloin. Adjacent to some of the city’s most famous attractions, including the high-end shopping district Union Square, the old money redoubt of Nob Hill, historic Chinatown, and the city’s gold-capped City Hall, it is home to a giant, open-air drug bazaar. Tents fill the sidewalks. Addicts sit on curbs and lean against walls, nodding off to their fentanyl and heroin fixes, or wander around in meth-induced psychotic states. Drug dealers stake out their turf and sell in broad daylight, while the immigrant families in the five-story, pre-war apartment buildings shepherd their kids to school, trying to maintain as normal an existence as they can. […] . . . there is a fairly straightforward kind of order beneath the chaos: an illicit market economy operating in plain sight. The Tenderloin is home to two sprawling, overlapping transnational organized crime networks – one centered on drugs and the other on theft – which thrive in that neighborhood because of the near-total absence of the enforcement of laws.
Read more at Real Clear Investigations.
Lepore: Private Massachusetts Catholic school is EXCOMMUNICATED by local bishop for refusing to remove BLM and Pride flags after being warned both represent ideologies that ‘contradict’ church teaching
The Nativity School of Worcester has been sanctioned by Robert J. McManus, the Bishop of the Diocese of Worcester, for their refusal to take them down. He says the facility – the only tuition-free private school in the region – cannot continue to call itself Catholic while flying in the face of key church teachings.
The school, run by Principal Emily Kent is the only tuition-free private middle school in the region and serves about 60 students. It took McManus over a year to respond to the school flying the two flags in front of the campus, stating the two symbols represent specific agendas or ideologies [that] contradict Catholic social and moral teaching.’ […] Guillermo Creamer Jr., an openly gay alum of the school and now the chair of the Worcester Human Rights Commission, said the bishop is ‘on the wrong side’ of the argument. ‘Revoking the Catholic status of a school simply because it is promoting inclusion is a backward mentality,’ he told the New York Daily News. ‘Doing this during Pride month and days before Juneteenth is very telling for the motives behind such a move,’ he said.
Nolan: ZuckTok: Leaked Memo Reveals Facebook Is Changing Its Algorithm to Copy China’s TikTok
The Verge reports that according to a leaked memo, Facebook employees have been given a new directive — to make the app more like TikTok. An internal memo from late April shows Facebook (now known as Meta) executive Tom Alison outlining the plan for the future of Facebook.
Rather than prioritizing posts from accounts people follow, Facebook’s main newsfeed will reportedly start recommending posts regardless of who made them or where they came from. The company also plans to rejoin its Facebook and Messenger apps to mimic TikTok’s messaging system, years after separating the two.
INTERNATIONAL
Hoft: 40-Year-Old British Columbia Man Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome Is Awarded Compensation for Vaccine Injury (VIDEO)
Here is a story you won’t hear in mainstream media. A 40-year-old father from British Columbia was one of the first people in Canada to be compensated after suffering an adverse reaction connected to the COVID-19 vaccine. Ross Wightman, a former pilot and realtor was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which is a rare disorder in which your body’s immune system attacks your nerves, after receiving a first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine last April 2021. Wightman became partially paralyzed from the waist down and suffered full facial paralysis after being diagnosed with the disease due to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Lawler: Countries prefer U.S. to China as leading superpower, poll finds
A new poll of nine big countries finds a strong preference for the U.S., rather than China, to be the leading superpower. Why it matters: The Eurasia Group Foundation (EGF) poll is the latest signal that many around the world are viewing China’s rise with trepidation. Breaking it down: . . .
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/06/16/countries-prefer-us-china-superpower-poll