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I think we’re at a crucial point in this debate on school reopening right now. Case rates are dropping quickly, the surge is over, and people are starting to get vaccinated — though way too slowly of course. The public health community, including the CDC, have reached consensus that reopening schools is an urgent priority (instead of citing all my sources, I’m going to do more of a free-write here, so feel free to reach out if you want me to cite a source for anything I write here). This is because the harms of prolonged school closure vastly outnumber...

A caravan of parents and their children descended on downtown Los Angeles Monday morning for a demonstration demanding the immediate reopening of schools. “I want my kid to get an education,” parent Susanne Jacobson told KTLA. “He’s in eighth grade. He’s not ready for high school next year. He hasn’t had an education in a year. Distance learning is not working.” Some protesters emphasized the toll on children’s mental health. “It’s actually not OK, kids could get mental breakdowns, I hear some kids get depression from it,” said Brody Moos, a fourth-grader. Remy Moos, who’s in third-grade, complained of the...

The Department of Homeland Security will begin phase one of the Biden administration's new approach to immigration and asylum seekers on Friday by releasing thousands of migrants in three American cities over a two-week period. The new plan, in stark contrast to the Trump administration's "Remain In Mexico" policy, will have DHS start releasing illegal aliens in San Diego, California; El Paso, Texas; and Brownsville, Texas, according to Breitbart and the Associated Press. Around 25,000 migrants will be let into the country through the first phase. DHS plans to process and release about 300 migrants a day in both San...

The FDA on Monday joined The WHO and Dr. Fauci in admitting there is a notable risk of false results from the standard PCR-Test used to define whether an individual is a COVID “Case” or not.This matters significantly as it fits perfectly with the ‘fake rescue’ plan we have previously described would occur once the Biden admin took office.We have detailed the controversy surrounding America’s COVID “casedemic” and the misleading results of the PCR test and its amplification procedure in great detail over the past few months.As a reminder, “cycle thresholds” (Ct) are the level at which widely used polymerase...

Well, Claudia Conway's American Idol audition finally aired. The daughter of former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and lawyer George Conway faced the judges during the season premiere of the singing competition's 19th season. The whole thing was...interesting. Here's what happened: As soon as Claudia walked onstage, judge Katy Perry immediately asked her, "Are you OK?" "No, but yes," Claudia replied. There was a brief montage featuring Conway's parents — yes, both of them. Kellyanne appeared via video call, whereas George was shown fist-bumping Claudia and waiting outside the studio during the audition. Again, just weird stuff to watch. As for...

Just two months after announcing his presidential run — amid multiple claims that he had touched women in a way that made them uncomfortable — Joe Biden finally unveiled a policy plan. He also took the opportunity to make an inappropriate remark toward a child. Even if the left claims that he has changed, Biden hasn’t changed. After several women said earlier this year that Biden had touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable, the former vice president and 2020 Democratic candidate promised to be “much more mindful” of people’s personal space. But recent incidents tell a different story....

--SNIP-- Six people who guarded Roger Stone in Washington, DC, before the January 6 Capitol riot participated in the insurrection, according to an investigation by The New York Times. It was previously reported by Vice that several of the men who accompanied Stone, a friend and former adviser of former President Trump, were associated with the Oath Keepers, a militant anti-government extremist group. All six guards found by The Times to have breached the Capitol were part of the Oath Keepers. The Times said it "combed through hundreds of videos and photos, and drew on research from an online monitoring...

It’s just the flu, bro. Why is it that the most irrational mandates, kids wearing masks and social distancing in school, are possibly going to be the last Coronavirus mandates to be removed? Kids are almost never seriously harmed by Coronavirus. But the social stigma associated with getting is such that parents don’t want their kids to get it no matter what. So we all agree to this vast immunological experiment - kids wear masks and rebreathe whatever they rebreathe and, as a result of social distancing, get less exposure to all germs, not just Coronavirus. Even if parents come...

...a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99.9 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this data tranche, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed that the raw video files include GPS metadata pointing to exact locations of where the...

On Monday, the nation’s top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci received a $1 million Israeli prize established by the late Italian Israeli philanthropist Dan David. Fauci, a leading voice in President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, was honored with the Dan David Prize for his service in public health and “speaking truth to power” during pandemic, NPR reported Monday. “As the COVID-19 pandemic unraveled, (Fauci) leveraged his considerable communication skills to address people gripped by fear and anxiety and worked relentlessly to inform individuals in the United States and elsewhere about the public health measures essential for...

Alanna Smith’s dedication to her sport is profound. Just listening to the elite high school track star explain her training schedule is exhausting. Yet no matter how hard she trains, if she has to compete against biological males, she stands no chance of winning. “There is simply a biological advantage that males have over females,” explained the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lee Smith. “Here is a perfect example," Smith told me. "I have a twin brother who is an athlete but does not run competitively for his sports. We raced against each other recently, and he beat...

Jemele Hill, staff writer for The Atlantic and former ESPN commentator who sparked national controversy when she referred to President Donald Trump as a “white supremacist,” has called for an end to the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events, arguing that it has become a “weaponized” patriotic symbol. In another article for The Atlantic, Hill lamented the NBA’s recent decision to enforce its policy on the National Anthem, reversing Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s decision to forgo having the anthem played ahead of games. Playing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events has become an empty gesture of...

With Joe Biden as president, the days of the national minimum wage at its present $7.25 per hour may soon be gone. It will likely be raised to $15 or more and also indexed for inflation, whether it is stuck into a COVID bill or sent to Congress on its own. But this enactment would be a joblessness bill for “the least, the lost and the last” among us, the very people who suffer the most economic hardship. The unemployment created by this pernicious legislation always attacks the poor and the unskilled, precisely the people who can least afford it....

Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton included herself in a photo of presidents on Presidents Day but left out her own husband. Clinton posted a picture of herself in the Oval Office with former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden: “Happy Presidents Day!” the caption read as Clinton pointed at the camera in a laugh. Omitted: former President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband. Just one day prior, Bill Clinton posted a Valentine’s Day message and included a photo of himself with his arm around Hillary with the caption “My Valentine”: — Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) February 14, 2021 In 2017,...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s backing candidates who can win in the midterms. In a Politico interview Saturday, the Kentucky lawmaker said his goal in every way possible is to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win.His comments come as four Senate Republicans announced their plans to retire in 2022 instead of seeking reelection. McConnell went on to say the only thing he cares about is electability, regardless of whether the candidate is backed by President Trump.

This was in a Texas court hearing. Something to make y'all smile!! Enjoy!

A Democratic lawmaker in New York is demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) Emmy Award be rescinded following allegations that the governor covered up the true extent of nursing of home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic in an effort to avoid a federal investigation. Queens Councilman Robert Holden (D) urged the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to take back Cuomo’s award, saying that the governor’s actions “have been an insult to every New Yorker who lost a loved one” to the coronavirus. Cuomo received the Emmy in November in recognition of his daily televised press briefings during the...

Bianca Fortis was exiting a subway station in Brooklyn one evening in late December when a man came from behind and pummeled her. The next day, the detective assigned to the case told Ms. Fortis, 32, that she was the fourth woman assaulted since November at the Morgan Avenue L station in East Williamsburg. She was shocked, she said, because there were no police posters at the station or warnings on social media that something was afoot. “If there had been some kind of public awareness, people could have been on alert and a lot of these incidents could have...

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A few weeks before a redemptive star turn in Super Bowl 2021, Tampa Bay running back Leonard Fournette nearly was released by the Buccaneers. Bucs coach Bruce Arians said he met with the two-time 1,000-yard rusher following a Week 14 benching about his reduced role and asked Fournette if he wanted to remain with the team. “I said, ‘This is your situation. It can change at the drop of a hat,'” Arians told the Tampa Bay Times. “’Either embrace it, or you say, ‘Cut me.’ I said, ‘What do you want? Because this is a very special team that you’re...