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During a Friday segment of Cuomo Prime Time on vaccine hesitancy and disinformation, namesake host Chris Cuomo spread some disinformation of his own by insinuating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is encouraging people not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Speaking of DeSantis, Cuomo alleged, "he's a smart guy. He got vaccinated, he was doing the vaccine thing early on. Now, he’s going bad on it." To fellow CNN host Michael Smerconish, he asked, "Is there [any] advantage in playing up this 'don't get vaccinated' movement, in terms of it being anti-institution, 'don't let Big Brother tell you what to do,' 'the...

Twitter has long influenced the national conversation and media and entertainment types have embraced the social media platform as a way to keep a finger on the pulse of America, but OutKick founder and radio host Clay Travis claims that model failed ESPN and hit back at recent comments from former ESPN personality Jemele Hill. Travis appeared on Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s radio show Saturday to address comments made by Hill on the podcast Le Batard And Friends, for a segment called “An Honest Conversation About ESPN, Rachel Nichols & Maria Taylor.”

Joshua Jered posted the video with the caption: "Running over a nonviolent protester should be illegal. Law statement: ”the driver must be ’exercising due care,’ and the person in the roadway must be there to protest and be purposefully blocking the vehicles." The jury found the woman, Jennifer Watson, not guilty of assault, but did give her a misdemeanor reckless driving charge, as Fox News reported: Watson’s defense team argued she was fearful during the May 2020 protest in Denver, saying, "she was surrounded by people who began kicking and hitting her car and taunting and yelling at her."

State legislation regarding Critical Race Theory and its variants playing out in training and instruction (such as misleadingly-named “antiracism” and “equity”) is a hot political issue. Numerous examples of abusive eduational and workplace trainings that devolve into race-shaming and racial abuse have stoked public anger at CRT as it is practiced. The landscape of state legislation is varied and still developing. Thousands of teachers have pledged to defy any laws restricting their teaching of CRT, and the National Education Association is fully behind the push to expand CRT in K-12. The messaging against opposition to CRT, including legislative action, is...

Controversy erupted as several players on the U.S. Women’s Soccer team appeared to turn their backs on a 98-year-old veteran of World War II while he played the national anthem on a harmonica. *Update: After footage and pictures went viral, the US Soccer communications team sent out a tweet denying disrespect was taking place and that the players were turning to face the flag. The alleged protest came ahead of a match against Mexico during an Olympic Send-Off competition in East Hartford, Conn., on Saturday, before the team heads to Tokyo next month for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad,...

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert shreads Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democrats in general to shred for their "basement incompetency" and accuses them of paying people more to stay home. Boebert says Biden is a big threat to small businesses across America because the Democrats have incentivized laziness. Boebert posted on Facebook, saying: "Biden's "basement incompetency" is the greatest threat to small businesses since Fauci's fraud. It's time to end Biden's unemployment bonuses." Boebert has been super-critical of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris as well. The Republican Rep. took a cardboard cut-out of Harris to the border, joking that Kamala finally...

Vice President Kamala Harris has finally arrived at the border after approximately three months of pressure from politicians and Conservative Americans demanding that she do her job as Joe Biden’s border czar. The trouble with Harris and the border has brewed for months as the border sees a record number of undocumented migrant arrivals reported on June 10 by Yahoo, just a few weeks away. For some background information, it’s important for readers to know how drastic this border issue really is. Yahoo’s report stated the following: “The number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border has hit the highest...

Former Vice President Mike Pence joined the chorus of voices against Critical Race Theory, blasting the race-baiting curriculum as “state sanctioned racism” during remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Thursday. "Critical race theory teaches children as young as kindergarten to be ashamed of their skin color. It represents a full-throated assault aimed at the heart of the American experiment," Pence said. "It is nothing short of state-sponsored and state-sanctioned racism. Our party must ensure that critical race theory is expelled from our schools, our military, and our public institutions.” The former VP added that "we must eliminate critical...

Senior White House staff and a bipartisan group of senators made progress in meetings Wednesday toward an outline of a potential agreement on infrastructure, White House press secretary Jen Psaki wrote in a statement. The statement read: "White House senior staff had two productive meetings today with the bipartisan group of senators who have been negotiating about infrastructure. The group made progress toward an outline of a potential agreement, and the president has invited the group to come to the White House tomorrow to discuss this in person." Senators negotiating a bipartisan infrastructure plan with the White House will meet...

The United States Supreme Court handed freedom of speech a major victory today and it was nearly unanimous. The powerful nine justices ruled 8-1 in favor of the cheerleader who was punished by her high school for going on a profane Snapchat rant that her school did not like, even though the rant was NOT recorded on school grounds. The Supreme Court stated the high school was incorrect when they booted the cheerleader off the team, striking a victory for free speech because punishing a student for something they said while in their personal time and away from the school...

The Biden administration is set to address rising crime rates across the nation and former DC police detective Ted Williams stressed that Black on Black crime should be priority number one on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" Wednesday. TED WILLIAMS: In these neighborhoods, believe it or not, the neighbors and everybody know who the crooks are… What is going to be needed is number one, if I was the president, is that I would have a recruitment drive and every military base where the soldiers are, military people are about to get out of the military and try to get...

The United States Supreme Court issued their ruling today in a major lawsuit from 18 states that challenged the Affordable Care Act put in place by former President Barack Obama. This might come to a devastating blow to a vast number of Americans paying higher than normal premiums and/deductibles, but the Supreme Court ruled in a decision, 7-2, that Texas and the 17 other states “lacked standing to challenge its constitutionality.” The lawsuit also included two individuals who stood against the healthcare program that many Americans sometimes stated was overpriced and under-performing compared to their previous health insurances. In other...

First-time unemployment claims surprisingly rose to a month-long high as the U.S. economy faces an ongoing labor shortage under the Biden administration. According to the Department of Labor, 412,000 Americans filed for initial jobless benefits last week, marking the highest level in a month. Economists expected just 360,000 new claims. The rise in claims comes days after a Labor Department report showed that U.S. job openings reached a record high 9.3 million in April. Employers hired just 6.1 million people during the same period, meaning one in three postings went unfilled. Jobless claims particularly grew in California and Pennsylvania, two...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he has authorized sending police to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Texas after the two respective states requested it. DeSantis, a Republican, said Florida is the first state to answer a letter from Govs. Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey, both also Republicans, that asked all other states for help in policing the border. "We're here today because we have problems in Florida that are not organic to Florida that we've been forced to deal (with) over many years, but particularly over the last six months, because of the failure of the Biden...

Former President Donald Trump raised the roof and brought joy to his supporters by announcing dates for his first major rally since leaving the White House after the 2020 election. To make things better for his fans, Trump actually announced TWO dates in different states and one is just over a week away. Trump’s first major rally will be on June 26 in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Trump will then head to the Tampa Bay, Florida area to host a rally on July 3, 2021.

Banks: Admiral Gilday, I was glad to hear Congressman (Doug) Lamborn ask you about your decision to include putting Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Anti-Racist in your recommended reading list. I was also relieved to hear you say that you disagreed with Kendi, and you do not support racial discrimination. That being said, the Navy recently completed a one-day stand-down to remove extremism from the ranks. The Chief of Navy Personnel explained, “We will not tolerate extremist ideologies that go against our oath to the Constitution.”

A Fox 26 reporter got fired after she leaked "censorship" videos to Project Veritas. The reporter claims "Fox came at my throat" and she was standing up against censorship. Some of the videos she leaked show some insider information going on and what the people working there were doing with the programming. Eric Spraklen posted: "BREAKING: Fox 26 Reporter Releases tape of ‘Corruption,’ ‘Censorship.’ Fox Corp Boss told Hecker “cease & desist” posting on Hydroxychloroquine & ‘Poor African-Americans’ don’t care about Bitcoin. “Viewers being Deceived."

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis just torched critical race theory (CRT) by calling it “poison” that he’s happy to have banned in his state. This took place on last night’s interview with show host Sean Hannity who discussed critical race theory with the big red state governor. Sean Hannity got it started off by saying: “You said the woke class wants to teach kids to hate each other rather than teaching them how to read. We’re not going to let them bring nonsense ideology into Florida schools. You love the state; you love the country. And it’s unthinkable: There are...

The United States is pursuing every avenue to ensure that countries suspend or roll back discriminatory digital services taxes, but will keep tariffs as an option if that does not happen, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday. Yellen told the Senate Finance Committee she had engaged in “very constructive” bilateral conversations with the Irish finance minister on the issue, and believed the entire European Union would ultimately support an increase in global minimum taxes, as proposed by the United States. She said she was hoping for progress on the tax issue, which is being negotiated under the leadership...

MSNBC host Joy Reid held an effusive interview with Senate Judiciary Committee member Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, during which she asked the Democrat about the impact of "dark money" and the impact of the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers have had in that arena. However, Reid failed to ask about the multiple organizations supportive of Democrats that have private donor lists or other "dark money" attributes. Reid began by pointing to an Al Jazeera report that global warming has reached an "irreversible" tipping point, before transitioning to a critique of "big oil" and the Kochs, whom she said have supported...