Monthly Archives: July 2021

Trump’s Testing Czar: If You’re Unvaccinated, You Will Get The Delta Variant, It’s Just A Matter Of Time [Video]

“Anyone who’s not vaccinated and who did not have COVID previously, the Delta variant is so contagious that you’re going to get it. It is just a matter of time. “If you have prior immunity you do have some protection, but more and more data are telling us that that protection is not so good against Delta. “Remember, you can …

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Crenshaw Tells Fox Viewers To Defy All COVID Rules

“Look, the vaccines are actually effective. I actually believe the FDA’s data on this. Not only are they effective, but the FDA still stands by their assertion and their assessment of the data that says that the vaccines here in the United States are effective against transmission including the delta variant. “So the CDC is in direct confrontation with the …

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“Strongly Conservative” Man Is Sorry About Something

The Associated Press reports: Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life. “I was strongly against getting the vaccine,” Barker said through labored breathing. “Just because we’re a strong conservative family.” He …

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CDC: Delta Variant Is As Contagious As Chickenpox

The Washington Post reports: The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal federal health document that argues officials must “acknowledge the war has changed.” It captures the struggle of the nation’s top public health agency to persuade the public to embrace vaccination and …

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Pentagon: Biden’s Vax Mandate Applies To Military

Via press release from the Department of Defense: The Department of Defense is moving quickly to meet President Biden’s commitment to defeat COVID-19, and that includes being able to ensure every member of our civilian and military workforce is protected. In accordance with the guidance the President issued today, all military and civilian DoD personnel will be asked to attest …

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WI Republicans Seek To Block University’s COVID Tests

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: A Republican-controlled committee plans to block the University of Wisconsin from instituting COVID-19 testing, masking and vaccination protocols on campuses across the state, a move that comes as health officials sound warnings about the rapidly spreading, highly contagious delta variant. State Sen. Steve Nass [photo] said Wednesday that he would be moving to require the university …

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Australia Won’t Open Border Until 80% Are Vaxxed

Reuters reports: Australia will have to vaccinate 80% of its adults against COVID-19 before it can consider reopening its border, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday as he announced a four-stage plan to greater freedom. Australia is now in phase A, or the suppression phase of the plan, with large parts of the country plunging in and out of …

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12 GOP Governors Sign Brief Seeking Overturn Of Roe

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida on to an effort to have two of the most important abortion cases in U.S. history overturned by the nation’s highest court. In a Thursday brief, DeSantis, along with eleven other Republican governors, argued the Supreme Court should reconsider past decisions on the 1973 case Roe v. Wade and the …

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Lindell To Pull MyPillow Ads In Fight With Fox News

The Wall Street Journal reports: The chief executive of MyPillow Inc., one of Fox News’s big advertisers, said he is pulling his ads from the network after a disagreement over a proposed commercial. Mike Lindell said he made the decision after Fox News declined to run a commercial linked to his efforts to promote his claims of widespread fraud in …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline Hollywood reports: The Walt Disney Co. has fired back at Scarlet Johansson’s lawsuit over the release of Black Widow, in a biting statement in which it said that the litigation showed a “callous disregard” to the Covid-19 pandemic and even revealed that she has so far received $20 million from the project. In her lawsuit, filed on Thursday in …

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Hate Group Loses Appeal Over SPLC’s Hate Group Label

Courthouse News Service reports: The 11th Circuit on Wednesday struck down a Florida evangelical Christian ministry’s claim that it was discriminated against and defamed after the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a hate group, causing Amazon to deny its application to fundraise through the online retailing giant’s charitable website. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court upheld …

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TX Gov To Fine Anyone Who Enforces Mask Mandate

CNBC reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Thursday, reiterating his opposition to mask mandates, Covid-related business restrictions and vaccination requirements and issuing fines of up to $1,000 on those who fail to comply. The measure bans government agencies from requiring individuals to get vaccinated or provide proof of vaccination. Public and private entities receiving state funding are …

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Google To Ban “Sugar Dating” Apps From Play Store

The Verge reports: “Sugar dating” apps will not be allowed on the Android Play Store from September 1st, Google has announced as part of a series of policy changes for the platform. The change, which was first reported by Android Police, specifically prohibits apps relating to “compensated sexual relationships.” Other changes coming to the platform include a new crackdown on …

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Freedom Caucus Pushes To Eject Kinzinger And Cheney From GOP Conference Because They Are “Two Spies”

Mediaite reports: A group of House Republicans is leading a push to remove Reps. Liz Cheney (WY) and Adam Kinzinger (IL) from the GOP conference. The effort comes more two months after Republicans ousted Cheney from her leadership position as chair of the conference. Removing them from the conference would mean the end of their committee assignments and their ability …

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GOP House Reps Perform Mask Stunt On Senate Floor

The Hill reports: Nearly 40 maskless House Republican lawmakers walked across the Capitol and onto the Senate floor in protest of the Capitol physician’s decision to reinstate a mask mandate in the lower chamber but not in the upper chamber. Republicans complained that the policy, backed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats, is inconsistent, infringes on personal liberty, …

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MS Man Regrets Refusing Vax After Leg Amputation

New Orleans’s Fox News affiliate reports: Bryan Thompson, 43, is married to Audrey. He has a 6-year-old son named Endymion. He works for an IT company from home. He says he’s otherwise a healthy man, but he is unvaccinated against COVID-19. “I was unvaccinated, yeah, I myself was a little skeptical and I felt it got rushed, I wanted to …

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Woman Charged After Viral Close Call With Grizzly

The Billings Gazette reports: Samantha Dehring of Carol Stream, Illinois, has been charged in U.S. District Court in Yellowstone Park with feeding, touching, teasing, frightening or intentionally disturbing wildlife and violating closures and use limits. She is set to appear in court Aug. 26 at 9 a.m. in Mammoth. On May 15, Dehring was visiting the Roaring Mountain area of …

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NYC’s Vessel Sees Fourth Suicide Since 2019 Opening

The New York Daily News reports: A teenage boy jumped to his death at from the Vessel at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards as his horrified family watched, police said. The 15-year-old leaped off the 150-foot-tall structure near W. 33rd St. and 10th Ave. about 12:53 p.m., cops said. The teen is the fourth suicide from the structure since it opened two …

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DOJ Task Force To Focus On Threats To Election Officials

Via press release from the Justice Department: The Department of Justice has launched a law enforcement task force to address the rise in threats against election workers, administrators, officials, and others associated with the electoral process. “To protect the electoral process for all voters, we must identify threats against those responsible for administering elections, whether federal, state, or local,” said …

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FBI Most Wanted Capitol Riot Suspect Collared In PA

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: If there were any doubts about the role Samuel Lazar played during the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, the Lancaster County man cleared them up within hours of the attack. He posted to Facebook: “There’s a time for war. Our constitution allows us to abolish our [government] and install a new one in [its] …

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