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‘Expelled’ | Border Patrol Sends Illegals Back Where They Came From

HOUSTON (AP) — When officers led them out of a detention facility near the U.S.-Mexico border and onto a bus last month, the 12-year-old from Honduras and his 9-year-old sister believed they were going to a shelter so they could be reunited with their mother in the Midwest. They had been told to sign a paper they thought would tell the shelter they didn't have the coronavirus, the boy said. The form was in English,...

Trump Now SUPPORTS Mail-In Voting – In Florida

The president's shift on mail-in voting comes as new data indicates his assault on the practice may backfire on him come November. | Aug 4, 2020 Politico – President Donald Trump on Tuesday reversed his opposition to mail-in voting and encouraged it — at least in one crucial battleground state — after railing against the practice for months amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system...

Trump Vs. Fauci, Birx: Rift Grows Wider

"We continue to have a White House that has made a public health crisis in this country into a debate about whether people like Donald Trump or not." – Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary under President Barack Obama Chasm grows between Trump, government coronavirus experts PLUS: Conservative Matt Schlapp accuses Fauci of 'playing into the politics' of coronavirus pandemic Aug 5, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump was...

Birx ‘Pathetic’, Tweets Trump

August 3, 2020 CNN – President Donald Trump criticized Dr. Deborah Birx in a Monday tweet after she warned the pandemic is "extraordinarily widespread" in the US. While Trump and other top White House officials have publicly attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the tweet marked the first time Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, publicly drew Trump's ire. The dust-up comes as the country continues to be ravaged by coronavirus, with more than 150,000...

AOC: Priest Who Served Leper Colony Represents ‘White Supremacist Culture’

“This is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture looks like!” July 31, 2020 National Review – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.” Father Damien arrived in Hawaii in 1864 when the islands were an independent kingdom. The priest conducted missionary work on the islands and for the last 16 years of his life ministered to a...

“Officials Look The Other Way As Hooligans Tear Apart Our Cities”

"The same officials who tell us to keep our kids at home; who tell us to not pray in church, as we have always prayed; who limit our places of work and livelihood look the other way, often with approval, as hooligans tear apart our cities." Pandemic v. Protestors OPINION By Star Parker July 29, 2020 Decent Americans who are feeling perplexed today shouldn’t be ashamed about it. There is good reason to be perplexed. On the one hand,...

Green-Haired Protestor, Social Worker Charged In Beating of State Senator

Women charged in beating of state senator | Jul 29, 2020 | Madison, Wis. (AP) – Prosecutors on Wednesday charged two women, including a high school social worker, with attacking a Wisconsin state senator during a chaotic night of violence outside the state Capitol last month. Kerida O'Reilly, 33, and Samantha Hamer, 26, were each charged with one count of being a party to substantial battery, a felony punishable by up to $10,000 in fines and three-and-a-half...

Masks Are RUINING Nanny State Facial ID

"Face masks ... make it much harder for facial-recognition software to identify you." Americans begin to redefine PPE as 'Privacy Protection Equipment' CNN – Face masks are already known to stop the spread of coronavirus. Apparently, they can also make it much harder for facial-recognition software to identify you, too. This is the key finding of a new report released Monday from federal researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, which is...

Patriot Militia Backlash Versus Covid Rules, BLM

“We’ve seen a clear pivot from militia groups active in the so-called reopen protests to, now, armed security in local communities.” | July 27, 2020 High Country News – In the first weeks of June, as protests against police brutality spread across the country, a group of people who were neither demonstrators nor law enforcement began to appear in the streets. These members of the Patriot militia movement — an assortment of groups defined by anti-government,...

Can You Be Arrested For Not Wearing A Mask?

"Nobody's asking for a masking gestapo. We're just asking for good behavior and support from our local communities." | Some US police resist enforcing coronavirus mask mandates July 26, 2020 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Lang Holland, the chief of police in tiny Marshall, Arkansas, said he thinks the threat of the coronavirus has been overstated and only wears a face mask if he's inside a business that requires them. He doesn't make his officers wear...

Guv Insists Wings Don’t Count as Food Under Bar Reopening Rules

July 23, 2020 | Twitchy – As Twitchy reported a week ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York bars and restaurants could sell alcohol, but only to people who also ordered food. Apparently the science was that people who drank alcohol only tended to loiter and not social distance as much or something. Plenty suggested the idea of selling peanuts for a buck to take care of the food requirement, but Cuomo has made it somewhat...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort Have THIS In Common

Q. What do Roger Stone (convicted felon), Michael Flynn (pleaded guilty to a felony), and Paul Manafort (convicted felon) have in common? A. They’re all people Trump has had a powerful interest in silencing, and they're all people whom Trump publicly wished well. Now Trump has publicly wished Ghislaine Maxwell well ... Trump’s shout-out to Ghislaine hit the reset button on his exploitative history with women | OPINION By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN July 24, 2020 L.A. Times – At President Trump’s...

Walmart Shopper Pulled Gun During Mask Dispute: Cops

July 23, 2020 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Florida man is facing felony charges for pointing a gun at another Walmart shopper who had told him to wear a mask, officials said Thursday. Vincent Scavetta, 28, was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and improper exhibition of a firearm after surrendering Wednesday to Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies. At a Thursday hearing, bail was set at $15,000. According to an arrest report, Scavetta admitted to sheriff's...

Anti-Vaxxers Are ‘Nuts’: Boris Johnson

UK's Johnson dismisses anti-vaxxers as 'nuts' Jul 24, 2020 "The Latest' By The Associated Press | LONDON – U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dismissed campaigners seeking to oppose vaccinations, describing so-called anti-vaxxers as "nuts.'' Johnson asked staff at a London medical center what they thought of anti-vaxxers while adding, "There's all these anti-vaxxers now. They are nuts, they are nuts." Johnson was touring the east London center to promote a campaign for flu vaccinations ahead of winter. The anti-vaccination...

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