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Facebook oversight board member rips social media giant as ‘inconsistent’ after Trump ban
Former federal judge on board says Facebook’s rules are both “arbitrary” and in “shambles.”
Utah County Censures Mitt Romney for Trump Impeachment Vote
Weber County GOP censured Sen. Mitt Romney Saturday during its convention for the senator’s vote to impeach former President Donald Trump earlier this year.
A Majority of Americans Support ‘Vaccine Passports’ for Some Activities, Poll Finds
by Andrew Trunsky
A majority of Americans support requiring proof of vaccinations when traveling on planes and attending events with large crowds, a Gallup poll released Friday shows.
The survey found that 57% of Americans supported requiring proof of vaccination on airplanes and that 55% supported requiring proof for events like concerts, shows and live sports. Just 43% and 45% of Americans said they were opposed, respectively.
Majorities of Americans, however, rejected “vaccine passports” for dining at restaurants, going to work and staying in a hotel. Just 40%, 45% and 44% of Americans supported requiring proof of vaccination for each activity.
The survey was published as more states plan to lift their coronavirus restrictions in the coming weeks and as more and more Americans get vaccinated, though the daily rate has slowed since April.
“Vaccine passports” became a political lightning rod almost immediately after the idea was floated, with Republicans railing against them and warning that they would infringe on civil liberties and give the government too much power. No more than 28% of Republicans supported requiring proof of vaccination for any of the five activities surveyed.
President Joe Biden’s administration also came out against them, saying that the government had no plans to require or enforce them.
The survey found that at least 62% of Democrats supported requiring proof of vaccination for the activities mentioned, with 85% saying that they supported it for air travel.
“Vaccine passports” have varied by state. Some have either implemented them or allowed private businesses to require them if they so choose, while others, like Florida, Montana and Texas, have passed legislation outlawing them in all forms.
Gallup surveyed 3,731 adults from April 19 to 25, and the poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
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Andrew Trunsky is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
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There Are Simple Reasons Liz Cheney Has To Go
Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Would you follow that guy into battle? Hell no. Even if you weren’t Irish, Italian, or from California, how could anyone trust him?
Now imagine if you’d found out that Eisenhower, as a side gig, was selling surplus ammunition and weapons to the Germans. “Hey, it’s just sitting around not being used, and they asked if I’d sell it to them,” or some such thing. Would anyone have faith in him?
Absolutely not. Yet, that’s what Liz Cheney has done as House Republican Conference Chair. And that’s why she has to go.
Her failure is not because she doesn’t like Donald Trump, that is the least important part of this whole drama, but because she can’t do the job. Her job is to hold the caucus together and advance the Republican agenda. She can’t do it, and it’s all her fault.
Cheney’s raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome aside, she has fired down her own trench too many times. Leaders, effective leaders, don’t attack their own troops. They can have differences with individuals, but when the chips are down, everyone has to be pulling in the same direction.
Scarlett Johansson urges boycott of ‘sexist’ Golden Globes unless organizers implement major reforms
Scarlett Johansson calls for boycott of ‘sexist’ Golden Globes after criticism of the HFPA for having NO black members.
- The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is made up of 90 international entertainment journalists who vote on Golden Globe Award winners
- The organization came under fire earlier this year when it was revealed there was zero black members
- Critics additionally claimed that the HFPA was also less inclusive to women and members of the LGBTQ community
- Earlier this week, the HFPA approved reforms to make their organization more inclusive; they vowed to hire diversity consultants and increase membership
- Scarlett Johansson has now hit out at the HFPA claiming she found the organization ‘sexist’
- She says stars should boycott the HFPA and the Golden Globes unless the reforms are properly implemented
- Fellow A-lister Mark Ruffalo has also hit out at the organization, despite winning a Golden Globe this year
- ‘Honestly, as a recent winner of a Golden Globe, I cannot feel proud or happy about being a recipient of this award,’ he said in a statement
Biden’s new left of racial radicals: Goodwin
The e-mail was short and nasty. After first calling Sen. Tim Scott “the token Uncle Tom” and the N-word, the writer added: “You knuckle dragging conservatives should be sent to the ovens.”
This is how political disagreement is often expressed today.
The writer, Mildred50, if that’s her real name, was one of many on the left who were infuriated that Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina, had the gall to declare that “America is not a racist country” in his rebuttal to President Biden’s address to Congress.
Scott did not duck the unfinished business on race or his experiences of being stopped for no reason by police. He was frank in acknowledging there is more work to do.
But he also put Biden to shame by hailing the enormous progress America has made, in stark contrast to a president who sounds stuck in the past when he compares new voting laws to the Jim Crow era and insists the country remains riddled with “systemic racism.”
For his common sense and optimism, Scott received deserved acclaim and, distressingly, an outpouring of hatred, with the “Uncle Tim” slur trending on Twitter for 12 hours.
Establishment Media Still Fixated on Donald Trump Four Months After Office
The establishment media’s fixation on Donald Trump before and after his astonishing 2016 victory over failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has sustained itself post-presidency.
The media on Saturday compiled the following headlines on their webpages to illustrate the fixation:
CNN:
- The ‘headache’ Trump left behind for Biden on the White House lawn
- Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general, judge rules
- Fact-checking Trump’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state
- Trump probably can’t pardon himself. He may still try
- How Trump’s fundraising could benefit his post-White House political life
- Cheney plans lengthy fight to turn GOP from Trump
- Trump Justice Dept. secretly obtained Post reporters’ phone records
- Liz Cheney’s months-long effort to turn Republicans from Trump threatens her reelection and ambitions. She says it’s only beginning.
- Trump’s out-of-power agenda: Retribution and GOP domination
- Ohio GOP censures Rep. Gonzalez over Trump vote, calls for his resignation
- Marooned at Mar-a-Lago, Trump Still Has Iron Grip on Republicans
- Justice Dept. Seized Washington Post’s Phone Records
- Inside the Decision on Trump’s Facebook Fate
- Virginia G.O.P.’s Choices for Governor: ‘Trumpy, Trumpier, Trumpiest’
- ‘It’s His Own Damn Fault,’ Top G.O.P. Pollster Says of Trump and Facebook
Asian Parents Rally Against NYC Schools Chancellor
Less than 4 percent of students at the city’s specialized high schools are African American, so the chancellor Meisha Ross Porter wants to get rid of the admissions test altogether.
But over 50 percent of students at the city’s specialized high schools are Asian American. A group of people who attended a rally Friday in Manhattan say they earned their right to be there.
Gordon Chang: Communist China Has Committed ‘Mass Murder’ of Americans
Last year, Congressman Eric Swalwell’s ties to the suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang brought Chinese espionage to the forefront of national discussion. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. And beyond espionage, the Chinese Communist Party has become increasingly belligerent globally—from fueling riots in America to encroaching in Nepali territory to celebrating COVID-19 deaths in India. What is the Chinese leadership hoping to achieve, and why do they believe—according to Chang—that they are running out of time? Furthermore, one year on, over 3 million people have died globally from COVID-19. Beyond covering up the initial outbreak, did China’s communist leaders intentionally spread this virus beyond its borders? And if it did, what does that mean for America and the world? In this episode, we sit down with China analyst Gordon Chang to understand the full scope of Chinese communist subversion. Subscribe to the American Thought Leaders mailing list …
Success Academy requiring all employees get vaccinated for COVID-19
The Success Academy Charter Schools network is requiring all employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19, raising questions whether the mandate is legal and will be imposed on all public schools, The Post has learned.
The network, which has 2,700 employees, runs 47 schools with 20,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. The schools — publicly-funded, but privately-managed — have kept all instruction remote since the pandemic, while the city Department of Education has offered in-person learning at many schools for up to five days a week.
But the city has not required teachers or other employees to be vaccinated, leaving it a personal decision.
“Starting on Monday, June 14, all employees will be required to be fully vaccinated. As we explained in an email in March, once vaccines were readily available, vaccines would be required,” Aparna Ramaswamy, Success Academy’s chief leadership and human resources officer, announced in a company email issued Friday.
The email continues, “Today, vaccine supply far outstrips demand and getting vaccinated is incredibly easy.”
COVID-19 vaccines are still under emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration, so mandates are not yet legal, some experts say.