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A women&#8217;s pro golf league is making a change to its rules weeks after a man who claims to be a woman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-identifying-golfer-wins-womens-tournament-inches-closer-to-spot-on-lpga-qualifier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won a Florida tournament</a> and inched closer to a spot on the LPGA qualifying tour.
Hailey Davidson, who played golf on a men&#8217;s team in college before identifying as a woman, will no longer be allowed to compete in NXXT Golf after the league revised its policies, The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/08/ensuring-level-playing-field-womens-pro-golf-league-nxxt-rules-only-biological-females-eligible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Friday.
“Effective immediately, competitors must be a biological female at birth to participate,” NXXT said in a <a href="https://www.nxxtwomensprotour.com/post/nxxt-women-s-pro-tour-updates-eligibility-policy-to-protect-competitive-integrity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “This decision underscores the organization’s commitment to maintaining the integrity of women’s professional golf and ensuring fair competition.”
NXXT Golf CEO Stuart McKinnon added that the move demonstrates the league&#8217;s &#8220;commitment&#8221; to protecting women&#8217;s sports.
“Our revised policy is a reflection of our unwavering commitment to celebrating and protecting the achievements and opportunities of female athletes,&#8221; McKinnon said. &#8220;Protected categories are a fundamental aspect of sports at all levels, and it is essential for our Tour to uphold these categories for biological females, ensuring a level playing field.”
Davidson, 30, is currently sitting at 2nd place in the league&#8217;s <a href="https://nxxtwpt.bluegolf.com/bluegolfw/nxxtwpt24/poy/points/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standings</a>, which includes 92 players. The man who identifies as a woman won the NXXT Women’s Classic in January at the Mission Inn Resort and Club in Florida, which at the time put him at the top of the standings and bumped his total winnings for the season up to $4,206.84.
Davidson <a href="https://www.instagram.com/haileydgolf/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the decision in an Instagram story on Friday, saying, &#8220;Effective immediately, I have been removed (banned) from the next 3 NXXT tournaments that I had already signed up for and been approved to play. They changed their policy mid season, after me signing up already and being 2nd in the Player of the Year race.&#8221;
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The trans-identifying golfer then complained about female golfers who were upset with him playing against them.
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&#8220;As a player if your [sic] upset at me getting to play with my distance (245 yards) then you will never make it to LPGA tour where they are much better and longer than me,&#8221; Davidson wrote.
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Shortly after winning the women&#8217;s tournament, Davidson appeared in an interview with &#8220;Good Morning Britain,&#8221; where he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-identifying-golfer-admits-men-do-have-advantages-but-maintains-hes-competing-fairly-after-winning-womens-tournament" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that men have advantages over women in sports, but argued that because he had gender surgery, he no longer has that physical advantage over his female competitors.
“My whole philosophy behind all of this is I don’t believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there needs to be guidelines in effect,” Davidson said in the interview. “Going back even four years ago or even before I had surgery, I definitely had an advantage. I would 100% agree with that.”
“But the difference is now that years have gone on, three years after surgery, my physical capabilities now compared to back then are night and day,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So again, honestly, I 100% agree that men do have advantages. Say you get a trans person on hormones for a year or no surgery nothing… of course, for the most part, yeah they’re gonna have an advantage.”
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Transgender golfer, Hailey Davidson, says she fears for her safety after winning a place on a US tour designed to provide &#39;growth opportunities&#39; for female players. 
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Following the backlash to Davidson’s tournament victory, McKinnon said NXXT Golf would poll its players on transgender policies.

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Former President Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican National Committee (RNC) was further secured on Friday as his picks for the party&#8217;s leadership positions were unanimously elected.
The RNC voted on the chair and co-chair positions during its leadership meetings in Houston weeks after Ronna McDaniel announced she would be stepping down from RNC chairwoman. Shortly after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-at-rnc-after-trump-calls-for-removal-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> of McDaniel’s departure began swirling following Trump&#8217;s request that she step down, the former president endorsed Michael Whatley for chair and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump for co-chair, and both were elected by unanimous voice vote.
“President Trump deserves to have the team he wants in place at the RNC,” McDaniel <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/tearful-ronna-mcdaniel-hands-rnc-reins-over-to-lara-trump-michael-whatley-at-houston-coronation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> as she officially announced her resignation on Friday.
“I will do everything possible to re-elect President Trump in November,” she added. “And I ask all of you out there who worked so hard during this primary season or supported another candidate, that you come in and join me in supporting our president as well.”
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McDaniel was picked by Trump to chair the RNC following his 2016 election victory. Criticism over McDaniel’s leadership began mounting following the Republican Party’s disappointing results across the country in the 2022 midterm elections.
Whatley, the chair of the North Carolina GOP, spoke to those gathered after becoming the new RNC chair and pointed ahead to the 2024 election.
“In less than eight months, we are going to determine the fate of not only the United States but of the entire world,” he <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?533963-1/republican-national-committee-elects-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “And this body, the RNC, is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly, every single day to elect our nominee Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States, flip the Senate, expand our majority in the House of Representatives.”
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Whatley has served as the Republican state party leader in North Carolina since 2019 and also serves as general counsel for the RNC. Whatley formerly served in the George W. Bush administration and as chief of staff for former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC). He also advised the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign and the Trump-Pence transition team.
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In remarks following her election to co-chair, Lara Trump — the wife of Trump’s son Eric — stressed the importance of fundraising and held up a $100,000 check that she said the RNC had just received.
“We are going to make sure that every single penny of every dollar goes towards one goal, which is winning,” she said.
Last month, Lara Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lara-trump-republican-voters-absolutely-interested-in-rnc-paying-trumps-legal-bills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that GOP voters are “absolutely” interested in using RNC funds to help pay for her father-in-law’s mounting legal bills.
“That’s why you’ve seen a GoFundMe get started … people are furious right now and they see the attacks against him,” she said. “They feel like it’s an attack, not just on Donald Trump, but on this country … So I think that is a big interest to people. Absolutely.”

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The 26-year-old illegal immigrant charged in the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is listed as “an active member” of a Venezuelan gang, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources who spoke to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/migrant-charged-with-murdering-laken-rileys-easy-path-to-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>.
Jose Ibarra, who illegally crossed into the U.S. in 2022 with his then-girlfriend and 5-year-old son, is part of the Venezuelan El Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, and he has tattoos associated with the group, according to <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/711232421/Facts-in-Support-of-Motion-to-Detain-Diego-Ibarra#from_embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court documents</a> filed in the U.S. Middle District of Georgia.
“Tattoos commonly found on TdA members consist of weapons, stars, clocks, trains, five-pointed crowns, and the dollar sign. Following Ibarra’s arrest on February 23, 2024, photographs were taken of his tattoos. Some of Ibarra’s tattoos suggest that he is a member of TdA,” the court documents stated. “Ibarra has a five-pointed crown tattoo on the left side of his neck, and five-pointed stars on the right side of his neck. Ibarra also has a teardrop tattoo under his right eye – teardrop tattoos are often associated with gangs and gang culture and are not exclusive to TdA, or any single gang.”
After being arrested and detained by Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, in August 2022, Ibarra was released into the country and told to meet with ICE agents on October 24, 2024, more than two years after he illegally entered the U.S., the Post reported. ICE then reportedly moved its scheduled meeting with Ibarra back to December of 2024.
According to the court documents, Ibarra also posted pictures on social media last month showing him holding a gun even though it is illegal for noncitizens to possess a firearm in the U.S.
A year after Ibarra illegally entered the U.S., he was arrested in New York City by the NYPD for driving a moped with his girlfriend’s young son riding on the back without any helmet or protective restraint. The NYPD then released the illegal immigrant before ICE could issue a detainer for his arrest, according to the Post.
Ibarra then moved to Athens, Georgia, and in December 2023, he and his brother Diego were arrested for allegedly stealing food and clothing from a Walmart. They were both given a citation for misdemeanor shoplifting and let go.
Two months later, 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was found dead after she had gone on a run near the University of Georgia campus. Ibarra was arrested and charged with concealing the death of another, false imprisonment, felony murder, malice murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery in connection to Riley’s death.
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Riley’s murder sparked a national outcry for President Joe Biden to do more to curb the record number of illegal immigrants that have crossed the border under his watch. On Thursday, the Republican-led U.S. House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-led-house-passes-laken-riley-act-170-dems-vote-against-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the “Laken Riley Act,” a bill that would require federal officials to arrest illegal immigrants who have been charged with theft in the United States.

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A required leadership training program at retail pharmacy giant CVS asks participants to confess their privilege as part of a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) action plan, as well as pledge their allyship to various social justice causes, according to documents obtained by The Daily Wire.
The training, titled “Creating a DEI Action Plan,” was given last month to employees in the <a href="https://jobs.cvshealth.com/general-management-talent-programs/general-management-development-program/#:~:text=The%20GMDP%20is%20a%20transformative,Project%20management">General Management Development Program</a>, an accelerator program that prepares CVS professionals for careers in management. The training is labeled “GMDP Rotation 2 Curriculum” and demands that participants conduct a personal audit of their biases and commit to pushing the DEI agenda as allies.
&#8220;CVS Health’s commitment to inclusion and belonging is unwavering, and our holistic approach to strategic diversity management is inclusive of every one of our colleagues and those we care for each day,&#8221; a slide from the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/DEI-Action-Plan.pdf">DEI training</a> obtained by The Daily Wire states.
The pharmacy giant&#8217;s embrace of the DEI agenda comes as corporations across the country have faced backlash to the DEI agenda, with many high-profile companies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-releases-we-hear-you-statement-over-bud-light-backlash-beer-is-for-everyone">backpedaling</a> away from the woke philosophy. But others, including now CVS, appear to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nike-immune-from-conservative-backlash-despite-long-history-of-woke-advocacy">doubled down</a> on DEI.
Its embrace comes as it is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/01/14/heres-why-drug-stores-are-closing-in-minority-neighborhoods-walgreens-cvs-and-rite-aid-shutter-more-than-1000/?sh=9b338e341f42">criticized by the Left</a> for the decision to close stores in blue cities where crime is surging. &#8220;What they care about is maximizing profits for their shareholders,” said Jenny Guadamuz, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley in regards to the store closures. “They’ll make any excuse to close lower-profit stores, which are in these Black and Latino communities.”
But in private, CVS appears to be instructing all of its employees to acknowledge that they have biases.
In one slide titled, “My Personal Commitment to Moving Forward &#8211; Allyship and Advocacy,” the company demands that those in the leadership training program “reflect on the actions you can take to become a better ally and advocate in the workplace.”
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The presentation asks employees to make three allyship pledges, with a prompt reading, “To be a better ally and advocate in the workplace, I will commit to.” Participants are also asked to outline “specific actions I can take to be a better advocate” as well as why “it is important to create a culture of advocacy.”
“Use the below steps to define your personal commitment to moving forward in combatting biases,” reads another slide from the training titled, “My Personal Commitment to Moving Forward &#8211; Biases.” It goes on to ask: “Where are areas that you tend to have biases? What privileges do you have that others do not?”
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The slide asks participants to document “The personal bias I want to address” and “the inclusive trait I want to develop,” also inquiring how “addressing this personal bias will impact the CVSH/GMDP culture.”
“These two slides focus on identifying and combatting our personal biases and steps we can take to be allies and advocates,” the presentation says. “Allyship, advocacy, and combatting biases are major actions we can take to serve as champions of diversity, equity and inclusion.”
In response to an inquiry on the training, the company said it is part of the effort to &#8220;promote and maintain a culture and work environment that fosters inclusion, belonging, and engagement.&#8221;
“We remain focused on hiring, developing, and retaining a talented workforce that represents and reflects the diversity of the customers, communities, and patients we support,” CVS Health told The Daily Wire.
The training says that one of the &#8220;core&#8221; capabilities it&#8217;s looking for out of the leadership program is &#8220;inclusiveness.&#8221;
“Specifically in Rotation 2, we focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Involvement,” the training says. “Creating a DEI action plan is a great first step in identifying specific steps you can take to build your involvement in company-wide initiatives or your own daily practices.”
Another portion of the training showcases a “Social Identity Wheel,” calling on participants to discuss their gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity and consider the “identities you think about most often” as well as the “Identities that have the strongest effect on how you see yourself as a person.”
There appear to be other DEI trainings for GMDP participants, with one slide asserting that the exercises give participants “the foundation to engage in the remaining Rotation 2 ‘Inclusiveness’ curriculum items.”
The full presentation can be <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/DEI-Action-Plan.pdf">viewed here</a>.

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Joe Biden gives the screamiest, weirdest State of the Union address in modern history; we examine his bizarre set of policy recommendations, including building a pier in Gaza; and we check in on the overwrought media.

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A prison reform advocate is charged with murder and accused of stashing a human head in a freezer. Meanwhile, our Climate Czar is calling for the Russian military to reduce its emissions. Plus, I'll share what it was like at the State of the Union.

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Despite what President Biden said at the State of the Union, USC coach Lincoln Riley is still alive; UFC 299 is stacked; and Mike Tyson plans to fight Jake Paul this summer.

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It’s that time of year again when the nation’s leader steps up to the podium for the State of the Union—and we’re here to dissect every word. Join Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and the god-king himself, Jeremy Boreing, as they break down the 2024 State of the Union Address. Because liberty, truth, and a good dose of banter never go out of style.

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Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks with best-selling author, Air Force veteran, and psychologist Rob Henderson. They discuss his recent memoir “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class” and go through Rob’s tumultuous upbringing within the California foster care system, the lived and observed transformations of social status and class as he ascended to Yale and Cambridge, how his thoughts on family structure and “luxury beliefs” developed, and why bookstores won’t host him for his tour.

Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and in the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at the age of seventeen. Following his enlistment, he attended Yale on the G.I. Bill and was subsequently awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in psychology in 2022. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Quillette, among other outlets, and his Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than 50,000 subscribers.

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Hundreds of Google employees hijacked an International Women&#8217;s Day event to attack Israel and accuse Jews of victimizing themselves, screenshots provided to The Daily Wire reveal.
Google’s summit for International Women’s Day slated for Thursday was supposed to include on-topic audience questions submitted by employees through an internal <a href="https://support.google.com/dory/answer/9254865?hl=en">platform called Dory</a>. Instead, Google employees seized the opportunity to submit commentary bashing Israel.
Google software engineer Joelle Skaf was the first to post about Israel on the platform, encouraging Google to “avoid complicity in war crimes” and “stop taking money from the Israeli gov.” She received more than 500 upvotes from fellow employees on Dory which allows participants to up or down vote their colleague’s questions.
Google Risk and Compliance Senior Advisor, Zaynab Hararah, joined in, accusing her colleagues of being complicit in “the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” and victimizing themselves “with feelings of unsafety and anti-Semitism.” 
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Concerns of anti-Semitism within the ranks of Google come as the tech giant faces backlash over discriminatory behavior by its artificial intelligence product, Gemini. Critics say the product’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-pauses-ai-chatbots-image-generation-feature-after-accusations-of-racism-toward-white-people">diversity-obsessed image generator</a> that has been labeled “anti-white,” is the result of political biases of the Google-employed creators.
Last month, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kill-all-jews-google-grapples-with-internal-anti-semitism-in-months-since-hamas-attack">reported</a> on internal anti-Semitic incidents taking place at Google, including the words “kill all jews” found written on a bathroom wall inside its offices and a Jewish employee being assaulted by anti-Israel protesters on one of their campuses.
After Google closed the forum and deleted the &#8220;off topic&#8221; questions, Skaf, the original commenter, moved her commentary over to another internal chat with over over 2,200 participants, according to the internal screenshots.
“We, Jewish people, are afraid at work,” said an employee who requested anonymity due to fears of retribution by the company. “A large, multinational tech firm that supposedly hires the best and brightest people, and I and my Jewish colleagues have to worry about what we&#8217;ll encounter when we go to the cafeteria or if the agenda of a discussion group might be hijacked with antisemitic content.” 
“It&#8217;s not something I thought we&#8217;d feel in our generation, it&#8217;s something our grandparents&#8217; generation had to deal with,” the anonymous employee added.
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A Google spokeswoman confirmed the incident, criticizing the &#8220;off-topic and divisive questions.&#8221;
&#8220;We were pleased to host an event to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day,&#8221; the spokeswoman said. &#8220;Unfortunately, before the event, a series of off-topic and divisive questions and comments were posted to internal forums. Our internal community guidelines team routinely removes divisive content that is disruptive to our workplace, and did that here.”
Other comments submitted by employees questioned how the company could celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day while working with Israel. 
Moe Adel, a Google software engineer, said it&#8217;s important to question how the theme of the summit, “Her Power, Her Voice,” can be supported while “ignoring the cries for help from Palestinian women who have been systematically deprived of their fundamental human rights.”
Google software engineer Fayssal Martani criticized Gemini, the company&#8217;s AI product, claiming she asked “do women in Gaza deserve human rights,” to which the AI tool told her to “look it up online.” 
“Does Google not fear reputational damage when its tools blatantly show such bias?” she added. (The Daily Wire asked Martani&#8217;s question as well as if Israeli women deserve human rights to Gemini, to which the product responded to use Google search for an answer.)
Khaled Monsoor, a Google engineer, accused the Israel Defense Forces of deliberately killing more than 8,500 civilian women &#8220;whose only crime was to be born in the open-air concentration camp, called Gaza.&#8221;
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t expect much from the corpspeak &#8216;leadership&#8217;, because they&#8217;re continuing to be aligned with US foreign policy to not get sanctioned; like IBM did with Germany back in 1939~1944,&#8221; Monsoor wrote.
Many employees took issue with Project Nimbus, a cloud computing project of the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces that contracts Google and Amazon to use various services such as AI and machine learning.
“[A]s a Google Cloud engineer, I think about whether my work has ever enabled the killing of any Palestinian in Gaza,” Martani wrote in another post. “Leadership is failing us by not providing a clear answer!”
The manager of Google Israel, Barak Regev, was interrupted by one of the company’s engineers last week during a speech who was shouting that he refuses “to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid or surveillance.” In a video, the disruptor who took issue with Project Nimbus was seen being escorted out by security.
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A Google Cloud engineer just interrupted Google Israel managing director Barak Regev at Israeli tech industry conference MindTheTech this morning in NY.
“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide!” he yelled, referring to Google’s Project Nimbus contract <a href="https://t.co/vM9mMFlJRS">pic.twitter.com/vM9mMFlJRS</a>
&mdash; Caroline Haskins (@car0linehaskins) <a href="https://twitter.com/car0linehaskins/status/1764681078206337434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Earlier this week, an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation – interfering with an official company-sponsored event,&#8221; a spokesperson for Google told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This behavior is not okay, regardless of the issue, and the employee was terminated for violating our policies.&#8221;

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President Joe Biden faced widespread backlash to his Thursday night State of the Union speech as non-Democrats panned it as the &#8220;most partisan&#8221; address they&#8217;ve ever seen from a president.
Biden repeatedly mocked and taunted Republicans throughout the night as he tried to paint a rosy picture of his first term in office.
The 81-year-old president, who is trailing former President Donald Trump in the polls, yelled throughout his speech and appeared to talk faster than he normally does.
&#8220;If this is Joe Biden making a case that he is a sane and rational person in charge of a moderate policy agenda, he&#8217;s&#8230;not doing it,&#8221; said The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro.
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If this is Joe Biden making a case that he is a sane and rational person in charge of a moderate policy agenda, he&#39;s&#8230;not doing it.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1765939855240937735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Biden is just off,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1765929115406721184">said</a> former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. &#8220;His tone, his speed of delivery, his loud punchy way of speaking, is really weird. This speech is odd.&#8221;
Donald Trump Jr. <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1765932583303463374">added</a>, &#8220;If you actually believe that the State of the Union is strong and getting stronger under Joe Biden, then you&#8217;re probably spending too much time smoking crack with Hunter Biden!&#8221;
The Border Patrol Union <a href="https://twitter.com/BPUnion/status/1766108178079785463">posted</a> on X: &#8220;The most arrogant, self-absorbed, clueless and angry loser ever. Never held a real job. Lifetime political hack. Joe Biden is the epitome of what so many Americans despise about politicians.&#8221;
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles that out of the 12 State of the Union speeches he&#8217;s watched, &#8220;This was by far, the worst I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;
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&#8220;So, this was a campaign speech. But it was an exceptionally bad campaign speech,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;So, Biden was angry. He was bitter. He was screaming. He was extreme. And he was completely out of touch. The entire speech reminded me of a grumpy old man standing on his front porch screaming at the kids get off my front lawn.&#8221;
Knowles called the speech &#8220;very odd&#8221; because Biden &#8220;was yelling and slurring his words&#8221; and his cadence was off the whole night.
Other top responses included:
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Ukraine and potato chips were more important to the President than Laken Riley.
&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1765939088492830841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Biden is essentially giving the same speech he gave 50 years ago and Woodrow Wilson gave over 100 years ago. Class warfare, soak the rich and businesses. Tax and spend and borrow. Hey, Joe. Everyone paid more taxes than Hunter. And you&#39;ve been in government forever. I guess…
&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1765938967956897845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is the most partisan State of the Union address I’ve ever seen. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StateOfTheUnion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StateOfTheUnion</a>
&mdash; Brendan Steinhauser (@bstein80) <a href="https://twitter.com/bstein80/status/1765938385061912645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Joe Biden just covered potato chips and Snickers in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOTU</a> before he mentioned the crisis at the border.
&mdash; Tate Mitchell (@tatemitchellga) <a href="https://twitter.com/tatemitchellga/status/1765937274749853738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Six Americans are being held hostage by Hamas right now. 34 were murdered on October 7. And it can’t even make the first hour of this speech. Stunning.
&mdash; Richard Goldberg (@rich_goldberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/rich_goldberg/status/1765939571395608646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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We had a secure border. Then President Biden ripped up our border policies that worked.
He doesn&#39;t need Congress. He simply needs to reverse his reckless policies.
&mdash; Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1765938009667436894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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If you want confirmation that America lacks a serious policy on China and Iran, just go back and read the transcript from last night’s SOTU.
&mdash; Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JSchanzer/status/1766182943968440782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Last night, the State of the Union sounded more like the State of the Campaign. President Biden attacked his GOP opponent, labeled his opponents as threatening democracy, and even confronted the Supreme Court justices sitting in front of him that the voters will fix their wagons.
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1766060615078973758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That was by far the most disastrous state of the union address I’ve ever witnessed — in my 52 years on this planet.
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1765946158076015007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is already easily the worst State of the Union speech we&#39;ve ever heard in our lifetime. Angry, slurring, accusatory, hyper partisan. A disaster for Biden.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1765931510274625956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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One Angry Biden Lie After Another
A demagogic fuming Biden gave another Phantom of the Opera speech blasting conservatives for all the destruction that he has caused and has resulted in his own historic unpopularity.
All too aware that he was confused and incoherent, his…
&mdash; Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) <a href="https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1766177370246140299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is a political speech — it’s divisive. 
Joe Biden is not a leader. 
People can’t buy groceries or pay their gas bills, but here he is dividing Americans against each other. 
Where is the hope? Where are the solutions?
&mdash; Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1765940797566849468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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An online <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/books">bookstore</a> that advertised itself as being committed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/free-speech">sharing ideas</a>, even those which are deemed controversial, has removed titles from conservative authors amid backlash.
Television host and activist RuPaul is a co-founder of the “all-inclusive” online bookstore Allstora, according to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rupauls-all-inclusive-anti-censorship-book-store-immediately-removes-right-wing-titles/">National Review</a>. He started the online store with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a> advocate and author Eric Cervini and drag performer Adam Powell.
The site advertised that they would carry titles from authors of all points of view, and books for sale on the site initially ranged from Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to the graphic, controversial coming-of-age book “Gender Queer.”
“We’re a marketplace for all books and all stories, with a focus on elevating marginalized voices,” the site originally touted, according to NR. “You may find books you disagree with,” a pop up ad warned, while the FAQ page said, “Allstora has made the decision to carry all books” and “censorship of any book, perspective, or story is incompatible with the survival of democracy.”
“Banning books is never the answer,” the site&#8217;s messaging, which has since been deleted, said, according to <a href="https://www.themarysue.com/rupauls-online-bookstore-controversy-explained/">The Mary Sue</a>. “We cannot fight the ideologies of hate if we lack the ability to study, understand, and react to them. We do that by reading books.”
However, left-wing activists were outraged that Allstora offered titles by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Matt Walsh, Riley Gaines, and Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik, among others. At first, the website&#8217;s founders attempted to diffuse tension by promising to create “a community-led flagging system for titles that are contrary to our core values” and subsequently “donating all proceeds from these titles to fight book bans,” National Review noted.
But that wasn’t enough. After three days of critics railing against Allstora for selling “homophobic,” “transphobic,” “anti-woke,” and “Nazi” books, the founders relented and removed all free speech messaging from the page, according to National Review. Many works by conservative authors were removed from the page, while some other titles remained available.
The drama comes on the heels of RuPaul announcing a “Rainbow Book Bus” that seeks to distribute “diverse books to communities facing book bans and censorship, especially in LGBTQ+ communities.” The bus will embark on a cross country tour later this year, the “Drag Race” host told <a href="https://people.com/rupaul-launches-new-online-book-marketplace-and-book-club-8603704">People</a> during an interview this month.
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“I started reading books at a very early age, and they were a lifeline to the rest of the world for me,” RuPaul told the outlet. “I loved the idea of knowledge is power, and knowledge is a way to transport yourself to wherever you wanna be.”

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‘All-Inclusive’ Bookstore Co-Founded By RuPaul Yanks Conservative Titles Following Backlash

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oprah-defends-her-use-of-weight-loss-medication-obesity-is-a-disease" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oprah Winfrey</a> will host an ABC special focusing on the popularity of Ozempic as a weight loss drug, which she has called a &#8220;personal topic&#8221; for her.
The 69-year-old billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">TV personality</a> — who has been open in the past about her weight loss struggles and has defended using the medication (which is intended as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes) to lose weight — will host &#8220;An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution&#8221; in front of a live studio audience, <a href="https://www.accessonline.com/articles/oprah-winfrey-to-host-tv-special-on-ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-personal-topic-for-me">Access Hollywood</a> reported.
&#8220;It is a very personal topic for me and for the hundreds of millions of people impacted around the globe who have for years struggled with weight and obesity,&#8221; Winfrey said in a statement.
&#8220;This special will bring together medical experts, leaders in the space and people in the day-to-day struggle to talk about health equity and obesity with the intention to ultimately release the shame, judgment and stigma surrounding weight,&#8221; she added.
According to a press release from ABC,  the event will gather together &#8220;leading medical experts and everyday people&#8221; to discuss the &#8220;prevailing questions and concerns surrounding the impact on our health care, economy, lifestyle and culture.&#8221;
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Disney Television Group president Craig Erwich said in a statement, &#8220;We are thrilled to work with Oprah and the voices she has assembled to open a dialogue that destigmatizes and educates viewers on the important and polarizing topic of weight loss.&#8221;
&#8220;I can think of no one better to lead this meaningful conversation about such a critical issue that touches all of our lives,&#8221; his statement added.
Winfrey recently opened up about her decades-long weight loss struggle and said she&#8217;s done with &#8220;shaming&#8221; and blaming herself, <a href="https://people.com/oprah-winfrey-reveals-weight-loss-medication-exclusive-8414552">People magazine</a> reported.
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&#8220;It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years,&#8221; the media mogul said of the media&#8217;s reporting on her fluctuating weight over the years. &#8220;I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.&#8221;
&#8220;I now use it [Ozempic] as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The fact that there&#8217;s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself,&#8221; Winfrey continued. 
The primetime special will air Monday, March 18 at 8 PM on ABC and premiere on Hulu the following day, the outlet noted.

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A new report states that the terrorist group Hamas has been commandeering food supplies sent into Gaza and selling them at exorbitant prices on the black market.
Zvika Klein, the current editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-790880">spoke</a> with a current senior Israeli defense official who asserted that the claims food shortages are ignoring the reality of Hamas’ malfeasance.
“The food shortage and use of the word ‘hunger’ have been exaggerated,” the defense official told Klein, adding that food Israel has delivered into Gaza has “immediately been taken by Hamas terrorists, who then sell some of the supplies for ten times more than what it’s worth &#8230;” 
“Every family has enough food to survive,” the defense official said of the food that has been delivered. “Are they eating five meals a day? The answer is no. We have been supplying them with aid as well as the U.S., but unfortunately, it wasn’t distributed to the citizens themselves.”
“There are those who are hungry since Hamas has taken all of the food and they don’t have enough money to pay Hamas on the black market,” a former senior Israeli defense official told Klein. The official added that gangs loyal to Hamas seize the food and aid supplies at gunpoint. “The situation in Gaza is akin to hunger in New York, where homeless people suffer not from a lack of food but from a lack of money to purchase it &#8230; This condition reinforces [Hamas’] narrative, portraying hunger as a consequence of external forces and legitimizing their control.”
The former defense official stated that Hamas has deliberately shot down food drops from the United States, Jordan, and the UAE in order to promote the idea that Gazans are starving. He conjectured that if food aid were successful, Hamas would lose clout in Gaza and lose control of the populace.
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A third defense official said, “We should have categorized this war as the Israel-Iran War or even the West-vs-Iran war,” referring to Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and other terrorist groups, all connected to Iran’s theocratic, Israel-hating regime.
He noted that Israel has been working to eliminate proxies of Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, adding, “The Americans should also be actively eliminating Hamas proxies because it is in their interest. Unfortunately, and although we have tried to convince them to do so, they haven’t yet understood the importance – not only from an Israeli perspective, but actually from their own.”

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On Friday morning, a United Airlines flight landing at George W. Bush Airport in Houston, Texas, &#8220;rolled into the grass.” 
“The plane is a Boeing 737 Max 8 delivered last June,” CNN <a href="https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1766121005942972720">reported</a>.
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⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/flightradar24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@flightradar24</a>⁩ UAL2477 (?) off the runway at IAH <a href="https://t.co/d2w5g1D8Kb">pic.twitter.com/d2w5g1D8Kb</a>
— Ren Ganner (@RenGanner) <a href="https://twitter.com/RenGanner/status/1766106367834607810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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JUST IN: A <a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@united</a> jet is off the runway at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston. <a href="https://twitter.com/AirportsHouston?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AirportsHouston</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/KPRC2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KPRC2</a> there are no injuries. <a href="https://t.co/TfCVDIvpjm">pic.twitter.com/TfCVDIvpjm</a>
— Gage Goulding &#8211; KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) <a href="https://twitter.com/GageGoulding/status/1766109534592864356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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According to one report, the airplane “suffered a left main landing gear collapse after trying to taxi off runway 27 at IAH airport in Houston, Texas. It’s unclear whether the gear collapsed as a result running off the taxi way or it failed. 
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United Airlines Flight 2477 (Boeing 737 MAX 8) has suffered a left main landing gear collapse after trying to taxi off runway 27 at IAH airport in Houston, Texas. It’s unclear whether the gear collapsed as a result running off the taxi way or it failed. Another bad day for United… <a href="https://t.co/2GrKI4wRGS">https://t.co/2GrKI4wRGS</a> <a href="https://t.co/uLxrpdrUYc">pic.twitter.com/uLxrpdrUYc</a>
— Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) <a href="https://twitter.com/thenewarea51/status/1766121555569025244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But one X user who claimed to be a passenger on the plane demurred, saying, “I was on this flight and I assure you, the landing gear didn’t fail. We were landed &amp; fully upright. Pilot ran out of runway &amp; tried to turn too fast, we slid off. That’s when landing gear was broken.”
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I was on this flight and I assure you, the landing gear didn’t fail. We were landed &amp; fully upright. Pilot ran out of runway &amp; tried to turn too fast, we slid off. That’s when landing gear was broken. Total coverup United.
— Andrea M (@AndreaM987654) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreaM987654/status/1766126404071223715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, a United Airlines plane <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/united-plane-loses-tire-takeoff-san-francisco-international-airport/3475104/">taking off</a> from San Francisco International Airport lost a tire, which plunged to the ground and damaged vehicles in a parking lot. The plane, bound for Japan, which was diverted to Los Angeles.
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In January, a fuselage plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in mid-flight. The National Transportation Safety Board’s Clint Crookshanks <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/us/alaska-airlines-plug-door-found-investigation-monday/index.html#:~:text=New%20details%20are%20emerging%20on,been%20grounded%20nationwide%20for%20inspections.">told</a> a news conference, “We have not yet recovered the four bolts that restrain it from his vertical movement and we have not yet determined if they existed there. That will be determined when we take the plug to our lab.”
“We don’t know if there were bolts there, or if they are just missing and departed when the door plug departed,” National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy added.
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“The current system is not working; it is not delivering safe aircraft,” FAA chief Michael Whitaker has stated. Boeing and the FAA have <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/02/26/airline-safety-requires-a-change-in-employee-culture/">agreed</a> that using independent, third-party inspectors to examine Boeing’s assembly lines would be a step toward enhanced safety.
But critics say that such a plan is not sufficient, arguing that a better plan would be for Boeing employees to offer voluntary reports if they spotted manufacturing errors.

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Reality TV star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/todd-and-julie-chrisley-receive-1-million-following-tax-evasion-investigation-against-reality-stars">Julie Chrisley</a> of &#8220;Chrisley Knows Best&#8221; opened up about the moment a prison doctor shared news with her about a possible tumor.
During Savannah Chrisley&#8217;s recent &#8220;Unlocked&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlpHT_105M">podcast</a> episode, Julie Chrisley&#8217;s daughter got emotional as she shared several letters that her mom had written to her from prison — where she&#8217;s served a year behind bars so far after being convicted for fraud and tax evasion in 2022.
&#8220;I walked in thinking it was gynecology,&#8221; Chrisley’s letter read. &#8220;I sat down with the doctor and she proceeded to tell me that my HCG level was high — 10.2. This is a pregnancy hormone. It should not be that high.&#8221;
&#8220;If it were a little higher, I would test positive on a pregnancy test,&#8221; the letter added.&#8221;Since that&#8217;s not a possibility, it could be a sign of a tumor.&#8221;
&#8220;I literally fell apart,&#8221; Chrisley&#8217;s letter continued. &#8220;How can this be happening? I&#8217;m going to have blood work redone and get a scan. I&#8217;ve not told anyone and I&#8217;m not going to until I know what&#8217;s going on. I&#8217;m so scared. I just want my husband [<a href="https://people.com/tag/todd-chrisley/">Todd Chrisley</a>]. I don&#8217;t know if I can do this without him.&#8221;
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&#8220;This right here is a perfect example of the lack of healthcare that you receive in the system and how they&#8217;re not the most educated doctors that work for the BOP[Federal Bureau of Prisons],&#8221; Savannah said after she finished the letter.
&#8220;They tell your family absolutely nothing,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t notified of any of this. They don&#8217;t care. If my mom were to go to the hospital I would not know. And to think of her sitting there worrying about, &#8216;Oh, my God. My cancer may be back…'&#8221;
Julie was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2012 and ended up having a double mastectomy as well as a hysterectomy before sharing she was in remission, <a href="https://people.com/julie-chrisley-fell-apart-when-prison-doctor-shared-news-of-possible-tumor-8604805">People magazine</a> noted. 
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In March 2022, on her podcast &#8220;Chrisley Confessions,&#8221; Julie revealed that her doctor told her she no longer had to take the cancer treatment pill tamoxifen to prevent recurrence.
In June 2022, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-stars-todd-and-julie-chrisley-react-to-divorce-rumors-while-in-prison">Julie and her husband Todd Chrisley</a> were convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. In addition, Julie was also convicted on a charge of wire fraud and obstruction of justice. They have denied the charges.
The couple was sentenced in November 2022 to a total of 19 years behind bars after they were convicted for their multimillion-dollar bank fraud and tax evasion scheme, <a href="https://people.com/tv/todd-chrisley-julie-chrisley-report-to-prison/?hid=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;did=8020388-20230117&amp;utm_source=ppl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=people-news_newsletter&amp;utm_content=011723&amp;lctg=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc">People</a> noted. Both were also ordered to serve an additional 16 months of probation following their releases.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-stars-todd-and-julie-chrisley-sentenced-to-prison">Chrisleys</a> reported in Jan. 2023 to begin their individual sentences.  Later in the year, a judge reduced Todd&#8217;s 12-year sentence by two years and reduced Julie&#8217;s 7-year sentence by 14 months, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-stars-todd-and-julie-chrisleys-sentences-have-been-reduced">reported</a>.

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A controversial bill that could completely ban the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from being downloaded in the U.S. is headed to the House floor after a Congressional committee voted unanimously on Thursday to advance the legislation.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a bipartisan vote of 50-0, Fox Business <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bill-banning-tiktok-app-headed-house-unanimous-committee-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The <a href="https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/TIKTOK_xml_a8572d67bb.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a>, titled the ‘‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” would require ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to divest the social media app or face an outright ban in the U.S. It would also create a process for the executive branch of the federal government to ban apps in the future that are deemed a “national security” risk.
“This is my message to TikTok: break up with the Chinese Communist Party or lose access to your American users,” <a href="https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-bipartisan-coalition-introduce-legislation-protect-americans-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Gallagher, who chairs the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. “America’s foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States. TikTok’s time in the United States is over unless it ends its relationship with CCP-controlled ByteDance.”
The act considers ‘‘controlled by a foreign adversary” to mean:
<blockquote>(A) a foreign person that is domiciled in, is headquartered in, has its principal place of business in, or is organized under the laws of a foreign adversary country; (B) an entity with respect to which a foreign person or combination of foreign persons described in subparagraph (A) directly or indirectly own at least a 20 percent stake; or (C) a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B).</blockquote>
While the bill is supported by numerous GOP congressmen, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), some Republican lawmakers and former President Donald Trump have voiced their opposition to a total ban on TikTok.
“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112058087970558736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social on Thursday. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!”
Trump’s comments on a potential TikTok ban mark a shift in the former president’s stance on the issue. While still in the White House in 2020, Trump suggested banning TikTok in the U.S. and issued an executive order calling on ByteDance to divest from its popular social media app, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4518822-trump-rips-potential-tiktok-ban-after-supporting-one-as-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The order was later <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/03/08/trump-condemns-potential-tiktok-ban-despite-pushing-for-ban-during-his-presidency/?sh=6781857d3f58" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> by federal judges.
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Trump wasn&#8217;t alone in his criticism of the legislation.
“If Congress bans TikTok, they will be acting just like the Chinese communists who have also banned TikTok,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1766095034183483806" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Why not just defend the first amendment?”
X owner Elon Musk also <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1766104727664693674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chimed in</a> on the proposed TikTok ban, agreeing with Trump.
TikTok responded to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s passage of the bill, saying in a statement on Thursday, &#8220;This bill is an outright ban of TikTok, no matter how much the authors try to disguise it. This legislation will trample the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans and deprive 5 million small businesses of a platform they rely on to grow and create jobs.”
The social media app also encouraged users to contact their congressman and voice their opposition to the legislation. Gallagher said that lawmakers’ offices have been flooded with calls regarding the measure and accused TikTok of “intimidating members considering that bill.”
The White House has <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236363592/biden-tiktok-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> its support for the potential TikTok ban even as President Joe Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign uses the app to boost his message to potential voters.

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From the same studio that made the blockbuster hit “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sound-of-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound of Freedom</a>” comes the extraordinary new film “Cabrini,” the story of an Italian immigrant woman whose tenacity and faith lead her to overcome every obstacle she faces in order to create her “Empire of Hope.”
Award-winning director of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-of-freedom-beats-taylor-swift-to-finish-in-top-ten-at-2023-domestic-box-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound Of Freedom</a>,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-of-freedom-director-talks-possible-sequel-following-films-success" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Monteverde</a>, and Angel Studios have brought to life the story of an Italian nun named Francesca Cabrini who set sail on a passenger ship in the late 1800s for New York City with little more than a few personal belongings along with six of her Missionary sisters.
Her dream was to establish a home for orphaned immigrant children along with schools and hospitals, not only in the West but eventually all across the world.
As a <a href="https://www.angel.com/press/release/angel-studios-set-to-release-cabrini-from-sound-of-freedom-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description</a> of the movie reads, “Through her willpower, courage, compassion, and business skill, she overcame sexism and violent anti-Italian bigotry while fighting against an establishment seeking to hold her back.”
The film is aided by a star-studded cast of actors such as John Lithgow (“Third Rock from the Sun,” “The Old Man”), David Morse (“The Green Mile,” “The Rock” ), and Giancarlo Giannini (“Quantum of Solace,” “Casino Royale”). 
It’s actress Cristiana Dell’Anna, however, who is the driving force of the film. Her compelling portrayal of Cabrini causes the audience to cheer for her as she fights against the various leaders who don’t want her orphanage or dreams to disturb the status quo. 
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The film takes just a snippet of Cabrini’s life, focusing very little on her early childhood growing up in Northern Italy with poor health and nearly drowning as a child. It starts with the first step to making her dream a reality when she must fight just to get the chance to speak to Pope Leo XIII about her plans to take care of the children in the East and work her way to the West.
Without giving away too much, the Pope ends up supporting her goal and tells her to start in the West first and work her way to the East. So she does.
She sets sail for America in 1889 and arrives in New York City, in the slums called Five Points. The first night there, Cabrini and her fellow sisters are “greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children,” as <a href="https://www.angel.com/press/cabrini" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angel Studios</a> noted.
With no place to sleep, the sisters end up meeting a prostitute who sticks out her neck and gives them shelter for one night. That moment creates a bond between Cabrini and the woman that proves instrumental to each of their futures.
While there, Cabrini ends up finding the homeless, abandoned children who are living “no better than the rats,” as a New York Times reporter would later label his piece. It is that article that not only brings the sisters the financial means to finally help the kids and support the orphanage, but it also brings to her doorstep those who want her out of the town and country.
Over and over again the Italian nun must fight to be heard, first with the local archbishop (David Morse) who tries to chase her out of town, and next with Mayor Gould (John Lithgow).
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Cabrini, who later in life became the Patron Saint of Immigrants, found incredible success after immigrating to America. Over the course of “34 years she [Cabrini] established an astonishing 67 hospitals, orphanages, and schools [around the world]. Her energy was fueled by an intense focus on serving Jesus in whatever he asked of her and her legacy still stands today,” <a href="https://www.angel.com/press/cabrini" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angel Studios</a> noted in a press release.
Daily Wire spoke to longtime film producer Jonathan Sanger who said that as far back as 2018, he was approached to produce a movie about the Italian immigrant who became the first patron saint.
Although he couldn’t see how a patron saint would fit into the kind of films he makes, the more he learned about Cabrini the more interested he became. As he told The Daily Wire, he came to realize she was an “extraordinary woman,” way ahead of her time.
“First of all, you want the audience to talk about the movie,” Sanger told us. “You also want them to walk away with something to talk about. Something to think about. And to me thinking about what you personally can do. You may not be able to do what Mother Cabrini did, but any little thing that you do is an important step. And I think that’s a good thing to come away with.”
When it came to the script, Sanger said they used quotes and phrases Cabrini actually said during her lifetime. One of the many that stood out to him was, “We can serve our weakness, or we can serve our purpose. We can&#8217;t do both.”
The film’s producer said he hopes the audience comes away with the realization that one person really can make a difference.
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Movie reviewers have called “Cabrini” an “epic tale,” ”beautiful,” and more.
“Her unwavering faith feels genuine and guides her every action,” one <a href="https://filmthreat.com/reviews/cabrini/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewer</a> wrote. “The legendary Giannini does not have a ton of scenes but commands all of them. Morse makes his ambivalent, seeming archbishop relatable. Lithgow is terrific as the corrupt mayor.”
Another <a href="https://aisleseat.com/cabrini.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewer</a> added, “Cabrini takes you through the gamut of emotions. Parts of it are intensely dramatic, others unexpectedly humorous.”
“Thinking about what the children go through is scary,” the review added. “Most important of all, realizing what Mother Cabrini accomplishes is downright inspiring, as it reminds us we all have the power to make a difference. This is destined to be one of the biggest feel-good movies of the year.”
While a third <a href="http://nycmovieguru.com/march8th24.html#cabrini" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Cabrini is a spellbinding, tender and empowering journey. It will make you stand up and cheer.”
Over on the movie review site <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cabrini" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, “Cabrini” has scored an 89% critics score.
Angel Studio hopes “Cabrini” will be just as successful as “Sound of Freedom,” which became the “16th highest grossing independent film of all time” and “made over $240 million worldwide, “ the studio noted.
“Cabrini” hit theaters nationwide on March 8, 2024.

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A federal official with the National Transportation Safety Board said that the controlled burning of toxic chemicals in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/east-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">East Palestine</a>, Ohio, after a massive train derailment last year was not justified. 
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told lawmakers on Wednesday that there would have been alternatives to busting open the train cars and burning the vinyl chloride chemicals inside after a train operated by Norfolk Southern crashed in February of 2023. The burn released toxic fumes into the area and left residents with concerns about their health and safety. 
The company in charge of the chemicals, Oxy Vinyls, reportedly did not think a deadly explosion would occur, telling contractors with Norfolk Southern that “there was no justification to do a vent and burn,” according to Homendy. Instead, they could have waited and let the chemicals cool down. 
Homendy said that Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) and other first responders did not know that this was a possibility. 
“So Oxy Vinyls was on scene providing information to Norfolk Southern’s contractor who was in the room when the decision was made, and when advice was given to the governor of Ohio, to the incident commander, they were not given full information because no one was told Oxy Vinyls was on scene,” Homendy said. “They were left out of the room. The incident commander didn’t even know they existed. Neither did the governor. So they were provided incomplete information to make a decision.”
The information came out as Homendy was <a href="https://www.vance.senate.gov/press-releases/ntsb-chair-homendy-chemical-explosion-in-east-palestine-didnt-need-to-happen-experts-were-ignored/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned</a> by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) about whether the controlled burn was necessary to avoid an explosion of the toxic chemicals. 
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“To sort of recap for folks, the mushroom cloud, the chemical mushroom cloud that captured headlines across the country was the result of a controlled burn,” Vance said, before saying that the central question was whether the burn was justified or not. Vance pointed out that the measured temperature of the chemical tank cars had dropped and stabilized after the crash. 
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Homendy said that to justify the burn, temperatures in the chemical tank cars would have to be rapidly increasing and there would have to be an infusion of oxygen into the cars. Both of these factors were not in play, according to Homendy. 
Vance called the revelations “extraordinary” and suggested that the burn was done so that more traffic and freight could be moved through quickly. 
After the crash, many East Palestine residents were forced to evacuate their homes after the derailment as the toxic chemicals burned, releasing poisonous fumes into the air, ground, and water. Norfolk Southern was sued by East Palestine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-class-action-lawsuit-filed-by-residents-against-norfolk-southern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">residents</a>, the state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/entirely-avoidable-ohio-sues-norfolk-southern-for-train-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a>, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-epa-unveil-lawsuit-against-norfolk-southern-over-east-palestine-train-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal government</a>.

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Supermodel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/giselle-bundchen">Gisele Bündchen</a> made more comments about how co-parenting with her ex-husband, retired NFL star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-brady">Tom Brady</a>, is going.
The pair have two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">childre</a><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">n</a>, Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 11. Brady also has a son, 16-year-old Jack, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan. 
&#8220;I think, you know, there’s easier days than other[s], but I think, you know, it&#8217;s amazing that the kids — they&#8217;re super smart children,&#8221; Bündchen <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/news/gisele-bundchen-interview-tom-brady-divorce-rcna142126">said</a> during an appearance on ABC&#8217;S &#8220;Impact x Nightline&#8221; with Robin Roberts.
&#8220;They know what they can get away with,” the 43-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">celebrity</a> continued. “So I think it&#8217;s natural that [they have] different rules and then kids just adapt. And they&#8217;re gonna try to do what they want, and I can only control what I do. I think, for me, now it&#8217;s really about the balance.&#8221;
&#8220;Tom has time with them and I have time with them, which I think is amazing,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They get to learn from two different worlds and that&#8217;s wonderful for them.&#8221;
The model also got emotional while sharing her feelings about  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/divorce">divorce</a>. 
After taking some calming breaths, she said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you wish for that, you know. But I think sometimes in life things happen… I feel so blessed because, like, I wouldn&#8217;t change anything in my life. I had incredible experiences, I learned so much, I have my children, which are the biggest blessings in my life,&#8221; Bündchen told Roberts. &#8220;I get to learn new things… I&#8217;m grateful for all of it. I&#8217;m grateful for every lesson.&#8221;
Bündchen, who announced in October 2022 that her 13-year marriage to Brady was over, had previously spoken about some of the more challenging aspects of the kids splitting their time between two houses.
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&#8220;The way you make your room, the way you organize and make your bed is the way you’re going to do your life,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gisele-bundchen-says-kids-find-her-parenting-style-different-from-ex-tom-brady-sometimes-i-get-pushback">told</a> Harpers Bazaar of conversations she’s had with her children. &#8220;‘If you’re not learning here and now, then when and with who?’ 
&#8220;Sometimes, I get pushback, especially because now they’re in two different homes and there are two different ways. But I feel like I owe it to my kids, because of what my mom taught me,&#8221; the celebrity added.

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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2024/03/06/highest-paid-actors-2023-adam-sandler-margot-robbie/?sh=53001af063a0">Forbes</a>&#8216; list of the top-earning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actors</a> for 2023 has been released, and it contained some familiar names as well as a few surprises.
Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-sandler">Adam Sandler</a> was the highest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/money">earner</a> last year thanks in part to his partnership with the streaming giant Netflix. The 57-year-old celebrity starred in and produced “Murder Mystery 2,” a comedy about detectives launching their own agency, which also starred Jennifer Aniston (another name on the top earners list).
Sandler also wrote, produced, and did voice work on the coming-of-age musical comedy “Leo” and appeared in the action comedy “The Out-Laws,” also put out by Netflix. He acted alongside his wife and daughters  in the comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”
Thanks to these efforts, Sandler brought in $73 million for the year.
Second on the list of top earners for 2023 was Margot Robbie, star of the summer blockbuster “Barbie.” The actress earned $59 million last year, and at the age of 33, was the youngest celebrity to appear on the list for 2023. 
Tom Cruise came in third place thanks to “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” The action thriller underperformed expectations but still brought in a huge payday for the A-lister. Cruise also earned residuals from his massive hit, “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022), bringing his salary in 2023 to an estimated $45 million. 
Two actors tied for the fourth place position. Both Matt Damon, who had a supporting role in the smash hit “Oppenheimer,” and Ryan Gosling, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in “Barbie,” brought home $43 million. Damon’s earnings were boosted by selling “Air,” his first project with Artists Equity Studio, to Amazon for $130 million.
Other names rounding out the top 10 for 2023 include Jennifer Aniston ($42 million), Leonardo DiCaprio ($41 million), Jason Statham ($41 million), Ben Affleck ($38 million) and Denzel Washington ($24 million). 
Forbes noted that the results are estimated based on interviews and data collected from industry sites such as IMDbPro. The outlet also reported that the numbers represent taxed earnings for the whole year and only account for income accrued through entertainment projects.
Tyler Perry was the number one top earner on the list in 2022, while Dwayne Johnson took the top spot for three consecutive years prior, per <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/08/adam-sandler-beats-margot-robbie-to-be-named-hollywoods-top-earner">The Guardian</a>.

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The European Commission previewed a proposal this week to create a €100 billion, or about $109 billion, defense fund to build out the bloc’s military industrial base, but earned criticism from some European leaders.
The proposal is aimed at making the European Union more self-reliant in providing arms, ammunition, and defense technology to its members. Officials backing the proposal said the fund is necessary to counter Moscow, a major concern of E.U. bloc members after Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago.
“In response to Russia&#8217;s aggression against Ukraine, the E.U. must bolster its defense capabilities,” E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/peace-dividend-dead-brussels-plan-war-ukraine-eurobonds-thierry-breton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> recently.
The plan would require unanimous approval from E.U. member countries. French President Emmanuel Macron has long supported a more centralized approach to defense from the E.U. Many of the bloc’s members have expressed skepticism at the proposal, however.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has previously <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/eu-army-commission-floats-e100-billion-defense-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that a centralized E.U. defense fund would be too impractical to work. Other officials, such as Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky, are wary of centralizing too much national security authority with the bloc.
“If the centralists have their way, we will have an E.U. army tomorrow, with an E.U. defence minister and EU headquarters, all under the umbrella of NATO,” he told <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/pure-fantasy-eu-defence-plans-criticised-by-member-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The European Conservative</a>.
The plan was introduced with an initial starting pot of about $1.5 billion, a small sum relative to its goal and the cost of funding a military, generally. Officials did not propose a clear mechanism for funding the European Defence Investment Program (EDIP), as the fund has been called, though Borrell did suggest this week that some of the money could be gained from siezed Russian assets.
“If we agree that these assets can be used to support Ukraine’s reconstruction, it could also be used to avoid Ukraine’s destruction, and its means to increase military capacities or the defense technological base of Ukraine,” Borrell <a href="https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1764972093416866104" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The EDIP, if implemented, would redirect billions of dollars away from the U.S. defense industry toward building up the continent&#8217;s own military-industrial complex. A French national security think tank, known as IRIS, found that the E.U. relies on foreign countries for the vast majority of its military manufacturing, with the United States being by far the bloc’s largest supplier.
“The value of defence acquisitions announced by EU countries from the start of the [Ukraine-Russia] war to June 2023 is of just above €100 billion. Over the 12 months from June 2022 to June 2023, they amounted to €75 billion, compared with €52 billion euros for the year 2021,” the September 2023 <a href="https://www.iris-france.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/19_ProgEuropeIndusDef_JPMaulny.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> said. “From this total, 78% is being procured from outside the EU, including 80% from the US, 13% from South Korea, 3% each from the UK and Israel, and 1% from other countries. This leaves €21 billion for EU countries themselves. Alone, the US accounts for 63% of EU countries&#8217; acquisition plans.”
The proposed EDIP plan would redirect much of Europe’s military spending toward building up a local national security industry over the next decade. The commission’s proposed timeline aims to have half of Europe’s defense spending local by 2030, increased to 60% by 2035.

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Teens and kids are not the only ones glued to their social media feeds anymore — the vast majority of adults spend time scrolling too.
Data released earlier this year shows that a majority of American adults use some kind of social media, but their habits and preferred platforms are different from younger users.
YouTube and Facebook are both about two decades old now, but they remain the top two platforms among adults.
YouTube is by far the most widely used platform among adults as well as teens. About eight in 10 American adults, 83%, say they have used the video-sharing platform at some point, according to recent <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/01/31/americans-social-media-use/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Pew Research Center, which polled more than 5,700 adults between May and September last year.
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Facebook is not far behind with a majority of U.S. adults, 68%, saying they use it. By contrast, teens have fled Facebook over the past decade as their parents, relatives, teachers, and other adults have joined. In 2022, only 32% of teens <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/#The-social-media-landscape-has-shifted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they had ever used Facebook, down from 71% in 2015.
Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, has attracted about half of adults with 47% saying they use the image-based platform.
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About a fifth of adults say they use Twitter, which was recently renamed X and is known for fast-moving discourse especially relating to politics and pop culture. A fifth also say they use Reddit, known for its hyper-specific communities and sometimes NSFW content.
Of course, TikTok has exploded in popularity in recent years, especially among teens and kids, but a third of adults have flocked to the video-sharing platform as well.
TikTok has seen a 12-point spike in adult users since 2021, while the percentages of adults who use YouTube and Facebook, the most popular platforms, have stayed about the same since 2021.
However, about half of TikTok&#8217;s adult users are observers only, meaning they have never posted a video themselves. This includes younger adults aged 18 to 34 — only half have ever posted a video.
Because of this, the vast majority of TikTok&#8217;s content is created by a small share of users. The top 25% of adults on TikTok produce 98% of that group&#8217;s publicly available videos.
The typical adult TikTok user has also left their &#8220;bio&#8221; blank on their account.
More people are now getting their news from TikTok too. Last year, about 14% of adults said they got news regularly from TikTok, more than four times the 3% who said so in 2020.
TikTok&#8217;s pivot to a news source echoes Twitter&#8217;s evolution, which has become many people&#8217;s go-to source for up-to-the-minute news updates.
Communities geared towards adult users, such as parenting content and even X-rated content, have popped up on many of the platforms popular with adults.
Meanwhile among teens, YouTube is the most popular platform with 95% of teens <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/#The-social-media-landscape-has-shifted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in 2022 that they use it, followed by TikTok with 67% of teens, Instagram with 62%, and then Snapchat, an app used to send disappearing photos and messages, with 59%.
Teen girls are more likely to use Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, while teen boys are more likely to use Reddit and Twitch, a self-streaming platform often used by video gamers.
The average social media user is also not just on one platform but uses an eye-popping six or seven platforms every month.
Overall, we&#8217;re all scrolling more. Across the globe last year, about 4.9 billion people <a href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/social-media-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used</a> social media, and that number continues to climb.

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President Joe Biden was criticized by Democratic lawmakers on Thursday after he used the term “illegals” during his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/people-are-going-to-remember-that-screaming-daily-wire-hosts-slam-biden-over-angry-sotu-delivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of the Union</a> address..
Biden referenced “illegals” after Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-botches-laken-rileys-name-during-sotu-shouting-match-with-mtg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressured him</a> into referencing Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, according to police. Biden flubbed Riley’s name during his speech, calling her “Lincoln Riley.” 
“Lincoln Riley!” Biden said. “An innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. That’s right. But how many of the thousands of people being killed by illegals? To her parents, I say, my heart goes out to you having lost children myself. I understand.”
Biden went on to say that amnesty should be granted to millions of illegal immigrants in the country and said he needed Republicans to pass a Democrat-backed bill in order to have the ability to secure the border. Despite his push for leftist policies, many Democrats were not happy with his reference to “illegals.” 
“As a proud immigrant, I&#8217;m extremely disappointed to hear President Biden use the word ‘illegal,’” Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-IL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChuyGarcia/status/1765950131159859281" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
“Disappointed that<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS"> @POTUS</a> would use such dehumanizing right wing rhetoric to speak about immigrants tonight. No human being is illegal,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeliaRamirezIL/status/1765943756979634574">said</a>. 
“Let me be clear: No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) posted on X after the speech. 
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, <a href="https://apnews.com/live/state-of-the-union-updates-watch#0000018e-1c25-d7d8-a7ee-bebf66ef0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press that she was disappointed with Biden’s reference to illegal immigrants. “I wish he hadn’t engaged with Marjorie Taylor Greene and used the word illegal,” she said. 
 “Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said. 
The Biden administration has previously <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-state-of-the-union-uses-term-illegal-immigrants-his-dhs-warned-against-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> to rid the government of any use of the term “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant.” Instead the administration has referred to the flood of illegal immigrants who have crossed into the United States in the last several years as “newcomers” or “undocumented.”
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&#8220;This change is designed to encourage more inclusive language in the agency’s outreach efforts, internal documents and in overall communication with stakeholders, partners, and the general public,&#8221; the Department of Homeland Security said of its decision to stop using the term “illegal alien.”
Biden has come under fire from Republicans over his handling of the border, and House Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/remind-him-of-the-crisis-he-created-house-gop-unites-to-send-biden-message-during-sotu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wore</a> pins that read “Stop The Biden Border Crisis” at the State of the Union.

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Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, delivered an energetic rebuttal on Thursday night to President Joe Biden&#8217;s highly criticized State of the Union address.
The Republican Party&#8217;s decision to have a vibrant Britt, 42, deliver the rebuttal was a stark contrast from watching the 81-year-old president yell throughout much of his speech.
&#8220;The true, unvarnished State of our Union begins and ends with this: Our families are hurting. Our country can do better,&#8221; Britt said, later adding: “Hardworking families are struggling to make ends meet today. And with soaring mortgage rates and sky-high childcare costs, they’re also struggling to plan for tomorrow. The American people are scraping by while the President proudly proclaims Bidenomics is working! Bless his heart. We know better.”
Britt hit Biden hard on the border crisis that he caused and the subsequent flood of illegal aliens that have poured onto America&#8217;s streets.
&#8220;President Biden inherited the most secure border of all-time,&#8221; Britt said. &#8220;But minutes after taking office, he suspended all deportations, halted construction of the border wall, and announced a plan to give amnesty to millions. We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days. … President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.&#8221;
Britt said that Biden was &#8220;not in command,&#8221; a reference to his advanced age and the concerns that the majority of Americans say that they have about his mental fitness for office.
&#8220;The free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader,&#8221; she said. &#8220;America deserves leaders who recognize that secure borders, stable prices, safe streets, and a strong defense are the cornerstones of a great nation.&#8221;
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Watch the full Republican Response to the State of the Union by Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/KatieBrittforAL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KatieBrittforAL</a>: <a href="https://t.co/cHmYjVRR2P">pic.twitter.com/cHmYjVRR2P</a>
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President Joe Biden&#8217;s State of the Union speech on Thursday brought out a quick response from Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, who joined other Daily Wire hosts and company co-founder Jeremy Boreing to discuss the speech on Daily Wire &#8220;Backstage.&#8221;
During his address, Biden focused heavily on criticizing former President Donald Trump, Republican lawmakers, and conservative voters. Biden spent considerable time at the start of his speech pushing pro-abortion policies and calling on Republicans in Congress to get behind additional support for Ukraine.
After the speech concluded, the &#8220;Backstage&#8221; stream shifted back to the Daily Wire hosts and Shapiro delivered his initial response to Biden&#8217;s address.
&#8220;Well, that was s***,&#8221; Shapiro said.
&#8220;I think we can go home. That&#8217;s the commentary,&#8221; Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan quipped.
Matt Walsh agreed with Shapiro&#8217;s takeaway, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s the worst State of the Union address that&#8217;s maybe ever been given, especially for the first 30 minutes — angry, slurring, starting with probably the most hyper-partisan issues he probably could&#8217;ve.&#8221;
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Watch the Daily Wire crew react to Biden&#39;s awful State of the Union on Backstage NOW. <a href="https://t.co/m0QK5GmsT8">https://t.co/m0QK5GmsT8</a> <a href="https://t.co/UHozCWzTQE">pic.twitter.com/UHozCWzTQE</a>
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The Daily Wire hosts, along with Boreing, later said that the president&#8217;s speech was one of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/people-are-going-to-remember-that-screaming-daily-wire-hosts-slam-biden-over-angry-sotu-delivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most divisive addresses</a> in modern American history. Shapiro argued that &#8220;the only reason&#8221; Biden began his speech by focusing on Ukraine was so he could compare Trump supporters to Vladimir Putin and Russian invaders to &#8220;demonize half the American public.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> discusses Biden&#39;s lies during the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOTU</a> on Backstage: &quot;You [Biden] literally just said half of Americans are insurrectionists or akin to Russian invaders of Ukraine.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/QeeASRs4Eo">pic.twitter.com/QeeASRs4Eo</a>
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Klavan added that Biden &#8220;has always been this angry, mean, hateful, corrupt little son of a gun.&#8221;
&#8220;This might be the only State of the Union that ever accomplished anything which might be getting Donald Trump elected,&#8221; Klavan said.
Shapiro added that Biden and Democrats have moved so far to the Left that Democratic politicians 30 years ago seem more aligned with current Republicans, such as Trump.
&#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign is closer to Bill Clinton&#8217;s 1996 campaign than Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign [is] by far; it&#8217;s not actually particularly close,&#8221; Shapiro said.

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