Martin Gottesfeld, the “guardian hacktivist” who allegedly initiated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign on Boston Children’s Hospital in protest of the hospital’s alleged medical kidnapping of Justina Pelletier, has filed his first appeal.
For approximately the last two years, Gottesfeld has been serving his prison sentence in FCI Terre Haute’s Communications Management Unit (CMU) in Terre Haute, Indiana.
There are only two know CMU facilities in the United States. According to the <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/cmus-federal-prison-system-s-experiment">Center for Constitutional Rights</a> (CCR), these special prison units reportedly house “dangerous terrorists and other high-risk inmates,” the vast majority of whom are Muslim.
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Gottesfeld’s attorney, Brandon Sample. During our brief interview, Sample discussed the primary points of Gottesfeld’s appeal, which was filed in July — including the Speedy Trial Act, alleged judicial conflicts of interest, and more.
Prior to reading to the following interview, it would be beneficial to read the pieces listed below:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/story-martin-gottesfeld-hacktivist-who-faces-15-frank-camp">The Story Of Martin Gottesfeld: The Hacktivist Who Faces 15 Years In Jail For Trying To Save A Young Girl’s Life</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guardian-hacktivist-martin-gottesfeld-convicted-frank-camp">‘Guardian Hacktivist’ Martin Gottesfeld Convicted; Faces Up To 15 Years In Prison</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecution-trying-keep-jailed-hacktivist-martin-frank-camp">Jailed Hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld Fires Back At Prosecutors Who Are Trying To Keep Him From Using ‘Torture’ Defense</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-judicial-conflicts-interest-arise-martin-frank-camp">Potential Judicial Conflicts Of Interest Arise In Martin Gottesfeld ‘Guardian Hacktivist’ Case</a></blockquote>
The full text of the interview is below:
<blockquote>DW: Mr. Sample, you are Martin Gottesfeld&#8217;s attorney, and you just recently issued his appeal. Can you first give us a little bit of background about yourself and how you came to be where you are?
SAMPLE: I am a federal criminal defense attorney. I handle federal criminal cases around the United States. My office is located in a tiny town in Vermont, and prior to becoming an attorney, I was on the other side of the law. As a young man, I got into trouble and actually spent time in a federal prison, but committed myself while I was there to college and other productive activities.
And after my release, I [studied] for the LSAT to get into law school, was accepted to law school, finished law school, graduated magna cum laude, and passed the bar, and became an attorney. So I&#8217;ve been doing that for a number of years now.
DW: So how did you come to be associated with Martin Gottesfeld?
SAMPLE: I was referred. They were referred to me, actually, I think through another one of my clients that I represented, and I agreed to take his case on.
DW: You recently filed the appeal. When did you file that appeal?
SAMPLE: I filed that at the end of July.
DW: Can you walk me through the basic tentpoles of what the appeal is alleging, and what you&#8217;re trying to do with it, starting with the first major point of the appeal?
SAMPLE: Sure. There are several issues that are within the appeal, but a lot of them will seem technical in nature. There is a provision within the law called the Speedy Trial Act that requires the government to indict someone or bring them to trial within a specific period of time.
We are asserting that the Speedy Trial Act was not complied with in his case. That they took too long to indict him; that they utilized a process to purportedly permissibly extend the time period for [them] to file that indictment that was this secret process that the federal courts in Massachusetts have used for some time; and that that is not consistent with the Speedy Trial Act itself.
DW: Going further, what&#8217;s the next major issue that you&#8217;ve written about in the appeal?
SAMPLE: The next big issue deals with whether or not the magistrate judge who issued the search warrant in the case was neutral and detached, because her husband, who is a physician, was connected with some of the hospitals there in Boston. And since this whole case has to do with the attack on the computer infrastructure that was used not just by one hospital, but really there&#8217;s a lot of hospitals that participate. Harvard has a network that they make available to the other hospitals in Boston.
And so, the assertion there is that the judge should not have been involved in issuing that warrant in the first place—and any of the evidence that was obtained as a result of that warrant has therefore been improperly obtained.
DW: That&#8217;s Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler, correct?
SAMPLE: Yes.
DW: And so the next piece, I think, if I read the appeal correctly, was about Judge [Nathaniel] Gorton.
SAMPLE: Yeah. There&#8217;s several things that intertwine with Judge Gorton, some of which deal with his closure of the courtroom repeatedly. Marty would oftentimes, when there would be disputes or disagreements between him and his counsel, and the lawyers would want to talk about those things privately without the presence of the government or anybody else—and when Judge Gorton presided over those proceedings, he would accede to the request by the attorney and close the courtroom.
Marty&#8217;s asserting that that violated his right to a public trial. He&#8217;s also asserting that he had made a motion to recuse Judge Gorton on the basis that he wasn&#8217;t an impartial decision-maker—and that the judge, rather than actually substantively consider whether or not he should be recused, he had already made his mind up before those filings were ever really tendered.
In fact, there was a hearing, or a transcript of proceeding, where there was some suggestion that this is going to be denied when it&#8217;s ultimately filed, and then it ultimately was denied.
DW: And further, there&#8217;s the issue, if I recall correctly, of the inability to use the “defense of another” as Gottesfeld’s primary defense?
SAMPLE: So that issue also was raised, and, yes, the court had precluded him from raising that defense. And so, we are also arguing that that was improper; that the jury should have been allowed to make a determination of whether or not the defense of others excused Marty of any criminal liability.
DW: Are there any other major arguments that are at the thrust of this appeal—other than what we&#8217;ve talked about?
SAMPLE: The only other one deals with the judge’s refusal to allow one of his attorneys to withdraw from the case. And the lawyer had told the court in no uncertain terms that he didn&#8217;t believe that he could represent [Gottesfeld] effectively, that he wasn&#8217;t getting along with Marty, and that he wanted off the case—and the judge kept him on the case anyway.
In fact, that lawyer had told the court that he hadn&#8217;t talked to Marty, that he did not want to talk to him, that he could not represent Marty zealously, and that he did not have Marty&#8217;s full and undivided loyalty. So, I&#8217;m not sure what defendant would really want to have a lawyer like that, but the judge would not let him off the case.
DW: What do you think of this appeal? What do you think the timeline is going to be, and what do you think the strength of the appeal will be?
SAMPLE: I think the strengths in this appeal are really the Speedy Trial Act arguments. I think all these arguments are of course good, but I think that this Speedy Trial Act issue—while it would seem like most people would think of it as a technicality or something like that—is a very interesting issue, and it has a reasonable chance of success.
The timing of all of this, though, is going to show to be pretty lengthy, I believe. We filed our brief, the government is going to have an opportunity for them to respond. I think it&#8217;s going to take several months for them to get their responsive brief in. And then we will have the opportunity to file a reply.
Given the issues that have been raised in the appeal, I suspect that the First Circuit Court of Appeals will have oral argument. So very likely there wouldn&#8217;t be a decision in this case until some time next year.
DW: Do you speak with Marty regularly about the case? How is your communication with him given that he&#8217;s in the CMU (Communications Management Unit) at Terre Haute?
SAMPLE: We do communicate via email, and we have phone calls. And as of late, the Bureau of Prisons has allowed us to do WebEx meetings. But even then, the communication that I&#8217;ve had with him has been, I think, without question, the most challenging that I&#8217;ve ever had with any other client. And I say challenging not in the sense that his communication personally from Marty is difficult, but that when I would send, and when I do send him letters, for whatever reason, those letters sometimes don&#8217;t reach him for two and three weeks.
And I have other clients that are also in Indiana where he&#8217;s at in the CMU. They&#8217;re not in the same prison, maybe they&#8217;re at a county jail or something like that. They don&#8217;t seem to have any problem getting my mail. When he sends me things, they get lost, or they take forever to get to me—and it&#8217;s like some kind of black hole.
DW: This whole situation seems peculiar, to say the least. Not only the whole trial and the lack of recusal for the judges and the different alleged violations that took place, but the fact that they put him in such a high-security setting for the crime that he allegedly committed. Can you talk about the bizarreness of that?
SAMPLE: Yeah. Where he&#8217;s confined is where they put people who are typically terrorists. These are people that they want to watch every little move that they make, monitor all their communications.
He&#8217;s explained to me that in the CMU, when you&#8217;re there, they have rows of microphones that are out in the common area to capture everything that&#8217;s being said. And I don&#8217;t understand why someone who was convicted of breaking into some computers—doing this denial of service attack because he&#8217;s trying to help a sick little girl—why you would put them in this type of really, really restrictive housing.
It&#8217;s essentially one step below the administrative maximum, the ADX that&#8217;s in Florence. There&#8217;s not very much difference except that he&#8217;s not confined to his cell 24 hours a day. So, it does seem to be overkill, to say the least.
DW: What do you expect if this appeal is successful; what happens after that?
SAMPLE: If the court agrees with our arguments, for example, on the Speedy Trial Act, then that would result in dismissal of the indictment against him. And so, he would have no conviction at that point.
There&#8217;s a variety of different outcomes that could potentially flow from the arguments that have been raised in the appeal. If he wins, say for example, the argument that his lawyer should have been allowed off the case, well, then that would undo the conviction as well, and he would be entitled to another trial.
If the indictment is dismissed, then the government is going to have to make a decision about whether or not this is really a case that they want to prosecute all over again.
DW: Yeah, is it worth retrying?
SAMPLE: Yeah. Is it worth retrying, or do they feel that they&#8217;ve got their pound of flesh through everything that they&#8217;ve put Marty through over the past several years?
DW: Do you see this being successful, a strong case?
SAMPLE: The appeal? I think we have a really good chance. I do.</blockquote>
I’d like to thank Brandon Sample for taking the time to speak with me for this interview. For more information on Martin Gottesfeld’s case, you can visit the <a href="https://freemartyg.com/">FreeMartyG</a> website, or follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/freemartyg?lang=en">FreeMartyG Twitter</a>.
The appeal can be read in its entirety <a href="https://freemartyg.com/brief-of-appellant-martin-gottesfeld">here</a>.
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During an interview in early August, CBS correspondent Errol Barnett asked presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden if he had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-walks-back-claims-on-taking-cognitive-test-rambles-about-cocaine-during-bizarre-interview">taken a cognitive test</a>. The former vice president bristled at the question, and compared it to the journalist being asked if he had taken a drug test.
<blockquote>BARNETT: Have you taken a cognitive test?
BIDEN: No, I haven&#8217;t taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man. That&#8217;s like saying, you, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?</blockquote>
In the days following the interview, Biden’s reply has served as a kind of political Rorschach test. On one end, many commentators simply ignored the segment, while on the other, several prominent political pundits, writers, and social media figures have claimed or implied that Biden’s comment was somehow racist.
Here’s the problem – claiming that Biden’s “are you a junkie” remark was definitively racist is a contortionist interpretation of what occurred.
Because the former vice president’s alleged cognitive decline has been the subject of intense speculation over the course of the campaign, Barnett asked Biden if he had taken a test to verify his mental acuity. Biden didn’t take kindly to the question, and replied by comparing it to Barnett being asked to submit to a drug test for his job at CBS.
Biden asking Barnett if he was “a junkie” appears to have been part of the hypothetical that the former vice president set up in his prior remark about a drug test. There is no concrete indication that the comment was made because of Barnett’s race.
That didn’t stop certain individuals on the Right from running with the comment as yet another racially inappropriate remark from Joe Biden along the lines of his “you ain’t black” reply to Charlamagne tha God.
There are two possibilities as to why certain people used Biden’s comment as an weapon against him.
The first is blatant intellectual dishonesty. They know that a straightforward interpretation would neutralize the comment, which then wouldn’t allow them to use it as easy ammo against Biden. However, by implying that Biden’s comment was tinged with racism, they can link it to the candidate’s past inappropriate comments, and an uncritical audience will absorb it as gospel. This is something that the mainstream press frequently does with comments made by President Trump.
The second possibility as to why some on the Right are weaponizing Biden’s comment in this very particular way is because their perception has been warped by tribalism. It’s entirely possible that they don’t even see the straightforward interpretation of the former vice president’s remark; that their tribalist goggles have bent the “junkie” comment to fit within the framework of an already developed narrative built upon Biden’s other racial gaffes.
This comment, and the way in which it has been construed, might not seem like something on which we should focus, but it’s actually quite important as it illustrates in a very uncomplicated way how easily we can slip into poor behavior.
If we are unknowingly misinterpreting fairly unambiguous situations because the lens through which we view the word has been so acutely warped by tribalism, it’s likely a sign that we should take a step back and recalibrate our senses. If we are deliberately falsifying or twisting things to fit a preferred line of attack against our opponents, we are waging a war at the expense of the truth.
With a candidate as flawed as Joe Biden, there shouldn’t be – and isn&#8217;t – a need to paint a fabricated or distorted picture.
Are we not supposed to be the ones on the side of truth and reason? If we permit ourselves to sink into careless reporting, or worse, if we deliberately spin a deranged narrative in order to malign our opponent, we engage in the slow and steady forfeiture of our integrity to the corrupt machine of tribal politics.
Then we’re all the same.
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On Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” with host John Dickerson.
During the segment, Dickerson asked Meadows about President Trump’s controversial tweet about delaying the November 3 election.
“Did the president ask you or anybody in the administration to look into the idea of delaying the Election Day?” Dickerson asked.
Meadows replied:
<blockquote>Listen, all of this that we&#8217;re talking about comes down to one thing – universal mail-in ballots. That is not a good idea for the country. We don&#8217;t have to look any further than New York to see what a debacle that mail-in ballots have been when we have weeks and weeks of delay of who the winner is. Can you imagine if that is with the President of the United States?</blockquote>
“So he didn&#8217;t?” Dickerson pressed.
“He has not looked at delaying any election,” Meadows said. “What we will do is if we try to transform this and start mailing in ballots all across the country, all 50 states, what we will see is a delay because they&#8217;re just not equipped to handle it.”
Dickerson wondered if it was “a responsible thing” for “the president to wing out an idea about delaying the election without looking into it.”
Meadows responded, saying that “it was a question mark,” and that it was “responsible” of the President to bring up the idea that an attempt to get “100% universal mail-in ballots” could be problematic.
“So we&#8217;ve got to make sure that we do this in a proper way, where we promote absentee ballots, we make sure that a ballot goes from an individual to the ballot box without someone else having the ability to conduct a fraudulent effort,” Meadows concluded.
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On Thursday, President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-suggests-delaying-election-over-pandemic-to-avoid-fraudulent-mail-in-voting">tweeted</a> about delaying the November 3 election: “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
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With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
Aside from the backlash the president received from Democrats, members of the Republican Party also broke into the conversation.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) offered perhaps the most succinct rebuttal, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-lawmakers-rebuke-idea-of-moving-2020-election-after-trump-tweet">tweeting</a>: “No, it’s not even a question. No delays.”
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No, it’s not even a question. No delays.
We should demand safe and secure elections.
If you requested an absentee ballot, you should use it. And states should not use universal mail-in, which is indeed vulnerable to mistakes and abuse. <a href="https://t.co/gttmGnC1hB">https://t.co/gttmGnC1hB</a>
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1288885821374955521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
The congressman added: “We should demand safe and secure elections. If you requested an absentee ballot, you should use it. And states should not use universal mail-in, which is indeed vulnerable to mistakes and abuse.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-lawmakers-rebuke-idea-of-moving-2020-election-after-trump-tweet">said</a> that in the entire history of the United States – “through wars” and “depressions,” etc – a “federally scheduled election” has never been delayed, and that it will not be delayed this year.
According to Politico, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/trump-delay-election-gop-388290">stated in part</a>: “He can suggest whatever he wants. The law is what it is. We’re going to have an election that’s legitimate, it’s going to be credible, it’s going to be the same as we’ve always done it.”
Later, President Trump sent out a follow-up tweet calling out the “LameStream Media” as it pertains to universal mail-in ballots:
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Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288932940337090561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
The general election will be held on November 3.
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On Saturday, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees spoke to local media as NFL pre-season training begins to ramp up.
Brees opened with a statement regarding the controversy surrounding his June 3 interview with Yahoo Finance during which he was asked about anthem-kneeling.
The quarterback stated that he has always “felt compelled to serve,” which is allegedly why he and his wife moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. After expressing that his time in the city has been incredibly “rewarding,” Brees addressed the interview directly.
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<blockquote>Going back to my comment on June 3, to think for a second that New Orleans or the state of Louisiana or the black community would think that I was not standing with them for social justice, that completely broke my heart. It was crushing. Never, ever would I feel that way.
I recognize that I missed an opportunity that day. I had an opportunity to talk about and emphasize the social injustices that exist for our black community and our need as a country to support them and to advocate for systemic change. And my lack of awareness in that moment hurt a lot of people.</blockquote>
Brees continued, saying that he “will always stand for the flag because of what it means to me, and to honor all those who have sacrificed, who have served and died for our country, and all those who have struggled to move this country forward.”
However, the quarterback added that he respects those who kneel or otherwise peacefully protest in order to “bring attention to the social injustices and systemic racism that so many have endured and continue to endure in our country.”
Brees continued, saying that he “will always support and advocate for the black and brown communities in the fight for social injustices,” and that he “feels a great sense of responsibility to serve and to lead and to bring true equality to everyone.”
Brees has been dogged by controversy ever since an early-June <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-quarterback-drew-brees-dragged-for-anthem-kneeling-remarks">interview</a> with Yahoo Finance Editor-at-Large Daniel Roberts.
During the interview, Roberts asked Brees about kneeling during the national anthem, as it was likely to return in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Brees replied, saying that he would “never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America, or our country.”
He continued, speaking about what the American flag and the national anthem meant to him personally.
The quarterback concluded: “Is everything right with our country right now? No, it’s not. We still have a long way to go. But I think what you do by standing there and showing respect to the flag with your hand over your heart is it shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together, we can all do better, and that we are all part of the solution.”
For his remarks, Brees was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-quarterback-drew-brees-dragged-for-anthem-kneeling-remarks">dragged</a>.
After the backlash, he issued the following apology on Instagram:
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<a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBA1P3gHpT_/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the City of New Orleans, the black community, NFL community and anyone I hurt with my comments yesterday. In speaking with some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused. In an attempt to talk about respect, unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country. They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy. Instead, those words have become divisive and hurtful and have misled people into believing that somehow I am an enemy. This could not be further from the truth, and is not an accurate reflection of my heart or my character. This is where I stand: I stand with the black community in the fight against systemic racial injustice and police brutality and support the creation of real policy change that will make a difference. I condemn the years of oppression that have taken place throughout our black communities and still exists today. I acknowledge that we as Americans, including myself, have not done enough to fight for that equality or to truly understand the struggles and plight of the black community. I recognize that I am part of the solution and can be a leader for the black community in this movement. I will never know what it’s like to be a black man or raise black children in America but I will work every day to put myself in those shoes and fight for what is right. I have ALWAYS been an ally, never an enemy. I am sick about the way my comments were perceived yesterday, but I take full responsibility and accountability. I recognize that I should do less talking and more listening&#8230;and when the black community is talking about their pain, we all need to listen. For that, I am very sorry and I ask your forgiveness.</a>
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On June 5, the quarterback addressed President Trump directly, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/drew-brees-to-president-trump-we-can-no-longer-use-the-flag-to-turn-people-away-or-distract-them-from-the-real-issues">writing</a> in part:
<blockquote>Through my ongoing conversations with friends, teammates, and leaders in the black community, I realize this is not an issue about the American flag. It has never been. We can no longer use the flag to turn people away or distract them from the real issues that face our black communities.
We did this back in 2017, and regretfully I brought it back with my comments this week. We must stop talking about the flag and shift our attention to the real issues of systemic racial injustice, economic oppression, police brutality, and judicial &amp; prison reform. 
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Drew Brees Will ‘Stand For The Flag,’ But Adds That His ‘Lack Of Awareness … Hurt A Lot Of People’

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On Saturday, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees spoke to local media as NFL pre-season training begins to ramp up. Brees opened with a statement

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As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden inches closer to announcing his choice for running-mate in the 2020 general election, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Karen_Bass">Rep. Karen Bass</a> (D-CA), who is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, seems to have emerged as a potential top-tier candidate.
However, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/31/karen-bass-biden-scientology/">The Daily Caller</a> recently unearthed a clip from April 2010 in which Bass, who was then a California assemblywoman, spoke at an <a href="https://www.scientology.org/scientology-today/church-openings/church-of-scientology-los-angeles.html">event</a> for a Church of Scientology building in Los Angeles.
Bass stated in part:
<blockquote>As both a leader in our state legislature and a representative of Los Angeles, my goal has been a simple one – to actually make a difference. So that&#8217;s why I first have to say that this day and this new Church of Scientology is an exciting moment because I know your goal and your commitment is truly to make a difference.</blockquote>
“It is my belief that if we really want to change this world, it is important that we think about how we treat each other. We have to treat all people with the respect they are due as human beings, and we must fight against oppression wherever we may find it,” Bass stated. “That is why the words are exciting of your founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in the creed of the Church of Scientology: that all people of whatever race, color, or creed are created with equal rights.”
“It’s a remarkable credit to your church that this is part of your creed. The Church of Scientology, I know, has made a difference because your creed is a universal creed, and one that speaks to all people, everywhere,” Bass continued.
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Bass was elected to the House of Representatives later that same year, in November 2010.
Following the circulation of the clip online, Bass issued a statement on Twitter:
<blockquote>Just so you all know, I proudly worship at First New Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in South LA.
Ten years ago, I attended a new building opening in my district and spoke to what I think all of us believe in – respect for one another’s views, to treat all people with respect, and to fight against oppression wherever we find it. I found an area of agreement in their beliefs – where all people, of whatever race, color, or creed are created with equal rights, which is what my remarks were about. 
Since then, published first-hand accounts in books, interviews and documentaries have exposed this group. Everyone is now aware of the allegations against Scientology. Back in 2010, I attended the event knowing I was going to address a group of people with beliefs very different than my own, and spoke briefly about things I think most of us agree with, and on those things – respect for different views, equality, and fighting oppression – my views have not changed.</blockquote>
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Just so you all know, I proudly worship at First New Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in South LA. <a href="https://t.co/1sEpF5KpRF">pic.twitter.com/1sEpF5KpRF</a>
— Karen Bass (@KarenBassTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarenBassTweets/status/1289574623424573442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
Bass’ tweet has approximately 3,900 “likes,” and has been retweeted roughly 1,000 times as of publication.
The response to the congresswoman’s tweet has been mixed.
Some offered praise.
“Thank you for such a swift response, Congresswoman. Hopefully that puts an end to this nonsense hit piece,” one commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/rossisfunnyy/status/1289586073040019460?s=20">wrote</a>.
Another user <a href="https://twitter.com/alarreid/status/1289593593590505473?s=20">stated</a>: “Set the record straight! We love to see it.”
Others ripped Bass.
One user <a href="https://twitter.com/rudycoby/status/1289588060909232128?s=20">wrote</a>: “Ten years ago, we knew they were a cult for decades. Good luck in your future, but we don’t need the baggage right now.”
“Sorry, I lived in LA from 1999-2001 and we knew then that it was a dangerous cult that preyed on people for their money,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JenRuffner/status/1289608582921584642?s=20">added</a> another.
Rep. Bass is allegedly being considered alongside Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), former national security adviser Susan Rice, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), among others, for Joe Biden’s vice presidential slot.
In mid-July, MSNBC’s Joy Reid asked Biden if he was “committed to naming a black woman” as his candidate for vice president.
“I am not committed to naming any but the people I&#8217;ve named, and among them there are four black women,” Biden replied. “So, that decision is underway right now.”
The former vice president noted that the candidates were being vetted, and that he would “narrow the list” afterward, and speak personally with each candidate in order to assess who would be the best choice.
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Possible Biden VP Candidate Karen Bass Issues Statement On Her 2010 Scientology Speech

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As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden inches closer to announcing his choice for running-mate in the 2020 general election, Rep. Karen

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On Thursday, YouTube channel “It’s Okay To Be Smart” released a video in which host and writer Joe Hanson “debunks” a series of myths related to mask-wearing.
“Bottom line – masks work. They are safe for almost everyone to wear, and the more people that wear them along with adhering to physical distancing and other strategies, then that is more lives that we will save,” Hanson begins.
The host notes that many people have watched his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-video-explains-how-and-why-face-masks-function-using-schlieren-imaging">previous video</a> on the effectiveness of cloth masks in which he used schlieren imaging, making certain airflow patterns visible to the human eye.
Hanson continues, “addressing a few of the most common myths and misunderstandings” regarding masks and COVID-19.
Myth #1: “My underwear and pants can’t stop a fart, so how is a cloth mask supposed to stop coronavirus?”
Hanson notes that despite the strange nature of the myth, speaking about it demonstrates a critical point about face masks.
After explaining that a coronavirus particle is 100 times the size of a flatulence molecule, he adds that such particles are carried in moisture droplets that are even larger. The difference in size between a flatulence molecule and a moisture droplet carrying coronavirus, Hanson says, is akin to the difference between the size of a baseball and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Hanson speaks about an experiment that was conducted in order to assess the potential for doctors to spread germs via flatulence.
“So they had doctors pass gas over petri dishes with and without pants on, and pants were enough to block any germs from growing on the dishes,” he says. “So even though your underwear won’t stop a fart, they will stop a s***, and that is why masks work.”
Myth #2: A Mask Is Like A Chain-Link Fence For Mosquitoes
Similar to the first myth, Hanson states that some have suggested that “using a mask to stop coronavirus is like using a chain-link fence to stop mosquitoes.”
The host counters that claim by once again noting that the droplets in which virus particles travel are “50 to 100 times larger than a single virus.” Additionally, he talks about the way mask fibers are “layered” or “stacked” in order to provide “droplet-blocking power.”
“A chain-link fence can’t stop mosquitos, but two overlapped chain-link fences can definitely stop mosquitoes if they’re flying around inside tennis balls,” Hanson states (the tennis ball being the moisture droplet).
After tackling a third myth related to masks allegedly starving “your body of oxygen or expose[ing] you to dangerous levels of exhaled carbon dioxide,” and a fourth pertaining to toxins, he moves on to the next one.
Myth #5: I Feel Healthy, So I Don’t Need A Mask
“Even if you feel healthy, you could be infected with the virus and be spreading it to others,” Hanson says. “Current estimates tell us that almost half of people who spread COVID don’t show any symptoms.”
The host lays out a “thought experiment” in which someone has been infected for several days, then gets a test, the results of which might take several more days to arrive. During this entire period of time, that person could be walking around without a mask, spreading COVID-19 to others.
“And new research suggests a lot of the pandemic is being driven by so-called superspreaders – these are single, highly infectious people that are spreading the virus to dozens of other people at a time, and those people might not show any symptoms, ever,” Hanson states.
Myth #6: Why Wear Masks If They Aren’t 100% Effective?
“First off, there’s pretty much no medical intervention of any kind that is 100% effective,” Hanson states. “Even a vaccine, which most scientists and doctors think is by far our best strategy for eventually containing this pandemic, won’t be 100% effective.”
The host then explains that masks are simply one piece of a multi-layer system of protection, and an easy one at that.
After speaking about a myth pertaining to fake “DOJ” exemption cards, Hanson talks about the dangers of the virus, noting that because it’s new and not well understood, we don’t yet have a handle on the “long-term effects” of “severe or even mild” cases.
“While some people may fully recover, others might have permanent lung scarring, which is backed up by what we saw happen with related diseases like SARS and MERS,” he says.
There’s much more to the video than what’s written above, so you can check it out below:
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According to <a href="https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/states-mask-mandates-coronavirus.html">AARP</a>, 31 states and the District of Columbia have statewide face mask mandates as of July 23. Several other states have allowed rules on the wearing of masks to be decided by local governments. In Arizona, for example, Gov. Doug Ducey has left mask mandates up to “local governments,” according to <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-gov-ducey-to-allow-local-governments-to-draft-their-own-face-mask-policies-as-covid-19-cases-spike">Fox10</a>.
Other states, however, are waging mask-related battles. AARP reports that in Georgia, “Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order July 15 forbidding city and county governments from implementing mask orders.”
COVID-19 has infected over 15.9 million people worldwide, and led to more than 643,300 deaths, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to data</a> from the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Global Cases map. Over 9.1 million people have recovered.
In the United States, there have been more than 4.1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, and over 146,300 deaths. As of publication, 1.2 million individuals have recovered from the virus in the U.S.
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WATCH: Video Busts ‘Myths’ About Face Masks And COVID-19

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Face Mask

On Thursday, YouTube channel “It’s Okay To Be Smart” released a video in which host and writer Joe Hanson “debunks” a series of myths related to

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On Friday, National Press Secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign Hogan Gidley appeared on “Fox &amp; Friends” to discuss the election. During the segment, Gidley said “most of those are fake,” seemingly in reference to Fox News polls, and co-host Brian Kilmeade pushed back.
Gidley first spoke about the cancellation of the Republican National Convention events that were previously slated to take place in Jacksonville, Florida, then he briefly mentioned the polls.
“You touched on some polls – most of those are fake, I’ll be honest. They oversample Democrats,” the press secretary said.
Gidley proceeded to mock the apparent enthusiasm gap between President Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. He claimed that “across our social media platforms,” there have been “more than 1.1 billion views &#8230; for Donald Trump,” while Biden allegedly struggled to get anyone to watch his Q&amp;A.
“The fact is the enthusiasm, the excitement is all on our side, and we know this. Our supporters will stand through rain, sleet, snow, hail, and crawl across broken glass to vote for Donald Trump,” Gidley said. “Joe Biden’s supporters won&#8217;t even click on a link to watch him do a Q&amp;A. It’s absolutely embarrassing. We have the momentum.”
At this point, Kilmeade jumped in, saying: “I know the people that do the polls, they&#8217;re not, they don&#8217;t do a fake, they do a really good job. They might not be accurate in the end, I don&#8217;t know, but they do a great job.”
“Doesn’t accuracy &#8230; I know the people are great, but doesn’t the accuracy determine how great it is?” Gidley replied.
Kilmeade shot back: “I’m not saying they&#8217;re Nostradamus, but I’m just saying they&#8217;re math – and they&#8217;re professional, so just don&#8217;t call the Fox News pollsters fake.”
“Well, the methodology&#8217;s flawed at the very least, how&#8217;s that?” Gidley stated.
As co-host Steve Doocy noted that President Trump has made the same argument about the alleged under-sampling of Republicans in the polls, Kilmeade appeared to quietly say, “In your opinion,” seemingly in response to Gidley’s last remark.
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Let’s examine one example of a Fox News poll that was mentioned by Kilmeade.
In the latest <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/07/Fox_July-18-20-2020_Complete_Pennsylvania_Topline_July-23-Release.pdf">Fox News poll</a> for Pennsylvania, which was conducted July 18-20, the sampling was as follows: 48% Democrat, 40% Republican, 12% Independent/Other.
According to the Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Documents/2020%20Primary%20VR%20Stats%20%20FINAL.pdf">Department of State (DOS) website</a>, as of June 2020, there were 4,092,693 registered Democrats in the state compared to 3,290,944 registered Republicans. Broken down by percentage, registered Democrats represent 47.6% of voters in the state, and registered Republicans represent 38.3% of voters.
14.1% identified with “other parties.”
Given these numbers, and leaving out voting pattern differences such as voter enthusiasm, the Fox poll for the state of Pennsylvania actually seems to over-represent Republicans.
However, Pennsylvania primary results as reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/pennsylvania/">Politico</a> do show that for the June 2 primary, President Trump, despite facing no real challengers, pulled in approximately 934,524 votes. Joe Biden pulled in 914,904 votes compared to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 208,456 votes.
These numbers show that while 28.4% of registered Democrats in the state voted in the June 2 primary, 30.5% of registered Republicans voted even though Trump was a forgone conclusion.
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Fox Host Calls Out Trump Campaign Press Secretary For ‘Fake’ Claim About Polls

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On Friday, National Press Secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign Hogan Gidley appeared on “Fox &amp; Friends” to discuss the election. During the segment,

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On Sunday, Fox News aired a pre-taped interview with President Donald Trump. At the beginning of the interview, anchor Chris Wallace asked the president about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“Let’s start with the surge of the coronavirus across the country in recent months. You still talk about it as ‘burning embers,’ but I want to put up a chart that shows where we are with the illness over the last four months,” Wallace said.
The anchor then displayed a chart showing a peak in April of 36,000 cases a day, then contrasted that with a new peak of 75,000 cases “one day this week.”
Trump countered, claiming that the apparent increase in cases is due to “great testing.”
“If we didn&#8217;t test, you wouldn&#8217;t be able to show that chart,” Trump stated. “If we tested half as much, those numbers would be down.”
Following a back-and-forth about the pandemic being “burning embers” or a “forest fire,” the president pointed to other countries where the virus is wreaking havoc.
“It’s not just this country, it&#8217;s many countries. We don&#8217;t talk about it in the news, they don&#8217;t talk about Mexico and Brazil, and still parts of Europe, which actually got hit sooner than us, so it&#8217;s a little ahead of us in that sense,” Trump noted.
<blockquote>But you take a look – why don&#8217;t they talk about Mexico, which is not helping us, and all I can say is thank God I built most of the wall because if I didn&#8217;t have the wall up, we would have a much bigger problem with Mexico.</blockquote>
Wallace then brought up to Trump that the United States has “the seventh highest mortality rate in the world &#8230; higher than Brazil, it&#8217;s higher than Russia, and the European Union has us on a travel ban.”
The president countered, reminding Wallace that the United States had Europe on “a travel ban.” He then seemed to suggest that the mortality rates offered by Wallace were incorrect.
<blockquote>TRUMP: When you talk about mortality rates, I think it&#8217;s the opposite. I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates.
WALLACE: That’s not true, sir.
TRUMP: Well, we’re gonna take a look.
WALLACE: We had 900 deaths in a single day.
TRUMP: We will take a look. Ready?</blockquote>
After asking for the mortality rate document, the president said: “I heard we have one of the lowest, maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world. Do you have the numbers, please? Because I heard we had the best mortality rate.”
“Number one low mortality rate,” Trump said after he was handed a piece of paper. “I hope you show this [scenario] because it shows what fake news is all about.”
Following crosstalk, Wallace jumped in via voiceover to explain the different numbers.
While Fox News was using the John’s Hopkins University data, team Trump was using a “chart from the European CDC, which shows Italy and Spain doing worse, but countries like Brazil and South Korea doing better. Other countries doing better like Russia aren&#8217;t included in the White House chart,” according to Wallace.
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According to <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality">John’s Hopkins</a>, the United States ranks 8th in the world in COVID-19 mortality. Brazil has apparently moved ahead of the U.S. since the interview was taped.
The “observed case-fatality ratio,” meaning the “the number of deaths &#8230; per 100 confirmed cases” in the United States stands at 3.8% as of publication, according to John’s Hopkins.
As for deaths “per 100,000 population (this represents a country’s general population, with both confirmed cases and healthy people),” the United States ranks third, behind the U.K. and Chile.
The chart showed by Fox News as the one being used by the Trump administration comes from <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coronavirus-cfr?tab=table&amp;time=2020-03-11..&amp;country=Africa~DZA~AGO~Asia~ARM~AUS~AZE~BHR~BRB~BEL~BMU~BIH~BRA~BDI~BGR~CMR~CAF~CPV~CHL~COL~COG~CIV~CUB~CZE~DNK~DOM~EGY~GNQ~EST~Europe~FRO~FRA~GEO~GRC~GHA~GTM~GIN~GUY~High%20income~HUN~IND~International~IRQ~IMN~ITA~JPN~JOR~KEN~KWT~LVA~LSO~LBY~Low%20income~LUX~MDG~MYS~MLI~MRT~MEX~MCO~MOZ~MNE~NAM~NLD~NIC~NGA~NOR">Our World in Data</a> (OWiD), and it tracks the case fatality rate (CFR). The map allows one to choose which countries to display. OWiD notes: “Raw data on confirmed cases and deaths for all countries is sourced from the <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)</a>.”
Looking at the chart from OWiD, in a worst-to-best view of case fatality, the United States sits at 3.82% as of July 18. Countries with worse CFRs, according to the chart, include France, U.K., Belgium, Italy, Canada, Sweden, and Mexico, among others. Countries with better CFRs include Austria, Norway, South Korea, New Zealand, and Taiwan, among others.
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Trump, After Clashing With Chris Wallace Over COVID Fatality Numbers: ‘Number One Low Mortality Rate’

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On Sunday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd to discuss COVID-related mask mandates.
Todd first asked DeWine about the differing mandates throughout the state of Ohio.
“Governor, you&#8217;ve got 60% of your state under a mask ordinance, but if somebody drives along the Ohio Turnpike and you pull off, you may not know what county you&#8217;re in and whether there&#8217;s a county ordinance,” Todd stated before asking the governor if a statewide mandate would be easier.
DeWine replied, first saying that Ohio has done well to flatten the initial curve; he also praised the state’s “very sophisticated” reopening policy.
“As far as customers now coming in, as you pointed out, we&#8217;re at 60%. Frankly, we&#8217;ve seen that go up as our counties have turned red,” DeWine said. “We&#8217;re going the wrong way. We&#8217;re at a crucial time. And so this week, you may see a lot more counties under that mask requirement. So we certainly would not rule out going statewide. We&#8217;re certainly looking at that.”
The governor continued, noting that the state is running commercials on TV pertaining to mask-wearing, one of which is expected to launch this week.
DeWine elaborated on “the message” Ohio is trying to send to its residents:
<blockquote>The orders are obviously important – but getting people to buy in and to understand, getting a 20-year-old to understand that he or she may, you know, feel invulnerable, nothing&#8217;s going to happen to them. But they may get it, they may not know they have it; they may go home and see their grandmother; she may get it; she may end up dying.</blockquote>
Todd pushed back, wondering if the state’s mask advice is “diluted” if masks aren’t mandated across the board. The host then asked DeWine if anti-mask protests and “criticism from the Right” are creating pressure to “keep you from issuing this statewide order?”
The governor responded, saying: “I don&#8217;t think anybody in Ohio who&#8217;s watched what I&#8217;ve done over the last four months doubts that, you know, I&#8217;ll do what we need to do to protect Ohioans.”
DeWine added that during a speech on Wednesday, he stated that Ohio was “at a crucial stage,” and that they are potentially in a position to end up like Florida. He continued, telling Todd that it’s “not just about masks though.”
<blockquote>It&#8217;s occurring in bars; it’s occurring in churches; it’s occurring from people who have traveled out of state,” DeWine said. “But a lot of it, frankly, is just people in casual settings, 20, 30, 40, 50 people gathering together – and so it&#8217;s not all about orders. Orders are important. But it&#8217;s also about getting people to understand, &#8220;Hey, this is very, very serious. And now, while we did a great job early on in Ohio, we are now headed in the wrong direction.&#8221; And frankly, I&#8217;m very, very concerned about that.</blockquote>
After a back-and-forth in which Todd asked DeWine about his rating of federal leadership on the pandemic, DeWine noted how different the United States is as it pertains to mask-wearing.
“Fran and I were on a trade mission to Japan a few months ago, and a lot of people wore masks. It&#8217;s more of the culture. In this country, we don&#8217;t have the culture to do that. And so what we have to do is so people understand it&#8217;s not just about them, that when they walk into a store, it&#8217;s important for them to wear that mask for somebody else. That&#8217;s why we run the ads,” DeWine said Before admonishing Ohioans to “please be careful.”
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According to the <a href="https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/overview">Ohio Department of Health</a>, the state has seen more than 74,900 total COVID-19 cases, and approximately 3,174 deaths as of publication.
The COVID-19 case count in Ohio was on a moderate decline from late-April to mid-June. Since then, there has been a steady rise in cases. Hospitalizations have also been on the rise since shortly after the rise in cases began. Deaths, however, appear to have moved slightly downward since mid-June.
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Ohio Gov On Lack Of Statewide Mask Mandate: ‘Orders’ Are ‘Important,’ But ‘Getting People To Buy In’ Also Critical

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On Sunday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd to discuss COVID-related mask mandates. Todd first asked

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On Tuesday, Andrew Sullivan <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sullydish/status/1283100440683479043">announced</a> his resignation from New York Magazine.
“This will be my last week at New York Magazine,” Sullivan <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sullydish/status/1283100440683479043">tweeted</a>. “I’m sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly improving my work. I’m also proud of the essays and columns I wrote at NYM – some of which will be published in a collection of my writing scheduled for next year.”
Sullivan noted in subsequent tweets that he has “no beef” with his “colleagues, many of whom I admire and are friends,” and that “the underlying reasons for the split are pretty self-evident, and I’ll be discussing the broader questions involved in my last column this Friday.”
On Friday, Sullivan’s <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-you-next-friday.html">column</a> went live.
“The good news is that my last column in this space is not about ‘cancel culture.’ Well, almost,” Sullivan writes before noting that NYMag has “every right to hire and fire anyone it wants when it comes to the content of what it wants to publish.”
He continues, praising some of the “wonderful” people with whom he’s interacted at the publication. That said, Sullivan offers the reason he believes he was no longer a fit at NYMag:
<blockquote>A critical mass of the staff and management at New York Magazine and Vox Media no longer want to associate with me, and, in a time of ever tightening budgets, I’m a luxury item they don’t want to afford. And that’s entirely their prerogative. They seem to believe, and this is increasingly the orthodoxy in mainstream media, that any writer not actively committed to <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-theory/">critical theory</a> in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity is actively, physically harming co-workers merely by existing in the same virtual space. Actually <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-you-say-you-want-a-revolution.html">attacking</a>, and even <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/we-all-live-on-campus-now.html">mocking</a>, critical theory’s ideas and methods, as I have done <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/is-intersectionality-a-religion.html">continually</a> in <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-is-there-still-room-for-debate.html">this space</a>, is therefore out of sync with the values of Vox Media. That, to the best of my understanding, is why I’m out of here.</blockquote>
Sullivan continues, seemingly comparing the dearth of ideological diversity in the mainstream news media to that of academia. He also notes that his brand of conservatism includes many positions with which mainstream conservatives would disagree – including the legalization of drugs, and support for same-sex marriage, among other things.
Sullivan even states that he “opposes” Trump and plans to cast his vote for Joe Biden on November 3.
“It seems to me that if this conservatism is so foul that many of my peers are embarrassed to be working at the same magazine, then I have no idea what version of conservatism could ever be tolerated,” writes Sullivan.
He adds that he’s okay with that severance as he supports freedom of association, adding that the internet has largely swept away the old “gatekeepers” that once stood in the way of broad ideological dissent in the media.
After telling readers about his new venture, Sullivan sounds the alarm, writing that it’s up to the “non-mainstream” press to “pick up the slack” if the mainstream media rejects ideological diversity, places agenda above objective reporting, and views journalists as one-dimensional characters defined by certain immutable characteristics.
“Instead of merely diagnosing the problem of illiberalism, I want to try to be part of the solution,” Sullivan states.
Andrew Sullivan’s resignation comes on the heels of the resignation of another prominent journalist.
On Monday, New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss resigned, offering a lengthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">explanation as to why</a> on her personal website.
Weiss slammed the Times as a paper beholden to the social media mob:
<blockquote>Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.</blockquote>
Weiss also alleges that she was bullied and maligned by her colleagues at the paper for her “wrongthink,” a seeming nod to the Thought Police in George Orwell’s “1984.”
“Part of me wishes I could say that my experience was unique. But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times,” she adds.
The resignations by both Sullivan and Weiss come amid escalating discussion pertaining to freedom of expression. On July 7, Harper’s Magazine published an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jk-rowling-over-100-others-sign-letter-condemning-cancel-culture-one-caves-apologizes-rowling-responds">open letter</a> condemning cancel culture.
The letter, which was signed by more than 150 public figures, including Malcolm Gladwell, J.K. Rowling, Kmele Foster, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, and many others, received significant backlash. Following the outcry, “two of the dozens upon dozens of academics, writers, and artists who originally signed the letter &#8230; distanced themselves from it, and one has apologized,” The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jk-rowling-over-100-others-sign-letter-condemning-cancel-culture-one-caves-apologizes-rowling-responds">reported</a>.
After The New York Times’ Jennifer Finney Boylan apologized for signing the letter, saying she wasn’t aware of “who else had signed” it, author J.K. Rowling called her out, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jk-rowling-over-100-others-sign-letter-condemning-cancel-culture-one-caves-apologizes-rowling-responds">tweeting</a>: “You’re still following me, Jennifer. Be sure to publicly repent of your association with Goody Rowling before unfollowing and volunteer to operate the ducking stool next time, as penance.”
Rowling has been the target of an ongoing cancel campaign after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rowling-pens-essay-defending-herself-against-trans-blowback-i-refuse-to-bow-down">refusing to back down</a> from her beliefs surrounding certain transgender issues, and the ways in which the transgender movement has impacted women.
Rowling’s position has caused several actors from the “Harry Potter” film franchises to publicly distance themselves from Rowling.
Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newt Scamander in the “Fantastic Beasts” film series, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-radcliffe-eddie-redmayne-denounce-j-k-rowlings-transgender-stance">Variety</a>: “As someone who has worked with both J.K. Rowling and members of the trans community, I wanted to make it absolutely clear where I stand. I disagree with Jo’s comments.”
Daniel Radcliffe made similar remarks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-radcliffe-eddie-redmayne-denounce-j-k-rowlings-transgender-stance">stating in part</a>: “To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you.”
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Andrew Sullivan Leaves NYMag, Criticizes A Certain ‘Orthodoxy In Mainstream Media’

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On Tuesday, Andrew Sullivan announced his resignation from New York Magazine. “This will be my last week at New York Magazine,” Sullivan tweeted. “I’m sad

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On Friday, Fox News released a clip from an interview with President Donald Trump set to air on Sunday.
In the clip, Trump alleges that the rise in crime in major cities across the United States is due to those cities being poorly run by Democratic politicians. After Fox News anchor Chris Wallace probes the president as to why this issue has so recently gotten so out of hand, Trump says that it’s because “they want to defund the police.”
The president then adds that “Biden wants to defund [the police].”
<blockquote>WALLACE: You&#8217;ve seen deaths up in New York, deaths up in Chicago, shootings. How do you explain it, and what are you going to do about it?
TRUMP: I explain it very simply by saying they&#8217;re Democrat-run cities; they’re liberally-run; they’re stupidly-run.
WALLACE: Liberal Democrats have been running cities in this country for decades –
TRUMP: Poorly.
WALLACE: Why is it so bad right now?
TRUMP: They&#8217;ve run them poorly – it was always bad, but now it&#8217;s gotten totally out of control. And it&#8217;s really because they want to defund the police. And Biden wants to defund [the police].
WALLACE: Sir, he does not.
TRUMP: Look, he signed a charter with Bernie Sanders –
WALLACE: It says nothing about defunding the police.
TRUMP: Oh, really? It says abolish, it says [defund] – let’s go.
WALLACE: All right.
TRUMP: Get me the charter, please.
WALLACE: All right.</blockquote>
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The clip ends there, but Wallace explained to the network’s Bill Hemmer what happened next:
<blockquote>That led to a very interesting exchange where he had his staff go out and get the highlights from that 100-page compact that the Biden team and the Sanders team had signed, and he went through it and he found a lot of things that he objected to that Biden has agreed to, but he couldn’t find any indication – because there isn’t any – that Joe Biden has sought to defund and abolish the police.</blockquote>
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Following the release of the clip, President Trump defended himself in a tweet: “Corrupt Joe Biden wants to defund our police. He may use different words, but when you look at his pact with Crazy Bernie, and other things, that’s what he wants to do. It would destroy America!”
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Corrupt Joe Biden wants to defund our police. He may use different words, but when you look at his pact with Crazy Bernie, and other things, that’s what he wants to do. It would destroy America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1284282946850086912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has indeed spoken about issues surrounding police misconduct recently but appears to have avoided any direct talk of defunding or abolishing the police.
During an interview with activist Ady Barkan published by <a href="https://nowthisnews.com/politics/exclusive-watch-joe-bidens-emotional-interview-with-activist-ady-barkan">NowThis</a> in early-July, Biden spoke about police reform and the reallocation of certain police funding.
<blockquote>BIDEN: There&#8217;s a need for fundamental change in us being able to have transparency, be able to have access to the records of police when they had misconduct charges against them, to be able to know where they are so they can&#8217;t go from one police department to the next. That should be held, in my administration, that information will have to be made available to the Justice Department and held in a file, so you&#8217;ll be able to track this.
Surplus military equipment for law enforcement, they don&#8217;t need that. The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood – it&#8217;s like the military invading. They don&#8217;t know anybody; they become the enemy. They&#8217;re supposed to be protecting these people.
So my generic point is that—
BARKAN: But do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?
BIDEN: Yes. Absolutely – and one of the things that we also need to be doing is fundamentally changing the way – and I&#8217;ve been pushing it for years – changing the way we deal with our prison system.</blockquote>
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Under the criminal justice reform section of the “<a href="https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf">Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations</a>” document, which is over 100 pages long, there is no mention of abolishing or defunding the police.
The portion of the document dealing with criminal justice goes on at length about police reform, such as the “continued use” of body cameras, “investing in robust training,” nationwide “standards” on “use of force,” and “over-policing” seemingly as it pertains to the American drug epidemic.
That section of the document reads in part:
<blockquote>Democrats believe we must ensure real accountability for individual and systemic misconduct in our police departments, prevent law enforcement from becoming unnecessarily entangled in the everyday lives of Americans, and reimagine policing for the benefit and safety of the American people. In recent years, some innovative police departments have enacted evidence-based reforms to change their approach: investing in robust training and putting in place—and, even more crucially, enforcing—strong standards governing conflict resolution, de-escalation, and use of force. We must build on these evidence-based approaches and implement them nationwide.
Democrats will establish strict national standards governing the use of force, including permitting deadly force only when necessary and a last resort to prevent an imminent threat to life. We will require immediate application of these standards to all federal law enforcement agencies and condition federal grants on their adoption at the state and local level. We will require officer training in effective nonviolent tactics, appropriate use of force, implicit bias, and peer intervention, both at the academy and on the job. And we will ban racial and religious profiling in law enforcement.
It is past time to end the failed “War on Drugs,” which has imprisoned millions of Americans— disproportionately people of color—and hasn’t been effective in reducing drug use. Democrats support policies that will reorient our public safety approach toward prevention, and away from over-policing—including by making evidence-based investments in jobs, housing, education, and the arts that will make our nation fairer, freer, and more prosperous.</blockquote>
In a recent op-ed for USA Today, Biden <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/10/biden-root-out-systemic-racism-not-just-divisive-trump-talk-column/5327631002/">wrote</a> (emphasis added): “While I do not believe federal dollars should go to police departments violating people’s rights or turning to violence as the first resort, I do not support defunding police. The better answer is to give police departments the resources they need to implement meaningful reforms, and to condition other federal dollars on completing those reforms.”
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Wallace And Trump Clash After Trump Claims Biden ‘Wants To Defund’ The Police

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On Friday, Fox News released a clip from an interview with President Donald Trump set to air on Sunday. In the clip, Trump alleges that the rise in crime

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Appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo this week, Trump administration trade advisor Peter Navarro discussed the ongoing examination of popular short-form video sharing app TikTok.
“The other thing that&#8217;s on the table that we need to talk about is this whole TikTok, WeChat social media thing,” Navarro stated following a discussion between himself and Bartiromo about Hong Kong.
<blockquote>What the American people have to understand is, all the data that goes into those mobile apps that kids have so much fun with and seem so convenient, it goes right to servers in China, right to the Chinese military, the Chinese Communist Party, and the agencies which want to steal our intellectual property.
Those apps can be used to steal personal and financial information for blackmail and extortion. They can be used to steal business intellectual property and proprietary secrets.</blockquote>
Navarro added that “besides surveilling and tracking Americans,” Chinese mobile apps can be used for “information warfare” purposes, stressing that what China wants is for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to win in November.
The trade advisor continued, comparing TikTok and WeChat to Chinese phone maker Huawei, which he suggested placed “an American puppet in charge &#8230; as the CEO” in order to claim that the entity is independent of China, and therefore not a threat to America.
“They&#8217;re trying that game with TikTok,” Navarro stated. “Not gonna work.”
Navarro then told Bartiromo to “expect strong action on that.”
Bartiromo noted that the American CEO of TikTok used to work at Disney, “but the Chinese individual who’s a communist member is the chairman.”
“But this is what I thought was really interesting. This week, we had a headline that says Democratic National Committee is warning against campaigns on using TikTok,” the host added. “Even the Democratic National Committee is voicing concern.”
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As scrutiny over TikTok has intensified, there has been a push by some to ban the app.
In March, Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senators-hawley-scott-introduce-legislation-ban-tiktok-government-devices">legislation</a> that would “ban all federal employees from using TikTok on government devices,” according to a statement on Hawley’s Senate website.
Sen. Hawley said at the time:
<blockquote>TikTok is owned by a Chinese company that includes Chinese Communist Party members on its board, and it is required by law to share user data with Beijing. The company even admitted it collects user data while their app is running in the background – including the messages people send, pictures they share, their keystrokes and location data, you name it. As many of our federal agencies have already recognized, TikTok is a major security risk to the United States, and it has no place on government devices.</blockquote>
On Friday, Amazon reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-says-order-for-employees-to-delete-tiktok-was-sent-in-error">sent an email</a> to its employees, which was obtained by The New York Times, instructing them to delete TikTok from their “mobile devices that access Amazon email” due to “security risks.” However, an Amazon spokesperson later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-says-order-for-employees-to-delete-tiktok-was-sent-in-error">stated</a> that the email had been “sent in error.”
“There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok,” they said.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-says-order-for-employees-to-delete-tiktok-was-sent-in-error">Amazon Says Order For Employees To Delete TikTok Was ‘Sent In Error’</a>
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Navarro On TikTok: ‘All The Data’ ‘Goes Right To Servers In China’

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On Friday, Juan Williams, one of the co-hosts of “The Five” on Fox News, claimed that President Trump called Mexicans “rapists and thieves” during his 2015 announcement speech.
During the segment, the hosts were discussing recent calls by progressives for a boycott campaign against Latin food company Goya after its CEO, Bob Unanue, praised President Trump and subsequently refused to walk his statements back.
“Their hate is so dug in,” co-host Jeanine Pirro said after claiming that leftists seem zeroed in on criticizing the Right without recognizing their accomplishments for the needy.
The co-host added that those on the Right didn’t “do this to Obama” despite many disliking him intensely. “But this is like cancel them out, boycott them, make them lose their jobs.”
“Aren’t you uncomfortable with that?” Pirro asked co-host Juan Williams.
Williams replied:
<blockquote>I don’t like boycotts if that’s what you’re asking &#8230; but let me just say, we live in politically polarized times, and if you’re talking about who likes division, President Trump pushes buttons of division and polarization quite regularly. I think you’ll remember he started his campaign by going after Latin immigrants. He said Mexicans were rapists and thieves.</blockquote>
As some of the other hosts voiced their disagreement with Williams’ claim, Pirro replied: “He didn’t say that.”
The segment continued with extensive crosstalk between Pirro and Williams.
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Williams’ characterization of President Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants being “rapists and thieves” lacks context, and has been rebutted numerous times.
In June 2015, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president.
During his <a href="https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/">speech</a>, he said the following about the economic dynamics between the United States and several other countries:
<blockquote>Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.
When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn’t exist, folks. They beat us all the time.
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity, and now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me, but they’re killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems&#8230;
It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs; they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.
It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop, and it’s got to stop fast.</blockquote>
In context, it’s clear that President Trump wasn’t claiming that “Mexicans were rapists and thieves,” as suggested by Juan Williams, but that a subset of individuals entering the United States from Mexico were criminals – which is a factually accurate statement.
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Fox News Host Juan Williams: Trump ‘Said Mexicans Were Rapists And Thieves’

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On Saturday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) sent out a tweet condemning President Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-commutes-sentence-of-roger-stone">commutation</a> of Roger Stone’s prison sentence.
“Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” Romney wrote.
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Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1281937795616067586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
In November 2019, Stone was “found guilty of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness,” according to a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/roger-stone-found-guilty-obstruction-false-statements-and-witness-tampering">statement</a> from the Department of Justice.
In February, reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/20/trump-friend-roger-stone-sentenced-to-prison-for-wikileaks-lies.html">CNBC</a>, Stone was sentenced to “40 months in prison &#8230; two years of supervised release,” and “250 hours of community service.” He was also reportedly sentenced to pay a hefty fine.
However, the White House released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grant-clemency-roger-stone-jr/">statement</a> on Friday announcing that President Trump was commuting Stone’s prison sentence only days before he was set to begin serving it.
“Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency. There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia,” the statement reads. “Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the 2016 election. The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist. As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface.”
The statement later claims that because the Mueller team couldn’t find “evidence” of collusion with Russia, they “charged him [Stone] for his conduct during their investigation.”
<blockquote>Mr. Stone was charged by the same prosecutors from the Mueller Investigation tasked with finding evidence of collusion with Russia. Because no such evidence exists, however, they could not charge him for any collusion-related crime. Instead, they charged him for his conduct during their investigation. The simple fact is that if the Special Counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation, Mr. Stone would not be facing time in prison.</blockquote>
“Mr. Stone would be put at serious medical risk in prison. He has appealed his conviction and is seeking a new trial,” the statement adds.
Senator Romney’s tweet has more than 426,000 “likes” and has been retweeted approximately 129,000 times as of publication.
The response to the senator’s condemnation of Trump’s decision has been decidedly mixed.
User @BryanDavis2014 wrote: “Unprecedented. A RINO of RINO’s [sic].”
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Unprecedented. A RINO of RINO’s.
— Bryan K. Davis (@BryanDavis2014) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDavis2014/status/1282074016644300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Oh shut up Mitt. You’re so bitter that you’ll never be President,” wrote director/producer Robby Starbuck.
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Oh shut up Mitt. You’re so bitter that you’ll never be President.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1281945143952715777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
Writer Charlotte Clymer was more pointed, demanding further action from Romney: “Talk is cheap, Senator Romney. You have the power to do something about it, so what are you gonna do?”
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Talk is cheap, Senator Romney. You have the power to do something about it, so what are you gonna do?
— Charlotte Clymer (@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1281946022600675328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Thank you for your patriotism, Sir,” wrote actress and activist Alyssa Milano.
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Thank you for your patriotism, Sir.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1281997884817203200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘Unprecedented, Historic Corruption’: Romney Hammers Trump Over Roger Stone Decision

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Why are we afraid?
In this moment where the world around us has ruptured, or in which already present fractures have rapidly widened, why have we who deal in reason and data allowed ourselves to be effectively silenced?
The simple answer to that question is that we are afraid – but of what exactly? To be called a “racist” or have it said that we are “complicit” in some unworthy system? Broadly, yes.
There are secondary and tertiary fears tangled up in this as well. Some are afraid that if they speak up, they will lose their jobs; others are fearful that if they were to express an out-of-cycle opinion, friends and family members would turn their backs.
These alternate terrors, however, are all extensions of the root fear of being seen as “racist” or “complicit” in a racist system – but what does that really mean, and why does this silencing feel different than previous attacks from which we emerged bruised but alive?
The difference is that the weapons we previously used to wage verbal war against absurd ideologies have been effectively neutralized. Data and reason have been replaced by “lived experience” and “personal truth.” Exchange of information has been supplanted by the brute force of emotions.
This system, one in which emotions are prime, has been developing for years; it has been nurtured by legacy media, progressive politicians, academia, and Hollywood. Despite intermittent pushback, this system has largely been left undisturbed, allowing it to reach maturity.
As a result, measured debate about any sociopolitical idea – a procedure that was once structured and nearly axiomatic – has been atomized, allowing for endless ideological shape-shifting. To offer up a counter argument in this new framework is like hurling a brick through fog.
To suggest that, according to the data, black bodies aren’t piling up in the streets, or that police aren’t hunting down black people en masse, is a not only a fruitless endeavor – as data and reason have been killed by the revolution – but something that could be used against you, to brand you as a “racist.”
The leaders of this new world have rendered our weapons ineffective, leaving us without a means to fight back or to scrub off the negative social branding that they paint on our skin in vibrant colors.
This is why we are afraid.
We stand on unfamiliar land, lacking appropriate weaponry, and the opposition has rapidly become a vaporous monolith against which a blade would be about as useful as a rubber ducky. Given this present reality, our only option seems to be a retreat to safety, which, in this case, means complete and deafening silence – in real life and across all social media platforms.
There is an unfortunate side effect of this retreat. As counter-opinions disappear, the revolution will perceive growth – in size and acceptance of cause. This dynamic will not only be apparent to the revolutionaries themselves, but also by those on the outside bearing witness to its apparent accomplishments.
The full retreat of reasoned people, as well as the subsequent growth-perception among the revolutionaries will have severe repercussions. We’ve already witnessed the beginnings of an effort to rearrange the strands of our history, and we need only look elsewhere in time to understand what might happen should this early-stage tinkering succeed.
Now that we more fully appreciate the nature of our fear, as well as the soil from which it sprang, we must return to the simple question, only one step more complex – why are we afraid to be thought of as “racist” or “complicit” in a racist system when reason and data tell us that such assertions are entirely untrue?
It’s a wholly perception-oriented phenomenon. We perceive that a majority of Americans are participating in this revolution, and because of that, we fear that a “racist” or “complicit” label will stick. Perhaps on a deeper level, we fear that such a label will, in effect, become true due to the seeming majority belief.
However, this perception is incorrect. Those seeking to undermine our system and the values undergirding it, those who would call “racist” anyone who disagrees with their orthodoxy, even by a hair, are in the minority – a minority that has of course been amplified by social media, legacy media, progressive politicians, academia, Hollywood, and the vociferousness of the movement’s participants.
As previously noted, a mass retreat by individuals of sound thinking will allow this movement, which has reached a state of maturation, to establish a foothold, which can and will be leveraged into extraordinary social power over time, even if according to raw numbers, the movement represents just a fraction of the American population.
So what can be done? If majority rules – perceived or real – we for whom reason and data matter must step out together from inside our hiding places, and push back. This cannot be accomplished by only a few brave individuals. It must be a rising done in concert with many others.
But how do we rise together? That is a question for which there is no concrete answer – though a suggestion comes to mind.
Being that we cannot all at once know if others will follow our lead, it will perhaps take a set of prominent figures who have little to no fear of reprisal to generate the momentum that will set off a larger counter-push.
We could be witnessing the start of such a thing with the recent open letter defending free expression published by Harper’s Magazine. This letter features the signatures of people like JK Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, and more than 140 others, almost all of whom wouldn’t be considered center-right by any means.
This counterpunch from left-leaning public figures could provide some form of cover behind which average Americans could get a running start.
Ultimately, the history of war cannot be pictured in full until well after the final fight has ended. The story of the woke revolution and those who will resist the fear of stinging labels is ongoing, and the outcome can still be changed – but action must be taken as soon as possible.
It might be that in this inestimable slice of time in which we still have the means to defend the truth, there is no other option but to set aside our terrors in order to act as a barrier between what we know to be good and the mob that seeks to tear it apart.
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CAMP: Why Are We Afraid To Stand Up To The Woke Mob?

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Why are we afraid? In this moment where the world around us has ruptured, or in which already present fractures have rapidly widened, why have we who deal

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On Saturday, YouTube channel “It’s Okay To Be Smart” released a video showing how face masks work generally, and how they function as it relates to the spread of viruses like COVID-19.
Channel host and writer Joe Hanson first shows footage of a man breathing, talking, and coughing – all of which is captured using schlieren imaging, which makes certain airflow patterns visible to the human eye.
“This is how COVID-19 is spread – through air currents, potentially carrying microscopic droplets full of coronavirus,” Hanson says.
After discussing a man named Matthew Staymates, “a fluid dynamicist and mechanical engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology” who used the special imaging to capture the footage being showcased, Hanson jumps into the functionality of face masks.
“At 250 frames per second, it shows us exactly why masks work to slow airborne infection,” Hanson states.
Despite being unable to see actual viral particles, Hanson notes that the particles don’t travel by themselves, but “fly out in droplets of moisture,” many of which are caught by masks, thus leaving them unable to travel very far.
“And without a mask, some of those droplets can evaporate into super tiny particles of infection that can float on air currents far from your mouth or nose, and these microdroplets are extremely hard for any mask to filter out,” the host adds.
Hanson further explains that a secondary function of face masks is “that any droplets that do get through now have less momentum,” meaning they cannot “travel as far.”
As for which mask works best, Hanson says that many facial coverings have “a lot of droplet-blocking power,” but they do need to fit. A mask shouldn’t be too tight or too thick, as that could cause “more air” to shoot “out the sides.”
“A good test is to see if you can blow out a candle through your mask from about one foot away,” Hanson says.
Throughout his explanations, the host shows more schlieren footage demonstrating the effectiveness of masks.
Hanson also shows footage of an individual speaking under “laser light,” which reveals “microdroplets.” When a mask is worn by the individual, these droplets are no longer visible under the light.
Going further, Hanson cites an experiment conducted by a microbiologist who “sneezed, sang, talked, and coughed over petri dishes,” and reveals the stark difference between the masked and unmasked results.
After stating that because of asymptomatic transmission, face masks are important even for those who don’t know that they’re sick, and that it’s not true that masks lower “oxygen levels,” as demonstrated by those in the health care field, Hanson notes that masks are only one piece of the pandemic puzzle – along with distancing and hand washing.
The host pivots from the science to discuss the social meaning of wearing a facial covering, claiming that the benefits of wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic outweigh the unpleasant side effects like itching and fogged glasses.
Donning a mask, like wearing a prophylactic, is “a sign you want to protect others and have them protect you,” he adds.
“A mask can stop a virus, but it also sends a message: We’re all in this together,” Hanson says. “And that’s something we all need to hear right now and every day.”
There’s much more to the video than what’s described and quoted above, so you can check it out here:
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In recent days, mask mandates have become a topic of debate.
On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-gov-allows-county-mayors-to-make-mask-mandate-decisions">declared</a> a mask mandate while COVID-19 cases in the state surge. On Friday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-gov-allows-county-mayors-to-make-mask-mandate-decisions">executive order</a> allowing county mayors to make decisions about masks – a move <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-gov-ducey-to-allow-local-governments-to-draft-their-own-face-mask-policies-as-covid-19-cases-spike">similar to that made</a> by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey.
COVID-19 has infected over 11.3 million people worldwide, and led to more than 532,600 deaths, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to data</a> from the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Global Cases map. Over 6.1 million people have recovered.
In the United States, there have been more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, and over 129,800 deaths. As of publication, 906,763 individuals have recovered from the virus in the U.S.
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WATCH: Video Explains How And Why Face Masks Function Using Schlieren Imaging

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On Sunday, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Dana Bash to discuss a variety of topics.
Bash first asked Ernst about President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech, which he delivered during his recent Independence Day celebration. Some in the mainstream press have characterized the speech as “dark” and “divisive.”
Bash played a brief clip in which Trump said: “Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. &#8230; No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart.”
The host then asked Ernst if she is “comfortable with that.”
The Senator responded, saying that there is much “frustration across the United States,” and that she believes the U.S. is the “greatest nation on the face of the planet” despite past sins.
“We need to come together and have some very hard discussions about our past,” Ernst said. “But the great thing about this nation is that we can learn from those blemishes, learn from those hard times in the past, and continue to evolve as a continually blessed nation.”
Bash asked Ernst if the majority of demonstrations seen across the country have been “peaceful,” and the senator agreed that there have been “many peaceful protests,” and that she supports such things.
However, Ernst also condemned the violent rioters, some of whom have been tearing down statues of historical figures, saying of such behavior: “We can&#8217;t allow that to happen.”
After Ernst emphasized the need to have “very hard discussions” if we are to “come together” as a nation, Bash asked the senator about a “must-pass military spending bill that the president is now threatening to veto because it would rename U.S. bases named after Confederate officers.”
<blockquote>BASH: You sit on the Armed Services Committee. You support renaming those bases. Should the president sign the bill?
ERNST: Well, I absolutely believe that we need to have a discussion on this – and, again, sometimes, those discussions are very hard. But I do believe that we should talk about these military bases that were named for generals that took up arms against the United States.
So, I welcome that discussion. I think we all should. And, again, we want to focus on the meaningful things that will move our country forward, but I don&#8217;t believe in the destruction, again, of property. If we&#8217;re talking about statues that belong to other jurisdictions – those decisions should be made at that local level, not by those that are out there vandalizing that property.
So, again, hard discussions all the way around, but we need to have a little bit of peace across the nation. And we can only do that if we&#8217;re all sitting down in discussions.</blockquote>
“So, just to be clear, that&#8217;s basically what the bill says, is to start the process,” Bash said. “Given that, should the president sign the bill?”
Ernst replied: “Well, I would love that he would sign the bill and move forward. But, absolutely, we have to have the discussions. We have to do that. And if that&#8217;s what will help, if we can all get together as stakeholders, then I think it&#8217;s the right thing to do.”
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Sen. Ernst: ‘We Should Talk About’ Bases ‘Named For Generals That Took Up Arms Against The United States’

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On Friday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed an executive order allowing the mayors of counties across the state to issue face mask mandates if needed.
In a tweet-thread, the governor wrote:
<blockquote>Today I signed Executive Order 54 to grant county mayors in 89 counties the authority to issue local mask requirements in the event of a significant rise in COVID-19 cases.
While our densely populated urban areas continue to have the highest COVID-19 case rates, our local governments expressed a need for greater flexibility in addressing a rise in cases and that includes setting stronger expectations around masks.
This targeted approach ensures we protect both lives and livelihoods and safely keep our economy open in Tennessee. We encourage every Tennessean across the state to use a face covering or mask, make sure to socially distance and wash hands frequently.</blockquote>
Lee added that “the six counties with locally run health departments including Sullivan, Knox, Hamilton, Davidson, Madison and Shelby counties retain the existing authority to issue mask requirements as needed.”
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While our densely populated urban areas continue to have the highest COVID-19 case rates, our local governments expressed a need for greater flexibility in addressing a rise in cases and that includes setting stronger expectations around masks.
— Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovBillLee/status/1279186022170009605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
The pertinent text of the <a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2020/7/3/gov--lee-grants-mayors-in-89-counties-authority-to-issue-covid-19-mask-requirements.html">executive order</a> reads in part:
<blockquote>&#8230;county mayors in the 89 counties that do not have a locally run county health department shall have the authority to issue orders or measures requiring or recommending the wearing of face coverings within their jurisdictions, consistent with Paragraph 3 of this order.</blockquote>
Paragraph 3 states: “WHEREAS, whether to require or recommend wearing a face covering may depend on the spread of COVID-19 or lack thereof in a particular community, which varies widely across the State, and local governments are therefore better positioned to make this decision based on the conditions in their communities&#8230;”
The EO continues, stating that any mayoral orders should follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and allow for certain “exemptions.”
Some “exemptions” noted in the text – one does not have to wear a mask “while eating or drinking,” while in places where one can properly maintain social distance, while “in a house of worship unless required by that house of worship,” if one is 12-years-old “or younger,” and if one has a legitimate “health-related” excuse.
Additionally, masks are not required in one’s own home or vehicle, “unless transporting others for hire,” among other exemptions.
Read the entire executive order <a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2020/7/3/gov--lee-grants-mayors-in-89-counties-authority-to-issue-covid-19-mask-requirements.html">here</a>.
According to the <a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health/cedep/ncov/data.html">Tennessee Department of Health</a>, the state has seen 50,140 COVID-19 cases, and 637 deaths as of publication. Two counties in Tennessee, Shelby and Davidson, currently account for approximately 44.5% of total cases in the state.
Other states experiencing COVID-19 spikes have made moves similar to Lee’s executive order.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-governor-greg-abbott-issues-statewide-face-mask-requirement-following-coronavirus-spike">reported</a>, “Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a new executive order on Thursday mandating that Texans must wear a face covering when they are out in public in counties that have 20 or more confirmed cases of the coronavirus.”
COVID-19 has infected over 11.1 million people worldwide, and led to more than 528,200 deaths, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to data</a> from the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Global Cases map. Over 6 million people have recovered.
In the United States, there have been more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, and over 129,600 deaths. As of publication, 883,561 individuals have recovered from the virus in the U.S.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-governor-greg-abbott-issues-statewide-face-mask-requirement-following-coronavirus-spike">Texas Governor Greg Abbott Issues Statewide Face Mask Requirement Following Coronavirus Spike</a>
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On Friday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed an executive order allowing the mayors of counties across the state to issue face mask mandates if needed.

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On Friday, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore for President’s Trump’s Independence Day celebration.
After thanking those who came to the event, Noem made a critical point about the ongoing attempt to erase American history:
<blockquote>Across America these last several weeks, we have been witnessing a very troubling situation unfold. In real-time, we are watching an organized, coordinated campaign to remove and eliminate all references to our nation&#8217;s founding and many other points in our history. Rather than looking to the past to help improve our future, some are trying to wipe away the lessons of history, lessons that we should be teaching to our children and to our grandchildren. This approach focuses exclusively on our forefathers’ flaws, but it fails to capitalize on the opportunity to learn from their virtues.</blockquote>
Noem noted that this isn’t happening by accident, but “deliberately” as a means to “discredit America&#8217;s founding principles by discrediting the individuals who formed them so that America can be remade into a different political image.”
The governor continued, asking the audience to understand that America’s independence was a unique and powerful confluence of events and brilliant minds. Noem added that the Declaration of Independence is “arguably one of the most important statements of purpose ever written” in part because it stands as a symbol for other peoples across the globe.
Noem then offered salient insight:
<blockquote>These ideals cannot be dismissed as the irrelevant opinions of flawed men. Our founders had their flaws, certainly, but to use those flaws to condemn their ideals is unjust and self-defeating. How many of us have lived up to our own ideals?</blockquote>
The governor added that because of the Founding Fathers and the ideals they put to paper, we have a society in which “we can speak and write, worship, work, defend ourselves, and even protest as we see fit.”
Noem later spotlighted the aftermath of the Civil War:
<blockquote>The struggle to maintain the Union was about the proposition that America must live up to the principles articulated in the Declaration, and America&#8217;s rebirth allowed a fuller realization of the fundamental purposes of government articulated in the Declaration. In 1862, a simple question was put before Congress: can we do better? Our choice was clear, we could either nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope on earth.</blockquote>
Governor Noem also quoted former President Theodore Roosevelt, who said:
<blockquote>It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with [those] cold and timid souls who neither know victory [nor] defeat.</blockquote>
Noem stated that such a quote is a perfect direction for leaders in the modern era, adding that “we honor these men and women for their contributions, their leadership, all the positive things that they represent.”
“This Independence Day, let us be grateful that we have such words and such examples to follow, and that others were willing to sacrifice so much to create a land in which liberty and law can be protected,” Noem said.
The governor concluded by admonishing the audience to “not destroy history,” but “learn from it by preserving and imitating what is good about it.”
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At least one news outlet appeared to spin Governor Noem’s remarks by headlining their piece about her speech thusly: “South Dakota governor calls removal of Confederate statues effort to ‘discredit’ Founding Fathers.”
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— The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1279374661877448705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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