NBA Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley, 58, famous for not mincing words, had some strong language for athletes in the NBA and NFL regarding vaccination, acknowledging that he had been vaccinated while adding, “Everybody should be vaccinated. Period. The only people who are not vaccinated are just a**holes.”
Barkley told CNBC that sports leagues should demand that their players get vaccinated. He stated, “Can you imagine if one of these guys that are not vaccinated, if they get one of these players’ kids, wives, girlfriends, moms and dads sick and they die over some unnecessary conspiracy bulls***? I think that would be tragic.”
Likening professional athletics to a corporate job, he continued, “There’s s*** you can’t do at work and there’s s*** that have to do at work. So every workplace has rules and I think one of the rules [should be] that guys have to be vaccinated.”
“Up to <a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/number-of-nfl-players-in-vaccination-process-up-to-80">80%</a> of NFL players, <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2021/07/20/michele-roberts-90-of-nba-players-vaccinated/">90%</a> of NBA players and <a href="https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/mlb-says-23-teams-reached-85-per-cent-vaccine-threshold/">85%</a> of MLB players have reportedly had at least one shot. But there have been players and coaches who have publicly refused to be vaccinated,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/charles-barkley-sports-leagues-should-force-guys-to-get-vaccinated.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.PostToTwitter">CNBC</a> reported, adding, “NFL’s guidelines required vaccination for all Tier 1 staff, including coaches, front-office executives, equipment managers and scouts. However, NFL players are not required to be vaccinated.”
Neither the NBA nor MLB require vaccinations of their players.
In mid-June, as <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/charles-barkley-announces-hell-be-leaving-inside-the-nba-in-two-years-blames-jackaes-trying-to-get-you-canceled/">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Charles Barkley announced he would be leaving “Inside the NBA,” where he had co-hosted for 21 years, when he turns 60, blasting the woke culture that pervaded the sports world. He <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/basketball-legend-charles-barkley-to-exit-inside-the-nba-slams-cancel-culture-and-social-justice-warriors">told</a> Washington sports radio station <a href="https://www.audacy.com/thefandc/podcasts/grant-and-danny-817/61421-hour-2-charles-barkley-joins-grant-danny-live-458580189">106.7 The Fan</a> that his bosses were “cowards,” adding, “It’s gotten so out of hand right now, I couldn’t imagine having to watch myself. You can’t even have fun nowadays without these jackasses trying to get you canceled and things like that. … [I’m] just having fun, talking about sports. I’m trying to hang on for another couple years until I’m 60, and then they can kiss my ass. I’m only working until 60. I’ve already told them that. We can’t even have fun anymore. We’ve had fun all these years, and now all of a sudden in the last year and a half, everybody’s trying to get everybody fired, and it really sucks.&#8221;
In July 2020, speaking on a pre-game podcast on TNT, Barkley <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-charles-barkley-defends-athletes-standing-up-for-anthem/">defended</a> athletes who chose not to kneel for the national anthem, asserting, “My thing is, listen, the national anthem means different things to different people. I’m glad these guys are all unified. But if people… If people don’t kneel, they’re not a bad person. I want to make that perfectly clear. I’m glad they had unity, but if we have a guy who doesn’t want to kneel ‘cause the anthem means something to him, he should not be vilified.”
Barkley is well-known for bluntly challenging the status quo; in January 2016, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2960/former-nba-star-rips-espn-race-baiting-james-barrett">ripped ESPN for race-baiting</a> in the run-up to the Super Bowl, saying on &#8220;<a href="http://www.danpatrick.com/2016/01/27/charles-barkley-if-auburn-paid-cam-he-was-a-bargain/">The Dan Patrick Show</a>&#8221; that ESPN was &#8220;framing the narrative&#8221; of the game featuring Peyton Manning&#8217;s Denver Broncos and Cam Newton&#8217;s Carolina Panthers. He <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/28/barkley-espn-turning-super-bowl-50-into-a-black-versus-white-race-battle/">said</a>, &#8220;ESPN has already started their crap about black versus white, good versus evil — and I know a lot of those fools over there got radio talk shows … It really annoys the hell out of me. We really just can’t appreciate the greatness of Peyton [Manning]. And, clearly, Cam is on the track to become one of the greatest players ever. You can already see them framing this narrative &#8216;black versus white, good versus evil.'&#8221;
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NCAA Men’s Final Four – National Championship – Villanova v North Carolina

Charles Barkley: ‘Everybody Should Be Vaccinated. Period.’

Charles Barkley

COVID-19 Vaccine

A student working for his master&#8217;s degree in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics wrote in his paper, “We go unnoticed, right up until the moment they scream for mercy. Am I a threat to you? Do I send chills down your spine? Picture this, I hold a knife to your throat and spit my transness into your ear. Does that turn you on? Are you scared? I sure f***ing hope so.&#8221;
Matt Thompson’s paper, &#8220;Trans* Endemics: Embodying Viral and Monstrous Threat in Times of Pandemic,&#8221;  was one of four papers read at a session called “No Time, No TERFS, No Norms” as part of a course titled Transnational Sexual Politics, taught by Dr. Jacob Breslow and Professor Clare Hemmings, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-scholar-writes-essay-threatening-violence-against-women-gets-featured-by-prominent-university?utm_campaign=64471">The Post Millennial</a> reported.
A “TERF” is a “feminist who excludes the rights of transgender women from their advocacy of women&#8217;s rights,” Oxford languages explains.
Thompson “identifies” as &#8220;genderf***&#8221; according to The Post Millennial.
Once apprised of the paper’s content by a group called “Sex Matters, the London School of Economics yanked the paper, tweeting, “Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This presentation did not abide by the School’s Code of Practice on Free Speech and has been removed from the relevant student conference pages.”
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This presentation did not abide by the School’s Code of Practice on Free Speech and has been removed from the relevant student conference pages.
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In the paper, Thompson wrote:
<blockquote>Tell me, what do you find threatening? The police? Men? Me? … When you see me walk down the street with my long blonde hair, heeled combat boots, and make up to die for, are you scared? … You should be. … When I walk down the street, I see people who hate me and admire me; want to kill me, and want to f*** me. They see a threat, and I see a weakness. … I am both threat and threatened. I am the monster in your nightmares, I am the lamb for the slaughter, I am the butcher. Watch me take my knife to your throat. …  TERFs see transness as an endemic threat to feminism, a &#8220;social contagion,” the frontier on which they&#8217;re going to defeat patriarchy. They don their JK Rowling masks and shout bloody murder about “female erasure.” They see trans* people and gender studies departments as brainwashing the population against the sanctity of biological sex. Actually, on this last point, they&#8217;re not too far from right.
This, in the midst of a global pandemic. … A pandemic that has trans* organisations across the world fighting for survival. And I don&#8217;t mean survival as in stocking up on toilet paper or making masks on your home sewing machine. Survival as in, access to gender affirming health care that can determine whether you want to live or die. Survival when living with family members that would rather beat you than use your correct pronouns. Survival when living on the street or partaking in sex work, as many trans* people do, are no longer viable ways of living. …
If TERFs think trans* is an endemic threat to feminism, let us be the threat to feminism. We are the endemic, the viral, the toxic onslaught of ideology that attacks the very core of what you hold dear. We go unnoticed, right up until the moment they scream for mercy. … Am I a threat to you? Do I send chills down your spine? … Picture this: I hold a knife to your throat and spit my transness into your ear. Does that turn you on? Are you scared? … I sure f***ing hope so.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Frontage of London School of Economics’ Department of Economics

British Gender Studies Student: ‘Picture This, I Hold A Knife To Your Throat And Spit My Transness Into Your Ear’

London School of Economics

Transgender

Speaking at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkasblamed the crisis of the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border on COVID and stated that the Biden administration’s halt to the construction of a wall on the border was based on the belief that the $15 billion that was dedicated to the construction of the border wall was ill-advised.
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) Romney, referencing the Biden administration’s decision to halt construction of the wall, asked, “Why can’t we make this decision and proceed?”
“Senator, I know that we will not agree on this issue, but the decision with respect to the border wall was not a political decision but a substantive one, that the $15 billion that was dedicated to the construction of the border wall was ill-advised,” Mayorkas answered. “And we can use the government’s funds and taxpayer funds more wisely through investment in innovation through investment in technology. That is a greatest-force multiplier.”
Romney fired back, “Mr. Secretary, the great majority of that money has already been spent, the overwhelming majority, and now there’s some gaps in what’s already been spent. … President Obama’s administration expanded the border barrier. I mean, I’m all in favor of technology but as long as we’ve already paid for it and have contracts to complete the wall, I simply can’t understand any logical reason not to complete it.”
“This just strikes me as being nonsense,” he continued. “I simply don’t understand it. With regard to the comment that we’re going to invest in root causes, I don’t understand what you’re referring to there. Are you suggesting that somehow we should be able to invest to make sure that all of Latin America gets rid of their dictators, gets rid of their corruption, ends violence, and if we do that, maybe there’ll be less people trying to get into the border? That’s unrealistic. That’s, of course, absurd.”
Later Senator Josh Hawley blistered Mayorkas, saying, “I want to just review the record your record in office and the record of this administration to date.  Since February, the first full month of the Biden administration, there have been 822,629 illegal crossing attempts encountered by CBP at the southwest border. Every single month of your tenure we’ve seen over 100,000 illegal crossing attempts. Every single month in your tenure illegal crossing attempts have increased. We’ve hit a 20-year record for illegal entries; we hit that last month.”
“We’ve had a surge of young children across the border placing these children in incredible danger and in the line of harm,” Hawley noted. “On a single day in March we had 6,000 children sitting in CBP custody, and including HHS facilities we now have 15,000 migrant children currently in federal custody. In April, the number of deportations carried out by ICE fell to the lowest monthly level on record. Interior arrests by ICE have declined to about 2,500 arrests per month; that’s down from 10,000 arrests per month under the previous administration. And The Washington Post and other news outlets have reported the border patrol totally overwhelmed now by the surge of migrants crossing the border. The cartels are having an easier and easier time smuggling drugs across our border which are going to states like mine which are awash in drugs, awash with drugs from across the border. Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, this record is an unmitigated disaster. It’s a disaster. And I want to ask you to tell us and tell the American people now what you’re going to do to change course.”
Mayorkas insisted that the number of apprehended migrants was exaggerated because migrants turned away came back, stating, “First of all, the number of migrants apprehended at the border began to increase in April of last year. … It’s very important to remember that the number of apprehensions, the number of encounters does not equal the number of different individuals encountered … they often return and are expelled again.”
“Are you saying there has not been a dramatic surge in border crossings and unaccompanied children during your tenure, a historic surge?” Hawley asked. “Is that your position?”
“That is not my position,” Mayorkas replied. “What I am saying is  that the number of encounters and apprehensions does not equal the number of different individuals apprehended.”
Speaking of the Biden administration’s “plan,” Mayorkas pontificated, “Let me say this: What makes the plan more challenging is number one, COVID, but we are working through that and our plan addresses that challenge —”
“Wait a minute — COVID was at its height a year ago, Mr. Secretary,” Hawley said incredulously. “With all due respect, we saw none of these numbers a year ago. This crisis has occurred under your tenure. COVID is not unique to your tenure. This is a crisis that you have engineered with your policies.”
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Senate Homeland Security Committee Hears Testimony From DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Biden’s DHS Sec: Funds For Border Wall ‘Ill-Advised,’ Number Of Illegals Exaggerated, Blames COVID For Crisis

Alejandro Mayorkas

Illegal Immigration

Josh Hawley

Mitt Romney

Southern Border

After members of the public noticed that the son of California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom was photographed at his summer camp maskless with other maskless children, they harshly criticized Newsom for his hypocrisy, since California has implemented statewide guidance that children wear masks to camps regardless of whether they have been vaccinated or not.
After the photos of his son emerged, Newsom, who is facing a serious recall election, pulled his son out of the camp, <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253068523.html">The Sacramento Bee</a> reported, adding, “Under the state’s guidelines, children’s camps must follow the same rules as schools.”
Newsom’s spokeswoman Erin Mellon, claiming the Newsoms had missed an alert from the camp that children would not be forced to wear masks, added, “The Newsoms were concerned to see unvaccinated children unmasked indoors at a camp their children began attending yesterday. The family reviewed communication from the camp and realized that an email was missed saying the camp would not enforce masking guidance. Their kids will no longer be attending this camp.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-newsom-son-summer-camp-removed-maskless-photos">Fox News</a> noted:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california">California</a>’s current guidance for children aged 2-11 states they must wear masks during &#8220;<a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Face-Coverings-QA.aspx">camps for youth, youth sports and other youth activities</a>, including theater and music performances and band. Updated CDC guidance is forthcoming for youth settings.&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-k-12-students-refuse-masks-barred-school">California officials announced July 9</a> that students and teachers returning to the classroom this year will also be required to wear masks, regardless of vaccination status.</blockquote>
Two parent advocacy organizations, Let Them Breathe and Reopen California Schools, are <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article252967063.html">suing Newsom</a> and the state’s health officials over the mandate requiring all children to wear masks at schools.  Reopen California Schools founder Jonathan Zachreson reacted to the news of Newsom pulling his children out of the camp by referencing the incident in 2020 in which Newsom attended a party at the French Laundry without a mask despite the fact he had instructed Californians to eschew such actions. Zachreson stated, “This clearly demonstrates that he doesn’t believe there’s a risk. His kids get to live by a different set of rules.”
“Zachreson said he doesn’t believe Newsom didn’t know that the camp allowed kids to interact without masks inside because the camp frequently posts photos of maskless children on its website and social media accounts,” the Bee reported.
Reopen California Schools wrote as part of a long <a href="https://twitter.com/ReopenCASchools/status/1419901715294289924">Twitter thread</a>: “To be clear, we support this summer basketball camp’s approach of having each family determine their own masking situation. The real problem is Newsom’s own family having mask choice, while he forces a different policy on every other kid in California…. It’s unfortunate Newsom is pulling his kid from the camp after Newsom got caught. #LetHunterPlay. It’s also clear from Newsom’s statement he is clueless about his own mandates. We just want what Newsom’s kids have, mask-choice.”
After the lawsuit about children wearing masks was filed, Zachreson said, “It’s clear that (the health department) has chosen to ignore the overwhelming evidence that show children are at a very low risk from being infected with COVID-19, transmitting it to others, or becoming seriously ill from COVID-19. A return to a normal school year is crucial to the mental and physical health recovery for students across California who have endured months of isolation and a majority of who spent last school year entirely in distance learning.”
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California Governor Gavin Newsom Holds Covid Briefing In San Francisco

Newsom Pulls Kids From Camp After Photos Emerge Of Them Maskless

Gavin Newsom

masks

After fierce debate erupted over iconic U.S. gymnast Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the gymnastics team final on Tuesday after she had trouble with her vault, which led to the U.S. women’s team winning the silver medal instead of the gold medal that was widely expected, Biles’ teammate Sunisa Lee spoke out, tweeting, “We do not owe anyone a gold medal.”
Lee wrote, “never been prouder to be apart of such an amazing team with an amazing group of girls. we stepped up when we needed to and did this for ourselves. we do not owe anyone a gold medal, we are WINNERS in our hearts.”
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never been prouder to be apart of such an amazing team with an amazing group of girls. we stepped up when we needed to and did this for ourselves. we do not owe anyone a gold medal, we are WINNERS in our hearts. 🤍
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Lee also offered a nickname for the team in the vein of the nicknames of previous teams, tweeting a picture of herself, Biles, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum, and captioning it, “The Fighting 4.”
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THE FIGHTING 4. <a href="https://t.co/f8YWClsYiP">pic.twitter.com/f8YWClsYiP</a>
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“First, there was the ‘The Magnificent Seven’ in 1996. Then came the ‘The Fierce Five’ in 2012 and ‘The Final Five’ in 2016. Now, it appears to be ‘The Fighting Four,’&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/fighting-4-nickname-us-womens-gymnastics-team-revealed">NBC News</a> reported.
Chiles unexpectedly performed in two events: balance beam and bars. She stated, “Throughout the whole thing, I was telling myself like, &#8216;This is for the team, I&#8217;m gonna have to do what I normally do throughout each training that I&#8217;ve done and show out.  And you know, at the end of the day, it was all for the team &#8230; it was very stressful and emotional, but we&#8217;re good.&#8221;
Lee added, &#8220;We did it for Simone.”
On Tuesday, after Biles withdrew, USA Gymnastics tweeted, &#8220;Simone Biles has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue. She will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions.&#8221;
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Official statement: &quot;Simone Biles has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue. She will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions.&quot;
Thinking of you, Simone! <a href="https://t.co/QA1GYHwWTv">pic.twitter.com/QA1GYHwWTv</a>
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After Biles withdrew from the team event, she stated, as reported by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/storm-remains-threat-bringing-rain-it-lurks-off-coast-2021-07-26/">Reuters:</a>
<blockquote>There is more to life than just gymnastics. … It is very unfortunate that it has to happen at this stage because I definitely wanted these Olympics to go a little bit better. But again, take it one day at the time. We&#8217;ll see how the rest goes.</blockquote>
&#8220;It just sucks when you are fighting with your own head,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;You want to do it for yourself but you&#8217;re just too worried about what everybody else is going to say, think, the internet. So I just had to stay off of it for the past couple of days. It&#8217;s just like when everybody tweeted you and you feel that weight of the world. I felt it, and at the end of the day, if I had pushed through that &#8230; okay, this is for me. It is for me, but I feel like I have do to it for other people first.&#8221;
Biles told reporters, “No injury, thankfully, and that’s why I took a step back because I didn’t want to do something silly out there and get injured. I thought it was best if the girls took over and did the rest of the job which they absolutely did. It’s been really stressful these Olympic Games. I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat and work on my mindfulness. I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/tokyo-2020-olympics-07-27-21-spt/h_d8427df201bae9c30114bbe797515df9">CNN</a> reported.
She also <a href="https://www.marca.com/en/olympic-games/2021/07/27/61003e79e2704eafa88b4645.html">stated</a>, “After the performance I did, I just didn&#8217;t want to go on. I have to focus on my mental health. I just think mental health is more prevalent in sports right now. We have to protect our minds and our bodies and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do. I don&#8217;t trust myself as much anymore. Maybe it&#8217;s getting older. There were a couple of days when everybody tweets you and you feel the weight of the world.”
After the team won the silver medal, Biles stated, &#8220;For me, I’m proud for how the girls stepped up and did what they had to do. I owe this to the girls, it has nothing to do with me. I am very proud of them.” She said she told the team after she withdrew, &#8220;You have done all the training, you can do this without me, and it will be just fine.&#8221;
Biles later told the “Today” show, “We&#8217;re going to take it day by day, and we&#8217;re just going to see. … Physically, I feel good, I&#8217;m in shape. Emotionally, that kind of varies on the time and moment. Coming to the Olympics and being head star isn&#8217;t an easy feat, so we&#8217;re just trying to take it one day at a time and we&#8217;ll see.”
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GYMNASTICS-OLY-2020-2021-TOKYO-PODIUM

‘We Do Not Owe Anyone A Gold Medal’: Simone Biles’ Teammate After Backlash From Biles’ Withdrawal

Gymnastics

Simone Biles

Tokyo Olympics

After the official Twitter account of the Olympics tweeted praise for an Iranian marksman who won the gold medal in the air pistol men’s final, they were blasted by various Iranians who claimed that the marksman, Javad Foroughi, is a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.
“Golden debut! Javad Foroughi wins gold in the air pistol men&#8217;s final, breaking the Olympic Record on his first Olympic appearance. Well done!” the Olympics Twitter site gushed.
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Golden debut! 🥇
Javad Foroughi wins gold in the air pistol men&#39;s final, breaking the Olympic Record on his first Olympic appearance. Well done!<a href="https://twitter.com/ISSF_Shooting?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ISSF_Shooting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Shooting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Shooting</a> <a href="https://t.co/oLESupTNL1">pic.twitter.com/oLESupTNL1</a>
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But the Iranian human rights athletic organization United for Navid, named after champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari, “who was imprisoned and tortured by the Islamic Republic of Iran for his participation against the theocratic regime in 2018,” as <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/iranians-blast-olympics-for-praising-irgc-terrorist-who-won-gold-medal-674804">The Jerusalem Post</a> reported, blasted the Olympics in a statement to the Post, writing that it “considers the awarding of an Olympic Gold Medal to Iran marksman Javad Foroughi not only a catastrophe for Iranian sports but also for the international community, and especially the reputation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The 41-year old Foroughi is a current and longtime member of a terrorist organization [IRGC].”
The organization told the Post that it had written “to the IOC earlier this year and warned them about the possible presence of the military and even politicians serving as athletic representatives of Iran. Officials of the IOC never took any action. Awarding an Olympic gold medal to a member of a terrorist organization is an insult to other athletes and a black mark on the IOC. United for Navid calls for an immediate investigation by the IOC, and until an investigation is completed the suspension of any medal award.”
American journalist Masih Alinejad, who hails from Iran, has spoken out vehemently against the Iranian regime and was the target of a kidnapping plot from four Iranian men allegedly connected with the Iranian theocratic regime, tweeted, “U.S. names #IRGC a terrorist group. #JavadForoughi a member of IRGC was allowed to take part in Tokyo Olympic &amp; win gold in men’s 10m air pistol. He dedicated his gold to Ali Khameni the leader of IRI. Sport being used to normalize dictatorship. An affront to the Olympic ideals!&#8221;
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U.S. names <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IRGC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IRGC</a> a terrorist group. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JavadForoughi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JavadForoughi</a> a member of IRGC was allowed to take part in Tokyo Olympic &amp; win gold in men&#39;s 10m air pistol. He dedicated his gold to Ali Khamenei the leader of IRI. Sport being used to normalize dictatorship. An affront to the Olympic ideals! <a href="https://t.co/6ZYAu0YrRC">pic.twitter.com/6ZYAu0YrRC</a>
&mdash; Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1418916115422629891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ellie Cohanim, the former U.S. deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, tweeted: “What a disgrace for the Olympics. This guy has been outed as a member of the IRGC a designated terrorist organization.”
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What a disgrace for the <a href="https://twitter.com/Olympics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Olympics</a> this guy has been outed as a member of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IRGC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IRGC</a> a US designated terrorist organization. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iran</a> <a href="https://t.co/43VDWIp3MX">https://t.co/43VDWIp3MX</a>
&mdash; Ellie Cohanim (@elliecohanim) <a href="https://twitter.com/elliecohanim/status/1418988989512626180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In August 2017, former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/legislation/hr-3364-countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act#toc-H979B979F95764679AC4E0820EA55EC8E">signed</a> the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which targets Iran, North Korea, and Russia,
The law required the president to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist group, the first time the U.S. had designated the military branch of a foreign country in this manner. The law’s Sec. 105 (3) states, “The IRGC, not just the IRGC-QF [the Qods Force, the Guard’s extraterritorial branch], is responsible for implementing Iran’s international program of destabilizing activities, support for acts of international terrorism, and ballistic missile program.”
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Shooting – Olympics: Day 1

‘What A Disgrace’: Olympics Bashed After Praising Iranian Marksman Who Allegedly Belongs To Terrorist Group

Iran

IRGC

Terrorists

After learning that President Biden’s choice to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, not only has been linked to a 1989 eco-terrorist plot, but also described children as “an environmental hazard” in her master’s thesis, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed her, writing, “Biden&#8217;s BLM nominee thinks a ‘cute baby’ is actually an ‘environmental hazard.’ What is wrong with these people? Every baby is a precious gift from God.”
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Biden&#39;s BLM nominee thinks a &quot;cute baby&quot; is actually an &quot;environmental hazard.&quot;
What is wrong with these people?
Every baby is a precious gift from God. <a href="https://t.co/IfwtcmdbOp">pic.twitter.com/IfwtcmdbOp</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1419788276349739018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/23/joe-biden-bureau-of-land-management-forest-service/">Daily Caller</a> reported, in her <a href="https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2734/">thesis</a> titled &#8220;Into the heart of the beast/A case for environmental advertising,” Stone-Manning advocated for population control, writing, “The origin of our abuses is us. If there were fewer of us, we would have less impact. We must consume less, and more importantly, we must breed fewer consuming humans.”
“Stone-Manning also argued in her thesis that livestock grazing on public land is &#8216;destroying the West.&#8217; If confirmed by the Senate to lead the BLM, Stone-Manning would control an agency that manages livestock grazing on <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/rangelands-and-grazing/livestock-grazing">155 million acres</a> of public lands,” the Daily Caller noted.
The thesis included eight advertisements Stone-Manning created; one featured a shirtless American baby with the headline: “Can you find the environmental hazard in this photo?”
The caption read, “That’s right, it’s the cute baby.”
Stone-Manning added, “The earth is only so big, and we can tap into it only so often. In America, we tap in often and hard. When we overpopulate, the earth notices it more. Stop at two. It could be the best thing you do for the planet.”
In a script she created for a 30-second television ad, there was this statement: “When we have children, the planet feels it more. Do the truly smart thing. Stop at one or two kids.”
She also wrote,  “The point is a simple one. Harshly, the ads say that the earth can’t afford Americans. More softly, they ask people to think about how their family planning choices affect the planet.”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-nominee-with-ties-to-environmental-terrorists-violated-ethics-rules-by-concealing-finances-watchdog-group-says/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>According to a watchdog group citing a disclosure to Congress, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) admitted to breaking ethics laws and likely committed mortgage fraud. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) says it <a href="https://www.bidennoms.com/news/706/tracy-stone-manning-biden-nominee-for-bureau-of-land-management-takes-large-loan-and-likely-impermissible-gift-from-donor-developer">found</a> that as a congressional aide, Tracy Stone-Manning “took a possibly unethical loan from a Montana developer and political donor” named Stuart Goldberg. The group alleged her testimony at a recent hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Resources revealed “problematic” financial dealings.</blockquote>
In May, Stone-Manning claimed to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that no federal criminal investigation had ever targeted her. However, there is evidence that her claim does not fit the facts. The Committee’s <a href="https://www.energy.senate.gov/2021/6/barrasso-tracy-stone-manning-lied-to-the-senate">website</a> states:
<blockquote>On her committee questionnaire, Stone-Manning said she was never the subject of a criminal investigation and that the case was an “alleged” tree spiking. In court testimony obtained by the committee, Stone-Manning admitted she edited, retyped, and sent a threatening letter to the US Forest Service on behalf of the eco-terrorists. Years later, she received immunity in order to testify against the individuals who had spiked the trees. The court documents also confirm that hundreds of trees were spiked. Some of these trees remain a danger to loggers, Forest Service employees, and fire fighters.</blockquote>
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Both President Obama’s director and deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management have serious concerns about Tracy Stone-Manning leading the agency. Senate Democrats should listen to them <a href="https://t.co/245aRUHqWM">https://t.co/245aRUHqWM</a>
&mdash; Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnBarrasso/status/1419804787726487560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Nominations For Judges

‘What Is Wrong With These People’: Cotton Rips Biden BLM Choice Who Called Children An ‘Environmental Hazard’

Environmentalists

Joe Biden

Tom Cotton

Tracy Stone-Manning

On Monday night, a spokesperson for the Chinese Communist government issued a tweet denouncing the United States, prompting an incendiary response on social media. The anonymous “spokesperson” tweeted, “The United States should set a good example in complying with international rules instead of the opposite.”
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The United States should set a good example in complying with international rules instead of the opposite.
&mdash; Spokesperson发言人办公室 (@MFA_China) <a href="https://twitter.com/MFA_China/status/1419816670164447238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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That triggered blowback:
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China should set a good example in complying with international rules instead of running concentration camps. <a href="https://t.co/jW7dTd4N9e">https://t.co/jW7dTd4N9e</a>
&mdash; YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1420009036636884993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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go fuck yourself <a href="https://t.co/aS0ohecX2E">pic.twitter.com/aS0ohecX2E</a>
&mdash; Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1419893371204681729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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You lose your privilege to tell any other country what to do, when you infect the world. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> made in China.
&mdash; Christopher Eagle (@eagle4congress) <a href="https://twitter.com/eagle4congress/status/1419847762259202048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Here are some examples of China’s supposed concern for working in an “international” manner from The Daily Wire archives:
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/china-refuses-to-cooperate-with-w-h-o-probe-into-lab-leak-theory-its-against-science/">July 22, 2021</a>:
<blockquote>Communist China is refusing to cooperate with the second phase of an investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic &#8212; an investigation that is expected to focus on the possibility that the pandemic originated in a Chinese lab. &#8220;In some aspects, the WHO&#8217;s plan for next phase of investigation of the coronavirus origin doesn&#8217;t respect common sense, and it&#8217;s against science,&#8221; Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China&#8217;s National Health Commission, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/china/china-who-second-origin-study-intl-hnk/index.html">said</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible for us to accept such a plan.&#8221;</blockquote>
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-report-shows-chinas-torture-abuses-against-muslim-minorities-draconian-crimes-against-humanity/">June 11, 2021</a>:
<blockquote>Amnesty International released a report with new witness accounts detailing the tortures and abuse of Muslims in the Xinjiang province of China, calling the actions “crimes against humanity.”
The group conducted interviews with people who had been detained in internment camps in the region, places that the Chinese government has called “re-education camps.”The detailed and disturbing accounts should lead to a broader international response, if not from governments, then from members of the celebrity community who heavily align themselves with human rights issues.
The result was a 160-page <a href="https://xinjiang.amnesty.org/">report</a>with new testimonials from over 50 former camp detainees that show the government’s cruel treatment of Muslim minorities. Amnesty <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity/">said</a>, “Carried out under the guise of fighting ‘terrorism,’ these crimes have targeted ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Hui, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Tajiks.&#8221;</blockquote>
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chinas-emissions-exceeded-those-of-all-other-developed-nations-combined-report/">May 9, 2021</a>:
<blockquote>A new report released late week found that communist China&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 were higher than the rest of the developed world combined. The report was published by the Rhodium Group, a leading independent research provider that specializes in matters involving China, energy &amp; climate, India, and economics.
&#8220;Using our newly updated global emissions data through 2019, we estimate that in 2019, for the first time since national greenhouse gas emissions have been measured, China’s annual emissions exceeded those of all developed countries combined,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;China’s emissions were less than a quarter of developed country emissions in 1990, but over the past three decades have more than tripled, reaching over 14 gigatons of CO2-equivalent in 2019.&#8221;</blockquote>
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nasa-accuses-china-of-failing-to-clean-up-space-junk-after-rocket-careens-back-to-earth/">May 9, 2021</a>
<blockquote>NASA Administrator Bill Nelson slammed Beijing Saturday as a Chinese rocket crashed back to Earth, landing in the Indian Ocean.
“Spacefaring nations must minimize the risks to people and property on Earth of re-entries of space objects and maximize transparency regarding those operations,” Nelson said in a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-statement-on-chinese-rocket-debris">statement</a>. “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris.”
“It is critical that China and all spacefaring nations and commercial entities act responsibly and transparently in space to ensure the safety, stability, security, and long-term sustainability of outer space activities,” Nelson added.</blockquote>
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/mike-pompeo-sends-communist-china-strong-message-on-their-claims-in-south-china-sea/">July 14, 2020</a>:
<blockquote>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent the Chinese Communist Party a stern message Monday, announcing that China&#8217;s territorial claims in the South China Sea were &#8220;completely unlawful.&#8221;
&#8220;The United States champions a free and open Indo-Pacific,&#8221; Pompeo&#8217;s <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-position-on-maritime-claims-in-the-south-china-sea/">statement</a>begins (full text below). &#8220;Today we are strengthening U.S. policy in a vital, contentious part of that region — the South China Sea. We are making clear: Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them.&#8221;
The United States and its allies&#8217; shared commitments to &#8220;preserve peace and stability, uphold freedom&#8221; of the South China Sea, Pompeo said, &#8220;have come under unprecedented threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Beijing uses intimidation to undermine the sovereign rights of Southeast Asian coastal states in the South China Sea, bully them out of offshore resources, assert unilateral dominion, and replace international law with &#8216;might makes right.'&#8221;</blockquote>
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/china-working-to-steal-u-s-research-on-virus-vaccine-report-says/">May 11, 2020</a>
<blockquote>On Sunday evening, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/politics/coronavirus-china-cyber-hacking.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">reported</a>that the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security are readying a warning that hackers working for Communist China are assiduously working to steal American research related to creating a vaccine or treatment for the coronavirus COVID-19.
The Times reported that a draft of the warning stated that China is seeking “valuable intellectual property and public health data through illicit means related to vaccines, treatments and testing.” The warning cites “nontraditional actors,” which the Times states is a “euphemism for researchers and students the Trump administration says are being activated to steal data from inside academic and private laboratories.”</blockquote>
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Military Museum Of Chinese People’s Revolution Opens To Public Free

Blowback Erupts As Chinese Spokesperson Claims U.S. Flouts ‘International Rules’

China

After a Texas Democrat state representative returned to Austin from Washington, D.C., where he and other Texas Democrats had flown in order to break the quorum in the House to stop the Texas GOP from passing voting bills, the Republican Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives signed a civil warrant for his arrest.
The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Dade Phelan, issued the civil warrant for the arrest of state Rep. Philip Cortez from San Antonio. Phelan wrote:
<blockquote>To the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives of the State of Texas, or any officer appointed by him: you are hereby commanded to take The Honorable Philip Cortez, a Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Texas, who is now absent from the House, wherever said Member may be found in the State, into your custody and safekeeping and bring said Member before the bar of the House instanter, this writ being issued under a duly-adopted order of the House pursuant to Article III, Section 10, Texas Constitution, made in exercise of its lawful powers to compel the attendance of absent members in the manner provided under the House Rules of Procedure. Herein fail not, but make due return hereof to this House.</blockquote>
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New: Here&#39;s a copy of the civil arrest warrant for <a href="https://twitter.com/CortezPhilip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CortezPhilip</a> signed by <a href="https://twitter.com/DadePhelan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DadePhelan</a> yesterday after he returned to DC. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/oqbQtQ86vN">pic.twitter.com/oqbQtQ86vN</a>
&mdash; Brad Johnson (@bradj_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/bradj_TX/status/1419705266094870528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Article III, Section 10 of the Texas state constitution <a href="https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.3/CN.3.10.htm">states</a>, “QUORUM; ADJOURNMENTS FROM DAY TO DAY; COMPELLING ATTENDANCE. Two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.”
Cortez returned to Washington, D.C., on Sunday; he “returned to Austin from Washington in what he said was an attempt to engage in ‘good faith dialogue’ about House Bill 3, the election legislation,” <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/26/dade-phelan-civil-arrest-warrant-house-democrat-philip-cortez/">The Texas Tribune</a> reported, adding, “Other Democrats criticized Cortez&#8217;s move, saying the lawmaker did not first consult with them before returning to Austin.”
&#8220;Rep. Cortez returned to the Texas Capitol of his own volition and represented to me and his fellow members that he wanted to work on policy and find solutions to bring his colleagues back to Texas,&#8221; Phelan said, as <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/special-session/texas-democrat-philip-cortez-arrest-warrant/269-1b1303bd-1117-4fe3-aea9-779ea0922b29">KVUE</a> reported. &#8220;As a condition of being granted permission to temporarily leave the House floor, Rep. Cortez promised his House colleagues that he would return. Instead, he fled the state and has irrevocably broken my trust and the trust of this chamber.&#8221;
Meanwhile, after Cortez returned to Washington, D.C., Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Chris Turner praised him, saying, “In the Texas House Democratic Caucus, our unity is our strength. We welcome Rep. Phil Cortez, who is a valued member of our Caucus, back to Washington, D.C. with open arms. All 57 Democrats breaking quorum are just as firm in our commitment to seeing this through until the end as we were the day we left. We are united and unrelenting in our commitment to protect the freedom to vote.”
The Texas Democrats intend to stay away from Texas until after August 6, the last day of the special session.
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Texas Governor Abbott Convenes Special Session Of State Legislature

‘He Fled The State’: Texas GOP Speaker Issues Arrest Warrant For Fleeing Texas Democrat

Texas

Voting Rights

On Tuesday, 17-year-old American swimmer Lydia Jacoby, who hails from Alaska, where there is only one 50-meter pool in the entire state and who had never competed in a major international competition before, won the gold medal in a stunning upset and became the first female American swimmer to win a gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics.
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LYDIA JACOBY WINS GOLD! 🥇
Alaska has an Olympic champion! 
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There is only one 50m pool in the entire state of Alaska.
Lydia Jacoby (Seward, Alaska) is now an Olympic gold medalist 🥇
What a moment for Jacoby and her family. <a href="https://t.co/JIZPEfurpw">pic.twitter.com/JIZPEfurpw</a>
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Jacoby is the first swimmer from Alaska to make the U.S. Olympic swimming team and defeated reigning champion and fellow American Lilly King in the 100-meter breaststroke. King finished third behind Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa, who took silver. Although she was behind King and Schoenmaker at the turn, Jacoby touched the wall at 1.04.95; Schoenmaker touched at 1:05.22, and King, who had not lost a 100-meter breaststroke final in nearly five years, touched home at 1:05.54.
&#8220;I was definitely racing for a medal,” Jacoby said. “I knew I had it in me. I wasn’t really expecting a gold medal, so when I looked up and saw the scoreboard it was insane.&#8221; King lauded Jacoby, saying, &#8220;This kid just had the swim of her life and I am so proud to be her teammate.”
&#8220;A lot of big-name swimmers come from big, powerhouse clubs,&#8221; Jacoby said. &#8220;Me coming from a small club, in a state with such a small population, really shows everyone that you can do it no matter where you&#8217;re from,” as <a href="https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31893217/lydia-jacoby-17-becomes-first-alaskan-swimmer-win-olympic-gold-capturing-medal-major-upset-100-meter-breaststroke">ESPN</a> reported.
The pool where Jacoby trains in Anchorage at Bartlett High “is raising funds through a GoFundMe site to buy new starting blocks,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/07/27/lydia-jacoby-gold-100-breaststroke-tokyo-olympics/">The Washington Post</a> noted.
Jacoby recalled, according to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9828945/Swimmer-Lydia-Jacoby-wins-gold-Team-USA-100-meter-breaststroke.html">Daily Mail</a>, “I started swimming competitively when I was six. My parents put me on my club team at our local town. They wanted me to be safe in the water and at first I did it as a fun thing to do with my friends. When I was about 12, I set my first state record, and that is when I first realized I excelled in swimming and it is something that I wanted to do. … &#8216;I had to take two months off due to Covid when it (the pandemic) first started. I was then able to train with the team in Anchorage which is about two hours from my house. I have continued to go back and forth since then. Having this extra year, after such a hard year for the world, it feels extra special to be an Olympian.”
She admitted, “To be honest, I was a lot more nervous going into semifinals than I was for this race. I definitely let my nerves get the better of me going into yesterday morning. I just tried to channel that energy in a more positive way and I was able to sleep really well last night.”
Video of fans in Jacoby’s hometown went viral as the crowd was jumping up and down during the race and exploding with joy at the moment Jacoby won the race.
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Watching Lydia Jacoby&#39;s friends and family react to her winning Olympic Gold in the Women&#39;s 100 Breaststroke for Team USA is AWESOME.<a href="https://t.co/E1KtTNKkV7">pic.twitter.com/E1KtTNKkV7</a>
&mdash; Kyle Sockwell (@kylesockwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylesockwell/status/1419856269909889025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Viral Video Of Hometown Fans Exploding As Alaskan Teenager Wins Gold In Stunning Upset

Alaska

Swimming

After a fourth-grade Minnesota girl <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq1hHzSFdHk">told her school board</a> that her teacher asked her to hide the fact that she was forced to take an “equity survey,&#8221; from her mother, her mother went on national TV to blast organizations that impose their &#8220;equity&#8221; agenda on children, firing, &#8220;‘Equity’ is the mask that Critical Race Theory hides behind.&#8221;
Haylee Yasgar told the Sartell-St. Stephen School District board:
<blockquote>My name is Haylee Yasgar. I was in fourth grade at Riverview Intermediate School last year. … I was asked to leave that equity survey; my teacher said that I could not skip any questions even when I didn’t understand them. One question asked us what gender we identify with. I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates. A boy in my class asked my teacher if his mom could explain the question to him because even after the teacher explained it ne still couldn’t understand it. My teacher told him that he was not allowed to ask his mom and we could not repeat any of the questions to our parents.
I want the school board to know how uncomfortable this has made me; my mom always tells me I can tell her anything but she also tells me I can trust my teachers, too. Being asked to hide this from my mom made me very uncomfortable, like I was doing something wrong.</blockquote>
The school district had hired the left-wing <a href="https://www.equityalliancemn.org/">Equity Alliance Minnesota</a> (EAM) to conduct an $80,000 audit on “racial inequities” within the school district, <a href="https://alphanewsmn.com/very-uncomfortable-sartell-student-says-she-was-asked-to-hide-equity-survey-from-parents/">Alpha News</a> reported, adding, “Students were required to complete a survey for the audit.”
Haylee told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/students-told-to-hide-equity-survey-questions-from-parents">Fox &amp; Friends</a>, “When I was in the survey I was taking a few questions, and on the gender identification question I got very confused and kind of nervous after a boy asked his mom after the teacher explained it that we could not tell our parents anything. That just made me very nervous and uncomfortable.&#8221;
Asked what her reaction was after she was apprised of the fact that the school was telling her child not to to inform her of what was going on, Haylee’s mother Kelsey stated, “The funny thing is we were informed that this equity audit was going to be taking place. But the survey itself — they didn’t inform us of the day it was taking place or we weren’t really sure (of) a lot of details behind it. And due to the lack of transparency from the school district and from Equity Alliance of Minnesota, the third party that the school district has brought in to perform this audit, we were not informed of the questions on this survey, and when my daughter came forth and told me that her teacher had said, &#8216;You cannot skip any questions even if you don’t understand them,&#8217; and when children were asking questions and asking if they could ask their parents about it, I was very upset when I found out she was told not to repeat any of the questions to me or any other adult in her life.&#8221;
&#8220;I do want to say though I believe that this wasn&#8217;t a single case that her teacher made this decision,&#8221; Kelsey Ysgar continued. &#8220;We had been informed that this came down from administration and Equity Alliance of Minnesota instructed them to make sure the children did not share this information with their parents. And that should pose a great concern in any parents&#8217; eyes.&#8221;
Referring to the agenda of organizations such as Equity Alliance of Minnesota and others like them, Kelsey Yasgar stated, “It is 100% causing division among races in schools and amongst children. Children do not see color. They are taught to see color, and when you bring Equity Alliance of Minnesota into our school district, ‘equity’ is the mask that Critical Race Theory hides behind, and we are not okay with hose types of ideologies being taught to our children at school. Politics do not belong in our schools. They’re there to be educated.”
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This month, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/06/2021-13929/establishing-a-fixed-time-period-of-admission-and-an-extension-of-stay-procedure-for-nonimmigrant">withdrew</a> a Trump administration Department of Homeland Security regulation that was designed to protect Americans from violent Islamic terrorists or Chinese spies who use their student visas to stay in the United States.
On July 6, the Biden administration withdrew <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/25/2020-20845/establishing-a-fixed-time-period-of-admission-and-an-extension-of-stay-procedure-for-nonimmigrant">Proposed Rule 2020-20845</a>, which spoke of the threat from Chinese spies and Islamic terrorists as it attempted to monitor the status of student visa holders in the United States. The rule, proposed by the Trump administration DHS in September 2020, would have required student visa holders to “renew them every two or four years and to check that they are still in good standing at universities.”
Todd Bensman of <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/toddbensman/2021/07/26/biden-administration-gives-assist-to-jihadist-student-visa-holders--and-worse-n2593083">Townhall</a> noted:
<blockquote>The most valuable part of the process would have had DHS agents conduct eyeball-to-eyeball interviews with renewal applicants. The agents also would collect biometric information, spot-check progress at academic institutions, and double-check that original claimed purposes remained valid. This periodic regimen would have made sure not only that F-1 visa holders from those countries were keeping their end of the bargain but provide opportunities for suspicious activity referrals to the FBI.</blockquote>
He added, “In its official explanation, the Biden administration pointed out that 99 percent of those who commented on the regulation – a great many of them likely the affected foreigners, school administrators, and exchange visitor programs – just didn’t want to go through all the bothersome rigmarole for their generous host nation’s security interests. The regulation, opponents most frequently complained, &#8216;would significantly burden&#8217; them with extra cost and time, would discriminate based on nationality, and would deny them access to &#8216;immigration benefits.&#8217;”
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/25/2020-20845/establishing-a-fixed-time-period-of-admission-and-an-extension-of-stay-procedure-for-nonimmigrant">DHS proposal</a> stated:
<blockquote>Currently, aliens in the F, J, and I categories are admitted into the United States for the period of time that they are complying with the terms and conditions of their nonimmigrant category (“duration of status”), rather than an admission for a fixed time period. This duration of status framework generally lacks predetermined points in time for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) immigration officers to directly evaluate whether F, J, and I nonimmigrants are maintaining their status and poses a challenge to the Department&#8217;s ability to effectively monitor and oversee these categories of nonimmigrants. renew them every two or four years and to check that they are still in good standing at universities.
… they are often are able to avoid accrual of unlawful presence for purposes of statutory inadmissibility grounds of unlawful presence, in part, because they do not file applications or petitions, such as extension of stay, that would result in a formal finding. The Department accordingly is concerned about the integrity of the programs and a potential for increased risk to national security. To address these issues, DHS proposes to amend its regulations by changing the admission period of F, J, and I aliens from duration of status to an admission for a fixed time period. </blockquote>
The proposal pointed out, “To extend their stay, these aliens enrolled in consecutive educational programs, transferred to new schools, or repeatedly requested DSOs to extend their program end dates.”
The proposal stated: “According to a December 2018 report by a panel of experts commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study foreign influence on federally-funded scientific research, ‘Small numbers of scientists have committed serious violations of NIH&#8217;s policies and systems by not disclosing foreign support (grants), laboratories, or funded faculty positions in other countries.’  There are multiple examples of these ongoing national security threats.”
Further:
<blockquote>DHS proposes a maximum admission period of up to 2 years for certain students. … This period is based on factors that DHS identified as involving national security and public safety concerns, with the goal of encouraging compliance with immigration laws. They are: Aliens who were born in or are citizens of countries on the State Sponsor of Terrorism List.
There are currently four countries designated as a state sponsor of terrorism under these authorities: The Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Iran, Sudan, and Syria. Under this proposal, DHS anticipates admitting those who were born in or are citizens of those countries for a maximum period of up to 2 years. The Department believes it is appropriate to apply additional scrutiny on those born in these countries and citizens of these countries who are temporarily studying in the United States to ensure that these aliens do not pose risks to the national security of the United States.</blockquote>
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