If Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wins the presidency in November, she has promised to appoint a cabinet that is at least half female in an obvious effort to rally the feminists to her cause.
In a <a href="https://medium.com/@teamwarren/restoring-integrity-and-competence-to-government-after-trump-1fda0e1cc4c5">lengthy Medium</a> post in which she laid out her plan on &#8220;Restoring Our Government After Trump,&#8221; Elizabeth Warren made a number of proposals as to whom she will appoint to serve in the Executive Branch. After promising to ensure her picks best represent the people in both economics and influence, she then promised to ensure her cabinet will be one of inclusion consisting of at least 50% women.
&#8220;Our government officials can best serve the American public when they reflect the diversity of the country itself,&#8221; lamented Warren. &#8220;The federal government does a dismal job on diversity and inclusion. The share of Latinas in the federal workforce is about half that of the entire workforce.&#8221;
&#8220;Even though Black women are disproportionately represented in the federal workforce, they are nearly absent from its leadership ranks,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;White workers make up nearly 80% of the senior civil service despite making up only 63% of the overall federal workforce. The Obama administration worked to raise the proportion of people with disabilities to more than 14% of the federal workforce, but <a class="bi cv he hf hg hh" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/under-trump-discrimination-complaints-firing-disabled-federal-workers-rise-n1036291" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">that dropped to 9.2% under Trump</a>.&#8221;
To better correct this apparent discrepancy of representation, Warren then made several key promises to individual groups, including women and LGBTQ people. Here are just a few of her pledges:
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<li id="83e3" class="fw fx ar bz fy b fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj ib ic id" data-selectable-paragraph="">Build a Cabinet and senior leadership team that reflects the full diversity of America, including having at least 50% of Cabinet positions filled by women and non-binary people.</li>
<li id="d78a" class="fw fx ar bz fy b fz if gb ig gd ih gf ii gh ij gj ib ic id" data-selectable-paragraph="">Ensure representation of LGBTQ+ people across all levels of government, including in leadership roles.</li>
<li id="a6db" class="fw fx ar bz fy b fz if gb ig gd ih gf ii gh ij gj ib ic id" data-selectable-paragraph="">Diversify recruitment to direct real resources toward attracting entry-level applicants for public service from HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and other minority-serving institutions, and reform high-level recruiting processes to attract diverse experienced hires into senior management positions.</li>
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According to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-women-executive-branch-cabinet_n_5e26851bc5b673621f7ad413">The Huffington Post</a>, the Trump administration has just four women serving as cabinet members out of 23 positions; Obama had as many as eight women.
Failed presidential Hillary Clinton also pledged to fill half her cabinet with women back in 2016, which undoubtedly helped her shore up feminist support. “I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America, and 50 percent of America is women, right?” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/enormous-deal-look-hillary-clinton-s-promise-cabinet-full-women-n564761">she said</a> on Rachel Maddow at the time.
Hillary&#8217;s decision followed that of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who also appointed women to 50% of the country&#8217;s cabinet positions. When asked why, Trudeau famously answered, &#8220;because it&#8217;s 2015.&#8221;
“It’s important to be here before you today to present to Canada a cabinet that looks like Canada,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/canada-cabinet-gender-diversity-justin-trudeau">Trudeau said</a> at the time.
Now that a wedge has been driven between the alliance enjoyed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Warren, the Massachusetts senator has now focused her efforts on differentiating herself with identity. This card she played in full during the previous  Democratic debate when CNN asked Bernie a biased question regarding an alleged conversation they previously had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-insiders-allege-warren-and-sanders-said-during-that-tense-post-debate-exchange">in which he said</a> a woman could not beat President Trump.

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Continuing his quest to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ across the land, Kanye West performed a Sunday service before a crowd of over 12,000 students, in which he preached how Jesus saved him from the clutches of Satan.
“I believe Jesus died for my sins. There was a time when the devil had me,” West said to the Strength to Stand Conference on Sunday. “Do you know the good news? Jesus can save a wretch like me. I stretch my hands to you/Father I stretch.”
“When I don’t know what to do, I can still stretch my hands,” he said.
The Christian Post <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/kanye-west-shares-how-jesus-saved-him-from-devil-hundreds-dedicate-lives-to-christ-at-youth-conference.html">described the lively</a> event as West proceeded to perform several tracks from his &#8220;Jesus is King&#8221; album in the service of glorifying God:
<blockquote>Surrounded by 38,000 flowers, West and the choir put on an unforgettable service at the East Tennessee conference, complete with rap, gospel-infused songs, and traditional hymns.
By wearing the same gray outfit as the choir, West took the focus off himself. With little stage presence, the hip hop artist stayed within the choir throughout the majority of the service and spoke few words as he performed. The goal of the Sunday Service was clear: God, and not Kanye, was going to be glorified.
And glorified He was.
West powerfully spoke the lyrics of “Jesus Is King” tracks “Selah,” “Follow God,” and the fan-favorite “Closed on Sunday.” During the service, the Sunday Service Choir belted out songs including “Ultralight Beam,” “Every Hour” and “Revelation 19:1,” along with traditional hymns including “How Great Thou Art” and “Jesus Loves Me.”</blockquote>
After over 200 students dedicated their lives to Christ as West&#8217;s pastor, Adam Tyson, said a blessing over them, West closed out the service with a rendition of his 2005 smash hit &#8220;Jesus Walks.&#8221;
“God&#8217;s calling you home. You might be here this morning in a bad place because of your own sin,&#8221; Tyson told the students. &#8220;God says this morning through His Word, ‘I love you. I&#8217;m calling you home.’ And when you return to the Father, He runs up to you. He&#8217;s not shy. He&#8217;s not angry with you. He&#8217;s inviting you back into relationship with Him.”
Scott Dawson, founder of the Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association and the one who helped plan the event in association with the iconic singer, told The Christian Post that the faithful need not be skeptical of Kanye West&#8217;s faith, citing the conversion of St. Paul.
“We&#8217;re just humbled that we were able, through a divine orchestration, to deliver a cultural icon like Kanye West and the transformational power of the Gospel,” Dawson said. “We believe this is part of God’s divine appointment for a movement to go across our country. We’re in awe: You plan a conference, and all of a sudden God is developing a movement.”
“You need to understand the transformational power of Christ in a man&#8217;s life. &#8230; Anyone who reads the New Testament understands the power of Jesus,&#8221; said Dawson. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen in his life. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen in my life. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen in your life. But I am firmly convinced I&#8217;m speaking to a brother in Christ.&#8221;
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The Democratic Party is doing a heck of a job making it look like the entire party establishment is out to sabotage Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from clinching the party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nomination. Between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-even-far-left-samantha-bee-torches-cnn-for-bias-against-bernie-sanders-at-the-debate">CNN&#8217;s bias</a> against him in the debate and now Hillary Clinton publicly scolding him as an unlikable stooge, the game is increasingly beginning to look rather rigged.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hillary Clinton said that she stood by a statement she made severely criticizing Bernie Sanders in the four-part Hulu docuseries &#8220;Hillary.&#8221;
&#8220;He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him,&#8221; she said in the series. &#8220;Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.&#8221;
According to Holly Otterbein of Politico, Bernie Sanders has since responded to Hillary&#8217;s statement with a call to unity.
“My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: The impeachment trial of Donald Trump,&#8221; said Bernie in a statement. &#8220;Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”
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&mdash; Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein) <a href="https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1219659489785405440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In response to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bashing, the socialist senator&#8217;s supporters and other prominent media figures took to Twitter to blast the failed presidential candidate as an establishment shill who is still bitter about the 2016 election.
&#8220;Hillary Clinton lost to the dumbest and least qualified candidate of all time. Yet she has the audacity to refer to this election&#8217;s frontrunner as &#8216;unlikable.&#8217; Many PEOPLE — not D.C. politicos — love Bernie because of what he represents: U.S.,&#8221; tweeted Ana Kasparian of <a href="https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian/status/1219631675019350025?s=20">The Young Turks</a>. 
&#8220;Bernie Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a complete pass on the emails when he didn’t need to. When he lost the primary, he endorsed and campaigned for her, too. But how quickly we forget,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1219631712256319490?s=20">tweeted</a> Jon Levine of the New York Post. 
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t condemn Hillary Clinton&#8216;s comments today, I don&#8217;t want to ever hear you talk about unity again,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/johniadarola/status/1219666598992023552?s=20">tweeted</a> John Laderolla of The Young Turks. &#8220;Willing to bet Hillary Clinton doesn&#8217;t receive 1% the condemnation for refusing to say she&#8217;d support Bernie Sanders than Bernie got for working his ass off to try to get her elected.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a damn shame. [Bernie] did 41 events for Clinton in 2016 and pressed his supporters to get behind her campaign. (I know because I was there.) Being divisive at this point is wrong and only plays into the hands of those we need to defeat in November,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/jjz1600/status/1219630564376043520?s=20">tweeted</a> James J. Zogby. 
The Democratic Party establishment&#8217;s bias against Bernie Sanders became readily apparent last week during the presidential debate when CNN moderator Abby Phillip asked him to address a recent report alleging that he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) back in 2018 that a woman could not win the presidency against Donald Trump.
“So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillip asked the Vermont senator.
“That is correct,” Sanders replied.
Phillip then proceeded to ask Warren how she felt during her conversation with Bernie as if the story were clearly true.
“Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” asked Phillip, tacitly painting Sanders as a liar.

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Following his win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, the Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix attended a &#8220;pig vigil&#8221; outside a Downtown Los Angeles slaughterhouse.
Joining alongside several activists, the acclaimed actor told Jane Unchained News that he regularly comes to these &#8220;pig vigils&#8221; due to the &#8220;torture and murder&#8221; of animals he has seen in the meat and dairy industry.
“Most people don’t really know of the torture and murder in the meat and dairy industry,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/videos/192314958577321/UzpfSTc4NzY2MDE1ODA0MjQ3NToxNTk2NTM0MDIwNDg4NDE0/">Phoenix said</a>. “I’ve seen it for what it is, so I have to be here.”
Phoenix went on to lament that people have been brainwashed to believe animals live happy lives on farms, arguing that those who know the truth have an obligation to fight back.
“We have moral obligations to talk about it and expose it for what it really is,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We are so indoctrinated with these happy images of animals on farms, on the covers of meat containers, at restaurants and it’s a lie. I think people need to know the truth and we have an obligation to do that. Those of us that have seen it for what it really is, we have an obligation to expose it, so I have to be here.”
Despite the event&#8217;s somberness, Phoenix ultimately expressed hope and optimism.
“There is a change that is happening and it’s now just becoming undeniable. Slowly but surely we’re getting there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As heartbreaking as it is when we’re here giving water to the pigs I have a certain optimism in our community and how committed everyone is. People come down here week after week after week so I had to come here tonight and support and it’s a little antidote to what I was just given, so I’m blessed to be here.”
Joaquin Phoenix has been an outspoken vegan and animal rights activist for many years. Speaking with <a href="https://collider.com/joaquin-phoenix-interview-you-were-never-really-here/#directing">Collider</a> in 2018, the &#8220;Joker&#8221; star said his passion for the cause came after seeing a fish killed on a boat as a kid.
&#8220;Really it was seeing these fish being killed when I was on a boat as a kid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I guess to stun them, they were throwing them against the side of the boat. I just had a profound strong reaction. It felt like a real injustice. It wasn’t just me, it was my siblings, all of my siblings, except for the youngest, Summer, she wasn’t born. My mom was pregnant with her. I don’t know how to explain it. I think it made me distrustful, and angry, and frightened of humans, humanity. I just thought it was such a gross abuse of power in a way. I think that during that moment we knew that we were not going to eat meat anymore. We said to our parents, &#8216;Why didn’t you tell us?&#8217; It’s amazing. I remember my mom’s face, I remember her crying. She didn’t know how to answer. It became very obvious we weren’t going to eat meat anymore.&#8221;
While accepting the award for Best Actor at the Golden Globes, Phoenix also called out Hollywood for not practicing what they preach regarding climate change.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really nice that so many people have sent their well wishes to Australia but we have to do more than that,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-joker-star-joaquin-phoenix-makes-climate-change-plea-best-actor-speech-1266680">Phoenix said</a>. &#8220;Hopefully, we can be unified and actually make some changes. It&#8217;s great to vote, but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives. We don&#8217;t have to take private jets to Palm Springs for the awards.&#8221;

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An award-winning, <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1219306163260612609?s=20">anti-Trump journalist</a> with a verified Twitter account and over 200k followers publicly harassed a Massachusetts Target manager after she refused to sell him an electric toothbrush that a display ad priced at 1¢.
Last Friday, David Leavitt, whose Twitter bio boasts of bylines at CBS and Yahoo, attempted to purchase an Oral B Pro 5000 electric toothbrush for 1¢ even though the official price was $89.99. According to <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/target-employee-receives-over-30k-in-donations-after-customer-complaint-goes-viral/2064859/">NBC News</a>, the 1¢ number came from a display ad. When the store manager, Tori Perotti, refused to sell him the desired price for 1¢, he called the police and lamented about the situation on social media.
&#8220;This [Target] manager Tori is not honoring the price of their items per Massachusetts law,&#8221; he tweeted out. &#8220;I just had to call the police because [Target] refused to sell me the toothbrush.&#8221;
&#8220;I did not call 911. I called the business number for the police and told them it was not an emergency and they could take their time and explained the situation,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The police verified [Target]  displayed the price of toothbrush for $0.01. The store manager Tori refused to sell me the toothbrush for displayed price. The police said I need to sue them and that they are making me a verified report take to court.&#8221; 
Leavitt went on to lament that he has not been able to afford the dentist in three years while blasting Target for seemingly acting &#8220;above the law.&#8221;
&#8220;Corporations like [Target] are not above the law. The police officer told me they’d testify that they saw the price and that the manager wouldn’t sell me the item for the price listed,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;I have not been able to afford to go to a dentist in over three years. So yes I wanted a good toothbrush and was thrilled to see such an amazing prize on an [Oral B] but [Target] refused to honor it and now I have to take them to court.&#8221;
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I just had to call the police because <a href="https://twitter.com/Target?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@target</a> Refused to sell me the toothbrush
&mdash; David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1218263908386996227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The police verified <a href="https://twitter.com/Target?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@target</a> displayed the price of toothbrush for $0.01 The store manager Tori refused to sell me the toothbrush for displayed price. The police said I need to sue them and that they are making me a verified report take to court <a href="https://twitter.com/BBBConnection?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BBBConnection</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AskTarget?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AskTarget</a>
&mdash; David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1218269543136747521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I have not been able to afford to go to a dentist in over three years. So yes I wanted a good toothbrush and was thrilled to see such an amazing prize on an <a href="https://twitter.com/OralB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OralB</a> but <a href="https://twitter.com/Target?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@target</a> refused to honor it and now I have to take them to court
&mdash; David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1218281250676408328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Though Leavitt&#8217;s received some support from his followers, sympathies ultimately swayed toward the store manager, who the internet later dubbed &#8220;Target Tori.&#8221; People were quite pointed in their criticisms of Leavitt&#8217;s handling of the situation.
&#8220;Have you tried simply asking someone to remove your teeth? I’m sure you’d have plenty of people who’d do it for free,&#8221; said Jesse Kelly of The Federalist.
&#8220;Dude &#8230; do you realize this person probably needs this job? You elitist a**hole shaming her on Twitter is about as low as you can be. No respect for your fellow human,&#8221; said one Twitter user.
&#8220;Apparently you can afford an electronic device to make these posts so I think you can also afford to go to the dentist. BTW I don&#8217;t know where you live but many states have access to free dental care for people in need and why didn&#8217;t you buy dental insurance? Get a life,&#8221; said another user.
Others pointed out that Leavitt previously tweeted about being at the dentist, which calls into question his claim of not visiting the dentist in three years.
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Over 3 years, huh? 🤔🧐 <a href="https://t.co/nC94v2jy4e">pic.twitter.com/nC94v2jy4e</a>
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Fortunately for &#8220;Target Tori,&#8221; the internet came to her rescue and rallied to create a GoFundMe account that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/target-tori-donations-toothbrush-massachusetts">raised over $30k as of Monday night</a>.

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An NBC News reporter was so convinced that the pro-gun rights protest in Richmond, Virginia was a &#8220;white nationalist rally&#8221; that he described it solely as such before realizing how completely false his characterization was.
&#8220;Reporters covering tomorrow&#8217;s white nationalist rally in Virginia, I&#8217;m absolutely begging you: Verify information before you send it out tomorrow, even if it&#8217;s a very sensational rumor you heard from a cop. Don&#8217;t become a hero in neo-Nazi propaganda circles with made-up stuff,&#8221; tweeted reporter Ben Collins, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2020/01/20/irony-nbc-reporter-deletes-tweet-warning-media-avoid-made-stuff">Newsbusters</a>.
Though nobody can control exactly what kind of people show up to a large protest sure to attract thousands, the rally in Virginia was never once billed as a &#8220;white nationalist rally&#8221; by anyone and was simply enacted in opposition to several strict gun control bills being pushed through the state legislature. Eventually, Ben Collins deleted his tweet and clarified his statement.
&#8220;I’m deleting a tweet so I can be super clear about tomorrow’s rally in Virginia. The Lobby Day protest is and has traditionally been a gun rights rally, but white nationalists, including militant group The Base, have been planning violent action at the event,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;This has led to two different FBI arrests of 7 total people. The governor declared a state of emergency, citing “credible intelligence” of hate groups attending. Users on white nationalist forums planned meet-ups for months, a contrast to previous years.&#8221;
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This has led to two different FBI arrests of 7 total people. The governor declared a state of emergency, citing “credible intelligence” of hate groups attending.
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When the protest came on Monday, however, 22,000 people showed up as events unfolded rather peacefully, even as the media <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/virginia-gun-rights-rally-richmond/index.html">fretted over potential violence </a>and a gathering of white supremacists. Even minorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/">attending the rally</a> scolded those narratives for what they were: lies perpetuated by a bias media doing the will of the Democratic Party.
“Every news piece on the rally always brought up the issue of race, as though it’s nothing but white rednecks and hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment,” one black man told reporters at the event. “Well, actually, black Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Americans in general, care about the Second Amendment.”
“The governor, who’s known for blackface and/or possibly having a Klan hood on, has the audacity on MLK Day to declare an executive order to prevent people from lawfully protesting,” said another man.
President Trump stated his support for the Virginia protesters on Monday, warning them that Democrats are seeking to strip Americans of their second amendment rights.
&#8220;The Democrat Party in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia are working hard to take away your 2nd Amendment rights. This is just the beginning. Don’t let it happen, VOTE REPUBLICAN in 2020!&#8221; the president tweeted.
&#8220;I will NEVER allow our great Second Amendment to go unprotected, not even a little bit!&#8221; he later tweeted.
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The Democrat Party in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia are working hard to take away your 2nd Amendment rights. This is just the beginning. Don’t let it happen, VOTE REPUBLICAN in 2020!
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The gun control laws in Virginia have reached such heights of unpopularity that even a sheriff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-va-sheriff-we-will-not-enforce-unconstitutional-gun-control-laws">pledged not to enforce</a> a law that he deemed unconstitutional.
“If the bills go through as proposed, they will not be enforced,” Sheriff Vaughan told reporters. “They’re unconstitutional. We swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia, and that’s what we’ll do.”

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The media has fallen head-over-heels for a new CNN &#8220;poll&#8221; conducted SSRS that says a full 51% of the American people support removing President Trump office as the Senate trial over his impeachment begins.
&#8220;The <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/01/20/rel1a.-.trump,.impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">survey</a>, which was released on Monday, a day before the Senate impeachment trial convenes, found that 51 percent of Americans are in support of the Senate voting to convict and remove Trump,&#8221; reports <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/479064-poll-51-percent-of-americans-say-senate-should-convict-and-remove">The Hill</a>. &#8220;Forty-five percent of respondents said the Senate should vote against conviction and 4 percent said they had no opinion.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/cnn-poll-trump-impeachment/index.html">CNN</a>, the poll aligns with the Democratic agenda from almost every angle, with a full 69% of Americans in support of &#8220;testimony from new witnesses&#8221; in the Senate trial as Republicans split between 48% in favor and 44% not in favor.
Furthermore, the poll also shows that 58% of Americans agree that Trump abused his office to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s alleged corruption in the country.
&#8220;Massive partisan gaps continue to dominate views on Trump and his impeachment trial,&#8221; continued CNN. &#8220;Overall, 89% of Democrats say he should be removed from office, while just 8% of Republicans feel the same way. Among independents, it&#8217;s nearly dead even: 48% say the Senate should vote to remove him, while 46% say that they should not.&#8221;
Predictably, anti-Trump media heads have been cheerleading the new CNN poll while Trump supporters have dismissed it as yet another piece of partisanship masquerading as objectivity.
&#8220;NEW: bad news for Trump- the majority of Americans say the Senate should remove him from office &#8211; 51% remove 45% not remove 7 in 10 say the Senate should call new witnesses,&#8221; tweeted author Amy Siskind.
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NEW: bad news for Trump- the majority of Americans say the Senate should remove him from office &#8211; 
51% remove 45% not remove
7 in 10 say the Senate should call new witnesses. <a href="https://t.co/3NZZxqTLad">https://t.co/3NZZxqTLad</a>
&mdash; Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) <a href="https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1219373839211204608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New impeachment poll — <a href="https://t.co/jQTXJrNmCZ">https://t.co/jQTXJrNmCZ</a>
&mdash; Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1219366463166996480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New CNN poll: 51% support removing Trump in the upcoming Senate trial. 45% oppose.
69% say the upcoming trial should feature testimony from new witnesses who did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry.<a href="https://t.co/MJucftvqtY">https://t.co/MJucftvqtY</a>
&mdash; andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1219366427498635265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New CNN poll:
51% of Americans say Trump should be *removed.* Only 45% say he shouldn&#39;t
69% say Senate trial should feature new witnesses
58% say Trump abused his power
57% say he obstructed House impeachment inquiry
So, no, his lies aren&#39;t &quot;working&quot;<a href="https://t.co/YUXyEY8Bxk">https://t.co/YUXyEY8Bxk</a>
&mdash; Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1219369304677855232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The new poll comes on the heels of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proposing new impeachment trial rules on Monday. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/senate-organizing-resolution-released/index.html">CNN provided some more</a> specifics:
<blockquote>The <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/read-senate-impeachment-rules/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">impeachment organizing resolution text </a>from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/politics/list-house-impeachment-managers/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">House impeachment managers </a>and the President&#8217;s legal team 24 hours each to make their opening arguments over two days.
The resolution raises the prospect that the trial will have 12-hour days and go late into the night, according to a copy of the resolution obtained by CNN.
The timing is a break from the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton when the 24 hours were split over a four-day period.
The Senate will debate and vote on the resolution setting the rules of the trial on Tuesday.</blockquote>
As the impeachment week kicked off on Monday, President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-kicks-off-impeachment-week-by-reminding-democrats-what-theyve-said-in-the-past-about-impeachment">trolled the Democrats</a> by sharing several statements they made during the Bill Clinton impeachment back in the late-&#8217;90s, and they were brutal.
“An impeachment of a president is an undoing of a national election — and one of the reasons we are so angry about what [the Republicans] are doing is they … are ripping asunder our votes, they are telling us our votes don’t count!” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said at the time.
“Today the Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness, but impeaching him with a vengeance.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said. “In the investigation of the president, fundamental principles which Americans hold dear — privacy, fairness, checks and balances — have been seriously violated. And why? Because we are here today because Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred …”

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In a historic Sunday night episode of &#8220;Batwoman,&#8221; the lady caped crusader came out as a lesbian to Gotham City, thereby making her sexual orientation official.
According to <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/01/batwoman-comes-out-ruby-roses-cw-superhero-tells-gotham-shes-a-lesbian-1202835688/#comments">Deadline</a>, the midseason premiere episode, titled &#8220;How Queer Everything Is Today,&#8221; featured actress Ruby Rose&#8217;s Batwoman revealing her sexual identity after learning about a teenager whose parents refuse to accept her sexuality.
&#8220;The big reveal came in a magazine article published by CatCo, and the scoop belonged to none other than Kara Danvers, a.k.a. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), the title hero from Batwoman’s Arrowverse sister show,&#8221; the outlet reported of the big moment.
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&quot;What&#39;s next for Lena? Lena Luthor spotted in Gotham&quot; What was Lena doing there?! jajaja and, also, Kara wrote the article of Batwoman being a lesbian!!!! Kara and Kate BROTP! <a href="https://t.co/TH2QbLMV3B">pic.twitter.com/TH2QbLMV3B</a>
&mdash; 𝗗𝗿. 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 (@lKDanvers_) <a href="https://twitter.com/lKDanvers_/status/1219082978292391937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaking with <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/19/batwoman-coming-out-caroline-dries-1x10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">Entertainment Weekly</a>, series showrunner Caroline Dries, who wrote the episode, said she wanted the character to &#8220;stand in her truth.&#8221;
“For me, it was so important for this character to stand in her truth,” said Dries. “The girl underneath the costume is so comfortable with who she is and so comfortable with being truthful, and she never really has been in the closet.”
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The character Batwoman first came onto the comic book scene in the 1950s as a potential <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/kathy-kane/4005-81174/">love interest</a> for Batman, but she eventually took a backseat in the 1960s and did not become a lesbian until being reintroduced in DC’s “<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/batwoman/4005-9052/">New 52</a>.” A previous Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/batwoman-series-poll-elseworlds-recap-1168339">poll</a> showed that 85% (more than 2,000 people) of respondents wanted a separate “Batwoman” series.
Though Batwoman certainly has her own woke pedigree, SJWs were reportedly upset over the openly gay Ruby Rose’s casting, prompting her to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34435/ruby-rose-quits-twitter-after-leftist-critics-emily-zanotti">leave social media</a> after enough people complained she was “not gay enough” to play the title character.
“A #RecastBatwoman hashtag started circulating, with people also wondering why the role couldn’t have gone to a lesser-known LGBTQ+ actress in need of an acting break,” <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/ruby-rose-quit-twitter-after-getting-bullied-about-her-batwoman-casting">Glamour reported</a> at the time. “Critics also accused Rose of not being a lesbian since she also refers to herself as gender-fluid.”
In response, Rose said she could not believe people were actually insinuating she was not gay enough when her entire career has been people accusing her of being too gay. “Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian, therefore she can’t be Batwoman’ come from — has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read,” the actress tweeted at the time. “I came out at 12? And have for the past five years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change.”
The CW network broke barriers on the SJW-themed “Supergirl” with the arrival of Nia Nal, the first transgender hero in television history, played by transgender actor Nicole Maines and based on the <a href="http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Nura_Nal_(Pre-Zero_Hour)" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0">DC Comics character Nura Nal</a>. Sometimes called “Dream Girl,” the character Nia Nal is a humanoid alien that also sees into the future.
Marvel has separately announced that phase four in its cinematic universe will feature more LGBTQ representation, starting with “The Eternals,&#8221; which will introduce the universe’s<a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/16/the-eternals-marvel-openly-gay-superhero-trailer-mcu-brian-tyree-henry-angelina-jolie-gemma-chan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> first openly gay superhero, Phastos</a>. The character will be married to a man and will be portrayed by actor Brian Tyree Henry.
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Prince Harry has not only pitched Meghan Markle&#8217;s voiceover work to Disney CEO Bob Iger, but also to top Disney director Jon Favreau ( of &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; fame).
Released on Saturday, new footage obtained by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903455/Moment-Prince-Harry-tells-Lion-King-director-Jon-Favreau-wife-available-work.html">Daily Mail </a>shows the duke and duchess of Sussex touting Meghan Markle&#8217;s acting chops while speaking with high-profile celebrities Jon Favreau, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z at a premiere for Disney&#8217;s &#8220;The Lion King.&#8221;
&#8220;If anyone needs any extra voiceover work,&#8221; Harry could be heard beginning to tell Favreau just as Meghan jokingly interrupts to say, &#8220;That&#8217;s really why we&#8217;re here — it&#8217;s the pitch!&#8221;
&#8220;Just not Scar,&#8221; Harry jovially says in reference to the villainous character in &#8220;The Lion King.&#8221;
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The recently released footage follows a report from last week which showed Prince Harry speaking to Disney CEO Bob Iger at the same event about Meghan Markle&#8217;s voiceover work.
“You know she does voiceovers,” Harry told Iger at &#8220;The Lion King&#8221; premiere in July.
“Oh, really?” responded Iger.
“Did you know that?” Harry added. “You seem surprised. … She’s really interested.”
“Sure,” said Iger. “We’d love to try.”
Conservative commentator Mark Steyn called it &#8220;the absolute lowest point of the monarchy in the last 100 years.&#8221;
&#8220;I think of all the pathetic things that the Duke of Windsor did after he abdicated when he entertained wealthy Americans and gave them a sort of pseudo glimpse into Royal life,&#8221; Steyn <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6122347498001">told Fox News</a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s nothing like actually touting your wife as available for Lion King 7 or whatever it is.&#8221;
Meghan Markle was hired by Disney to do some voiceover work in exchange for a charitable donation to Elephants Without Borders. Just over the weekend, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflixs-ted-sarandos-interested-prince-harry-meghan-markle-deal-1271376">expressed interest</a> in collaborating with the duke and duchess of Sussex for a project.
Over the weekend, Queen Elizabeth II<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/prince-harry-meghan-markle-give-up-royal-titles-1270934"> unveiled the rather strict terms</a> that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be under as they split from the royal family to pursue a more &#8220;progressive role&#8221; in North America — an act that bars them from being referred to by &#8220;her majesty&#8221; and &#8220;royal highness.&#8221; They were also ordered to repay the money British taxpayers had spent on remodeling their Frogmore Cottage.
&#8220;The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are grateful to Her Majesty and the Royal Family for their ongoing support as they embark on the next chapter of their lives,&#8221; the statement from Buckingham Palace read. &#8220;As agreed in this new arrangement, they understand that they are required to step back from Royal duties, including official military appointments. They will no longer receive public funds for Royal duties.&#8221;
&#8220;With the queen’s blessing, the Sussexes will continue to maintain their private patronages and associations,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;While they can no longer formally represent the queen, the Sussexes have made clear that everything they do will continue to uphold the values of Her Majesty. The Sussexes will not use their HRH titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family. The duke and duchess of Sussex have shared their wish to repay Sovereign Grant expenditure for the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, which will remain their U.K. family home.&#8221;

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Harkening back to his &#8220;they want to put y&#8217;all back in chains&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/">moment</a> from the 2012 presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden lumped President Trump in with the KKK while speaking over the weekend before a predominantly black church in South Carolina.
“What I realized is that hate just hides. And it when it comes out from under the rocks, when it gets a little bit of oxygen. This president and his — the Ku Klux Klan and the rest of them, they think they’ve beaten us again but they have no idea. We’re just coming back,&#8221; Biden said before the congregation at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Biden made his comments while reflecting upon the president&#8217;s statement following the August 2017 Charlottesville protest, in which he famously said that there were &#8220;very fine people on both sides.&#8221; Prior to seemingly comparing the president to the KKK, Biden reflected upon the advancements of the civil rights movement and expressed fear that President Trump has taken America back one hundred years.
“Folks, some mornings I wake up and I think it’s more like what it must have been in 1920 than 2020,” Biden said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-speaks-against-racism-lumps-trump-in-with-kkk-during-speech-before-black-congregation">Fox News</a>. “I thought you could defeat hate … hate only hides.”
Recalling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s famous &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech, Biden urged everyone to keep fighting.
“Dr. King didn’t give up on the dream,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I’m asking you all, don’t give up on it. Don’t give up now. We can defeat this moment of hate.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a history of deploying racial division to maximum political effect in front of black audiences, such as when he said that Republicans &#8220;want to put y&#8217;all back in chains&#8221; during the height of the 2012 presidential campaign.
“Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/">Biden said</a>. “They’re going to put you all back in chains.”
Biden has been playing the &#8220;Trump supports white supremacists&#8221; card <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/politics/joe-biden-2020-president/index.html">since the release of his first 2020 presidential campaign video</a>, framing the race as a &#8220;battle for the soul of this nation.&#8221;
&#8220;He said there were quote some very fine people on both sides,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.&#8221;
&#8220;The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America, America, is at stake,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why today I&#8217;m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.&#8221;
Despite positioning himself as the great moral crusader, Biden took a hit in credibility last year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-joe-biden-regrets-segregationist-remarks-paul-bois">when he praised</a> two former segregationists with whom he worked during his early years in the Senate for being &#8220;civil.&#8221; Though Biden apologized for the remarks, his continual gaffes since then have only further tarnished his image, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-poor-kids-just-bright-and-talented-white-paul-bois">when he said</a>: &#8220;Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids.&#8221;

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With the release of his surprise album, &#8220;Music to Be Murdered By,&#8221; iconic rapper Eminem (Marshall Mathers) unveiled a new music video for the song &#8220;Darkness&#8221; featuring a variety of pro-gun control imageries, messages, and themes. He announced the album <a href="https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/1218036500698468352" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">on Twitter</a> shortly after midnight.
The music video, <a href="https://www.eminem.com/darkness">released on his website</a>, features Eminem rapping in a dark blue chamber, spouting lyrics meant to evoke the mental turmoil of a lone gunman prior to enacting a mass shooting:
<blockquote>Here I am, alone again 
Can&#8217;t get out of this hole I&#8217;m in 
It&#8217;s like the walls are closin&#8217; in 
You can&#8217;t help me, no one can 
I can feel these curtains closin&#8217;</blockquote>
The video intercuts with footage of a hooded man in a hotel room drinking himself into a stupor as he occasionally peers through the window curtains onto the streets below, appearing to internally wrestle with himself in anticipation of a deadly decision. The images recall that of the horrific <a href="https://apnews.com/LasVegasmassshooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2017 mass shooting</a> in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead.
<blockquote>Feels like I&#8217;m loathing in Las Vegas 
Haven&#8217;t got the vaguest why I&#8217;m so lost 
But I&#8217;d make you this small wager 
If I bet you I&#8217;ll be in tomorrow&#8217;s paper 
Who would the odds favor?
I keep pacin&#8217; this room, Valium, then chase it with booze 
One little taste, it&#8217;ll do 
Maybe I&#8217;ll take it and snooze, then tear up the stage in a few</blockquote>
Finally, the man throws off his hoodie, revealing a middle-aged white man underneath, loads up his stockpile of weaponry, adjusts the scope onto a rifle, and enacts his horrific act of cowardice. Later, as the police zero in on his hotel room, the man grabs a pistol and kills himself – the camera features this from his point-of-view.
<blockquote>No suicide note, just a note for target distance 
But if you&#8217;d like to know the reason why I did this 
You&#8217;ll never find a motive, truth is I have no idea 
I am just as stumped, no signs of mental illness 
Just tryin&#8217; to show ya the reason why we&#8217;re so f**ed</blockquote>
The video then closes with a mosaic of televisions relaying news broadcasts of mass shootings throughout the country. As the camera pulls back, it is slowly revealed that this mosaic of television screens are in the shape of the United States.
“When will this end? When enough people care,” a caption reads. “Register to vote at vote.gov. Make your voice heard and help change gun laws in America.”
The website featuring the video also provides links to several organizations, including:
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<li>Brady United Against Gun Violence</li>
<li>Everytown For Gun Safety</li>
<li>Sandy Hook Promise</li>
<li>March For Our Lives</li>
<li>Survivors Empowered</li>
<li>CEA Fund For August 3rd Survivors Educational Needs</li>
<li>Vegas Strong Resiliency Center</li>
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Eminem has repeatedly used his music in recent years to push political messages, most especially against President Trump, whom he has referred to as a racist. In 2017, he performed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/07/the-woke-slim-shady-understanding-eminem-in-the-age-of-trump" data-link-name="in body link">two freestyles</a> in which he castigated his own fans for liking Trump. “Any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his / I’m drawing in the sand a line, you’re either for or against,” he said at the time.
However, Eminem has also shown to be slightly less partisan when it comes to certain social issues. His 2017 song &#8220;River,&#8221; for instance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eminem-song-river-apologizes-aborted-child-paul-bois">apologized to an aborted child</a>.
“We can’t bring her in this world, shoulda knew/To use protection,” he says in the song. “I made you terminate my baby.”
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If Prince Harry and Meghan Markle want to set up shop in America&#8217;s hat, that&#8217;s fine, say Canadians, so long as the people don&#8217;t have to pay for it.
According to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute, only 5% of Canadian taxpayers are okay with footing the bill for Harry and Meghan&#8217;s stay in the country, despite having a generally positive attitude about the migration.
&#8220;Exactly half of those polled by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute said they did not care either way if the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved there for good, with a generous 39% seeming keen,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/most-canadians-dont-want-to-pay-for-harry-and-meghan-to-live-there">Fox News</a>. &#8220;But only 5% believed taxpayers should help pay for whatever the family needed — with almost three-quarters (73%) adamant that the Sussexes should pay for everything themselves.&#8221;
Quebec proved to be the least welcoming part of Canada, with a full 17% actually &#8220;upset&#8221; that Harry and Meghan wish to move there. &#8220;Two thirds (66 percent) of the 1,154 polled say the House of Windsor is at least losing its relevance, with only 4 percent finding it more relevant than ever,&#8221; Fox notes. Overall, however, the study found that Prince Harry still remains popular in the country.
Last week, Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their &#8220;stunning&#8221; announcement to balance their time between the United Kingdom and North America as they seek financial independence and to carve out a more &#8220;progressive role&#8221; in the royal family.
“We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honor our duty to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages,” the couple said. “This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.”
Some British citizens have called the move cowardly, arguing that they should renounce their royal titles if they are serious about independence.
“You can’t be one foot in, one foot out,” Norman Baker, a former Liberal Democrat member of parliament, told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7868503/Calls-grow-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-royal-titles.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daily Mail. </a>“You are either a member of the royal family or you are not. [Prince Harry] should give the money back spent on Frogmore Cottage and pay himself for the jets between the UK and America. And pay for his security.”
Writing at the<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-08/prince-harry-meghan-renounce-title"> Los Angeles Times</a>, Kim Janssen bluntly stated, “Renounce your titles, you cowards.&#8221;
Though reports indicate that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-prince-charles-livid-over-megxit-as-he-decides-to-keep-paying-them-or-not">Prince Charles is &#8220;livid&#8221;</a> over the decision, Queen Elizabeth has publicly supported them while conceding that new details must be hammered out.
“Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family,” the British monarch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-elizabeth-gives-new-statement-on-megxit-supportive-but-still-issues-to-be-resolved">said on Monday</a>. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family. Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.”

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Of all the criticisms that could be leveled at Pornhub, the lack of subtitles seems like the least of them, but one deaf man says otherwise, and has filed a lawsuit against the popular porn site for that very reason.
&#8220;A deaf man has reportedly filed a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/married-first-cousins-wetv-extreme-love" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lawsuit</a> against a popular adult video <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/tech/technologies/websites" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a> for alleged rights violations because he says it doesn&#8217;t provide closed captioning on its videos,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/deaf-man-sues-popular-adult-site-lack-subtitles-videos-report">Fox News</a>.  &#8220;Yaroslav Suris is suing Pornhub, which hosts millions of adult videos, claiming the site&#8217;s lack of subtitles violates the rights of deaf and hearing impaired under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).&#8221;
&#8220;In the court documents, Suris listed numerous titles that he watched, such as &#8216;Sexy Cop Gets Witness to Talk,&#8217; but he was completely lost when it came to the dialogue,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;He also claimed that it&#8217;s pointless for him or others in a similar situation to purchase a premium subscription to the website without the subtitles.&#8221;
&#8220;Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew&#8221; and &#8220;Daddy 4K&#8221; were some of the other titles listed in the court documents that Suris says he had trouble watching due to lack of closed captioning.
Given the nature of the lawsuit, Corey Price, Pornhub vice president, commented on the situation even though the site rarely discusses current litigation. The site, Price said in a statement, in fact, offers closed captions.
&#8220;We understand that Yaroslav Suris is suing Pornhub for claiming we’ve denied the deaf and hearing-impaired access to our videos,&#8221; Price told <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/16/pornhub-sued-class-action-deaf-demand-closed-captioning/">TMZ</a>. &#8220;While we do not generally comment on active lawsuits, we’d like to take this opportunity to point out that we do have a closed captions category.&#8221;
Does Suris have an actual case? According to the <a href="http://www.dol.gov/general/topic/disability/ada" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">U.S. Department of Labor, </a>the ADA prohibits the discrimination of people in areas of &#8220;employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government programs and services.&#8221;
The story has <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1217953188470411264?s=20">since sparked a great deal of laughter</a> on social media as people wondered aloud how subtitles in porn would look and if it should be taken with any degree of seriousness.
&#8220;Pure laziness by Pornhub. How difficult can it be to put Uuuuurgggggaaaaaahhhh&#8230; along the bottom of every video?&#8221; said one Twitter user.
&#8220;Lmao closed captioning on porn &#8216;Loud moaning Oh baby harder Slapping noises.&#8217; It&#8217;s almost poetic like a haiku,&#8221; tweeted another user.
&#8220;Here u go buddy. Eeeehhhh uuuuhhhh oh yeah harder harder eeeehhhh uuuuhhhh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh &#8216;end of scene,'&#8221; said another.
Other <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieJ1996/status/1218048755422973952?s=20">Twitter users seemed</a> perplexed why one would need subtitles to watch porn when most people allegedly watch it muted anyway.
&#8220;Nobody watches porn with the volume turned up so WHY does he need Closed Captioning?&#8221; said one Twitter user.
&#8220;Most of the time I watch porn with the volume turned down because I don’t want the person in the next room knowing I got porn on,&#8221; said another.

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Presidential candidate Andrew Yang&#8217;s wife, Evelyn Yang, gave a heartbreaking <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/politics/evelyn-yang-interview-assault/index.html">interview</a> on Thursday in which she discussed being sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN during her first pregnancy.
Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash, Evelyn Yang said that Dr. Robert Hadden in 2012 began his assault by asking her &#8220;inappropriate questions&#8221; about her sex life, which then morphed into something more grotesque.
&#8220;There was absolutely no premise for that line of questioning, and it seemed like he just wanted to hear about me talking about sex,&#8221; she told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/politics/evelyn-yang-interview-assault/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;What I kept sticking to was this: &#8216;OK, so my doctor is pervy. I have a pervy doctor, but I&#8217;m going to focus on having a healthy baby,&#8217; and the idea of changing doctors was overwhelming for me.&#8221;
As time passed, the visits became both longer and more frequent, and Evelyn began to suspect that they were unnecessary.
&#8220;The examinations became longer, more frequent, and I learned that they were unnecessary most of the time,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;I suppose I just need to trust him. I put up with some inappropriate behavior that I didn&#8217;t know at the time was straight-up sexual abuse slash sexual assault until much later. And I regret having put up with that because it ended up in a sexual assault that was indisputable.&#8221;
The &#8220;worst assault&#8221; by Dr. Hadden occurred when Yang was seven months pregnant during another &#8220;routine&#8221; exam. Her story is gut-wrenching.
&#8220;I was in the exam room and I was dressed and ready to go. And then, at the last minute, he kind of made up an excuse,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;He said something about &#8212; &#8216;You might need a C-section,&#8217; and then he proceeded to grab me over to him and undress me and examine me internally ungloved. And at first, I was a little bit like, &#8216;What&#8217;s going on here?'&#8221;
&#8220;And there was no one else in the room?&#8221; Bash asked the now-tearful Yang.
&#8220;No, no,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;In fact, when I think back to most of our exams, I don&#8217;t think there was somebody in the room. I imagined myself as someone being, you know, like I would throw a chair at him and run out yelling bloody murder. I just kind of froze like a deer in headlights, just frozen. I knew it was happening. I could feel it. I remember trying to fix my eyes on a spot on the wall and just trying to avoid seeing his face as he was assaulting me, just waiting for it to be over.&#8221;
Evelyn Yang kept the horrific experience from her husband and suffered privately with the story until another victim pressed charges against Dr. Hadden. She ultimately did not want her husband to feel guilty for not having been able to attend the exams due to traveling for work.
Later, she discovered there were multiple victims when Dr. Hadden left his practice. In fact, a total of 18 women had slapped him with several felony charges, a plea deal was ultimately reached and Dr. Hadden lost his medical license while being forced to register as a low-level sex offender.
&#8220;It was this sense of relief, of finally realizing that I wasn&#8217;t alone in it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This was a serial predator and he just picked me as his prey. He was getting off with a slap on the wrist, basically. We were betrayed twice&#8230; It&#8217;s like getting slapped in the face and punched in the gut.&#8221;
&#8220;My personal life and this growing public life &#8212; they&#8217;re not separate,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;In this case, my experience with the sexual assault and then what happened &#8212; all that happened afterward is such a powerful and upsetting example of the truth that women are living with every day. And I just happen to have a platform to talk about it. I need to use that voice. I feel like it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s an obligation but also a privilege and a gift that I get to share my story now and also help other women.&#8221;
After the story aired, Andrew Yang <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1217972359849627648?s=20">tweeted out</a> in support of his wife, saying, &#8220;I love my wife very very much.&#8221;
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In a rare appearance on Friday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, praised the country&#8217;s missile strike on a U.S. airbase earlier this month while bashing President Trump as an untrustworthy clown and accusing the U.S. of using Iran&#8217;s downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet, which Iran initially tried to cover up, as a distraction.
“The fact that Iran has the power to give such a slap to a world power shows the hand of God,” Khamenei said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-khamenei/khamenei-says-irans-strikes-at-us-targets-show-hand-of-god-idUSKBN1ZG0O8">Reuters.</a>
“These American clowns who lie and say they are with the Iranian people should see who the Iranian people are,” said the Iranian leader.
Khameini went on to accuse the U.S. of trying to use Iran&#8217;s horrific downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 to shift international attention from the Trump-ordered strike that took out Iran&#8217;s top military leader, Qassem Soleimani, who Khameini claimed was &#8220;mourned&#8221; by &#8220;millions in Iran.&#8221;
&#8220;Khamenei told the crowd Friday that Trump is not to be trusted and only pretends to support the Iranian people,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-supreme-leader-calls-trump-a-clown-praises-missile-attack">Fox News</a> reports. &#8220;He said Western countries are too weak to &#8216;bring Iranians to their knees.&#8217; He said Iran was willing to negotiate, but not with the U.S.&#8221;
Since Khamenei has not addressed Friday prayers in Tehran since 2012, one Middle East scholar told the Washington Post that his address is a &#8220;symbolically significant act.&#8221;
On January 8, the Iranian regime launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq at the Asad airbase in Anbar Province. The attack followed an airstrike in Baghdad ordered by President Trump that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who he described as one of the &#8220;worst terrorists in history and the father of the roadside bomb.&#8221;
Though no Americans or Iraqis were killed or wounded in the blast, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-11-u-s-troops-treated-after-iran-missile-attack-cnn-politicizes-theres-more-to-the-story">recent report</a> shows that at least 11 U.S. troops were treated for injuries like concussions.
“No one was killed or wounded in the five barrages of multiple missiles that night, although several military personnel who were working were checked for concussions,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/world/middleeast/Iran-missile-attack-American-base.html">The New York Times</a> reported. “The absence of casualties seemed to be the result of luck and warnings.”
A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Baghdad also said: “As previously stated, while no U.S. service members were killed in the Jan. 8 Iranian attack on Al Asad Air base, several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed.”
Shortly after the missile strike, Iran shot down a Ukranian jetliner that killed 176 people, presumably mistaking the plane for a U.S. counter-attack. Khamenei referred to the tragedy as a &#8220;bitter accident&#8221; that Iranians mourned.
Meeting in London on Thursday, ministers from Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine – all of which lost citizens in the crash – demanded full-transparency from Iran during the downed-plane investigation as well as compensation.
&#8220;We are here to pursue closure, accountability, transparency and justice for the victims – Ukrainian, Swedish, Afghan, British, Canadian as well as Iranian, through a full complete and transparent international investigation,&#8221; said Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne. &#8220;In the wake of such a horrific tragedy there are many many questions. Families want answers, all of the countries assembled here today want answers, and the international community want answers. The world is waiting for those answers and we will not rest until we get them.&#8221;

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Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo has been raising awareness about violence against women by creating doctored photos of prominent political figures like Michelle Obama, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Hillary Clinton that make them appear as if they are battered victims.
&#8220;The &#8216;Just Because I am a Woman&#8217; campaign created by AleXsandro Palombo, which is currently on display in Milan, also features altered portraits of German Chancellor  Angela Merkel and French first lady Brigitte Macron,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/violence-against-women-art-campaign">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The posters note that such violence against women does not differ between races, classes or religions.&#8221;
Each poster features a message beneath it that reads, &#8220;I am a victim of domestic abuse. I am paid less. I&#8217;ve experienced genital mutilation. I do not have the right to dress as I want. I can&#8217;t decide who I&#8217;m going to marry. I was raped.&#8221;
Speaking with the BBC, Palombo said he created the posters &#8220;to illustrate the drama that affects millions of women throughout the world &#8230; with the aim of denouncing, raising awareness and obtaining a real response from institutions and politics.&#8221;
Palombo previously used the famous faces of Kim Kardashian and Angelina Jolie back in 2015 to highlight violence against women. “No woman is immune from domestic abuse,&#8221; the posters read.
Palombo gave no indication that the choice of certain female figures were meant as a political statement beyond raising awareness about violence against women. He also previously created campaigns such as Disabled Disney Princesses and The Simpsons Go To Auschwitz. Here is one such example:
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According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/index.html">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC), roughly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men experience domestic violence each year. Below is an excerpt from the CDC&#8217;s report on &#8220;intimate partner violence&#8221; in the U.S.:
<blockquote>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse or aggression that occurs in a close relationship. “Intimate partner” refers to both current and former spouses and dating partners. IPV can vary in how often it happens and how severe it is. It can range from one episode of violence that could have lasting impact to chronic and severe episodes over multiple years.
IPV is common.  It affects millions of people in the United States each year. Data from CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) indicate:
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<li>About 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 10 men have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime and reported some form of IPV-related impact.</li>
<li>Over 43 million women and 38 million men experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime.</li>
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IPV is a significant public health issue that has many individual and societal costs. About 41% of female IPV survivors and 14% of male IPV survivors experience some form of physical injury related to IPV. IPV can also extend beyond physical injury and result in death. Data from U.S. crime reports suggest that 16% (about 1 in 6) of homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. The reports also found that nearly half of female homicide victims in the U.S. are killed by a current or former male intimate partner.</blockquote>
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Violence Against Women Campaign Features Doctored Photos Of Hillary Clinton, AOC, Michelle Obama As Battered Victims

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The latest episode of the WETV reality show &#8220;Extreme Love,&#8221; which explores non-traditional romantic relationships throughout the country, will center on a married couple – Angie and Micahel – who are also first cousins.
&#8220;The husband and wife from Eagle Mountain, Utah, are first cousins,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/married-first-cousins-wetv-extreme-love">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Angie’s father happens to be the older brother of Michael’s mother.&#8221;
In the U.S., 25 states prohibit marriage between first cousins while another six allow them only in certain circumstances. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow the practice without conditions. In the state of Utah, first cousins can marry if the couple is 55 or older or cannot reproduce. Angie and Michael married in Colorado – where the practice is legal – and have been circulating an <a href="https://www.thepetitionsite.com/954/693/035/allow-first-cousins-to-marry-in-utah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">online petition</a> that currently has just over 1,600 supporters.
Speaking with Fox News, the couple said they are &#8220;like everyone else&#8221; and would not categorize their marriage or love as &#8220;extreme.&#8221;
“We’re really like everyone else,” Michael told the outlet. “We’re not parading it around. I think people get the idea that we are running down the street, like you know, making out, screaming, ‘We’re cousins!’ We do the same thing that everyone else does. We put our pants on one leg at a time like everyone else. We’re really just a normal couple and… worldwide it’s quite common. I think it’s just in our culture that it’s taboo.”
“There’s a misconception that we are blatantly disregarding the law and just saying we don’t care about the law,” Angie said. “But we’ve done several things to show that we are working with the law. Driving to Colorado to get married was a way that we honored the law. Working with the senator. Talking, meeting with the senator. Petitioning, canvassing for signatures on our petition.&#8221;
“All the efforts that we’ve gone through to show that we do have respect for the law and we’re trying to change the law,” she continued. “We’re not just hiding out, doing our own thing. We’ve… done as much as we can within the law.”
The two met at age seven and Michael claims it was love at first sight, saying he has always wanted to be with her.
“I’ve always wanted to be with Angie,” said Michael. “Point blank, period. I don’t know if she ever knew that, but when I look at her, I’ve never been able to see that in any other woman in my life. I’ve had dreams about her since I can remember. I always had this weird feeling that there was no other woman that would ever make me feel like that. And it turns out I was right… For me, it was just natural.”
The pair also shared their first kiss at age seven when they snuck into a closet, and Michel soon told his mother that he would marry Angie.
“I even stopped her mother in the hallway one morning, like after breakfast,” Michael remembered. “I said, ‘I’m going to marry Angie.’ This is my aunt, her mother… She goes, ‘No, you can’t, but you can be friends.’ I just felt like… you don’t even know what you’re talking about. I’ve always felt that way about her.”
Though family members initially expressed anger over the arrangement, some have come around to accept them.
“With our extended family, it did part some controversy,” said Angie. “And a lot of the extended family just have chosen not to participate and not to get involved with our situation.”
To the critics of their relationship, Michael said he doesn&#8217;t feel he has anything to explain or apologize for.
“Are you ashamed of your marriage with your husband or wife?” Michael said. “Are you ashamed of your relationship? Should you go hide in the corner and say, ‘Well, we’re not cousins.’ That doesn’t change the fact that we’re together. I don’t feel like I should have to, or Angie and I should have to keep it some kind of a secret as if no one can know about it. Or lie about it. That’s the worst thing I want to do — is lie about it.”
If Angie and Michael were to have children, they would be 4 to 7% more likely to have a genetic condition. Angie, however, says her genetic prenatal testing gave some positive results. “He’s not a carrier for anything and I’m only a carrier for one thing, which means that our son isn’t going to have anything,” she said.

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Apparently, the impeachment trial against President Trump is so &#8220;solemn&#8221; and &#8220;serious&#8221; that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is smiling on camera before lamenting the solemnity and seriousness of the whole affair. Take a look:
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Speaking with MSNBC&#8217;s Kasie Hunt while wearing all-white after being sworn in as a juror in the Senate trial, Kamala Harris appears to give a gleeful smile and grin to someone off-camera before quickly putting on a serious mask in order to talk about the impeachment as if it were a sad day for America and a burden that she and the Democrats have been forced to unfairly bear for the good of the nation.
&#8220;Can you start just by taking us through the moments that you just experienced on the floor of the senate and what the task is at hand?&#8221; Hunt asked Harris.
“This is a solemn, serious moment,” Harris said. “These are the most serious charges brought in the history of our country against a president. The moment we just experienced I think is highlighting the importance of doing impartial justice and taking seriously the importance of listening to the evidence and the importance of receiving evidence both in terms of witnesses and in terms of documents. Because the American people  and the constitution of the United States require that we demand all evidence so that we can follow the facts and the evidence where they lead.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think the Senate is capable of conducting a fair trial?&#8221; asked Hunt.
&#8220;If the United States Senate cannot conduct a fair trial then we can talk about the beginning of the end to our democracy and our system of justice,&#8221; Harris responded.
The idea that impeaching President Trump is somehow a sad affair that Democrats have been forced into has been a talking point since day one. When Democrats applauded the vote on impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said it was a &#8220;sad&#8221; day for America.
“The House has acted on a very sad day to protect the constitution of the United States,” she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/18/pelosi-applause-impeachment-vote-democrats">said at the time</a>, calling the vote “appropriate and urgent”.
“He gave us no choice,” she added.
“The facts are uncontested: The president abused his power,” she later told reporters. “The president leaves us no choice but to act. Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.”
Pelosi also said she had no concern about the political fallout that might occur if the Democrats pursue impeachment.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with politics. It isn’t about politics, partisanship, Democrats and Republicans. That’s totally insignificant,” Pelosi told a CNN reporter. “It’s about the Constitution of the United States, the oath of office we take to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It’s about the president not honoring his oath of office. So no, I’m not concerned.”
“I’m really sorry the president made this necessary,” she added.
Speaking at a press conference, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that the trial could begin next Tuesday. “We’ll be able to go through some preliminary steps here this week, which could well include the Chief Justice coming over and swearing-in members of the Senate and some other kind of housekeeping measures … which would set us up to begin the actual trial next Tuesday,” he said.

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Whatever plan CNN had by essentially trashing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in favor of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during the presidential debate this week, it has sorely backfired. Now, even pundits as far-left as Samantha Bee are calling out the network for shamelessly pitting the two candidates against each other.
Speaking on her show &#8220;Full Frontal&#8221; on Wednesday night, Bee said that CNN is trying to get Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren &#8220;to fight.&#8221;
“The only way they could be trying harder to get them to fight is if they personally oiled up these senior citizens and threw them into the Octagon,” Bee said, as reported by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/samantha-bee-goes-off-on-cnn-stop-making-bernie-sanders-and-elizabeth-warren-fight">The Daily Beast</a>.
Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate reached a dramatic high-point when CNN moderator Abby Philip asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to address a recent report alleging that he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) back in 2018 that a woman could not win the presidency against Donald Trump.
“So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillips asked the Vermont senator.
“That is correct,” Sanders replied.
Phillips then proceeded to ask Warren how she felt during her conversation with Bernie as if the story were clearly true.
“Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” asked Phillip, tacitly painting Sanders as a liar.
“I disagreed,” Warren replied. “Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie. But, look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it’s time for us to attack it head-on.”
Following that dismal display of media malfeasance, Sanders and Warren had a tense meeting in the post-debate in which the senator from Massachusetts refused to shake Sanders&#8217; hand.  Bee was especially unappreciative of the media building hype around that particular moment.
“That’s it? That’s what’s dominated our national discourse for 36 hours?” Bee wondered aloud. “Two great candidates who are a little sad and disappointed in each other over a misunderstanding?”
Even when it came to the prospect of Bernie Sanders possibly <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-denies-telling-warren-a-woman-couldnt-win-and-she-chooses-to-move-on">telling Warren back in 2018 that a woman couldn’t beat Trump </a>– a charge he adamantly denies – Bee joked that she herself &#8220;might have shouted it into a bottle of wine or 10.&#8221;
“Look, we have not yet found a way to have nuanced conversations about how sexism impacts female candidates,&#8221; Bee said. “But I will tell you one thing I know for sure. This was the last debate before the Iowa caucus and if we’re having fights, they should be about how to protect reproductive rights, and how to fight gun violence and how Biden looks like he got run through The Irishman de-aging machine.”
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Following the debate on Wednesday, several media figures trashed CNN as the hashtag #CNNIsGarbage began trending on social media. Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC said Abby Philip <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-msnbcs-mika-brzezinski-trashes-cnn-for-biased-question-against-bernie-during-the-debate-what-the-heck-happened">made a serious mistake</a>.
“I’m completely confused  as to why it turned from Bernie Sanders saying, ‘I didn’t say it,’ to Elizabeth Warren being asked, ‘what did you think when he said it?’ He says he didn’t say it. So you turn to Elizabeth Warren and say, ‘did he say it?’ That’s the issue. I mean, it’s bizarre,” Brzezinski said on Wednesday.

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Though Queen Elizabeth gave her public blessing to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in their decision to seek more independence from the royal family by splitting their time in North America, inside reports indicate something more tumultuous.
According to <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/prince-charles-is-livid-about-harry-meghans-step-down-decision/">Us Weekly</a>, royal insiders report that Prince Charles, Harry&#8217;s father, is &#8220;livid&#8221; over the announcement and blames Duchess Meghan Markle for the split. Given that the couple get 95% of their income from the Prince of Wales — $6.5 million — Prince Charles will now have to &#8220;decide to keep paying them or not,” said the insider source.
Despite the turmoil, neither Harry nor Meghan have shown any sign of backing down from their decision.
“They’re not having any second thoughts,” the insider said. 
The reported plan now for Harry and Meghan will be to settle in Canada while keeping a vacation home in Los Angeles. They also hope to soon give baby Archie a sibling. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duchess-meghan-wants-to-move-to-progressive-california-but-she-doesnt-want-her-company-to-pay-california-taxes">reported</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo, Duchess Meghan wants to settle down in &#8220;progressive&#8221; California after Trump leaves office.
News of Prince Charles&#8217; anger with the situation comes just days after Queen Elizabeth announced that she supports Harry and Meghan&#8217;s decision while still working to hammer out the details of their split — they plan to gain more financial independence while still keeping their royal titles, as they carve out a &#8220;progressive&#8221; role in the family.
“Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family,” the British monarch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-elizabeth-gives-new-statement-on-megxit-supportive-but-still-issues-to-be-resolved">said on Monday</a>. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family. Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.”
The queen went on to say that there are “still issues to be resolved” before a final exit can be established.
“Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives,” continued the queen. “It has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK. These are complex matters for my family to resolve, and there is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days.”
Though the queen expressed support in her statement, reports leading up to it told a different story, with royal insiders telling various media outlets that she was both disappointed and blindsided by the sudden decision. Steve Hilton, former senior adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron, said on <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/deep-dive-nation/clips/?cmpid=org=NAT::ag=owned::mc=referral::src=FNC_web::cmp=article::add=DeepDive_Article_FNC_Platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox Nation’s</a> <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/deep-dive-nation/clips/?cmpid=org=NAT::ag=owned::mc=referral::src=FNC_web::cmp=article::add=DeepDive_Article_FNC_Platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Deep Dive”</a> that the queen’s statement is one of her most emotional.
“It feels like the most emotional words I’ve ever heard from the queen,” said Hilton. “It’s very interesting. It feels very personal in a way that I’ve never seen before.”

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