Even as reports circulated that President Joe Biden was set to spend the weekend reevaluating his 2024 presidential campaign, another report suggested any such confab would have to wait until after the family photo shoot with famed Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz.
The New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers posted an update on X, noting that the photo shoot had been specifically set for this particular weekend in order to accommodate the now-convicted First Son Hunter Biden and his family.
&#8220;Camp David: Biden family spent morning not having a summit but in hair and makeup for a shoot with Annie Leibovitz, Vogue photog who shot Biden/Obama/Clinton in March then suggested doing something informal with the Bidens,&#8221; Rogers posted. &#8220;Family suggested this week, bc Hunter &amp; family in town.&#8221;
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Camp David: Biden family spent morning not having a summit but in hair and makeup for a shoot with Annie Leibovitz, Vogue photog who shot Biden/Obama/Clinton in March then suggested doing something informal with the Bidens. Family suggested this week, bc Hunter &amp; family in town.
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/katierogers/status/1807463959412310130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
Critics were not impressed with the Bidens&#8217; plans, particularly in the wake of his disastrous debate performance on Thursday. In light of the fact that the date had reportedly been chosen to accommodate Hunter Biden and his family, a number also asked whether Navy Joan — Hunter&#8217;s daughter with former stripper Lunden Roberts — would be included.
&#8220;Love that we have to have these Succession-like charades so that corrupt political dynasties can decide in hair and makeup whether millions of people get to live,&#8221; one posted.
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Love that we have to have these Succession-like charades so that corrupt political dynasties can decide in hair and makeup whether millions of people get to live. <a href="https://t.co/VPQGryuh4Z">https://t.co/VPQGryuh4Z</a>
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) <a href="https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1807483733752029494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Will they include Hunter&#8217;s other daughter, Navy, in the Biden family shoot or continue to pretend she does not exist?&#8221; another asked.
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Will they include Hunter&#8217;s other daughter, Navy, in the Biden family shoot or continue to pretend she does not exist <a href="https://t.co/bUy1fkavJC">https://t.co/bUy1fkavJC</a>
— Just Mindy 🐊 (@just_mindy) <a href="https://twitter.com/just_mindy/status/1807489138607768010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
Axios reporter Alex Thompson said that the Biden family meeting — which NBC reported was to be a hard look at Biden&#8217;s re-election prospects post-debate — had been pre-planned and the photo shoot was to be a part of that.
&#8220;.@jeffzeleny reports this AM that the Biden family meeting was pre-planned and that it includes a photo shoot with Annie Leibowitz,&#8221; he said.
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More details from <a href="https://twitter.com/katierogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katierogers</a> <a href="https://t.co/INr4yua2CU">https://t.co/INr4yua2CU</a>
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1807493882533347833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Whoopi Goldberg took a wave of backlash after she used her platform on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; to claim that black Americans — even in the year 2025 — were no better off than Iranian citizens living under the brutal and oppressive Islamist government.
Goldberg and cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-goes-sideways-when-two-cohosts-claim-black-americans-are-worse-off-than-iranians">squared off</a> on the topic during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast, when Griffin correctly pointed out the fact that an Iranian woman would likely be arrested — or worse — for stepping foot outside wearing even the relatively modest outfit she had on at the time. &#8220;I can’t have my hair showing, I can’t wear a skirt, I can’t have my arms out,&#8221; she said.
Goldberg apparently objected to the idea that Iranians were more oppressed than black Americans, and said, &#8220;Listen, here’s the thing — let’s not do the — let’s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car.&#8221;
“I’m sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today is nothing compared to the United States,” Griffin interjected, again correctly.
&#8220;They used to just keep hanging black people!&#8221; Goldberg exclaimed, and continued to press the point.
But much like their reaction when Goldberg claimed that the Holocaust was &#8220;not about race,&#8221; critics quickly made it clear that they were not buying her assertions.
Guy Benson drove the point home during an appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom,&#8221; saying at first, &#8220;I call that show a daily national televised insane asylum for a reason.&#8221;
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🔥TORCHED: <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guypbenson</a> just DECIMATED Whoopi Goldberg &amp; &#8220;The View&#8221; for their &#8220;moral idiocy.&#8221;
&#8220;I call that show a daily national televised insane asylum for a reason&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Our government PROSECUTES hate crimes. They don&#8217;t commit them&#8230;!&#8221;
&#8220;Whoopi Goldberg&#8230;is one of the most… <a href="https://t.co/T4cRg9tVMy">pic.twitter.com/T4cRg9tVMy</a>
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1935709087108379072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to overstate the moral idiocy of what we just heard there,&#8221; he said, marking Goldberg as the prime source of that. &#8220;Alyssa Farah is making the point correctly about how people are subjugated brutally by the Iranian regime and Whoopi&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, look at what we do here in the U.S. There are hate crimes here.'&#8221;
&#8220;Our government prosecutes hate crimes,&#8221; Benson added. &#8220;They don&#8217;t commit them as a matter of course. For her to say, &#8216;Oh, well, if you&#8217;re black in the United States in 2025, it&#8217;s basically the same as being a dissident or anyone in Iran, that is deeply, deeply ignorant.&#8221;
&#8220;Hi Whoopi Goldberg!&#8221; another posted. &#8220;You say your life is just a brutal as Iranian women. Meet Nika Shakarami. After the IRGC kiIIed Mahsa Amini, the 16-year-old burned her scarf in protest and vanished. The IRGC delivered her corpse to her parents — who only identified her by her birthmark.&#8221;
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Hi Whoopi Goldberg!
You say your life is just a brutal as Iranian women.
Meet Nika Shakarami.
After the IRGC kiIIed Mahsa Amini, the 16-year-old burned her scarf in protest and vanished.
The IRGC delivered her corpse to her parents — who only identified her by her birthmark. <a href="https://t.co/A5LwwtWuqv">pic.twitter.com/A5LwwtWuqv</a>
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1935432160045056288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Whoopie Goldberg believes black women in America are more oppressed than women living under the Islamic Regime… Whoopie can freely travel without the consent of a male relative, show her hair, sing, dance, and express her unfiltered s****y opinions on TV without being arrested… Meanwhile Iranian women are kidnapped, raped, and beaten for simply showing their hair… Whoopie is a &#8216;useful idiot,'&#8221; another added.
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Whoopie Goldberg believes black women in America are more oppressed than women living under the Islamic Regime…
Whoopie can freely travel without the consent of a male relative, show her hair, sing, dance, and express her unfiltered shitty opinions on TV without being… <a href="https://t.co/iHS88Z5E0b">pic.twitter.com/iHS88Z5E0b</a>
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1935405502059725113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;If America were anything like Iran as she suggests, Whoopi Goldberg would be punished for the way she bashes our country. But because she lives in America, she has the freedom to say idiotic things on TV everyday. That’s the beauty of our country.&#8221;
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If America were anything like Iran as she suggests, Whoopi Goldberg would be punished for the way she bashes our country.
But because she lives in America, she has the freedom to say idiotic things on TV everyday.
That’s the beauty of our country. <a href="https://t.co/lTFYqyTqvw">https://t.co/lTFYqyTqvw</a>
— Congressman Jeff Van Drew (@Congressman_JVD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Congressman_JVD/status/1935414121194750410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>

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‘Moral Idiocy’: Whoopi Goldberg Trashed After Claiming Black Americans Worse Off Than Iranians

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said that she doesn&#8217;t feel safe &#8220;at all&#8221; in the wake of the weekend shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota — and she argued that President Donald Trump should &#8220;reprioritize&#8221; money spent on things like the U.S. Army&#8217;s 250th birthday celebration on extra security for members of Congress.
Crockett joined the cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for Thursday&#8217;s broadcast, where she referred to the Army&#8217;s 250th birthday celebration as President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;little birthday parade&#8221; as if he had simply been throwing himself a party. The show&#8217;s liberal cohosts made no attempt to correct her.
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Far-left Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX) decries how much is spent on Trump&#8217;s security detail, and Sara Haines suggests Trump&#8217;s criticisms put her in danger:
Sara Haines: Do you feel safe as an elected official in this political climate?
Crockett: No, not at all. I mean,… <a href="https://t.co/w1pmSORF78">pic.twitter.com/w1pmSORF78</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1935725860083945947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Over the weekend, we saw a tragic and brazen act of political violence in this country,&#8221; cohost Sara Haines began. &#8220;A Minnesota Democratic representative and her husband and their dog were assassinated. Another lawmaker and his wife were gravely wounded, and the suspect had a long hit list. So, I want to ask you: Do you feel safe as an elected official in this political climate?&#8221;
&#8220;No, not at all,&#8221; Crockett replied. &#8220;Here’s the deal: I do this job and the fact that my safety is a part of doing this job is really bad in and of itself, but umm &#8230; while we spend millions upon millions just so this guy can go and golf or while they spent $45 million for his little birthday parade, you know, like, I’m just saying, can we reprioritize some of those dollars?&#8221;
Crockett went on to say that she wasn&#8217;t asking for a lot of money to be redirected, but noted that the only House members who were given any kind of security on an official basis were those who had leadership positions.
&#8220;We have nothing. The only people in the House that have protection, you get protection based upon your leadership post. That’s it. Those are the only ones,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So when you figure out security, you have to hopefully raise enough money to then be able to pay for security yourself. This is a problem, especially in light of the environment.&#8221;
&#8220;So I did text a Republican that I consider to be a friend — yes, I have Republican friends, just so y’all know. I did, and I said, &#8216;listen, your people need to fix this,'&#8221; she continued, making it clear that she believed the entirety of the threat was coming from the right. &#8220;Like, I’m tired, right? And there are Republicans that are concerned. To be clear, they’re not concerned about the radical leftists that they talk about. They’re concerned about MAGA, because we saw the same thing happen when we had the Speaker election, right? And so, when people are mad about them not voting for Jim Jordan, they started threatening their spouses and all kinds of stuff.&#8221;
&#8220;And another thing they’re not talking about that really ticked me off because I just learned about it in the midst of what happened is that someone has been sending pizzas to members’ homes and they’ve not done anything. So I’m just like, we still have a role to play. I get that nobody really likes the Congress, but I mean, we still are duly elected and we’re a co-equal branch of government, but we always seem like we’re the stepchild,&#8221; she concluded.
&#8220;Well, it makes it even more irresponsible knowing that as you said, they would come for a sophomore member of the House knowing that you’re not protected,&#8221; Haines agreed.
Cohost Joy Behar weighed in then, suggesting that Trump was &#8220;scared&#8221; of Crockett. &#8220;She’s tough and smart.&#8221;
&#8220;That doesn’t change the danger it puts her in,&#8221; Haines argued.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-roasts-jasmine-crockett-in-press-room-i-hope-she-continues-to-be-a-rising-star">Crockett</a> did rate a mention during the White House press briefing on Thursday, when Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt weighed in on her recent podcast appearance with Katie Couric (&#8220;Next Question&#8221;). Crockett had told Couric that Trump&#8217;s supporters were essentially proof that the United States was going through a &#8220;mental health crisis.&#8221;
Leavitt responded by laughing and saying, &#8220;I hope [Crockett] continues to be a rising star, at least for Republicans.&#8221;

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Jasmine Crockett Says She Doesn’t Feel Safe ‘At All’ After Minnesota Shootings, Blames Trump

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt roasted Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) from the briefing room on Thursday, mocking her over her recent suggestion that President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters suffered from mental illness.
Leavitt laid into the Texas Democrat in response to a question from The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Mary Margaret Olohan, who mentioned Crockett&#8217;s comments: &#8220;She said Trump supporters are &#8216;mentally ill&#8217; before calling for bipartisan support against the president. Can you respond to that, especially since she&#8217;s a rising star in the Democratic Party right now?&#8221;
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Karoline Leavitt and <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a> rip into Jasmine Crockett:
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s incredibly derogatory to accuse nearly 80 million Americans of mental illness. Last time I checked, Jasmine Crockett couldn&#8217;t dream of winning such a majority of the public.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mJCftlHdDh">pic.twitter.com/mJCftlHdDh</a>
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1935757318915838206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;She is a rising star,&#8221; Leavitt responded with a smile. &#8220;It&#8217;s quite something to behold, actually. I hope that she continues to be a rising star, for the Republican Party at least.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s incredibly derogatory to accuse nearly 80 million Americans of mental illness. Last time I checked, Jasmine Crockett couldn&#8217;t dream of winning such a majority of the public as President Trump did,&#8221; Leavitt continued. &#8220;And the America First movement, which President Trump has built, is filled with hard-working patriots, forgotten men and women, business owners, law enforcement officers, nurses, and teachers, and middle America, as we all know, from where you all grew up outside of this beltway.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s who makes up this president&#8217;s movement, and Jasmine Crockett should go to a Trump call sometime and she can see it for herself,&#8221; Leavitt added.
Crockett raised eyebrows when she told Katie Couric, on her &#8220;Next Question&#8221; podcast, that widespread support for President Trump was essentially proof positive that the United States was dealing with a &#8220;mental health crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone — no matter how you affiliate yourself — should be against Trump. Period. This is not partisan for me. Like, I would give anything to have — sad to say — George Bush. Like, give me any regular Republican nowadays, and I would be happy,&#8221; Crockett said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, &#8216;Enough is enough.&#8217; Like, this should not be partisanship.&#8221;

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Karoline Leavitt Roasts Jasmine Crockett In Press Room: ‘I Hope She Continues To Be A Rising Star’

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) claimed that President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters were &#8220;mentally ill&#8221; — and then demanded bipartisan opposition to Trump — during her recent appearance on Katie Couric&#8217;s &#8220;Next Question&#8221; podcast.
Crockett told Couric that she would be happy to have any &#8220;regular&#8221; Republican — naming George Bush, but not saying whether she meant George H.W. Bush (41) or George W. Bush (43) — and said that Trump&#8217;s political success was essentially proof that there was a &#8220;mental health crisis&#8221; in the United States.
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🚨NEW: Jasmine Crockett calls Trump supporters *MENTALLY ILL* — then immediately calls for bipartisanship🚨
&#8220;This idea that we don&#8217;t care how many people get hurt, we don&#8217;t care how we prostitute our service members — you know, thinking that you have your own special little army… <a href="https://t.co/puAcojbTZJ">pic.twitter.com/puAcojbTZJ</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1935693487569068538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
During the podcast, Crockett lashed out at the president over the U.S. Army 250th birthday celebration and parade, suggesting, as many Democrats have, that the parade was not really for the Army, but for Trump&#8217;s birthday.
&#8220;This idea that we don&#8217;t care how many people get hurt, we don&#8217;t care how we prostitute our service members — you know, thinking that you have your own special little army that&#8217;s for you &#8230; it is sick. It is really sick. And anybody that supports it is also sick,&#8221; Crockett claimed.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone — no matter how you affiliate yourself — should be against Trump. Period,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is not partisan for me. Like, I would give anything to have — sad to say — George Bush. Like, give me any regular Republican nowadays, and I would be happy.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, &#8216;Enough is enough.&#8217; Like, this should not be partisanship,&#8221; she concluded.
During the same appearance, she claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris — who lost to President Trump in rather spectacular fashion — had been far more qualified to serve as president, arguing that Americans were simply too racist and sexist to vote for her and instead went with the &#8220;old white man.&#8221;

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Texas Democrat Slams Trump Supporters As ‘Mentally Ill,’ Then Demands They Be More Bipartisan

The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in United States v. Skrmetti — which upheld Tennessee&#8217;s ban on chemical and surgical gender transitions for minors — was major news.
But while legacy media outlets rushed to cover the decision Wednesday, their coverage belied the fact that their position on the matter was clearly biased.
Despite the fact that the majority of Americans, regardless of political party, believe children should not be subject to such irreversible procedures, mainstream media reporters still referred to the High Court&#8217;s ruling as a &#8220;major setback&#8221; or a &#8220;devastating loss.&#8221;
The Washington Post attempted to spin the issue as &#8220;polarizing national issue the Trump administration has seized on&#8221; — in spite of overwhelming support for reserving gender transition for adults — and claimed the 6-3 decision was the product of a &#8220;divided court.&#8221;
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Breaking news: A divided Supreme Court cleared the way for states to ban certain gender transition treatments for minors, a polarizing national issue the Trump administration has seized on in initiatives targeting transgender rights. <a href="https://t.co/er1uhGQE0W">https://t.co/er1uhGQE0W</a>
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1935342766701072577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Critics pointed out that The Washington Post had landed a bit wide of the mark.
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“Polarizing” <a href="https://t.co/gdm0syKbnt">https://t.co/gdm0syKbnt</a> <a href="https://t.co/vaVWR7wl5x">pic.twitter.com/vaVWR7wl5x</a>
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1935407301923344818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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It’s the opposite of polarizing—it’s a unifying issue (according to WaPo’s own polling).
These numbers go up when asked about surgeries, by the way. <a href="https://t.co/l2P0FpZIPK">https://t.co/l2P0FpZIPK</a> <a href="https://t.co/yor0CmPXl4">pic.twitter.com/yor0CmPXl4</a>
— Cody Sargent (@codydsargent) <a href="https://twitter.com/codydsargent/status/1935434841341776011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
The New York Times, after leading with the breaking news, followed with a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/supreme-court-trans-children.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second paragraph</a> that gave away the game: &#8220;The decision, which came amid the Trump administration’s fierce assaults on transgender rights, was a bitter setback for their proponents &#8230;&#8221;
And from The Associated Press? &#8220;The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights. <a href="https://t.co/moVnfy3auH">https://t.co/moVnfy3auH</a>
— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1935341665239060652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;This headline is an opinion,&#8221; Michelle Tafoya noted.
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This headline is an opinion: <a href="https://t.co/GpZzYPM92g">https://t.co/GpZzYPM92g</a>
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) <a href="https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/1935354970163003502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Ban on child abuse. The phrase you’re looking for is child abuse,&#8221; Red State&#8217;s Bonchie posted.
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Ban on child abuse. The phrase you’re looking for is child abuse. <a href="https://t.co/iA7XCfGMQq">https://t.co/iA7XCfGMQq</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1935384844437176806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The AP was hoping for more child abuse, not less. Tough day for them,&#8221; Seth Dillon added.
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The AP was hoping for more child abuse, not less. Tough day for them. <a href="https://t.co/xFq6cEebhw">https://t.co/xFq6cEebhw</a>
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1935355852237541399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
NBC News offered similar fare, publishing a piece declaring that the &#8220;Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee law restricting gender transition care for minors, delivering a major blow to transgender rights.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee law restricting gender transition care for minors, delivering a major blow to transgender rights. <a href="https://t.co/QiUjyPfDlQ">https://t.co/QiUjyPfDlQ</a>
— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1935341651410423816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;This is activist commentary, to be clear. However, it&#8217;s also very misleading. Medically interfering with the physical development of children for an artificial, hypothetical future outcome based on gender identity is in no way connected to, &#8216;transgender rights,'&#8221; Chad Felix Greene posted.
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This is activist commentary, to be clear.
However, it&#8217;s also very misleading. Medically interfering with the physical development of children for an artificial, hypothetical future outcome based on gender identity is in no way connected to, &#8216;transgender rights.&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/fBwtND1eKj">https://t.co/fBwtND1eKj</a>
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1935358226058342572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Even <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/supreme-court-skrmetti-decision-permits-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for/">Scientific American</a> lamented the decision in the second paragraph of coverage — under the header &#8220;Why this matters&#8221; — writing, &#8220;The ruling is a major blow to transgender Americans’ rights and protections, which have been under attack at the state and federal level.&#8221;

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&#8220;The View&#8221; hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that black people in America were worse off than people living under Iran&#8217;s oppressive regime, a claim that was immediately challenged by others at the table.
During a broader conversation about the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, Hostin claimed that Israel&#8217;s strike on Iran had not been legal. Goldberg argued that the legality of Israel&#8217;s actions should be decided by international bodies like the United Nations. But when cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested that they should consider the possibility that Iran was a bad actor, the whole conversation quickly went off the rails.
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Whoopi and Sunny say it&#8217;s worse to be black in America today than to live in Iran today. Whoopi shouts down Alyssa Farah Griffin for noting that Iran kills gay people because America is a terrible country. Alyssa stand up to her in a big way:
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&#8220;Let’s just remember too, the Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings, they don’t adhere to basic human rights,” Alyssa Farah Griffin began.
&#8220;Listen, here&#8217;s the thing — let’s not do the — let&#8217;s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car,&#8221; Goldberg objected.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today is nothing compared to the United States,&#8221; said Griffin.
&#8220;They used to just keep hanging black people!&#8221; Goldberg added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not even the same,&#8221; Griffin repeated.
&#8220;Oh no! Oh, wait, wait, wait! That&#8217;s not what you mean to say! It is the same,&#8221; Goldberg declared.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not. The year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if stepped foot were this outfit in Tehran right now,&#8221; Griffin continued. &#8220;I can&#8217;t have my hair showing, I can&#8217;t wear a skirt, I can&#8217;t have my arms out.&#8221;
Everyone began talking at once, and Goldberg eventually broke through. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I am saying that it is the same. Murdering someone for their differences not good whoever does it. It&#8217;s not good. So that&#8217;s why I said you weren&#8217;t saying — what I heard was not what you meant.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran,&#8221; Griffin did not back down.
&#8220;Not if you&#8217;re black,&#8221; Goldberg claimed.
&#8220;Not for everybody,&#8221; Hostin agreed.
&#8220;Not if you&#8217;re black,&#8221; Goldberg said again.
&#8220;Guys, don&#8217;t go to Tehran. No one at this table should go to Tehran,&#8221; Griffin insisted. &#8220;There are places much darker than this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Not everybody feels that way! Not everybody feels that way!&#8221; Goldberg said.

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