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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638.104.4.pdf
‘I Can’t Believe You’ve Been Nominated’: Sen Hawley Grills Biden Judicial Nominee Over Her Work For Southern Poverty Law Center
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley grilled Biden’s judicial nominee for the Eleventh Circuit for her involvement with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) during her nomination hearing Wednesday.
“I have to tell you, I find your answers absolutely extraordinary,” Hawley said to Nancy Abudu at the hearing. “Absolutely extraordinary. I can’t believe you’ve been nominated for this position. I can’t believe that the president of the United States would nominate someone from this organization with this record, and I can’t believe that you would sit here today and refuse to condemn this hateful, frankly, violent rhetoric.”
Abudu, the strategic litigation director at SPLC, said she joined the organization in February 2019.
“2019 was the year the SPLC paid $3.4 million in response to defamation lawsuits. 2019 was the year Charity Watch gave your organization an ‘F’ rating. The SPLC has been labelled by the left-wing policy journal Current Affairs as an outright fraud that uses willful deception designed to scare liberals into writing checks,” Hawley said.
The SPLC publishes an annual “Hate Map” which features several conservative and Christian organizations, including the Family Research Council, which was targeted in an attempted mass shooting in 2012, Fox News reported. The shooter, Floyd Corkins, saw the FRC on the map, which is labeled as anti-LGBTQ, in the lead-up to the shooting, CNN reported.
“The progressive journalist Alexander Cockburn said this about SPLC: ‘I regard it, the southern poverty law center, collectively as one of the greatest frauds in American life,'” Hawley said. “Liberal death penalty abolitionist Stephen Bright refused to accept an award named after the founder of the SPLC, saying in his words ‘the SPLC has long been run by a conman and a fraud.’ Also in 2019, SPLC employees told the press, ‘We were part of a con and we knew it.’”
Hawley grilled Abudu about the organization’s record and asked if she was concerned by the criticism SPLC had received, prompting her multiple times to answer the question directly.
“Senator, again, my work with the Southern Poverty Law Center has been to uphold the constitutional rights of individuals who without pro bono counsel would not be even able to have access to justice,” Abudu responded.
The SPLC did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/27/josh-hawley-nancy-abudu-southern-poverty-law-center-splc-judiciary-confirmation/
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Libs Of TikTok Removed From Social Media Tool For ‘Inappropriate Use’
Linktree removed Libs of TikTok’s account Wednesday for “inappropriate use,” according to the Libs of TikTok Twitter account owner.
The account’s owner said via Twitter that her Linktree account is “no longer accessible” and warned that the platform’s actions will “not end well” for it.
“Linktree just deleted my account citing ‘inappropriate use of this service.’ When I try to log in it says my account is no longer accessible. Why am I suddenly being censored? @Linktree_, shame on you! Give me my account back,” she said. “Providing links to your sites is now political. This is where we’re at. This won’t end well for @Linktree_. We will have to look for alternatives. I have done nothing wrong.”
The Libs of TikTok account owner later said she signed up for a similar service called “allmylinks” given that it appeared to her to be a site that tolerates different opinions.
“They don’t seem like they would ban me because they don’t like my opinions,” she said. “Would be a shame if anyone using @Linktree_ switched over to a new platform. @Linktree_ is garbage.”
The account’s owner used Linktree to provide links to her accounts across different social media platforms, including Instagram, Twitter and Gettr.
Linktree did not respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.
Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz revealed the identity and city of residence of the owner of Libs of TikTok in an April 19 article titled “Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine.” The article initially included a link to her real estate page containing her home address.
The Libs of TikTok owner requested to remain anonymous during an April 14 appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after Twitter suspended the account for “hateful conduct.” She told Fox News and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson that she kept her identity undisclosed due to receiving death threats and hate mail.
Lorenz doubled down during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter, claiming that the Post “did not reveal any personal information” about the owner and that conservatives are criticizing her because they “do not want scrutiny.”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/27/libs-of-tiktok-removed-linktree-inappropriate-use/
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Teresa Heinz Kerry May Have Had a Seizure: Report
The wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was showing symptoms consistent with a seizure, says a source
A person in close contact with the family says Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was hospitalized after showing symptoms consistent with a seizure.
The person was not authorized to speak publicly about her condition and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
A spokesman for John Kerry says the 74-year-old Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island stabilized her.
The secretary of state was with his wife as an ambulance transported her to the island hospital, and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.
A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital says Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, but doctors were able to stabilize her.
Heinz Kerry is the widow of former U.S. Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. She married John Kerry in 1995.
https://people.com/celebrity/teresa-heinz-kerry-hospitalized/
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Teresa Heinz Kerry rushed to hospital in critical condition
https://www.wpxi.com/video/archive/teresa-heinz-kerry-rushed-hospital-critical-condition/MAFI62EGTHR7LBJJBPQRKXDJJY/
Five People Dead, Including Gunman, After Shooting Spree in Two Mississippi Cities
The suspected gunman engaged in a roughly two-hour standoff with local police before the officers used tear gas to force entry into the building where he had barricaded himself.
Three people have been killed as a result of a shooting at a hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi, after a man opened fire on Wednesday morning.
The shooter, reportedly identified as 32-year-old Jeremy Alesunder Reynolds, shot dead 3 people at a Broadway Inn Express after engaging in an altercation over money with the hotel keeper, according to investigators.
Following the incident, Reynolds then reportedly fled the scene for nearby Gulfport, where he stole a car and attacked another man near Rio Grande Street. After the police arrived, Reynolds barricaded himself at a local grocery store and was found dead after they used tear gas to get inside the building.
https://sputniknews.com/20220428/five-people-dead-including-gunman-after-shooting-spree-in-two-mississippi-cities-1095115314.html
Foreign research finds Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines don't reduce all-cause mortality
Vaccine experts worry U.S. policy is headed toward annual COVID booster recommendation without data. Dozens ask FDA to consider more than short-lived antibody response in COVID vaccine trials.
The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna showed no reduction in all-cause mortality in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), according to a new paper by researchers at primarily Danish institutions.
"Based on the RCTs with the longest possible follow-up," mRNA vaccines only protected against "fatal" COVID, while adenovirus-vector vaccines made with older technology, including Johnson & Johnson's, "were associated with lower overall mortality and lower non-accident, non-COVID-19 mortality," they wrote.
The research adds to existing questions about the evidentiary basis for vaccine and booster mandates on tens of millions of Americans.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky justified the agency's about-face on masks for vaccinated people in July by citing "similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people" during the Delta variant wave.
Vaccine experts, including the FDA's former chief scientist Luciana Borio and current adviser Paul Offit, recently told Stat News they were worried U.S. policy was headed for an annual booster recommendation without data to justify it.
Dozens, including Borio, signed an open letter to top FDA officials last week asking them to recommend "T-cell assessment in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials" in addition to antibody response, which is often short-lived and has underperformed against Delta and Omicron variants. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has admitted its vaccine hit a brick wall against Omicron.
As a preprint hosted by The Lancet but not necessarily submitted to that medical journal, the Danish paper has not undergone formal peer review. The CDC also publishes much COVID-related research without peer review in its own Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Former Harvard Medical School professor Martin Kulldorff told Just the News that he and two others, in the U.S. and Europe, had reviewed the Danish paper. Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, Kulldorff's Great Barrington Declaration coauthor, confirmed he was the other U.S. reviewer.
"Given this pattern of evidence it makes sense to recommend the adenovector vaccines in most cases over the mRNA vaccines, and to ask the mRNA vaccine manufacturers to provide randomized evidence of mortality reduction against an adenovector vaccine," Bhattacharya wrote in an email.
Citing the "ample evidence" of "broad heterologous effects on the immune system" from COVID vaccines, the paper set out to study "completely unexpected effects on overall mortality" from COVID vaccines that are "different from what could be anticipated based on the protection against the vaccine-targeted disease."
The researchers identified three RCTs on mRNA vaccines with 74,000 adults and six on adenovirus-vector vaccines with 122,000 that included mortality data 3-4 months after vaccination.
They examined mortality risk instead of rate because "follow-up time was not reported in a consistent manner" and obtained clarifying data from RCT authors, including whether deaths were caused by COVID, cardiovascular disease, accidents or other causes.
Sixty-one vaccinated people died compared to 60 placebos in the mRNA RCTs, for an overall risk reduction (RR) of 1.03, a statistically insignificant difference. The paper said the analysis had "low power to detect differences in effect between" the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Sixteen people who received the adenovirus-vector vaccines (J&J, AstraZeneca and Russia's Sputnik) died, compared to 30 in the control group, for a highly significant overall RR of 0.37. Individually, the RRs were 0.19 for J&J and 0.50 for AstraZeneca, but Sputnik had too few deaths to confidently discern any difference.
Corresponding author Peter Aaby told Just the News Wednesday he couldn't respond the same day to a request for comment about the paper's professional reception.
Pfizer and Moderna didn't answer queries to respond to the research. Neither did the CDC or FDA when asked why they hadn't funded or sought research to determine whether mRNA COVID vaccines actually save lives, continuing a pattern of getting upstaged by COVID research from abroad.
Kulldorff said the paper was the first COVID vaccine study to answer "the right question with the right data" in an essay for the Brownstone Institute, where he and Bhattacharya are senior scholars.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/foreign-research-finds-pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccines-dont-reduce-all
Department of Education Training Video Features Biology Teacher Saying Ovaries Produce Eggs, Not Women
A viral video from Libs of TikTok on Twitter appears to show a trans-inclusive biology teacher in a Department of Education training video saying ovaries make eggs, as opposed to women.
According to Libs of TikTok, the video came from a training session with the Department of Education wherein teachers discussed using more trans-inclusive language for children K-12.
“This trans teacher says he teaches inclusive language like not everyone who produces eggs is a woman. The official U.S. Dept of Ed is promoting these ideas,” said Libs of TikTok.
The trans teacher in the video apparently identifies with he/him pronouns and goes by the name Sam Long. According to Long, a teacher in the classroom needs “to be a stickler for inclusive language in any conversation, and especially in the content that we teach.”
Long then listed a series of “examples” in biology where certain phrases would be reduced to a more “exact” language in order to coddle trans and non-binary students. One example: saying ovaries produce eggs instead of women:
A lot of textbooks, a lot of existing teaching will say, well, women produce eggs. Males are more likely to be color-blind. The mother carries the fetus for this many months. And some ways that we can show our support for trans and non-binary students just to clean up that language, be more precise.
We can be more accurate and be more inclusive. So I would say, no, it’s not women that produce eggs. It’s ovaries that produce eggs. That’s accurate, that’s precise. We’re acknowledging that not all women produce eggs and also, not all egg producers are women, for example.
Long also directed people to the website GenderInclusiveBiology.com which purports to “support all students” by adapting “existing biology teaching to grow a gender-inclusive curriculum.”
According to Fox News, a Department of Education spokesperson “didn’t dispute that Long made the comments” during the training session while insisting that “curriculum is determined at the local level.”
“These comments were not made by the Department or a Department staff member. As is stated on our website and in federal law, the Department does not dictate curriculum and those decisions are best made at the local level, in engagement with parents, families, educators, and local school communities,” the spokesperson told Fox News.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/27/department-of-education-training-video-features-biology-teacher-saying-ovaries-produce-eggs-not-women/
Gender Inclusive Biology
https://www.genderinclusivebiology.com/