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Longtime liberal hero Bill Maher continues to resist the left’s encroachment of radical extremism, this time skewering the NFL for its ‘pro-segregation’ decision to play two National Anthems before games; one for Americans, and one for black Americans.

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So who exactly is complaining that X-Men is not inclusive? No one — at least not anyone of importance. Simply, Marvel is preemptively catering to low-level blue checks who could label the brand some mean term.

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It must’ve been getting hot under that mask for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In a budget proposal that’s expected to be signed soon, Whitmer and the state legislature have agreed on a proposed budget that would prevent health officials from mandating masks in schools. The budget proposal would also stop public agencies within Michigan from mandating vaccines.

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When The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank organization, tried to promote their new book linking the BLM movement to Marxism, Amazon stepped in to thwart them. According to a Heritage press release, Amazon tried to quietly eliminate any advertising for their book, “BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution,” on the grounds that the ads were too “controversial.”

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This is certainly a win for personal freedom since the NBA was the most likely professional sports league to enforce a vax to play rule…But new laws in NY and SF will exclude the unvaccinated from attending home games for the Knicks, Nets, and Warriors this season.

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Rolling Stone magazine is playing defense Monday after its story about rural Oklahoma hospitals being overrun by ivermectin overdoses and preventing gunshot victims from getting medical attention is being debunked…One hospital, NHS Sequoyah, said that not only has it not been overrun by those pesky ivermectin ODs, but the hospital “also has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin…”

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College football is back; NFL returns in over a week; the NBA is only a month away.  Sports are quickly returning, but the solution for Covid via vaccination rates, implemented by leagues, remains about as trustworthy as a free throw from Shaq.

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Reporter Rachel Nichols became another victim on ESPN’s growing list of cancellations. As ESPN picked up the pace on covering race over sports, Nichols kept up with the increasingly woke company and fed the right buzz words on Zoom interviews.  “The woke police finding another victim,” commented OutKick’s Clay Travis, reflecting on the tragic path that fooled Nichols into wokeism and out of a job.

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Coronabros’ masked jaws dropped on Sunday after a study revealed that one of the nation’s most beloved face coverings had nearly no effect on containing the spread of Covid. A University of Waterloo study found that the blue face coverings were only “10 percent effective” in preventing Covid-carrying droplets from being released due to a lack of compression.

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Given the mess in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is proving to be weak-kneed when it comes to foreign policy. So there’s no reason to believe the U.S. will be able to offer support to Taiwan in its own mess with communist China, says OutKick founder Clay Travis.

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We should take Biles’ mental health claims seriously, but we shouldn’t allow them to excuse her behavior. She quit on her team. She doesn’t get a pass for that just because she’s a black woman or a sports media darling. Everyone, including Olympic and professional athletes, has to deal with something.

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On Tuesday, Kirk blasted Simone Biles far harder than anyone has slammed her before. “We are raising a generation of weak people like Simone Biles,” Kirk told his listeners after Biles decided to withdraw from the women’s team final over mental health concerns. Kirk makes a strong point. Biles showed up when she expected to take gold. She only bowed out because her performance was subpar.

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if you are waiting for LeBron to comment on this issue — stop. LeBron speaks only about social issues that further his brand.

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Despite ESPN’s long history of promoting and paying black personalities lucrative salaries, the network couldn’t effectively erase the narrative, promoted by users on social media and the New York Times, that it had let go of Jemele Hill, Cari Champion, and Josina Anderson because of their race and gender.

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What launched ESPN’s pivot to a toxic place that views its employees only by their skin color and sexual orientation? Some would point to the 2015 ESPY Awards. In 2015, ESPN turned its annual summer award show into a divisive, exclusive gathering. It was also the year ESPN awarded Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

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You know the Left has totally lost its mind when not even Bill Maher is woke enough. That seems to be the new reality now that MSNBC — the wokest network in a world suddenly overrun with woke networks — has referred to Maher as “an angry white man.”

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With the government continuing to allow the unemployed to “earn” a middle-class wage while parked in front of their Xbox, the lack of willing workers is beginning to hit Hollywood. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is the latest business owner to feel to the sting of an uninspired workforce…Why hustle to bring a C-list celebrity tuna tartare, when you can make six figures at home without pretending to be interested in their views on oppression?

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By clearing the way for Toobin to return to the air, it’s clear that CNN feels he’s a handy person to have around. Someone who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty when hard work is involved.

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Brand may not be a conservative himself, but he displays refreshing common sense in pointing out flaws within his own party. Such honesty is more than we often expect from a modern Hollywood personality.

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Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) TKO’ed the babbling tyrant like Ronda Rousey in her prime. Fauci, is on TV every day, uttering nonsense and never explaining why. He demands that vaccinated Americans avoid eating and drinking indoors, and thinks we should wear masks outside all summer just in case someone with Covid walks up to our face and sneezes in it.

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Major League Baseball is so bothered by Georgia’s non-racist new voting bill that it is moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta. Major League Baseball is also so comfortable with the genocide in China that it just struck a deal with Tencent to stream MLB games in China. MLB is quite proud of this new streaming deal, locking it up until 2023.

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Punishments are arbitrary. They are almost never about what has been said or done. They’re about who said what to whom, with skin color as the ultimate factor in determining guilt. This trend has been accepted in nearly every industry.

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Immediately following reports of the horrific shooting in Boulder, Colorado — an incident in which 10 people were murdered, including a police officer — verified Twitter accounts rushed to politicize the tragedy. Among those attacking was Meena Harris, niece of Vice President Kamala Harris. Minutes after hearing the news, Harris declared that white men are dangerous terrorists.

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President Joe Biden just signed the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package which includes billions of dollars in debt relief for black farmers. No, not just “farmers.” Just those with the correct skin color, duh…For those who find this situation messed up, it’s called “equity,” the left’s new favorite strategy.