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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sowing doubt about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines by demanding that vaccinated Americans mask up again.

Using the Delta variant to justify its nagging, the CDC is shifting its masking recommendations back to encompass those who have received the shot and re-emphasize that children over 2 years old who attend K-12 schools should continue to don face coverings. Health officials at the agency claimed that new evidence found that the levels of virus found in breakthrough cases among the vaccinated people are similar to those found in unvaccinated individuals who contract coronavirus, raising concerns that vaccinated individuals may be able to spread the virus.

The flip-flop comes just two months after the health bureaucrats lifted recommended mask guidance from vaccinated Americans.

You can resume activities without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance, the CDC website stated.

Now, as the corporate media mock and exploit the deaths of unvaccinated COVID patients to draw attention to the Delta variant, the CDC is walking back its original guidance even after promising just last week that there were no plans to alter mask guidance unless there were a significant change in the science.

The CNN report of the CDCs change claims the decision was made after a meeting to review new transmission evidence on Sunday night, but the White House began discussions about possibly urging more masking as early as last Wednesday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki and her staff repeatedly claimed that we follow the guidance and advice of health and medical experts and that public health guidance is made by the CDC, and they continue to recommend that fully vaccinated individuals do not wear a mask, but even President Joe Biden hinted that his administration was itching for a change during his most recent CNN town hall event.

The CDC is going to say that what we should do is everyone under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school, Biden said. Thats probably whats going to happen.

Some counties such as Los Angeles also jumped the gun two weeks ago and overlooked current CDC mask recommendations to demand that their residents, even those who are vaccinated against COVID-19, wear a mask indoors.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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A critical race theory (CRT) clash is ensuing at the taxpayer-funded University of Nebraska, and it is another example of how those in power are grappling with the left-wing ideologys injection into the classroom.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Pillen, who is also a regent at the University of Nebraska, recently announced his plan to put forth a campus resolution opposing critical race theory in August, which led to the administration issuing a statement calling for academic freedom due to its significant concerns about the resolution.

Regent Jim Pillen has notified us that he intends to place a resolution regarding critical race theory on the agenda for the August 13 Board of Regents meeting, the university wrote in a July 21 email obtained by The Federalist to faculty, staff, and students. As we have shared with Regent Pillen, we have significant concerns about the resolution and how it would be interpreted by the faculty, staff and students we hope to recruit and retain. We will continue to work together and with the Board to vigorously protect and defend academic freedom at the University of Nebraska.

Without completely banning any mention of critical race theory in classrooms, Pillens resolution seeks to bar teachers from imposing it on their students. It states:

Whereas we oppose discrimination in any form and whereas critical race theory does not promote inclusive and honest dialogue and education on campus and whereas critical race theory proponents seek to silence opposing views and disparage important American ideals, be it resolved that the regents of the University of Nebraska oppose any imposition of critical race theory in curriculum.

The regents move comes after Chancellor Ronnie Green of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln wrote a column in January calling for anti-racism and racial equity. Likewise, the school said in July 2020 it would begin a journey of addressing anti-racism and racial equity and Commit to studying and addressing systemic issues and institutional policies.

Reacting to Pillens resolution, the University of Nebraska said in its press release, Issues around race, equity and the fight against racism are an important part of our countrys story and they have an appropriate place in our classrooms, affirming its prior commitment to potentially mandating anti-racism coursework. Such mandates are not uncommon these days in major institutions, given the University of Pittsburgh now requires all freshman students to study anti-black racism, and 150 law school deans demanded that the American Bar Association mandate anti-racism training.

Pillen said in an interview with The Federalist that while his resolution does not ban critical race theory from being taught in various classes, it does ban mandates and course requirements.

My resolution does not ban critical race theory, Pillen said. The goal of it is to make sure that all students understand that they are to be a part of a free and fair exchange of ideas as are faculty to be able to represent the academic freedom on both sides of it. The goal is to make sure that every professor and every student understands that critical race theory is not to be taught as an imposition.

On Monday, Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced his support for Pillens resolution. The governors backing comes after the United College Athlete Advocates, a major nonprofit and advocacy group for college athletes, unveiled a petition, which has gathered thousands of signatures, opposing Pillens move.

I strongly urge the Board of Regents to pass the resolution opposing the imposition of Critical Race Theory on students, so we can keep academic freedom alive and well at the University of Nebraska, Ricketts tweeted.

In Nebraska, regents maintain charge of the general government and budget of the university,Pillens deputy campaign manager John Gage told The Federalist. They also decide who the president is. The University of Nebraska has eight members who serve six-year terms. Pillen was first elected in 2012.

While regents are a nonpartisan group, Gage noted it currently boils down to six Republicans and two Democrats at the university. The Republicans campaign thinks there is a 50-50 chance it passes, though, and a source familiar with the situation indicated to The Federalist that Pillen is trying to sway the more moderate conservatives to join the initiative.

This resolution opposes policies, standards, and graduation requirements that would compel students to study critical race theory or adopt a CRT framework in their chosen course of study, Pillen told The Federalist. If a student chooses to study CRT, this resolution wont stop them from learning about it or professors from teaching it on an elective basis.

Bob Phares, a Nebraska regent who is a former member of the presidents advisory council and was formerly mayor of North Platte, said the resolution needs further discussion when asked whether he supports banning the imposition of CRT. I think there is a lot of misinformation floating around about what Jim was attempting to do and what he really wanted, Phares said, not elaborating further.

Colby Young, a junior at the university, told The Federalist that while Pillens resolution is a good start, more could be done.

Should it be banned? Yes. But thats just my opinion, Young said, noting that open debate does not necessitate mandatory lessons and that he worries his teachers are thinking in a more radical way.

A spokeswoman for the university declined to comment further on the resolution, as did other regents.

Below is the document announcing Pillens resolution proposal.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, journalist and author Noah Hurowitz joins Federalist Political Editor John Daniel Davidson to discuss his book El Chapo: The Untold Story of the Worlds Most Infamous Drug Lord.

El Chapos rise coincided with all of these big changes. In the 80s, with the advent of cocaine, theres just more money than ever because you can make a lot more money trafficking cocaine than marijuana and the ability to corrupt entire volumes at the Mexican state, Hurowitz said.

Corruption in the drug smuggling industry, Hurowitz explained, is institutionalized in the Mexican government.

In Mexico, theres certainly cops who are more or less dirty, but in law enforcement, the way that I found that it typically works is that someone higher up gets paid and they pay people below them extra to look the other way or even to go to sometimes escort drug shipments, Hurowitz said.

The reason that the drug trade generates so much profit is because its illegal. Because its ablack market. And the reason that the government in Mexico could have a certain degree of control over it was theyhad control over virtually every aspect of business in Mexico, but this was even easier because you know if youstepped out of line, they could just whack you.And that was done, you know, with pretty much the understanding of the U.S., he said.

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A newly released study conducted by Emory University suggests recovered COVID-19 patients possess long-term immunity to the respiratory virus months after infection.

Published in Cell Reports Medicine, the comprehensive study analyzed 254 individuals with mostly mild to moderate symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection over an eight-month period and found that patients possessed durable broad-based immune responses to the virus after recovering from an infection.

The study serves as a framework to define and predict long-lived immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after natural infection, said Emory Vaccine Center director Rafi Ahmed. We also saw indications in this phase that natural immunity could continue to persist. Ahmed served as a lead author on the study.

The study goes on to note that in response to an active infection in the body, the human immune system produces a multitude of neutralizing antibodies, while also activating certain T and B cells to establish immune memory. Ahmed denotes that these developments make a strong case for some form of lasting immunity to the virus.

We saw that antibody responses, especially IgG antibodies, were not only durable in the vast majority of patients but decayed at a slower rate than previously estimated, which suggests that patients are generating longer-lived plasma cells that can neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, he said.

Moreover, the analysis also demonstrates that not only are recovered patients likely to possess lasting immunity to existing SARS-COV-2 variants, but that SARS-CoV-2 infection also boosts antibody titers to SARS-CoV-1 and common betacoronaviruses.

While pre-existing exposure and antibodies against HKU1 and OC43 betacoronaviruses are common in adults, pre-existing SARS-CoV-1 exposure is rare and antibody levels to SARS-CoV-1 spike protein were very low (essentially negative) in the pre-pandemic healthy controls, the study says. However, SARS-CoV-1 spike-reactive antibodies increased significantly after SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The report later goes on to conclude that taken together, the results of the study suggest that broad and effective immunity may persist long-term in recovered COVID-19 patients.

The studys participants are expected to be evaluated by the Emory research team over the next few years as part of continued research on the matter.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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House Democrats on Tuesday blocked consideration of Rep. Burgess Owens legislation, the Say No To Indoctrination Act, which would have prevented taxpayer money from funding critical race theory in Americas schools and military.

The bill, H.R. 4698, would prohibit federal funds from advancing concepts that separate individuals based on race, color, assign characteristics or assumptions to individuals based on race, color, or national origin, or state or imply that the United States is an inherently racist country.

House Democrats shot down this proposed bill and blocked its consideration by a vote of 217-201, despite public opinion polls showing Democrats are rapidly losing ground on the controversial issue. One Rasmussen Report found that 78 percent of likely U.S. voters believe its at least somewhat important for schools to teach the traditional values of Western Civilization, with a majority believing it is very important.

Several Republican House members spoke up on behalf of the majority of Americans who oppose critical race theory, with Owens, R-Ohio, remarking, The American people are right in their distrust, and condemning the Democrats.

In the span of a few weeks, Democrats have gone from claiming that CRT was only a myth to boldly embracing it, Owens said. Theyve gone from dismissing parental objections to endorsing indoctrination in schools across the country.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., blasted the theory as un-American and highlighted the racially divisive nature of the theory, saying that critical race theory assumes that to be born white is to be born guilty and its to be born racist, and to be born black is to be born oppressed or to be born a victim, while adding that the vast majority of Americans disavow and reject it.

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., also condemned the theory as Neo-Marxian and noted it seems to be everywhere: in media, in the workplace, in our armed services, in health care, in churches, and yes, in classrooms where our schoolchildren are taught.

The U.S. Congress [must] catch up with the moms and dads confronting school boards across the country, Bishop declared.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his article Corporations Are Steamrolling Small Business, Buying Up Homes, And Crushing The Dream, But We Can Fight Back.

Bedford explains how groups like BlackRock are barring more people out of buying homes and pushing more people towards renting.

Theyre going into places, thriving cities that have good schools and nice neighborhoods, and affordable housing in places like Phoenix or outside of Miami to scoop up as many houses, Bedford explained. Those are exactly the houses that we want, part of the American Dream, young people, young families to be moving into. Thats completely within their grasp to have a job or maybe to get there and start a family and start building as opposed to just spending your money on disposable stuff.

Bedford argued the need to focus on tax and trade policies.

Why corporations are treated better than partnerships and family businesses. Why capital is treated better than labor, our labor. Why Brazil and Canada are given preference to American ranchers. Why Chinese manufacturing is treated the same way we are. Why Facebook and Google can say were global companies, not American companies while benefiting from all of our order, all of our systems, all of our education, he said.

Why any other company can benefit from every single aspect of us and all of the trade and then move all over their manufacturing abroad, overseas, choose foreign slave labor, and then use our Navy to get those products shipped back safely on freights to sell to us at lower costs to buy welfare and food stamps, he said.

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A Dallas-based group that prides itself on defunding the police and labeling people who dont comply with their equity initiatives as racists is asking wealthy white liberals in the city to pledge to keep their children from applying to and attending Ivy League and U.S. News & World Report Top 50 schools.

Talk is not enough. Commit yourself towards taking action and making sacrifices to correct centuries of injustice. Open up spaces for Black and LatinX communities by refusing to send your kids to Ivy League and US News & World Report Top 50 schools and encourage friends, neighbors, and family members to do the same, the racial justice organization Dallas Justice Now demands on its website. Imagine if those hundreds of thousands of spots at these institutions were occupied only by marginalized communities. Imagine the opportunities. We can achieve true equity within our lifetimes but only if white folks are willing to sacrifice their privileges.

The pledge, which was directed toward residents in Dallas richest neighborhood, asks white people not only to acknowledge their privilege and whiteness, but also to make sacrifices for the purpose of correcting hundreds of years of murder, slavery, discrimination, and lack of educational and economic opportunities perpetrated upon people of color.

Have you been asked to take the pledge? Dont be a racist hypocrite. Sign the pledge today! the website reads.

The group also issued printed versions of the pledge to Democrat, Black Lives Matter-supporting residents of the high-income area, accusing them of earn[ing] or inherit[ing] your money through oppressing people of color.

We are writing to you because we understand you are white and live within the Highland Park Independent School District and thus benefit from enormous privileges taken at the expense of communities of color, the letter stated. It is also our understanding that you are a Democrat and supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, which makes you one of our white allies and puts you in a position to help correct these cruel injustices. We need you to step up and back up your words with action and truly sacrifice to make our segregated city more just.

As of Monday, there were no names published under the White Allies Who Signed section.

One recipient of the letter, Casie Tomlin, couldnt believe what she read.

Theres no way an organization would send this, Tomlin told Dallas City Wire.

In response to Tomlins comments, the group alleged that she perpetrated racist and hateful attacks against Dallas Justice Now by making a $3 donation to DJN only to claim the Dallas-based organization is a scam a few minutes later. The group also used its Facebook page to accuse Tomlin of being the embodiment of white privilege and white fragility, a Karen.

Calling the police on people of color when not in imminent danger is itself an act of violence, the group founder Michele Washington wrote.

Tomlin, however, denied the allegations and accused the group of targeting her.

I wholeheartedly dispute and deny all accusations made by Michele Washington and Dallas Justice Now, she said, in part, in an email. Ms. Washingtons statements are factually incorrect and intentionally misleading. Her statements are part of an ongoing campaign of harassment lodged against me, a single mother, because of an agenda she wishes to advance. I am now and have always been an active advocate for social justice.

In a press release and interview, Washington also named where Tomlin works and claimed she harasses Dallas Justice Now by calling the police to distract from the fact that she doesnt want to make a single sacrifice to remedy the injustices that face our city.

Neither Dallas Justice Now nor Washington, who appears to be the primary and possibly only contact for the group, did not respond to The Federalists multiple attempts to contact them for comment and verification. When The Federalist searched the Internal Revenue Service nonprofit database, no tax-exempt status for the group was shown.

While Dallas Justice Nows website and even Facebook page make sweeping statements using the term we, any signs of collaboration of a team all point back to Washington, whose personal Facebook profile doesnt have any public activity since October 2020, when she claims to have founded Dallas Justice Now. Washingtons media presence is also limited to the sites blog and a few short comments to local press about the recent letter.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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Intelligence officials in France warned U.S. State Department officials in 2015 that communist China planned to cease its collaboration agreement at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to a former State Department COVID-19 investigator.

Former State Department official David Asher indicated to the Daily Caller that the U.S. government was given preliminary information regarding Chinas move to stop working with France at the lab. In 2004, France and China launched the project, which continual evidence indicates could be the originating area of COVID-19.

Asher said France was formally kicked out of the lab in 2017, which resulted in foreign officials contacting the U.S. to let officials know. In January 2021, prior to the Biden administration assuming office, the State Department alleged that the lab had been used by China military research for classified research since at least 2017.

The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector, the investigator said.

Still, the U.S. lent a major hand to the lab. According to The U.S. Agency for International Development, it funneled $1.1 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S. non-profit, from October 2019 to May 2019 for a sub-agreement signed with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Department of Defenses Defense Threat Reduction Agency was a subcontractor of the lab and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent $600,000 in grants to the Wuhan lab from 2014 to 2019.

A 2018 State Department cable outlined how France determined the lab would be an accessible and transparent operation, but estimation does not coincide with Chinas recent announcement it will not permit the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the lab. The country also prohibited WHO from gaining access to documentation and records being held at the lab.

French officials were in support of working with China, and yet some French defense experts were skeptical, as reported by Le Figaro, a newspaper in France. France put aside a whopping $1 million euros every year for five years to give to the lab, then-French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at a 2017 ceremony. Scientists in the country even trained Chinese workers.

While the plan was for France to supervise, Le Figaro reported that China took over the lab and stopped collaborating. However, French workers stayed longer than five years.

As evidence mounts supporting the coronavirus lab-leak theory, U.S. lawmakers are demanding answers. Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed in June he has always been open to the theory, and yet he has also refuted it for months. China said it was shocked WHO is investigating the theory.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Staff Writer Jordan Davidson joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions flip-flop on masks, the Biden administrations endorsement of the new guidelines, and how fed-up Americans are pushing back.

It is about politics because over the last year and a half, weve had multiple narratives, multiple scientists, multiple groups, trying to figure out whats going on, Davidson said. And weve seen collusion between the Democrat administration, Big Tech, and the corporate media to shut down any narratives that arent the propaganda thats coming from the administration and from the CDC.

Americans, Jashinsky said, are fed up and are inevitably going to demand change.

This is about to amp up to another level, Jashinsky said. I think it can only help Republicans. But I think it is going to make divisions worse. I think its going to incense people on the left. They are looking to the state for their safety and theyre worried about their safety, and I think reasonably so because there has been so much alarmism and hyperbole coming from the political establishment. Were going to see this play out, I think, in ugly ways, but hopefully, at the end of the day, the result is a good one that forces people in positions of power to implement policies that do align with a capital S science and do protect our freedoms in this country.

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Its not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something to admire with deep reverence?

After U.S. Olympian Simone Biles dropped out of not one but two games this week, events that she and her peers have been training their entire lives for, the response from the national media has been to effusively cheer and pay homage to the power and bravery of giving up.

And make no mistake, much or most of the celebration for Biles backdown is because she happens to be black.

Its not enough for the media to say, Gee, its too bad she quit and hopefully she works out her problems, but they have to herald her as a trailblazer because it makes liberal journalists feel good to pity (i.e. look down on) others, particularly when it comes to race.

A different kind of pressure follows Black women who achieve in traditionally White spaces, wrote Washington Post sports reporter Candace Buckner. If theyve had a realist for a mother, since childhood theyve heard the refrain theyve got to work twice as hard to get half as much. And if they spent two seconds in America, then they know that mama was right.

She said the lesson of Biles abrupt withdrawal should be in letting Black women be great without carrying a deeper narrative.

MSNBCs Hallie Jackson similarly observed that Biles is not just an athlete. She is not just one of the best athletes in the world. Shes also a black woman athlete.

Jacksons guest, sports writer Kavitha Davidson, nodded along thoughtfully and bemoaned the pressure on black women to be 100 percent perfect all the time.

(When you work in the national media, youre allowed to invent new racial stereotypes and concepts at will.)

Davidson said Biles is literally carrying the weight of an entire country on her shoulders and probably an entire sport, and that weighs a lot.

Eren Orbey of the New Yorker was in awe at the radical courage it took for Biles to see herself out of the games. He called it its own kind of achievement.

Remember that the next time youre given an assignment on a tight deadline at work. Should you feel that the pressure is too much, walk out and remind yourself that that in itself is its own kind of achievement.

There is of course nothing wrong with Biles choosing not to compete. Its very literally her neck on the line each time she hurls and twists her body into the air. She said she was sitting the games out not for physical injury but because the mental is not there.

Fair enough! Plenty of people cave under pressure. Very few of them will know pressure like the Olympics. Biles certainly didnt seem to think much of it, even referring to herself after withdrawing the first time as the head star of the Olympics.

But choking doesnt make Biles special. And the incident certainly doesnt reveal a superhumanity, as a headline in New York magazine asserted. That remains true even though Biles is black.

No one in America interested in the Olympics expects anything more or less than that she do our country proud. If someone like Kavitha Davidson believes theres some added responsibility on black women to be 100 percent perfect all the time, thats something she might raise with a therapist, rather than project it on the rest of the nation.

Biles is an undeniably gifted athlete. She choked. It should be very easy to celebrate one and not the other, even though Biles is black.

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