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A family is accusing two Florida hospitals of failing to treat a 70-year-old grandmother who had both diabetes and high blood pressure and was showing signs of COVID-19. According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the local Memorial Hospital diagnosed Hortencia Laurens with COVID-19 after she was brought in for nausea and digestive issues and then […] More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “full support” of Kanye West’s 2020 presidential bid was short-lived, judging by a brief Twitter conversation that seems to show Musk walking back this support just three days later. In a now-deleted response to one John Crowley of Ireland pointing out that West is anti-abortion and anti-vaccine, Musk admitted that he […] More
Bill Nye the Science Guy is back in his new, slightly less child-friendly form, and he’s discovered TikTok. In a series of two videos, he shows how different materials over the mouth reduce the amount of breath one can blow out into the world, along with all the coronaviruses that medical experts are warning could […] More
A woman in a dental office was filmed having a heated argument with the staff because she refused to wear a face mask or let them take her temperature and they refused to treat her unless she complied with their standard procedure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The video was posted on TikTok by […] More
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors in New York can see the financial records of President Donald Trump. Trump has had his lawyers fighting a number of subpoenas from Deutsche Bank to Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. Everyone has a different specific reason for wanting to see his financial records, but […] More
Tucker Carlson is stirring up controversy yet again, this time for raging against schools that want to require masks upon reopening. Carlson joined a growing number of conservatives demanding that schools reopen in the fall, and claiming Democrats worried it won’t be safe yet due to coronavirus are purposely depriving children of an education. “There […] More
A Texas woman has gone viral not for refusing to wear a mask herself, but for berating others for wearing masks and “pushing the agenda.” The rate of new COVID-19 cases in Texas has been skyrocketing, recently clocking in at 14% of new cases in the United States (despite Texas making up 9% of the […] More
True to their inventory, Costco seems to be attracting anti-maskers in bulk. Only a few days ago, the latest “Costco Karen” was staging a one-woman sit-in protest, refusing to leave the store when an employee informed her she wouldn’t be helped if she didn’t put on her mask. Now, a woman claiming to be a […] More
Donald Trump issued multiple tweets on the subject of schools reopening in late summer, first threatening to cut off funding to schools that refuse to open and then, minutes later, criticizing the CDC guidelines for opening schools as “very tough and expensive.” “In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH […] More
The CEO of the San Francisco tech company Solid8 who was filmed shouting racist comments at an Asian family celebrating a birthday in a local restaurant has issued a public apology to the victims and promised to “reflect” on what he did. The CEO, Michael Lofthouse, began harassing the family as they were singing “Happy […] More
Ohio state representative Nino Vitale instructed his followers to “stop getting tested” for coronavirus infection in a Facebook post claiming that the government is using testing numbers as an excuse to create a “dictatorship.” “Are you tired of living in a dictatorship yet?” he asks. “This is what happens when people go crazy and get […] More
The man who hopes to become President Kanye West did an interview with Forbes on Tuesday, and the results are something to behold. During what Forbes calls “four rambling hours,” the rapper said he no longer supports Donald Trump, called vaccines “the mark of the beast,” and blamed child suicides and violence in Chicago on […] More