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Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery. Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the beautiful blue Galapagos rail, a bird which hadn’t been seen […] The post Missing for 200 Years, the Galapagos Rail Reappears Following Floreana Island Restoration appeared first on Good News Network.

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In addition to being The View’s in-house legal expert (as a former federal prosecutor), co-host Sunny Hostin was the show’s most vocal social justice warrior and proponent of toxic woke ideology. As such, Hostin was prone to making profoundly racist comments that either attacked white people, promoted black people above others, and much more. And just like the year prior, Hostin put her toxic heart out there for all to see in 2025. From praising black women as the superior demographic in America to scoffing at a white woman being set on fire to flip flopping on Pope Leo XIV after she learned of his black ancestry, Hostin proved herself to be someone who only viewed America and the rest of the world through a racist prism of hatred. Below are the eight of Hostin’s most racist moments of 2025. And she has the nerve to whine about those who call her out, and despite the fact she had slave owner ancestors.   Hostin Insists Black Women Are a Superior Demographic, 'Voted to Save' America Hostin routinely bloviated about how her “lived experience” as an “Afro-Latina” gave her the unique perspective to see and speak about how racist America purportedly was. It was that self-righteousness that led to her praising herself for being a black woman, the superior demographic. According to her, black women were superior because they simply voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris: HOSTIN: And when black people win and get rights like civil right, everybody does better and that's something that the Democrats can take a page out of the book for. But, you know, I'm starting to think as I've said before, I'm one of the 92 percent of black women that voted for Kamala Harris and so I'm sort of in a resting place right now because I voted to save the country and the country didn't vote with me. The majority of the country.     Sunny Hostin: America 'Still Is Sickened' With Racism and Slavery Hostin had previously shared that it was her father who taught her to hate America and look at the world through a prism of chronic racial grievance. And every once in a while, she’d go on racially charged rants about how terrible America purportedly was. Like she did in November: Because of my lived experience as an afro-Latina, I'm able to look at this world with a different prism and I'm able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This is a country based on racism and slavery and founded in it. There is systemic racism. And misogyny It was a rant so potent that it spilled over into their Behind the Table podcast, where she claimed America was “still sickened with” racism and slavery.   Sunny Hostin Scoffs at Woman Burned to Death By Illegal Immigrant Hostin’s heartlessness was on full display in January during a dust up with co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin over the arson death of white Debrina Kawam by a Hispanic illegal immigrant. She openly decried the attention the case was getting because it put a spotlight on the problem of criminal illegals in America. While defending illegal immigration, Hostin had the nerve to attack America for how it supposedly “lacks empathy” when she didn’t show any for Kawam: HOSTIN: Can I say something? You know, we keep on talking about criminals and immigrants being criminals, and I just want people understand what the facts are and the stats are; is that undocumented immigrants are much less likely to have committed crimes than American citizens. American citizens commit more crimes than one who is undocumented. I also want to make the point that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or she is undocumented. That is a civil offense. (...) I think this country is a country that lacks empathy unless you have lived it, unless you have a lived experience, and that is very unfortunate.     The View’s Racists Decry White South Africans, Defend Their Racism With President Trump giving special protected status to white South Africans who were fleeing persecution, Hostin found a group of immigrants she refused to defend. Hostin parroted denials of persecution and land appropriation from South Africa’s president and decried Trump not giving similar special status to Haitians: HOSTIN: And I think something we're not talking about is – enough about is what Donald Trump did on Monday is the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation. So the South African president has been actively, you know, denying at and denying that persecution. (...) The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protective status! (...) HOSTIN: And yet, we are welcoming white South Afrikaners.     The View Celebrates Black History Month By Promoting Discredited 1619 Project Leave it to Hostin to continue to push a project that had long been debunked and called out as revisionist history wish casting, even by black historians: HOSTIN: Today, we honor investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones who continues to redefine our national conversations on race. Born in Waterloo, Iowa her award-winning career covering race, class, education, and equity all started with a letter to the editor of her local paper at just 11 years old. Joins Jones [sic] The New York Times in 2015 and publish her groundbreaking investigative piece four years later, The 1619 Project. The collection of essays and art backdated the founding of the United States from 1776 to 1619, the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Although it was met with backlash, the project went on to become a best-selling book, a Hulu docu-series and podcast, and inspired her children's book Born on the Water.   Sunny Hostin Suddenly Likes New Pope After Learning Black Ancestry After initially bristling at the election of Pope Leo XIV because of his support for traditional marriage, Hostin - a purported “devout Catholic” - announced that she changed her mind about the pope. Hostin didn’t hide the fact that she changed her mind because she learned that Leo had “Haitian and black roots”: There’s one other thing that's very interesting to me because President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type of country. As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope! Apparently – It's a chef's kiss for me. (....) So, I’m loving it. I’m really enjoying it.     Sunny Hostin Fears Her 'All-White Neighborhood' Will Call Cops on Son Hostin was insufferable on TV, but imagine what it would be like to be her neighbor! In October, the multi-millionaire TV host announced that she had recently moved to a new, “all white neighborhood” and was already making embarrassing scenes. According to her, she was so terrified that her white neighbors would call the police on his son that she dragged him down to the police station and scolded them to leave him alone: As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. (…) And so, for me, what was interesting was; I have had to be in the position where I've gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics, running around the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I have brought him to the police and said he belongs to me, this is my son. Do not harass him, do not stop him.   Sunny Hostin apparently thinks all her white neighbors are racists. She says she fears them calling the police on on her son if they see him training for the Junior Olympics: "As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence...I… pic.twitter.com/3Q1sfc1c5c — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 22, 2025   Sunny Hostin Whines About Being Called a ‘Race Baiter’ While Bashing Whites Given everything we’ve just gone over, it was all the more ridiculous that Hostin would dare whine about people calling her out as a race baiter. It was somehow even more so that she was whining about it while also bashing white people: It's been about white mediocre men that are given opportunities. It's about legacy admissions. It's – You don't, you know, have to be excellent. You have to be average if you're white; if you are black, you must – your average must be excellent in order to compete. (...) And, you know, certainly we get punished for talking about our lived experience, you know, I'm called a race baiter and all of this stuff.     If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

Our friend Ann McIlhinney sent a note to supporters on Thursday about the "mainstream media" campaigning for cancellations at the Trump-Kennedy Center at year's end. The networks and newspapers were thrilled when jazz acts The Cookers and Chuck Redd canceled at the last minute over the addition of the president's name. Ann and her husband Phelim McAleer have made a number of documentary films and stage plays that ruffle leftist feathers, including a book and movie on the infamous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who went to prison for grotesquely killing babies outside the womb and for the death of a woman from an anesthetic overdose.  Their stage plays are drawn from real-life testimony, and the latest is about the Hamas mass murder of October 7. Would this have played at the Kennedy Center under Biden? Let's guess it wouldn't. Ann wrote: The mainstream media is currently trying to cancel our performance of the OCTOBER 7 play at the Kennedy Center. We have just received two very similar "friendly" emails from CNN and the Washington Post. They were inquiring whether we are still moving forward with our production of the OCTOBER 7 play at the Kennedy Center.  So-called artists have already pulled out of planned performances at the DC venue because they hate Trump and the truth. Now the mainstream media are trying to whip up a mob and force others to withdraw. Can you believe they want to cancel a play about the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust? Trump-Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell took after the leftist media campaign. MRC President David Bozell chimed in on X:  Grenell is referring to a play about the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. CNN and the Washington Post are circling. Intimidation is the point. Good for the Trump-Kennedy Center for standing firm. The play stays. https://t.co/EHHs9P5jZV — David Bozell ?? (@DavidBozell) December 31, 2025 Ann shared the message they sent back to inquiries to "bullies" at CNN and the Post, which said:  The OCTOBER 7 play will absolutely be on stage on January 28th. Good riddance to these taxpayer-funded cosplaying rebels. They seem to think producing art is about them feeling comfortable and cozy. Artists should always go where they feel uncomfortable, even unwanted — if they want to change the world, that's where they should be, instead of speaking into their taxpayer-funded echo chamber. These performative walkouts are for their friends and funders — they don't care about the wider audience or creating new audiences. And they wonder why so many theaters are struggling? Even their friends are bored with the woke, cliched, and hectoring art they are producing. "Doug Varone and Dancers," the New York dance company, said their walkout was "morally exhilarating." That's very telling. They create to make themselves feel better, not the audience. We create to bring the truth to the audience. Good to see them leave the stage. It leaves more stage time for the rest of us who want to produce genuine art.  We are already thinking about future events at the Kennedy Center. She told supporters: "This is the way the mainstream media intimidate and bully. The artists fear being called out and canceled. This is how the left and the mainstream media destroy careers and lives." Plays like October 7 are the kind of productions that should pass muster in a democracy, but our media and cultural elites want to have only half a conversation, even on the worst terrorist events.