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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten called for a so-called assault weapons ban on Thursday, following the tragic shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that killed two children. Weingarten, a powerful proponent for the harmful school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, said on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that a “nationwide assault weapons ban” must be enacted to ensure that human life matters more than guns. She said that the type of shooting that happened at the Annunciation Catholic School cannot be normalized by a so-called gun culture. “There are more guns on the streets than we have people,” Weingarten said. “And the principal cause of death for kids is these kind of killings. We need to find ways, I agree with [Democrat Minnesota Sen.] Amy Klobuchar. We have to fight for a nationwide assault weapons ban. Part of that fight is to create a culture that human life means more than a gun culture. And we know that hunters are with us, we know there are responsible gun owners with us, but we cannot normalize this.” The term “assault weapon” is a phrase used by gun control advocates to gain support for a ban on semi-automatic guns with features similar to firearms with fully automatic capabilities. A semi-automatic weapon, which includes AR-15s and AK-47s, only shoot one bullet per trigger pull, while fully automatic firearms can shoot out several bullets at a time, the National Shooting Sports Foundation said in a fact sheet. Former President Joe Biden co-sponsored a ban on so-called assault weapons in the 1994 crime bill. While president, he stated that this ban brought down mass killings, though a review of the matter found “mixed” evidence that mass shootings decreased as a result of the legislation, according to FactCheck.org. Robin Westman, a transgender-identifying male who carried out the shooting, possessed three firearms and opened fire through the window of the church during a Mass service, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed on Wednesday. The shooting killed two children ages eight and ten and injured 17 others. Westman then took his own life with one of the firearms in the back of the church. Westman purchased all of the firearms legally shortly before the attack. He posted disturbing videos on YouTube of his firearms, cartridges, and ammunition, which included cryptic messages, including one that called for President Donald Trump to be killed. Westman changed his name from Roger to Robin when he was 17 years of age in 2019 under the parental approval of his mother. He later stated in his manifesto before the shooting that he regretted being transgender and wished he had “never brainwashed” himself. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post MSNBC Trots Out Teachers Union Head to Push for ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Why do celebrities turn awards show speeches into political rants? Because they can, for starters. They also know there’s no journalist within shouting distance to fact-check their claims. Nor will reporters press them on their lecture’s details. A similar protection comes via celebrity relief efforts. Stars share their talent and time for various causes, typically with the best of intentions. What if those intentions aren’t enough? Enter FireAid.     The Jan. 30 event drew a who’s who of music to help Californians battered by this year’s raging wildfires. Think Green Day, Pink, Stephen Stills, the Black Crowes, Lady Gaga, Sting, No Doubt, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more acts. They raised roughly $100 million, and a new report from the Washington Free Beacon raises huge questions about where that cash has gone. Some of the money helped groups that embrace DEI-style practices that exclude white people, according to the report. Others support illegal immigration and far-Left causes like Black Lives Matter. What about rebuilding homes lost in the fire? How much money went to families whose lives were severely impacted by the natural disaster? “All of the money raised will go directly to people who need it now,” said actor Miles Teller during the concert. (Unless they’re white, perhaps?) The Washington Free Beacon wants to know what happened to the cash. Variety? The Hollywood Reporter? Deadline.com? Judging by their coverage, or lack thereof, not so much. Plus, most of the groups receiving the people’s cash clammed up when pressed for comment. What happens next? Nothing, most likely. The Washington Free Beacon report came and went earlier this month. A good faith Google News search on the topic found a month-old story allowing FireAid to defend its actions. There’s nothing in the past week regarding the new, alarming allegations. Some FireAid donors may be happy to see their money fund progressive causes that have little, to no, ties to the topic in play. Others would be furious to see where their hard-earned cash has gone. We all have a right to know. Legacy Media entertainment sites, which have access to many A-list artists, could press them on the matter. Have they followed up on where all the money went? Are they happy with funds being steered to alternate causes that have nothing to do with the wildfires? Chances are, the musicians in question wouldn’t respond. That, in itself, is a story. And if more outlets kept the pressure on, the artists might be forced to use their clout and make real change above and beyond singing a few songs. Or, at the very least, explain to their fans why their money went to groups defending illegal immigration and race-based initiatives over fire-related matters. This isn’t a new problem, of course.     Perhaps the most famous example of celebrity fundraising gone awry came with 1985’s “Live Aid” concert. That affair raised more than $125 million for famine relief, but a series of investigative stories by Spin Magazine raised alarming questions as to where the money went. The event, and the previous single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” raised global awareness of the African famine, no doubt. Other, thornier questions eventually superseded that matter. Spin hounded Bob Geldof, the Live Aid mastermind, for comment at the time. Will any of the artists who rocked FireAid face a single question about where the event’s money has gone? What about the actors who appeared on stage and begged for viewers’ money? Don’t bet on it.

In 2021, Deborah Conrad, a physician assistant from Rochester, New York, was fired from her role at Rochester Regional Health’s United Memorial Medical Center.Deborah’s crime?Doing her job.When she noticed adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination in her patients, she reported it to VAERS — the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Federal regulations, including Emergency Use Authorization requirements for COVID-19 vaccines like Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, mandate that health care providers report specific adverse events to VAERS.But when Deborah fulfilled her lawful duty, she was terminated.Today, she is neck-deep in a landmark False Claims Act lawsuit against her former employer, challenging institutional suppression of reporting. Her case has thankfully reached the discovery phase, where evidence will be gathered to expose potential violations and seek justice for her retaliatory dismissal.On a recent episode of “Back to the People,” Nicole Shanahan sat down with Deborah to hear a story that demands national attention. In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccines hit the market, but they were initially reserved for high-risk individuals, especially the elderly, as that was considered the most vulnerable group.Deborah immediately began noticing that several of her geriatric patients experienced deadly falls shortly after receiving the vaccine. “They would pass out and fall, hit their head, develop brain bleeds, strokes, acute mental status changes, heart attacks, sudden heart failure. I mean, the list just goes on and on, and the proximity to which they received the vaccine and then the onset of these symptoms often was within sometimes minutes to overnight,” she tells Nicole.She explains that she and the staff at United Memorial Medical Center “did not receive any education about any possible side effects or what to do if [they] saw them happening,” nor were they trained to use the VAERS system, despite it being a legal requirement. Even their formal training ignored vaccine side effects.“We are basically told they are safe and effective and to memorize the childhood vaccine schedule and that's it. And so it's ingrained in us from our training to never look at vaccines in any negative light,” she says.Not knowing what to do about the obvious issues she was seeing in her patients, Deborah set out to find answers. “I went online and found the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and read all about it and taught myself how to file reports. … I then went and volunteered to be the reporting liaison and the educator for our system,” she says.Initially, Deborah was rewarded for her above-and-beyond efforts. She was even “nominated by the New York State Society of Physician Assistance to sit on the board for professional misconduct for the state.”But then things took a sharp turn.Even though it required hours of her time to dig into medical records, take calls back from the CDC, and fill out pages of information for each case, Deborah continued to faithfully file VAERS reports for the sake of her patients and the millions of people across the country taking the vaccine.“I've probably filed … close to 300 reports. I certainly think I am the person in the country that has filed the most VAERS reports at this point — really,” she says.Sadly, none of Deborah’s reports have resulted in her patients receiving compensation — even the most well-documented and clear-cut cases.Over time, Deborah started getting pushback from superiors who accused her of being anti-vaccine. They pelted her with questions, like “How do you know this is due to the COVID vaccine?” even though VAERS requires medical providers to report serious side effects that accompany vaccine administration, even if they think the events are unrelated.“We're just mandatory reporters, as we are in child abuse situations, right? We're not there to judge who's abusing the child or determine that. That's not our job,” says Deborah.But even though she explained the legal requirements and stressed the pre-eminence of patient safety to her supervisors, “the gaslighting just kept continuing.” They repeatedly labeled her “an anti-vaxxer” and told her to “toe the company line.”But Deborah didn’t ease up. Having no support in the hospital, she began filing reports on her days off for both her own patients and the patients of other staff members, all while continuing to pressure supervisors to put a system in place.One of her supervisors eventually elevated her concerns to higher-ups at Rochester Regional Health. “That's when the suppression really started,” says Deborah. Her VAERS reports were silently audited, and she was reprimanded for “over-reporting,” even though every report she filed matched “the exact criteria on VAERS.”As a punishment, her supervisors limited the number of reports Deborah could file to just her own patients. When she demanded confirmation that other staff members were filing VAERs reports for their own patients, reminding her supervisors that failing to do so was “committing fraud,” she was met with resistance.“They basically said, ‘It's not your business,”’ she recounts.“And I said, ‘No, it is my business. … This is a criminal problem here — like you are billing for these vaccines, you are saying you are completing VAERS reports and you're not, and if I know about it and I do nothing about it, then I'm just as guilty.”’When it was clear that she would get no support from her supervisors, Deborah contacted the CDC, the FDA, the New York State Department of Health, and the New York State accrediting body and was finally able to get some legal help. She even went public with her concerns.If anything, this only expedited her termination. After months of being called an anti-vaxxer, accused of spreading vaccine misinformation, and receiving threats to file a petition for her license removal, Deborah was surrounded by HR reps from Rochester Regional Health during the middle of her shift on October 6, 2021, and fired.“I wasn't allowed to get my things,” she says.“My health insurance was canceled. I couldn't apply for unemployment. They even fought me in being able to get my benefit time off that they owed me.”Today, Rochester Regional Health is claiming the corporation fired Deborah for refusing to get the vaccine, which was required for medical staff, but its case is shaky, as she was in the process of obtaining “a valid and approved religious exemption” when she was fired.Thankfully, with her case now in the discovery phase and strong evidence of institutional suppression, Deborah has a promising chance of proving that her termination was retaliatory for her whistleblowing efforts to uphold patient safety.To hear the most shocking details and stories from inside Deborah’s hospital, watch the full interview above.Want more from Nicole Shanahan?To enjoy more of Nicole's compelling blend of empathy, curiosity, and enlightenment, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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