President Trump has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). “America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again. He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake,” Trump said. “Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our country’s budget. Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country. He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget,” he continued. ( @realDonaldTrump – Truth Social Post )( Donald J. Trump – Nov 19, 2024, 3:54 PM ET ) pic.twitter.com/FKcxADB1GI — Donald J. Trump TRUTH POSTS (@TruthTrumpPosts) November 19, 2024 A closer look: Per CNBC: CMS operates or oversees health-care programs that provide coverage to about 1 out of every 2 Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Obamacare marketplace exchange Healthcare.gov. Those four programs account for $1.6 trillion in spending, or nearly 25% of the entire federal budget. CMS is an agency within the Health and Human Services Department. BREAKING: Trump selects Dr. Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator. pic.twitter.com/LyaRDhVfhf — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) November 19, 2024 WATCH: BREAKING: President-elect Trump nominates Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator in January. "Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic… pic.twitter.com/tA6UVEmL9F — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 19, 2024 From The Guardian: The move comes in the aftermath of the former Pennsylvania Senate nominee, who lost to John Fetterman in 2022, being endorsed by Trump in the lead-up to the midterms. Prior to his run for Senate, Oz was the eponymous host of the Dr Oz Show and a frequent guest on Oprah Winfrey’s show, where he often provided medical advice.

The residents of a small Kentucky city voted to dissolve its local government on Election Day. After a razor-thin 67 to 60 vote, the city of Bonnieville will soon be no more. “The city Bonnieville will dissolve into the hands of Hart County,” Spectrum News 1 noted. The community, located about an hour south of Louisville, is home to under 300 people. “I’m still wrapping my mind around it. I still haven’t, I don’t know, it just doesn’t seem real,” Bonnieville Mayor Marie Whitlow said, according to Spectrum News 1. WATCH: The small city of Bonnieville, Kentucky, established in 1849, voted to dissolve itself — apparently because some out-of-staters recently moved in and organized a petition. Now the local people will likely not have the resources to hold their annual Fourth of July Parade pic.twitter.com/npYczLttZI — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 19, 2024 Spectrum News 1 reports: Whitlow has been the mayor of the city for four years and it’s been of a family job as her mother served as mayor during the turn of the century. “I love my community. I love my little town. Tried to do all I could to save it,” Whitlow said. Her civic duty is ending on Dec. 8, 2024, when the city will dissolve into the hands of Hart County. “There’s not going to be any light, any streetlights and no government help, no roadwork help…we have to depend on the county completely,” said Whitlow. Bonnieville is made up of about 260 people and many of the residents said they spent most of their life in the small city. They said Bonnieville will still be Bonnieville, just without the city title. “It was a very close, it was very divided, but it’s done been done and they know we need to look forward and carry on,” said Dennis Amos, Chief of the Bonnieville Fire Department. The root cause of the petition to dissolve the city was taxes. The mayor said the city tax was the lowest in the county, but people in favor of the petition said those monies weren’t bettering the community. The City of Bonnieville, Kentucky will soon be no more. An audit after Election Day confirmed residents voted to dissolve their local government by only seven votes. https://t.co/T9Qnk4FJII — WTHR.com (@WTHRcom) November 19, 2024 It's the end of an era in Bonnieville, Kentucky. As @Tyler_M_ONeill  reports, it's no longer a city. So what's next? https://t.co/xVgyQryj8D — Spectrum News 1 Kentucky (@SpectrumNews1KY) November 18, 2024 Per WHAS 11: Even with the city dissolving there is still a chance for them to reestablish themselves in the future. “I just want everyone to come together,” Edwards said. “I can see both sides to dissolving the city and keeping the city. The lights are the biggest factor.” Hart County Judge Executive Joe Choate said the county will be taking over maintenance of city streets, which will now become county roads. “The transfer of assets, including City Hall, will be completed within 30 days, and we will work to ensure a seamless transition. While the county does not handle street lights, we are committed to work closely with everyone involved during this change,” he said in a statement. LG&E and KU also gave a statement when questioned about if the city’s dissolvement will impact any resident’s bills. “The Kentucky Public Service Commission establishes the boundary lines for service providers. This vote does not have any impact on that,” spokesperson Drew Gardner said. “KU is and will continue to be the electric service provider for residents in the City of Bonnieville even after its dissolution. The only accounts impacted are those owned directly by the city.” As for the Volunteer Fire Department, Whitlow said they are independent and fund themselves. The termination of city government will not impact the department.

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“Squad” member and far-left Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is now blaming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for Democrats’ Election Day losses, triggering a firestorm from critics who say she would rather blame Jews than second guess her party's own policies.

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A college professor claims that some of the hate against Barney the Dinosaur is due to men rebelling against an alternate version of masculinity and being homophobic. There have been multiple articles and documentaries on the topic of the public backlash against the popular cartoon from the 1990s. These latest statements were made on a new podcast episode in the series “Generation Barney,” which takes a look at the history of the show and its reception. “Understanding particularly why adult men didn’t like Barney reveals a lot about gender and power in our current society. There were women who didn’t like Barney, but the high-profile hate was really coming from men,” podcast host Sabrina Herrera says in the episode titled, “Love 2 Hate.” “He offered up a different model for masculinity, even as a purple dinosaur and not a human. This message about love, about nurturing, about looking after others, that these are emotions and also sort of social practices and responsibilities that in our culture are constructed and understood to be sort of feminine and feminizing,” Dr. Emily Contois, a media studies teacher at the University of Tulsa, replied. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “Barney could be understood as resisting that, pushing back against that, offering a different model of sexuality and gender and size all coming together. And so for some of these men who reacted very poorly to him, that could be a piece of their reaction,” the professor continued. Dr. Contois added, “A part of that white masculine sort of set of authorities is also this incredible resistance to homosexuality.” The “Barney & Friends” series was based on a friendly purple and green Tyrannosaurus rex character and a cast of children who went on adventures, enjoying songs, dances, and games that made learning fun. The show debuted in 1992 and was extremely popular with young children of that generation. Bob West, the original voice actor for Barney, recalled getting death threats for playing the character. “There were certain things, certain messages that people would send that were pretty threatening,” he said during last week’s episode of the same podcast.  “If you get a death threat from a middle school child who sends you an email, then it doesn’t make me feel bad for me. It makes me feel bad for them because they’re obviously going through something that’s leading them [to] act out this way,” he went on, per People.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is “doxxing” the staff of the site Not the Bee, the website affiliated with The Babylon Bee that writes lighthearted news stories highlighting the absurdities of the Left. SPLC published its piece on The Babylon Bee on Tuesday afternoon. It revealed the identities of six authors from Not The Bee from around the country who contribute to the site. SPLC published their names, where they lived, and their professions, which ranged from fitness instructor to high school teacher. The Babylon Bee’s leadership team got ahead of SPLC’s story on Tuesday morning. Dan Dillon, CEO of Not The Bee, which publishes true stories so absurd that they seem like parodies, said SPLC managed to extract the identities of contributors who write under pseudonyms, and contacted the website saying it plans to publish their identities. “They’ve taken personal information about our authors and pieced together a story that is meant to ‘expose’ our anonymous staff to their employers and the general public,” he said on X. “While we take the actual issue of doxxing very seriously and will defend those on staff that wish to stay anonymous, what we don’t take seriously is this organization that’s behind the attack. They are angry, bitter, resentful hacks that feel like their ability to pummel people into worldview submission is slipping away.” Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, said that his companies are still working to figure out how exactly the identities were extracted by SPLC, but he already knows exactly why it was done. “They did it because they’re left-wing activists masquerading as journalists,” Dillon said. “They did it because they lack principles. They did it because they’re vindictive bullies who’ve admitted their aim is to ‘completely destroy’ individuals and organizations they disagree with by making them pay a steep price for speaking freely.” The discredited, scandal-ridden smear factory known as the SPLC is about to publish a hit piece doxxing several of our “Not the Bee” writers who wished to remain anonymous so they could speak freely, without fear. The SPLC extracted sensitive information from our site, then used… pic.twitter.com/toQLfga5SU — Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) November 19, 2024 SPLC was founded in 1971 by mail-order salesman Morris Dees. Dees had worked for notorious segregationist George Wallace, but with the advent of widespread revulsion at white supremacy, he saw an opportunity to apply his trade to raising money to oppose groups like the KKK. “Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same,” Dees would say of SPLC’s business model. Since such groups were, even then, essentially eradicated, it began declaring increasingly moderate groups — often Christian ones — to be “extremists,” keeping the fundraising going. According to its 2022 tax form, it took in $170 million that year, and had about $700 million stashed away as “private investment funds.” $26 million was stored in “Central America and the Caribbean.” The Free Beacon reported in 2019 that tax documents from 2014 showed it transferring millions of dollars to the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. The group now has little to do with poverty in the South, and according to a former employee’s 2019 essay, almost all of its employees were white and straight. Dees was fired in 2019 after minority and female staffers said he engaged in racism and sexual harassment. SPLC now functions as a smear factory, allowing reputable groups like legacy media outlets to call center-right groups extremists without engaging in defamation because they attribute it to SPLC, a nominal expert, instead of saying it themselves. In 2012, a left-wing gunman stormed the conservative think tank Family Research Council because he saw it listed as “anti-gay” by SPLC. He was later convicted of terrorism for the attack. In 2018, SPLC’s insurance company paid British activist Maajid Nawaz $3.4 million because the group falsely named him an “anti-Muslim extremist.” Last year, a judge ruled that a defamation suit from the Dustin Inman Society could proceed after SPLC called it an “anti-immigrant hate group… vilifying all immigrants,” when the Society says it simply opposes illegal immigration. Among the blog authors doxxed by SPLC were names such as “Planet Moron.” The request for comment posted by Not The Bee said, “This is Creede Newton, a journalist with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.” It said that it had identified the real name of the pseudonymous “Planet Moron”’ and planned to publish the employment and residency information of the author because he is a “prolific writer on culture-war issues.” Prominent conservatives defended The Babylon Bee ahead of the SPLC piece. Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro praised Dillon for going after SPLC rather than waiting for the smear to come out. “This is the right strategy,” Shapiro wrote on X. This is the right strategy https://t.co/D93GP4xl0P — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 19, 2024 Chris Rufo, a journalist and activist, said on X that the fact that SPLC was going after a comedy site “proves that ‘systemic racism’ is such a marginal problem in American life that organizations supposedly dedicated to fighting it do things like this instead.”

The Republican-led Texas State Board of Education is on the verge of approving optional biblical teachings in the Lone Star State’s public school curriculum. On Tuesday, a majority of the board’s 15 members signaled support for Bluebonnet Learning, an elementary school curriculum that includes Christian teachings and biblical references, The Texas Tribune reported. The board will officially vote on the curriculum on Friday. If approved, Texas school districts would be offered a financial incentive to adopt it, and the curriculum would become optional for 2.3 million public school students in kindergarten through fifth grade, beginning in August 2025. The curriculum includes lessons on the biblical accounts of Jesus’ parables of “The Good Samaritan” and the “Golden Rule.” Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott backed the curriculum in a statement, saying that it will “allow our students to better understand the connection of history, art, community, literature and religion on pivotal events like the signing of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Movement and the American Revolution,” The New York Times reported. Board members in support of the curriculum also said that it would help students improve their reading and “cultural literacy.” “In my view, these stories are on the education side and are establishing cultural literacy,” Republican State Board of Education member Will Hickman said. “And there’s religious concepts like the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule and Moses that all students should be exposed to.” Opponents of the curriculum argued that it could be viewed as political or as setting up a “state religion.” “I am a Christian, and I do believe that religion is a part of our culture, but our nation does not have a religion. We’re unique in that,” said Mary Lowe, co-founder of Families Engaged for an Effective Education, according to the Texas Tribune. “So I do not think that our school districts should imply or try to overtly impress to young impressionable children that the state does have a state religion.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Many parents spoke at the State Board of Education with some defending the curriculum, arguing that Christianity and the Bible are inseparable from American history. The New York Times reported that one mother, who is also a substitute teacher, told the board that Jesus’ incarnation “is and always will be the hinge of all of history.” “How would the canceling of such fundamental facts serve the education of our children or contribute to shape them morally?” she asked.