Jim Braker said he gets his COVID-19 news from Victory Channel, a self-described faith-based Christian television network, and doctors on Fox News and on the internet.
Evansville resident Sally Herron, a conservative activist, said she distrusts what she calls the liberal national news media and prefers to do her own research. Herron watches documentaries, she says, and talks to people who aren t motivated by a desire to make money off the pandemic. I have a very good friend that her daughter works for AstraZeneca, and she told her mom, ‘Do not take the vaccine, she said.
Herron makes accusations. The vaccines have aborted fetal tissue in them, she said. The contention is disputed by infectious disease experts who say vaccine manufacturers did use fetal cell lines. Herron also believes a vaccine could change her DNA. She calls the vaccines gene therapy. She believes they will change and attack recipients immune systems, and people will die.
MONMOUTH NATIONAL: PUBLIC DIVIDED ON FILIBUSTER REFORM, BUT FEW WANT TO DUMP IT ENTIRELY April 29, 2021, 1:53 pm | in
NATIONAL: PUBLIC DIVIDED ON FILIBUSTER REFORM,
BUT FEW WANT TO DUMP IT ENTIRELY
West Long Branch, NJ – Americans are evenly divided between those who approve of the filibuster, those who disapprove of it, and those who have no opinion. The
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A new Monmouth University poll finds broad support for President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar spending plans on infrastructure and caregiving. Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal registers 68% support and 29% opposition, while his forthcoming American Families Plan to expand health care, elder care and child care has the backing of 64% of those polled compared to 34% who are opposed.
The poll also finds nearly two in three Americans support for Biden’s proposed tax increases on corporations and individuals earning more than $400,000 a year.
“The Biden administration’s presumption that spending programs are popular is borne out by these poll numbers,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “The key to maintaining this level of support is whether Americans can point to direct benefits in their own lives once those plans are put into action.”
Audra DS Burch, Amy Harmon, Sabrina Tavernise and Emily Badger, The New York Times
Published: 21 Apr 2021 08:44 AM BdST
Updated: 21 Apr 2021 08:44 AM BdST Protesters rally in New York, June 4, 2020. The New York Times
George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word-of-mouth, people flooded the South Minneapolis intersection shortly after Memorial Day, demanding an end to police violence against Black Americans. );
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The moment of collective grief and anger swiftly gave way to a yearlong, nationwide deliberation on what it means to be Black in America.
First came protests, growing every day, until they turned into the largest mass protest movement in U.S. history. Nearly 170 Confederate symbols were renamed or removed from public spaces. The Black Lives Matter slogan was claimed by a nation grappling with Floyd’s death.