| "You can't really say that" Fox News host Brian Kilmeade rejected a claim from White House spokesman Hogan Gidley’s that life is “undoubtedly” better for Americans now than before President Donald Trump.
Gidley, doing his duty as a surrogate, pushed forward the clichéd campaign talking point that Americans are better off now than they were before his boss was president. “Wait. With the pandemic, you know the growth is not there. You know that unemployment is still 11 percent. So you can’t really say you are better off than you were three years ago. Because, at the very least, the pandemic. So you can’t really say that, right?" said Kilmeade.
Gidley, somehow, disagreed.
International Students
Harvard University and MIT have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an attempt to stop their new rule requiring international students to either transfer to another institution or leave the country if their school offers its courses entirely online in the fall.
Pandemic Politics Trump administration infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci decried the polarization and politicization around the coronavirus, saying “We hope that changes, but there’s no place for that” when making policy decisions. Fauci took questions from the press during an event with Democratic Alabama Senator Doug Jones when he was asked about it. It's a revealing answer, and fitting considering his next statement was to call the focus in some quarters to "take comfort" in lowering death rates a "false narrative."
ICU Capacity
As cases spike around the country, 42 Florida hospitals have zero remaining icu capacity, and another 50 have 10% or less. And that's just the beginning.
Wallace Unloads
NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace called out those who have criticized his advocacy for the Black Lives Matter movement in a new interview with Fox Nation, saying that some fans consider it their job is to “always deliver hate” and they will “do everything to knock you off your pedestal.” “Their job is to always deliver hate,” Wallace said in an interview with Fox Nation’s Lawrence Jones, which is set to air Friday.
Fox's Monster Weekend
Fox News enjoyed massive Friday and Saturday night ratings thanks to consecutive Independence Day speeches by President Trump at Mt. Rushmore and in Washington, D.C.
During the former, Fox achieved truly monster numbers, attracting roughly five-and-a-half million overall viewers and more than one million in the coveted 25 – 54 age demographic.
Total day and primetime, too, went wild.
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Tech CEO Tirade Michael Lofthouse — CEO of tech firm Solid8 — was caught on video delivering a racist tirade in which he invoked the name of President Trump as he cursed out Asian diners and hurled a slew of racial slurs.
The video went viral, prompting our bigoted, Common Projects-clad tech bro to apologize. Forgive us for not buying it.
"A Campaign of Bullying, Intimidation, and Retaliation"
A new report says Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman will retire from the army after months of “retaliation” against him by President Donald Trump and his allies.
A statement, sent by his lawyers, describes a vindictiveness as terrible as it was totally expected and in-character for the administration. 6.5.0 | 
