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Louisiana Senator, Bill Cassidy, wants to 'correct' the statistics of the rate of maternal mortality in Louisiana to not include black women. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report. Read more here: Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says - https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-la-outlier-maternal-death-rate-skewed-black-women-2022-5?utm_source=pocket_mylist "Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy said that the state's poor maternal mortality rate is only an "outlier" because of the high proportion of Black women in the state, according to Politico. Cassidy's comment was featured in Politico's in-depth exploration of Louisiana's maternal death rates, which are among the worst in the country. The state ranks 47 out of 48 states assessed for maternal deaths, state officials said. Cassidy told the outlet that this is partly because "about a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality." Watch Francesca on The Bitchuation Room Sundays at 5/8EST http://www.youtube.com/franifio Follow Francesca: http://www.twitter.com/franifio Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 23

A bus transporting predominately black student lacrosse players from Delaware State University gets stopped and searched while traveling through Georgia. The Georgia cops conduct an unlawful search with drug-sniffing dogs. John Iadarola and Aida Rodriguez break it down on The Damage Report. Read more here: Cops Searched a Bus Carrying Black College Athletes With a Drug-Sniffing Dog - https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nxab/delaware-lacrosse-team-bus-georgia-police "Sheriff's deputies used a drug-sniffing dog to search a bus full of Black college lacrosse players after a minor traffic stop in Georgia—seemingly in hope of trying to get the players to admit to drug possession. The incident, caught on video via police body cameras, came after the bus was stopped on Interstate 95 for a minor traffic violation last month. The bus was transporting the women from a game in Jacksonville, Florida, back to Delaware State University. Bodycam footage of the incident shows a Liberty county cop in his patrol car holding the license of the bus driver, saying over the radio that he suspects someone on the bus may have something illegal." ** Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 13

Conservative parents in Florida, under the guidance of Ron DeSantis's anti-book stance, are trying to have library apps banned. John Iadarola and Aida Rodriguez break it down on The Damage Report. Read more here: Conservative parents take aim at library apps meant to expand access to books - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/library-apps-book-ban-schools-conservative-parents-rcna26103 "E-reader apps that became a lifeline for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries. In several states, apps and the companies that run them have been targeted by conservative parents who have pushed schools and public libraries to shut down their digital programs, which let users download and read books on their smartphones, tablets or laptops. Some parents want the apps banned for their children, or even for all students. And they’re getting results." ** Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 12

Conservative pundit and self-proclaimed debate lord Ben Shapiro is hopped up on right-wing bigotry since learning that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, turning his attention to the Obergefell v. Hodges case that legalized gay marriage in 2015. Shapiro is in full support of overturning the case, effectively banning gay marriage at the federal level. May 4

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Myorkas was pressed by CNN’s Dana Bash on the newly founded Disinformation Governance Board where he failed to give straight answers on the actions of the Board and the authority they have. May 2

Former secretary of defense for Donald Trump, Mark Esper, reveals Trump's calls for violence against Black Lives Matter protests in his new memoir. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report. Read more here: New book says Trump wanted troops to open fire on BLM protesters: ‘Can’t you just shoot them?’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-shoot-blm-protesters-mark-esper-b2069920.html "As Black Lives Matter protesters swarmed outside the White House in 2020, then-president Donald Trump reportedly proposed a solution: “Just shoot them.” That’s according to Mr Trump’s secretary of defense at the time, Mark Esper, in his upcoming memoir, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times, which comes out on 10 May. In the spring of 2020, as protests over the brutal police murder of George Floyd convulsed the country, Mr Esper says the former president grew increasingly furious at the demonstrators flooding the streets of the capital.“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Mr Trump allegedly asked, according to an excerpt obtained by Axios." Watch Francesca on The Bitchuation Room Sundays at 5/8EST http://www.youtube.com/franifio Follow Francesca: http://www.twitter.com/franifio Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 2

Tucker Carlson is at it again with his lying ways and his time he is inciting violence and fear mongering over the Department of Homeland Security’s new Disinformation Governance Board. While the board claims to quell misinformation about the southern border and Russia cyber attacks, Tucker thinks the department is sending armed agents to hunt down anyone who “thinks the wrong things”.April 29

A Michigan radio host and state senate candidate, Randy Bishop, voices his crazy racist opinions and unbelievable conspiracies on who really holds the power in America. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report. Read more here: Michigan State Candidate Says American Families Should Be All-White - https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-state-senate-candidate-randy-bishop-says-american-families-should-be-all-white?utm_source=pocket_mylist&via=twitter_page "A far-right radio host running for a Michigan state Senate seat as a Democrat complained last month how a standard family is no longer portrayed as “a white mom, a white dad, and white kids,” according to the Detroit News. Randy Bishop, who goes by “Trucker Randy,” made the comments on his March 31 radio show, perpetuating the racist argument that the media is controlled by Black Americans who seek to raise issues of voter suppression while somehow suppressing white Americans. “Can’t even watch a college basketball tournament without commercials telling me I have to feel guilty because I think a family should be a white mom, a white dad, and white kids,” he said. “They want us to die and go away. And they’re going to try to do it through politics this year. Well, we have got to be just as smart.”" Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 26

Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature has passed Ron DeSantis’s incredibly gerrymandered congressional voting map to the dismay of Democratic lawmakers and voters across the state. The map will reportedly eliminate districts from Democratic lawmakers while packing Black voters into just one district in St. Petersburg and Tampa.April 22

Florida gov. Ron Desantis has the Florida education department reject 54 math textbooks for alleged references to critical race theory within the word problems. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report. Read more here: Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over ‘prohibited topics’ including critical race theory - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/17/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory "Florida’s education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks from next year’s school curriculum, citing alleged references to critical race theory among a range of reasoning for some of the rejections, officials announced. The department said in a news release on Friday that some of the books had been rejected for failure to comply with the state’s content standards, Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (Best), but that 21% of the books were disallowed “because they incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT”. Department officials disapproved an additional 11 books “because they do not properly align to Best Standards and incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT”." Watch Francesca on The Bitchuation Room Sundays at 5/8EST http://www.youtube.com/franifio Follow Francesca: http://www.twitter.com/franifio Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 18

A police arbitrator has ruled that the two Buffalo police officers that were filmed pushing an elderly man to the ground, which severely injured his head during a racial injustice protest in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, did not violate the department’s use-of-force rules in response to the incident. The 75-year-old man, Martin Gugino, spent around a month in the hospital recovering from a skull fracture and brain injuries from the incident.April 11

Hackers pretending to be law enforcement officials successfully infiltrated Apple and Meta and obtained customer information by forging an emergency legal request for the information. The attack raises questions and doubts about how Big Tech keeps our data safe and how easily law enforcement and the government can get their hands on anyone’s collected data.April 11

A young, black powerlifter was forced to remove her hair beads by a judge in order to compete. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: House passes Crown Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-passes-crown-act-banning-discrimination-black-hairstyles-rcna20617 "The House on Friday passed the Crown Act, which would ban hair-related discrimination. The measure, H.R. 2116, passed in a vote of 235-189 along party lines. It was introduced by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J. Crown stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, and the act prohibits "discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair." The bill now goes to the Senate. The legislation states that "routinely, people of African descent are deprived of educational and employment opportunities" for wearing their hair in natural or protective hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, or Afros." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 7

A young, black powerlifter was forced to remove her hair beads by a judge in order to compete. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: House passes Crown Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-passes-crown-act-banning-discrimination-black-hairstyles-rcna20617 "The House on Friday passed the Crown Act, which would ban hair-related discrimination. The measure, H.R. 2116, passed in a vote of 235-189 along party lines. It was introduced by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J. Crown stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, and the act prohibits "discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair." The bill now goes to the Senate. The legislation states that "routinely, people of African descent are deprived of educational and employment opportunities" for wearing their hair in natural or protective hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, or Afros." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 5

A Texas teacher was forced to pay a $90,000 penalty to a former student for forcing his class to write the Pledge of Allegiance or get a 0% on the assignment. Teacher Benjie Arnold then compared the students who didn’t comply with the assignment to communists, Islamic extremists who wanted to impose Sharia law, and pedophile sympathizers.March 30

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has just declared that Austin Independent school district’s traditional celebration of Pride Week is in violation of Texas law, claiming that the event qualifies as “sex education” without parental consent. The school district has celebrated their LGBTQ+ community for at least eight years prior to the bigoted overhaul of Texas’ education laws.March 25

Charlie Kirk goes on racist and misogynist rant about his fears of a future world that values equality. John Iadarola and Adrienne Lawrence break it down on The Damage Report. Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: Charlie Kirk: Ketanji Brown Jackson “is what your country looks like on critical race theory” - https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-ketanji-brown-jackson-what-your-country-looks-critical-race-theory?utm_source=pocket_mylist "These very simply stated questions do not require overthinking. So, I suppose another question here, though, is where does this come from? Well, KBJ - Ketanji Brown Jackson - is what your country looks like on critical race theory. KBJ is your country on CRT. KBJ - Ketanji Brown Jackson - is an embodiment of the tyranny that we currently live under. She's an ideological, unintelligent, yet confident fanatic who is so dismissive that you might even ask the question of what a woman is." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 25

Republican Senator Mike Braun gets caught saying laws concerning interracial marriage and abortion should be left to the power of state legislation. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: Republican Sen. Mike Braun says Supreme Court should leave decisions on interracial marriage, abortion to the states - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/22/braun-supreme-court-interracial-marriage/ "Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) said Tuesday that he would be open to the Supreme Court overturning its 1967 ruling that legalized interracial marriage nationwide to allow states to independently decide the issue. Braun — who made the comments during a conference call in which he discussed the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court — also said he’d welcome the rescinding of several key decisions made by the court in the past 70 years to pass the power to the states." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 23

A Tennessee police officer was recorded during a traffic stop tasering a Black Door Dash driver who he pulled over during a traffic stop. The driver, Delane Gordon, was charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice even though Gordon only asked to call in the officer’s supervisor, which was all recorded by Gordon. March 22

Lauren Boebert, with many other Republicans, voted against the CROWN act and added her own crack at the bill. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: US House passes CROWN Act that would ban race-based hair discrimination - https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/18/politics/house-vote-crown-act/index.html "The US House on Friday passed legislation that would ban race-based hair discrimination in employment and against those participating in federally assisted programs, housing programs, and public accommodations. The Democratic-led House voted 235-189 to pass the CROWN Act, which stands for "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair." The bill seeks to protect against bias based on hair texture and protective styles, including locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 18

During the first primary election of 2022, Texas threw out an unusually high amount of mail-in ballots due to the new harsher voting rules in the state. They threw out roughly 13% of submitted ballots while general elections typically reject less than 2% of ballots.March 17

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is ready to pass a law creating the country’s first election police force that will supposedly crack down on voter and election fraud in the state. The Office of Election Crimes and Security will be made up of non-elected investigators and will be able to launch independent investigations and levy fines against violators.March 14

A school in North Carolina held a mock 'slave auction' where a child was sold by a 'slave master' to other classmates. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en Follow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: A North Carolina parent claims Black children at her son's school were 'sold' at a mock 'slave auction' held by his classmates - https://www.insider.com/black-kids-sold-mock-slave-auction-in-north-carolina-school-2022-3 "A North Carolina parent says her son was roped into a mock slave auction held by his classmates, in which Black children were "sold" by a "slavemaster." In Facebook posts on March 4 and 5, Ashley Palmer wrote that her son Jeremiah, a student at the J.S. Waters School, had initially not considered telling his parents about the incident because he thought "this type of stuff" was "the norm."" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 11

The Republican Party's assault on the transgender community is ramping up again as the Idaho state legislature passed a bill that would deem providing gender-affirming therapy to transgender youth a felony, punishable by life in prison. The bill also doesn’t allow parents or guardians to assist in their child’s treatment, even if it is out of state.March 10

The Florida Surgeon General lies through his teeth saying, "masks don't save lives." Dr. Rashad Richey discusses on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below. Read more HERE: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/fla-surgeon-general-claims-masks-dont-save-lives-during-the-pandemic "Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made claims Thursday that masks didn’t save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and criticized doctors who recommended or mandated wearing masks." VIDEO: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1499423673844916229?s=20&t=SOr7TgG2aXGyugonQQMTRA Hosts: Adrienne Lawrence, Kyla Frank Cast: Adrienne Lawrence, Kyla FrankMarch 4

Male Karen harasses Nevada's governor with baseless conspiracies. Dr. Rashad Richey discusses on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below. Read more HERE: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/video-sisolak-first-lady-face-violent-threats-from-digital-creator-2536725/ "Gov. Steve Sisolak and his wife, Kathy, were accosted and threatened at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday by at least two men who shouted racial and anti-government epithets at them in an incident captured on a cellphone video." VIDEO: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/t4rl2k/nevada_usa_s_democratic_governer_steve_sisolak/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Hosts: Dr. Rashad Richey, Adrienne Lawrence Cast: Dr. Rashad Richey, Adrienne LawrenceMarch 3

Amy Peikoff, chief policy officer for Parler, and David Grasso, CEO of Bold TV Media Network, enter The Bullpen to discuss social media censorship with Dr. Rashad Richey on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below. Hosts: Dr. Rashad Richey, Amy Peikoff, and David Grasso Cast: Dr. Rashad Richey, Amy Peikoff, and David GrassoMarch 3

Gov. Ron DeSantis shames students for masking. Dr. Rashad Richey discusses on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below. Read more HERE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-year-old-dies-accidentally-shooting-publix-police-say-rcna18117 "A 4-year-old Georgia boy accidentally shot himself with a gun outside a Publix store as his mother was shopping inside, according to police." Hosts: Dr. Rashad Richey, Adrienne Lawrence Cast: Dr. Rashad Richey, Adrienne LawrenceMarch 3

Three Republican Representatives, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Chip Roy of Texas voted against a bill that would deem lynching a federal hate crime. These Reps. were the only three to vote against the bill, citing a push for a ‘woke’ agenda and the violation of freedom of speech for their dissenting votes. March 2