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VIDEO: As Valentine’s Day nears, left-wing female college students reject dating profiles of guys showing love for Trump, guns, GOP

Young love in the time of cultural polarization means, for some students apparently, that looks don’t matter much at all if a potential date doesn’t share your political values.

Campus Reform conducted an experiment recently during a visit to the University of Florida and showed students fake Tinder profiles that included political descriptions — and then asked the students whether they’d be interested in dating those shown.

What was the result?

The result? The female students interviewed — all apparently left-wing politically — unilaterally rejected profiles that indicated support for former President Donald Trump, love for guns, or conservative and Christian values.

For example, one female student said that while the guy donning a suit in one profile is "cute," she’d swipe left because his description indicates he’s a "Trump supporter" — and that "Trump is gross."

"He’s cute, but I’d probably swipe left because, I mean, If you’re going to put ‘Trump supporter’ in your thing, that’s a little bit too much for me," the student declared.

It was more of the same for the unlucky fictitious fellow: "Left," another female quickly decided. "’Trump supporter’ took me out."

Yet another said "no" because being a Trump supporter is a "definite deal breaker."

But when shown profiles of fellow left-wing guys, their tunes all changed.

For one profile of a potential date who is "super into protecting the environment," a fellow left-wing female was into it, noting that she’s a "sustainability minor" at the school. Another woman said she’d also swipe right for him since she believes climate change is big problem.

And when the women were shown a profile of a left-wing guy whose face was obscured by a mask, it didn’t seem to matter — they dug the "Black Lives Matter" sign next to him in the photo.

"We share the same values," one woman said enthusiastically.

"Definitely right," another female student said, adding that "this is exactly like, what I would be attracted to."

But wait!

Campus Reform didn’t interview women only. Next up were the fellas. And as a whole they were less staunch when it came to profiles of women whose politics may differ from theirs — and they didn’t do as much revealing of their specific values, either.

So does this unscientific sample indicate anything significant? We’ll leave that for you to decide.

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Local newspaper takes on Big Tech: Lawsuit says Google and Facebook ‘conspire to monopolize and dominate the digital media space’

Critics of Big Tech have repeatedly accused online giants of abusing and dominating smaller news outlets, conservative voices, and any site or app that might be seen as competition.

Now one local West Virginia newspaper is facing down a couple of tech Goliaths and taking them to court.

The Pulitzer-Prize winning Charleston Gazette-Mail filed a lawsuit claiming Big Tech companies Facebook and Google are working together to manipulate the digital advertising market, Fox News reported Thursday.

The owner of the Gazette-Mail, Doug Reynolds, told Fox News that his paper’s lawsuit alleges that the two companies "conspire to monopolize and dominate the digital media space."

Asked what’s hurting papers like his, Reynolds answered, "The newspaper industry over the last 10 years has been making this transfer to digital media, and what we found is, as we’ve gone into this world, that Google and Facebook make the rules of the game, they control the whole environment. They compete against us for advertising dollars, and then they get to keep score in the end."

He noted that the U.S. has seen more than 200 newspapers close, which threatens local journalism. In order for small news outlets to survive, they have to be able to finance themselves in the digital sphere, but "in the current arrangement, that’s not going to be possible."

Reynolds wants an open and even playing field so outlets can find ways to be paid for without interference from Big Tech companies.

Asked about nonprofits financed by businesses like Google and Facebook designed to prop up local newspapers, Reynolds was skeptical.

"We can’t have a system where businesses and our journalism is [sic] dependent on us writing good things about Google and Facebook," he said.

"It has to be independent," Reynolds continued. "It can’t be just on their good will whether we survive or not."

Fox News said it reached out to Google and Facebook for comment. Facebook did not respond, while Google said it is not commenting on this case.

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Biden Ends ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy, Allows Asylum Seekers Into US

The Biden administration announced Thursday it will roll back former president Donald Trump’s "remain in Mexico" policy, allowing about 25,000 asylum seekers in Mexico to enter the United States for their immigration hearings. 

The Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of a virtual registration program for asylum seekers that will begin next week. Registered asylum seekers will be advised to travel to a location on the U.S.-Mexico border where they will be tested for coronavirus before entering the United States.

Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called the move a step toward reforming the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.

"This latest action is another step in our commitment to reform immigration policies that do not align with our nation’s values," Mayorkas said. "Especially at the border, however, where capacity constraints remain serious, changes will take time. Individuals who are not eligible under this initial phase should wait for further instructions and not travel to the border."

Under the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), asylum seekers were made to remain in Mexico during their immigration proceedings. The policy has applied to more than 70,000 prospective migrants since it was established in 2018, including thousands of asylum seekers who crossed the border illegally.

Rep. Greg Steube (R., Fla.), a member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, slammed the change in policy, saying it undermines national security and public health.

"This is the latest in a long string of open border policies from the Biden administration," Steube told the Washington Free Beacon. "While his administration lifts travel bans to allow terrorists into the United States and puts out this new MPP order to overwhelm the southern border, his administration has also talked about a domestic travel ban for Florida. His policies put America last by threatening our national security, jeopardizing public health, and attacking our own."

The Biden administration also removed an emergency designation used to secure funding for the border wall on Thursday, after Rep. John Katko (R., N.Y.) and other Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee sent a letter to the president calling for action to address the "mounting crisis" at the border.

"Your recent sweeping border security and immigration enforcement policy rollbacks are causing a new crisis at our southwest border, undercutting the rule of law, and damaging the integrity of our territorial borders," the letter reads. "If you are, indeed, serious about finding common ground on homeland security issues important to the lives of Americans, let us return to a time—not too long ago—when Democrats joined Republicans in supporting increased funding to secure our border, including physical barriers and other commonsense security and enforcement measures."

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CDC official guidance released: School reopening should not be conditional on vaccines for teachers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday released new guidelines for how schools should reopen, recommending strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 including universal mask-wearing and social distancing, and noting that school reopening should not be conditional on having teachers and faculty vaccinated.

The CDC also calls for rigorous sanitation standards, teaching children and school staff to wash their hands properly, and implementing contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine when cases of COVID-19 are recorded.

The CDC emphasized that the two most important mitigation strategies for schools remain "universal and correct use of masks" for students, teachers, and staff and maximized physical distancing (at least 6 feet) for all persons wherever possible.

"We believe with the strategies we have put forward that there will be limited to no transmission in schools if followed," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters Friday.

Walensky emphasized the agency is not mandating that schools reopen. These guidelines are to inform school districts how to reopen school for in-person learning safely, if they choose to do so. The CDC recommends that teachers and school staff be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccinations, but did not say school opening should be conditional on vaccinating the faculty.

"Teachers and school staff hold jobs critical to the continued functioning of society and are at potential occupational risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2. State, territorial, local and tribal (STLT) officials should consider giving high priority to teachers in early phases of vaccine distribution," the CDC said.

"Vaccinating teachers and school staff can be considered one layer of mitigation and protection for staff and students. Strategies to minimize barriers to accessing vaccination for teachers and other frontline essential workers, such as vaccine clinics at or close to the place of work, are optimal.

"Access to vaccination should not be considered a condition for reopening schools for in-person instruction," the guidelines state.

More details as reported by CNBC:

The CDC said the first step in considering whether to reopen schools should be to assess the level of spread in the community. The agency recommended schools monitor the total number of new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days in the community as well as the percent of positive tests over the past seven days, also known as the positivity rate.

All schools, the CDC says, can safely reopen for full in-person learning if they follow appropriate protocols and are located in communities that report fewer than 50 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days and have a positivity rate lower than 8%. It is possible for schools in communities with higher levels of spread to reopen for in-person learning on some days or with limited attendance and stricter infection prevention measures, the CDC said.

Walensky noted that more than 90% of the K-12 schools in the country are currently in areas of high transmission. In communities where there’s very low levels of spread, schools can even relax infection-prevention protocol like physical distancing, she added.

The CDC also recommends that schools implement a testing program to identify and isolate people with the coronavirus.

"Data suggest that it is possible for communities to bring down cases of COVID-19 while keeping schools open to in-person instruction," the guidance states. "Furthermore, models of consistent implementation of mitigation measures in schools have shown success in limiting outbreaks and infections in schools."

President Joe Biden’s administration has established a goal for half of U.S. schools to be open for in-person instruction at least "one day a week" in his first 100 days in office. Critics have accused the president of walking back his campaign promise to reopen schools, recalling that as a presidential candidate Biden referred to school closures as a "national emergency" and attacked President Donald Trump for lacking a plan to open schools safely.

According to a survey conducted by the Center for Reinventing Public Education and reported by Reuters, only 44% of U.S. school districts were offering full in-person learning as of December and 31% were online only. Many school districts have adopted a hybrid learning system, in which students attend school some days in-person and other days virtually.

As the CDC guidelines note, recent research has indicated there is no clear link between reopening schools and the country’s coronavirus infection rate.

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