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It’s been over a week since Colin Kaepernick decided to ditch a special tryout put on by the NFL to give the former 49ers quarterback his best shot yet at getting back in the league and, unsurprisingly, none of the 32 teams have reached out to him. Kaepernick, meanwhile, is using footage taken by his team from his far less-attended, self-conducted “tryout” at an Atlanta high school to declare that he’s still “ready” and accuse the league of “denying” him.

On Monday, the quarterback-turned-social justice activist posted some highlights from his unofficial re-audition for the league and insisted that — despite having failed to show up at the NFL-organized workout, blaming a waiver and lack of media access, and defiantly accusing the league of “running” from him — he remains “ready” to jump back in.

“A huge thank you to all the people that made this happen in ATL,” Kaepernick tweeted along with the self-promotional video. “From our receivers @brice_butler, @BruceElling10, @TheJordanVeasy, @ariwerts — my trainer Josh Hidalgo, the educators at Charles Drew HS & so many more. Can’t thank everyone enough. We stay ready.”

“I’ve been ready for three years. I’ve been denied for three years,” Kaepernick says in the self-promo video.

A huge thank you to all the people that made this happen in ATL. From our receivers @brice_butler, @BruceElling10, @TheJordanVeasy, @ariwerts – my trainer Josh Hidalgo, the educators at Charles Drew HS & so many more. Can’t thank everyone enough. We stay ready.?: @RAVisionMedia pic.twitter.com/2bwDjtlstN

— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) November 25, 2019

As reported by CBS News, the NFL’s special workout for Kaepernick on Nov. 16 was originally set to begin at 3 p.m. at the Atlanta Falcons’ practice facility in Flowery Branch, but “at 2:30, representatives for the free agent quarterback informed the league that Kaepernick would instead be conducting the workout at 4 p.m. at Drew High School in Riverdale, Georgia.”

The NFL event Kaepernick skipped reportedly included representatives from some 25 of the league’s 32 teams waiting to watch him perform. At the high school event, which drew far fewer scouts, Kaepernick initially wore a shirt invoking slavery and ended the pseudo-tryout by accusing the league of “running” from him.

“I’ve been ready for three years. I’ve been denied for three years,” Kaepernick declared. “We all know why I came out here today and showed it today in front of everybody. We have nothing to hide, so we’re waiting for the 32 owners, 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all of them to stop running. To stop running from the truth. To stop running from the people.”

Colin Kaepernick made a 90 second statement before leaving pic.twitter.com/QlH2RTnLp5

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) November 16, 2019

Kaepernick and his supporters have attempted to blame the NFL for the debacle, accusing the league of presenting him with a waiver that was somehow “unacceptable.” But ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, who supported Kaepernick until this latest stunt, pointed out on his show last week that a close examination of the original waiver Kaepernick signed for the league back in 2011 and the one the league asked him to sign for the event had only two minor differences that didn’t warrant refusal to participate in the workout.

Smith has been one of the most vocal of the critics of Kaepernick’s tryout stunt, stating that Kaepernick has now revealed that he wants to play “martyr” more than he wants to play in the league.

“Colin Kaepernick wants to change the venue; Colin Kaepernick wants his own receivers; Colin Kaepernick wants to video things himself; Colin Kaepernick wants the media,” said Smith shortly after the workout fiasco. “This Colin Kaepernick, media can’t find him! He ain’t done no interviews; he ain’t talked to nobody; media can’t find him – but he wants the media available now. You see? You see? He don’t want to play; he wants to be a martyr. But guess what? It ain’t working this time.”

Related: ‘I’m A Black Man, You Idiots!’: ESPN’s Smith Responds To Backlash For Saying Kaepernick ‘Eradicated’ His Points

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Apparently ABC, CBS, and NBC are so reluctant to give President Trump a win that they’re scared of reporting good news that only vaguely involves him — like the stock market reaching a record high. On Monday, none of the three broadcast networks spared even a second of airtime to mention this development in their evening newscasts.

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The involvement of Democratic National Committee operative Alexandra Chalupa working with the Obama administration and unknown “American hackers” to interfere in the 2016 election appears to be confirmed.

Chalupa can thank  her sister, a Democratic activist Andrea Chalupa, for a number of tweets following the election that confirm Alexandra’s involvement with the nefarious hackers.

As Gateway Pundit reported exclusively last week, DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa made a stunning admission the day after the 2016 election where the American people chose Donald Trump as their next President.  Chalupa wrote a Facebook post confessing that she was part of part of the operation by the Obama DOJ and DHS working with unknown “hackers.” Alexandra Chalupa admitted:

Homeland Security / DOJ teamed up with a group that is part of Anonymous based in Washington, DC called “The Protectors.“

As Gateway Pundit also reported, Alexandra’s Democrat activist sister Andrea Chalupa repeated the claim that that “hackers” were “protecting” voters from Russia, posting a tweet that said:

My sister led Trump/Russia research at DNC. US hackers protecting voting systems believe Russia hacked vote tallies .

That tweet was part of a multi-day post election rant by Andrea Chalupa that would set the tone for the next two years: that Donald Trump had won due to “Russians.”

The Chalupa sisters allegations that Russian hackers had handed the election to President Trump seem especially bizarre given that the multi-million dollar Mueller probe flop didn’t even attempt to claim that Russians had hacked voting systems.

However, a look at other tweets posted by Andrea Chalupa around the same time period reveal that she repeatedly made claims that an “Anonymous” connected hacking group were working directly with the Obama administration.

If Alexandra and Andrea Chalupa’s claims are in any way true, they raise serious national security and election integrity concerns.

Not only do the Chalupa admissions raise obvious questions about who the “hackers” are that were working with the DOJ, but they require asking why the DOJ would be working with unknown and potentially criminal outsiders?

Additionally, if such an operation took place, why were these hackers working with the DOJ and DHS and telling partisan Democrats about it in real time?

And why did those Democrats talk openly about that operation, with apparent no fear of the legal consequences?

Add to that, Alexandra’s connection to CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, who many believe is the fake “whistleblower” that helped set the Ukraine-Gate hoax into action and you have the makings of a serious scandal that in sane world would be investigated immediately.

At about 8:30 pm Eastern Time on November 10th, 2016 Andrea Chalupa states very clearly that hackers from Anonymous were not only inexplicably working with Obama’s Department of Justice on Election Day, but that these hackers were in contact with her sister Alexandra Chalupa, a longtime DNC operative.

Andrea wrote:

.@inthehands @slavapestov All election day Anonymous hackers working w/DOJ updated my sister: they were at war w/RU hackers in our systems

However, even Andrea Chalupa’s mob of crazed anti-Trump followers found her claims impossible to believe. A number of them pushed back on how completely implausible her claims of Trump winning the election because of Russian hacking were.

Undeterred by evidence or logic, further in the same thread Andrea quotes “American hackers” who she says were promoting the now-debunked conspiracy theory about Russians hacking the election, tweeting:

.@inthehands @slavapestov Russian hackers entered US voting systems in summer.US hackers believe they downloaded malware to influence count.

Later the same night, responding to a Twitter comment by pollster Frank, Andrea Chalupa appears to be quoting information she got from the ”Anonymous hackers” she says are working with the DOJ:

Anonymous hackers protecting state systems w/DOJ from Russian hackers believe vote tallies falsified by malware. Reason why exit polls off:

In a tweet also posted on November 10th, Andrea Chalupa repeated the claim that Anonymous was working with Obama’s Department of Justice, saying:

.@ZaidJilani According to Anonymous hackers working w/DOJ to protect voting systems,Russian hackers planted malware across states months ago

These repeated admissions by the Chalupa sisters that the Obama administration was working with an unknown group of “hackers” who were informing Hillary Clinton campaign operatives of their progress, represent a story that both the mainstream media and their comrades in the Democrat party have buried…so far.

However, as the name Chalupa is becoming known to the public and Congress as key figures in the Democrats 2016 election interference, here’s hoping that their confessions will be investigated by Congress and the Trump Department of Justice.

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Over 60 medical doctors have issued an open letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel calling for urgent action to protect the life of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The doctors fear that he may not survive unless he is moved from Belmarsh Prison to an actual hospital where he can receive proper treatment.

“Were such urgent assessment and treatment not to take place, we have real concerns, on the evidence currently available, that Mr. Assange could die in prison. The medical situation is thereby urgent. There is no time to lose,” the letter states.

Australian doctor Lissa Johnson PhD, Clinical Psychologist, warned that the possibility that he could die is very grave.

“Given the rapid decline of his health in Belmarsh Prison, Julian Assange must immediately be transferred to a university teaching hospital for appropriate and specialized medical care. If the UK Government fails to heed doctors’ advice by urgently arranging such a transfer on medical grounds, there is a very real possibility that Mr. Assange may die,” Johnson said in a statement provided to the Gateway Pundit. “As it stands, serious questions surround not only the health impacts of Mr. Assange’s detention conditions but his medical fitness to stand trial and prepare his defense. Independent specialist medical assessment is therefore needed to determine whether Julian Assange is medically fit for any of his pending legal proceedings.”

“Consistent with its commitment to human rights and rule of law, the UK Government must heed the urgent warning of medical professionals from around the world, and transfer Julian Assange to an appropriately specialized and expert hospital setting, before it’s too late,” she continued. “Due to the climate of intimidation and fear surrounding Julian Assange, a number of doctors have insisted on anonymity before examining Julian Assange over the years, fearful of negative consequences to their reputations and careers.”

“The signatories to this open letter refuse to be silenced and are standing openly alongside the numerous medical and human rights authorities who have called, repeatedly and urgently, for the dangerous medical neglect of Julian Assange to end.”

Assange is currently being held in Belmarsh Prison awaiting an extradition trial. The United States has an 18-count indictment against him in the Eastern District of Virginia. They accuse him of soliciting and publishing classified information and conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a Defense Department computer password.

Prior to his arrest, Assange spent nearly seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, unable to receive proper medical treatment, and the lack of sunshine and fresh air taking a toll on his system. Doctors who visited him there wrote an article for the Guardian pleading for him to be allowed to go to the hospital for treatment, headlining their account “We examined Julian Assange, and he badly needs care — but he can’t get it.”

The doctors wrote, “experience tells us that the prolonged uncertainty of indefinite detention inflicts profound psychological and physical trauma above and beyond the expected stressors of incarceration. These can include severe anxiety, pathological levels of stress, dissociation, depression, suicidal thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain, among others.”

In June, the UN issued a scathing report in which Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture said that Assange has been exposed to psychological torture and warned that the award-winning publisher could face the death penalty if he is extradited to the United States.

Melzer visited Assange along with two medical experts who specialize in examining potential torture victims on May 9.

“I am particularly alarmed at the recent announcement by the US Department of Justice of 17 new charges against Mr. Assange under the Espionage Act, which currently carry up to 175 years in prison. This may well result in a life sentence without parole, or possibly even the death penalty, if further charges were to be added in the future,” Melzer continued.

Melzer also wrote that “there has been a relentless and unrestrained campaign of public mobbing, intimidation and defamation against Mr. Assange, not only in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom, Sweden and, more recently, Ecuador.”

“In the course of the past nine years, Mr. Assange has been exposed to persistent, progressively severe abuse ranging from systematic judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults and humiliation, to open instigation of violence and even repeated calls for his assassination.”

Speaking about the visit that he and the medical professionals had with Assange earlier that month, Melzer said that it was obvious that his health had been seriously impacted by the “extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years.”

“Most importantly, in addition to physical ailments, Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma,” the UN report said.

“The evidence is overwhelming and clear,” the findings continued “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.”

The report concluded with a condemnation of the actions of these governments in working to deliberately abuse him.

“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” Melzer said. “The collective persecution of Julian Assange must end here and now!”

Prior to the release of the UN report, the publisher’s mother, Christine Assange tweeted that the “UK Gov is unlawfully slowly killing my son!”

“They made him very ill by refusing him ANY access to life sustaining fresh air, exercise, sun/VitD or proper medical care for 6 YEARS of illegal Embassy detention,” she tweeted at the United Nations Twitter account. “Then against ALL medical advice threw him into a prison cell.”

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As House Democrats continued their impeachment push, President Donald Trump scored yet another victory toward reshaping the federal judiciary—flipping a third appeals court to a majority of Republican-president nominees. 

Moreover, as the House engaged in partisan bickering, the Senate voted to confirm Barbara Lagoa to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta on a bipartisan vote of 80-to-15 on Wednesday. The circuit—which handles cases out of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia—now has a 7-to-5 majority of Republican appointees.

Trump nominated Lagoa, then a Florida Supreme Court justice, in September. 

Since taking office in January 2017, Trump also has been able to change the makeup of the Manhattan, New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to a 7-to-6 Republican-appointee majority and the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit to an 8-to-6 majority of appointees of Republican presidents.

“With the confirmation of Judge Barbara Lagoa to the [11th] Circuit, President Trump has now transformed three of the nation’s federal appellate courts from Democrat-appointed majorities to Republican-appointed majorities. This is a major achievement for his presidency,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network, tweeted after the confirmation. 

With the confirmation of Judge Barbara Lagoa to the Eleventh Circuit, President Trump has now transformed three of the nation’s federal appellate courts from Democrat-appointed majorities to Republican-appointed majorities. This is a major achievement for his presidency. 1/4

— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) November 20, 2019

Trump has won 46 appeals court confirmations by the Senate, according to The Heritage Foundation Judicial Tracker, in just under three years in office. That’s double that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, who had 23 appeals court judges confirmed during his eight years in office.  

Since appeals courts decide the overwhelming majority of court cases, because the Supreme Court can only handle a limited number of cases each year, these confirmations are highly important. 

“This success—along with the record number of federal appellate judges President Trump has appointed to date—is a testament to the tangible impact the president has had in reshaping the federal judiciary with constitutionalist judges who are committed to the rule of law,” Severino added. 

That’s no guarantee of outcomes in cases, but Democratic presidents’ judicial appointees tend to make more liberal decisions, while Republican presidents’ court picks tend to make more conservative legal rulings. 

Though Trump has been prolific in securing judicial nominees, federal appeals courts are still lopsided in favor of Democratic appointees. When Trump took office, only four of the 13 appeals courts had a majority of Republican appointees. Now seven have majority-Republican appointees. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis named Lagoa to the state’s high court after she previously served as a state appeals court judge and before that as an assistant U.S. attorney. She was also the chairwoman of the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee from 2015 to 2016. 

The judge also has a personal story that impresses Severino. 

“Lagoa’s parents fled Castro’s Cuba, and their experience gave her a deep and abiding respect for the rule of law,” Severino tweeted. “The first Cuban-American woman to sit on the [11th] Circuit, Judge Lagoa will solidify the follow-the-law jurisprudence exemplified by the court’s new majority.”

Lagoa’s parents fled Castro’s Cuba, and their experience gave her a deep and abiding respect for the rule of law. The first Cuban-American woman to sit on the Eleventh Circuit, Judge Lagoa will solidify the follow-the-law jurisprudence exemplified by the court’s new majority. 3/4

— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) November 20, 2019

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also a Cuban-American, praised the confirmation.    

“I thank Justice Lagoa for her years of service in both the federal and Florida state justice systems, including as a justice on the Supreme Court of Florida,” Rubio said in a statement. “I am confident Justice Lagoa’s experience will serve her well as she begins the next chapter of her service to our nation as a U.S. circuit judge for the [11th] Circuit.”

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Few would have predicted that one of President Donald Trump’s strongest defenders in the House impeachment hearings would be a Republican congresswoman who on occasion has been critical of him.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has attracted public attention for her spirited defense of the president and her status as the only GOP woman on the House Intelligence Committee.

Those attributes came to the fore during the impeachment inquiry as Stefanik asked questions of Marie Yovanovich, a former ambassador to Ukraine. Skirting procedural rules, the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., tried to yield a portion of his time for asking questions to Stefanik. 

When the committee’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,  repeatedly interrupted Stefanik and cut her off, Trump’s defenders could claim that sexist Democrats in the hearing had silenced a woman and prevented Republicans from asking questions. 

Here are five things to know about Stefanik:

1. When elected to Congress, she was the youngest woman ever to win.

In a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Aaron Woolf in 2014, Stefanik became, at age 30, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, as well as the first Republican candidate to win her district in 21 years. She won 53 percent of the vote to 32.5 percent for Woolf and 10.6 percent for a Green Party candidate. (Another New Yorker, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in November 2018 broke Stefanik’s record when she was elected at age 29.)

In her 2014 campaign, Stefanik worked hard to win the trust and confidence of voters, driving more than 100,000 miles through upstate New York’s 21st Congressional District. The district covers 12 counties, stretching north to the Canadian border and east to the border with Vermont.

She said that voters told her she was too young to run for office, but she won the election despite their doubts.

Even then, her troubles weren’t over. Stefanik was so much younger than the average member of Congress that the Capitol Police initially stopped her when she tried to enter the building. They didn’t believe she was a member of Congress.

2. She has voted against Trump and conservatives in the past.

Now 35 and in her third term, Stefanik has not shied away from asking questions that helped Trump in the impeachment hearings, but she also voted against one of his most important legislative priorities. 

She was one of only 12 House Republicans to vote against the president’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Four of the others who voted against it also were from New York. The measure became law without their support. 

According to Albany, New York’s Times Union newspaper, Stefanik voted against the act because limitations on a federal tax deduction for high state and local taxes meant 13% of New Yorkers would face a tax hike.

She also was one of just eight Republicans who voted in May in favor of the Equality Act, which would extend Civil Rights Act protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The Equality Act’s provisions would harm women by dismantling sex-specific sports and locker rooms, among other negative effects, according to The Heritage Foundation. It passed the Democrat-controlled House, but is unlikely to get a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. 

According to The Hill, Stefanik supports the act because it ensures protections in “employment, housing, credit access, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs and jury service” for gays and transgender individuals.

3. Her parents run a successful plywood business.

Stefanik’s parents own and operate Premium Plywood Products in Guilderland Center, New York. After working on Mitt Romney’s 2012 Republican presidential campaign, she worked for her parents’ business in sales and marketing.

In 2014, she pivoted from plywood to politics in her campaign for Congress. 

4. A graduate of Harvard, she wrote op-eds for The Harvard Crimson. 

At Harvard, Stefanik gained valuable political experience, serving as vice president of Harvard’s Institute of Politics before graduating with a degree in government. 

While at Harvard, Stefanik wrote eight articles for The Harvard Crimson, the college’s famed newspaper. By senior year, she was in charge of editing the editorial pieces. Her editorial topics ranged from criticizing leftists for disrupting a panel discussion on careers in counterterrorism to commenting on love’s “capriciousness and involuntary nature.” 

Stefanik’s understanding of love seems to have served her well. She married her husband, Matthew Manda, in August 2017 in Saratoga, New York. With appropriate capriciousness, he proposed to her using a ring secured in its box with dental floss, Stefanik told the Glens Falls Chronicle. Manda’s father is a dentist.

5. She opposed a proposed New York City ban on flavored milk.

Not cowed by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed ban on flavored milk in the city’s public schools, she signed an open letter saying she “strongly opposed” it. 

She attacked the proposed ban on chocolate milk as “a serious disservice to North Country dairy farmers” that was “reckless and irresponsible.” 

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