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Print this article A Virginia high school student said she was berated in a school-wide email after she picked conservative commentator Candace Owens as her choice for a "black trailblazer" during a school project. The teenager, a member of the school's Black Student Union and leader of a Turning Point USA chapter, hailed Owens for her faith and right-wing activism, she told the Daily Wire. Her pick for the Black Student Union assignment reportedly drew condemnation from a fellow student who sent an email to staff, faculty, and other peers at the school, alleging "falsified information" in...
Just two days after Lucasfilm fired Gina Carano, star of Disney+'s popular Star Wars spin-off Daily Wireannounced a new movie in the works starring and produced by Carano herself. Over the last year Carano ruffled feathers when she criticized the lockdowns, supported stronger voter ID laws and mocked the trend of pronoun listing. Earlier this week, Carano shared a since deleted Instagram post alluding that dehumanizing a single group, like conservatives, can gradually escalate to horrifying ends like the Holocaust. The post was labeled anti-Semitic and Disney's Lucasfilm decided to fire her...