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A whopping 99.2 percent of the people who died of COVID-19 in May were people who weren't vaccinated, Forbes reported, citing data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It showed that only 150 out of 18,000 COVID deaths in May were "breakthrough" infections of fully vaccinated people.

One of those people who survived was Republican Party of Lakeland chairman James Ring, who says now that he "certainly was dying," when he contracted the virus at a volleyball tournament where his daughters played in Orlando, reported The Ledger.

British geneticist Adam Rutherford explained in The New Scientist that in his field the language they're using goes from "scientifically confused or ambiguous, to being rooted in a racist history that echoes in our present."

He explained that every field has its own jargon and that genetics is no different. But their terms deal with ancestry, evolution disease and behavior.

When President Donald Trump announced his lawsuit against social media companies on Wednesday, a large fundraising operation followed. The former Trump campaign sent out emails, text messages, and Donald Trump Jr. took to Telegram to beg for cash.

The problem, however, is that it didn't quite go the way he may have expected. The Twitter account Patriot Takes, affiliated with the liberal group MeidasTouch, follows the so-called "free speech" sites and apps like Telegram, where QAnon members, white supremacists and Nazis are welcome to promote their ideologies.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN that the former President Donald Trump's social media lawsuit is really nothing more than a ruse to get people to focus on his alleged victimhood instead of accusations that he cheated on his taxes.

Speaking Thursday, CNN host John Berman noted that at the same time that this press conference was finishing, a slew of Trump fundraising pitches went out. It made him think that none of this was real and it was just a scheme to make money.

Former FBI deputy director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi explained Wednesday that there is so much Russian hacking because it's the only power they have.

"This is about as close as you're going to get to state-sponsored terrorism in the cyber world," Figliuzzi explained to MSNBC's Ali Velshi. "The code in the ransomware attacks is written so it will never attack Russian targets. That seems to be Putin telling these organizations, 'I'm going to give you license to operate. Just don't ever let this unleash on one of our companies or one of our agencies.' That's essentially state sponsorship. That's why you'll see our entire U.S. intelligence community directed even at these criminal organizations because they're so closely tied to the Russian government. They present a national security concern for the United States."

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was starting a class action lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for violating his First Amendment rights.

As BuzzFeed legal reporter Zoe Tillman explained, Trump's lawsuit essentially mashes several other arguments together that have already been decided in other courts, including the Supreme Court.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has asked her state's attorney general to investigate election interference from President Donald Trump and his allies.

The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday that Hobbs believes the communications "involve clear efforts to induce supervisors to refuse to comply with their duties," which she thinks could have violated Arizona law.

Rick Wilson was in rare form on the Lincoln Project's daily video series. He and co-host Tara Setmayer addressed Arizona Republican Paul Gosar, who is welcoming a white supremacist to help promote his campaign. Wilson noted that Gosar should know better, but what he had to say about the white supremacist takes it to the next level.

Wilson called the white supremacist an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. "He's about 25 years old and this is a kid who obviously, at some point in his life, needed to have the living sh*t kicked out of him because he is broke bad. Paul Gosar, who's a doctor, or a dentist a least, should f*cking know better!"

It was revealed Wednesday that Tucker Carlson was working with "Kremlin intermediaries," which appears to be the main reason that his emails may have come under the radar of American intelligence agencies.

Carlson claimed that he was approached by a source from inside the government who told him that the NSA read his emails.

Robin Steenman, the chapter head of "Moms for Liberty" in Tennessee, is raising money for a family she says has been so traumatized by "critical race theory" that a first grader requires psychological help.

The GoFundMe is asking for $5,000 because the family's 7-year-old daughter is in treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder because she was taught "critical race theory" in her first-grade class.

Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are dealing with legal trouble in wake of the frivolous lawsuits aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election.

And now, after numerous complaints, the two lawyers are being forced to face court proceedings about possible sanctions.

Tennessee conservatives are throwing a fit over the teaching of the state's history during desegregation, as conservative parents are concerned about their children learning the history of bad behavior people did 50 years ago, the Tennessean reports.

A company that creates curriculum and instructional materials out of Washington, D.C. drew the ire of parents because they say that the company is encouraging "critical race theory."

Speaking to the right-wing network Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani lashed out at Black Lives Matter falsely claiming that every rally they have called for the killing of police officers.

We "should take the bull off of Black Lives Matter and exactly say what they are -- they are cop killers," said Giuliani.