A teacher’s choice: Fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine



When COVID hit in 2020, New York City was one of the last places you’d have wanted to be if you valued your medical freedom.

Michael Kane, a public school special education teacher with over 13 years of experience, was employed in the city — before he was fired for refusing to take the experimental shot.

“I was fired for declining the shot, I’ve been suing ever since. Thank God for Bobby Kennedy and Children’s Health Defense. They picked up my lawsuits who are still suing today in a case called Kane vs. De Blasio, as well as New Yorkers for Religious Liberty vs. the City of New York and many, many, other cases,” Kane tells Nicole Shanahan on “Back to the People.”

Kane, who founded Teachers for Choice — which is a group of educators that opposes forced medical mandates — also very publicly left the teachers' union after seeing how weaponized it became during COVID.


“We were certainly pushed out and punished for having anything that wasn’t, you know, Faucian or dogmatic. You really needed to walk that line, so there’s definitely a target on me,” Kane explains, noting that while he doesn’t believe teachers' unions shouldn’t exist, “national and now international unions are a plague.”

And a plague that’s heavily infested with political corruption.

“Randi Weingarten and the head of the American Federation of Teachers went to the Ukraine on a mission. Why is the head of the teachers' union going to Ukraine? I’ll tell you why, because she’s really good friends with Joe and Jill Biden,” Kane tells Shanahan.

“That politicization is extremely, extremely dangerous,” he says. “I respect the institution of unions, but they’ve been horribly corrupted with politics that goes way beyond their membership, and when COVID came, it was clear they were not representing their members at all.”

“It ended up being Randi Weingarten going on ‘Meet the Press’ in August of 2021 and saying, ‘It’s time to mandate our members.’ And that was it. From that moment, then-Mayor Bill De Blasio did the mandate, because the truth is, Randy Weingarten’s more powerful than him,” Kane explains.

“So at the time, when things went down with COVID, I did leave the union, I saw no other option. I saw no one supporting us, and I led kind of a movement in New York City, at least at that time, that did that. And we got fired, and then we had to fight in the courts, and we lost our jobs, and we didn’t come back, and we’re still fighting in the courts,” he continues.

A year and a half later, Kane and around 60 other fired workers, mostly teachers, went to the union Labor Day rally in New York City — where they protested Weingarten.

“We chanted, ‘End all mandates, let us work,’ and we did that a couple of times, and all the rank and file cheered. All of them,” Kane recalls. “Randi ran away from me, she wouldn’t talk to me, but it forced her into a situation where she came on my show.”

“‘Here’s this dude, Mike Kane, that’s fired, and my members are cheering for him right now. That’s an issue,’” he continues. “Even if we didn’t have all the national cameras on it, that’s an issue internally for her.”

While Kane is proud of the major steps made toward a better system in New York City, he’s not convinced what goes on behind the scenes has been rectified quite yet.

“We’ll see what happens in the internal New York City politics,” he says.

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Kibbe: Tim Walz's COVID authoritarianism killed George Floyd



Matt Kibbe and his wife had lived safely and peacefully on Capitol Hill for over 20 years when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Then everything changed.

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Upon the numerous declarations of mayors and governors ordering civilians to quarantine themselves at home, Kibbe “headed straight out to buy thick plywood to board [his] windows and new security bars to reinforce [his] doors.”

Obviously such “draconian precautions” would do nothing to keep the virus out, so what was he so afraid of?

“Riots, looting, and violence,” he says, which indeed ravaged the country during the early stages of the pandemic.

“George Floyd lost his job at Conga Latin Bistro when Governor Tim Walz locked down the Minnesota economy, prohibiting bars and restaurants from serving customers.”

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Just a few weeks later, Floyd was killed, and the chaos that would torch cities across the nation began.

“Unchecked power can take away your livelihood. Unchecked power can kill,” Kibbe says, making the point that George Floyd’s blood isn’t just on the hands of a cop but also on those of Tim Walz whose shutting down of the economy laid the groundwork for Floyd’s death.

It’s been four years, and the government has yet to answer for the egregious crimes it committed in the name of COVID-19. But stagnating the economy is just one of the atrocities it must answer for. There are also the matters of unconstitutional censorship, vaccine coercion, mask mandates, and gain-of-function research that demand answers.

Kibbe has been on a mission since the outbreak to expose COVID lies and solve its long list of mysteries. In his docuseries “The Coverup,” he takes you along with him as he meets with some of the true experts who were silenced during the pandemic for their refusal to comply with the approved narrative — people like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and an author of the Great Barrington Declaration. He also meets with Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the only senator who’s remained relentless in his pursuit of answers — especially when it comes to COVID’s number-one wolf in sheep’s clothing: Anthony Fauci.

If you haven’t already, check out episode 1 (available for free on YouTube) before watching episode 2 on BlazeTV. If you aren’t already a subscriber to BlazeTV+ join today and get $30 off your first year of BlazeTV+ with code FAUCILIED.

NJ gym owner who defied COVID lockdowns WINS legal battle; ALL CHARGES DROPPED



When New Jersey gym owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti defied the Garden State’s COVID-19 regulations by keeping their gym open, the pair were ordered to pay around $165,000 in fines for violating public health emergency rules.

After an almost four-year legal battle, Smith has been cleared of more than 80 charges.

These charges were “thrown at us really to scare us into shutting down,” Smith tells Sara Gonzales. “When that didn’t work, Governor Murphy took those municipal charges as well as a health department shutdown order and went before a judge in New Jersey.”

Murphy asked for a court order to close Smith’s business, which Smith explains is “where a lot of the really tangible, very scary punishments came in.”

“We were being fined $15,497.76 per day for every day that we were in operation. The state took upwards of $200,000 from our bank account,” he explains.

“We had one member arrested, my former co-partner and I were arrested, we had our doors forcibly locked by the sheriff’s department.”

When Smith refused to comply and opened the doors, the sheriff’s department came to lock them again. So they took the doors off the hinges and stayed inside to protest for over a month.

“They arrested us, they held us in criminal and civil contempt at court, so there was a five-year prison sentence hanging over our head at one point from this court order,” he tells Gonzales, who says “it’s making my blood boil all over again just listening to you.”

While it’s been a rough journey for Smith, he’s finally free of those looming charges.

“They were just writing these, they were firing off the hip. They didn’t expect people to push back, and they just panicked. And you know, these people are not used to people wagging a finger in their face and saying no, so they never wanted to touch these cases because nobody wants to put their name on it, because they know it’s unconstitutional,” Smith explains.

“The judge finally had enough, she said, ‘I can’t put these gentlemen through this any longer,’ and you know, she was very clear that this was going to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the state can’t revisit these charges.”


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Dr. Phil shares a warning about the 'next pandemic' — and he wants you to be prepared: 'Who's got the plan?'



Dr. Phil McGraw is warning Americans to begin thinking about the "next pandemic."

On his show this week, Dr. Phil hosted guests who explained the problems associated with pandemic lockdowns. One guest, a teacher, detailed the extensive learning loss and behavioral challenges in schools today. Another guest told the story of her business being classified "non-essential" during the pandemic, leading to her arrest after she defied authorities.

The lessons that Americans should learn from the COVID pandemic are clear, according to Dr. Phil: We need a better plan for next time.

"My concern is when the next pandemic turns the corner, who's got the plan then? What was learned from this? Because you don't hear anybody talking about it, do you?" Dr. Phil said. "I want to force people to say, 'we need to get ready for when this happens again.' And I'm not some conspiracy theorist saying they're coming to get us and lock us up.

"But I'm saying we need to think about whether we're going to rely on science, and how we're going to react when the government comes in and starts telling us what we can and can't do," he continued.

"I think we need less government," Dr. Phil declared. "I think if they would step back, we tend to have a way to work these things out."

Dr. Phil Delivers Stunning Message to the COVID “Experts” Who Got it Wrong

The floodgates are opening.

“You hear people say, ‘Well, we did the best we could with what we knew.’ No, they did not. They knew better. And if they didn’t know better, they damn well should have… pic.twitter.com/PC3guMmiRD
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A common argument that lockdown apologists deploy today is to claim the so-called experts made the best possible decisions at the time with the information they had in the midst of the pandemic.

But Dr. Phil thinks that's hogwash.

"No, they did not. They knew better, and if they didn’t know better, they damn well should have known better. That's what they're paid to do," he exclaimed.

Dr. Phil has been speaking about the collateral damage from pandemic lockdowns for months. In February, he went viral after battling the liberal hosts on "The View" about the irreversible damage the lockdowns imposed on children.

"[Schoolchildren] suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID. And that's not an opinion — that's a fact," Dr. Phil told them, triggering a loud applause from the crowd.

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