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Megan Rapinoe, left-wing activist and U.S. women’s soccer team captain, has some tough words for the press.
She says the media needs to “get better” with their criticism of women’s athletics, adding that she “always welcome[s] the criticism.”
As we previously reported, the U.S. women’s soccer has come under heavy criticism following their public protests while losing to Sweden 3-0 in the Olympic opener.
Americans online blasted the team for protesting alleged rampant racism in the U.S. in solidarity with radical leftist group Black Lives Matter before kickoff by taking a knee, Daily Wire reports.
“I know what it is,” Rapinoe responded.
She continued, “I’m on social media. I’m not a hermit.”
“I always welcome the criticism,” she added. “For women’s sports, criticism in the media still needs to get better.”
The criticism, Rapinoe explained, “says to me that people are watching the games and understand the importance of games and understand different teams.”
“I don’t mind that stuff. I think everything they said was right. We didn’t play well. Sweden did get the better of us,” she concluded.
TRENDING 👇 First Federal Agency Announces Vaccine Mandate
And so it begins… Veterans Affairs becomes the first federal agency to mandate the COVID vaccine, Fox News reports.
Health care personnel will be obligated to take the drug. Rueters says this impacts more than 100,000 health care workers.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough decided to make the COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for all VA health care personnel. This includes physicians, dentists, nurses and others who work in patient-facing roles. The agency says this is a “necessary step” to keep the veterans it serves “safe.”
Employees have eight weeks to comply and must be fully vaccinated. McDonough said, “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep veterans safe, especially as the delta variant spreads across the country.”
“Whenever a veteran or a VA employee sets foot in a VA facility, they deserve to know that we have done everything in our power to protect them from COVID-19,” he continued. “With this mandate, we can once again make – and keep – that fundamental promise.”
