Daily Mail Online reports that Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is leading DOGE’s aggressive plans to set up a new ‘DOGE Caucus’ in the Senate. It sounds like she’s fully onboard. She came up with 22 ways Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can use the DOGE to trim down the government. It would slash $1 trillion immediately. […] The post Good News: 6% of Fed Bureaucrats Show Up for Work Full-Time appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Texas Congressman Chip Roy demanded Thursday that the FBI and Justice Department preserve all records of its prosecutions of peaceful pro-life protesters across the country. Roy said in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland that lawmakers had “serious questions” about the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that made it a federal crime to block the entrance of an abortion facility. Thursday’s letter, first shared with The Daily Wire, comes after the FBI ignored a similar request from Roy in October.  Roy, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, said that the need to keep records was “imperative” with the outgoing Biden administration and incoming Trump administration. The letter was also signed by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Surveillance.  “Congress has a sacred duty to preserve the rights of the American people, including the First Amendment, against any overreach by the Executive Branch,” Roy and Biggs wrote. “As we examine how to best protect Americans’ fundamental freedoms, the Subcommittees must first understand how the DOJ and FBI enforce the FACE Act.” As written, the FACE Act is meant to protect both churches and crisis pregnancy centers. However, the Biden administration has disproportionately used it to go after pro-lifers despite an increase in targeting of pregnancy centers after Roe v. Wade was overturned.  “However, since January 2021, the Civil Rights Division has brought a total of 24 FACE Act cases against 55 defendants, with only two of these cases — consisting of five defendants — concerning attacks on pregnancy resource centers,” Roy wrote. “You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry.”  CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Pro-lifers are imprisoned across the country, including in Washington, D.C.. and Illinois, after they were successfully prosecuted by the Biden administration under the FACE Act.  During his time in Congress, Roy has consistently pushed for the FACE Act to be repealed and has introduced legislation to end the law. Data shows that 97% of all prosecutions of the FACE Act since its inception have been against pro-lifers.

Prince Harry has addressed rumors that he and his wife, Meghan Markle, could be headed toward divorce, as both have been spotted attending events separately lately.  The 40-year-old royal heir discussed the headlines during a Wednesday appearance at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit. “There’s articles left and right about, you know, ‘Why are you doing independent events? Why aren’t you doing them together?'” DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin said, per E! News. “Is that a good thing for you, in a way, that there’s so much interest in you?” The Duke of Sussex said the media’s obsession with the couple is “definitely not a good thing.”  “Apparently we’ve bought or moved house 10, 12 times. We’ve apparently divorced maybe 10, 12 times as well. So, it’s just like, what?” Prince Harry responded.  “It’s hard to keep up with, but that’s why you just sort of ignore it,” he went on. “The people I feel most sorry about are the trolls. Their hopes are just built and built, and it’s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,’ and then it doesn’t happen. So I feel sorry for them. Genuinely, I do.” The couple has been married since 2018 and has two children, Archie Harrison, 5, and Lilibet Diana, 3. In 2020, they shocked the world by quitting their roles as working royals and moving to California. They blamed this change on the attention of the press and continued fears for their safety. “It’s still dangerous,” Harry said in an interview with ITV in July. “All it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “Whether it’s a knife or acid, whatever it is…these are things that are of genuine concern for me. It’s one of the reasons why I won’t bring my wife back to this country,” he went on. These remarks came after RAVEC (a committee made up of the Home Office, Metropolitan Police, and the Royal Household) announced that it had removed the royal family member’s automatic right to taxpayer-funded U.K. police protection, as The Daily Wire previously reported. Earlier this year, the London High Court ruled in favor of the government’s decision, which Harry said he planned to appeal. “The U.K. is my home,” the royal previously said. “The U.K. is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the United States.” “That cannot happen if there is no possibility to keep them safe when they are on U.K. soil,” Prince Harry continued. “I can’t put my wife in danger like that, and given my experiences in life, I’m reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm’s way too.”

Taylor Lorenz, a former Washington Post and New York Times reporter and current podcaster for Vox Media, said on Wednesday that she wants health insurance executives “dead” just hours after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in Midtown Manhattan. On the social media platform Bluesky, Lorenz reposted a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia costs for the entirety of some surgeries. Lorenz wrote, “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.” In another post, Lorenz reposted a different link to the Blue Cross report and included a screenshot of Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Kim Keck. On X, Lorenz reposted a user who wrote, “Brian Thompson killed more US Citizens than every serial killer combined, but because he made money off it the media considered him a successful businessman and morally upstanding citizen.” Lorenz also reposted a Bluesky user who wrote, “[H]ypothetically, would it be considered an actionable threat to start emailing other insurance CEOs a simple ‘you’re next’? Completely unrelated to current events btw.” Lorenz later justified her posts about Thompson and other health insurance executives, writing, “People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it.” The leftist tech writer told Fox News that her post “is explaining the public sentiment.” “That said, healthcare executives absolutely want people dead as long as it helps their bottom line and that’s the entire problem,” Lorenz added. “My sympathies are with the innocent people who have died or suffered after being denied coverage by greedy insurance companies.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Other leftists also condemned Thompson and insurance company CEOs after the assassination. Columbia University professor Anthony Zenkus wrote, “Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down…. wait, I’m sorry – today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires.” David Austin Walsh, a historian and College Fellow at the University of Virginia, posted, “It’s actually kind of touching that the one thing that can bring together our fractious and disunited country is celebrating the assassination of a health insurance CEO.” “Anyway try to live your life in such a way that if you’re murdered the entire Internet doesn’t think that you had it coming,” he added. Thompson, 50, was killed on Wednesday morning by a masked gunman in dark clothing. The assassin shot the health insurance CEO multiple times before fleeing the scene and is still at-large. Detectives investigating the scene where Thompson was killed found shell casings with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” written on them, according to ABC News. Thompson received multiple death threats before he was killed, and authorities are looking into the nature and source of those threats. UnitedHealthcare has been criticized for denying patients’ claims.

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A woman in Eastern Europe has found her biological father after suddenly discovering she was adopted from birth. Moreover, her search eventually landed him at his virtual doorstep on Facebook—where the two had been friends for three years. It all began in 2016, when Tamuna Museridze was going through the personal effects of the woman […] The post Woman Looking for Birth Parents Learns That Dad Was a ‘Friend’ on Facebook appeared first on Good News Network.

News The Life of Chuck The Life of Chuck Adaptation Officially Gets a Release Date By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 5, 2024 Courtesy of Tiff Comment 0 Share New Share Courtesy of Tiff Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 2020 novella, The Life of Chuck (found in his collection, If It Bleeds) finally has a release date. After its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year, Neon picked up the film for distribution and has confirmed that it will premiere in theaters on May 30, 2025. The film, assuming it follows the structure of the novella, chronicles the life of a guy named Chuck in reverse, starting with his early death at age 39 and going backward from there, ending up in his haunted childhood home. Tom Hiddleston stars in Flanagan’s adaptation as Chuck, along with Mark Hamill, who plays a character named Albie. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, and Jacob Tremblay are also in the production in unknown roles. And like other Flanagan projects, the cast is vast, with many familiar faces popping up from other series and movies the writer-director has led, including: David Dastmalchian, Heather Langenkamp, Matthew Lillard, Mia Sara, Harvey Guillén, Carl Lumbly, Kate Siegel, Annalise Basso, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli, Matt Biedel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Michael Trucco, Violet McGraw, Molly C. Quinn, Benjamin Pajak, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Antonio Raul Corbo, Q’Orianka Kilcher, and Taylor Gordon. The film received solid reviews after its premiere, and the cast and Flanagan’s track record make The Life of Chuck near the top of the list of movies I’m looking forward to next year. Only six or so months to go until we can see it at our favorite cinema. [end-mark] The post <i>The Life of Chuck</i> Adaptation Officially Gets a Release Date appeared first on Reactor.