Lee Fang wrote an investigative piece on Kamala Harris for the Intercept. The article began by explaining that she unseated a progressive district attorney in her first race. Harris won her first election the old-fashioned way: big money, police endorsements, and fearmongering about crime. Eric Abbenante, a poster on X, wrote an abridged version in […] The post Excellent Reporting on Kamala Harris’s Nefarious History appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The attorney from the Department of Justice who defended the Food and Drug Administration in court admitted on undercover camera that the agency’s actions were an abuse of authority by the government during its public campaign against ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Key Quotes from Isaac Belfer, FDA’s Attorney at the Department of Justice: “Making a […] The post Unbelievable! DOJ Attorney Admits They Abused Authority on Ivermectin appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

If staring up at the stars is your thing, you will want to check this out. In the pre-dawn sky tomorrow, August 28th will be a rare sight. Six of our solar system’s planets will perfectly line up to create a planetary parade. Planetary Parade You Don’t Want To Miss Incredible events like this don’t happen every day. Daily Galaxy says this will be “the first large-scale planetary alignment since June 2024.” Now, you may be wondering what exactly a planetary parade is. First, a planetary alignment is when two or more planets line up in the sky. To be considered a parade, there needs to be at least five planets in alignment. Additionally, this alignment has to be visible from Earth. Unsplash While smaller alignments are more common, large-scale alignments are rare. This means that this event tomorrow is something you do not want to miss. Tomorrow, six of the planets will be in alignment—Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn. When To See This Alignment Whether or not these planets align depends on the length of each planet’s orbit around the sun. While these planets are usually scattered far and wide, this planetary parade allows us to see them all together. It also helps shed light on how interconnected our solar system truly is. The best time to see the alignment is about an hour before sunrise. However, if you are not a morning person, do not fret. The alignment should be visible for a few days afterward as well. Additionally, the more removed from light sources you are, the better your view will be. While you can see Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with your naked eye, you will need a telescope to see Neptune and Uranus. The NY Post shared that the planets will be visible at different times and appear in different colors. How To Tell Which Planet You’re Looking At In the Planetary Parade Pexels The NY Post added great details on what to look for regarding certain planets in the alignment. “Saturn will stroll out first. Visible in the late evening, the planet will take on a yellowish hue. Neptune comes in second, appearing near the Pisces constellation, followed by Uranus. Jupiter and Mars will rise near the waning crescent moon. Mercury will rise last and just before dawn.” If you are staring up at the dark sky and cannot tell if you are witnessing this rare phenomenon or just the beautiful stars, there is a trick. Stars twinkle; planets do not. Jupiter should be easier to spot as it will be brighter than everything except the moon. Further, the use of astronomy apps can help you better recognize where to look for this incredible planetary parade. The featured image source is here. The post Don’t Miss Your Chance To See A Rare Six-Planet Parade This Week! appeared first on InspireMore.

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Classic rock history is filled with songs about angels. It’s one of the most commonly used words in the English language, for so many different reasons. Of course, there’s the definition of an angel in the holy sense—guardian angels and so forth. And then there’s the use of the word ‘angel’ to describe someone as simply wonderful, beautiful, gorgeous, or loving—all qualities that evoke the most heartwarming feelings. Many women and men describe their lovers as angels, parents describe their children as angels, and sometimes even teachers describe a student as an angel. The list goes on, and so it’s The post 10 Best Rock Songs About Angels appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States, and yet lands only in Europe.” That was author Tom Wolfe way back in the 1970s. He was talking about this curious dynamic in which we hear repeatedly from left-wing commentators and media that America is on the precipice of fascism—but tyranny ends up coming to Europe instead. Tyranny appears to be again descending on Europe. Unfortunately, in the globalized, interconnected world of the 21st century, I wouldn’t be quite as sure that it won’t land here, too. Social media have become a “third wave of journalism” as Titus Techera, the executive director of the American Cinema Foundation, wrote Friday in Law & Liberty. The technology has allowed the average citizen and nontraditional journalists to step around institutions and cover stories that might be buried because they didn’t fit a favored narrative. But our various, interconnected institutions are fighting back and increasingly using government power in coordination with private sector and nonprofit organizations to crack down on unapproved news and opinions. That appeared to be the case over the weekend when French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, CEO of the messaging app Telegram, outside a Paris airport on Saturday. According to NBC News, French prosecutors cited “complicity” in facilitating a whole host of illegal activities. The charges included soliciting fraud and illicit drug sales plus 11 other charges that seem like they could be aimed at most other social media platforms, as well. French President Emmanuel Macron insisted that there had been a lot of false information spread about Durov’s arrest and that France was still “deeply committed” to freedom of expression, despite the appearance of a political motivation. “The arrest of the president of Telegram on French soil took place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation,” Macron said in a statement posted on X—ironically, another social media platform. “It is in no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to rule on the matter.” I have seen false information regarding France following the arrest of Pavel Durov. France is deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication, to innovation, and to the spirit of entrepreneurship. It will remain so. In a state governed by the rule of law,…— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 26, 2024 Frankly, when any European leader hollers that they are for free speech it’s about as believable as when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who prosecuted former President Donald Trump for obviously political reasons (while letting all kinds of criminals walk free), claims nobody is “above the law.” Maybe there is something to the charges against Telegram. Certainly, there have been serious issues with child pornography and other horrible things being facilitated by social media. But it’s hard not to see this as simply an escalation of what we’ve seen from European governments in recent months, in which free speech has been relentlessly attacked in one nation after another. Earlier this month, the U.K. government began arresting citizens for posting memes on social media. That was in response to protests and riots that erupted in Southport, Merseyside, after an 17-year-old son of Rwanda immigrants allegedly stabbed and killed three girls and wounded 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed yoga and dance workshop on July 29. It wasn’t enough for the U.K. to repress its own citizens, it tried to reach out “across the pond” and silence Americans, too. London’s Metropolitan Police chief issued a threat to those posting memes abroad. “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said in an interview with Sky News. Thank God for George Washington and the Continental Army, and for the framers of the Constitution, who included the First Amendment to explicitly protect our free speech rights.  While we should be thankful for the patriots of 1776, the European Union and European censorship regimes are nevertheless trying to reach into our country and chill speech anyway. During the U.K. protests, a former Twitter executive argued in the Guardian that X CEO Elon Musk should be threatened with arrest if he doesn’t control speech on his platform.  EU authorities seemed eager to oblige. French politician and EU official Thierry Breton—from that land so “deeply committed” to free expression—threatened Musk with siccing the EU Commission on him using the Digital Services Act. With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSAAs there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in ?? in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk ??? pic.twitter.com/P1IgxdPLzn— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) August 12, 2024 Musk essentially told Breton to get bent. Various free speech groups rebuked Breton, and even other EU officials said that he never received approval to send the letter. Even Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who represents parts of Silicon Valley in California, came out in support of Musk and free speech. Good for him. In America, we value free speech, including conversations like the one @elonmusk is having tonight with ideas and opinions people may dislike or even find offensive. We don't censor. Ironic, this used to be a European idea advocated by someone named John Stuart Mill. https://t.co/hi449AVSTq— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) August 13, 2024 But that doesn’t mean the threat wasn’t real. European countries don’t have the First Amendment, and clearly don’t have much interest in defending free speech. The shallow rhetoric of their politicians means little in the face of authoritarian actions by their governments that increasingly resemble the purer tyrannies of Russia and China. Unfortunately, many people who hold power in our increasingly ideologically captured American institutions clearly find these European methods of threatening speech in the name of “tolerance” quite appealing. Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was a witness at the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, also seemed gleeful at the thought of Musk being persecuted. After Durov was arrested, he warned Musk that he could be next. “While Durov holds French citizenship, is arrested for violating French law, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter,” Vindman wrote on X. “There’s a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo & malign influence & a growing appetite for accountability. Musk should be nervous.” Ah, yes, “accountability.”  When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was thrown into a gulag for questioning the Soviet regime, that was just appeasing the appetite for accountability, right? Keep in mind that the bureaucratic agencies that represent the real power in Washington are filled with people like Vindman. You don’t think that if they could use the government to stomp on speech they dislike that they would restrain themselves? If you think it’s improbable that our federal government wouldn’t arrest and imprison someone for posting memes, well, it’s already happened. Would a Biden-Harris administration use diplomatic pressure to prevent their domestic political opponents from being threatened by censorship from abroad? They seem to be quite happy to use it here. Western Europe is fast headed toward tyranny and that certainly serves as a dire warning. As thankful as I am for the First Amendment, it remains what founder James Madison called a “parchment barrier” to repression only as strong as the people and institutions willing to defend and maintain it.  The Constitution may buy us time, but the ultimate marriage of American-style wokeness with European-style censorship would mean the end of liberty in the West if it isn’t derailed. The post Dark Night of Tyranny Descends on Europe. Could We Be Next? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris has reversed her position on spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a wall along the southern border, Axios reported Tuesday. Harris is now in favor of building a wall after being attacked repeatedly by former President Donald Trump for presiding over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration to the U.S. as the Biden-Harris administration’s unofficial “border czar,” according to Axios. Prior to her second run for the presidency (she bowed out in 2020 before the Iowa caucuses), Harris had called the border wall “un-American,” a “stupid waste of money” and Trump’s “medieval vanity project.” Harris now says she backs the bipartisan border bill proposed in February, which would require hundreds of millions of unspent public dollars to be spent on further construction of a border wall, according to Axios. The office of Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., one of the lawmakers who negotiated the bill, projected that the legislation would spend $650 million on wall construction, a far cry from the $18 billion that Trump wanted for the border wall in 2018. Kamala Harris: "I know the importance of safety and security especially at our border." pic.twitter.com/SJ7m2Hz4JW— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 23, 2024 Her flip-flop on the border is the latest instance of Harris and her team distancing the vice president from left-wing positions she previously endorsed, such as banning fracking and supporting a Medicare-for-All health care system. The Harris campaign has made an effort to present Harris as tough on crime and somewhat hawkish on the border in recent weeks, with one advertisement released earlier in August depicting images of Trump’s border wall while a narrator speaks about her record as a “border-state prosecutor.” The Harris campaign has noted that the failed border bill—which would have permitted an average of 5,000 migrants per day to cross the border—does not include any new money for building a wall and contains other provisions, such as additional money to pay for asylum attorneys and judges, according to Axios. “Kamala’s RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall ‘un-American,’ a ‘waste of taxpayer money,’ ‘medieval,’ and said it isn’t going to ‘stop’ illegal immigration,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a written statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall,” Leavitt said. “As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall. Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind.” The Biden-Harris administration has overseen a crisis at the border that started after the administration walked back several key policies that the Trump administration had instituted. Since 2021, there have been at least 6.7 million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border and 8 million such encounters nationwide, according to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Kamala Harris Used to Think Border Wall Was ‘Un-American.’ Now She Supports It. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A cat was thought to be a seven-week-old kitten when found on the side of the road, but she turned out to be much older. PixieHeatherPixie, the cat, was found along the road and brought to a local animal shelter. "Initially, they thought she was a kitten because of her size," Heather, an ER nurse who often fosters kittens in critical condition, shared with Love Meow.Weighing less than two pounds, Pixie was the size of a seven-week-old kitten but already had adult teeth. Estimated to be close to one year old, she was a mysterious little cat.Realizing Pixie needed specialized care, the shelter contacted Heather for help. "They called me and asked if I'd try to 'work my magic and put some weight on her.'" HeatherPixie was very petite and remarkably friendly. What she lacked in size, she made up for in personality. "Anyone who meets Pixie falls in love with her. She loves to be held on her back like a baby and trusts all humans. It was impossible not to love and fight for her."Heather began working to improve Pixie's appetite while treating her severe stomach troubles. HeatherShe searched extensively for the right food and provided Pixie with supplemental care. Over time, it became clear that Pixie would not grow to a normal size.Though she was as small as a kitten, she behaved like a cat and had a strong purr motor that always gave away her hiding spots. "She is as coordinated as an adult cat, can climb, jump, and has moody moments. Her eyes are so expressive." Pixie found a new hiding spot, but her loud purrs betrayed herHeatherPixie enjoyed the company of Noey, the blind cat, who was about the same age but five times her size. "She didn't have any trouble putting him in his place."She also took a seven-week-old kitten, Buttercup, under her wing, wrestling and zooming around as if they were siblings. "She followed and pestered Pixie. I think Pixie enjoyed the companionship." Pixie and her foster friends, Noey and ButtercupHeatherPixie has a knack for finding the coziest napping places. When she discovered a bag of clothes, she plunged in and buried herself in the soft pile.Hoping to settle Pixie's chronic tummy issues, Heather spared no effort to help her. "We tried so many different things. It was two steps forward and one step back for a few months. Eventually, the shelter's vet decided to try a fecal transplant (oral capsules)." She discovered a bag of clothes and jumped right inHeatherWith diligent and gentle care, Pixie reached 3.5 pounds as a fully grown cat. While she had shown signs of improvement, she was still not "fixed."Heather began to worry whether Pixie would ever be "adoptable" as it would require someone with exceptional commitment and dedication to ensure she lived her best life. HeatherThen, one day, she received a message from a lady named Trina who had a cat with the same condition as Pixie. Over the next three weeks, they communicated daily."She convinced me that she would do absolutely everything in her power to help her. Pixie's new mom thoughtfully made plans for her home and medical accommodations. It couldn't have been a better match." Pixie and her forever human momTrinaHeather sat with Pixie one night to share the good news. "She slow-blinked, stretched her tiny paw onto my shoulder, and laid her head over my heart as if she understood and wanted to say thank you."After months in foster care, Pixie embarked on a long road trip to begin a new chapter. She rested on Trina's shoulder and fell asleep on her lap throughout the ride home. TrinaPixie quickly found her sunbathing spot by the window, and her purrs permeated the room.With treatment and an adjusted diet, Pixie's energy soared, and her personality shone through. "Pixie climbed into a shopping bag hanging on a door and found a cozy new spot to chill," Trina shared. Pixie likes to fit herself into bagsTrinaPixie was soon introduced to the rest of the feline crew. Despite being the tiniest, she held her own.Today, Pixie is officially off her medication and thriving with her forever family. She zips around the house with her feline friends, then recharges on the couch, in a comfy bed, or cuddled up with her people. She's fully grown but much smaller than her feline friendsTrina"I think she's happy here and has settled in nicely with the rest of the herd." TrinaShare this story with your friends. More on Heather's fosters on Instagram and Pixie on Instagram.Related story: Cat is Relieved When Dog Offers to Help Care for Her Six Kittens After They Arrive from Shelter

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