A brawl erupted after the conclusion of the Michigan-Ohio State football game on Saturday. The melee started after a Wolverine player planted their flag at midfield in the Ohio State stadium following Michigan’s 13-10 upset victory. Police eventually used pepper spray to end the scuffle. The incident left players and coaches from both teams bloodied and injured one officer. WATCH: An on-field view of the Michigan flag plant and the altercation with Ohio State that followed pic.twitter.com/If9Ng7ecW0 — FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 30, 2024 Per ESPN: Ohio State University police said in a statement that “officers from multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in breaking up an on-field altercation. During the scuffle, multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray.” They added that one officer was injured during the altercation and “transported for medical attention.” Ohio State police said it will continue to investigate the incident. Buckeyes coach Ryan Day later blamed Michigan for starting the melee by planting the flag. “I don’t know all the details of it, but I know these guys are looking to put a flag on our field and our guys weren’t going to let that happen,” Day said. “I’ll find out exactly what happened. But this is our field and certainly we’re embarrassed of the fact that we lost the game, but there’s some prideful guys in this team that weren’t going to just let that happen.” WATCH: If Ohio State doesn’t want Michigan to plant the flag, they should try beating them! @stoolpresidente pic.twitter.com/4igWOLjQgZ — Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) November 30, 2024 “While the melee was going on between Michigan and Ohio State, Ryan Day looked on and two Buckeyes and a Wolverine huddled together to pray,” CBS Sports national college football reporter Brandon Marcello wrote. WATCH: While the melee was going on between Michigan and Ohio State, Ryan Day looked on and two Buckeyes and a Wolverine huddled together to pray pic.twitter.com/Bz3DwV6Ua8 — Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) December 1, 2024 From Sports Illustrated: The better response to a humiliating loss and Michigan’s taunting would have been to simply keep your heads down and get off the field. But this was another example of a rivalry gone overboard. It’s a football game, man. And it has run off the leash of perspective, into an unhealthy realm that it didn’t used to occupy. Yeah, there have been moments: Ohio State players tearing down the “Go Blue” banner in Michigan Stadium in the 1970s; Woody Hayes broke a sideline marker over his knee in 1973. But now we’ve reached a point where losing is literally intolerable. John Cooper got 13 years as coach of the Buckeyes with a 2–10–1 record against Michigan. Harbaugh lost his first four against Ohio State as coach of the Wolverines, but got a chance to turn that around. Such patience seems unrealistic in the current toxic times. Day is 66–10 at Ohio State, a ridiculous record, and yet it isn’t good enough to keep him from being booed off the field by the angriest non-NFL crowd I’ve ever heard. His kids had to listen to it. This is what Day signed up for as coach of the Buckeyes—and he’s paid phenomenally well, more than $10 million a year. Beating Michigan is part of the assignment—especially a 6–5, three-touchdown-underdog Michigan that is muddling through life after Harbaugh.

Video-sharing platform Rumble has filed a lawsuit against California over a state law that regulates how platforms handle videos with AI-created ‘deepfakes,’ claiming it violates the First Amendment. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Rumble and Rumble Canada. “California recently passed two laws that target and punish speakers for posting certain political commentary online. One of those laws, AB 2655, also requires large online platforms like Rumble to act as the government’s censorship police and remove such content from their sites,” ADF stated in a press release. “California is forcing Rumble to alter its speech and censor its users’ speech, while also compelling the platform’s speech, in violation of the First Amendment,” it added. “California’s war against political speech is censorship, plain and simple. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates,” said ADF Senior Counsel Phil Sechler. “Rumble is one of the few online voices stepping up against this trend of censorship while other platforms and sites cave to totalitarian regimes censoring Americans. Rumble is standing for free speech even when it is hard. Other online platforms and media companies must see these laws for what they are—a threat to their existence,” Sechler added. BREAKING: Today, on behalf of @rumblevideo, we filed a federal lawsuit challenging CA Gov. @GavinNewsom’s political censorship laws. Besides policing online speech and parody, California’s laws also force large platforms like Rumble to act as the government’s censorship police… pic.twitter.com/hHidJOKtpu — Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) November 27, 2024 Per ADF: In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to a parody video of Vice President Kamala Harris by declaring that the video “should be illegal,” and the California Legislature responded by fast-tracking the bills, which Newsom signed into law on Sept. 17. AB 2839 censors speech by using vague standards to punish people for posting certain content about elections, including political memes and parodies of politicians, and AB 2655 requires large online platforms to censor much of that speech. As ADF attorneys explain in the lawsuit, AB 2655 deputizes Rumble to restrict its users’ speech. At the same time, California requires Rumble to alter the content and viewpoint of its own speech and speak a message with which it doesn’t agree. California’s new law mandates that Rumble remove and label content state officials consider “reasonably likely to harm the reputation or electoral prospects” of candidates or “reasonably likely to falsely undermine confidence” in an election. The law forces Rumble to train its team to remove and label content based on inherently subjective terms that pollsters and government officials can’t even agree on, like what harms electoral prospects or what undermines confidence in an election. And if Rumble doesn’t comply, AB 2655 authorizes officials to file suits against it. Rumble sues California over the Gavin Newsom's 'war against political speech'https://t.co/SEXe6YgXgg — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 28, 2024 “Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal. I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is,” Newsom previously said. “I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California. You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content — including deepfakes,” the Democrat governor commented. I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California. You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content — including deepfakes. https://t.co/VU4b8RBf6N — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 17, 2024 WATCH: NEW – California Governor Newsom signs three bills outlawing AI political ads, "related to elections 120 days before Election Day and 60 days thereafter," at Salesforce event. pic.twitter.com/tMVN5MDJEN — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 18, 2024 “The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United States,” Elon Musk commented, referencing a viral Kamala Harris ad parody. “Would be a shame if it went viral,” he added. WATCH: The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Would be a shame if it went viral. https://t.co/OCBewC4vOb — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2024 Bloomberg Law reports: But the law, which is set to go into effect in 2025, is “substantially overbroad because it does not adequately define various material terms in the statute,” the complaint said. The suit said Rumble doesn’t have the technology to “automatically identify digitally altered images or audio shared by users” and even if it did, “it is unlikely that Rumble would be able to identify all content that might arguably violate AB 2655, particularly given the law’s vagueness.” The suit follows a pair of similar First Amendment complaints from the conservative satire publication The Babylon Bee and a YouTube creator Christopher Kohls who made a parody deepfake video criticizing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The Babylon Bee’s suit targeted another new California law AB 2389, which requires a label on satirical content. A federal judge in October blocked the California attorney general from enforcing AB 2389 against Kohls, finding that the law likely violates the First Amendment. State officials later agreed to not enforce the law against the Babylon Bee.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she will cooperate with the Trump administration in the deportation of immigrants with criminal records. Hochul insisted she supports legal immigrants but stated she would be proactive in calling ICE for those who break the law. This policy shift has some saying she’s trying to cozy up to Donald […] The post Gov. Hochul Will Cooperate in Deporting Criminal Aliens appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday evening that he has nominated Charles Kushner to serve as his U.S. Ambassador to France after he is sworn into office in January. “He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests,” Trump wrote on social media. “Charlie is the Founder & Chairman of Kushner Companies, one of the largest & most successful privately held Real Estate firms in the Nation.” “He was recognized as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, & served as a Commissioner, & Chairman, of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, as well as on the Boards of our top institutions, including NYU,” Trump added. Trump noted that Charlie’s son Jared, who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka, was a key player during his first term in office on multiple initiatives, including Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, & the Abraham Accords. “Together, we will strengthen America’s partnership with France, our oldest Ally, & one of our greatest!” Trump concluded. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE President Trump nominates Charles Kushner to serve as U.S. Ambassador to France ?? ? ?? pic.twitter.com/LhFO1hL53i — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 30, 2024 Trump has already nominated or appointed dozens of people to serve in his new administration, including Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for Secretary of State; financier Scott Bessent for Secretary of the Treasury; former Army veteran Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense; former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General; North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior; Former Acting Director of the Domestic Policy Council Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture; CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick for Secretary of Commerce; Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) for Secretary of Labor; former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Trump official Scott Turner for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) for Secretary of Transportation; CEO of Liberty Energy Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy; former Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education; Former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) for Secretary of Veterans Affairs; South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security; former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe for CIA Director; former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) for Director of National Intelligence; former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for Ambassador to the United Nations; former Trump official Kash Patel for FBI Director; and others.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky signaled on Friday that he is shifting his position on his country’s war against Russia. Zelensky is now reportedly willing to concede territory to Russia to bring an end to the war that was started in 2022 when Russian forces invaded. “If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelensky said in an interview with Sky News. “We need to do it fast,” he continued. “And then on the [occupied] territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get them back in a diplomatic way.” The Telegraph reported that Zelensky’s new remarks represented “a considerable shift in his position” after he previously indicated that Ukraine would fight Russia until the country regained complete control of all of its internationally recognized borders. Zelensky said that he wants to work directly with President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to bring a quick end to the war, but has declined to divulge details on how he will do it. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “I want to work with him directly because there are different voices from people around him. And that’s why we need not to [allow] anybody around to destroy our communication,” he said. “It will be not helpful and will be destructive. We have to try to find the new model. I want to share with him ideas and I want to hear from him.” He said that the two had a “very warm, good, constructive” conversation when they talked in September, adding that it was “an important first step.” Zelensky’s remarks come after Trump appointed Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to serve as his Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. Kellogg wrote in a policy paper at the America First Policy Institute that Russia’s war in Ukraine was “an avoidable crisis that, due to the Biden Administration’s incompetent policies and rejection of the America First approach to national security, has entangled America in an endless war.” He said the administration’s “risk-averse pattern in the armament of Ukraine coupled with a failure in diplomacy with Russia has prolonged the war in Ukraine, which now finds itself in a war of attrition with Russia.” He wrote that the U.S. plans to seek “a cease-fire and negotiated settlement” to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. “The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,” he said. “Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.”

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