Israel’s ceasefire agreement with the terror group Hezbollah is mainly about biding time for Israel until U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office, according to Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a 60-day ceasefire that went into effect on Wednesday morning, the day after Israeli lawmakers approved its terms. Negotiators from France and the United States brokered the deal, which Biden said on Tuesday was “designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities.” Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hezbollah has agreed to pull its forces out of southern Lebanon and north of the Litani River. Israel will slowly withdraw its own forces from southern Lebanon, while Lebanese and United Nations forces are to occupy a buffer zone, according to The New York Times. The deal is similar to an agreement struck in 2006, Resolution 1701, that failed after Hezbollah entrenched itself in southern Lebanon despite the presence of U.N. Peacekeeping forces in the region. Shapiro was less optimistic than Biden about the durability of the current ceasefire. “If Hezbollah abides by the terms, so much the better: Israelis go home and live in security in the north,” Shapiro said in a post on X on Wednesday. “But Israel is working under the likely correct assumption that Hezbollah will not abide by the terms, and that the agreement as interpreted by the Trump administration will actually allow Israel freedom of action (a freedom of action denied by Biden under his spurious and ugly interpretation of the same agreement).” Shapiro said that Israel, though it has been successful in its war against Hezbollah, agreed to the ceasefire because of three main reasons. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE First, “Joe Biden has been slow-walking aid to Israel. That slow-walking has gotten Israeli troops killed,” according to Shapiro. The ceasefire gives Israel time to re-arm and wait for President-elect Donald Trump, who is much more supportive of Israel, to take office. Second, the ceasefire relieves international pressure to end the conflict in Hezbollah that Israel has been under from the U.S. and France. And third, “Even under these conditions, Israel has an interest in taking Hezbollah off the board as a chess piece with regard to Hamas. Hamas has attempted throughout the October 7 war to rope in other powers to save it,” according to Shapiro. “It is a 60 day ceasefire. Joe Biden leaves office in 54 days. That is not a coincidence,” Shapiro said. One of the major aims of Israel’s war against Hezbollah is the return of about 70,000 Israelis to their homes in northern Israel. They were forced to flee the region because of the threat posed by Hezbollah rockets. Even with the ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet called for those Israelis to return home. Netanyahu’s silence suggests that Israel is not confident in the ceasefire and is likely waiting out Biden’s final days in the presidency, Shapiro said. “The durability of the ceasefire is completely dependent on Hezbollah and Lebanon abiding by it. If they don’t, and January 20 comes, Israel will do what it must,” he added. Let’s be clear about why Israel signed onto this ceasefire. There are three reasons. 1. Joe Biden has been slow-walking aid to Israel. That slow-walking has gotten Israeli troops killed. The ceasefire is designed to allow Biden to leave and Israel to be re-armed by the incoming… — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 27, 2024

Peanut the Squirrel and his pal Fred the raccoon’s owners have filed their intent to sue to the State of New York after they said their beloved pets “were executed, not euthanized” when they were seized in a raid by officials to be “tested for rabies.” In the official notice against the state, the guardians of the two animals, Mark Longo and his partner Daniela Bittner, accused the state of unlawful search and seizure, violation of freedom of speech, and other violations, TMZ reported. They are also suing for emotional distress, as well as lost wages. The animals were seized from Longo’s home in upstate New York on October 30 by officials with the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and then euthanized. At the time of the raid, the Associated Press reported that the DEC took both animals from the Longos’ home. The agency reportedly said it received complaints that wildlife was potentially at risk and being kept illegally. The Longos told TMZ that they have had Peanut for seven years, after rescuing the squirrel when its mother was killed. The DEC also said in a statement that Peanut bit an investigator on the hand while the squirrel was being confiscated, sparking the need to test for rabies, and “both animals were euthanized…” according to WETM. JUST IN: Peanut the Squirrel’s owners to sue the state of New York for executing Peanut and their pet raccoon, Fred. Mark Longo says justice is coming and he is ready to take on the state of New York. Longo and his partner Daniela Bittner filed a notice, stating their… pic.twitter.com/zaDzrzdjw9 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 27, 2024 In the notice to the state from their attorney, Nora Constance Marino, the couple claim, “It is submitted that the notion that a DEC agent and/or other respondents’ agent was ‘bitten’ by Peanut may be false and/or manufactured,” the New York Post reported. “It is further submitted that even if an agent was in fact bitten, killing Peanut would still be unnecessary, unjustified, improper, and illegal, it is further submitted that there is no claim that Fred the raccoon bit anyone, and thus, the killing of Fred was unnecessary, unjustified, improper, and illegal,” the notice added, claiming that the animals were not wild, but legal companions, and thus there was no reason they had to be killed. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE As previously reported, a timeline for euthanasia of the animals doesn’t match up and the Post reported that both animals were advised to be euthanized by state officials a week before the raid. “DEC is aware of an individual in Chemung County who is known to illegally possess an adult gray squirrel and at least 4 young raccoons. They may also be in possession of other illegal wildlife species,” the DEC said in a message to the county on October 22. “We would like to know if the Health Department would recommend these animals be tested for rabies as a precaution for human safety.” The State Department of Health letter to the county on October 23 then read,  “Wildlife cannot be confined like domestic animals, and if there was an exposure, the animals would need to be tested for rabies,” WBNG reported. Days later, officials took steps for their raid — but the Post noted that the DEC was already coordinating the animals’ euthanasia with Elmira Animal Control. Related: Peanut The Squirrel’s Story Gets Shoutout From Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch

Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson walked away with the Mirrorball Trophy after the dazzling Season 33 DWTS finale, and it was thanks to their last dance. As host Alfonso Ribeiro shared before announcing the winners on November 26th, this year’s results were some of the closest in Dancing with the Stars history. The five couples who made it to the grand finale had been neck and neck for weeks. But Joey and Jenna managed to inch ahead of their competitors with their impressive Cha Cha performance. The couple’s first dance of the night earned 29 out of 30 points from the judges, but their second scored a perfect 30. That brought them to 117 points for the season, which was only 1 point lower than Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong. Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten Earned A Close Second On Season 33 “DWTS” Of course, fans also vote for the DWTS winners each season. During the live finale, people were able to call in and vote for their favorite dancers. Those votes were added to the judges’ totals, and they pushed Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson to the top. “We put in so much work … everyone did,” Joey told GMA. “But it meant the world to obviously get this, and, you know, end it with an exclamation point.” Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten were the runner-up winners of DWTS Season 33. Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong earned third place, Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold came in fourth, and Danny Amendola and Witney Carson were the fifth-place winners. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “DWTS”: Watch The Performance That Sealed The Season 33 Win appeared first on InspireMore.

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It was announced Wednesday that Medrick Burnett Jr. has died.

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The Regime Media have a long, sordid history of looking the other way at stories that fail to advance their narratives or otherwise make Democrats in power look bad. But some stories are so bad that they break through anyway. Case in point: the toddler recently found at the southern border along with a bunch of other unaccompanied minors.  Per The New York Post: A 2-year-old migrant girl was found at the US border Sunday clutching a piece of paper with just a first name and phone number on it — becoming the heart-rending symbol of the Biden administration’s abject failure to protect the most vulnerable of asylum-seekers. The child from El Salvador, clad in a bright pink jacket, was among a group of more than 200 illegal migrants — including 60 unaccompanied minors — detained after crossing the border into Maverick County, Texas, authorities said. Footage of the little girl outraged pols in sanctuary city New York and beyond who ripped President Biden and “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris over the nation’s immigration debacle. Such a story would have garnered top billing during the first Trump Administration, along with caterwauling over the cruelty of such border policy and wailing in sackcloth over family separation. But, alas, not a peep on NBC, Univision, CBS, or ABC- which instead teased its Elton John documentary. NBC refused to bump its jihad against raw milk in order to cover the abandoned toddler. Corporate partner Telemundo, however was the sole outlet to air the story on its evening newscast: NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO 11/25/24 6:40 PM VANESSA HAUC: A girl who was only two years old was found on the southern border without any adult in charge of her, and along with about 60 minors. Crossings by unaccompanied children and adolescents have increased in recent weeks, as has happened during other changes in administration. But this time the young age of this little girl is surprising, as Francisco Cuevas tells us.  BORDER PATROL: Venezuela, mama? Venezuela? Yeah? How old are you? UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: Two. BORDER PATROL: Two? FRANCISCO CUEVAS: She is a little Salvadoran girl, only two years old, and was part of a group of more than 200 migrants intercepted in the Eagle Pass area by the Texas Department of Public Safety, who provided this video. What untold horrors was this baby exposed to en route to the southern border- a border opened wide by the outgoing administration? A media interested in finding facts and doing journalism would’ve found those answers. This embarrassment of a Regime Media instead suppresses the story. Perhaps they, too, are embarrassed by what they’ve enabled. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aire don Noticias Telemundo on Monday, November 25th, 2024: NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO 11/25/24 6:40 PM VANESSA HAUC: A girl who was only two years old was found on the southern border without any adult in charge of her, and along with about 60 minors. Crossings by unaccompanied children and adolescents have increased in recent weeks, as has happened during other changes in administration. But this time the young age of this little girl is surprising, as Francisco Cuevas tells us.  BORDER PATROL: Venezuela, mama? Venezuela? Yeah? How old are you? UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: Two. BORDER PATROL: Two? FRANCISCO CUEVAS: She is a little Salvadoran girl, only two years old, and was part of a group of more than 200 migrants intercepted in the Eagle Pass area by the Texas Department of Public Safety, who provided this video. 60 of the children, according to authorities, were between two and 17 years old and were unaccompanied minors. BORDER PATROL: Venezuela? Where are you going, mama?  UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: With my mom and dad. BORDER PATROL: Where are they? UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: United States.  ERICK ESTRADA: The kids were coming, right? No blankets. They came without sweaters. CUEVAS: Sergeant Erick Estrada with the Texas Department of Public Safety told Noticias Telemundo that these cases have increased in recent weeks. ESTRADA: It is something that I have seen personally and really, well, children come in conditions that honestly one does not want to see. UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: I come from El Salvador and I'm going to Boston. CUEVAS: This area of ​​Eagle Pass is where the majority of unaccompanied minor crossings have been recorded recently. But the authorities are surprised by the increasingly younger age of many of these minors who, according to the authorities, are introduced by coyotes through the dangerous Rio Grande River abandoned on American soil. UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: My name is Sharon. BORDER PATROL: How old are you, mama? UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: Four years old. BORDER PATROL: How old?  UNACCOMPANIED MINOR: Four years old.  BORDER PATROL: Four years old? CHRISTINA SMALLWOOD: The thing that is most important for us is to verify that everyone is in good health. They are provided with medical care if needed. CUEVAS: But in the border cities where these encounters are taking place, there is concern about the risk to which these children are being subjected.  NORMA PIMENTEL: Letting themselves come with the hope that they want to enter this country does not guarantee that they will be able to enter and that they will be able to stay. So I would like them to take into account the serious consequences that exist for them. CUEVAS: Texas is increasing surveillance to prevent more images like this. Governor Greg Abbott will be visiting Eagle Pass tomorrow with newly appointed border czar Tom Homan, in search of new strategies. Francisco Cuevas, Noticias Telemundo.  

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is facing a new commonsense challenger who is running on a pledge to make the streets of New York City safe by prosecuting criminals once again.Maud Maron, a former Legal Aid attorney, is seeking to remove Bragg from office in his re-election bid next year. 'Most of us can remember living in a much safer city, and we want that city back.'Two years ago, Maron ran for Congress as a Democrat but did not win her race. After her campaign, she switched her registration to independent and then, in October 2023, registered as a Republican, the New York Post reported. During her time as a member of District 2's Community Education Council, Maron has spoken out against "gender ideology indoctrination" and boys competing in girls' sports.Maron believes that New Yorkers on both sides of the political aisle are fed up with Bragg's soft-on-crime policies that have jeopardized public safety.She pledged to prosecute criminals regardless of an individual's race, religion, or immigration status and repeal Bragg's "Day One memo," which instructed his staff not to prosecute certain crimes, including resisting arrest. The memo also directed prosecutors to treat some major felonies as misdemeanors.Maron told Blaze News, "Just over the past few days, there were three stabbings across Manhattan. As a criminal defense lawyer, I advocated for my clients, and Manhattan needs an advocate now more than ever. Our communities need someone who will fight for everyone. From school children to seniors and underserved communities to small-business owners, all of us deserve a safe and prosperous New York City. Most of us can remember living in a much safer city, and we want that city back."She vowed to establish a special unit that would work in collaboration with the New York Police Department to tackle homeless issues and ensure the removal of violent individuals who are emotionally disturbed from the streets.Maron intends to fully leverage the mental health resources at the DA office's disposal and establish a special unit for the New York City Housing Authority. Additionally, her plans include the recruitment of more racket investigators and detective investigators.Maron also hopes to work with the state to repeal or rework the cashless bail reform and "raise the age" law.This week, Maron appeared on "Fox & Friends First" to discuss her upcoming campaign."I think, at this point, it's really not about party; it's about who has the best policies and who has the best ideas and who can really say, 'We will prioritize keeping New Yorkers safe,'" she stated.Maron noted that the city has experienced a 30% uptick in crime since 2019."That's notwithstanding the fact that some people are so fed up with the response that they get that they don't even call in crimes," Maron continued. "You're not going to call the police because you know Alvin Bragg isn't going to prosecute that case."She stressed that her message to voters is simple: We need to prosecute crime. "We need to support the law enforcement that we have in the city to do the job they can do, and we need to build a society where you can walk into a pharmacy and pick something off the shelf because our rules are designed to protect the law-abiders, not the lawbreakers," Maron added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In what is becoming an annual event, meat-eaters and others excoriated the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals over its bizarre ad trying to persuade Americans against serving meat for Thanksgiving dinner. 'Why are they accusing normal people of being bird molesters?'This year's installment included a sexualized cartoon message that appeared to compare stuffing a turkey to lascivious private activities. "Let's open up those legs!" said a nefarious-looking father figure while holding the turkey. "And stuff it ... all the way!" responded a mother figure with her hand inside the turkey. Behind them, mixed-race children replied, "Gross!" and "EW!" "When you say it out loud, it’s clear this ‘norm’ isn’t normal," the group added. "If stuffing a turkey feels wrong, that's because it is." The cartoon was widely mocked online. “We have a biracial couple sexually assault a turkey in front of the children and family dog," read a very popular reply. "Peta is disgusting. Why are they accusing normal people of being bird molesters?" read another response. "It's nice that PETA's social media accounts are run by weirdos who think people f*** turkeys before Thanksgiving," said another detractor. "Gotta appreciate PETA's commitment to racial equity and inclusion whilst accusing us all of being turkey rapists," said another critic. Others noted that by making the family inclusive, PETA accidentally cast aspersions on diverse families. "PETA the first company to portray a mixed race couple as bad people," read one popular response. "Big shout to PETA for being the first company since Jim Crow to portray a mixed race couple as the bad guys," said another account. In previous years, the group was similarly ridiculed for posting a cartoon showing a turkey stuffing a human being. And for Easter, the group asked first lady Jill Biden to remove real eggs from the traditional White House Easter egg roll. Despite PETA's best efforts, about 46 million turkeys are devoured each year on Thanksgiving by Americans. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Few public and private institutions proved resistant in recent years to infection by the race-obsessive ideology underpinning the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. The body politic appears, however, to be experiencing a belated immune response. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC, for instance, helped pave the way for the dismantling of DEI on college and university campuses nationwide. Lawsuits and federal civil rights complaints targeting companies' DEI initiatives immediately followed. Likely keen to avoid similar legal challenges and facing pressure from normalcy advocates, multiple American organizations once captive to the race-obsessed program, including Ford, Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply, Jack Daniel's, and Walmart, have abandoned DEI. A study published Monday by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University provided strong justification for why Americans should dismantle the remainder of the DEI regime sooner rather than later, noting that race-obsessed programming is divisive, counterproductive, and helps create authoritarians. 'Some DEI programs not only fail to achieve their goals but can actively undermine efforts.' The study, titled "Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias," noted at the outset that a Pew Research Center study found in 2023 that over half of American workers have DEI meetings or trainings at work. While the re-education that the majority of American workers are compelled to undergo is supposedly intended to increase empathy in interpersonal interactions, cultivate inclusive environments, and maximize diversity on the basis of immutable characteristics and sexual preferences, the study indicated that there is evidence to suggest "that some DEI programs not only fail to achieve their goals but can actively undermine efforts." "Specifically, mandatory trainings that focus on particular target groups can foster discomfort and perceptions of fairness," said the study. "DEI initiatives seen as affirmative action rather than business strategy can provoke backlash, increasing rather than reducing racial resentment. And diversity initiatives aimed at managing bias can fail, sometimes resulting in decreased representation and triggering negativity among employees." The researchers collected various DEI education materials used across three groupings — race, religion, and caste — in "interventional and educational settings," excerpted rhetoric from the materials, then employed the excerpts in psychological surveys "measuring explicit bias, social distancing, demonization, and authoritarian tendencies." Participants in the study were also tasked with reviewing the materials or neutral control materials. The results were damning. The researchers found that across all three groupings, participants "engendered a hostile attribution bias, amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice." In one test, researchers split 423 Rutgers University students into two groups. One group read an apolitical control essay about American corn production while the other read an essay incorporating racist CRT propaganda from Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. After each group completed reading their assigned materials, participants were presented with a "racially neutral scenario" — where a student's application to an elite East Coast university was rejected following his interview by an admissions officer — and asked questions about their perceptions of racism in the interaction. The scenario did not mention the race of either the hypothetical student or the admissions officer. 'Exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism.' The group previously provided with propaganda from Kendi and DiAngelo reportedly "developed a hostile attribution bias ... perceiv[ing] the admissions officer as significantly more prejudiced than did those who read the neutral corn essay." According to the researchers, "Participants exposed to the anti-racist rhetoric perceived more discrimination from the admissions officer (~21%), despite the complete absence of evidence of discrimination. They believed the admissions officer was more unfair to the applicant (~12%), had caused more harm to the applicant (~26%), and had committed more microaggressions (~35%)." Simply put, Kendi and DiAngelo had students seeing racism and unfairness that wasn't there. In the other groupings, participants provided DEI materials similarly turned out nastier than the control group. For instance, in the caste study, Adolf Hitler quotes resonated with participants who were exposed to DEI materials when the word "Jew" was swapped out for "Brahmin." "These findings suggest that exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism," wrote the researchers. "When DEI initiatives typically affirm the laudable goals of combating bias and promoting inclusivity, an emerging body of research warns that these interventions may foster authoritarian mindsets, particularly when anti-oppressive narratives exist within an ideological and vindictive monoculture," said the study. "The push toward absolute equity can undermine pluralism and engender a (potentially violent) aspiration of ideological purity." The paper concluded, "The evidence presented in these studies reveals that while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!