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Israel’s security cabinet appears ready to approve a ceasefire deal with Lebanon, which is run by the terrorist group Hezbollah. Biden threatened Israel with the UN to get the ceasefire. Currently, Hezbollah is bombing Western Galilee, and Israel is bombing Beirut. Netanyahu said there will be zero tolerance for violations of the ceasefire. Democrats want […] The post Permanent Ceasefire with Israel-Lebanon Is Reportedly Imminent appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A new notification system unveiled on Tuesday will warn parents just before holiday shopping goes into hyperdrive that some of the largest and most beloved corporations in the United States are funding the radical Human Rights Campaign as it pushes transgender ideology on American children The American Parents Coalition has dubbed their parental notification system, “The Lookout,” and says it will inform parents that some of the places they will likely shop this Black Friday and beyond are part of the HRC’s network of corporate backers. This includes companies like Disney, Target, Google, and Amazon, none of which responded to requests for comment. “By spending money at these corporations that partner with Human Rights Campaign, parents and children may be unwittingly funding Human Rights Campaign’s mission to normalize transgender ideology for kids,” the American Parents Coalition warns. The “Lookout” system will alert parents via text message about the HRC’s influence on their children’s lives, and which companies are part of supporting the effort. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The group helps parents determine which companies are “promoting gender ideology through their funding of Human Rights Campaign,” and teaches parents how to check their favorite company’s score on the HRC Corporate Equality Index — the mechanism thought to be behind Bud Light’s disastrous decision to use Dylan Mulvaney, a man who identifies as a woman, as its public face. Through the Corporate Equality Index and the Healthcare Equality Index, the HRC sways the practices of hospitals and corporations across the country by scoring these organizations based on how inclusive and pro-LGTBQ they are. To score well, hospitals and corporations must promote LGBTQ policies and engage publicly with the LGBTQ community through social media posts, programs, and events. For hospitals, this might mean allowing patients or employees to use bathrooms or facilities that align with their gender identity, rather than their actual biological sex. It can also mean offering so-called gender-affirming care, the activist phrase for transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers, even for children. As the American Parents Coalition campaign points out, the HRC also has a number of programs promoting gender ideology to children, including the “Welcoming Schools Program” that provides training, lesson plans, and resources to teachers and other educational professionals working with kids. It offers a list of “LGBTQ+ inclusive” books for elementary students, including a book about a little girl realizing she has “more-than-friend feelings” for her stepsister, a book about gay penguin dads, and others. Another book encouraged by the program, for kids in pre-school to third grade, is the story of a girl, Penelope, who believes she is a boy. The book’s stated goal is to “help students understand what it means to be transgender using developmentally appropriate language for younger students.” The idea behind the program is to create LGBTQ and gender-inclusive schools, the group emphasizes: “A key focus of our program is to provide comprehensive resources for educators to teach about transgender and non-binary people and to affirm all students’ identities across the gender spectrum,” the program states. The HRC did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.

A judge on Monday upheld a Missouri law mandating that voters show photo identification at the polls to cast a ballot.  Cole County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Jon Beetem ruled that multiple groups that alleged the state’s voter ID laws were unconstitutional “failed to prove their case.” Beetem said Missouri’s law was a “reasonable” deterrent for voter fraud and did not violate the rights of those who challenged the measure.  “Requiring photo identification at the polls is a reasonable way to deter potential voter impersonation,” the judge wrote. “It is not irrational or arbitrary for the State to enact laws that can deter voting fraud, such as voter impersonation.”  The law, signed in 2022 and in effect for the 2024 presidential election, was challenged by the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and multiple Missouri residents who claimed it imposed a burden on their right to vote. They argued the law would prevent many eligible residents from voting.  Beetem was unconvinced, saying that Missouri makes it easy for people qualified to vote to acquire photo identification.  “The State of Missouri provides free photo identification to individuals who wish to obtain it for the purpose of voting,” he wrote. “There was no evidence that any of the individual voter Plaintiffs were asked to pay money to obtain a qualifying photo identification from the State after asking for a photo ID in order to vote.”  CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE He added that “any ‘harms’ to the organization resulting from the law are self-inflicted” and based on speculation. The judge ruled that these concerns do not trump the security the ID requirements bring to the election.  “The State of Missouri has a compelling interest in promoting confidence among the electorate that the people who have voted in an election are the individuals who are registered and presented themselves at the polls.” The ruling was celebrated by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who defended the law in court.  “We went to court, we put on the evidence, and radical activists working to undermine our elections FAILED,” Bailey posted on X. “This is a HUGE win for election security.” The order came the same day that another judge in Missouri upheld the state’s law banning transgender procedures on minors.

A CNN panel went sideways in a hurry when Republican commentator Scott Jennings pushed back on suggestions from a fellow panelist that X — now owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk — should be more strictly “regulated.” The dustup began with complaints about the fact that Musk owns the social media platform and also has developed a close working relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, something that some on the panel found concerning. “No one’s regulating the n-word, no one’s regulating the criticism, no one is regulating how people are treated,” former ESPN host  Cari Champion said, arguing in favor of increased regulation of the platform. “How much government regulation of the First Amendment are you for?” Jennings shot back. Champion pushed back, arguing, “Let me tell you something, if I came on here and I just started calling you all kinds of names, do you think the bosses would continue to let me do that?” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “I mean, it happens to me occasionally, I don’t know if you’ve watched,” Jennings dead-panned. “But it doesn’t happen for me and I know that I wouldn’t be able to do that. There’s a level of professionalism in what we do here because we are journalists and we adhere to something, at least morally, and there is no moral compass on this thing called X,” Champion insisted. The conversation got even testier when Jennings noted that he’d recently read a survey indicating that X was actually the most “ideologically balanced” social media platform. WATCH: When I said on @cnn last night that @X is the most ideologically balanced platform, folks weren’t happy. Survey says… pic.twitter.com/VXVEbvwd38 — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 26, 2024 “There was a former member of the Hungarian Parliament who was writing in POLITICO, who kind of talked about this effort by that government and how specific it was in terms of purchasing media specifically for propaganda,” guest host Audie Cornish prompted. “Do you hear why they’re making that connection?” “I mean, is the concern that certain media outlets would become propaganda arms of political ideologies? Don’t we already have that in this country at a large scale?” Jennings asked. “Also I hear what you’re saying about X, I saw a survey this week, it’s now the most ideologically balanced user platform.” “Scott, Scott, stop, it’s too early. I just sat down. I’ve only been here for two minutes, you cannot say that. Who’s the source?!” Champion protested. “We’ve reported on this network,” Jennings fired back, referencing a report from CNN data whiz Harry Enten that showed regular X users were evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. “It’s not accurate and you know it,” Champion insisted. “Okay. I’ll let you make your statement, but my point is —” Jennings tried again. “Let me frame it a different way. The site changed radically, right? So whether you think the voices are somehow more balanced now, that’s fine,” Cornish interrupted. “But no doubt Musk’s influence is profound and that you open it up and now you’re there with his opinion and he is now part of this administration.”

Top staffers from Vice President Kamala Harris‘ failed White House bid disclosed how their subtle efforts to differentiate Harris from her boss, President Joe Biden, during the 2024 campaign were “never going to satisfy anybody” because voters wanted change. In a post-mortem discussion on the “Pod Save America” podcast, host Dan Pfeiffer, who was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, asked whether Harris could or should have done more to “distance herself” from the “unpopular, incumbent president.” Pfeiffer noted how Harris appeared “personally uncomfortable” with the situation, “as evidenced” by an interview on ABC’s “The View” in which the VP failed to provide a substantive answer when pressed on how she would set herself apart from the Biden presidency. Jen O’Malley Dillon, who made the jump from chairing Biden’s re-election campaign to leading Harris’ campaign after Biden dropped out in July, argued that voters did not know Harris very well and Harris’ team only had a 107-day campaign to share the VP’s story. “I do think that we really focused, from the get-go, on how she was different than everyone else — different than Joe Biden, different than [President-elect] Donald Trump,” O’Malley Dillon said before claiming that “at the end of the day, the choice was her versus Donald Trump.” Harris “put her own stamp” on issues “in a deeper what than I think probably we got the kind of full breadth of coverage on it,” O’Malley Dillon said, adding the VP was part of the “progress” made under Biden and “it’s complicated when you’re asked questions in certain ways.” Stephanie Cutter, a former Obama aide who became senior adviser for strategy messaging for Harris, said the campaign got the “Biden question” all the time, but they had to grapple with how Harris “felt that she was part of” the administration and had “tremendous loyalty” to Biden. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “Unless we said something like, ‘Well I would have handled the border completely differently,’ we were never going to satisfy anybody,” Cutter said. Instead, they focused on Harris being from a “different generation” and building “most of” her career outside of Washington, she added. Cutter explained the Harris team sought to “tell a story and give the impression that she was different without pointing to a specific issue,” but ultimately the data showed “too many people thought” Harris would be a “continuation — which on the economy was the incumbent killer.”

There is something so pure and magical about nature’s beauty. Every day, we wake up to a beautiful world, but sometimes, we don’t recognize the wonders around us. For several months, the aurora borealis, known more commonly as the Northern Lights, has been visible in many parts of the United States. However, they are typically visible much further north in Scandinavia. Millions of people travel to those countries each year to catch a glimpse of the beautiful colors in the sky. Americans living in Alaska also get a beautiful view of the sky painted in vivid colors throughout the year. A North Pole, Alaska, resident shared an incredible video of the northern lights seemingly dancing in the sky. He was taking video of the gorgeous green hues when things shifted most incredibly. The video he captured almost looks like it’s been doctored somehow, but it hasn’t. What you see is a true wonder of nature right before your eyes. A photographer captured a stunning display of the northern lights shimmering above the small Alaskan city of North Pole. pic.twitter.com/oW8K9fMglb— ABC News (@ABC) November 26, 2024 The Dancing Northern Lights Are Beautiful ABC Shared the video on X, and followers loved the beautiful light show. The video made plenty of people yearn to see the Northern Lights themselves. Like this person, “this is cool af but i bet it looked even better in person. wish i could see the northern lights someday.” And this one, “This is so gorgeous, I’d do anything to see the northern lights.” “Alaska’s North Pole just got even more enchanting,” someone commented. This person noticed how excited the cameraman sounded, “That guy’s voice is awesome.” This person reminded us to get off of our devices and enjoy the dancing Northern Lights and all of nature. “Look up and be curious instead of looking down all the time.” And we love this take. “Catch the positive and mood from everywhere!” This story’s featured image can be found here. The post Video Of Dancing Northern Lights Doesn’t Even Look Real—But It Is appeared first on InspireMore.

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A post shared on social media purports MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was crying on her show due to a post Elon Musk made on X. Watching Rachel Maddow freak out over Elon Musk posting memes about buying MSNBC made my morning pic.twitter.com/j4lbYCIWlO — Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) November 24, 2024 Verdict: False The video is […]