After giving Ukraine permission to bomb inside Russia with US-made long-range missiles, Joe Biden has agreed to give anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine. Biden is wandering around the Brazilian rainforest, so he isn’t involved. However, Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, two incompetent communists, are involved. The US expects Ukraine to use the mines in its […] The post Now We’re Sending Land Mines to Ukraine appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

One of our NATO members, Denmark, chased a ship that they suspect deliberately dropped anchor, breaking two communications cables. It is the CN ship Yi Peng 3, a Chinese-flagged ship. The ship slowed to a crawl and then maneuvered 400 meters into Denmark territory. The ship is detained, awaiting other nations affected. Denmark did a […] The post Denmark Nabs a Chinese Ship appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

According to a Morning Consult poll, Trump has a 54% transition approval rating. It is only slightly less than how voters rated Biden’s four years ago when 60% approved. Morning Consult leans left. Also, the media is ripping him apart, lying about him and his candidates nonstop, yet most Americans are with the President-elect. Morning […] The post Majority of Americans Approve of Trump’s Transition Plans appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

For the first time in California history, a ballot measure seeking a statewide minimum wage increase has failed. The ballot measure results were finally called by the Associated Press on Tuesday, two weeks after Election Day. California Proposition 32, which would have increased the minimum wage to $18 an hour by 2026, failed by approximately 240,000 votes, a less-than-2% difference. The proposition was strongly opposed by the California Chamber of Commerce, which argued that the measure would increase taxes and force businesses to cut jobs, according to the AP. Earlier this year, Democrat-led California instituted a $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers, a move that caused many restaurants to hike prices and cut back on staff. “Californians are sending Gavin Newsom and the SEIU a clear message: They’re sick of being lab rats for their pet projects,” said Rebekah Paxton, research director at the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), a conservative think tank. “Voters saw the devastating economic fallout of the $20 fast food minimum wage law, and for the first time in state history, voted against a statewide minimum wage hike.” An EPI survey of 182 limited-service restaurant operators in California published in July found that 98% of fast-food restaurants in the Golden State increased prices after the minimum wage hike, 89% reduced employee hours, and 70% reduced the size of their staff. In September, Newsom wrote an opinion piece published by Fox News arguing that the “modest” fast-food minimum wage increase resulted in more fast-food jobs in the state along with “better working conditions, reduced financial stress and greater opportunities for upward mobility.” “Our commitment to raising the minimum wage is a testament to California’s values,” Newsom wrote. “We believe in fairness, equity and the idea that everyone deserves a chance to succeed. And these results dispel the cynics who say we must choose between protecting workers and growing the economy.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ The broader minimum wage hike that went before voters earlier this month was pushed by unions such as the SEIU and UFCW 770. Kathy Finn, president of UFCW 770, which represents around 30,000 workers, said, “Proposition 32’s failure to pass is disappointing for all Californians who believe that everyone who works should earn enough to support their families.” California’s minimum wage is already one of the highest in the country at $16 an hour for most workers, and six cities and counties in the state already have an $18-an-hour minimum wage. West Hollywood has the highest minimum wage in the state at $ 19.08 an hour for non-hotel employees, set to increase to $19.65 on January 1.

South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace is following up her Capitol Hill bathroom legislation with yet another bill protecting women’s spaces — this time, banning men who identify as transgender women from using women’s facilities on any federal property. Mace’s bill, the “Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act,” was obtained exclusively on Wednesday morning by The Daily Wire. It will “prohibit individuals from accessing or using single-sex facilities on federal property other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” It forbids anyone from accessing facilities on federal property that do not correspond with their biological sex, and it provides precise definitions of what it means to be female or male. EXCLUSIVE: @RepNancyMace announces a new bill to protect women on ALL federal property from men who seek to invade female spaces. pic.twitter.com/ZLkWTVfO2m — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) November 20, 2024 Mace sparked a backlash this week when she introduced a bill banning trans-identifying men from women’s bathrooms or facilities on Capitol Hill. The resolution specifically states that “allowing biological males into single-sex facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms designed for women, jeopardizes the safety and dignity of members, officers, and employees of the House who are female.” Liberal media outlets and lawmakers balked at the resolution, arguing that it targets a newly elected member of Congress — Sarah McBride, a man who identifies as a woman. Mace told Daily Wire host Michael Knowles that her legislation should not be controversial, arguing that independent voters and even Democrats are “with us” when it comes to “forcing this crazy gender ideology down the throats of our children and other Americans across the country.” “I’m going to do everything I can to protect women and girls here on the Hill, but also across the nation,” she said on “The Michael Knowles Show,” where she first unveiled the bill. “This is a question that needs to be answered. Do women have rights or not? Are we going to allow these men to bully us into submission? And I say, no, no more. I’m done with this.” “There’s no amount of bullying and threats on my life that they’ve made this week that’s going to stop me from this,” she added, promising to “fight like hell” for the protection of women and girls. In a statement to The Daily Wire on Tuesday, McBride argued that this is “a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.” “We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars,” said the newly elected trans-identifying member of Congress. “Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on.” One top conservative activist argued in a Tuesday memo to Republicans that it is politically popular to block men from entering women’s bathrooms — and that it is also the right thing to do. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “The American people sent Republicans to Washington with a mandate to protect women and children from transgender ideology,” American Principles Project President Terry Schilling wrote in the memo, obtained by The Daily Wire. “There’s no question about that. According to AdImpact data, Republican candidates spent $215 million in campaign ads on the issue, while Democrats struggled to respond. Republicans in the House and Senate should feel comfortable defending their positions not only because they are right and just, but because they are politically popular.” Schilling argued that “it’s clear that the Democrats have failed to learn anything from their 2024 election defeat,” reminding lawmakers: “The American people voted for a return to normalcy — and they voted against the Democrats’ transgender extremism. But it’s not even December yet, and Democrats are leaning in on defending the ‘right’ of a male member of Congress to hang out in the women’s restroom.”

A Minnesota hospital issued a profuse apology to staff after failing to abide by its “values of respect and justice” — by giving out free Chick-fil-A. Essentia Health in Duluth wrote to staff last Tuesday after staff clucked about the free sandwiches available in the St. Mary’s Medical Center’s atrium earlier that day. “We have received feedback from some colleagues who were concerned or offended by this occurrence, and we value colleagues feeling comfortable expressing their reservations,” Tammy Kritzer, senior vice president for regional operations at Essentia Health wrote in an email to medical staff that was obtained by The Daily Wire. “We would like to thank our colleagues who had the courage to speak up to widen our lens of inclusivity, and we appreciate all colleagues continuing to live our values of respect and justice,” Kritzer wrote. Chick-fil-A has drawn the ire of LGBT activists over the years, who have boycotted and staged protests over the company donating to groups like the Salvation Army, which activists claim has “a record of anti-LGBTQ discrimination.” In fact, the company emphasizes that it “values diversity, equity and inclusion” and does not discriminate or tolerate harassment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The hospital distanced itself from Chick-fil-A in the email, writing that the free lunch was “not intended to endorse a business or business practices,” the email said. “We respect all we are honored to serve and employ, and situations such as these are an important reminder to consider all viewpoints. As we strive to be thoughtful and inclusive as an organization, we will have learnings along the way,” the email read. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “In the words of Maya Angelou, when we know better, we do better,” the email concluded. “Thank you for giving us grace, as we work to be better, together,” the email read. Some cities have prevented Chick-fil-A from opening locations at their airports, including Buffalo, New York, and San Antonio, Texas. The chain famously does not open on Sundays to honor the Lord’s Day, Chick-fil-A’s founder explained, likely causing it to lose more than $1 billion a year. While Essentia staff squawked about the free lunch, they have been silent about some of their employer’s other decisions. The hospital, which did not respond to a request for comment, provides cross-sex hormones and more to minors. According to the Stop The Harm database, Essentia has performed at least five sex change operations on minors.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is set to headline a conference in Boston this week that will also feature activists who justified Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. Jackson will deliver a Thursday keynote address at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention. Representing educators from K-12 to college, the 100-year-old organization adopted a 2017 vision calling on members to “apply the power of language and literacy to actively pursue justice and equity.” The four-day-long convention, which has the theme “Heart, Hope, Humanity,” will also include Sawsan Jaber and Hannah Moushabeck, two activists who have been outspoken in justifying Hamas’s October 7 attack multiple times. Jackson faced criticism during her confirmation hearings for her membership in Harvard’s Black Student Association, which invited anti-Semitic speaker Leonard Jeffries to speak during her time at the school. Jackson told Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-NC) that she did not attend Jeffries’ speech and does not share his views. Mika Hackner, a Senior Research Associate for the Jewish Institute For Liberal Values, said it is “distasteful and unconscionable” that NCTE put Jackson in a position where she will be appearing at an event with anti-Israel activists. “A Supreme Court justice, a representative of the highest court in our land, charged with protecting the laws and values of our liberal democracy, should not be sharing any kind of engagement or platform with activists who promote the view that Hamas are “legitimate resistance,” Hackner said. Hackner noted that several sessions as a whole focus on “using education as a tool of social justice activism.” Conservative justices have faced criticism in recent years for attending events hosted by groups like the Federalist Society, with detractors questioning their ability to remain “apolitical.” Moushabeck and Jaber will share the stage during a Friday session, “Let’s Talk about Palestine: Voice, Experiences, and Education for Liberation.” During the talk, the pair will “model ways in which teachers can be agents of justice through their roles.” Joining them in putting on the session is Nora Lester Murad, who filmed herself ripping down photos of Israeli hostages last October. Moushabeck will also speak and present in two additional workshops about “Elevating Voices of Women from the Arab Diaspora” and “Reclaiming the Arab Narrative,” respectively. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Moushabeck has an extensive history of anti-Israel social media activity. Notably, on October 7, 2023, while Hamas was actively massacring, raping, and kidnapping Israeli civilians, she posted a video defending the terror group’s actions. “When you reframe what’s happening, you understand why people would retaliate, why people would resist,” she stated. “We’ve seen this in history before we’ve seen this happen here on this very land when settlers took over.” Other posts include a picture of the Palestinian flag with the words “This is the only flag I fly with pride” and a video with her wearing a “fatties for a Free Palestine shirt.” According to the K12 Extremism Tracker, Moushabeck was involved in a “Queer story time for Palestine” event in Amherst, Massachusetts with a drag queen where toddlers chanted “Free Palestine.” Moushabeck is currently the co-owner of Interlink Publishing Group, according to her LinkedIn. Jaber has also justified the October 7 attacks, tweeting days after the invasion Palestinians could not be faulted, because they were “fighting for their humanity.” “That doesn’t make them terrorists,” Jaber said. “It makes them human.” The day after the attacks, Jaber tweeted that her “heart hurts” as her “people get demonized and massacres [sic] again.” In a follow-up tweet, she claimed the media “didn’t report fairly” on the Black Lives Matter movement, the American southern border, or the South Dakota pipeline, adding “Why do we believe it would report fairly on Palestine?” She even used the hashtag “#StopTheEthnicCleansing.” The next day, Jaber condemned school districts sending out pro-Israel statements about the October 7 attack, writing the statements are telling Palestinian students “their lives & lives experiences do not matter.” When Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza, Jabar shared a post mourning him, with the text “resistance never dies” and another stating “ideas are bulletproof,” according to K12 Extremism Tracker. Jaber is scheduled to speak at an American Muslims for Palestine conference next week. The group is currently under investigation for allegedly funneling funds to the terrorist group Hamas, The Jerusalem Post reported. Jaber is the Chair of the English Department at Maine West High School, a public school in Illinois. She will also be a presenter in several other social justice workshops including “Beyond Hope: Storytelling, Freedom-Dreaming, and Curricular Design as Pedagogies of Resistance” which will present “pedagogical tactics for bridging literacy, imagination, and activism with youth.” Jaber will also join “Designing Spaces for Students to Reshape Their Worlds: An Antiracist Pedagogy Workshop.” Participants will learn how to design and assess assignments that guide students’ use of these resources to address the social change they desire.” Jaber will also present at the “Toward Empowerment, Equity, and Education for Liberation: The Intersections of Critical Literacy and Social Justice” and “Cultivating an Inclusive Classroom: Utilizing Picturebooks to Support Palestinian Identity” workshops. Jany Finkielsztein, who will be speaking at a poster session for “Multicultural Jewish Children’s Literature” told The Daily Wire it is “deeply concerning” that activists are bringing their ideology into the classrooms. “It is deeply concerning that activists who glorify the October 7 massacre are attempting to infiltrate our schools with hateful propaganda,” Finkielsztein told The Daily Wire. Jaber shared a video to her Instagram from writer and activist, Ijeoma Oluo, on Tuesday, that complains that NCTE has a “Palestine problem” and demanded that Finkielsztein’s employer, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, be disinvited from the conference. The video was accompanied by a link to a petition accusing the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis of being a “right-wing pro-Israel group that defames educators and undermines the freedom to teach and the right to learn.” “How can we be safe at the convention if CAMERA is there surveilling us?” the petition asks. “CAMERA is not only a political organization with which we disagree, but a racist and predatory organization that is dangerous to teachers, schools, and students.” CAMERA fired back at the petition in an exclusive statement to The Daily Wire, accusing the organizers of creating a “hostile environment for Jewish participants.” “It is ironic and deeply troubling that those who claim to champion inclusion are actively seeking to intimidate Jewish participants and stifle diverse perspectives,” said CAMERA Communications Director Jonah Cohen. “CAMERA’s presence at the NCTE convention is rooted in our commitment to respectful dialogue, accurate education, and the inclusion of all voices — Jewish, Palestinian, and others.” Cohen added that he hopes Jackson and other leaders will “step up as the moral voice needed to challenge these dangerous trends.” Other sessions of the conference taught by other educators include “Disrupting the Canon with LGBTQIA+ Themes, Stories, and Discussions,” which will focus on “incorporating LGBTQIA+ themes and stories in education,” and “the stories of transgender parents in early childhood education.” The “Past and Present of LGBTQIA+ In Elementary Education” will focus on “the importance of humanizing queer and trans content in primary schools.” Jackson and Moushabeck did not respond to a request for comment. Jaber declined to comment.

The people we love stay with us, even long after they pass away. This can be seen in the story Alan Tudyk recently told while making an appearance on Mythical Kitchen, a popular YouTube channel. While chatting with host Josh Scherer, the topic of the late Heath Ledger came up. While Alan Tudyk’s and Heath Ledger’s careers are quite different overall, the two crossed paths for one film: A Knight’s Tale. When this beloved movie came out in 2001, both actors were still fairly new in Hollywood. Now, all these years later, it is still a fan favorite. But even the biggest fans may not know what was going on in Tudyk’s life at that time. Sadly, a friend of his passed away, and it hit him hard. Thankfully, Ledger was there to give him the love and support he needed. Watch the video below to see Tudyk reminisce over the kindness Ledger showed him. @mythicalkitchen A Knight's Tale is a CLASSIC #alantudyk #heathledger #aknightstale #Mythical #LastMeals ♬ original sound – Mythical Kitchen Alan Tudyk Will Never Forget the Kindness Heath Ledger Showed Him During a Difficult Time in His Life When Ledger found out that Tudyk was drinking and not doing well, he didn’t hesitate to share his own address. “… and I just went and stayed with him for a few days,” Tudyk shares. “And he was dating Heather Graham at the time. So, Heather Graham and Heath Ledger were sort of my nurses.” For fans, this story only further confirms what they already knew about both of these talented actors: They have hearts of gold. “I’ve never heard a single negative thing about Heath Ledger. He was just a kind, sensitive, wonderful human being by all accounts,” one fan points out, with another adding, “Alan Tudyk is a real national treasure, he’s truly amazing in everything he’s been in.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Heath Ledger’s Kindness Meant “Everything” To “A Knight’s Tale” Co-Star Alan Tudyk appeared first on InspireMore.