Throughout today’s football games, Kamala’s ads ran constantly. Fox shows her ads constantly. Harris appeared on NBC’s unfunny SNL show to make her look likable. It’s free advertising. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said, “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s equal time rule. “The purpose of the rule is to avoid […] The post FCC Commisioner Cites NBC’s Violation of the Equal Time Law appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

More than 2,100 people on Iowa’s voter rolls self-declared as non-citizens when registering for drivers licenses, Iowa Secretary of State Paul D. Pate said. He provided the names to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which researched each name to determine if it is a mistake or they are in fact non-citizens — who are not allowed to vote — then refused to tell Iowa what it found, Pate wrote in an October 31 letter. He later said USCIS confirmed that at least 250 were, indeed, non-citizens, but wouldn’t tell the state which ones they are. (Others may have become citizens after getting their drivers licenses.) Meanwhile, left-wing groups sued to block him from removing names by claiming he could wind up accidentally removing citizens since the data Pate had wasn’t fully confirmed. People who were flagged would still be able to cast provisional votes. “The Des Moines Field Office [of USCIS] has since informed us that they had completed a review of every name. Now, the office in Washington, D.C. is refusing to let the Des Moines office share those results with us. This information would be critical to Iowa’s election officials in this process,” the letter said. “The work has been done. The most current, verified information is available. Yet Washington, D.C. will not share it with us,” it continued. “If the federal government has information that will ensure only U.S. citizens vote AND ensure naturalized citizens can cast their ballot as normal, that information must be shared.”  Pate said he has asked the federal Department of Justice to intervene, but it refused. That led him to resort to seeking intervention from the state’s senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, both Republicans. The pair wrote to USCIS Director Ur Jaddou to demand that he provide the data by November 1, but he did not, they said. “Anything short of the information Secretary Pate requested is unacceptable. Iowa has worked in good faith to secure its electoral process and safeguard Americans’ cherished right to vote. Unfortunately, USCIS’ stonewalling has led to more questions than answers,” they said in a statement. The refusal of the federal government to tell a state whether registered voters are citizens or not is a stunning development after the DOJ sued the state of Virginia for removing self-declared noncitizens from its rolls by saying that it could only be done if each case was researched individually, and if it could be ensured that American citizens who were mistakenly listed would not be removed from the rolls. Both of those things apparently occurred in the Iowa case, yet the federal government still made it impossible to remove the names. In Virginia, people who said they were not citizens when applying for drivers licenses, then registered to vote, were sent a letter asking them to clarify whether it was a mix-up or not, and if they did not respond within 14 days, then they were removed from the rolls but would still be able to cast a provisional ballot. The Biden-Harris DOJ sued to block the move, claiming it was burdensome for people to have to respond to a letter.  The lawsuit said that Virginia was free to remove non-citizens from its rolls through “systematic” means, but only outside of a 90-day “quiet period” before an election. Given that there are primary and general elections, that could mean the majority of an election year is off-limits. Two lower courts sided with the DOJ, but the Supreme Court reversed them and allowed Virginia to remove the voters.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, refused to divulge whether she voted in favor of a proposal that aims to crack down on crime in her home state of California just a couple days out from Election Day. During an exchange with reporters in Detroit on Sunday, Harris said she had just filled out her mail-in ballot. When asked how she voted on Proposition 36, Harris ducked the question, saying: “I am not gonna talk about the vote on that because, honestly, it’s the Sunday before the election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it.” .@dsupervilleap — "How did you vote on Prop 36?" Kamala Harris: "I'm not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it." pic.twitter.com/PaOvZp0H1N — Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) November 3, 2024 Prop 36 would increase penalties for some drug and theft crimes, rolling back a successful 2014 measure — Proposition 47 — that downgraded offenses in these same areas. A summary posted online says Prop 36 would allow “felony charges for possessing certain drugs and for thefts under $950, if defendant has two prior drug or theft convictions.” Critics have knocked Democrats, including Harris, over Prop 47 while highlighting California’s struggles with retail theft, homelessness, drug use, and violent crime in recent years. However, Semafor reported Harris did not take a stance on Prop 47  a decade ago, noting how there were “some procedural reasons” while she was serving as California’s attorney general. Harris faced blowback on social media due to the VP staying mum on whether she voted for Prop 36. It “reminds me of the gaslighting faced by many who have chosen to vote Unity in 2024,” said Nicole Shanahan, a Bay Area lawyer who served as former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vice presidential running mate before they dropped out and rallied behind former President Donald Trump. “REAL science and REAL food, require REAL free speech and REAL debate. Anything else is propaganda.” Libs of TikTok, a popular account run by Chaya Raichik, posted a video of a smash-and-grab and said: “Kamala won’t say if she supports penalties for these people or not. If she wanted to crack down on crime, why wouldn’t she say that? She didn’t answer because we all know she supports this lawlessness. Soft-on-crime Kamala will destroy your city.” Kamala won’t say if she supports penalties for these people or not. If she wanted to crack down on crime, why wouldn’t she say that? She didn’t answer because we all know she supports this lawlessness. Soft-on-crime Kamala will destroy your city. pic.twitter.com/2KPzGPAGyM https://t.co/um2B8MbgTE — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 3, 2024 The GOP’s X account said: “Kamala: I don’t intend to tell you where I stand on policy before an election.”

TGI Fridays became the latest chain restaurant to declare bankruptcy on Saturday as 2024 is on pace to see the most bankruptcies in decades outside of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The casual dining chain announced the bankruptcy in a statement on Saturday. While the business restructures, its restaurants will remain open, the statement said. The company owns 39 restaurants around the United States. The company’s 56 franchisees are independent and not included in the filing. “The next steps announced today are difficult but necessary actions to protect the best interests of our stakeholders, including our domestic and international franchisees and our valued team members around the world,” TGI Fridays Inc. executive chairman Rohit Manocha said in a statement. “The primary driver of our financial challenges resulted from COVID-19 and our capital structure.” Bloomberg reported in October that TGI Fridays was potentially looking at bankruptcy as it navigated financial troubles. TGI Fridays announcement is the latest in a string of bankruptcies among casual dining chains, including some of the most recognizable brands such as the seafood restaurant Red Lobster and the Italian eatery Buca di Beppo. Hooters of America is under financial stress and is meeting with lenders and financial experts about its troubles.  This year is on track to see the most bankruptcies among restaurant chains in decades outside of 2020 as visits to casual dining eateries fall. Traffic to such restaurants declined 4.5% from 2023 to 2024 in the period from the start of the year to early October. Red Lobster declared bankruptcy in May after it made permanent a $20 special for “unlimited endless shrimp,” which ultimately proved a massive money-loser for the company and contributed to its downfall. The company lost $11 million on the deal. In June, Hooters said it was closing “a select” number of locations “under pressure from current market conditions.” The announcement followed a May reveal that Applebees would close dozens of its restaurants this year.

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A team of scientists has reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman who was once believed by her neighbors to be a vampire. This discovery reveals the human story buried by supernatural beliefs.PIEN, Poland, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead.Entombed in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland, the young woman was one of the dozens feared by her neighbors to have been a "vampire".Now, using DNA, 3D printing, and modeling clay, a team of scientists has reconstructed Zosia's 400-year-old face, revealing the human story buried by supernatural beliefs."It's really ironic, in a way," said Swedish archaeologist Oscar Nilsson. "These people burying her, they did everything they could to prevent her from coming back from the dead... we have done everything we can to bring her back to life."Zosia, as she was named by locals, was found in 2022 by a team of archaeologists from Torun's Nicolaus Copernicus University.Aged 18-20 when she died, analysis of Zosia's skull suggests she suffered from a health condition which would have caused fainting and severe headaches, as well as possible mental health issues, Nilsson said.The sickle, the padlock, and certain types of wood found at the grave site were all believed at the time to hold magical properties protecting against vampires, according to the Nicolaus Copernicus team.Zosia's was Grave No. 75 at the unmarked cemetery in Pien, outside the northern city of Bydgoszcz. Among the other bodies found at the site was a "vampire" child, buried face down and similarly padlocked at the foot.Little is known of Zosia's life, but Nilsson and the Pien team say items she was buried with point to her being from a wealthy — possibly noble — family.The 17th-century Europe she lived in was ravaged by war, something Nilsson suggests created a climate of fear in which belief in supernatural monsters was commonplace.Nilsson's recreation began with creating a 3D-printed replica of the skull, before gradually building layers of plasticine clay "muscle by muscle" to form a life-like face.He uses bone structure combined with information on gender, age, ethnicity, and approximate weight to estimate the depth of facial features."It's emotional to watch a face coming back from the dead, especially when you know the story about this young girl," Nilsson says.Nilsson said he wanted to bring Zosia back "as a human, and not as this monster that she is buried as".**********CHICAGO MOTHMAN - 'UNSOLVED MYSTERIES' VIEWER REPORTS! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (EYEWITNESS SUBMISSIONS)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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