A man who recently set ballot drop boxes on fire in Oregon and Washington State could very likely be experienced in metalworking, due to the way the incendiary devices were constructed. Authorities also added that the suspect may be planning additional attacks.

A judge has ruled that a woman who anonymously sued Sean “Diddy” Combs earlier this month for rape must reveal her name or her lawsuit will be tossed out. 

The Trump campaign has blasted Mark Cuban over "extremely insulting" comments against women who support former President Donald Trump. 

Ireland has brought a new Hate Crime Bill into law, but leading Irish gay and feminist advocates have said the new legislation was sloppily drafted and “threatens free speech and places our rights at risk.” Yeah, duh! The Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act, which Irish President Michael D Higgins signed into law on October 29, […] The post Ireland’s Gone Mad! They Okayed 72 Genders appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

I informed you a little bit earlier this week that I got a message from The New York Times in which they essentially were attempting to pressure YouTube into censoring all sorts of conservative podcast videos. The claim was that I was engaged in election misinformation; the entire email was all about how I essentially needed to be shut down by YouTube. If you’re demonetized on YouTube, they also shut down your reach. When I say that there is a Democratic Legacy Media Human Centipede, it’s because that’s the reality. The entire goal of that Centipede is to shut down anyone and everyone who disagrees with them. So Media Matters brought out a study — apparently behind closed doors — and fed it to The New York Times, which then attempted to get comments from people like me, Tucker Carlson, and a bunch of other people on the Right in which they were essentially attempting to elicit a response. They were suggesting that we are all election deniers and engaged in misinformation so YouTube could shut us down. But just in case you thought that the email was not a part of a coordinated hit, within 48 hours I got an email from — you guessed it — The Washington Post.  It stated:  Hi, Ben. I’m a tech reporter at The Washington Post. My colleagues and I are working on a story that examines the role podcasts are playing in casting doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election. The piece includes interviews with researchers who say podcasts are an especially effective medium for such claims because of how technically challenging it is for companies to do content moderation.  So what does that mean? The suggestion here is that companies ought to be doing content moderation. Which companies? Presumably, social media companies ought to be shutting down, once again, shows like this one. YouTube ought to shut down the show, according to The Washington Post. Or perhaps he was talking about Spotify or perhaps iTunes or perhaps advertisers.  Back to the email: A Washington Post analysis found that The Ben Shapiro Show is one of many nationally prominent podcasts that have aired these claims. Our analysis, based on your October interview with former President Trump, where you referred to Democrats as professionals at ballot harvesting and Trump referred to them as cheaters. Could you please let me know if you have any comment? My deadline is 5 p.m. Eastern today.  Notice the claim. The claim is that I was engaged in election misinformation by referring to Democrats as professionals at ballot harvesting. That, apparently, is election misinformation. But here is NBC News in May 2024: Democrats, for their part, have long enjoyed successes in mail voting, fueled in part by ballot collection where it is legal. The Democratic National Committee said it plans to spend ‘tens of millions of dollars in support of voting programs like mail and early voting. NBC News, you election deniers. You engage in election misinformation every day.  Of course, they don’t believe that I’m engaged in election misinformation. The thing they’re mad about is that I had Donald Trump on my show. It’s not just me they want to censor. They also want to censor Trump. They believe that it is some sort of informational crime for me to have on the former and likely future president of the United States. That’s insane. It’s totally crazy. They think we are supposed to censor President Trump and that I can’t say things that are perfectly true about ballot harvesting, which is one of the most corrupt practices in America. It’s legal but it’s also corrupt. The Washington Post has become a joke, so much so that Jeff Bezos had to issue an editorial just a couple of days ago titled “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media,” in which according to Gallup, Americans think the news media stink. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show Perhaps if Jeff Bezos actually wants to correct things at The Washington Post, it’s not enough to stop them from endorsing Kamala Harris on the editorial pages. Perhaps he ought to look to his reporting staff who are now doing the bidding of places like Media Matters as well as obviously coordinating with the Democratic apparatus to unleash two separate stories that came out almost simultaneously. One of those stories came from The New York Times and one from The Washington Post on Wednesday. Both of these stories say the same thing: that conservative media ought to be destroyed. The New York Times piece had a big graphic including people ranging from me to Tim Pool to Rudy Giuliani to Tucker Carlson to Michael Knowles. The title? “Election Falsehoods Take Off on YouTube as It Looks the Other Way.” Obviously, YouTube is not censoring things the way The New York Times would like YouTube to censor things. Think for a second how truly sick this is. You have members of the media, members of the press, people who are supposed to be about the free dissemination of speech, actively asking YouTube to shut down people they don’t like. And again, this is not about election misinformation because included in their litany of sins is me saying things such as Democrats set the rules on ballot harvesting and mail-in voting, all of which is true, as reported by The New York Times.  They quote me saying the Democrats rigged voting rules in 2020. What I actually said is that the Democratic Party rigged many of the voting rules in advance in order to advance mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. That’s also true. It was reported by both The New York Times and CBS News. Nico Grant, the ridiculous reporter at the New York Times, wrote:  In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States: the falsehood that President Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Within months, the largest video platform became a home for election conspiracy theories, half-truths and lies. They in turn became a source of revenue for YouTube, which announced growing quarterly ad sales on Tuesday. So again, the theory here is that YouTube is making money off election denial. Now, why would you quote me in that context? This is the dead giveaway. I’m the dead giveaway in the story. Why? Because I never said that Trump won the 2020 election. I’ve said repeatedly that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, at least by the counted ballots, by the state certification procedure. In fact, I challenged, between November and January, Trump’s claims that he had the legal capacity to overthrow the election or that Mike Pence did. Yet they include me in the article anyway, because it’s not about election misinformation: it’s about destroying everyone on the Right. That’s what The New York Times wants to do. The New York Times writes: While Media Matters is a partisan organization that regularly criticizes conservatives, reporters and academics frequently cite it as a source on YouTube misinformation because it devotes significant resources to tracking the vast platform. The New York Times independently verified the research, examining all of the videos identified by Media Matters and determining whether YouTube placed ads or Fact Check labels on them. So the Times is attempting to justify precisely why they cribbed Media Matters’ work. My favorite part of the story from The New York Times is what follows: I put up a thread on X that received millions of views. Tucker Carlson also released a screenshot of his replies to The New York Times reporter, basically telling them to go f*** themselves, which, coincidentally, is what I told a New York Times reporter. Here is the quote about our comments: Mr. Carlson and Mr. Shapiro did not directly respond to a series of questions, but attacked reporting from The New York Times. I did notice that when I put up the thread and then I sent this reporter the thread — which was extensive — he could have quoted that thread. But he can’t quote the thread. If he quotes the thread, it totally debunks his entire stupid story and shows the underlying motive. If you thought that that was just a one-off, it was not. Only hours later, The Washington Post put up their piece, titled, “In the podcast election, top shows cast doubt on integrity of 2024 vote.” The Post added: Claims aired on the free-flowing and beloved medium could undercut trust in the results of a razor-tight election, experts say. “Experts”? As always, they just go and find somebody who works at a leftist outlet such as the Brookings Institution, and get them to say the thing the reporter wants them to say. “Experts say” is just a guise for something the writer wants to say. I can find an expert to say anything in America. It’s so easy. Take the lead picture in the Post piece. It’s a terrible old picture of me. (I always enjoy when I’m shown in legacy media because they find whatever is the worst picture of me and put it on there; it’s kind of amusing.) I’m Captain Election Misinformation, according to the Post. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ But the only reference to me in the story refers to the fact that Donald Trump appeared on my program. What was the big problem with anything that I said?  They can’t identify the thing that I said: the problem doesn’t exist. Instead, they just say: During October appearances on the Shapiro and Rogan shows, Trump said that Democrats were cheating and that the media was interfering with the election. I have a question: Is it my job to not have Donald Trump on my show? Is that the implication by The Washington Post, which boasts “Democracy Dies in Darkness”? The Post continued: Asked for comment, Shapiro in a post on X cast this story as part of  ‘the legacy media’s coordinated attempt to DESTROY conservative media.’ Yes. That’s exactly what it is when you come out with the story at the same exact time as The New York Times, and both of you are cribbing from the work of Media Matters, and both of you are lying about the purpose of your story. Of course it’s an attempt to destroy conservative media one week out from an election. I’m sorry I thwarted your little stupid plans to get YouTube to shut down shows like this one five days before an election. Your little October surprise has fallen flat. YouTube, to its credit, has said this stuff isn’t election misinformation. It doesn’t violate their rules, and so they are not going to ban it. So good for YouTube. But that doesn’t mean that the attempt didn’t happen. And again, this is all a broader part of the attempt by legacy media to strangle in the crib any sort of competitive media and any social media structure that refuses to abide by its rules.

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’ billionaire surrogate Mark Cuban over his “insulting” comment about how “you never see him [Trump] around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple.” “First of all, it’s insulting my wife, who’s a very strong and very intelligent woman, and goes to nearly every one of my campaign events with me,” Vance said in a pre-recorded interview for Sirius XM’s “Breitbart News Saturday” with host Matt Boyle. “And it’s insulting to Lara Trump, who’s done an incredible job as co-chair of the RNC,” he added. “It’s insulting to Melania, who has the number one New York Times bestselling book right now. It’s insulting to everybody who thinks that our politics should be about public policy that makes people’s lives better instead of attacking your fellow citizens.” “Whether it’s Mark Cuban or Kamala Harris, or, you know, Joe Biden — why are these people so preoccupied with denigrating and insulting and condescending their fellow citizens?” Vance continued. “If you are pissed off that Kamala Harris opened the border, you have every right. If you’re frustrated that Kamala Harris’ policies have made it impossible for you to afford the price of a home, you have every right.” “Well, first ​of ​all, ​it’s ​insulting ​my ​wife, ​who’s ​a ​very ​strong ​and ​very ​intelligent ​woman ​and ​goes ​to ​nearly ​every ​one ​of ​my ​campaign ​events ​with ​me. ​And ​it’s ​insulting ​to ​@LaraLeaTrump, ​who’s ​done ​an ​incredible ​job ​as ​co ​chair ​of ​the… pic.twitter.com/O5dbD8B1fc — SiriusXM Patriot (@SiriusXMPatriot) October 31, 2024 Trump’s running mate’s comment came after President Biden called tens of millions of Trump supporters “garbage.” It happened on Tuesday during a Zoom call with Latino supporters when Biden referenced remarks an insult comedian made at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden. “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,'” Biden said in the call. “Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been,” he added. Cuban has since tried to walk back the comments following a backlash against him. “Let’s clarify something. This is what I said during a conversation about why Nikki Haley was not active in his campaign,” Cuban posted his explanation on X. “‘Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can’t have her around. It wouldn’t work.'” “I’m happy to clarify that 1. I know many strong, intelligent women voting for Trump. Including in my extended family. I’m certainly not saying female voters are not smart, strong and intelligent. 2. I know he has worked with strong intelligent women, like Elaine Chao, Kelly Anne, Ivanka [Trump] and many others[.] I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly,” he added. Related: Vivek Ramaswamy Mans A Garbage Truck: ‘We’re Not Garbage’

Ninety-percent of Americans agree that only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in American elections, according to new polling first obtained by The Daily Wire. Seventy-seven percent of Americans “strongly agree” that only U.S. citizens should be voting in American elections, polling conducted by CRC Research on behalf of the 85 Fund found, while 13% “somewhat agree,” 7% disagree, and 3% are unsure or refused to answer. Meanwhile, 92% of men and 89% of women agreed with the statement. “This poll tells us loud and clear that Americans continue to overwhelmingly embrace commonsense election rules like proof of citizenship to vote, clean voter rolls, and reject calls for all-mail elections,” said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project. “Yet even now, liberal groups are fighting to stop states from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls and weaken mail voting safeguards. That’s absurd. Americans want elections they can trust, and they want states to take action to stop fraud and deliver secure, well-run elections.” Broken down into political categories, the polling found that 95% of Republicans, 89% of Independents, and 86% of Democrats agree that only U.S. citizens should be voting in American elections, while 97% of people who identify as conservative, 89% of people who identify as moderate, and 84% of people who identify as liberal agree with the statement. On the flip side, 13% of people who identified as liberals did not agree that only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in American elections, as well as 10% of Democrats. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ The polling also asked Americans about recent efforts by some states to clean their voter registration files and remove individuals who don’t appear to be citizens. “Do you agree or disagree that states have the right to remove individuals from their voter list if they fail to prove their citizenship?” the polling asked. It found that overall, 84% of people agreed with that statement. Broken down into smaller data: 86% of men, 83% of women, 93% of Republicans, 83% of Independents, and 77% of Democrats agreed with the statement, while 95% of conservatives, 85% of moderates, and 70% of liberals agreed with it. The polling even specifically asked Americans about Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s August move to order the election commissioner to regularly update the state’s voter list to remove people who have been identified as non-citizens. Two lower courts ruled in favor of the DOJ’s request to block the purge, but on Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed Virginia to move forward with removing about 1,600 non-citizens from voter rolls. “The Department of Justice believes this is a violation of the National Voter Registration Act which does not allow states to conduct voter roll maintenance within 90 days of an election and is seeking a court order to require Virginia to restore voting rights to those affected,” the polling states. “Do you agree or disagree that a state should have the authority to conduct voter roll maintenance at any time to ensure only eligible individuals are allowed to vote?” Seventy-four percent of those polled agreed with this statement. Youngkin applauded the court ruling on Wednesday, calling the news “a victory for commonsense and election fairness.” “Clean voter rolls are one important part of a comprehensive approach we are taking to ensure the fairness of our elections,” he said. We are pleased by the Supreme Court’s order today. This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness. I am grateful for the work of Attorney General @JasonMiyaresVA on this critical fight to protect the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens. Clean voter rolls are one… — Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) October 30, 2024 Snead told The Daily Wire that the Supreme Court’s ruling “is a win for election integrity and the rule of law.” “90% of the public opposes non-citizen voting,” he stressed. “Despite a clear consensus, the Biden Administration chose to spend tax dollars on an eleventh hour lawsuit intended to force Virginia to add self-reported non-citizens back onto its rolls. When asked about that case, three-quarters side with Virginia and say that states should be able to clean their voter rolls at any time. By pushing to get non-citizens on the rolls, the Biden Administration is wrong on the law and on the wrong side of public opinion.”