The Washington Post reportedly has lost more than 200,000 digital subscriptions after the newspaper said it would not endorse a candidate in the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Three members of the Post’s nine-member editorial board stepped down on the heels of that decision. People who resign can be replaced tomorrow. Will […] The post WaPo Lost 200K Digital Subscriptions for Not Endorsing Harris appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Tulsi Gabbard, Riley Gaines, and a group of high-powered athletes appeared together at a special event in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania on Sunday, where they discussed the importance of protecting women’s sports, a hot-button issue the current election cycle. About 300 people rushed into the rally-style event when the doors opened at the Philadelphia arena. The event was hosted by Independent Women’s Voice, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for good policy for women. Many men as well as women attended, some with their teenaged sons and daughters. Several people had donned MAGA hats, and some wore clothing expressing their passion for the issue. One man wore a shirt reading, “No Men In Women’s Sports,” and another wore a shirt covered in American flag print. “Excited to be here today to highlight the fact that our leaders are failing us, number one. We need leaders that stand with women.” Gaines told The Daily Wire in an interview before the event. I joined @IWV yesterday for their "Stand With Women" event in Philadelphia Riley Gaines, Tulsi Gabbard, and other top athletes spoke about keeping men out of women's sports ahead of the election in this critical swing state pic.twitter.com/p4griVUEYD — Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) October 28, 2024 Gaines is a former University of Kentucky swimmer who tied with trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas for fifth place at the NCAA championship in 2022. Gaines left the competition that day with a sixth-place trophy after the NCAA decided to give Thomas the fifth-place trophy. Since then, Gaines has become a vocal advocate for women’s sports, arguing that trans-identifying males should not be allowed to compete alongside women and girls. She emphasized that women care about more than just abortion, the issue Democrats are hammering the most. Kamala Harris and Michelle Obama are “failing miserably at the male vote so it seems like they’re going all in on the angry abortion-obsessed female contingent touting women’s rights,” Gaines said. “We are here to combat that narrative and say real women’s rights is ensuring equal opportunity. Real women’s rights is ensuring safety in our sports, privacy in areas of undressing. We as women care about more than the ability to dismember and abort a developing child.” Gaines said she was “super enthused” to hear Trump suggest he would use his executive power to ban schools from allowing biological boys to play on girls’ teams. She also said she has “absolutely” seen progress in the sports world since her experience competing against a biological man. “On the legislative front of course, but even in terms of how the general public feels and the willingness and the ability to say, ‘That’s a man,’ kind of like the ’emperor wears no clothes’ parable,” Gaines said. Gaines was joined on the panel by Gabbard and Sia Liilii, a women’s volleyball team captain at the University of Nevada Reno whose team forfeited a game against San José State University’s women’s team, which has a male player. Gaines noted that the girls’ volleyball team was able to express the “emotional blackmail” their university put them through as well as their safety concerns. “We wouldn’t have seen that type of unity and that type of outpouring of support from the community two years ago,” she said. “All that leads me to believe that yes, the tide is turning, and it’s turning in our favor.” “It’s been a whirlwind for me,” she said of her personal journey. “This isn’t what I necessarily prepared to do. I just saw an injustice and I was willing to call it out, but it shows you how desperate society was for that. I don’t say anything profound. I don’t say anything overly wise. I say there are two sexes.” Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and Army veteran who switched to the Republican Party last week emphasized her belief that “this is not a small issue.” “I just find it incredibly hypocritical,” she said. “This is coming from a Democrat Party, my former party, that claims to be the champion of women. You hear this all the time in this election right now. And it also is the party that says, we must believe all women. Why don’t you believe Sia? Why don’t you believe her teammates and those who are afraid of being smashed in the face by a male player at full force with a volleyball?” Two former UFC champions and mixed martial artists, Royce Gracie and Carla Esparza, spoke on the second panel, which was moderated by Sage Steele, former ESPN SportsCenter host. “Contact sports, but combat sports, I mean we’re putting people in danger here, I think that needs to be the focus,” Esparza said. Steele asked champion gymnast Jen Sey, who previously spoke out about the abuse in the gymnastics world, why corporations are “sacrificing girls and women.” “They’re cowards,” Sey responded. “Most people would rather stand with the crowd than stand apart and do the right thing, but courage is contagious.” Also speaking at the event was Cynthia Monteleone, a Team USA Masters track runner who competed against a man in women’s races and whose daughter lost her first high school race to a boy on the girls’ team. “Why is our current administration lying and pretending that they stand up for women when they’re trying to rewrite Title IX?” she said. “Not only did I have to deal with this. My daughter had to deal with this.” Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ), and Frank Murphy, a former NFL wide receiver and Heisman Trophy winner who started a charity to mentor youth athletes, also spoke at the event. “Especially now where it’s crunch time before the election,” Gaines told The Daily Wire, their goal is to “send a message loud and clear to voters, to our federal government, to leaders in corporate America, leaders in the academic world, that enough is enough. Do the right thing. It’s never been on the wrong side of history to stand with women.”

Communist China hacked several major American telecommunications companies as part of an espionage campaign targeting former President Donald Trump, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and others. Microsoft cybersecurity experts dubbed the group connected to the Chinese government “Salt Typhoon” with “Typhoon” denoting that the operation is Chinese and “Salt” indicating that it is a counterintelligence operation. The Biden-Harris administration was caught flat-footed by the breach and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which is part of Homeland Security, indicated that it will initiate a review of the hack “at the appropriate time.” The hack also reportedly targeted aides of Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Some of the companies hacked included Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen, the reports said. Officials indicated that the known scale of the attack has grown dramatically as investigators continue to learn more. The hackers are believed to have “compromised the phones of a number of prominent individuals in politics and national security, including some in the U.S. government,” The Wall Street Journal reported. One of the concerns that officials had about the Chinese discovering who U.S. officials were calling was that it would give them a list of people to target in influence operations aimed at manipulating decision makers. The New York Times reported that the Chinese are believed to have hacked systems used by the companies to comply with court-authorized surveillance wiretaps, including Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act collection, one of the secretive measures the U.S. has to discover terrorists and spies. The Journal reported earlier this month that the scale of China’s espionage is “unprecedented” as it looks to become the world’s leading superpower by stealing technology. Chinese hackers outnumber all of the FBI’s cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1, the report said. They are estimated to have up to 600,000 people involved in their espionage operations. “China’s hacking program is larger than that of every other major nation, combined,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Jeff Bridges opened up about his cancer battle and said it got so bad at one point that a doctor told him he had to keep fighting or he wasn’t going to make it. Speaking to People magazine, the 74-year-old actor — who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of blood cancer, in 2020 — said he wasn’t sure if he was even going to be back for Season 2 of his FX CIA spy series “The Old Man” after undergoing chemotherapy and contracting COVID-19. “While I was sick, I thought I not only wouldn’t go back to ‘The Old Man,’ I thought I might just kick the bucket,” Bridges told the outlet. “It got down to that.” “I remember one doctor said, ‘You got to fight, Jeff. You’re not fighting,’” he added. “And I had no idea what he was talking about. I was in surrender mode, just, ‘Everybody dies. This might be me doing that.’” Jeff Bridges’ cancer battle left him in ‘surrender mode’ while filming ‘The Old Man’ https://t.co/nzGmubZnWK pic.twitter.com/JdMndJtYfP — New York Post (@nypost) October 28, 2024 “And out of that surrender, like I say, all of this intense love surfaced, and maybe that’s what caused me to survive, I don’t know,” the “Big Lebowski” star continued. “But I didn’t relate to the fighting thing, more of a surrendering.” Bridges said it was the love of those closest to him that kept him alive. He said that with their help, he started doing physical therapy along with the chemotherapy treatments and got stronger, setting a goal of possibly being able to walk his youngest daughter down the aisle. “I didn’t know how I could do that, but I said, ‘Well, let’s train. Let’s put that as our goal,’” the actor said he told his physical therapist. “So we worked on that. And turned out not only did I walk her down the aisle, but I got to do the wedding dance with her. Then I’d rush to my table and put my oxygen on!” And now after treatments and physical therapy, the 9-by-12 inch tumor in his stomach has shrunk “to the size of a marble,” as previously reported. “I don’t know the exact size of it. I get MRIs and all that down the line, but my oncologist says, ‘You’re looking good, man,’” Bridges said.  “And I get all my blood tests and everything and everything’s going real well.” The “True Grit” star admitted he’s learned a few things through his health battle and said that  “All of your strategies for life, how you work — all of those get heightened.” “And love, that’s the word that comes to mind,” the actor said. “To see how much I love my family and my friends and the nurses and doctors that were caring for me, and how much love is coming at me. So it just exacerbated love, basically.” Related: ‘I Didn’t Think I’d Ever Work Again’: Jeff Bridges Gives Fans Update On Cancer Battle

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The members of the band Yes have become cornerstones of the Progressive Rock genre both in their work within the band Yes, their collaborations with other artists and bands, and of course their solo albums. When we speak of the great keyboard players of the 1970’s Progressive Rock movement, two names always float to the top of that discussion. They are of course, Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. That is not to take anything away from the other great progressive rock keyboardists like Patrick Moraz, John Tout, Tony Banks, and countless others. It’s just that Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman were The post Top 10 Rick Wakeman Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris challenged Republican former President Donald Trump to a cognitive test in the last week of the presidential campaign. Trump had mocked Harris as having cognitive problems and even called her "mentally impaired" at one point. 'Obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.'"Kamala is mentally impaired," said Trump in Wisconsin. "Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Kamala was born that way!" On Monday, CBS News reported that Harris had agreed to take a cognitive test and was challenging Trump to do the same. "This is what he has resorted to, and I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people," said Harris of Trump in the interview with CBS. Trump has hammered Harris at various events and mocked her intelligence. "She’s got bigger cognitive problems” than President Joe Biden, he said at a rally in Georgia. “She is a very dumb person, and we can’t do that. We can’t do that. I don’t want to be rude,” he said at an event in Pennsylvania. However, when the Republican National Committee was asked about the comments, RNC co-chair Lara Trump walked them back a bit. “This is Donald Trump, and he has never tried to make himself out to be anyone other than who he is,” said the daughter-in-law of the former president. “And obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.”In the CBS interview, Harris acknowledged that the election was very close. "It's a presidential race. And it should be close," she said. "In all honesty, I'm seeing a lot of enthusiasm around our campaign."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Nevada women's volleyball captain Sia Liilii delivered emotional remarks as her team officially forfeited a game against San Jose State University, which has a male on its women's team.Nevada players had announced their intention to forfeit weeks prior to their game against SJSU, which has a 6'1" male — Blaire Fleming, born Brayden — on its roster.'This is what bravery looks like, this is what leadership looks like.'However, University of Nevada officials rejected the players' vote and said the game would go on as scheduled in accordance with NCAA rules and state laws surrounding gender inclusion. Last week, the match was moved from Nevada to SJSU "in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, athletic staff and spectators," a statement read. Andrew Wevers/Getty ImagesAs reported by Outkick, it wasn't until the day before the match — scheduled for this past Saturday — that Nevada officials finally announced a forfeit."Due to not having enough players to compete, the University of Nevada women's volleyball team will not play its scheduled Mountain West Conference match at San José State," the school reportedly said in a statement.Nevada players held a news conference at game time Saturday with the support of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports as well as former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines. Image source: Independent Council on Women’s Sports video screenshot, used by permissionYou can view video of the news conference here. Gaines begins speaking after the 9:30 mark; Liilii begins speaking after the 19-minute mark.At least nine members of the Nevada team stood on stage during the presser, all wearing shirts that read "BOYcott.""This is what bravery looks like, this is what leadership looks like," Gaines stated before introducing Liilii. "Certainly more bravery and leadership than the people who are supposed to be protecting them have shown."Liilii received a standing ovation upon taking the podium, bringing the senior to tears as she prepared to deliver her remarks."I never expected to be blindsided ... having to compete against a male athlete," the Hawaiian student began. "When the news broke, I was stunned, as many of my teammates were. This is not what we signed up for."'We were told we weren't educated enough, and we didn't understand the science.'In addition to Nevada, four other schools have forfeited against SJSU, however, none have given specific reasons as to why they were doing so. This, despite Fleming's own teammate saying, "We all know the reason."The Nevada team captain addressed this head on, saying that the "the vague messages" from other schools weren't "directly addressing the injustice" the women were facing in their sport.She added that her school even made its decision without consulting its own players, the ones who were directly in danger: "We were not consulted, we were not given a voice, and we did not agree."Shockingly, the athlete revealed that when the team spoke to school administrators, the officials refused to even listen to their statements: "We were told we weren't educated enough, and we didn't understand the science." With that, the crowd in attendance loudly booed.Blaze News on Monday reached out to the school for comment on Liilii's aforementioned assertion but didn't immediately hear back.Liilii explained that she and her teammates did not expect to have to "fight for basic fairness" and that they do indeed understand the difference between a male and a female athlete.She went on to ask the NCAA an open question: "How many young women will have to be beaten, or see their friends get beaten out of an opportunity by a male, before enough is enough?"Liilii concluded, "Men do not belong in women's sports. If you were born a male, you do not belong in women's sports."Nevada on Tuesday is scheduled to play Utah State before returning home to play Boise State on Nov. 2; both Utah State and Boise State teams also forfeited matches against SJSU.On SJSU's schedule, the team lists the forfeited matches as "no contest."On Nevada's schedule, however, the loss reads "forfeit."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!