Former President Donald Trump took a shot at Vice President Kamala Harris while speaking before the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday. And he jabbed the dismal conditions of the Motor City and its economy, as well, but with the promise it will thrive again if he is elected president. In...

The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, promised on Wednesday to punish residents who leave their dogs chained up and abandoned during hurricanes, especially with Hurricane Milton hovering over the state's western shore.

Before his speech to the prominent Detroit Economic Club, the Detroit Free Press published a photo of a massive naked sculpture of President Trump. The Detroit  Press claimed it was “sparking laughter.” The Detroit Press delegitimizes itself with this yellow journalism. The statue first appeared outside Kamala Harris’s Las Vegas rally. A spokesperson for the […] The post Democrats’ Disgrace: From Stalking Ducks to Trump Baby to Naked Statue appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) on Thursday bungled his attempt to clean up the fallout from his extreme call this week to end the Electoral College. During an interview with Michael Strahan on ABC News, Walz was asked about the far-Left position, noting that it was not the position of Vice President Kamala Harris. “The point I’m trying to make is, is that there’s folks that feel every vote must count in every state,” he said. “And I think the sense some folks feel that’s not the case. Our campaign does that. And the point I’m saying is, I’m in five states in two days. We’re out there making the case that the campaign’s position is clear, that that’s not their position.” When asked by Strahan if this was an issue that he and Harris disagreed on, Walz responded in-part: “The campaign and my position is the campaign’s position.” ABC: You said you think the Electoral College should be abolished. WALZ: “Well it’s not the campaign’s position.” ABC: So… that’s something you and Kamala disagree on? WALZ: “Umm… the campaign and my position is the campaign position.” ? pic.twitter.com/AaEEsDc5se — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 11, 2024 The controversy started when Walz said at two campaign fundraisers on Tuesday that the “Electoral College needs to go,” which forced the Harris campaign to release a statement claiming that it does not support abolishing the Constitutional mechanism for presidential elections. “I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote,” Walz told donors at California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Sacramento. “So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! At an event earlier on Tuesday, Walz told supporters that he is “a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.” Following the Minnesota governor’s call for the Electoral College to be abolished, the Harris campaign claimed in a statement, “Governor Walz believes that every vote matters in the Electoral College and he is honored to be traveling the country and battleground states working to earn support for the Harris-Walz ticket.” “He was commenting to a crowd of strong supporters about how the campaign is built to win 270 electoral votes. And, he was thanking them for their support that is helping fund those efforts,” the statement added. The Electoral College was established in Article II and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, which calls for “Electors” to “meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President.” The system requires presidential candidates to gain support from voters across the U.S. instead of focusing on states and cities with the largest populations. As governor, Walz has pushed for presidents to be elected by popular vote instead of through the Electoral College. In May of 2023, Walz signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law, making Minnesota the 17th state to agree to award its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. Walz is not the only Democrat pushing for the end of the Electoral College. After losing the 2016 election to former President Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton argued for electing presidents through a national popular vote. While Clinton won the popular vote against Trump, she lost to the Republican nominee in the Electoral College 227 to 304. During the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all called for abolishing the Electoral College while on the campaign trail. Harris said in 2019 that she was “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College. “I mean, there’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that,” Harris said. Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

Did you know that Goldie Hawn is the founder of the MindUp Program? While it may surprise some people to know that the actress is behind the curriculum, it is true. She and her non-profit, The Goldie Hawn Foundation, created it to help kids with mental health. Now, she is speaking out about it in support of World Mental Health Day. What Is Goldie Hawn’s MindUp Program? HundrED does a great job of describing Goldie Hawn’s MindUP Program. They explain that the program is a 15-lesson series published by Scholastic. It is “Based on the four pillars: neuroscience, social-emotional learning, positive psychology, and mindful awareness.” Established in 2003, this program “allows students to build a scaffolding of awareness and self-regulation that will increase self-control, empathy, optimism, and academic goals.” Goldie Hawn and her organization teamed up to create the MindUp program “in response to the global epidemic of childhood aggression, anxiety, depression, and suicide.” This classroom-based curriculum targets age 3-14 and has been instituted in 13 countries, reaching 7 million children. Gold Hawn Speaks About MindUp On World Mental Health Day There is no better time to talk about MindUp than on World Mental Health Day, and that is exactly what Goldie Hawn did. She sat down and chatted with Good Morning America about the program. Goldie started the interview by saying, “Our educators are everything.” From there, she dove into how her MindUp program isn’t just for kids, it is for educators as well. Goldie said the program could, “reduce stress” and “give them the ability to understand how to manage their classroom.” Goldie Hawn then shared how UFT called her and asked her to teach her MindUp program to their educators. They explained that teachers needed help “understanding the brain” of the little minds that they were teaching. The interviewer shared her admiration for Goldie’s “passion project” and talked about how it brings her life full circle because, as a teenager, Goldie was teaching dance to kids. Now, she is helping educators teach kids across the world. Way to go, Goldie Hawn, we can’t wait to see what you and MindUp have up your sleeves next. The source of the featured image is here. The post Goldie Hawn Gushes Over MindUp Program For World Mental Health Day appeared first on InspireMore.