The impact of Hurricane Milton is already being felt in Florida. Two large tornadoes formed in the Florida Everglades and crossed I-75. “Two large tornadoes from Hurricane Milton crossed Interstate 75 in the Florida Everglades around 10 a.m. EDT, moving north between the towns of Miles City and Andytown. The tornado shown here was east of the first tornado and closer to Andytown,” AccuWeather wrote. BREAKING: Two large tornadoes from Hurricane Milton crossed Interstate 75 in the Florida Everglades around 10 a.m. EDT, moving north between the towns of Miles City and Andytown. The tornado shown here was east of the first tornado and closer to Andytown. pic.twitter.com/M65dpsvgWV — AccuWeather (@accuweather) October 9, 2024 WATCH: 9:55am: Large tornado remains in progress heading north. Approximately 5 miles WNW of I-75 and the Miccosukee Service Plaza.@NWSMiami pic.twitter.com/BU0OwO2Wdy — Battery Traveller (@IMCFTraveller) October 9, 2024 TORNADO crossing I-75 as we speak! Seek shelter NOW! pic.twitter.com/VYhef71ulX — NWS Miami (@NWSMiami) October 9, 2024 WFLA reports: While South Florida faces severe weather, several Tampa Bay area counties, including Hillsborough and Pinellas are under a Tornado Watch until 9 p.m. Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall somewhere along the Florida Gulf Coast as a “dangerous major hurricane” around 2 a.m. Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said. The Category 4 hurricane is currently moving toward the northeast at 16 mph with winds of 155 mph. “Watch as traffic cameras on I-75 near Miccosukee, Florida, capture a dramatic scene of a tornado crossing the highway, part of the severe weather associated with Hurricane Milton. So far, two large tornadoes have been confirmed, with multiple other tornadoes spawning throughout the region,” Rawsalerts wrote. “A tornado outbreak could develop this afternoon as Hurricane Milton moves closer to the Florida coastline, bringing dangerous conditions. Emergency crews are on high alert as the storm’s outer bands continue to intensify,” the post added. WATCH: #BREAKING: Mutiple tornados are being reported as one can be seen crossing west I-75 ⁰⁰#Miccosukee | #Florida Watch as traffic cameras on I-75 near Miccosukee, Florida, capture a dramatic scene of a tornado crossing the highway, part of the severe weather associated with… pic.twitter.com/rlEJTNmVu2 — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) October 9, 2024 Per FOX Weather: Outer bands of Hurricane Milton are already impacting Florida ahead of landfall, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds and tornadoes. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Tornado Watch for parts of Central and South Florida, warning that multiple tornadoes are likely to develop across the region. Several Tornado Warnings have already been issued on Wednesday morning, and this threat is expected to persist throughout the day and into the night. As Milton’s rain bands move inland, supercell thunderstorms capable of producing strong tornadoes, including those rated EF-2 or higher, are likely to form. Milton, a Category 4 hurricane as of Wednesday morning, will make landfall along the west-central coast of Florida late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. With the threat of catastrophic storm surge and hurricane-force winds, millions of residents in Milton’s path have been urged to evacuate immediately as time is running out. WATCH:

A.F. Branco and Joe Dan Gorman discuss Tony’s recent toons and related issues, along with some videos and some bad jokes   DONATE to A.F. Branco Cartoons – Tips accepted and appreciated – $1.00 – $5.00 – $25.00 – $50.00 – it all helps to fund this website and keep the cartoons coming. Also Venmo @AFBranco – THANK YOU! A.F. Branco has taken his two greatest passions (art and politics) and translated them into cartoons that have been popular all over the country in various news outlets, including NewsMax, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and “The Washington Post.” He has been recognized by such personalities as Rep. Devin Nunes, Dinesh D’Souza, James Woods, Chris Salcedo, Sarah Palin, Larry Elder, Lars Larson, Rush Limbaugh, and President Trump.

Six people have been wounded, two of them left in critical condition, after a stabbing attack took place in the Israeli city of Hadera on Wednesday, with footage showing the suspected terrorist being cornered and shot by armed civilians. 

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CHAPTER 40: The Art of Using Technologies to Alter Human Cognition Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is* by Linda Goudsmit Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States […] The post CHAPTER 40: The Art of Using Technologies to Alter Human Cognition appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A “CBS Mornings” anchor who pressed woke activist Ta-Nehisi Coates on his new book about the Israel-Gaza conflict was forced to meet with the network’s “Race and Culture Unit.” Tony Dokoupil spent an hour with the CBS News standards and practices team and its in-house Race and Culture Unit, during which he was lectured about the tone, phrasing, and body language he used during his interview with Coates, The New York Times reported. Following this meeting, Dokoupil met with staffers and told them he “regretted putting his colleagues in that position especially the ones overseas and in danger,” an insider at the network told the New York Post. “There were tears. [People were] very upset,” the source told the Post, saying that staffers were “divided” on the situation in Israel and “troubled” by Dokoupil’s questioning of Coates. Sources told the Post that Dokoupil didn’t apologize for his questioning, which pressed Coates on his views of Palestinians as perpetual victims, The Daily Wire previously reported. “For as sure as my ancestors were born into a country where none of them was the equal of any white man, Israel was revealing itself to be a country where no Palestinian is ever the equal of any Jewish person anywhere,” Coates wrote in his book, according to CNN. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Dokoupil, who is Jewish, pressed Coates on this particular framing. “I have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards, the acclaim, took the cover off the book, publishing house goes away, the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist,” Dokoupil said in the interview, according to CNN. Dokoupil also pushed Coates to answer why he left out so many facts in the book that are beneficial to Israel. “Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?” Dokoupil asked. Coates didn’t get upset or hostile toward Dokoupil’s questioning and responded by saying his book was not supposed to be an exact history of the conflict but about a different perspective, even though the perspective he put forth is the dominating one in academic and media circles. “I am most concerned, always, with those who don’t have a voice,” Coates told Dokoupil. Following the interview, some correspondents and producers at CBS complained that Dokoupil was biased toward Israel and showed that bias during his interview with Coates. On Monday, CBS News and Stations president and CEO Wendy McMahon and her top deputy Adrienne Roark informed staff that the interview did not meet the network’s standards for impartiality, Puck News’ Dylan Byers reported. While Dokoupil was forced into a meeting and to apologize to co-workers, CBS did nothing when anchor Gayle King lectured the father of an eight-year-old Israeli girl who was being held hostage by Hamas that he needed to have compassion for Palestinians as well. WATCH: CBS’s Gayle King LECTURES the father of a eight-year-old Israeli girl being held hostage by Hamas that “innocent children in Pales –Palestinians…are dying” too just as “innocent Israeli children” and, b/c of “politics,” “no one seems to be able to say enough, stop” pic.twitter.com/5qkg2QUMNn — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 15, 2023

Tennessee asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold its policy shielding minors from irreversible transgender procedures as the Biden administration seeks to have the law ruled unconstitutional.  In a 58-page filing, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti argued that the state’s law prohibiting doctors from performing transgender surgeries as well as administering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors should be upheld as constitutional. The Justice Department has asked the court to block the law, saying it violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.  Skrmetti said in his filing that the DOJ was attempting to “short-circuit” Tennessee’s democratic right to make laws on public health.  “The people of Tennessee, through their elected representatives, took measured action with Senate Bill 1 to protect kids from irreversible, unproven medical procedures,” Skrmetti said. “Lawmakers recognized that there is little to no credible evidence to justify the serious risks these procedures present to youth and joined a growing number of European countries in restricting their use on minors with gender-identity issues.”  In addition to the DOJ, the law was challenged by the ACLU and several transgender-identifying teenagers seeking to block enforcement. A federal judge temporarily blocked most of the law before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld it in September 2023.  Skrmetti responded to claims of discrimination by saying that the law is focused on age and use restrictions, not sex. He also pointed to the negative health outcomes that have been associated with transgender procedures for children.  Puberty blockers can affect bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, and liver dysfunction. Skrmetti also discussed how many European countries have walked back approval of transgender interventions on children.  “Many doctors, States, and countries share Tennessee’s view on gender-transition interventions for minors; the federal government and others do not,” he wrote.  Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Tennessee’s ban on transgender procedures on minors was signed into law by Republican Governor Bill Lee in March 2023.  The law was passed just months after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh released an investigation showing staff at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville discussing how transgender surgeries “make a lot of money.” Skrmetti referenced the investigation in his filing, saying that “lawmakers examined this live medical dispute” after media reports flagged VUMC’s activities.  The Supreme Court will likely hear oral arguments in the case in December.

Hurricane Milton began to produce tornadoes in Florida on Wednesday as the outer bands of the storm reached across the state ahead of an expected landfall overnight. A pair of twisters crossed Interstate 75 in the Florida Everglades around 10 a.m. ET, moving north between Miles City and Andytown, according to AccuWeather. Images of the tornados were posted to social media. ?️?BREAKING: Two large tornadoes from Hurricane Milton crossed Interstate 75 in the Florida Everglades around 10 a.m. EDT, moving north between the towns of Miles City and Andytown. The tornado shown here was east of the first tornado and closer to Andytown. pic.twitter.com/M65dpsvgWV — AccuWeather (@accuweather) October 9, 2024 The National Hurricane Center said in a late-morning advisory that tornado supercells from Milton had begun to “sweep” across the southern Florida Peninsula. As bands from #Milton begin moving ashore, conditions will be favorable for tornado development across the central/southern Florida Peninsula, even far away from the expected landfall. Keep your alerts active on your phone and take immediate action if a warning is issued for your… pic.twitter.com/k9MEZvO5Px — National Weather Service (@NWS) October 9, 2024 Milton has once again been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane and is expected to drop further to Category 3 before making landfall somewhere between Tampa and Naples. However, forecasters and local officials are warning that Milton will still be considered a “major” hurricane, capable of wreaking mass destruction, as its wind field grows in size. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Evacuation orders have been issued to millions of people across several counties, and shelters have been opened in areas expected to get the brunt of the storm. “Now is the time to execute your hurricane preparedness plan,” Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said in a post to X on Wednesday morning, adding later, “Time is running out.” As of this morning, Hurricane Milton is still a Category 4 storm. Even if it weakens before landfall, Milton will be a major hurricane with catastrophic impacts on our state. Now is the time to execute your hurricane preparedness plan. Heed evacuation warnings from your local… pic.twitter.com/qGlJsT7uW6 — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 9, 2024 Hurricane Milton is capable of unleashing heavy rain, strong winds, tornadoes, storm surge, and flooding, including in places across the state not in the direct path of the storm. Storm surge could be particularly deadly for those insisting on staying put. Some locations in the Tampa Bay area and farther south could have more than 10 feet of water rushing inland. Calculating just where landfall will happen remains a tricky exercise, as the National Hurricane Center said it was “not possible” to predict about 12 hours out as”wobbles” may happen. After landfall, Hurricane Milton is expected to quickly move across the Florida Peninsula and head out over the Atlantic Ocean away from the United States. Florida is bracing for Milton less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm, submerged the Tampa Bay area, and caused havoc in other states. Stunning images of Milton have been shared online, including from NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who is on the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavor docked to the International Space Station. Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton today about 2 hours ago. Storm looks bigger but less symmetric than yesterday. 1/2000 sec, f8, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps pic.twitter.com/XUjQEJPOGg — Matthew Dominick (@dominickmatthew) October 9, 2024 “Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton today about 2 hours ago. Storm looks bigger but less symmetric than yesterday,” Dominick said in one post to X on Wednesday morning. And don’t forget the so-called Waffle House Index used to signal an imminent disaster. The restaurant chain said locations were closing around Tampa, Fort Myers, Orlando, Ocala, and Daytona.  

As Hurricane Milton closes in on the Florida coast, millions of people are doing what they can to prepare. As a result, social media is full of people sharing their own journeys. There are those evacuating, of course, but then there are unique circumstances, like those who are currently passengers on a cruise ship. Then there are folks like Annie. She’s documenting what theme parks are doing to prepare for this once Category 5 and now Category 4 hurricane. Because Hurricane Milton is expected to hit much of Florida, many popular theme parks are directly in its path. This includes Universal Orlando. According to their website, as of writing this article, the park will close early today at 2 p.m. and will remain closed tomorrow, October 10. This means their popular event, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida, is also canceled both nights. @fastpass_shopping Universal Orlando is preparing for Hurricane Milton #universalorlando #hurricanemilton #universalstudiosflorida #universalstudios #fypシ #travel #vacation #orlandoflorida ♬ Soft and minimal instrumental music(1259336) – MaxRecStudio Closing the parks will help keep guests safe, of course. But that’s not all that needs to be done to prepare for Hurricane Milton. In the video above, Annie gives a glimpse into what the park looks like as the storm nears. Many signs and props have been stored away, and objects that can’t be moved are covered with plastic wrap. It’s a bit of an eerie sight to see the park this way, but it’s nice to know precautions are being taken. Guests Share How Theme Parks in Florida Are Preparing for Hurricane Milton “I was just there on the 5th before the hurricane. It’s crazy how much has changed,” someone shares in the comment section, with another adding, “They even take the high parts of the roller coaster off.” According to the park’s latest update, they hope to reopen on Friday, October 11. But this will depend on the outcome of the storm, of course, so stay tuned in case anything changes. Stay safe, everyone! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post See How A Theme Park Prepares For A Category 5 Hurricane appeared first on InspireMore.