Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill today to end federal benefits including Medicaid, housing assistance, student financial aid, and food stamps for non citizens. This is an America First bill. Will Congress pass it? Non-Citizen Households… Any welfare: 76%Cash: 29%Food: 59%Medicaid: 58%Housing: 6% All paid for by hardworking Americans. pic.twitter.com/kmsu0zeFI7 — C3 (@C_3C_3) November 30, […] The post New Bill: End Noncitizen Welfare, Denaturalize Troublemakers, Re-vet & Deport Afghans appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

1980s produced and writer Stephen Downing passed away on November 20, 2025 from sepsis at the age of 87.(Photo Courtesy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15349529/MacGyver-producer-dies-87-sepsis.html via Facebook.com)Mr. Downing started out as a commanding officer for the Los Angeles Police Department and captured a second job, turned career, as a screenwriter and television producer.  Beginning as a writer on television shows such as Dragnet, Emergency, Kojak, and Walking Tall, then working in 1970s television shows such as Baretta and Police Woman, Quincy, and The Streets of San Francisco.  Moving into our beloved 1980s , he became a showrunner for F/X, Knight Rider, and RoboCop: The Series before landing his most famed role as producer of MacGyver.

Roughly 200 celebrities, including Sting, Paul Simon, Richard Branson, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ruffalo, and Ian McKellen, issued an open letter for Israel to release the convicted murderer and terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who reportedly served as the leader and commander of the Al-Aqsa Brigades that murdered over 1,000 Israelis during the Second Intifada. The statement reads: “We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreatment and denial of legal rights whilst imprisoned. We call upon the United Nations and the governments of the world to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.” Barghouti, 66, was convicted on five counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2004. Barghouti was found responsible for a June 2001 attack in which a Greek monk was murdered, a January 2002 terror attack on a gas station, a March 2002 attack at Tel Aviv’s Seafood Market restaurant, where three people were murdered, and a car bomb attack in Jerusalem. In 2017, The New York Times was harshly criticized by many people, including Yair Lapid, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, for publishing an op-ed by Barghouti while failing to inform readers that he had been convicted of five counts of murder and was implicated in four other terror attacks. “He was the leader of the second intifada before his arrest in 2002,” Jamestown reported of Barghouti. Israeli Brigadier-General Yossi Kuperwasser wrote: Barghouti was the leader and commander of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the key terror component of Fatah that carried out many terror attacks throughout the Second Intifada. He was also the leader of the umbrella organization of the Islamic and national forces, which oversaw the entire range of terror activity during those years, and served as coordinator between the different organizations. … Documents captured by the IDF in “Operation Defensive Shield” (April 2002) shed light on Barghouti’s involvement in commanding the terror efforts under Arafat. In those documents, Barghouti asks Arafat to authorize payments to several lists of Fatah terrorists, while he himself was approached by local commanders who asked him to authorize payments to terrorists from their units. According to data, during the Second Intifada, 764 of the 1,010 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 – 2005 were civilians. Just between May 2001 and May 2002, prior to the bombing at Hebrew University, there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro’s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 15 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bat-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at Café Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matza restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002.

A leftist federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama issued an order on Tuesday blocking the Trump administration from cutting funding going toward organizations like Planned Parenthood that end the lives of unborn children.  U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services cannot cut off Medicaid funding going toward Planned Parenthood. Talwani sided with California and other Democrat-led states that sued to keep Medicaid funding flowing to Planned Parenthood affiliates. Talwani wrote that HHS failed “to provide clear notice as required by the Spending Clause of the United States Constitution” to the Democrat-led states. Medicaid funding for abortion-promoting entities was cut off for one year by a provision of the GOP-backed “Big, Beautiful Bill.”  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit previously overturned another decision from Talwani that sided with Planned Parenthood in a suit over the provision.  Talwani’s decision was met with criticism from pro-life advocates.  “The Democrats and their radical activist judges are desperately seeking to thwart the will of the people and bail out the Big Abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is federal law passed by Congress and signed by the president,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “This fight is not over. The pro-life movement will work tirelessly to ensure the Democrats do not prevail and taxpayers are never forced to pay a dime to prop up Big Abortion businesses,” Dannenfelser added.  Talwani has a history of leftist activism and has volunteered for and donated to prominent Democrat politicians, including Obama and Senator Elizabeth Warren. 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. The federal judge donated a total of $1,725 to Democrat politicians and the Democratic Party, including $1,000 to former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), $350 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and $100 to Obama. Talwani also gave another $275 to the Democratic National Committee. Talwani explained on her Senate questionnaire that she also volunteered to knock on doors for Obama in 2008 and volunteered to canvass on behalf of Elizabeth Warren in 2012.  She has sided against the Trump administration in other rulings, including decisions to revoke Temporary Protected Status for half a million migrants, and a 2019 ruling said Immigration and Customs Enforcement was allowed to arrest illegal aliens on courthouse grounds in the state of Massachusetts.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries agreed with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Rep. Henry Cuellar on bribery, money laundering, and “foreign influence” charges from the Biden-era Justice Department in 2024. “Listen, the reality is this indictment was very thin to begin with, in my view. The charges were eventually going to be dismissed, if not at the trial court level by the Supreme Court, as they’ve repeatedly done in instances just like this,” the Democrat leader said on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Wednesday, adding that Cuellar is a “beloved” member of the chamber. He further added, “I don’t know why the President decided to do this. I think the outcome was exactly the right outcome.” When CNN asked Jeffries if Cuellar had planned to switch parties, as he represents a south Texas district that the president won last year, he anticipates that the lawmaker will remain a Democrat. “I think Congressman Cuellar is a highly-valued Member of the House Democratic Caucus, and I expect that he’ll continue to remain a highly-valued Member of the House Democratic Caucus,” he added. 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. The Texas Democrat filed to run in the Democratic primary earlier on Wednesday. Punchbowl News reported that Cuellar said “nothing has changed” when asked on Capitol Hill after the pardon whether he planned to become a Republican. The 2024 indictment alleged that Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, “accepted approximately $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities: an oil and gas company wholly owned and controlled by the Government of Azerbaijan, and a bank headquartered in Mexico City.” Trump has been a critic of the indictment since it was announced in May 2024, saying it was politically motivated due to the congressman’s opposition to the Biden administration’s lax border policies. The Biden administration caught flak from Republicans and a handful of Democrats for the border crisis that persisted throughout the term, which led to major humanitarian issues in communities throughout the southwest that were ill-equipped to handle the resulting massive influx of individuals crossing illegally. “I want to thank President Trump for his tremendous leadership and for taking the time to look at the facts. I thank God for standing with my family and I during this difficult time. This decision clears the air and lets us move forward for South Texas,” the Democrat said in an X post on Wednesday. “This pardon gives us a clean slate. The noise is gone. The work remains. And I intend to meet it head on.” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that Cuellar had ultimately been targeted for “speaking the TRUTH.” “Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!” the president added. Cuellar is expected to have a competitive race in 2026, with the Cook Political Report rating his district as a “toss-up.”

At 88 years old, Ed Bambas still goes to work 5 days a week for 8 hours a day. It’s not because Ed loves his job, but because he can’t make ends meet without his employment. In a viral TikTok video posted by @itssozer, Ed explains he is a veteran who retired from General Motors in 1999. When the company went bankrupt in 2012, Ed lost his pension. With a sick wife, no income or insurance, he had to sell his home and get a job to care for her. She passed away seven years ago, but Ed continued to work. His story touched the hearts of millions who came together to do something huge for Ed. @itssozer 88 year old veteran still working.. (donate in B1O) #love #kind #veteran ♬ original sound – Samuel Weidenhofer A GoFund Me Raised Enough For Ed Bambas To Quit His Job After the TikTok went viral, a GoFundMe raised over $1 million for Ed. His story touched their hearts, and they want him to be able to enjoy this time in his life without working. “Ed fought for his country, he worked his whole life, and now it’s our turn to fight for him. If you’ve ever been moved by someone’s courage, if you believe our elders and veterans deserve dignity, please consider contributing. Even sharing this story can help us reach more people who want to make a difference,” a post on the fundraiser reads. Donors came out in a big way for Ed Bambas. “Ed, I hope this gives you the money to retire and then some. Go do something you’ve always wanted to do. Do something in honor of your wife. Relax. You deserve it!! I hope people continue to pay it forward and help others just like you,” someone wrote. “Ed, thank you for your service! Very sorry to hear about the way GM handled your pension and wanted to help fund your retirement. Wishing you all the best over the holidays!” Another person shared. “Ed, thank you for your service and sacrifice. Wishing you the retirement you hoped for,” a kind donor posted. We hope Ed feels the love and will have the happiest holiday season ever. This story’s featured image can be found here.

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