Seven must-see social media posts this week in case you missed them. 1. This Democrat wants to slit the throats of Trump supporters. Just another hate-filled, violent Democrat. She’s blaming it on the hood, but plenty of nice people live in the hood. It’s not the hood, it’s her. BREAKING: State Rep. Jolanda Jones (D-TX) […] The post 7 Social Media Posts You Might Not Want to Miss appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

JB Pritzker signed an executive order creating a special commission to track ICE agents. Democrats are creating policies to protect criminal illegals that have invaded their cities and put agents in harm’s way. Interfering with immigration operations is a crime. Pritzker is doing something similar to what Letitia James is doing in New York. He’s […] The post JB Pritzker Is Tracking ICE Agents, Threatening Prosecution appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The FBI unveils a massive, mafia-tied gambling scheme involving big names in the NBA, the United States strikes another drug boat bringing “poison to our shores,” and sparks fly at the final debate for New York City mayor — but will it sway the race? It’s Friday, October 24, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Morning Wire is available on video! You can watch today’s episode here: If you would rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below: NBA Gambling Ring Topline: A sprawling NBA gambling scandal was announced on Thursday, resulting in dozens of arrests, including former and current NBA players, coaches, and members of the Italian mafia. The alleged scheme involved more than 30 people arrested, including Miami Heat point guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, a former player in the Hall of Fame.  Charges from the investigation included wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, and illegal gambling.  “The FBI led a coordinative take down across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a press conference. “We also entered and executed a system of justice against Laca Nora to include the Bonanno Gambino Genevese and Luccese crime families.” First indictment: The case involves two separate indictments. The first relates to an insider betting scheme. Defendants charged in this scheme allegedly received non-public information, such as when players would be sitting out for injuries or planned absences, and used that to profit from gambling bets.  Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “One example occurred on March 23, 2023, in Charlotte, Terry Rozier, an NBA player now with the Miami Heat, but at the time playing for the Hornets, allegedly let others close to him know that he planned to leave the game early with a supposed injury,” said NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. “Using that information, members of the group placed more than $200,000 in wagers on his under statistics.” Rozier exited the game after just nine minutes. The bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profit. Second indictment: The second indictment relates to mafia-backed fixed poker games, where more than $7 million was cheated. This included new technology, such as an X-ray table that could read cards face down. Current or former NBA players like Billups were used to draw people into rigged games. “The defendants in this case orchestrated a scheme to use wireless cheating technology to run rigged poker games across the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella. “What the victims, the fish, didn’t know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealer to the players, including the face cards, were in on the scam. Once the game was underway, the defendants fleece the victims out of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per game.” The poker games played in the New York area were backed by at least four of the five mafia families there. Drug Boat Strikes And Russia Sanctions Topline: The U.S. military carried out its ninth strike against what it said was a drug boat from a known terrorist entity heading toward the United States. Meanwhile, President Trump has imposed new sanctions on Russia for the first time since he returned to the Oval Office. War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the military carried out its eighth and ninth strikes against drug boats. These strikes took place in the Pacific Ocean, a first. Up until now, the strikes have been targeted in the Caribbean, which is a known smuggling corridor for narcotraffickers in Venezuela and Colombia. Latin American resistance: The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, called to potentially “get rid” of Trump over his campaign of pressure. Trump has accused Petro of playing a role in the drug trade and has pulled U.S. funding to Colombia. On Thursday, Trump responded to the Colombian president’s threats, saying that the Latin American leader is a “thug and bad guy” who should “watch it.” For now, the strikes will continue, Hegseth says. Sanctions on Russia: The Treasury Department has now announced new sanctions on Russia for the first time in Trump’s second term. The sanctions target Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as dozens of their subsidiaries. The sanctions came alongside additional penalties from the European Union, as well as more from the U.K., announced last week. President Trump’s new pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin was a welcome move in Washington and in Europe. “You have to compel Russia to engage in the peace process,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “They’ve shown they cannot be trusted. There’s a big appetite in Congress to have sanctions like this, and I think it’s a very important step.” More important than the sanctions themselves is the message they convey. In its announcement of the sanctions package, the Treasury also threatened secondary sanctions against any entity that does business with Rosneft and Lukoil. Trump on San Francisco: Trump has reversed course on sending National Guard troops to San Francisco. He said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that “friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress.” He said he spoke to Lurie, a moderate Democrat who took office in January, and decided to give him a chance to turn the city around – which means Trump could change his mind in the future if he doesn’t like what he sees in San Francisco. Mamdani Cracks In Second NYC Debate Topline: The frontrunner in New York’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, faced a barrage of criticism in the final televised debate on Wednesday, raising questions about whether his performance managed to shake his lead or reinforce doubts about his readiness for the job. The atmosphere of the race was definitely charged—not just because of the policies on the table, but also because of the direct, unrelenting pressure former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo put on Mamdani. Polls show that while Mamdani is far and away the favorite to win, some also show he would be in a dead heat with Cuomo if Republican Curtis Sliwa were to drop out of the race. Many media outlets and analysts said Mamdani looked uncomfortable and hesitant. He also appeared severely rushed. Some of his responses felt like watching a video at double speed. However, some left-leaning outlets, such as Politico, said Mamdani won. The New York Times said Cuomo hurt him, but probably not enough. But the viral clips from the debate have received brutal responses, painting Mamdani as an unprepared left-wing extremist. The debate: One of the most damaging moments circulating on social media came when Cuomo directly confronted Mamdani on his inexperience.  “You have never had a job. You’ve never accomplished anything. There’s no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for eight and a half million lives. You don’t know how to run a government, you don’t know how to handle an emergency, and you’ve literally never proposed a bill on anything that you’re not talking about,” Cuomo ripped into Mamdani. “In your campaign, you had the worst attendance record in the assembly, and you gave yourselves the highest raise in the United States of America. You went from $110,000 to $140,000, and then you never showed up for work, and you missed 80% of the votes. Shame on you,” he continued. Cuomo also pinned Mamdani down on the rent freeze policy, labeling it as political blather. “Zorhan is a great actor. He missed his calling. Freeze rent sounds great, yeah, it affects about 25% of the number of housing units in the city of New York. It’s not a new idea. Bill de Blasio did it. It turned out to be a debacle,” Cuomo said. Often, Mamdani didn’t help himself. For example, when he suggested that when 911 receives a call, dispatchers should decide whether it’s appropriate to send police, or maybe send mental healthcare providers instead. “Yet what we have in our city is asking those same police officers who are being asked to respond to shootings, respond to murders, to also respond to these calls. I trust the dispatchers who would be receiving these calls to make the determination as to whether there was any indication of violence. If there is no indication of a threat of violence, then we would set the mental health experts and providers to respond to those same incidents,” said Mamdani. How bad was it?: Polling data is still being analyzed, so it’s really too early to tell. But it’s interesting to note that there are reports that Chinese-owned TikTok appears to be pulling out all the stops for Mamdani now, maybe trying to head off any leaks of support. The New York Post reported that TikTok’s algorithm has been boosting pro-Mamdani content while suppressing pro-Cuomo clips.

Few speak the truth as clearly and succinctly as House Speaker Mike Johnson. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” this past Sunday, co-host Jonathan Karl challenged the speaker’s calling the recent “No Kings” rallies “Hate America Rallies” and calling them “the modern Democratic Party.” Johnson, R-La., responded that “there is a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party … just look what is happening in New York.” “They are about to elect an open socialist, Marxist as mayor of America’s largest city.” Johnson did not also note that this “socialist Marxist” has been endorsed by New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul. The data bear out clearly what Johnson is saying. Per Gallup polling of one month ago, 66% of Democrats said they have a positive view of socialism compared with 42% saying they have a positive view of capitalism. Among Republicans, 74% expressed a positive view of capitalism and 14% a positive view of socialism. The ideological chasm between the two parties has never been deeper or wider. And now this has important implications for national security. Amid the current government shutdown, Republicans want to extract the Defense Department (now War Department) from the morass and are advancing a separate bill to fund the department for one year. Senate Democrats are blocking the bill from a vote unless Republicans agree to what started the shutdown to begin with—Democrats’ insistence on restoring some $500 billion in funding for Obamacare premiums that were enacted as “temporary” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Per the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, discretionary defense spending in 2025 will come out to 2.9% of gross domestic product. This matches its all-time low over the past 50 years. The average annual defense spending as percent of GDP from 1975 to 2004 was over 4%. The Government Accountability Office just issued a scathing report of the state of readiness of Army and Marine Corps ground vehicles—tanks, self-propelled artillery, and armored personnel carriers. According to the report, “Since FY 2015, mission-capable rates declined for 16 of 18 vehicles we reviewed.” In a July report in Business Insider, the Navy’s acting chief of naval operations was quoted as rating the Navy’s average combat-surge readiness at “around 68%.” Per the story, the Navy is “bogged down by shipbuilding struggles and maintenance woes.” China, per the report, “has the largest navy in the world, and it is building new warships at a faster pace than the U.S.” As Ronald Reagan observed: “We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.” But the love of big government and political power of the socialist Democratic Party is now so great that it is more important to them than our national security. Per the libertarian Cato Institute, the Obamacare “enhanced subsidies” that Democrats want to restore “are a costly reminder of how temporary government programs can become billion-dollar permanent entitlements.” The analysis urges that these temporary subsidies not be restored. Per the analysis, extending the temporary subsidies would increase the deficit by $350 billion over 10 years, increase overall spending by more than $488 billion and increase interest costs by $60 billion. Because the temporary COVID-19 subsidies removed the 400% of poverty spending cap, some one-third goes to individuals with incomes above 400% of the poverty line. Further, per Cato, enrollment fraud is rampant, with “more than 6.4 million improper enrollees, costing taxpayers $27 billion in 2025.” Long-term budget projections from the Congressional Budget Office show interest on the federal debt taking 3.2% of our GDP. That puts interest on our debt higher than our defense spending at 2.9%. The CBO projects that interest on the federal debt will reach 4.1% of GDP by 2035 and continue to grow along with ongoing bloating of our federal debt. The big government socialists are squeezing out our national security. We can’t let it happen. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Democrats Prioritize Welfare Over National Security appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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MRC president David Bozell appeared on Fox & Friends First Friday Morning to honor Charlie Kirk as the sole winner of MRC's annual free speech award. Host Todd Piro asked Bozell what other factors went into choosing Kirk for this award.  "We gave 35 awards last year. We had a number of people we wanted to consider Congressman Gill, Congresswoman Hagerman, President Trump for all his work in setting the course in his administration, Secretary Rubio and the DOGE efforts. Remember President Biden had 57 different censorship initiatives in his administration that targeted a number of folks in the conservative media ecosystem, including a lot of folks on Fox News payroll, by the way,  and including folks at TPUSA, and including Charlie.  Given Charlie's sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice, the fact folks felt like they could not debate him anymore, they had to shoot him instead, we wanted to singularly recognize Charlie and his tenacious effort in advancing and protecting and preserving the freedom of speech. There's a reason why the freedom of speech is the first on the list. in preserving free speech and reason why freedom of speech is first on the list." Kirk died a martyr on Sept. 10, 2025, while doing what he loved most: standing up for truth and unapologetically speaking his convictions without fear. MRC leadership decided to make this singular award to Kirk because no other free speech advocate sacrificed so much for the First Amendment.   Kirk was also a founding member of the MRC Free Speech America Advisory Board, helping guide the organization’s mission to defend the First Amendment and push back against rampant Big Tech censorship. Watch Bozell's full appearance below:

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