The Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa debate centered on Islam last night. It was easy to forget this was a debate of candidates who want to run New York City. We have collected some highlights for you as we await the polls. Political expert J.C. Polanco, assistant professor at University of Mount Saint Vincent, […] The post Debate Highlights: Lots of Luck NYC If Zohran Wins appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

In a direct rebuke of a mounting effort within Hollywood to isolate Israeli film institutions, Warner Bros. Discovery has become the latest major studio to reject a prominent boycott initiative, stating that the campaign likely conflicts with the company’s anti-discrimination guidelines. The studio’s statement, issued to Variety, couldn’t have been clearer: “Warner Bros. Discovery is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment … Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies.” The company added that while it supports free expression, it won’t endorse actions that breach either its standards or the law. This comes in response to a boycott pledge spearheaded by Film Workers for Palestine, a group of more than 8,000 film industry figures—including actors Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, and Javier Bardem—to refuse work with Israeli film festivals, broadcasters, or production entities they claimed were “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” 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. Legal experts in both the UK and the United States have warned that the campaign may run afoul of civil rights and anti-discrimination laws. In the UK, the legal advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel sent letters to major studios—including Warner Bros., Netflix, and Disney—warning that participation in or enforcement of the pledge could violate the Equality Act 2010, branding it a “litigation risk.” Across the Atlantic, Washington D.C.-based Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law similarly cautioned that various state and federal civil rights laws prohibit the kind of nationality-based discrimination implied by the boycott. Paramount Pictures was the first major studio to publicly denounce the pledge. In a statement from chief communications officer Melissa Zukerman, the studio declared: “We do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers. Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace.” Paramount emphasized that the entertainment industry should be amplifying global storytelling—not narrowing it. Opposition to the pledge isn’t limited to the studios. More than 1,200 entertainment figures—among them Liev Schreiber, Debra Messing, and Mayim Bialik—signed an open letter calling the boycott “a document of misinformation,” accusing its backers of spreading antisemitic propaganda under the banner of activism. If Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount are any indication, studios are not eager to jeopardize legal standing—or creative freedom—on ideological crusades that may violate civil rights law.

Just two months after making headlines for questioning a same-sex kiss scene in the Disney film “Lightyear,” Snoop Dogg has fully caved to the progressive mob. The 53-year-old rapper just announced that he teamed up with the LGBT activist organization GLAAD and wrote a new song with gay pride themes for his children’s series. The recording artist, whose legal name is Calvin Broadus Jr., worked with GLAAD to promote “Spirit Day” for LGBT teens on Thursday. He teamed up with The Voice contestant Jeremy Beloate on “Love Is Love,” a song highlighted in the latest episode of Snoop’s animated children’s series Doggyland on YouTube. “Our parents are different/ No two are the same but the one thing that’s for certain is the love won’t change/ Families are special/ They are so unique/ Everybody’s got a purpose more than what you see/ We love you parents/ We love you so,” the dogs sing, including one voiced by Snoop and one new character voiced by Beloate.  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. “It’s teaching parenthood. It’s teaching situations that kids in the world is (sic) going through right now in a beautiful way through song, dance, melody, just trying to get more clarity on how we live and the way we live. And I felt like this music is a beautiful bridge to bringing understanding,” Snoop said during an interview with Beloate that was promoted on both GLAAD and Doggyland’s Instagram pages.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by GLAAD (@glaad) “This is a program we’ve been doing for years where we involve kids,” he added. “These are things that kids have questions about so now hopefully we can help answer these questions and help them to live a happy life and understand that love is love.” The rapper went on, “It’s a beautiful thing that kids can have parents of all walks and be shown love, to be taught what love is … being able to have parents from all walks of life, whether it be two fathers, two mothers, whatever it is, love is the key.” This is a drastic about-face for Snoop, who criticized the inclusion of same-sex couples in children’s programming in August after watching the movie “Lightyear” with his grandkids. “What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” Snoop said before referencing the 2022 Disney film, which featured a same-sex couple.  “They’re like, ‘She had a baby with another woman.’ Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” he went on. The rapper said he thought, “‘Oh sh**, I didn’t come in for this sh**. I just came to watch the g**damn movie.’” But his grandson wouldn’t let it go, and said, “They just said, she and she had a baby … they’re both women. How does she have a baby?”  Snoop said the whole thing “f***ed me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh** that I don’t have an answer for.” “It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this? … These are kids,” he added. “We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.” Many of Snoop’s followers were furious over the comments and accused him of defecting to the conservative side, especially considering that he had performed at a celebratory event before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. An Instagram apology that appeared to be sent from the rapper’s official Instagram account went viral one week later, but Snoop’s rep denied that it was legitimate. Snoop never issued an official apology for the “Lightyear” comments.

The slideshow included several deceased people, but not Kirk

'shift in overall approval'

JOHN BOLTON FACES CHARGES ... Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted Former National Security Adviser John Bolton was indicted on Thursday.

What do you think?

A gargantuan airlift is currently ongoing in Western Alaska

The incident occurred as a result of a physical altercation