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By Joan Swirsky Not long ago, I ran into a long-lost acquaintance who always assumed––always incorrectly––that I was simpatico with her leftist leanings. Maybe it was my long hair or dangling earrings or that I liked to listen to Joe Cocker. I remembered that she always appeared distressed, not because of a cancer diagnosis or […] The post Yeah…Let’s Talk about “Proportionality.” appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is relocating its headquarters to the The Ronald Reagan Building. They have been in the aging J. Edgar Hoover building since 1975. It’s reportedly a dump. Kash Patel suggested it be turned into a Deep State museum. Their new digs which they started looking for 20 years ago are modern […] The post The FBI Has a New Home appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, sponsored a bill that would fine Jewish groups at least $1 million for donating to “unauthorized” charities operating in Israel. Mamdani first introduced his bill, known as the “Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” in 2023 to block donations to groups that he accused of funding the “expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians in the occupied territories.” The bill is backed by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Mamdani and has appeared at recent rallies alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Mamdani, a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, wrote the legislation to target “not-for-profit corporations” that engage “in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity.” The legislation would ban Jewish synagogues and charities from donating to groups such as United Hatzalah and ZAKA, nonprofit groups that specialize in emergency response and treatment of victims of terrorism, according to The Jerusalem Post. The bill would also ban donations to the One Israel Fund, which focuses on “the safety and wellbeing of the 500,000+ residents of Judea and Samaria,” including providing “medical, educational, recreational, preventative security and all other forms of communal and social welfare.” The bill defines settlement activity as “aiding and abetting activity by the Israeli armed forces, the government of Israel, or citizen thereof” relating to “the unlawful transfer of Israeli civilians into occupied territory” and “acts of violence committed by Israeli citizens against protected persons living in occupied territory.” The law goes on to include the “destruction, damage, or vandalism of Palestinian property,” “the appropriation, expropriation, seizure, destruction, demolition, dismantlement, or confiscation, in whole or in part, of private Palestinian land,” and “the unilateral acquisition and annexation of land in occupied territory.” According to the bill, “occupied territory” relates to “the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.” “West Bank” is the Palestinian name for the regions of Judea and Samaria. The reference to “East Jerusalem” means that part of Israel’s capital city would be considered “occupied territory.” After it was introduced in 2023, the legislature received swift condemnation from New York lawmakers, including many of Mamdani’s fellow Democrats. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins both said that Mamdani’s bill would not receive a vote. A group of 25 lawmakers signed a letter opposing the bill. “The bill is a ploy to demonize Jewish charities with connection to Israel. It was only introduced to antagonise pro-Israel New Yorkers and sow divisions within the Democratic party,” the letter said. Mamdani beat former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to receive the Democratic Party’s nod to run in the general election for New York City mayor. Mamdani’s vocal support for socialism and use of Communist revolutionary language has worried New York’s business community. Mamdani’s anti-Israel positions – including support for the antisemitic Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement – has further worried New York’s substantial Jewish community.

Elon Musk and President Trump are at it again. A rift has emerged in the Republican caucus between some of the tech bros and populist economists in the Trump coalition. The Senate passed the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” but you have the economic populists who’d like lower taxes and big spending, and then you have the tech guys, and what they’re mostly concerned about is deregulation; they would like some subsidies aimed at things like AI and green energy. Thus, we are seeing that all break out into the open with regard to Elon Musk. “Critics say that President Trump’s mega bill amounts to an abject surrender in the battle for the future of energy,” Axios reported. “The consequences for U.S. jobs, electricity prices and the arms race could reverberate for decades.” Musk tweeted, “A massive strategic error is being made right now to damage solar/battery. That will leave America extremely vulnerable in the future.” Jason Bordoff, who leads the Columbia University energy think tank, said the bill could hinder the United States in the AI race with China. He said, “Winning that race is going to require we increase electricity generation capacity in the US really fast by a lot. That soaring demand is creating tailwinds for natural gas and nuclear. But even those great sources cannot ramp up fast enough to meet the urgent near-term needs of data centers and AI infrastructure.” He’s saying you need to throw everything at energy, including so-called renewable energy. So this is a major battle that’s broken out again inside the tech-centric part of the Republican Party. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show Beyond that, there was supposed to be an amendment to the “Big, Beautiful Bill” in the Senate that was going to protect the development of AI in the United States by creating a federal moratorium to bar state-level experimentation with regulation on AI. Florida couldn’t have its own AI rules; California its own AI rules. The idea was that there would be a federal ban on state-level legislation. The federal government could still legislate and regulate with regard to AI, but you don’t want AI companies having to navigate the thickets of 50 different state regulatory structures in order to develop, because we are in a national competition with China on the development of AI. But the Senate voted 99-1 to strip a provision that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next ten years. This is definitely going to hold up the development of AI on a national level. All of this led to the massive clash now occurring between President Trump and Elon Musk. What exactly happened? Musk decided that he was going to go to war with the bill again. He threatened to primary senators and congresspeople who voted for the bill. He also vowed to help Thomas Massie — the Republican congressperson who truly gets on President Trump’s nerves by voting against everything Trump wants — saying he’s going to help him in a primary. President Trump then hit back with a long social media post of his own, seeking to frame Musk’s opposition as a bid to cling to his electric vehicle subsidies. He wrote: Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!! He went right at Elon’s jugular, basically saying, “Listen, you started DOGE. Why don’t we examine the cost structure on the Tesla EVs? Why don’t we examine the cost structure on SpaceX and all the rest?” This followed Musk pledging he would form a new party he calls the America Party. He wrote, “Nearly the entire House and Senate GOP will lose their primary next year if it’s the last thing I do on this earth.” He went out of his way to call out House Republicans who call themselves budget hawks, such as Andy Harris of Maryland, and Chip Roy of Texas, as well as Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Trump is saying, “Listen, buddy, you know, we are friends. We’re on the same side of this. But if you keep going after this bill and you’re doing so because you want a subsidy, we could just remove all of those subsidies.” Musk responded on X/Twitter, “So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.” There are a few different factors clashing here, as I’ve said before. On an ideologically and politically pure level, Elon complaining about the “Big Beautiful Bill” is not wrong. It spends far too much money. But that’s true for virtually every bill passed at the federal level. That’s just the reality. I wish the American people approved of Elon’s spending plans. I do. I wish we were restructuring our entitlements in a serious way. I wish we weren’t going to sleepwalk our way like Thelma and Louise right over the cliff, that fiscal cliff that is going to come sometime in the next few years. I wish we did all these things, but the American public simply is not prepared to do any of those things. And that’s where you enter the realm of the pragmatic, where President Trump lives. Is this fight really about EV subsidies? Is this fight truly about political purism, or is it something more personal? As I’ve suggested before, the fact that the Trump administration decided they were going to get rid of Elon’s hand-picked head for NASA — which Sergio Gore was apparently behind — is what ticked Elon off. He hasn’t let go of it. He’s still going after the bill. Because of that incident, as well as Elon’s idealistic view of how politics should work, it should not be a shock that Elon is now attempting to wield his power in a kind of blunderbuss fashion. It’s also not a shock that President Trump is slapping back, essentially saying, “Listen, I’m the president of the United States. Thank you for your help. But I’m the president. I’m the one who has to do all this stuff. I’m the one who has to cut the deals, and I’m the one who has to live with it if we don’t make the tax cuts permanent.” This bill indeed has a lot of pork, but so does every single government funding bill of my lifetime. There has yet to be a major government bill that is not a big-spending government bill because the American people lie to themselves all the time. We say we want lower spending, but when asked what we would cut, we start scratching our heads and looking around. That is the problem if you wish to build a cohesive movement for serious cuts to the government. That was never the MAGA movement. It wasn’t. I’ve been speaking publicly about not loving that about MAGA since 2016. President Trump was the one candidate declaring back in 2015 and 2016 that he was not going to touch entitlements. Although I am indeed a big fan of Trump, I’ve criticized him for that position for a decade, because I would love to touch the entitlements. I think entitlements are a disaster area. They are bankrupting the country. They’re wildly ineffective as they currently stand. I think there are fixes that could be made to them. I think many of them can be delegated back to the state or local level. And I don’t think it’s the proper function of the federal government to be involved in three-quarters of this stuff. But my opinion is not the MAGA opinion. If you’re going to be politically pragmatic about this, you have to recognize that what this bill effectively is about, more than anything else, is making sure the tax cuts don’t go away, making sure defense is paid for, and making sure immigration is paid for, among other things. Is Elon going to force Trump to fight again? I want to know what the endgame is. What is it that Elon is really looking for here? If he wants to build a popular movement outside the government in favor of slashing and burning large swaths of the federal government, sign me up today. But if we are talking about the idea that someone like Chip Roy is unsuitable for big government, or if we’re saying the choices here are letting the tax cuts expire and taxes radically increase, and you still don’t get lower spending, I think most Americans will choose the bill. That doesn’t mean that the bill polls particularly well, because the bill’s been criticized every which way. But I guarantee you: If Republicans don’t get this done and the taxes do increase, that’s going to be even more unpopular.

U.S. Border Patrol experienced fewer encounters with illegal aliens last month than agents did on a daily basis under the Biden administration, Border Czar Tom Homan pointed out. Federal authorities had a total of 6,070 encounters with illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States in the entire month of June, marking a radical drop-off from the Biden era. “That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden on many days,” Homan asserted in a post on X. The figure marks a drastic decline from June 2024 under the Biden administration, when Border Patrol had more than 87,000 encounters with illegal aliens on the northern and southern borders combined. The figures were even higher in 2023 and 2022 under the Biden administration, when Border Patrol had 100,000 and 193,000 encounters, respectively. June’s figures indicate a 93.1 percent drop in border encounters since 2024 and a 94 percent and 97 percent increase when compared to 2023 and 2022. Homan also explained that, of those encountered on the border, not a single one was let into the United States. “None of the 6,070 were released into the U.S. ZERO. President Trump has created the most secure border in the history of the nation and the data proves it,” Homan added. “We have never seen numbers this low.” “The interior arrests and consequences help to drive down illegal immigration,” he went on to say in his post on social media. The Border Patrol similarly indicated that it did not allow a single individual into the United States in the month of May. Agents encountered 8,725 illegal aliens during the month, a sharp 93 percent drop off from May 2024 under the Biden administration, when agents encountered a whopping 117,000 illegal aliens between ports of entry and released roughly 62,000 into the interior of the country. “This administration has seen the fastest improvement in American border security of all time,” Customs and Border Protection said after announcing May’s border numbers. 

The Department of Justice announced the results of its annual healthcare fraud “takedown” this week, in which they charged 324 defendants with $14.6 billion of medical fraud. Defendants include 96 licensed medical professionals “in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States.” “With more than $13 billion in fraud uncovered, this is the largest takedown for this initiative to date,” said FBI director Kash Patel. The initiative identified $2.75 billion in fraud in 2024 and $2.5 billion in 2023. “The government seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets,” the Justice Department stated. In addition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “prevented over $4 billion from being paid in response to false and fraudulent claims and that it suspended or revoked the billing privileges of 205 providers in the months leading up to the Takedown.” Civil charges and settlements amount to another $48.5 million. The busted fraud schemes involve identity theft, fraudulent wound care, prescription opioid trafficking, and fake telemedicine claims. One transnational criminal organization alone was responsible for $10.6 billion of the $14.6 billion in total fraud identified. A network of foreign individuals “strategically bought dozens of medical supply companies located across the United States,” then used the stolen identities of over a million Americans to submit fraudulent Medicare claims for “urinary catheters and other durable medical equipment.” In another case, foreign individuals relied on artificial intelligence to carry out identity theft. “The defendants allegedly used artificial intelligence to create fake recordings of Medicare beneficiaries purportedly consenting to receive certain products,” the Justice Department says. The recordings were then “sold to laboratories and durable medical equipment companies, which used this unlawfully obtained and fraudulently generated data to submit false claims to Medicare.” So far, the government has recovered $44.7 million of the $418 million paid on these claims. Other defendants allegedly submitted fraudulent claims for unnecessary amniotic wound grafts, targeting elderly patients and receiving “millions in illegal kickbacks from the fraudulent billing scheme.” Agency and department heads affirmed their commitment to rooting out health care fraud schemes, emphasizing how they harm patients and Americans. The schemes “often result in physical patient harm through medically unnecessary treatments or failure to provide the correct treatments,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, adding that medical fraudsters steal “ money hardworking Americans contribute to pay for the care of their elders and other vulnerable citizens.” “This record-setting Health Care Fraud Takedown delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Make no mistake — this administration will not tolerate criminals who line their pockets with taxpayer dollars while endangering the health and safety of our communities.”

The public is reacting to Sean “Diddy” Combs being found not guilty of the more serious charges against him and only being found guilty of violating the Mann Act. Many commentators agree that while Combs didn’t get off scot-free, he did escape a life sentence, which was a possibility if he’d been found guilty of all charges. “This is f***ng ridiculous,” journalist Megyn Kelly said, reacting to what transpired in the courtroom. “I just find it absolutely outrageous the amount of crime that this guy just got away with.” She went on, “I believe he committed arson. He definitely battered [ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura]. He battered Jane, too. The statute of limitations for battery in Los Angeles, California, is one year. So if they didn’t charge him for battery within one year, and they couldn’t, because he bought the tape and it remained hidden thanks to those security guards out there, then they could never charge him with that again.” “He was a famous man, and they didn’t want to find him guilty,” Kelly said at another point, adding that she plans to make it her “personal mission” to “maintain his humiliation in the minds of all Americans.”  Actress Rosie O’Donnell also weighed in on the situation, writing on Instagram, “i guess a jury just never wants to believe that a woman stays because of power and coercion—wow—they just think women stay because what? money—fame—‘they love the abuse’ – what a f***ing joke. this decision got me angry.” Rapper 50 Cent, who has been openly critical of Diddy throughout the trial, also posted on Instagram about the verdict. “Diddy beat the Rico, that boy a bad man !” he wrote. “he like the Gay John Gotti.” Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, also shared a statement: “This entire criminal process started when our client Cassie Ventura had the courage to file her civil complaint in November 2023. Although the jury did not find Combs guilty of sex trafficking Cassie beyond a reasonable doubt, she paved the way for a jury to find him guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution. By coming forward with her experience, Cassie has left an indelible mark on both the entertainment industry and the fight for justice,” he wrote, per Good Morning America. He went on, “We must repeat – with no reservation – that we believe and support our client who showed exemplary courage throughout this trial. She displayed unquestionable strength and brought attention to the realities of powerful men in our orbit and the misconduct that has persisted for decades without repercussion. This case proved that change is long overdue, and we will continue to fight on behalf of survivors.” According to some reports, people outside the courthouse reacted to the “not guilty” verdict by pouring baby oil on themselves in celebration. This was a reference to the vast amounts of baby oil reportedly recovered from Combs’ residence, which was used during his infamous “freak off” sex parties.

For years, the only OREO flavor was chocolate filled with sweet vanilla cream. But that was a long time ago. The brand has evolved with more than 100 years under its belt and knows the OREO customer wants more. Now, the cookie king is known for its special-edition and limited-time releases that have garnered cult followings. People go crazy rushing to store shelves in hopes of finding their favorites. For years, fans have begged OREO to bring back a flavor that disappeared for nearly a decade. On June 26, OREO made a big announcement. “You win. Now please stop yelling at us. Blueberry Pie OREO Cookies BACK on shelves 7/7.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by OREO (@oreo) The Return Of The Blueberry Pie OREO Has Some Fans Shook The Blueberry Pie OREO disappeared from shelves in 2017 and fans have apparently been driving the company crazy with requests to bring it back. The wait is finally over. “Omg I’ve been waiting for this for so long,” a fan shared. “When brands actually listen to their fan base,” another person wrote. Of course, not everyone loves the Blueberry Pie OREO and had their own suggestions. But fans like this person told them to cool it writing, “Do the people commenting red velvet not realize it has had a few returns?? Let blueberry pie bask in its FIRST EVER RETURN BABYYY!! The champ is back!!!” “I am lost for words. Im crying. Oreo binge party soon,” a super fan wrote. According to the company website. “OREO Blueberry Pie Sandwich Cookies are a delightful combination of a classic American dessert and milk’s favorite sandwich cookie. Supremely dunkable, these delicious OREO cookies feature scrumptious blueberry flavor creme, sandwiched between two graham-flavored wafer cookies, making them a wonderful summertime treat.” For those who just can’t wait, they can preorder their Blueberry Pie OREO now. What a time to be alive. This story’s featured image is by Seamm via Shutterstock. The post Blueberry Pie OREO Fans Get Ready, Your Favorite Flavor Is Back appeared first on InspireMore.

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