Update: Two CNN sources say Musk called President Trump Monday night, before he expressed his regrets online on Wednesday.  The call only lasted for moments. Vice president JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles spoke by phone with Musk on Friday. The three discussed the feud between Trump and Musk according to […] The post Musk-Trump Apology Watch – Update appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Mexican President Scheinbaum Pardo criticized ICE, calling for them to stop the raids against Mexican illegal aliens living in the U.S. Claudia Sheinbaum has said the U.S. should have a different approach for tackling the migrant crisis that doesn’t “involve raids or violence.” “Our position has always been one of defending Mexicans living in the […] The post Mexican President Comes Down on the Side of Rioters appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Arkansas has moved forward with banning the purchases of candy and soda with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps. Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was one of the first governors in the nation to submit a waiver to the federal government, asking for approval to limit SNAP. This week, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins approved the waiver. “This approval sends a clear message: President Trump and his administration are tackling America’s chronic disease epidemic, and Arkansas stands with him in that fight,” Sanders said of the approval, as first reported by The Daily Signal. “I am incredibly grateful for Secretary Rollins’ quick approval of our waiver. Arkansas leads the nation in getting unhealthy, ultra-processed foods off food stamps and helping our most vulnerable citizens lead healthier lives,” she added. Rollins has previously said she’s working closely with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to advance the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. Kennedy, the figurehead of the MAHA movement, has called sugar “poison,” led the phasing out of petroleum-based food dyes, and encouraged states to limit SNAP. Nebraska, another red state, has also been approved by the federal government to limit SNAP purchases to healthier options. The Daily Wire spoke to Sanders earlier this month about Arkansas becoming a leading state in the MAHA movement. On SNAP limitations, Sanders said it only makes sense. “It’s crazy to think that you can use food stamps to purchase soft drinks and candy, but not a hot rotisserie chicken,” she told The Daily Wire in a video interview. “The very definition of SNAP, if you look at the second word, it’s ‘nutrition.'”  “There’s nothing nutritional about candy bars and Cokes,” she continued. “So making sure that we are actually helping the people who really need it, and help incentivize healthier choices is something we have to do.” “The food stamp program is a $119 billion federally run program, but about $27 billion of that are spent on candy, soft drinks, and unhealthy desserts and snacks,” Sanders said. “So we are literally helping fund the epidemic crisis that we have going on of unhealthy lifestyles in our country, when we’re supposed to be helping these recipients of the food SNAP program.” “We can and we have to do a better job,” the Republican added. “I’m proud of the fact that Arkansas is again leading the way.”  Related: Sarah Sanders Won’t Back Down After CVS Threatens To Leave Arkansas

There are few institutions in this country that have disgraced themselves more thoroughly in recent days than the little-known Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota. This is the school that just won the Class 4A Minnesota Girls’ State softball championship by fielding a male as their star pitcher in every single game. This male pitcher, a 17-year-old junior named Charlie “Marissa” Rothenberger, pitched all 21 innings across three games of the girls’ championship tournament (because they play 7-inning games in softball). And what do you know? Champlin Park won all three games. Rothenberger capped off his performance by throwing a complete-game shut-out, allowing only three hits in the process. And that’s just the championship round. He also pitched a complete-game shutout in the quarterfinals. Overall, in the entire postseason, Rothenberger allowed only two runs in 35 innings. And that’ll do it – Champlin Park wins the Class 4A Minnesota state softball championship, beating Bloomington Jefferson 6-0. Marissa Rothenberger pitched a complete-game shutout and gave up only 3 hits. pic.twitter.com/4uS7aSejqS — Amber Harding Snyder (@TheAmberHarding) June 6, 2025 Credit: Amber Harding Snyder Everyone involved in this farce — from the school district to the coaches to the parents to the athlete himself — should be barred from any kind of competitive activity for the rest of their lives. They should face more serious consequences, which may indeed be coming. (The school district has already been sued). But at the moment, like most cheaters, these people seem to have convinced themselves that they did nothing wrong. In interviews, Rothenberger and his coach have suggested that they’re simply better competitors than their opponents. They managed to vary their pitch types and pitch speeds, and their opponents just didn’t measure up. Here’s an interview from last season to give you an idea:   Watching this coach speak, any sane person has to fight to suppress their vomit reflex. Imagine celebrating your sports acumen, and acting like you’re some incredible coach with an incredible team, when you have a boy pitching every single one of your games in a girls’ softball league. The gall that’s required to stand there, with a straight face, as you cheat in the most flagrant way imaginable — while pretending everything is completely normal — is actually hard to comprehend. “Pathetic” does not begin to describe it. And of course, the parents who allow this man to coach their daughters, as he teaches them how to cheat, are just as culpable. Everything about this story is revolting. And the school district knows that. So does the league. That’s why they’ve locked down their social media posts, so that no one can reply to them. Here’s what the Minnesota State High School League posted, before locking the comments: “Meet Champlin Park, the Class 4A Softball State Champion for 2025.” And then they attach a team picture, including the boy who dominated the competition. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show Riley Gaines noticed the league’s decision to censor replies. And to point out the league’s cowardice, she wrote: Comments off lol. To be expected when your star player is a boy. As we discussed earlier this week, Gaines’ post sent Simone Biles, the Olympic gymnast, into a frenzy. She accused Gaines of “bullying” the trans-identifying athlete. Biles also wrote: You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! And then for good measure, Biles followed up by writing: bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male. The other day, we talked about all of the reasons why this rant was highly ironic (especially since Simone Biles isn’t exactly known for her sportsmanship, or for her feminine appearance). We also discussed why her idea of a “trans-only league” is idiotic for about a million reasons. For one thing, there wouldn’t be enough players, nor would anyone want to watch them play. Additionally, you’d have to decide how to classify the non-binaries and the demisexuals and the 50,000 other genders. Do they play with trans men or trans women? Do we need a separate league for every gender? Things could get pretty complicated, especially when the trans furries show up and refuse to wear the standard uniforms. And of course, on top of all of these problems, a “trans-only league” makes no sense because the current system — of dividing athletes based on biological reality and not fantasy — works perfectly fine. So those are just a few problems with Simone Biles’ tweets. Additionally, a few people also pointed out that Simone Biles’ position was also hypocritical, because back in 2017, she wrote on Twitter: good thing guys don’t compete against girls or he’d take all the gold medals !! Presumably, that post was written before Simone Biles had lost her mind. But in 2025, Simone Biles, as with so many other prominent public figures, is completely subservient to Leftist ideology. And more than that, she’s vindictive and openly hostile towards anyone who expresses a contrary position — even if it’s the position that most Americans hold, and the one that happens to correspond with reality. Here’s what elevates this story beyond a typical social media spat. Five years ago, for these posts attacking Riley Gaines, Simone Biles would’ve received unrelenting praise from every organ of the Left. The media would be asking her how she managed to be so brave in the face of Riley Gaines’ fascism. Activist groups would be clamoring to invite her to speaking engagements. Every podcast would be elevating her as a kind of trans messiah. And then they would’ve had Riley Gaines banned from the Internet, of course. That’s how things used to work. In 2020, to give just one of many examples, the comedian Graham Linehan was permanently banned from Twitter for tweeting, “men aren’t women tho.” That’s all it took five years ago. You’d get dogpiled and permanently censored for stating the truth about human biology. Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! But that’s not what happens anymore. Very few prominent people came out to defend Simone Biles after her post. Instead, she was excoriated by almost everyone. The backlash was so significant that, just a few days after the initial posts, Simone Biles put out a lengthy statement apologizing to Riley Gaines. Here’s what she posted: I wanted to follow up from my last tweets. I’ve always believed competitive equity & inclusivity are both essential in sport. The current system doesn’t adequately balance these important principles, which often leads to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn’t help for me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for. The statement continues for a bit, but it’s worth taking a second to think about the words “competitive equity,” because it’s a real triumph of word salad. What exactly is “competitive equity?” Of course, when Leftists say “equity,” we know what they mean. They mean allowing certain demographics — like self-identifying trans people — to gain advantages over others. But that’s fundamentally incompatible with the idea of competition. The whole point of equity is to eliminate competition, so that the Left’s preferred groups win. But if you can make it past the oxymoron, Simone Biles does get around to apologizing. And then she writes this: These are sensitive, complicated issues that I truly don’t have the answers or solutions to, but I believe it starts with empathy and respect. I was not advocating for policies that compromise fairness in women’s sports. My objection is to be singling out children for public scrutiny in ways that feel personal and harmful. Individual athletes—especially kids—should never be the focus of criticism of a flawed system they have no control over. I believe sports organizations have a responsibility to come up with rules supporting inclusion while maintaining fair competition. We all want a future for sport that is fair, inclusive, and respectful. Xoxo Simone. As far as apologies go, this one obviously should’ve gone much further. She should’ve dropped the word salad and stated that boys don’t belong in girls’ sports, period. And many conservatives are pointing out that her statement sounds phony, like it was crafted by a PR agency or an AI program. They don’t believe that it’s sincere. And they’re right about all of that, of course. But they’re also missing the point. The fact that a very famous and popular public figure felt the need to apologize and issue a PR statement after tweeting in support of the trans agenda is a clear sign of a very significant sea change in our culture. It’s not really important that the statement was insincere or incomplete. What’s important is that this series of events — any kind of retreat by Simone Biles in this scenario — would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. It’s yet another sign of just how thoroughly the Right has won on the issue of gender ideology. If this had happened in, say, 2021, there would have been a whole army of public figures circling the wagons around Simone Biles. That didn’t happen this time. And that’s particularly notable because it’s supposedly “Pride Month.” Remember Pride Month? This is supposed to be the time of year when trans activists become even more unhinged and hostile than they normally are. They’re supposed to be emboldened. They’re supposed to loudly shut down people like Riley Gaines. They’re supposed to dominate the conversation, so that no one is allowed to point out that a male just won a girls’ softball tournament. But no one’s talking about Pride Month anymore. LGBT activists are too demoralized and discredited to “celebrate” at the moment. That’s the same reason they’re not defending Simone Biles. It’s why she was forced to apologize. And it’s why the Minnesota high school softball league had to shut down its social media feeds.  Every single one of these liars is aware of the fact that they’ve lost most of their public support. Yes, technically speaking, Champlin Park High School was named the winner of the state girls’ softball championship. But, as you watch the players and the coaches gloat, it’s hard not to be reminded of all the other frauds throughout history who simply took things too far, too quickly. Pathetic institutions like Champlin Park High School and the Minnesota State Softball League, along with cowardly mouthpieces like Simone Biles, no longer have the cultural power they had just a few years ago. And with this latest apology — even if it was generated by a PR firm using ChatGPT — it’s evident that Simone Biles and the rest of the LGBT cult are slowly coming around to the reality of their own irrelevance.

Senate Republicans unveiled their plan to secure the border, unleash domestic energy, and make President Donald Trump’s tax cuts permanent, hitting back against Democrats’ backlash to Republican efforts to stop funding entitlement programs for illegal aliens.  A website launched on Wednesday outlines Senate Republican priorities for the bill while addressing panicked claims from Democrats about Republican plans for Medicaid. The page also allows visitors to check how much additional taxes they will have to pay if the 2017 Trump tax cuts are allowed to expire. For example, the expiration of the cuts would cost the average Floridian around $3,650.  “Every single Senate Democrat supports the biggest tax hike in history, illegal aliens on Medicaid rioting in the streets, and more inflation— and we will make sure everyone knows it,” Senator Tom Cotton told The Daily Wire. “Americans support our plan for Safety and Prosperity because it does the opposite: keeps taxes low, reduces spending, and protects Medicaid for those who need it.” Senate Republican priorities include funding Trump’s executive orders, securing the border, funding a border wall, and allocating funds to hire more ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents, as well as funding Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense project and building more Navy ships and drones.  Senate Republican Conference website. They also want to make the Trump tax cuts permanent, which they say will help Americans avoid a $4 trillion tax hike; make the small business tax deduction permanent; and increase oil and gas lease sales. Senate Republican Conference. Some Senate Democrats, like Brian Schatz (HI) and Martin Heinrich (NM), have claimed that millions of people will be kicked off Medicare if the Republican proposal passes. Senate Republicans say they are only looking to cut fraud and waste, and ensure that illegal aliens aren’t benefiting from entitlement programs.  The House has already passed its reconciliation bill, including reforms to entitlement programs. For Medicaid, these reforms include making illegal aliens ineligible and imposing basic work requirements for able-bodied Americans.  Some Republicans are also pushing to end the funding of transgender procedures for both kids and adults in the bill. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill last month ending funding for transgender procedures he said he hoped to get into the reconciliation bill, while Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced a similar bill on Tuesday. 

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell admitted that his department was “overwhelmed” by left-wing rioters in the city, and sparred with liberal council members urging McDonnell to illegally tip them off to incoming federal immigration raids. McDonnell acknowledged that his department faced significant risk from the rioters during a press conference on Sunday. “Tonight, we had individuals shooting commercial-grade fireworks at our officers. That can kill you,” he told reporters. “We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people out there engaged in this type of activity. … There is no limit to what they are doing to our officers.”  LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell: “We are overwhelmed … There is no limit to what they are doing to our officers.”pic.twitter.com/m2QFt6ToGT — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) June 9, 2025 Further, on Tuesday, the chief told Los Angeles City Council members that he would absolutely not tip them off to federal raids to deport illegal immigrants. “You’re asking me to warn you about an enforcement action being taken by another agency before it happens? We can’t do that,” McDonnell responded to Councilmember Imelda Padilla, the Los Angeles Times reported. The chief said such a tip-off would be obstruction of justice, adding, “That would be completely inappropriate and illegal.” City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson also went after McDonnell, telling him it was wrong to suggest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were LAPD “law enforcement partners.” “If we know somebody is coming here to do warrant-less abductions of the residents of this city, those are not our partners,” Harris-Dawson said. “I don’t care what badge they have on or whose orders they’re under. They’re not our partners.” Following the meeting, McDonnell emphasized that the LAPD needs to cooperate with the feds on several issues, even if the department doesn’t on immigration per sanctuary laws. “All of the crimes we investigate potentially could be in partnership with [federal agencies],” he said. “It is a partnership, and without that partnership, we wouldn’t be able to go into the World Cup, the Olympics … that require that we work with federal, state and local partners.” Soon after President Donald Trump was elected in 2024, McDonnell said his department was working with consulate offices for Mexico and other Central American countries to protect illegal immigrants from coming federal deportation raids. Enforcement of immigration laws would be “undercutting our primary mission, which is to be able to build public trust to work with every member of all of our communities, to be able to have hope that people will come forward if they were a victim of crime, a witness to a crime,” McDonnell told the Associated Press at the time. The chief also took heat from liberal council members for using rubber bullets and making dozens of arrests. Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, for example, told McDonnell, “We have to be mindful of the tactics being used by some LAPD members that is adding to the escalation.” “Just like a few protesters can take away from the messaging, the same thing can be said about LAPD. It overshadows the response,” he added. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez also accused LAPD officers of acting “out of line for the situation.”