Watch the latest Antifa-style attack of ICE agents in San Francisco on Tuesday. It became a brawl as Antifa-types attempted to stop them from taking a man they picked up in immigration court. The radicals attacked them and then pretended that ICE agents are the attackers. That is what the woman screaming is about. She […] The post The Devil Moved to San Francisco in the Form of Antifa appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced Wednesday that she was stepping down from her role at the social media platform, just over two years after Elon Musk selected her to run the company.  Yaccarino, who was previously the head of global advertising at NBCUniversal, described her time at X as “incredible.” She first became CEO of the company in May 2023.  “When [Elon musk] and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App,” she said. “I’m incredibly proud of the X team – the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable.” After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of ?. When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me… — Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) July 9, 2025 The resignation comes one day after Grok, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, made posts praising Adolf Hitler. Sources familiar with Yaccarino’s decision to step down said that the move had been in the works for over a week, and was not related to the Grok issues.  Yaccarino highlighted the changes introduced to X during her tenure, including a “Community Notes” feature —a crowdsourced fact-checking and context-adding tool designed to identify misinformation.  “We started with the critical early work necessary to prioritize the safety of our users—especially children, and to restore advertiser confidence. This team has worked relentlessly from groundbreaking innovations like Community Notes, and, soon, X Money to bringing the most iconic voices and content to the platform. Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xai,” she said.  “X is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world’s most powerful culture signal. We couldn’t have achieved that without the support of our users, business partners, and the most innovative team in the world,” she added. “I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world.” During her time heading up X, the social media platform also faced pressure from other countries to limit speech on the platform. In April, the European Union was reportedly considering a $1 billion fine for X over alleged “disinformation.” X was also forced to pay a $5 million fine in Brazil after a dispute with Musk over content on the platform.

Border Patrol agents arrested four people on Tuesday, suspected of planting tire spikes in front of vehicles used by federal immigration enforcement agents in Los Angeles in an attempt to impede their mission. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said that the individuals, Jenaro-Ernesto Ayala, 43; Jude Jasmine Jeannine Allard, 28; Sadot Jarnica, 54; and Daniel Montenegro, 30, were arrested for “interfering with federal agents conducting immigration enforcement operations.” “They are facing felony charges for placing homemade tire spikes to disable law enforcement vehicles,” Bovino added. “Anyone who interferes with our lawful mission will be arrested.” The four were taken into custody after federal agents conducted a raid in a Home Depot parking lot in L.A.’s Van Nuys neighborhood. An image shared by Bovino on social media shows homemade tire spikes, which appear to have been made by piercing nails through pieces of a garden hose or piping. Border Patrol agents arrested (clockwise from top left) Jenaro-Ernesto Ayala age 43, Jude Jasmine Jeannine Allard age 28, Sadot Jarnica age 54, and Daniel Montenegro age 30, for interfering with federal agents conducting immigration enforcement operations. They are facing felony… pic.twitter.com/DQR55jDchb — USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino (@USBPChiefELC) July 9, 2025 Two of those arrested, Ayala and Allard, were identified as “day laborer advocates” with a non-profit called the “Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur De California.” The organization claims that the two individuals arrested were observing the federal law enforcement agents and have seen no evidence connecting them to the spikes. The use of tire spikes against federal agents is one of the latest attempts by leftist agitators in Los Angeles to impede immigration enforcement. One leftist activist, The Daily Wire revealed, distributed respirator masks, gloves, and helmets to agitators on the “front lines” of the uprisings against ICE in Los Angeles. “Only grab gear if you are literally going out to the front lines TODAY,” the leftist activist said on social media. Federal authorities arrested one man who was also found to have passed out respirators to rioters in Los Angeles. The suspect, who was charged with conspiracy to commit civil disorders, could face up to five years in prison. L.A.-area leftists have also revealed the addresses of hotels that were housing ICE agents on social media, luring agitators to the locations who attempted to disrupt the agents’ sleep by creating disturbances in parking lots outside.  

Americans may be shocked by Zohran Mamdani’s radical politics. But the communist upstart’s views wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with his father. Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University, claimed on a panel at the Jaipur Literature Festival in New York in 2022 that Hitler was inspired by Abraham Lincoln, that the antisemitic Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws, and that “the Nazi political project was shared by the allies.” The discussion centered around the release of his book, “Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making And Unmaking Of Permanent Minorities,” which “explores the nature of the nation-state, and the path to a reimagined, decolonized future.” Mahmood Mamdani began by saying that “America is the genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world. He goes on to say that Adolf Hitler got the idea of the Holocaust from President Abraham Lincoln: “With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration — Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.” Mahmood Mamdani also said that Nazi Germany’s racist and antisemitic Nuremberg Laws were “patterned after American laws.” Moreover, “The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation.” “When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans — move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.” Mahmood Mamdani’s book reveals a blatantly Marxist philosophy: “There are two kinds of identities, there is the identity of the oppressor and the identity of the oppressed,” he said. He argues that “The nation state is what prevents us from living together.” This is because “The majority precedes democracy.” The tension between citizen and subject, or majority and minority, is an inherent consequence of colonialism: “I argue that nationalism and colonialism are not two different things. We normally think of two kinds of nationalism, good nationalism and bad nationalism. Good nationalism brought us together and bad nationalism targeted other minorities. The important thing to realize is that these two things happen at the same time, they are two sides of the same coin,” he stated. In order to eliminate oppression, Mamdani argues that we need to dismantle “colonialist architecture,” stating that “the tribes must take charge and the tribes must be sovereign.” In an interview with the New York Times, the elder Mamdani stressed that Zohran is “his own person.” “Now, of course what we do as his parents is part of the environment in which he grew up, and he couldn’t help but engage with it. That doesn’t mean anything is reflected back on us.” Zohran’s mother, the director Amrit Nair, disagreed: “Of course the world we live in, and what we write and film and think about, is the world that Zohran has very much absorbed.” Zohran Mamdani self-identifies as a democratic socialist and has espoused numerous radical socialist policies, including freezing the rent on a million apartments, raising the minimum wage to 30$ by 2030, making child care and the bus system free, replacing police with teams of mental health professionals, and establishing city-run grocery stores. PolitiFact recently rebuffed President Donald Trump’s claim that Zohran Mamdani was a communist. But, as The Daily Wire reported, the expert they cited was himself a longtime socialist.

Just days after President Donald Trump said he was “disappointed” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia bombarded Ukraine with its largest drone attack of the war.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that 741 aerial vehicles participated in the attack on Tuesday night and into the early hours of Wednesday morning, with the Ukrainian Air Force reporting a mix of 728 attack drones and decoys, as well as 13 missiles. According to the Air Force, 711 drones and seven missiles were neutralized, with impacts recorded in at least four locations.  The northwestern Volyn region, in which the city of Lutsk is located, was the primary target, and Zelensky stated that damage was recorded in ten other cities: Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv.  A new massive Russian attack on our cities. It was the highest number of aerial targets in a single day: 741 targets – 728 drones of various types, including over 300 shaheds, and 13 missiles – Kinzhals and Iskanders. Most of the targets were shot down. Our interceptor drones… pic.twitter.com/Lxa5TdYVXT — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 9, 2025 “This is a telling attack,” Zelensky wrote on X. “It comes precisely at a time when so many efforts have been made to achieve peace, to establish a ceasefire, and yet only Russia continues to rebuff them all.” He called the assault “massive” and painted it as a sign that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in the United States-led effort to end the war. “This is yet another proof of the need for sanctions — biting sanctions against oil, which has been fueling Moscow’s war machine with money for over three years of the war,” he said. “Secondary sanctions on those who buy this oil and thereby sponsor killings.” “Our partners know how to apply pressure in a way that will force Russia to think about ending the war, not launching new strikes. Everyone who wants peace must act.” According to ABC News, June took the record for the most long-range drones and missiles launched into Ukraine — 5,438 and 239, respectively. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced plans to resume weapons shipments to Ukraine after they were paused due to concerns about U.S. stockpiles.  “They are getting hit very hard. … We’re gonna have to send more weapons,” he said, then later added: “I’m disappointed, frankly, that President Putin hasn’t stopped.”  Ukraine also launched attacks on Russia throughout Tuesday night. The Defense Ministry in Moscow said they destroyed 86 Ukrainian drones, 4 of which were over the Moscow region. Flight restrictions were temporarily enforced at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.  On Tuesday, Zelensky stated that he had ordered his defense officials to intensify contacts with the United States regarding continued military aid.  “[This primarily concerns] air defense, as well as all other elements of supply from the U.S.,” he said in his nightly video address, according to Reuters.  “These are critical deliveries that mean saving lives and protecting Ukrainian cities and villages. I expect results from these contacts very soon. And this week, we are preparing formats for meetings of our military and political teams.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will skip a Group of 20 finance officials meeting in South Africa next week, sources familiar with his plans told Reuters, but will attend the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, according to a Treasury spokesperson. Bessent’s decision to miss the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting marks the second time this year he has opted against attending a G20 meeting in South Africa, which is serving as the group’s president this year. A Treasury official confirmed that Michael Kaplan, acting undersecretary for international affairs, will represent the department at the July 17-18 meeting near Durban, South Africa instead of Bessent. The United States is due to head the G20 group, which it helped found in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, next year. Bessent, a key figure in President Donald Trump’s trade negotiations, will represent the United States at the U.S. national day at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, a Treasury spokesperson said. The national day will be marked on July 19. It was not immediately clear if he would engage in bilateral meetings during the visit. The White House said Bessent would lead the U.S. delegation, which will also include Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. News of Bessent’s trip comes a day after Trump sent a letter to Japan raising tariffs on Japanese imports to 25%, starting August 1. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would continue negotiations with the U.S. to seek a mutually beneficial deal. Bessent skipped South Africa’s first G20 finance meeting in February to attend Trump’s first cabinet meeting in Washington. Finance ministers from China, Japan, India, and Canada also skipped the meeting in Cape Town focused on tackling global poverty, as did the European Union’s top economic official. Bessent’s February decision came amid rising tensions between Washington and Pretoria as Trump threatened to cut off funding for South Africa, accusing President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government of confiscating land from white South Africans and turning a blind eye to the targeted killings of white farmers. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also skipped a February G20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa. In May, Trump declined to say whether he would attend a G20 leaders summit in South Africa in November, after blasting Ramaphosa at the White House over reports of white genocide and land seizures in Africa’s largest economy. On Monday, Trump sent Ramaphosa a letter informing him that imports from South Africa would be subject to a 30% tariff starting next month, unless the country agrees to reduce its trade barriers to U.S. goods – one of more than a dozen countries to get similar letters. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Writing by David Lawder; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Christopher Cushing)

Tech company Nvidia on Wednesday became the first publicly traded company to hit a $4 trillion market cap. Nvidia, which designs graphics processing units (GPUs) — chips that power artificial intelligence (AI) programs, such as ChatGPT, is the world’s most valuable company. It surpassed Apple and Microsoft, which both reached $3 trillion mark before Nvidia, according to CNBC. Nvidia, based in California, hit $2 trillion in February 2024 and $3 trillion in June 2025. Nvidia shares surged to an all-time high of $164. The growth comes after previous lows in March and April, when President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements led to a decline in stock markets, The Daily Wire previously reported. Nvidia faced a year-to-date loss of 20% in March. In April, Nvidia committed $500 billion to building AI infrastructure in the United States. The company outsources its chip production to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung and said it wants “to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas,” The Daily Wire reported. “Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the time. The announcement was a win for Trump, who has encouraged tech companies to manufacture in the United States. Huang praised Trump’s manufacturing vision in May. “Our president wants America to win,” Huang told CNBC. “The president laid out a bold vision for the United States, for America, to re-industrialize, to onshore manufacturing so that we can have a more resilient supply chain, so that we can create jobs locally.” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hails President Trump’s “bold vision for the United States, for America, to re-industrialize, to onshore manufacturing.” “Our President wants America to WIN.” pic.twitter.com/l3RtpdllXp — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 29, 2025