Jimmy Kimmel is back to doing what he does best: telling bad jokes while smearing half the country. As the Republicans work to save the country – after Democrats allowed criminals to pour into the country in the millions – Jimmy is out there maligning them and lying about conditions in this country. He has […] The post Kimmel Smears the GOP Fighting to Curb Crime and Drugs appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Donald Trump said that he held a “lengthy” and “productive” phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, adding that the leaders agreed to meet in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump did not say whether a date for his second meeting with Putin had been set. Next week, senior advisers from the United States and Russia will meet for discussions led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump added. The location of that meeting has not yet been determined. Trump said that Putin congratulated him on securing a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, adding, “I actually believe that the Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine.” Trump is scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday as the administration considers sending Ukraine long-range missiles that could be fired deeper into Russian territory. Earlier this week, Trump told reporters that he “might tell [Russia] that if the war is not settled, that we may very well, [send Tomahawks to Kyiv].” “We may not, but we may do it,” Trump continued, adding, “Do they want Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.” In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump wrote that he would talk to Zelensky about the phone call with Putin “and much more.” “I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” the president said. The Trump administration is reportedly providing Ukraine with intelligence on key Russian energy infrastructure — the first time since the war began that the U.S. has helped Ukraine target sites deep inside Russian territory. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout! Russia has shown no signs of ending its war against Ukraine as it continues to hammer the country following Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska in August. In the past three weeks, Russia has pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, killing multiple people and — at one point — plunging Kyiv into darkness. As Russia’s attacks continue, the president has ramped up his criticism of Putin. On Tuesday, Trump said that the war is making Putin “look very bad.” “I don’t know why he continues with this war,” Trump said, according to The Hill. “He should have won that war in one week.” “He just doesn’t want to end that war. And I think it’s making him look very bad,” he added. “I have to tell you, I give credit because who would think that Ukraine could have fought Russia for four years to essentially a standstill.”

In the digital age, censorship is the central tool of authoritarianism. Sadly, that became the story in the United States, where an unholy alliance of government, social media platforms, and corporations conspired to control what information reached the American public. That’s the story laid out in God Complex, a new documentary from Big Picture Originals that sheds light on the extent to which the censorship machine took hold of society. The film, set to premiere on Thursday night, features testimony from experts such as Mike Benz, one of the leading crusaders against censorship, top journalists like John Solomon and Peter Schweizer, and Xi Van Fleet, who warns of the parallels between our current moment and the censorship effort in Mao’s China. The film traces the beginning of the censorship effort to President Donald Trump’s first election in 2016, in which he won by dominating social media and the digital space in a way that had never been seen before in politics. The response to his triumph was to control information in a way that had never been attempted before, by creating labels like “disinformation” and “misinformation.” Those labels, the same labels used by despots like Joseph Stalin, would be leveled against political commentators and news outlets — including The Daily Wire — to control information. It was irresponsible, for example, to let Americans hear information about COVID-19 that may have been counter to what the government wanted them to believe. Or to let Big Tech companies serve Americans with news stories from outlets that were challenging these government narratives. The Daily Wire has been at the forefront of the fight against what Benz calls the Censorship Industrial Complex. On many fronts, that complex is being torn down — at least temporarily. In the wake of the 2024 election, Facebook announced that it would end all its censorship practices, which were pushed on it by the Biden administration and were leveled against The Daily Wire harder than anyone. “In 2021, our impressions from my personal page, which was likely the most prominent page on Facebook, went from a whopping one billion impressions a month to less than 100 million impressions a month — a 90% reduction in impressions in reach,” Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro explained this year. “That was a deliberate move by Facebook to crush political content on the platform in 2021.” YouTube, which not only suppressed videos but also kicked many off its platform entirely for misinformation, said it would no longer censor conservatives. Like Facebook, it said it was pressured to do so by the Biden administration. Twitter’s censorship became so bad that billionaire Elon Musk had to buy the platform and rebrand it as X. The censorship regime also extended into the advertising industry, which colluded to keep ad dollars away from companies spreading so-called disinformation. It created the label “brand safety” and used it as another way to control speech. Shapiro testified about the practice before Congress, and now that effort is on its deathbed as well. The film argues that the book on the censorship industrial complex will never be closed. We are always one election away from another round of backdoor censorship attempts. We didn’t know Facebook was being pushed to censor conservatives, it’s worth mentioning, until years after it happened. “Once you get into the business of having a government tell people what they can’t say, there’s almost never a case where that turns back,” Mike Benz said in an interview after the premiere. The film premieres at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Florida is suing California over its sanctuary policies and decision to issue commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the Sunshine State filed a lawsuit Wednesday night, citing a fatal crash on a local turnpike caused by an illegal immigrant truck driver who had a California-issued Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). The man behind the wheel of the semi tractor-trailer, Indian national Harjinder Singh, 28, made an illegal U-turn in August and killed three people. “It’s a shame, and that’s why we’re taking Gavin Newsom to the Supreme Court,” Uthmeier told Sean Hannity Wednesday night. He said Florida intends “to hold them [California] accountable for the carnage that their sanctuary illegal immigration policies have caused to states like Florida across the country.” “Here in Florida, we can do everything right, we can back the blue, we can enforce the law, we can combat illegal immigration, but we still suffer when Gavin Newsom and liberals on the west coast allow these illegals in, encourage them, enable them to get these driver’s licenses and then they cross the country and ultimately take lives,” Uthmeier said. “They care more about their love affair with illegals than protecting American citizens,” he added. Tonight, we filed a lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and California in the US Supreme Court because their so-called “sanctuary” policies for illegal aliens are harming states like Florida. California must pay for the carnage of their open border policies and unlawful CDL programs. pic.twitter.com/iEauMlWXkY — Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) October 16, 2025 The Trump administration has commenced a crackdown on the issuance of CDLs to illegal immigrants. Several Republican lawmakers, led by Kentucky Congressman Andy Barr, are this week expected to introduce legislation that would enable the Secretary of Transportation to stop blue states from issuing commercial licenses to illegals, The Daily Wire reported. During a recent three-day operation in Oklahoma, ICE agents arrested 91 illegal immigrant truck drivers, most of whom had California CDLs, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Transportation has also launched an audit of states issuing CDLs, while instituting an English-language requirement for truck drivers.

The teenagers who brutally assaulted DOGE employee Edward “Big Balls” Coristine have walked away with nothing more than probation—no jail, no meaningful punishment, no accountability. Coristine, a 19-year-old staffer with the Department of Government Efficiency project and a rising star in the effort to clean up Washington, D.C.’s bloated federal bureaucracy, was savagely attacked by a mob of teenagers during an attempted carjacking in early August. The crime occurred in the nation’s capital, just blocks from the seat of American power. Only two of the estimated dozen assailants were arrested: a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. This week, in a D.C. courtroom, they pleaded guilty—not to attempted carjacking, not to robbery—but to simple assault, and were sentenced to the judicial equivalent of a participation trophy. This was a racist verdict by a racist judge. The simple test to apply is if the races has been reversed, the White kids would be in prison. Equal justice for all! https://t.co/F8gZ8D3dg0 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 15, 2025 The boy received a one-year sentence of house arrest. The girl? A mere nine months’ probation and transfer to a local youth shelter. The court emphasized rehabilitation over punishment, and the judge reportedly scolded the girl for drawing on her hand in the courtroom—as if doodling in court were the actual offense. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout!  The attack was a violent ambush that left Coristine bloodied and concussed. Coristine told Jesse Watters of Fox News: As we get to the car and she begins to fumble for the keys, they begin to shout at us, and really quickly I knew something was really off about this situation. So she unlocks the car, I rush her into the driving seat. I close the door behind her and she’s able to lock the doors. Right as I turn around, they’re right up on me — just a few feet away. They slammed me against the car and started throwing a bunch of punches. I keep my hands up. I’m getting a lot of punches here and I’m just trying to protect my head the best way that I can. Footage of Coristine’s bruised face and torn clothes went viral. So egregious was the crime that President Donald Trump personally intervened, deploying the National Guard to D.C. and threatening to revoke the city’s home rule. “Crime is totally out of control,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Time to federalize D.C.” Elon Musk, former DOGE head, praised Coristine’s courage and called for urgent reform, saying, “It’s time to federalize D.C.” But instead of consequences for the attackers, D.C.’s soft-on-crime system delivered a clear message: attack a federal employee in broad daylight and you’ll get a curfew and counseling. The D.C. Attorney General and prosecutor objected to the light sentences—but their opposition was ignored. Instead, the court took pains to explain that juvenile justice is about rehabilitation, not punishment. Even more galling: both teens are free to roam D.C.—so long as they claim it’s for school or “family obligations.” Coristine, ever gracious, told one attacker via video, “I hope you can figure things out and be ready for the consequences.” There were no consequences. Not for the criminals. Only for the city.

The Democratic Party may be regretting a Wednesday night town hall that saw CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins moderating as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — both of whom identify as Democratic socialists — fielded questions from the public about the ongoing government shutdown. Collins pressed Sanders on his own previous statements — namely that government shutdowns were “dangerous” to the American people because they put at risk not just those who worked for the federal government and might be furloughed, but also anyone who depended on services provided by the federal government in their daily lives. Quoting Sanders directly, Collins said he’d referred to shutting down the government as “a serious and dangerous action that we must do everything possible to prevent,” before asking, “What would you say to people who are missing their paychecks about why it’s worth it now?” ? https://t.co/04CRYe4N5y pic.twitter.com/KIRQdiFH4Y — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 16, 2025 Sanders, who has repeatedly voted against the clean continuing resolution that would reopen the government, claimed that he and other Democrats would “do everything they can” to get the government reopened quickly. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout! Collins then asked Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to explain what the end of the shutdown looked like to them — and they laughed off the idea of taking President Donald Trump and Republicans at their word that health care would be up for negotiations. Instead, Ocasio-Cortez made it clear that she wouldn’t vote to reopen the government — despite the fact that the CR in question has already passed the House in spite of her no vote — until she saw legislation guaranteeing what she wanted. These losers — the leaders of the Democrat Party — are not serious people. They don’t have any clue what they’re talking about other than demanding free health care for illegals to vote to re-open the government. Shame on them. pic.twitter.com/IdygxnEB8r — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 16, 2025 One question from a young woman in the audience pertained to social media messaging – and why Republicans seemed to be more effective at getting their points across. After a brief moment in which Sanders appeared to freeze like a deer in headlights, he claimed that Republicans were more effective in their messaging because their “friends” owned the big tech companies and controlled much of legacy media. Crazy Bernie thinks Republicans are more “effective” at messaging on social media than Democrats because tech companies and the mainstream media are in the tank for us. ????? pic.twitter.com/eHDjDdKjsm — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 16, 2025 Sanders went on to claim — with encouragement from Ocasio-Cortez — that President Donald Trump was ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to enforce federal immigration policy because he wanted legal citizens to live in fear that they, too, could be plucked off the streets without any notice. Crazy Bernie says ICE raids — in which some of the most dangerous criminals on earth have been taken off American streets — are “about a movement toward authoritarianism.” Absolutely deranged. pic.twitter.com/wUoaPsrk9v — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 16, 2025 Things only got worse for Sanders after that, when a member of the audience — student Rohan Naval — asked him to explain how the shutdown would ultimately reflect on Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) leadership. “I think it reflects more on [House Speaker] Mike Johnson’s leadership,” Sanders replied, failing to mention the fact that Johnson had gotten the clean CR passed in his chamber. “And President Trump’s leadership. This is a leadership that said it’s okay to — well, how do you feel? You tell me. Do you think it’s a good idea to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people in the country and then make massive cuts to health care for working-class people?” “I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing resolutions 13 times in the last four years, and he has the opportunity to vote for one again, but he‘s refusing to come to the table,” Naval responded. Crazy Bernie just got wrecked on national television ? pic.twitter.com/G5Emm2gY6v — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 16, 2025 “As I have said, there are 53 Republicans in the Senate, correct? They need 60. What does that mean? It means you have to talk to the other side. Mike Johnson is not talking. John Thune is not talking. President Trump is not talking. That is the problem,” Sanders complained — but thus far, Democrats have not proposed compromises, and have instead made a list of demands that would undo provisions of duly passed legislation (the Big Beautiful Bill in particular) that they dislike.

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