Residents living in Queens, New York near a transformed migrant center are being woken up at all hours of the night by large groups of unsupervised migrant children fighting, screaming, and chasing each other.

ABC, Disney, ESPN stations and streaming service that includes Hulu were not available for DirecTV customers on Sunday, as the networks pulled by network parent Walt Disney Company over a contract dispute. 

After another vacation – 17 days in Rehoboth – Biden returned to the White House on Monday. He is meeting with the U.S. hostage deal negotiating team. He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure an agreement. Hamas keeps turning down deals. The only deal they will accept is absurdly unacceptable. Why […] The post Six Slain: Biden Blames Israel, Tim Walz’s Reaction Is the Worst appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A Labor Day scoop indicated that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may add election integrity legislation to a short-term spending bill when the House returns to session next week — a move that would likely set up a standoff with Democrats. Punchbowl News reported that Johnson — who released a document earlier this year that warned of a National Voter Registration Act “loophole” and cited evidence of noncitizens on voter rolls in various states — and other Republicans are talking about the prospect of combining an extension to government funding through March 2025 with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The SAVE Act aims to require individuals show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office and pushes states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls. It already passed the GOP-led House in July with the help of a handful of Democrats. However, the Democrat-controlled Senate has not taken up the bill since then and the Biden administration formally declared its opposition to it. Recall – the “SAVE” Act (I introduced it – HR8281) passed with 5 Democrats voting for it (and others privately wanting to). If they vote “no” with it attached to a funding bill that funds government to March – it’s pure politics. https://t.co/TQrZDZZBW4 — Chip Roy (@chiproytx) September 2, 2024 Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), the House lawmaker who introduced the legislation, reacted to the Punchbowl News report on X, saying, “Recall – the ‘SAVE’ Act (I introduced it – HR8281) passed with 5 Democrats voting for it (and others privately wanting to). If they vote ‘no’ with it attached to a funding bill that funds government to March – it’s pure politics.” Former President Donald Trump, who is running for another term in the White House, has urged Republicans to pass the SAVE Act. And the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative that includes Roy, released a statement in August calling for the SAVE Act to be added to any short-term spending measure that may emerge if lawmakers are unable to pass individual appropriations bills. Congress has until the end of September to pass legislation to fund the various arms of the federal government or face the prospect of a shutdown. Democrats may support passing another continuing resolution, but the majority of them would likely not abide by the SAVE Act being attached to it. Some have argued the legislation is unnecessary and would create an undue burden on legitimate voters. Still, the GOP seems prepared for a discussion. In response to the Punchbowl News report, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) posted to X, “Securing our elections from foreign interference with the SAVE Act is a top priority—and Democrats should have to explain to the American people why they are against it.” Excellent. Securing our elections from foreign interference with the SAVE Act is a top priority—and Democrats should have to explain to the American people why they are against it. https://t.co/YJMrEDVHWN — Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) September 2, 2024   The Daily Wire reached out to Johnson’s office seeking comment on the Punchbowl News report.

A beluga whale suspected of spying for the Russian government was found dead over the weekend, according to the nonprofit Marine Mind. The whale — known as Hvaldimir — was discovered floating in the ocean, Marine Mind researcher Sebastian Strand told the Norwegian outlet NRK. The name “Hvaldimir” is a fusion of the Norwegian word […]

'This sends a message all the way up to the top'

Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple published a surprising chat with liberal Post columnists Perry Bacon and David von Drehle. It's surprising because the liberals agreed that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz should submit to interviews with Fox News. Wemple merely asked what approach they should take with Fox.  Bacon replied: "Based on her strategy now, shouldn’t she do an interview at the border with Fox and talk about the border agents she is going to hire? Not just to reach the Fox audience. The coverage of 'Kamala goes to Fox' would reinforce the openness to the other side she is trying to communicate. That would reach center/center-right people who are not Fox watchers." Von Drehle added: "I think the campaign should make Walz available 24/7 to Fox. He ran for Congress and won in a red district again and again. They have no moves that he hasn’t seen 100 times. And they should put Harris on “Fox & Friends” one time to say that they did. If she can’t handle Steve Doocy, she doesn’t deserve to be president." Earlier in the chat, Wemple asked about the softball CNN interview with Dana Bash: "Couldn’t Bash, though, have pushed a bit harder on what Harris knew about Biden’s fitness for office and how she viewed his decline over time?"  "Yes. I think there was only one question about Biden’s fitness versus, by my count, four questions on fracking," Bacon replied.  Bacon suggested this line of questioning was exploited while the interview aired on  TV: "Harris’s campaign sent out emails during the interview touting the new, more centrist stands she was declaring on CNN, such as promising to not ban fracking and not supporting the Green New Deal. In some ways, Bash played into Harris’s strategy by asking repeatedly about Harris abandoning more liberal positions from 2019. Harris is eager to move to the center. So this seemed like a “tough” interview — Bash kept implying Harris is a flip-flopper — but Harris seems happy to flip to the center/right." Von Drehle put in two cents: "Harris wants to look like a flip-flopper. 2019 and early 2020 were as far left as the Democratic Party has gone in more than 50 years — all the way back to 1972. Harris got caught up in that madness. She needed to cure that, and the only way to do it is with some flip-flopping." Bacon was disappointed CNN pushed the "news" that Harris would put a Republican in her cabinet as the big takeaway, which isn't really news at all (Democrats like to put in a token). Wemple noted Biden and Harris avoiding interviews, that "clearly there’s a theme here, one of circumventing the mainstream media and choosing other methods of getting out your message." "I think Harris and Walz got the news media off their backs. They ended a narrative (she won’t take questions) that implied she was afraid or wasn’t smart enough to do that," Bacon said. "I expect (unfortunately) very little engagement with the media from here on out from the Harris campaign. Its strategy is that interviews take them off message. I thought the no-interviews strategy was because of Biden (who is aging and struggles to answer questions). Now, I think this is a new, anti-mainstream media approach from Democrats."

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