Eight Iranian women, one only 16 years of age, were scheduled to be executed. President Trump asked for their release as a goodwill gesture, and they obliged. He thanked them and noted that no member of the international community had said anything about their upcoming execution. President Trump posted this great information on Truth Social: Very good news! I have just been informed that the eight women protestors who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed. Four will be released immediately, and four will be sentenced to one month in prison. I very much appreciate that Iran, and its leaders, respected my request, as President of the United States, and terminated the planned execution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP Iran set to execute 8 women by hanging including 16 year old girl. These are their names and faces: Panah Movahedi Bita Hemmati Mahboubeh Shabani Ensieh Nejati Ghazal Ghalandari Diana Taherabadi Golnaz Naraghi Venus Hosseinnejad Hollywood celebrities are silent. pic.twitter.com/HTtSijurpt — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 22, 2026 President Trump also told Iran to get their act together. Additionally, new information: The Iranian military and police are not being paid. his most recent post: “YOU CAN’T COMPROMISE ON SANITY AND COMMON SENSE!” The post Iran Will Release the Women Scheduled to Be Executed appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Lena Dunham is addressing the fallout from years-old claims that she sexually abused her younger sister, who is now identifying as “transmasculine nonbinary.” The “Girls” creator is currently on the interview circuit promoting her new memoir, “Famesick,” which is a follow-up to her first memoir, “Not That Kind of Girl.”  Dunham delivered a slightly different outlook when she addressed the controversy spawned by the first book in the pages of the second.  “I was shocked when a conservative media site analyzed the book carefully, pulling choice passages and coming to the conclusion that I had engaged in sexually inappropriate childhood behavior with my sibling,” Dunham wrote in the new book, referring specifically to the media watchdog site Truth Revolt, the site where Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro served as Editor-in-Chief. Dunham wrote that she wasn’t too worried about the backlash at first because she assumed “any logical person” would interpret the negative reaction as being “an attempt to cherrypick sections to create a narrative that spoke to the idea that I — and by extension, the majority of feminists — were not crusaders for justice but, in fact, wanton perverts.” “I didn’t consider what I’d written to be particularly salacious,” the actress and writer went on, per Entertainment Weekly. “And anyway, what about the things I hadn’t included? I’d decided against describing the time, age four, I announced to a group of near-strangers that my punishment at home for misbehavior was having ‘a fork stuck up my vagina.’ (It was not.) I don’t know where I came up with that, but I’ve always been confused by anyone who doesn’t recognize that children are inherently innocent, and yet their imaginations are endless and deranged.” Now, Dunham is especially sympathetic about putting the experience in print, not because she thinks it was wrong, but because it negatively impacted her sister’s journey to coming out as trans. She noted how this situation happened just as her little sister was “sprouting wings, getting out from under the type-A straight-girl drag he’d [sic] worn for all of high school.” “What I had been guilty of on the page, what the internet should have charged me with and given me a short sentence for, was poor phrasing — maybe a second count for TMI,” Dunham wrote in “Famesick.” “What I was now guilty of seemed to be a laissez-faire attitude about what was mine to confess, which had derailed the life of the person I had felt most tasked with protecting.” Dunham defended her actions as being a response to her sister being a “mystery.” “It was ironic that as a 6-year-old, I’d wondered if he had a vagina, when what I didn’t understand for the entirety of our shared childhood was that he wasn’t my sister,” she wrote. “Eight years ago, around the time Cyrus came out as trans, he and I were still working to mend our relationship. It wasn’t just the incident around the book — since the moment I’d begun to have a public life, it had gobbled up the space around his private one, however unintentionally.” “It didn’t help that the champagne fizz of new fame makes even the most generous people temporarily narcissistic, obsessed with their own image and its success or failure,” she admitted. “But the book had been a clear turning point, after which he seemed to feel safer being as far away as possible from the ricocheting bullets of my public persona.” In the first book, which was released in 2014, Dunham described masturbating while lying next to her very young sister and inspecting her vagina. “My mother didn’t bother asking why I had opened Grace’s vagina,” Dunham wrote in the original book. “This was within the spectrum of things that I did.” In another passage, she discussed trying to get her sister to “kiss her on the lips for five seconds” by offering gifts. “Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying,” Dunham wrote. The backlash to these revelations put her on the defensive, with her going on a self-described “rage spiral.” “The right-wing news story that I molested my little sister isn’t just LOL – it’s really f***ing upsetting and disgusting. And by the way, if you were a little kid and never looked at another little kid’s vagina, well, congrats to you,” she posted on X in 2014. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center could face civil forfeiture and fines if they are convicted for allegedly providing millions in donations to members of extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America, the Justice Department’s Middle District of Alabama told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. It is unclear at this time if any individuals will be indicted as part of the years-long investigation, but the DOJ maintains that the investigation into the SPLC is still ongoing after the federal grand jury indictment in the Middle District of Alabama on Tuesday. Specifically, the indictment argues that “donors were not told that some of the donated funds were to be used by the SPLC to pay high-level leaders of violent extremist groups and others.” Beyond just legal consequences, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco explained that corporations that work with SPLC might also be inclined to cut ties with them. “It’s all propaganda designed to harm their enemies for political reasons. But with this indictment, I would think, we’ll probably see another wave of companies. Maybe the final ones that rely on them say, ‘It’s probably enough,’” he said. Salesforce notably stopped using SPLC’s “metrics” that could have potentially driven business decisions, which The Heritage Foundation celebrated at the time. The left-wing group has always claimed to target legitimate hate groups, but has been facing pushback for its blanket labeling of conservative organizations as hateful— and per the Justice Department’s indictment, is facing multiple charges for wire fraud, giving false information to a bank, and “conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.” Tedesco explained that the trial will need to determine whether or not the SPLC was “actually funding the activities and the leaders and members of these organizations, essentially to subsidize what they were doing so they could go back to their donors and ask them for money.” The indictment explains that the group’s “paid informants (‘field sources’) engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website” and allegedly misled their donors in the process. The grand jury charged that the SPLC “opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities” and lied about the accounts to “keep the scheme going.” “The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia,” the indictment stated. “That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.” The SPLC did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment. “Although we don’t know all the details, the focus appears to be on the SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups,” SPLC interim president and CEO Bryan Fair said on Tuesday prior to the indictment announcement, according to Fox News.

Right-wing internet troll-turned-anti-MAGA commentator Chuck Johnson may end up in prison over a fraud and extortion lawsuit in which he was found to have lied to victims by presenting himself as an intelligence asset. Johnson, whose name has resurfaced in recent months over his false claims regarding Jeffrey Epstein, finds himself at the mercy of a court-appointed receiver who has been ordered by a federal judge to carry out a $71 million ruling against him. He was accused of lying about being an intelligence asset as part of an “extortion scheme,” in which he threatened investors with “sabotage” if they did not give him favorable investment terms. Now, the fight over his assets appears to have extended to a criminal investigation, with the judge asking the receiver to report “any potential criminal conduct or wrongdoing” by Johnson. Johnson was thrown in jail late last year for contempt after he failed to disclose his assets to the court. In an April 13 filing, the court says Johnson’s conduct “bears the hallmarks of conduct consistent with wire fraud … and money laundering,” adding that it “may constitute criminal perjury or false declarations.” The statements are, for now, based on a status report of the ongoing probe, and not a definitive conclusion of law. Johnson, who was labeled a “sociopathic liar” in the initial case, has reemerged in the press due to years-old fantastical claims he made to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein that were released in the Epstein files. Among the unsourced claims by Johnson were that President Trump was “compromised by Israel.” He also claimed that Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, was running the presidency in his first term. The 2020 claims from Johnson were picked up by other anti-Semitic activists such as Dave Smith and Hasan Piker, who made no mention of the fact that Johnson had no basis for any of his claims. FBI documents show Johnson was making similar unsourced claims about others in Trump’s orbit. One FBI report from May 2020 shows that Johnson claimed to the intelligence bureau that Sergio Gor, a top Trump official who is now his ambassador to India, was a “Russian spy.” He also said that Arthur Schwartz, another close ally of Trump, was a “spy.” Neither claim was paired with any evidence. “Chuck Johnson is a complete loser who has failed at everything in life,” Schwartz told The Daily Wire. “Like many others in Washington, I look forward to the day that he’s sentenced to a lengthy and well-deserved term of incarceration.” Johnson, who has referred to The Daily Wire as an “Israeli propaganda rag,” is open about his Jew hatred. He regularly associates with both Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes, and is a Holocaust denier, saying that both “Auschwitz and the gas chambers” are not real. “I love Nick Fuentes,” Johnson wrote in July 2024. “I avow him.” Though Johnson is often represented as a far-right figure, he is now politically aligned with Democrats, and supported Kamala Harris over Trump in 2024. He liked Joe Biden, he said, but liked Harris even more because of her stance on Israel. “I am a huge Joe Biden fan, and will remain such on domestic matters, but he has deferred to the Israelis way too much,” Johnson said during the 2024 campaign, “and I think to some extent, Kamala Harris is going to be a bit more aggressive towards them.” Johnson’s handler at the FBI was reportedly Jonathan Buma, who became a favorite of liberal media for claims he made in 2023 that the bureau was biased in favor of Trump. Buma was arrested in March 2025 for leaking confidential information to the press. It was actually disclosed by Johnson that he and Buma had both leaked information to the Wall Street Journal. Buma has since been profiled for his claims that Trump and Elon Musk are entangled in a Russian conspiracy. Again, the claims came without evidence. “Those efforts were intense and they were ongoing,” he said of Russian efforts. “I can’t go into too much more detail.” Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.

An Indian scammer is bragging about making money by conning “super dumb” conservative men with AI-generated social media accounts. The 22-year-old med school student, identified in an interview with Wired by the pseudonym “Sam,” said he created a fictional character named “Emily Hart” to help pay for school. The sexy blonde AI-generated persona was active on Facebook, Instagram, and the OnlyFans competitor site Fanvue, which allows AI-generated content (OnlyFans does not). Sam said he used Google’s Gemini chatbot to help identify a target audience, claiming it suggested the “MAGA/conservative niche” could be particularly lucrative because “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.” He then tailored the account’s content accordingly. Photos depicted “Emily” as a nurse taking part in activities like “ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting off a few rounds at the rifle range,” Wired reported. One caption on the account said, “If you want a reason to unfollow: Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported,” while another said, “POV: You were assigned intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal.” Sam told Wired he didn’t expect much from the account, but it kept growing in popularity. “Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it,” he said.  Sam also claimed that an “AI hot girl Nazi influencer” would “blow up” and “break all the records.” Meta commented in the article, saying Nazi content was flagged and removed from the platform.  “I was basically doing nothing,“ the con artist said of Emily’s Fanvue account featuring nude photos generated with AI. “And it was just flooded with money.”  Both the Facebook and Instagram accounts associated with “Emily Hart” have been taken down. Sam told Wired he has no regrets about what he did. “I don’t feel like I was scamming people,” he said, adding that the fans probably would have followed along even if they knew Emily wasn’t real because they might “like the sentiment of it.”

Bill Clinton caused a minor commotion when he dropped by the pre-draft conference for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones stopped the meeting to get up and go greet the former president, which led to many comments online about the 90s vibes given off by the whole interaction. “President Clinton is coming through the door,” Jones can be heard saying in a clip of the conference that’s circulating online.  “Uh,” the Dallas Morning News reporter said as Jones told him he could still ask a question. The camera then focused on Clinton entering the press room. Jones didn’t fully answer the reporter before making his way over to Clinton, stumbling on his way to greet the former president.  The #Cowboys just stopped their pre-draft press conference because former President Bill Clinton showed up. What the heck