On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unveiled a plan to enhance the U.S. military command in Japan, aiming to jointly-counter Chinese aggression in the region.

President Donald Trump has appointed Sara Carter as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

According to two Politico sources, Vice President JD Vance, chief of staff Susie Wiles, and top personnel official Sergio Gor gently offered President Donald Trump some advice in a private meeting on Wednesday. They suggested they fire National Security Adviser Mike Waltz over the Signal Chat blunder. The President reportedly agreed that Waltz “messed up” […] The post Some Trump Advisers Suggested Dismissing Waltz appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The S. African Constitutional Court has declared that the song Kill the Boer is not hate speech. The song is continuously sung and chanted by Julius Malema a communist leader in South Africa. It is his followers who have been accused of pillaging, raping and murdering white farmers and their families. The court has not […] The post S. Africa Court Rules ‘Kill the Boer’ Is Not Hate Speech, No Appeals appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Spring is here, and the end of the school year is ramping up. As summer approaches, families get busier, and it’s great to have fast, delicious meal options. Little Caesars gets it, and they are soft-launching a fan favorite ahead of a national release in April. The Little Caesars pretzel crust is back, and fans cannot wait to get their hands on the salty, doughy goodness. Markie Devo shared this news on Instagram with a drool-worthy picture of the upcoming release. Markie wrote, “Pretzel crust dipped in garlic sauce = pure heaven. Little Caesars Pretzel Crust returns!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Markie_devo (@markie_devo) Little Caesars Pretzel Crust Is Packed With Flavor Markie explained, “Pretzel crust features a large buttery-flavored soft pretzel crust pizza with creamy cheddar cheese sauce, mozzarella and Muenster cheeses and pepperoni(Cheese sauce or pizza sauce).” Markie added that insiders expect the soft launch of Little Caesars’ pretzel crust on March 31, and it should hit locations nationwide on April 7. Of course, news of a cult favorite making a seasonal return got plenty of Little Caesar’s fans excited. One fan wrote, “YESSSSSS!!!! I’ve been waiting for this to come back for so long.” This person agreed, “Omg, I have been waiting for LC to bring this pizza back!!! Picking up one of these pizza pies ( w/ x-tra pepperoni) on Fridays signifies it’s the weekend, and this is how I get it poppin’!” The Little Caesars pretzel crust called for a prayer from this person. “Thank you, Jesus. It stayed for a while last time. I wish it would just be permanent.” Others can’t wait to try it for the first time. “I’m very curious about this! It sounds delicious.” A customer warned interested pizza enthusiasts, “I remember it being one of the saltiest foods I’ve ever eaten.” This story’s featured image is by Jonathan Weiss via Shutterstock. The post Little Caesars’ Fan Overjoyed As An Old Favorite Returns To Menu appeared first on InspireMore.

Did you know that there is a Titanic museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee? This massive museum is home to over 400 genuine Titanic artifacts, according to their website. There are even sections dedicated to the beloved ’90s film of the same name. So, when newlyweds visiting this must-see spot noticed a giant piano in the middle of the room, they simply could not resist… The newly married man, Edwin, is a pianist, after all. Best of all, he knows how to play Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On. What better time is there to play this song than while visiting the Titanic museum? Check out Edwin’s captivating performance in the viral video below! @jlubabe904 #edwinriverathepianoman #titanic #titanicmuseum #pigeonforge #honeymoon #piano #music #celinedion #fyp ♬ original sound – JLUbabe904 Newly Married Man Delights Guests at the Titanic Museum with a Moving Rendition of My Heart Will Go On What is it about My Heart Will Go On? No matter how many times we hear it, this emotional song always manages to pull on our heartstrings. Plus, the love people have for it spans generations. In fact, a toddler once went viral after she sang it in front of a crowd! And for those wondering: Don’t worry, Edwin did not get in any trouble for his performance. On the contrary, multiple people in the comments confirmed that the piano is there for this exact reason. Museum staff will often encourage people to play! “You don’t learn that song, and then NOT play it at the titanic museum,” someone points out in reply to this heartwarming video, with another person adding, “I WOULD CRYYYYYYYYYYYYY if someone started playing this in the exhibit.” “Titanic was such a life altering movie for millennials,” a third person writes, “I swear I’d melt into a puddle if this happened to me.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Man Captivates Titanic Museum Visitors Playing “My Heart Will Go On” appeared first on InspireMore.

When Nihal Tammana was just 10 years old, he heard a news report about a lithium-ion battery exploding at a waste disposal plant—and when he learned about the environmental risks of batteries being left in landfills, he decided to do something. Tammana started the nonprofit, Recycle My Battery, and now, at 15 years old, he […] The post Boy Starts Nonprofit and Recycles 625,000 Batteries by Age 15 With Hundreds of Youth Joining in appeared first on Good News Network.

President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this is by effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded patronage networks.  What’s making Trump’s moves so effective is that many of these networks are based on government functions that long ago either waned in usefulness or have completely abandoned their purpose.  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin appeared on One America News Wednesday and explained how the Left has insidiously transformed the federal government into a Democratic Party funding apparatus.  Zeldin explained how the EPA under the Biden administration was used as a slush fund to give money to activists.  EPA ADMIN LEE ZELDIN BELIEVES BIDEN’S EPA WAS A SLUSH FUNDEPA Administrator @EPALeeZeldin tells @MattGaetz he “100%” believes that the Biden “EPA was absolutely being used to push out this green slush fund to their friends.” pic.twitter.com/2bpE4RpG8o— One America News (@OANN) March 27, 2025 “The EPA was absolutely being used to push out this green slush fund to their friends,” Zeldin said. “By design, the director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction fund leaves one of these NGOs, goes to work for the Biden administration to design this whole setup, and then sees his former employer get $5 billion.”  Zeldin said that this scheme applied to contracts, large and small, to both green nongovernmental organization executives and to low-level activists. The EPA has been acting as a conduit to transfer huge amounts of taxpayer money to the Left’s base.  “Are we providing clean air, land, and water?” Zeldin asked rhetorically. “This wasn’t money spent toward remediating environmental issues. This was money going through their friends.”  Indeed, it was. Zeldin has canceled hundreds of contracts worth $1.5 billion that were tabbed to go to essentially leftwing activist networks focused on “environmental justice.”   Democrats are apoplectic about the move, of course. Big surprise.   Zeldin is going ham on other climate change initiatives too where big money is at stake for the Left’s green client network.   This is only the tip of the iceberg. One of the real misunderstandings about the modern administrative statedemolished in recent years is that it’s operated by “nonpartisan experts.”  Nearly a century and a half after civil service reform was supposed to eliminate the “spoils system,” we have a vast federal leviathan that has not only failed to eliminate partisan administration, it has spread its corruption to an almost unimaginable scale.  Since at least Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society this modern spoils system has been used to the benefit of one party, the Democrats who run the system no matter who is in the White House.  In his second term, Trump is waging political war on that network. It’s not just the EPA. Department by department, Trump’s secretaries—assisted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency—are severing the ties that bind this vast, corrupt octopus.  That’s what freezing U.S. Agency for International Development funding was partly about. Foreign aid is already deeply unpopular with the American people, but what we are spending money on is not just generic aid to potential international partners.   Like many of the federal government’s projects, USAID is in many ways a relic of a bygone era when the U.S. aimed to stop the influence of communism around the globe. Sometime after the fall of the USSR it became a vehicle to fund various leftist projects around the globe with little relation to U.S. national interest. In fact, many of these projects were downright loathed in countries that weren’t too pleased with the U.S. government funding Pride parades in their capital city.  The Trump administration is pulling the plug on the unofficially established church of the Left too. They are withdrawing, or threatening to withdraw, hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money directed at colleges and universities that failed to protect their students from antisemitism on campus.  They are threatening schools with removing even more funds if they continue their illegal, racially discriminatory DEI programs too. And one might add that the problem goes far beyond antisemitism and DEI.   American universities, which have in many cases become hedge funds with schools attached, are increasingly failing to serve the public good. Much of what they call vital “research” is bogus. In addition, there’s no question that taxpayer-funded research grants allow universities to fund their obnoxious humanities departments that are politically monolithic at nearly every school.  They are in the business of gatekeeping the American elite and turning out generations of activists who not only run the show on campus but populate newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and government institutions.  Want to know what nearly everyone who runs an elite institution sounds the same, spouts the same dogmas, and went along with every insanity of the 2020 Great Awokening? There’s your source.  Again, this vast machine, the “Regime,” is underwritten by the taxpayer. Trump is breaking up that system. He’s targeting its power at the source.  To complete Trump’s revolution, Congress is going to have to get involved at some point. For instance, National Public Radio’s taxpayer-funded scam to fund leftwing journalists was completely exposed by the disastrous testimony of its CEO at a House hearing on Wednesday. There’s no excuse for keeping the money flowing to a blatantly partisan news network that lost its public function long ago.  Musk had it right when he called NPR an “taxpayer-funded” arm of the DNC. It’s a taxpayer-funded arm of the DNC https://t.co/V9A0moyrmd— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2025 This is why the Left’s instititions are often so powerful. They are often grafted on to a money spigot coming from the federal government. The Right is used to operating without that kind of support and has found ways to thrive without it. How will the Left function without their massive financial cushion? For now, probanly not too well. What the Trump administration has accomplished already is remarkable. They’ve disrupted the Left’s government funding racket in ways no president has before. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has called this a “Second American Revolution,” and in many ways it is.  Self-government is being restored, the Left’s spoils system is being defunded, and there is now hope that a downsized and more efficient federal government can begin again to serve the American people, all the people, rather than bilking them.  The post Trump Is Decimating the Left’s Government-Funded Patronage Networks appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. A Brown University student journalist is facing administrative scrutiny after sending a mass email to thousands of staff members — an action school officials now claim may have violated policies and caused emotional harm. Alex Shieh, a reporter with The Brown Spectator, reached out to 3,805 university administrators on March 18, posing a single question: “Describe what tasks you performed in the past week.” Styled after the playful tone of the Dogecoin meme, Shieh’s email quickly drew criticism from within the university. Two days later, Brown informed him that an “investigation” had been launched into his conduct. In a formal response, the university alleged that Shieh had “emotionally harmed” several recipients and “misrepresented” his role, despite his confirmed position at the conservative student outlet. Officials also accused him of breaching institutional protocols and warned that his access to Brown’s digital systems might be curtailed unless he returned what they termed “confidential information.” The email the student journalist sent to staff. That warning soon escalated. Associate Dean Kirsten Wolfe, who also serves as Associate Director of Student Conduct & Community Standards, followed up with a threat of disciplinary action for “failure to comply.” She instructed Shieh to prove he had deleted any such sensitive data — though the university has yet to identify what specific information it believes was improperly accessed or published. Wolfe further directed Shieh not to disclose the very existence of the investigation. Shieh has denied any wrongdoing and argued that the demands placed on him are fundamentally unfair. He noted that even if he had somehow come into possession of confidential material — a claim Brown has not substantiated — producing evidence of deletion would itself serve as incriminating proof, contradicting the university’s stated protection against self-incrimination. Free speech advocates have voiced concern over the university’s handling of the case, arguing that Brown’s actions risk suppressing student journalism and infringing on due process rights. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) emphasized that institutions committed to free expression cannot initiate disciplinary inquiries based on the content of protected speech. “Universities that guarantee their students free expression cannot base investigations on the very speech they promise to protect — and for good reason,” FIRE has stated. They also warn of the broader consequences: merely informing a student that they are under investigation can have a chilling effect on campus discourse, especially when that investigation appears to hinge on the student’s journalistic work. In Shieh’s case, FIRE argues, the university’s attempt to compel him to produce evidence supporting its own allegations “flips the disciplinary process on its head.” The underlying principle, advocates stress, is that the burden of proof must lie with the institution — not with the student being accused. Beyond due process, Brown’s response raises alarms for student press freedom. While university officials have the authority to investigate genuine breaches of confidentiality, targeting unconventional journalistic inquiries is not the same. As critics have pointed out, the line between administrative oversight and suppression of student reporting appears increasingly blurred. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Brown University Investigates Student Journalist Alex Shieh Over Email appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Parler, the social media platform known for its stance on free expression, is returning to the digital space with a revamped model centered on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency integration. After being sidelined following political scrutiny and de-platforming efforts, the company is positioning itself as a decentralized alternative to mainstream social networks. According to Parler’s leadership, the relaunched platform will emphasize user autonomy, data ownership, and the ability to generate income through participation. Chair of Parler, Yasser Elgebaly, described the effort as a significant shift in how social media operates. “We’re not just rebuilding Parler. We’re redefining what social media can and should be,” he said, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. “No more surveillance, no more secret algorithms controlling what you see, and no more exploitation of user data without consent. This is the future of social media — transparent, user-owned, and financially empowering.” The updated version of Parler will operate in partnership with OPT, a newly launched cryptocurrency that is now listed on the exchange platform XT.com. Through this integration, users will be able to engage with the platform while maintaining control over their data and potentially earning compensation for their activity. Bryan Ferre, co-creator of the OPT token, said the collaboration represents a broader movement within technology and finance. “The listing of OPT on XT.com, combined with the launch of Edgecast Cloud, marks the next evolution of blockchain and AI,” he stated. “We are giving users control over their data, their digital assets, and their financial future.” He added: “It is time to rewrite the code of the attention economy. A new model where individual users experience true freedom — free to express themselves — without being surveilled and monetized. Parler is just the beginning. By integrating a new decentralized model — users are the primary beneficiary of their attention.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Parler Relaunches as Decentralized, Crypto-Integrated Social Platform appeared first on Reclaim The Net.