Democrats are panicking over the President’s polling in the 2024 election – they’re freaking out. Black voters are not enthusiastic about Joe Biden. Politico says a “pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects.” Black leaders are also warning the President that […] The post Democrats Are “Freaking Out” Over Biden’s Polling appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — who is backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros — gushed over the jury that returned a guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump on Thursday. Bragg said that the jury, which was selected from an area that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, was “literally the cornerstone of our judicial system” and that they should be thanked for their “service.” “We should all be thankful for the careful attention that this jury paid to the evidence and the law and their time and commitment over these past several weeks,” he claimed. “Twelve everyday New Yorkers, and of course, our alternates, heard testimony from 22 witnesses, including former and current employees of the defendant, media executives, book publishers, custodians of records, and others. They reviewed call logs, text messages and emails. They heard recordings, they saw checks and invoices, bank statements, and calendar appointments.” He said that this type of case was the “core” of what his office does, even though numerous legal critics have said that typically his office would not prosecute this case and made an exception to do so because he was targeting Trump. “In the 1930s, District Attorney Thomas Dewey, ushered in the era of the modern, independent, professional prosecutor,” he claimed. “For now nearly 90 years, dedicated professionals in his office have built upon that fine tradition. A major part of our practice, during that nearly 90 years, has been public integrity work, including cases involving jurists, local and state electeds, public servants, and others. I want to thank this phenomenal prosecution team embodying the finest traditions of this office professionalism, integrity, dedication, and service. They are model public servants. And I am proud and humbled to serve side by side with them.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “The 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law and the evidence and the law alone,” he claimed. “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion beyond the reasonable doubt that the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. And while this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes to the courtroom doors — by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor.” WATCH: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s trial: “While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial, and ultimately today at this verdict, in the same manner as every other case that comes.” pic.twitter.com/LRyynl9cAS — CBS News (@CBSNews) May 30, 2024

Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro warned of severe backlash and unpredictable consequences after former president Donald Trump was convicted of numerous felonies in New York on Thursday. A jury voted Thursday to convict Trump on 34 felony counts based on an unspecified underlying crime over hush-money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016. The jury decision marks the first time a president or former president has been convicted of a crime in American history. “It’s a travesty of justice. This case was a joke from the very beginning,” Shapiro said in a late Thursday afternoon live stream after the verdict. “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg set this entire thing up to become more famous and more powerful. Judge Juan Merchan, who basically gave every benefit to the prosecution, whose jury instructions were unprecedented in their willingness to flout the law.” “This was all set up to convict Donald Trump simply so that either Democrats could jail Donald Trump or spend the next few months declaring Donald Trump a convicted felon for purposes of the election,” Shapiro said. The Biden campaign in recent days has leaned into the Trump trial after months of keeping a distance. After the verdict, the campaign released a statement declaring that “no one is above the law.” Biden’s son Hunter is currently facing prosecution on multiple federal tax and gun charges. Two trials on those charges are scheduled for later this year. Shapiro predicted that the verdict will boomerang on Democrats and help Trump in the 2024 election, and that Biden will face a backlash from voters who see the verdict as a “third-world” political attack against Trump. “I think the backlash on this is going to be extraordinary because this is so obviously a manufactured case, so obviously a stupid case that has nothing to do with Donald Trump’s supposed violations of law. I don’t think the American people are going to stand for this,” Shapiro said. “I think if Joe Biden somehow believes that this is going to redound to his benefit rather than appearing as a politically motivated hit job on his political opponent in an unprecedented prosecution of the man most likely to take him out of office in November, I think he’s got another thing coming.” The Daily Wire editor emeritus addressed the unprecedented nature of the case, walking through a number of different scenarios that could play out at Trump’s sentencing hearing. Trump being jailed and conducting a presidential campaign from a New York prison is most likely, according to Shapiro. If Trump is imprisoned and the election is conducted while the former president is behind bars, the mistrust in the fairness of elections would skyrocket, according to The Daily Wire host. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “The Democrats just set the country on fire. I am absolutely astonished that this trial was ever allowed to go forward. I’m not particularly astonished at the verdict, but the consequences of this are extraordinarily dire,” Shapiro said. “If Donald Trump were to lose in November while serving prison time on a trumped up charge, the response in the United States will be absolutely explosive. You want to talk about an illegitimate president at that point, the American people will see a Democrat elected under those auspices as illegitimate. There’s just no other way to do it,” he added. Trump found guilty. We are now in uncharted territory. There has never been anything like this in American history. Watch my complete breakdown of the Trump verdict and what this means for the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/9hdAUKXpa1 — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 30, 2024

Rocker Lenny Kravitz said he’s been celibate for almost a decade, calling it a “spiritual thing” for him after not being in a serious relationship for nine years. During an interview with The Guardian, the 60-year-old singer talked about the dating he did after he and actress Lisa Bonet divorced in 1993, admitting that not having sex has given him a sense of control over his life. Kravitz talked about his own father’s infidelity when he was growing up, how his dad said he’d end up cheating on his spouse, and he said his dad had ended up being right. “After the marriage, I became more like him. I was becoming a player,” Kravitz told the outlet. “I didn’t like it,” he added. “I didn’t want to be that guy. So I had to tackle that and it took years.” Lenny Kravitz is celibate — and hasn’t been in a serious relationship in 9 years https://t.co/oPs6q8sLhB pic.twitter.com/wW7mZvlrqf — New York Post (@nypost) May 30, 2024 When pressed by the interviewer on how he tackled it, the famed rocker said, “By taking responsibility. Discipline. Not letting my own desires take over.” Kravitz said it’s been nine years since he was in a serious relationship, and explained that he decided to remain celibate until he found the right person. “It’s a spiritual thing,” the singer said, noting that being in a relationship now might be a struggle. “I have become very set in my ways, in the way I live.” In 2008, Kravitz told CBS Sunday Morning he believed that “in the end [being celibate]” was “going to help me to find the right person.” ”So I’m not going to waver on that,” the rocker said at the time. “That’s a promise I made to God three years ago.” Speaking to CBS co-anchor Gayle King recently, Kravitz admitted he was open to what the future may bring, whatever that might be, whether he ended up in a relationship or not. “I find that when you don’t look is when you find it,” Kravitz said. “And I’m at a place where I’ve said this for several years: ‘I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.’ I wasn’t ready. I thought I was ready, right?” “Well, I can say that I’ve never felt how I feel now,” he added. Kravitz and Bonet tied the knot in 1987 and welcomed daughter Zoe to the world in 1988. The famed rocker and the actress divorced in 1993. After that, Kravitz was romantically linked with model Adriana Lima and Nicole Kidman, TMZ noted.

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended former President Donald Trump on Thursday after a jury in a deep blue part of the country returned a guilty verdict against him. The case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — who is backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros — has been controversial from the start and has remained so throughout with nearly every facet showing what critics and various legal experts have alleged is bias against the former president, including the judge who presided over the case, the legal theory used to bring the charges, the instructions given to jurors for deliberations, and more. RFK Jr. — a lifelong Democrat who only recently became an Independent because he was unable to overtake Biden as the Democrat Party’s nominee — said that the party’s entire plan to stop Trump was to beat him with the criminal prosecutions initiated by Democrat prosecutors. “The Democratic Party’s strategy is to beat President Trump in the courtroom rather than the ballot box,” he posted on X. “This will backfire in November. Even worse, it is profoundly undemocratic. America deserves a President who can win at the ballot box without compromising our government’s separation of powers or weaponizing the courts.” “You can’t save democracy by destroying it first,” he continued. “The Democrats are afraid they will lose in the voting booth, so instead they go after President Trump in the courtroom.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Another Democrat who defended Trump was former Illinois Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich, who posted on X: “I love Trump more today than ever! When you’ve lived through it yourself you recognize when they do it to someone else. The political fix was in from the beginning. Disgraceful and corrupt convictions of the leading candidate from the opposition party by a handpicked politicized Dem judge who denied a former President a chance to put on a defense and allowed ridiculously unlawful jury instructions. That Dem Judge and those Dem prosecutors ought to go right to F’n jail for what they are doing to our democracy and our country.”

For Amrita Chavan, leaving Mumbai for Canada at the age of 19 was the start of a new experience, but it also marked the beginning of a completely new life, at a distance. She vividly recalls the heartbreaking goodbye at the airport, surrounded by her crying relatives. She had no idea how painful it would be to lose loved ones thousands of miles away. “We had no idea what it meant to leave home,” she recalls. Chavan was surprised to face the reality of international grieving over 12 years after her departure. In early 2020, she received tragic news from her mother: her adored grandma in Sydney, Australia, had become unwell and died. Chavan, who was stuck in Winnipeg, Canada, felt emotionally paralyzed and unable to fully mourn. “I felt very frozen for a long time,” she says. Understanding transnational grief Transnational grieving, or bereavement, is a unique experience for immigrants who lose loved ones while living in a different country. The inability to be present for the final moments and traditional rituals complicates the grieving process. According to Zohreh Bayatrizi, a grief researcher at the University of Alberta, “There is a strong sense of guilt. There is a strong sense of regret that they weren’t able to be with their loved one as the loved one died,” For many immigrants, the burden of transnational mourning is exacerbated by issues such as unauthorized status, which prevents them from traveling for funerals or rituals. Kristina Fullerton Rico, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, emphasizes the issues confronting illegal immigrants: “People described these experiences of grief and long-distance mourning as one of the most difficult parts of being undocumented in the United States.” Coping strategies and rituals Regardless of the distance, immigrants find comfort in inventing their own rituals to memorialize their loved ones. Psychologist Gabriela Encina walks clients through personalized grief procedures that include letter-writing and reliving shared experiences. These ceremonies offer a sense of closure and help people to start healing. During the pandemic, creative outlets were critical for processing grief. Chavan found that taking a writing lesson changed his life. Through writing, she recalled cherished memories of her grandma, allowing herself to reconnect with her emotions and begin the healing process. Addressing systemic challenges To minimize the impact of transnational grieving, fundamental reforms in immigration rules and employment norms are required. Fullerton Rico highlights the value of expedited citizenship for immigrants, which allows them to see family members in times of need. Furthermore, having paid bereavement leave ensures that individuals can take time off work without facing financial consequences. Creating a supportive group is critical for immigrants dealing with bereavement from afar. Organizations and religious institutions play an important role in offering therapy, mental health resources, and virtual support groups. Bayatrizi emphasizes the importance of social contact in the grieving process, saying, “Grief is something of a social experience… It’s an emotional experience that’s shaped through our social interactions.” Finding strength in your community Despite the hardships, immigrants like Chavan find strength in supportive communities. Sharing stories and connecting with people who understand their hardships may be quite empowering. Chavan’s healing journey was aided by the compassion of her boyfriend and in-laws, as well as the global network she discovered while writing about her loss. Knowing you’re not alone during difficult times may be a wonderful source of consolation. Communities that promote understanding and empathy can provide important assistance to immigrants negotiating the challenging terrain of transnational sorrow.The post Coping with transnational grief first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

Breweries are well-known for producing wonderful beer, but what if their waste could also be used to combat water pollution? Recent MIT research reveals an innovative way in which recycled beer yeast can help remove hazardous lead from water, providing a sustainable and cost-effective solution. The magic of years: a natural purifier Yeast, the microorganisms that cause fermentation, have a remarkable ability to filter water by absorbing heavy metal ions such as lead. According to MIT researchers, the process known as biosorption has enormous promise. The researchers explain that yeast cells may bind and absorb heavy metal ions at concentrations as low as one part per million. A brewing conundrum: removing the yeast Initially, researchers faced a dilemma: while yeast could effectively remove lead from water, recovering the yeast afterward proved difficult. However, after three years of intense research, a breakthrough was discovered in the form of hydrogel casings made of polyethylene glycol (PEG), a widely utilized UV light-sensitive polymer. The “multivitamin solution” origin story Devashish Gokhale, an MIT graduate student and co-author of the paper, describes their creative approach: “What we decided to do was make these hollow capsules — something like a multivitamin pill, but instead of filling them up with vitamins, we fill them up with yeast cells.” By combining freeze-dried yeast with PEG polymers and UV radiation, the researchers constructed semipermeable outer capsules around the yeast cells, enabling efficient lead removal while preventing yeast from escaping into the water. Testing the waters: a proof-of-concept biofilter To validate their method, the researchers built a proof-of-concept biofilter with hydrogel-yeast granules. The filter successfully eliminated trace lead from water over 12 days, demonstrating its efficacy and endurance in the face of fluid forces in faucet water. Importantly, the device used less energy than traditional filtration methods such as membrane filtration. A sustainable solution for clean water The consequences of this research go beyond laboratory experiments. Given the abundance of yeast and the low cost of the hydrogel-yeast filter, this innovation has the potential to provide a sustainable and affordable water treatment solution, particularly for low-income regions confronting water pollution concerns.  Looking ahead, researchers are looking into ways to recycle and replace filter yeast, as well as produce eco-friendly hydrogels made from renewable sources. They also intend to expand the filter’s capabilities to address other contaminants such as microplastics and persistent chemicals, thereby furthering water purification efforts. Source study: RSC Sustainability— Yeast-laden hydrogel capsules for scalable trace lead removal from waterThe post Solutions are brewing! Recycled beer yeast surprising solution for water pollution first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

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