A new crime study shows that shoplifting so far this year has increased by almost 25% in the United States.

Sanctuary cities should never have existed. People who concocted them lied about their motives. They pretended it was for humanitarian reasons. In reality, they wanted to bring in Democrat voters for life. They didn’t care if they were criminals, drunks, crazy, deadbeats, or terrorists. They were forever changing America into a third-world nuthouse. Democratic Massachusetts […] The post Sanctuary Gov Will Send Her Illegals to Her Fellow Governors appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

YouTube star MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, addressed allegations that one of his longtime employees had engaged in the grooming of a minor approximately eight years ago.  Donaldson posted a lengthy statement on X following pressure from his followers to comment on the situation. Kris Tyson, a 28-year-old trans-identifying man and sidekick on the popular YouTube channel, became a topic of conversation after taking cross-sex hormones, changing his name to “Ava,” and leaving his wife and four-year-old son. Now, there are accusations that he had inappropriate conversations with a 13-year-old boy several years ago.  “Over the last few days, I’ve become aware of the serious allegations of Ava Tyson’s behavior online and I am disgusted and opposed to such unacceptable acts,” Donaldson shared with his 30.7 million X followers.  “During that time, I have been focused on hiring an independent third party to conduct a thorough investigation to ensure I have all the facts,” the post continued. “That said, I’ve seen enough online and taken immediate action to remove Ava from the company, my channel, and any association with MrBeast. I do not condone or support any of the inappropriate actions.” Donaldson concluded, “I will allow the independent investigators the necessary time to conduct a comprehensive investigation and will take any further actions based on their findings.” The accusations came from a group of YouTubers who accused Tyson, who was 20 at the time of the alleged incident, of messaging a minor and referencing nude photos, sex topics, and anime pornography, per The Hollywood Reporter. Discord, X, and YouTube users surfaced public messages between Tyson and the then-minor. The alleged minor in question, who is now an adult and posts under the screen name LavaGS, defended Tyson and their online relationship. “These videos are massive lies and twisting the truth. Ava never did anything wrong and just made a few edgy jokes. I was never exploited or taken advantage of,” LavaGS posted on Monday. “Nothing bad happened between me and Kris, people are creating lies around my name.” Tyson also defended himself following the backlash and denied any claims of sexual misconduct. “I humbly apologize to anyone I have hurt with my unacceptable social media posts, past actions, and to those who may feel betrayed by how I used to act online,” the YouTuber shared on X Wednesday. MrBeast is the top channel on YouTube, with more than 305 million subscribers.

Comedian Bowen Yang said working on the popular sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” was the “cringiest” job. Yang discussed his thoughts with co-host Matt Rogers during a recent episode of their “Las Culturistas” podcast. The pair discussed how sometimes it’s embarrassing to make certain career moves, referencing President Joe Biden’s ending his re-election campaign. “You have to sometimes climb up a huge hill of cringe,” Rogers said. “And once you can scale that hill — which is, you know, it might be your judgment of yourself, on what you’re doing, it might be everyone saying what you’re doing is cringe — on the other end, you slide down into happiness and nirvana.” Yang, an “SNL” alum, chimed in, saying he was embarrassed about his stint on the show, which began in 2018.  “I know about working through cringe, climbing a cringe mountain, I work at Saturday f***ing Night Live, the cringiest thing in show business on every level,” he said. “Cringe Mountain is SNL.” The comedian added, “Eternally grateful that I worked there, will be the defining thing of my life and career, and yet it is a cringe mountain because to live through working at SNL and to have people constantly tell you how much it sucks, how bad it is, how it’s not as good as it used to be, for your career — that has to do something to you psychologically where you emerge and go, ‘I don’t give a f***.’” Rogers voiced some disagreement with the assessment. “I don’t think it’s cringe,” he said of “SNL,” per Entertainment Weekly. “But I will say… everyone has a f***ing opinion. It’s the most popular show in the world, it’s now been on for 50 years, it is Capital C commercial culture, and therefore it’s cringe because everyone is like, ‘I’m having something to say.’” “And it’s corporate, you know what I mean? It’s all those things,” he added. “But on the other side of it, guess what Bowen: you get to actually, the visceral thing of people laugh, people feel good. And that is why we’re doing this and that is why America is worth saving.”

The GOP-led House passed a resolution in bipartisan fashion on Thursday to condemn Vice President Kamala Harris as “border czar” and the Biden administration for its inability to curb illegal immigration. Six Democrats joined with 214 Republicans in voting for the measure. Another 196 Democrats voted against it. Sixteen members, including six Republicans and 10 Democrats, did not cast a vote. The Democrats who broke ranks were Reps. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), Jared Golden (D-ME), Mary Peltola (D-AK), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA). Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the chairwoman of the House GOP Conference, introduced a resolution on Tuesday after President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. Harris has since gathered the support of enough delegates to win the Democratic Party’s nomination. The resolution “strongly condemns the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.” It further “affirms that the American people deserve elected officials who understand the gravity of the crisis at the border and who will execute the policies to fix the border crisis.” The resolution also “clearly and firmly states that the continuation of the Biden, Harris border policies would be disastrous for both the United States and the American people.” Biden tasked Harris with leading his administration’s efforts to deal with Mexico and other countries to stem the tide of migration to the southern U.S. border in March 2021. At the time, Harris said the government “must address the root causes…that cause people to make the trek.” Stefanik’s resolution accuses Biden and Harris of instituting “far left Democrat open border policies” and making the border crisis “significantly worse” by formally ending former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program in August 2022. Other clauses in the resolution reference how the VP waited 93 days before visiting the border, officials recording millions of illegal immigrant encounters since Biden and Harris took office, murders of Americans committed by illegal immigrants, people on the terrorist watch list trying to cross the border, costs on taxpayers, and other issues. RELATED: Axios ‘Clarified’ 2021 Report In Desperate Attempt To Distance VP Harris From ‘Border Czar’ Gig “Today my resolution condemning Kamala Harris for her role as Joe Biden’s open border czar passed the House. Let me be clear: Harris and every elected Democrat owns this historic border crisis that has turned every community into a border community. It is time that we return to President Donald Trump’s border security policies that put the safety of American citizens first,” Stefanik after the vote. “At our Northern Border in the Swanton Sector, I have seen firsthand with the Border Patrol the disastrous consequences of Kamala Harris’ failed Far Left open border agenda which caused a historic surge in illegal crossings like we have never seen at our Northern Border before including individuals on the terrorist watchlist,” she added. “Kamala Harris didn’t just create a national security crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that has endangered the lives of millions. House Republicans will secure the border.”

Courts for 21 states have blocked the Biden administration’s guidelines that force public schools to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports. In addition to the rules being blocked in 21 states, dozens of K-12 schools and universities across the country have been blocked from implementing the rules, which were issued on April 19, 2024. The new rules replace previous guidance from the Trump administration, which didn’t include caveats for transgender students but did increase due process protections for students at schools receiving public funding. The Biden rules remove those due process protections. Title IX is a federal statute that bans sex discrimination, but the Biden administration has expanded the definition to include sexual identity and gender identification. Courts across the country have determined that this expanded definition is wrong. On June 13, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden rules while calling them an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” His ruling blocked the new guidance from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana. “Title IX was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination,” Doughty wrote. “Such purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue that, at the time of enactment, ‘discrimination on the basis of sex’ included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Enacting the changes in the Final Rule would subvert the original purpose of Title IX: protecting biological females from discrimination.” On June 17, U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the rules in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. A few weeks later, on July 2, U.S. District Judge John Broomes, another Trump appointee, issued a similar ruling blocking the new Title IX rules in Alaska, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming. Broomes’ ruling went further, however,  and included a massive list of K-12 schools and universities across the country where the rules would also be blocked. That list came from schools attended by children of the defendants in that lawsuit, Moms for Liberty, and members of the Young America’s Foundation. On July 11, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, another Trump appointee, issued another ruling that blocked the Biden Title IX guidance in Texas, Newsweek reported at the time. On July 24, U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel, a Clinton appointee, blocked the rules in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. That brought the total number of states where the rules can’t be implemented to 21. The Biden administration filed appeals in two of the decisions, but those were promptly denied. The administration is also seeking to have the Supreme Court implement the Title IX guidance that doesn’t include transgender capitulations – such as the provisions regarding reduced due process protections – in the states that have blocked the rules so far, The Hill reported. In the rulings against the regulations, however, judges have noted that because of the Biden administration’s redefinition of the word “sex” to include gender identity, transgender issues can’t be carved out from the rules as a whole. “[T]he fact that the definition permeates the entire Rule, the Court concludes that it would be a nearly impossible task to excise the remaining regulations without also eliminating those regulations that involve sex discrimination,” Judge Sippel wrote in his ruling. Other judges wrote similar statements. While 21 states have blocked the rules, lawsuits are still pending in five additional states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. The rulings are in stark contrast to the Title IX rules implemented by the Trump administration several years ago. Multiple lawsuits were filed against those rules as well, but none prevailed. The complete list of states that have blocked the rules so far are: Alaska Arkansas Idaho Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Ohio South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia West Virginia Wyoming