“Rush were my earliest childhood influences.” Dave Navarro comes clean on his life-long love of Rush

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed preliminary findings in her investigation into Village of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard. 

South Korean Olympic shooter and internet sensation, Kim Ye-ji, concerned fans after collapsing during a press conference where she reportedly began convulsing.

Alireza Panahian head of Khamenei’s Ammar think tank for universities also said that Iranian missiles will annihilate the Zionists forever. He stated that Israel is coming to an end, the days of Western support for it are over, and the era for Iranian dominance in the region has arrived. All I can say is “Bring it […]

On Monday, Aug. 12, “designated terrorist group” CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) in Los Angeles (CAIR-LA) will hold press conferences in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the federal government for placing one “Palestinian”-American on the No Fly List and seizing the electronic device of another, while interrogating him about his […]

Instead of improving the educational system, which is now immersed in Marxism, the latest thing is to dumb us down and distort standards even further. Part of the dumbing down process includes the new SAT. If you learn math, reading, and writing as in the past, you’re racist, classist, sexist, and too white. Since objectivity […] The post The Dumbing Down of the SAT appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Rapper Travis Scott is in trouble again after being arrested in Paris where authorities said he got in a fight with his bodyguard at a luxury hotel. Prosecutors in France confirmed to People magazine that in the early morning hours of Friday, French police took the 33-year-old rapper — born Jacques Bermon Webster — into custody at the five-star George V hotel in the French capital after a security guard attempted to break up the fight. “I can confirm that on August 9, 2024, shortly after 5 a.m., the police were called to the Georges V Hotel and arrested the man nicknamed Travis Scott for assaulting a security guard,” the prosecutor’s officer said. “The latter had himself intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the statement added. “The 1st judicial police district was seized of the investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office.” Dramatic new video of #TravisScott‘s arrest shows Paris Police dragging him away from a luxury hotel — before they later took him to the hospital via ambulance. https://t.co/lK0zAWwMSe (?: Backgrid) pic.twitter.com/F2LDHr6MM2 — TMZ (@TMZ) August 9, 2024 A representative for the rapper said, “We are in direct communication with the local Parisian authorities to swiftly resolve this matter and will provide updates when appropriate.” “After multiple days of being chased and harassed by paparazzi upon entering his hotel early this morning and another evening of being swarmed with no help given Travis was arrested at his hotel after unfortunately getting into a fight with his own security detail, his bodyguard,” a source close to Scott said. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Scott remains in custody and has yet to be charged in the Paris arrest at the time of this publication, TMZ noted. The arrest came 24 hours after Scott dodged one of two charges after being arrested in June in Miami Beach, Florida, for disorderly intoxication and trespassing property after yelling at people on a yacht, as previously reported. Scott didn’t appear in court on Thursday, but his attorney was on hand when prosecutors officially dropped the disorderly intoxication charge against his client, TMZ reported. However, the prosecution is still looking to charge the rapper with a misdemeanor trespassing charge, the outlet noted. Police said when they arrived at Miami Beach marina, officers saw Scott yelling at occupants of a vessel and that they smelled a strong scent of “alcohol coming from the defendant’s breath,”  NBC News noted. At first, Scott complied with officers when they instructed him to sit down, but then he got up and continued. Police then instructed him to leave the area or risk being arrested. He left, but while walking away, he yelled “obscenities to the occupants of the vessel,” a Miami Beach Police arrest affidavit read. However, a short time later, he returned to the marina and headed back to the yacht, before officers caught up with him. Scott is reported as speaking to one sergeant and “becoming erratic” and “disturbing the peace of the occupants of the marina and nearby residential buildings causing public disturbance,” the arrest affidavit added, before he was taken into custody. The rapper’s trial for the misdemeanor trespassing charge is set for September. Related: Travis Scott Dodges Disorderly Intoxication Charge After Being Arrested In Miami

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) has taken a lot of heat in the days since he was tapped as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate for signing a law requiring free menstrual products in public school bathrooms. Conservative critics have dubbed him “Tampon Tim,” and accused the governor of putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms as well as girls’. So, did Walz really sign a law requiring tampons in boys’ bathrooms? The answer appears to be yes — Minnesota public schools are required to stock menstrual products in the restrooms for all “menstruating students,” which would include trans-identifying girls who use the boys’ bathroom. Though it’s unclear if any schools have actually installed menstrual product dispensers in boys bathrooms, the Democrat who sponsored the bill said she intentionally wrote it so that “trans students” would be able to access menstrual products. At the same time, Walz, Democratic legislators, and the state education department have pushed policies that accommodate and even encourage children who want to change their gender identity. So, while the language of the bill may be intentionally vague, it was part of a broader push by Walz and his allies to have Minnesota schools enforce transgender policies, some of which go far beyond tampon dispensers. Walz signed the law in question in May of last year. The law requires public school bathrooms to stock free tampons or pads beginning in January 2024. “The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district,” the bill reads. Republicans tried unsuccessfully to amend the bill to only apply to “female restrooms.” Meanwhile, the Minnesota Department of Education says trans-identifying students should be able to use the bathrooms of the opposite sex. “Transgender and gender nonconforming students should be afforded the opportunity to use the restroom of their choice,” the education department’s toolkit on trans-identifying students reads. Minneapolis Public Schools and other districts across the state have implemented policies allowing trans-identifying students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex. All of this means that if a school has a trans-identifying girl who uses the boys’ bathroom, it follows that the school is required to provide that student with menstrual products in the boys’ bathroom. Because Walz’s law applies to students as young as fourth grade, this means an elementary school could potentially be stocking tampons in the bathroom used by nine-year-old boys. Democratic State Representative Sandra Feist, the chief sponsor of the legislation, said she purposely made her bill “gender-inclusive.” “While the vast majority of the period products will be used in the girls’ bathrooms, the decision was made to structure the bill as gender-inclusive in order to ensure that trans and nonbinary students who menstruate would have equal access to the products they need,” Feist said. “I actually received emails,” she said. “From trans students, parents, teachers, librarians, custodians from across the country, talking about how they were — or that they knew — trans students who faced these barriers and needed these products, and how much it meant to them that they would have that access, and also that we were standing up for them.” Minnesota’s other policies around trans-identifying students similarly push schools to “affirm” the child’s new gender identity, even when parents disagree. “The family’s non-acceptance should not override the schools’ responsibility” to “create an affirming and accepting environment for every student, including transgender and gender nonconforming students,” the education department’s guidance reads. Also, when students travel for field trips or athletic activities and stay in hotel rooms, “school officials should allow a transgender or gender nonconforming student the opportunity to room with peers who match the student’s gender identity,” the guidance says. This means biological girls and boys could end up rooming together. The Minnesota Department of Education did not respond to a request for comment.

After the debacle at the Paris Olympics where two boxers with XY chromosomes battled for women’s boxing crowns, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Back told reporters that there was no “scientifically solid” method for determining whether an athlete is a man or a woman. Referring to the 2028 Summer Olympics scheduled for Los Angeles, California, a reporter queried Bach,  “There is no sign of the national federations sorting themselves out. Surely you must be worried boxing won’t be there in LA.” “I will not speculate the position is very clear,” Bach replied. “The IOC will not organize boxing in LA without a reliable partner, and if these national federations want their athletes to be able to win Olympic medals, they have to organize themselves in a reliable international federation with good governments and respecting all the requirements the IOC puts on the International Olympic Federation.” “In the IOC gender eligibility rules, it seems to be based on the fact that XYA athletes or DSD athletes don’t have a competitive advantage and we see here — ” another reporter began to ask. DSD, or differences of sex development, were formerly called intersex disorders. But individuals suffering from the disorder still have either XX or XY chromosomes. Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won the Olympic gold medal in the female welterweight division, has XY chromosomes, according to the International Boxing Association. Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan, who has reached the finals of the women’s featherweight division, also has XY chromosomes. “Don’t mix, please, this with DSD,” Bach interrupted. “The question is pretty clear, and again, all the science, nobody can tell you at this moment where there is an advantage or no advantage. Here it is first and foremost about the question of a woman, yes or no. If you take further parameters. Look at the Caster Semenya case, which is still pending, and where the measures which have been applied have been considered by the European Court of Human Rights, as potentially violating human rights and therefore have been sent back to a Swiss court. There is, at this moment, there is no certainty.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “Will you commit to a review of your guidelines on this matter, given the controversy on this matter?” a reporter asked. “We have said from the very beginning, if somebody is presenting us a scientifically solid system how to identify men and women, we are the first ones to do it,” Bach answered. “We do not like this uncertainty. We do not like it for the overall situation, for nobody. So we would be more than pleased to look into it, but what is not possible, is if somebody is ‘This is not a woman’ just by looking at somebody or by falling prey to a defamation campaign by not a credible organization with highly political interests.”