According to The Washington Post, Donald Trump ordered the CDC, FDA, HHS, and NIH to pause external communications, including publishing scientific reports, updating websites, or issuing health advisories. They have to stop talking temporarily. Perish the thought. This isn’t unusual, but apparently, they were all shocked. It’s so the new administration can review. During his […] The post CDC, FDA, HHS, NIH Told to Stop Talking, Publishing, Updating for Now appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Pride and Black Lives Matter flags are banned on all State Department and American buildings around the globe. Yes! The order comes from his State Department, banning Pride and Black Lives Matter flags. “Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and […] The post State Department Bans All But US Flags on Government Buildings appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

America’s Golden Age is just getting started. And the Left has still not recovered. They haven’t regained their semblance of reality or normalcy. One of the reasons why there is a feeling of unity in the country overall is because the era of weird is over and the era of the normie is back. The Left cannot embrace this. The Democratic Party cannot embrace this. And that’s worth exploring for a moment, because the most obvious thing about this current election cycle is that the Democratic Party blew it. They absolutely blew it because of wokeness. Woke issues are an 80-20 issue in the country. Americans do not believe in discrimination on the basis of race. That is an 80-20 issue. They reject it. Americans do not believe that little boys are the same as little girls, and boys can be made into girls or vice versa. That’s an 80-20 issue. These issues are losers for Democrats, which prompts this question: Why don’t the Democrats separate themselves from those issues? Every time a Democrat tries to separate from it, that person is immediately raked over the coals. This happened to Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton in Massachusetts, who made the signal error of suggesting that boys should not play in girls’ sports. He was then clubbed by his entire party. Why can’t they separate themselves from an issue like that? If it’s an 80-20 issue, why is it so vital for them to continue embracing it? Here’s the answer: Wokeness is now the core philosophy of the Democratic Party. It is the core philosophy that the Left cannot be separated from. The reality is that we live in a country of immense prosperity and historic wealth. The typical Left-wing case, the Marxist case, is that there are classes, and these classes are solid and impenetrable, that if you’re born poor in America, you die poor; if you’re born rich, you die rich, and your kids die rich. That’s not true. That has never been axiomatic in America. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show One of the most amazing things about the people who stood next to Donald Trump during his inauguration, those tech bros, is that they did not all grow up uber wealthy people. For example, my company, The Daily Wire, was founded by three people. Jeremy Boring, co-founder of the company, did not graduate from college. Caleb Robinson did not even go to college. I went to Harvard Law School, but I grew up in a 1,300 square-foot house in Burbank, California, with two bedrooms — one for my parents and one for the kids, which meant four kids in one bedroom and one bathroom for all six of us until I was 11-years-old. The amount of income and wealth mobility in the United States is astonishing. That is always why it has been a land of opportunity, which means that in America, the typical Marxist case for the flattening and destruction of the free market in the name of equality does not work and has never worked for long. Sometimes, it’s applied after an economic crisis when people are looking for some sort of answer. And that’s when you get the FDR administration. That’s when you get Obama. But it doesn’t last for long because Americans are an aspirational people, a people who like innovation. We like adventure. We want exploration. The typical Left-wing economic Marxist case, that everything is economically unfair, does not tend to work in a system that has those levels of economic mobility. The aspiration most Americans have does not match up with what the Left believes, which is to free society in place, redistribute all the winnings and then everybody is equal in penury. That is not the aspiration of the American people. When I campaigned with a series of Senate candidates during the last election cycle, whether it was up in the tip of Ohio with a bunch of white folks, or whether I was down in the Rio Grande Valley campaigning with Senator Cruz with an entirely Hispanic population, everyone wanted the same thing: to be able to keep their wealth, to build wealth for the next generation, to raise their family, to go to church, and to help their kids have a better life than they did. That is why Marxism has never successfully been applied in the United States and will not win in the United States. And that is also the reason why for the Left, economic Marxism had to be recast as something else. It had to be recast as race Marxism or sex Marxism, which is wokeism. The idea became that you had to completely restructure the system, to destroy capitalism. Why? Because the Left says people are innately not different. But the beauty of capitalism is that it is a meritocracy, and you don’t have to be at the top level of any particular thing in order to succeed in the United States. This is the theory of comparative advantage. For example, I may be really good at talking and writing, but I’m not so good at plumbing. That plumber can be highly successful and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year starting a plumbing company. That’s one of the beauties of capitalism. But what the Left says instead is that all people are innately exactly the same — not equal before God, but innately the same. “Men” and “women” are arbitrary categories. Group differentiation is all arbitrary. That means any inequity between those groups must be a reflection of unfairness. That’s what wokeness is: Wokeness is the argument that all disparities are discrimination. In order for that argument to make any sense, it means that all people must be exactly the same. So the argument to destroy capitalism has to be made on the basis that we are all basically undifferentiated widgets. This is why the Left can’t let go of those arguments. They can’t. The minute they give up that argument, they’re relegated to arguing economic Marxism again. And economic Marxism in the United States tends to lose. Bernie Sanders is popular with a relatively small cadre of the American people. His candidacy would have been a disaster for Democrats. Thus, they’ve had to move into a weird combination of economic Marxism, economic progressivism, race Marxism, sex Marxism: Wokeness. Why do I bring this up? Because one thing that’s been evident in the aftermath of President Trump’s swearing-in is that the Left will never give this up. That made itself absolutely apparent yesterday at the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral. President Trump attended, along with Melania, the entire Trump family, and Vice President Vance and his family. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images In the middle of the service, Mariann Budde, a female Episcopal bishop, spoke. She proceeded to spew a diatribe of woke-mind nonsense that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Bible or Christian traditionalism. 50 years ago, you would have been much more likely to hear this in a Communist Party hall than in a church. The decline of religion in America has led to hearing this kind of trash in churches. So this resistance pastor got up and decided she was going to make herself famous by ripping into Donald Trump and JD Vance the day after the inauguration. And she was going to do so by spewing absolute nonsense wokeness about trans kids who don’t exist. When I say they don’t exist, I mean that there may be kids with gender dysphoria, but the notion that a child knows that their body is not in line with their sex is ridiculous on its face. She spewed nonsense about trans children and illegal immigrants and suggested that if President Trump wished to emulate the values of Jesus, he must abandon his entire political agenda. I’ve noticed that Jesus was not in favor of free migration across all borders. I certainly know that Jesus was not in favor of the idea that boys and girls are the same and are interchangeable and boys can become girls. But of course, this had nothing to do with religion. It is what the Left has done with nearly every institution. They’ve hollowed them out. They hollowed out the church, and they stuck in a bunch of Left-wing woke garbage. “Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land,” she pronounced. This is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. The notion that you are now citing the biblical injunction to be kind to the stranger in order to suggest you cannot have a border as a country is asinine. The suggestion that the Bible mandates that President Trump allow the mutilation, the hormonal sterilization of small children on the basis that they think they might be a member of the opposite sex is perverse. Shame on whomever did not vet this woman, the same woman who said just a couple of years ago that everything about President Trump was antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. This is all insulting, ridiculous, and divisive. It’s also bound to lose because the American people — anyone who takes the church or the Bible seriously, whether Christian or Jewish — don’t believe this. You don’t take this perspective seriously if you happen to be a person who believes in Biblical values. But the Left can’t let it go. The Left’s attachment to wokeness never dies. * * * CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will change their terminology to resume the use of the term “alien” and drop the term “noncitizen,” a new memo indicates. The memo from ICE director Caleb Vitello will apply to all “internal and external communications” and will also replace the term “noncitizenship” with “alienage.” The move marks a stark departure from the Biden administration’s decision to use “more inclusive” terms when discussing immigration. Even the word “assimilation” was dropped in favor of “civic integration.” The Biden administration also received guidance from the Rand Corporation urging it to discontinue the use of not just the term “illegal alien,” but even words like “Jihadist,” which it warned was “racially charged.” “Looter,” “rioter,” and “trespasser” were all said by the Rand Corporation to be “racially charged as they are mostly applied to individuals of a particular race and not to White individuals.” The report to the Biden administration adds “it is the disparate application of the term, rather than the definition, that has caused it to become disrespectful or damaging.” The new ICE memo also underscores President Trump’s focus on immigration in the first days of his administration. Trump signed a slate of immigration related executive orders the day of his inauguration, including measures to declare a national emergency at the southern border, end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, suspending refugee resettlement, and designating cartels foreign terrorist organizations. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) celebrated the flurry of executive orders addressing immigration, telling The Daily Wire that “Biden surrendered our border to chaos – but President Trump is wasting no time taking it back.” “These executive orders are exactly what the American people demanded when they voted for law and order: military deployment to the border, designating cartels as terrorists, and ending the Democrats’ catch-and-release scam,” he added. “The Republican Study Committee will work tirelessly alongside President Trump to seal our border, defend our communities, and make America safe again. This is what real leadership looks like: promises made, promises kept to the American people.”

“Mission: Impossible” director Christopher McQuarrie revealed that a fan “almost had a heart attack” watching a scene from the upcoming final installment in the franchise. Speaking to Empire Magazine, per Games Radar, the 56-year-old director told the outlet that at a recent screening for “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” the action-packed excitement on the big screen proved to me almost too much for one of the movie-goers. “We had a small screening, and someone said, ‘I was suffocating throughout the entire sequence. I almost had a heart attack,'” McQuarrie said. “And I thought, ‘I guess we did something right.'” It has been the goal with each of the “M:I” films that the action gets more intense. Christopher McQuarrie says an audience member “almost had a heart attack” during an action sequence of ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ “I thought, ‘I guess we did something right.’” pic.twitter.com/cJxPnGvUYV — Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 20, 2025 And McQuarrie has appeared to confirm that will be the case once again, telling the outlet that the eighth installment features “the most difficult thing” they’ve ever done in the Tom Cruise-led series. But exactly what the scene was that almost sent a fan to the hospital has yet to be revealed. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT In the first trailer for the upcoming film, there’s a whole host of action sequences, which involve a high-speed car chase and crash, an underwater battle involving a submarine, and Cruise hanging on to the outside of a biplane as it flies upside down, among so many others. In July 2023, Cruise shared behind-the-scenes shots from the seventh installment in the franchise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” that showed how a high-speed train sequence in the movie came together, as previously reported. “This train sequence was tricky, but the outcome made it all worth it,” Cruise wrote at the time about the scene filmed in Norway. “I can’t wait for everyone to see it come to life!” In the clip, we hear McQuarrie talked about how the movie’s “sense of adventure” would include an action train sequence, something they had “always wanted to do.” “We wanted to build upon the previous films,” the director said. “And apply all of that knowledge to something practical and real.” The footage showed outside shots of Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt on top of a train and a warehouse where the shell of a train with different train cars was being built to help them create movie magic. “We had to build a train if we wanted to destroy it,” McQuarrie said, noting that the cars had to be able to run on a working “railroad track.” “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” hits theaters May 23. Related: ‘Mission: Impossible’ Director Recounts ‘Weirdest’ Tom Cruise Story He Ever Heard

Nothing is more disappointing than learning your favorite celebrity is actually a jerk. We want them to be as relatable, kind, funny, and awesome as we believe they are. When that bubble pops, it can feel personal. On the flip of that coin, it’s so refreshing to hear an unexpected fan story about a celeb that solidified you were right all along. Look, we won’t lie, we’re Swifities over here. And when Taylor started dating Travis Kelce, we didn’t want to let our guard down. Sure, a breakup makes for some fantastic Taylor Swift music, but so does a romance. On the outside, Travis looks pretty great. He’s always happy and super funny and treats our girl, Tay, like a queen. Comedian Ron Funches shared a story on Instagram that warmed our hearts and made us love #87 even more. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ron Funches (@ronfunch) Ron Had Only Nice Things To Say About Travis Kelce The pair met while he was on Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? hosted by Travis. “We started to become friendly, you know? And then he knew I was coming out to do shows for Thanksgiving week, and he hit me up on Instagram, and he was just like, ‘Hey man, are you coming to my city? Let me know if you need anything.'” Ron took Travis up on the offer, and the tight end secured tickets for the Kanas City Chiefs game while he visited KC. Before the game, Travis checked in on Ron to be sure he went into Arrowhead Stadium OK and that everything was right in the world. Ron called Travis Kelce a Prince Charming. He couldn’t believe his kindness. Ron joked, “He is amazing, he is a golden retriever of a human being. It’s probably why he’s so good at football. He just, like, sees the ball and, ‘I gotta go get it.'” This fan summed it up best, “Sweet people being sweet to sweet people is so sweet.” This story’s featured image is by David Eulitt/Getty Images. The post Travis Kelce Really Is Like A “Human Golden Retriever” And We’ve Got Receipts appeared first on InspireMore.