If Congress did their job, they would eject the lunatics from the once-respected body of lawmakers. And they wonder why Americans look askance at Somalis. In addition to the grand thievery they are involved in, look at who they vote for to represent them. Ilhan Omar has said more than once that she is in […] The post 4 Tweets Exposing Dangerous People Among Us appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

GOP Sen. Tom Cotton has no objections to releasing the full video of the U.S. military strike on a drug boat that has become central to Democratic claims of war crimes committed by the Trump administration. The Arkansas senator appeared on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” on Sunday and defended the actions taken by the U.S. military to curb the flow of fentanyl and other drugs into the United States, specifically striking vehicles used to ferry drugs in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. One incident in September has sparked accusations from Democrats that War Secretary Pete Hegseth committed a war crime after a second military strike was ordered on a drug boat that was not destroyed by an initial missile. The accusations against Hegseth began after The Washington Post reported that the War secretary gave an order to “kill them all.” Top military officials have since testified to Congress that no such order was given, and Republican lawmakers who have seen the mission order have said that no such language exists in the order that would direct military personnel to commit war crimes. Senate Republicans, including Cotton, have also reviewed the footage of the second strike on the drug boat and said that the strike did not constitute a war crime because the vessel, though damaged and capsized, still represented a valid military target and could have been used to call in additional narcoterrorists. Cotton said Sunday that he would have “no problem” releasing the video to the public, though the military may have national security reasons for not wanting the footage public. 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. “I personally don’t have any problem with” releasing the footage, Cotton said. “It’s not gruesome. I didn’t find it distressing or disturbing. It looks like any number of dozens of strikes we’ve seen on Jeeps and pickup trucks in the Middle East over the years.” “I will say that the department may have valid concerns about revealing what we know about tactics and techniques that these cartels are using or about our sources or methods,” he added. “I would trust Secretary Hegseth and his team to make the decision about whether they can declassify and release the video. But again, there’s nothing remarkable on that video in my opinion.” Adm. Mitch Bradley testified to Congress last week, denying that Hegseth gave a “kill them all” order. Bradley said that while Hegseth was present to watch the first strike delivered against the drug boat in September, the War secretary left to attend to other matters. Bradley gave authorization for the second strike after assessing that the vessel was still a threat. Hegseth’s orders at that point had not specified what to do if a drug boat was not completely destroyed in an initial strike, according to reporting from The New York Times. Democrats have continued to push the story, alleging that Hegseth authorized a war crime and should be held accountable. Lawmakers have also pushed for release of the video depicting the second strike on the boat and suggested that service members who take part in illegal orders could be formally punished.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth said a second military strike on a damaged drug boat in September constituted a “war crime” before checking what video evidence or after-action reports show. Duckworth appeared on CNN on Sunday and accused the Trump administration, particularly War Secretary Pete Hegseth, of committing a war crime in the Caribbean over a report in The Washington Post last month. The senator made the strong accusation before admitting that she has not seen the classified video or military reports on the controversial strike. Top military officials have denied the Post’s report, and additional reporting from The New York Times undercuts the Post report’s claim that Hegseth issued a “kill everybody” order. The Illinois senator suggested that U.S. service members who participate in the “illegal” strikes may be subject to legal accountability in the U.S. or through the International Criminal Court, which the United States is not a party to. “Everything that they’ve done has been illegal. It’s illegal under international law, it’s illegal under the Geneva Convention, and it certainly is even illegal under domestic law. It was essentially murder with that double-tap strike,” said Duckworth. “It is a war crime. It’s illegal. However you put it, it’s all illegal.” Duckworth said she made her assessment without watching classified video of the strike that has been shown to some lawmakers. Duckworth said that all of her knowledge on the strike has come from “just what’s been available in the media.” 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. “I’ve not seen the actual video. I’ve requested to be able to see the actual video. I’ve also actually asked to see the after-action reports from the pilots and the drone operators, as well as the intelligence debrief that all pilots and drone operators conduct after they have completed a mission,” she said. The Washington Post reported on November 28 that Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to “kill them all” in relation to narcoterrorists who ferry drugs through international waters in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. Adm. Frank Bradley, who oversaw the September operation in question, testified to lawmakers last week that the Post’s account of the strike is inaccurate. Top military officials have denied that Hegeth ever gave such an order, and that Bradley’s official orders, which have been reviewed by some lawmakers, did not include that wording. Bradley reportedly told lawmakers during his testimony, not delivered publicly because of the sensitivity of the subject, that each of the 11 people on board the vessel had been confirmed by intelligence as narcoterrorists. Bradley also said that he authorized the second strike on the vessel and that Hegseth had left soon after the first strike was delivered.

People who regularly consume polyphenol-rich foods and drinks, such as tea, coffee, berries, cocoa, nuts, whole grains, and olive oil, may have better long-term heart health, according to a new study. The research, led by King’s College London, found that those with higher adherence to polyphenol-rich dietary patterns had lower predicted cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. […] The post Diets Rich in Tea, Coffee, Berries and Nuts Linked to Better Long-term Heart Health in New Study appeared first on Good News Network.

Anyone expecting tough questions from CBS’s Margaret Brennan to U.S. Representative Ilham Omar was sorely disappointed at the end of this week’s Face the Nation. Brennan instead provided a tour-de-force in media coddling, as Omar beneficiary of a kid-gloves interview that cast her as the victim of unfortunate events beyond her control. This coddling of Omar is, as was noted by our own Tim Graham, part of a broader pattern seeking both to shield Omar from her connections to the Somali welfare scam currently roiling the state of Minnesota and to Trumpwash the scandal by focusing on President Donald Trump’s reference to Omar as “garbage” during a recent Cabinet meeting. As a reminder: Trumpwashing is that media tactic that suppresses any and all coverage of a Democrat scandal until President Trump reacts to it, then shifts coverage to turn Trump’s reaction into the scandal, as opposed to the scandal itself. The interview opens with Brennan allowing Omar to deflect from her ties to the scandal, saying merely that it was a donor: CBS's Margaret Brennan opens her softball interview with Rep. Ilhan Omar by allowing her to deflect from her ties to the Feeding our Future fraud: TL;DR: "Some donors did something." pic.twitter.com/iYpkbbeCub — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 7, 2025 MARGARET BRENNAN: We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off. He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system. Do you want to respond to that? Do you know what he is referring to? ILHAN OMAR: I really don't. And I don't think the secretary himself understands what he is referring to. We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved. We sent that money back, ah, a couple years ago. And actually, I was one of the first Members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of Ag asking them to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program. As The New York Post noted, it wasn’t just a “donor.” It was individuals linked to her campaign, persons intimately involved with turnout operations, and the host of Omar’s 2018 victory party. This is all public information and yet Brennan offered none of it, or anything else because there was no follow-up question. Brennan simply checked that box off and moved on, allowing Brennan to skate. Fast forward to Brennan addressing the specifics of Feeding our Future- Brennan tees Omar up again by asking her to address allegations that the investigation is the result of racism. Omar responds by literally blaming the white woman: Ilhan Omar further tries to deflect from the Somali nature of the welfare scam by noting the race of the person who at the time ran Feeding our Future: "So you have to remember that the woman who led the program is a Caucasian woman." pic.twitter.com/K8wRFZraMb — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 7, 2025 BRENNAN: Because as you know, one of the initial defenses by the organization at the heart of the fraud, Feeding our Future, was to claim the probe was due to racism. Do you think that this was all about negligence, or that it was a political fear of alienating the Somali community? OMAR: So you have to remember that the woman who led the program is a Caucasian woman. And that was her way of making sure that this would continue to happen by using whatever rhetoric that was available to her. We do know that when the money was stopped, they did sue the AG, Attorney General Keith Ellison defended the department in that lawsuit. It was a judge that said it should conti- that money should continue to go out. And so this wasn't something that people were not looking at. There was always those alarms. And we will continue to understand where things might have gone wrong as these investigations continue and as these fraudsters are prosecuted and sent to jail. Brennan immediately follows up by, again, setting Omar up to shoot an allegation down rather than responding to the claims underlying the scandal. Here, Omar is asked her degree of confidence in the claim being false. Omar then says that she is confident the claim is false, but if there IS fraud, then it is a failure of the FBI…as opposed to a moral failure from those that committed systemic fraud. WATCH: Margaret Brennan sets Ilhan Omar up to deny that fraus-derived monies are going to terrorism. Omar denies the terror link and preemptively blames the FBI should any terror link emerge. pic.twitter.com/qLFg16ZC0Y — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 7, 2025 BRENNAN: Well, it's going to have impact for your community, because we’ve heard the head of Medicare and Medicaid say they’re going to have a new policy that applies to Minnesota. You heard the Treasury Secretary say they are investigating. But there's another thread here. Because House Republicans and the Treasury Secretary just now talked about a link to terrorism, a possible link. He said they are just now beginning to look into it. How confident are you that that's a false claim? OMAR: I'm pretty confident at the moment, because there are people who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced. If there was a linkage in that- the money that they had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out and basically charging them with these charges. The record will reflect that Brennan, who makes an effort to pronounce things in proper Arabic, failed to so much as utter al-Shabab within the context of reports that the terror organization was an alleged beneficiary of this fraud. Additionally, there was no mention of Governor Tim Walz- on whose watch this all happened, or of allegations of impropriety against Ellison. After having Omar weigh in, with no context, on President Trump’s remarks calling her “garbage”, Brennan asks Omar about White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s remarks on the dangers of unfettered immigration. Again, Brennan offers no context to remarks in the wake of the DC shooting carried out by an Afghan refugee, which killed one member of the National Guard and left another severely injured. Brennan closes out her pillow-soft interview of Ilhan Omar by having react, with no background or context, to Stephen Miller's remarks on unfettered immigration in the wake of the D.C. shooting. After previously decrying "dehumanizing" language that might incite violence, Omar… pic.twitter.com/5yBPIzGyJz — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 7, 2025 BRENNAN: I want to ask you something else that the architect of the president's immigration policy, Stephen Miller, said. On Thanksgiving Day, he posted: ”No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands.” What do you make of this argument of failure to assimilate and sort of ruining America. How do you understand this? OMAR: I mean, when I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremist rhetoric, it reminds me-- BRENNAN: --That's how you hear it-- OMAR: Yes, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany. And you know, as we know, there have been many immigrants who have tried to come to the United States who have turned back, you know, one of them being Jewish immigrants. We know the way that people were described who were coming from Ireland, Irish immigrants. We know the way in which people were described back then, when there were Italian immigrants. And to me, you know, we're, we're, yes, of course, ethnically Somali, we are in this country as Americans, we are citizens, we are a productive part of this nation, and we will continue to be. BRENNAN: Congresswoman Omar, thank you for your time today. Fun fact: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was able to win reelection against Omar's endorsed candidate Omar Fateh, in large part, because he exploited inter-Somali tribal divisions that the community brought with them into this country. This is proof evident of the kind of failure to assimilate and acculturate that Miller and Trump addressed. Proper journalism would hac challenged Omar with this rather than just play Democrat patty-cake. This wasn’t an interview, so much as it was an anti-news presentation. Brennan offered no significant follow-up to any of the questions she asked Omar, and offered no challenges. There was no interruption of Omar at any time, and no performative pen-wagging- contrary to what we see with Republican guests. Things are (D)ifferent like that. One such question left unasked: why so many Somali politicians who campaign for Omar seem to believe she is Somalia First. The former Prime Minister of Somalia said as much last summer, as a smiling Omar gazed approvingly in the background. No coverage of Omar will be complete until this is addressed. “Ilhan’s interest aren’t those of #Minnesota or the people of #America but the interests of #Somalia” These were the words the former Prime Minister of #Somalia @HassanAKhaire revealed at a rally in support of @Ilhan Omar exposing the true intentions of @Ilhan serving as a… pic.twitter.com/793NsYikp4 — ??????? ?? (@DrCaaro) June 30, 2024 Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned interview as aired on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday, December 7th, 2025: MARGARET BRENNAN:  And we’re joined now by Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Welcome to the program. ILHAN OMAR: Thank you, Margaret, for having me. BRENNAN: We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off. He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system. Do you want to respond to that? Do you know what he is referring to? OMAR: I really don't. And I don't think the secretary himself understands what he is referring to. We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved. We sent that money back, ah, a couple years ago. And actually, I was one of the first Members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of Ag asking them to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program. BRENNAN: So this was- just for our audience- the Biden-era Justice Department called it the largest Covid fraud scheme in the country. And this was pocketing Covid-era welfare funds, more than $1 billion in taxpayer money that was stolen. It was pretty, pretty shocking. Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent. And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community. Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread? OMAR: I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on Somalis, because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota. We also could have benefitted from the program and the money that was stolen. And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we, you know, we are also, as Minnesotans, as taxpayers, really upset and angry about the fraud that has occurred. BRENNAN: Mmm-hmm. So do you think, though, that there was a failure by the Democratic state government to police itself? This was a brazen, fraudulent activity here. OMAR: Yeah, and that is what I alluded to in my letter that I sent to the Secretary of Ag- was to see where things were going wrong. How can this amount of money disappear fraudulently without there being alarms being set off? BRENNAN: Yeah. OMAR: And it is something that we have to continue to investigate. We have to continue to ask those questions. BRENNAN: Because as you know, one of the initial defenses by the organization at the heart of the fraud, Feeding our Future, was to claim the probe was due to racism. Do you think that this was all about negligence, or that it was a political fear of alienating the Somali community? OMAR: So you have to remember that the woman who led the program is a Caucasian woman. And that was her way of making sure that this would continue to happen by using whatever rhetoric that was available to her. We do know that when the money was stopped, they did sue the AG, Attorney General Keith Ellison defended the department in that lawsuit. It was a judge that said it should conti- that money should continue to go out. And so this wasn't something that people were not looking at. There was always those alarms. And we will continue to understand where things might have gone wrong as these investigations continue and as these fraudsters are prosecuted and sent to jail. BRENNAN: Well, it's going to have impact for your community, because we’ve heard the head of Medicare and Medicaid say they’re going to have a new policy that applies to Minnesota. You heard the Treasury Secretary say they are investigating. But there's another thread here. Because House Republicans and the Treasury Secretary just now talked about a link to terrorism, a possible link. He said they are just now beginning to look into it. How confident are you that that's a false claim? OMAR: I'm pretty confident at the moment, because there are people who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced. If there was a linkage in that- the money that they had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out and basically charging them with these charges. And so I do know that for many years this sort of, like, alarm that there's money being transferred through the airport in bags and going to terrorism -- that accusation has always existed. That it’s never been here and there in those accusations. But if that is the case, if money from U.S. tax dollars is being sent to help with terrorism in Somalia, we want to know. And we want those people prosecuted. And we want to make sure that that doesn't ever happen again. BRENNAN: So there are 80,000 people of Somali descent in your state. But the president has been very focused not just on them but on you. In this extraordinary Cabinet meeting he said Somalis, quote: “Come from hell. They complain and they do nothing but bitch.” Take a listen.  DONALD TRUMP: These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain. And from where they came from, they got nothing. We don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it. [ Applause ] Thank you very much, everybody. BRENNAN: That knocking is vehement agreement from his Cabinet members there. I just wonder what the reaction is in your district to have that from the highest office in the land. OMAR: It's disgusting. It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage. And we feel like there is an unhealthy obsession he has on the Somali obsession he has on the Somali community and an unhealthy and creepy obsession that he has with me. I think it is also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president. BRENNAN: And 95% of the Somalis in your state are U.S. citizens.  OMAR: Yes. BRENNAN: Just for clarity there. The president has restricted all immigration processing, including asylum claims from Somalis already on U.S. soil, along with 18 other countries. ICE reports it has rounded up about 19 people. And they put out press releases with the images of about five of them that they say are the worst of the worst. Is that the entirety of the crackdown to date? OMAR: Yeah. So far, we know of the people that they have picked up in Minnesota, about five of them are Somalis. And from what I have read and from the people that I have spoken to, all of them had already had orders of removal. So these are not people who are undocumented but people who have committed crimes and who should have already been sent out of the country. BRENNAN: I want to ask you something else that the architect of the president's immigration policy, Stephen Miller, said. On Thanksgiving Day, he posted: ”No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands.” What do you make of this argument of failure to assimilate and sort of ruining America. How do you understand this? OMAR: I mean, when I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremist rhetoric, it reminds me-- BRENNAN: --That's how you hear it-- OMAR: Yes, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany. And you know, as we know, there have been many immigrants who have tried to come to the United States who have turned back, you know, one of them being Jewish immigrants. We know the way that people were described who were coming from Ireland, Irish immigrants. We know the way in which people were described back then, when there were Italian immigrants. And to me, you know, we're, we're, yes, of course, ethnically Somali, we are in this country as Americans, we are citizens, we are a productive part of this nation, and we will continue to be. BRENNAN: Congresswoman Omar, thank you for your time today. And we'll be right back with a lot more Face the Nation. Stay with us.  

Walmart is often associated with groceries and savings, but the retailer also sells electronic devices.. Here are the best products you can't buy anywhere else.