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America First Legal released documents obtained from litigation against the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)‚ revealing CISA flagged text messages supporting President Donald J. Trump for potential censorship. Documents previously obtained by AFL reveal that CISA was actively working to censor narratives about mail-in voting risks as “disinformation” ahead of the 2020 election. These new documents released today reveal that […] The post Bombshell: CISA’s Active Censoring &; Blockades of Trump appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A Minneapolis area school district says it will let families opt out of LGBT curriculum materials after several Muslim families threatened to sue. St. Louis Park Public School District just west of Minneapolis said it will allow families to opt their kids out of reading books with LGBT themes. Somali Muslim families had threatened to sue the district‚ alleging that not allowing families to opt out potentially violates the Constitution and state law. On November 2‚ the families’ attorneys sent the district a letter explaining Islamic teachings around gender and sexuality and outlining the timeline of parents’ complaints about the LGBT books. Some of the families’ elementary school children had been exposed to LGBT characters in picture books‚ which caused “significant confusion and distress‚” the families’ letter said. Back in October‚ several St. Louis Park elementary schools reportedly introduced a number of LGBT books‚ “Our Subway Baby‚” which is about two men who adopt a baby‚ “My Shadow Is Pink‚” which is about a boy who wears dresses‚ and “Ho’onani: Hula Warrior‚” which is about a young Hawaiian girl who wants to lead a boys hula team. Parents claimed that they had requested their children be opted out of reading these books‚ but two elementary school principals refused. In a statement‚ the St. Louis Park district said that it has “always complied with the state law regarding parents’ statutory right to opt out of instructional materials‚ and we will continue to do so.” However‚ classroom discussions are not subject to opt-outs because they “do not constitute instructional materials‚” the district said. The district added that it will not conduct a review “on behalf of any families or attempt to determine what materials may be considered objectionable.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Opt-outs based on representation of protected classes do not uphold our values of creating safe and inclusive learning and working environments in our schools‚” the statement continued. “However‚ because it is required within state law‚ any change would need to happen with the involvement of state lawmakers.” Minnesota requires every school district to have a procedure for parents to review instructional materials. If a parent objects to material‚ the district must “make reasonable arrangements with school personnel for alternative instruction.” The families who had complained hailed the statement as a win. “We think this is a win for religious freedom for people of all faiths‚ without even having to go to court‚” said Kayla Toney‚ an attorney with First Liberty Institute‚ which represented the families. Hodan Hassan‚ a mother with four children in the district‚ said she was happy with the district’s move. “We came to America for religious freedom in the Constitution‚ and so our kids will have a great opportunity‚” Hodan told the Sahan Journal. “By granting us and other families the opportunity to opt out of teaching that violates our deeply held religious beliefs‚ families are able to raise their children according to the principle that they value the most‚” the mother said.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a bias in the brain in which you tend to think you are better at something than you actually are. The Dunning-Kruger effect is widely held across a variety of skill sets. In the United States‚ it’s generally held by a lot of people who think they are smarter than they actually are — but it’s particularly held by people who have been made untouchable by the system. Now‚ if you’ve been made untouchable by the system and you’ve just been rising through the ranks for years based on your intersectional identity‚ you are going to think you are much better and more competent than you actually are. This is the story of Fani Willis‚ the Fulton County District Attorney. She’s the person who’s brought charges against former President Trump based on supposed violation of RICO law‚ which really does not apply in this particular case. It’s certainly a legal stretch‚ but she’s been attempting to make a name for herself. If she can get Trump on a state charge‚ he can’t pardon himself if he is president of the United States. Things started to fall apart for Willis over the last couple of months. She was a heroine in the media. She was a “hard-charging prosecutor”; she was going to finally get Trump. But‚ as it turns out‚ she is a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect — but with the intersectional twist because she apparently thought she could get away with literally anything. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show Before Willis was elected‚ she explained why exactly she should be the D.A.: “Because they deserve a D.A. that won’t have sex with his employees; because they deserve a D.A. that won’t put money in their own pocket when it should go to benefit children‚ because we deserve better.” THROWBACK: Fani Willis on why the people of Fulton County should support her for District Attorney: "Because they deserve a DA that won't have sex with his employees‚ because they deserve a DA that won't put money in their own pocket." pic.twitter.com/L8pQ3xTv23 — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 15‚ 2024 As we found out‚ the Fulton County people did not actually receive that D.A. According to Forbes: Willis faces accusations she violated state conflict of interest and public money laws over claims from a group of Trump’s co-defendants that she engaged in an “improper‚ clandestine personal relationship.” Court documents have also shown Wade and Willis traveled together on two vacations‚ while state records reveal Wade earned more than $650‚000 working with Willis.  On Thursday‚ there was an evidentiary hearing in court in which the defendants asked that Willis essentially be removed from the case for conflict of interest and she‚ for some odd reason‚ decided she was going to testify. This came after she had basically destroyed her own timeline.  The question was whether she had hired this guy because he was super-competent and she had paid him and then they fell in love and they started going on cruises and having sex and all the rest — or whether she had known the guy for a while and decided to bring in her lover to pay him state taxpayer dollars and then go on vacations with state taxpayer dollars‚ not based on the interest of the people of Fulton County‚ but based on her own personal interest in the guy she was sleeping with. One of Willis’ employees and pals explained that Willis was actually in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade as early as 2019. There are two issues in this evidentiary hearing. Issue number one is when Willis started dating Wade and if it was earlier than the appointment‚ which suggests‚ of course‚ that she appointed him because she was sleeping with him. Issue number two is‚ even if she was dating him after they got together on the case‚ was she then expending taxpayer dollars on him in ways she wouldn’t on any other employee? Willis failed on both accounts. The court then called Wade who tried to deny he was dating Willis in 2020. Instead‚ he tried to claim that because he had a form of cancer‚ it was not possible for him to have a romantic relationship because he was trying to isolate from others. It didn’t go over amazingly well in court after he was questioned. He finally admitted he actually‚ indeed‚ could have been dating her and was paid for a bunch of stuff that was really not appropriate. At that point‚ Willis decided she had to fight. Every defense counsel will tell you‚ “Do not get on the stand.” Very few people are good witnesses in their own defense. They’re really bad witnesses. Willis happens to suffer from two things: One‚ she’s not telling the truth‚ and two‚ she happens to be one of the most off-putting witnesses in human history. The Dunning-Kruger effect that I discussed? That fact was obviously present with Willis. It was almost beyond comprehension. This lady thinks she’s good at her job‚ that she is convincing‚ and comes off as honest‚ forthright‚ and righteous. Yet she comes off as precisely the opposite. Instead‚ she comes off as obnoxious‚ lying‚ and scheming‚ and it’s really bad. So Willis truly blew up on the stand. She started off by suggesting that making her even answer questions is contrary to democracy‚ which is weird because it is well within the boundaries of democracy to ask whether the D.A. who is prosecuting Trump for political reasons is‚ in fact‚ a corrupt person who’s having sex with the other prosecutor and paying him vast quantities of taxpayer cash while taking vacations with him. She made the claim that the defendant’s interests are contrary to democracy — the claim being that the defendants tried to overturn an election; therefore‚ she is completely scot-free on the question of whether she is‚ in fact‚ a corrupt public servant. She went full-out Al Pacino in “And Justice for All”: “You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order!” In her testimony‚ she stated: “I object to you getting records. You’ve been intrusive into people’s personal lives. You’re confused. You think I’m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I’m not on trial‚ no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.” It’s an evidentiary hearing to determine whether she should be disqualified. So technically‚ in this particular portion of the trial‚ her actions are on trial. Brazenness is not going to substitute for actually being innocent. And it got worse and worse for her. She started yelling that the media lied about her‚ which is weird because‚ again‚ she’s the one who apparently lied a lot. She said the money she gave Wade “…was never that serious. I don’t think I’ve ever handed him more than $2‚500 in a reimbursement. So we’re not talking about $20‚000 in cash. I don’t have $20‚000 in cash right now. The most I ever gave him‚ I know I gave him $2‚500 when we went to Belize because we went to one hotel and then we went to a second hotel. That $2‚500 I actually gave him while we were still in Belize. I know that the Aruba trip‚ the one that you describe with his mom‚ I think I gave him about $2‚000 for that trip.” She was asked why she paid him back in cash. There’s no record of her actually reimbursing him for half of the travel. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP What she did looks like a kickback. If I hire my wife or anyone else who is in a close personal relationship with me and pay them a lot of money‚ and then we take cruises together that the other person is paying for‚ the idea is that I’m supposed to pay for my half to demonstrate that I’m not actually stealing money from the government. But there’s no record of her having paid Wade back. Instead‚ she said she paid him back in cash. She was asked why exactly she paid Wade back in cash all the time and where it came from. She replied‚ “I do know where it came from. It came from my sweat and tears.” Trump’s attorney is going to be able to make the very obvious and clear case that Willis ginned up this entire case so she could‚ in high-profile fashion‚ hire the guy she was sleeping with so she could go on an expensive cruise with him. Even on MSNBC‚ analyst Caroline Polisi admitted that the case against Trump is possibly dead in the water. “Don’t let the legalese fool you. This is epic. This is monumental. If things are going in the direction we think‚ Fani Willis lied to the court‚ it’s game over for her. She will be disqualified.” Fani Wallis got her wish. Donald Trump made her famous. Donald Trump made her prominent. Donald Trump may end up putting her in jail‚ which is just hysterical. So we bid a fond farewell to Fani Willis whose career is basically over because‚ once again‚ the Dunning-Kruger effect is undefeated for a lot of people.

The U.S. revealed this week that Russia is reportedly working on‚ or is at least considering building‚ a nuclear weapon designed to only be used in space as an anti-satellite weapon. President Joe Biden addressed the matter a press conference on Friday‚ saying that there was no immediate threat to anyone on earth from the potential weapon‚ adding that there was “no evidence that they have made a decision to go forward with doing anything in space either.” “So what we found out‚ there was a capacity to launch a system into space that could theoretically do something that was damaging‚ hadn’t happened yet‚” he added. “And my hope is that it will not.” Lt. Col. “Tony” Vincent‚ an active duty scientist in the United States Air Force (USAF) who is currently the Director of Advanced Physics Courses at the Air Force Academy‚ wrote in a September 2022 piece about the dangers that are posed by a nuclear weapon being detonated in space. Vincent highlighted what happened when the Atomic Energy Commission‚ in collaboration with the Defense Atomic Support Agency‚ detonated a nuclear weapon in low Earth orbit back in the Summer of 1962: The test was codenamed Starfish Prime and it revealed an unfortunate lesson: Even one high altitude nuclear detonation is particularly effective at destroying satellites. Not only were satellites in the line of sight destroyed‚ but even satellites on the other side of Earth were damaged and rendered inoperable. Starfish Prime damaged or destroyed roughly one third of all satellites in low Earth orbit at the time. Vincent said that commercial satellites need to become hardened against radiation to avoid being susceptible to a nuclear space weapon‚ but cautioned that while the cost to do so has fallen‚ “this practice historically drives the component price up by roughly factors of 10 to 100 while potentially increasing size and mass of the total payload.” He warned that there were two primary reasons that a country would want to use a nuclear weapon in space: to devastate America’s economy and/or to disrupt the U.S. Military’s space-based assets that it uses for command and control. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “A nuclear explosion in space disproportionately hurts the United States as the largest single investor in space capabilities‚” he wrote. “The United States nets almost $200 billion per year of real gross output from its space assets. Even though military satellites are designed to withstand a harsher charged particle environment‚ radiation hardening is not a magic cloak of invincibility. Military space assets will be degraded over time from the artificially amped radiation belt created from the nuclear detonation‚ meanwhile commercial satellites in low Earth orbit will be the first to fail from continually passing through these particle hot spots. Most satellites with a line of sight to the nuclear detonation will be destroyed from the resulting x-rays. Military space capabilities for command and control along with reconnaissance assets may still function for a period following the detonation‚ but the economic impact of degraded informational space products will be immediate.” Vincent further wrote that the threat that a nuclear space weapon could be used is higher than what most people likely think because a nuclear detonation in space against infrastructure would not necessarily mean that the U.S. would respond with a nuclear strike against the aggressor: Once an adversarial nation with a disadvantage in space capabilities detonates a nuclear weapon in this domain‚ there is no benefit to respond with a similar attack. This act would further degrade space-based assets… The attacked nation‚ then‚ must consider responding with conventional or nuclear weapons on Earth. Targeting cities and military installations with nuclear weapons is not an in-kind response to the initial action of nuking space and represents another significant escalation in the conflict. Space assets are not on par with human lives. Further‚ the attacking nation will also have nuclear weapons in reserve‚ and with the right mix of forces can hold targets at risk. Therefore‚ the attacked nation would have to weigh escalating to nuclear weapons use‚ knowing that it would invite a nuclear response on targets in the homeland. The obvious response is to signal that the use of nuclear weapons in space would be treated as a nuclear attack on Earth‚ but an adversarial nation could consider such a threat non-credible. A nation may also be deterred from acting because every nation in the world is dependent upon space products to some degree. Therefore‚ using a nuclear weapon in space would be “self-harm.” However‚ as the history of war reveals‚ nations choose self-harm‚ such as when they collapse their own bridges and burn fields‚ to prevent an invader from gaining ground. Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of threat escalation‚ so the use of one is a sign of desperation with diminishing alternative options. Related: House Intel Chair Defends Statement Warning Of ‘Destabilizing Foreign Military Capability’

Former President Donald Trump responded in a series of statements to a New York judge ordering on Friday that he must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in his civil business fraud trial. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the former president and the Trump Organization to pay more than $350 million in damages and banned Trump from being able to hold any high-level positions in any company in the state of New York for three years. Similar punishments and smaller fines were also imposed on both of his sons. “The Justice System in New York State‚ and America as a whole‚ is under assault by partisan‚ deluded‚ biased Judges and Prosecutors‚” Trump began. “Racist‚ Corrupt A.G. Tish James has been obsessed with ‘Getting Trump’ for years‚ and used Crooked New York State Judge Engoron to get an illegal‚ unAmerican judgment against me‚ my family‚ and my tremendous business. I helped New York City during its worst of times‚ and now‚ while it is overrun with Violent Biden Migrant Crime‚ the Radicals are doing all they can to kick me out.” “This ‘decision’ is a Complete and Total SHAM‚” he continued. “There were No Victims‚ No Damages‚ No Complaints. Only satisfied Banks and Insurance Companies (which made a ton of money)‚ GREAT Financial Statements‚ that didn’t even include the most valuable Asset – The TRUMP Brand‚ IRONCLAD Disclaimers (Buyer Beware‚ and Do your Own Due Diligence)‚ and amazing Properties all over the World. All the other side had was a ridiculous $18 million valuation of magnificent Mar-a-Lago‚ an unConstitutional Gag Order‚ a Consumer Fraud Statute never before used for this purpose‚ No Jury allowed‚ and a refusal to send this disgusting charade to the Commercial Division‚ where it would have been put to a deserving end.” “This ‘case’ is OVER ever since the Appellate Division ended it on Statute of Limitations‚ also letting my daughter Ivanka out of this Witch Hunt‚” he added. “The Democrat Club-controlled Judge Engoron has already been reversed four times on this case‚ a shameful record‚ and he will be reversed again. We cannot let injustice stand‚ and will fight Crooked Joe Biden’s weaponized persecution at every step. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump said that he was fined “based on nothing other than having built a GREAT COMPANY” and called the ruling “ELECTION INTERFERENCE” and a “WITCH HUNT.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP About an hour later‚ Trump continued: This Election Interference and tyrannical Abuse of Power by a Crooked Judge and Crooked Attorney General cannot be tolerated. My case was already won in the Appellate Division‚ and more than 80% of the frivolous claims were wiped out. Yet‚ as I suspected‚ and in order to hurt me and the Republican Party politically‚ Crooked and Corrupt Judge Arthur Engoron ignored his loss at the Appellate Division‚ and came up with an outrageous $355 Million Dollar fine against me. Using a statute that has never been applied like this before‚ the Corrupt Judge conspired with the Crooked Attorney General‚ Letitia James‚ and punished a liquid and beautiful Corporate Empire that started in New York‚ and has been successful all around the world. There were no victims‚ and not one person testified there was any fraud. The actual witnesses established my Net Worth exceeded that reported in my Financial Statements as those Statements never included my most valuable Asset – the TRUMP Brand. The Highly Respected Expert Witness said my Financial Statements were among the best he has ever seen. I paid over $300 Million Dollars in taxes to New York City and State‚ and they want me gone. They are Crazed Lunatics who are destroying everything in their way. It all starts with Biden’s attacks on his Political Opponent! The actual bankers who were involved in the loan transactions testified I was a highly sought-after “whale” of a client with “one of the strongest personal balance sheets” they had ever seen‚ and I was overqualified for the loans. Those banks earned more than $100 Million Dollars in profits doing business with me and my companies. But to justify his crazed attack on me and my family‚ this biased‚ Trump Hating Judge‚ ignored all this‚ and even said Michael Cohen told the truth‚ although Cohen admitted to lying hundreds of times‚ and lied right in front of the Judge during the trial. This shocking and corrupt Interference in the Free Markets for political gain places every New York business transaction at risk. We must make sure Corrupt Politicians and Judges cannot continue to abuse the power of their office‚ and violate the public trust. We have already won‚ and will continue the fight on appeal! Related: Trump Fined $350+ Million In Civil Business Fraud Trial‚ Banned From Doing Business In NY For 3 Years

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