Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger, who ran as a moderate, signed a bill on Monday requiring public schools to consider “restorative disciplinary practices” like “peer mediation” or a “restorative circle” before suspending or expelling students, the Free Beacon’s Peter Hasson reports. That never works as policy, but was pushed under Barack Obama. It effectively removes educators’ authority to enforce discipline. Restorative justice doesn’t work and takes discipline out of educators’ hands, using a one-size-fits-all approach. It is a means of favoring some races to the point that they are allowed to misbehave without repercussions. The Beacon report The move follows controversial attempts to swap “exclusionary discipline”—what normal people call “discipline”—with “restorative justice” in liberal strongholds like New York City and Portland. It’s a far cry from the affordability-focused agenda on which the “centrist” Spanberger campaigned. The bill states that “no public elementary or secondary school student shall be suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school unless the school first considers at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary practice.” Examples include “mentoring,” “a peer jury,” “peer mediation,” “a restorative circle,” and “any other disciplinary practice” that “provides solutions tailored to students’ cultures” and “includes community members reflecting the cultural and demographic diversity of the school community.” Though the bill does not detail how to organize a “restorative circle,” a guide from the left-wing Center for Justice Innovation says such circles are “rooted in centuries-old indigenous practices” and include an “opening ceremony” like a “breathing exercise” before “passing around an object that serves as the talking piece” which “gives the speaker a chance to share openly and uninterrupted.” Communist Bill de Blasio tried it, allocating millions of dollars for “restorative justice.” It resulted in chronic absenteeism, which rose to 34.8% from an already abysmal 26.5%. Additionally, the number of incidents that required a response from the New York Police Department’s school safety division rose to 4,120 in the first quarter of 2025 from 1,200 in the first quarter of 2016. When discipline isn’t meted out, the violence escalates. Spanberger ran as a moderate, but appears to be a communist. The post Gov. Spanberger Is Taking Discipline Out of Educators’ Hands appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide in their home in Annandale, Virginia, police said Thursday. Fairfax’s son called 911 just after midnight from the home, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The caller said he thought his mother, Cerina Fairfax, had been stabbed. When police arrived at the home, they found bullet casings near her body. Later they found Justin Fairfax upstairs with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Law enforcement in Fairfax conducted the investigation overnight. Fairfax County Police Department Capt. Chris Cosgriff said that shortly after midnight officers found an adult male and an adult female deceased inside the residence. it looks like he killed his wife and then himself in a domestic incident. They were going through a divorce. The post Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Kills His Wife, Then Himself appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Mohsen Rezaei told Iranian state television that if the US attempts to “police” the strategic waterway, Iran will sink American ships with its missiles. He questioned whether the US, as a “powerful army,” should be responsible for controlling the Strait and stated that US vessels “can definitely be exposed to our missiles, and we can destroy them.” FORMER IRGC COMMANDER GIVES WAR COMMENTARY ON REGIME STATE TV Mohsen Rezaei: “Iran will not leave the Strait of Hormuz until its rights are fully secured.” “Based on past negotiations, agreements must be drafted more carefully, with stronger focus on economic issues.”… pic.twitter.com/bE8SaCNTv2 — Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) April 16, 2026 The Straits Times According to The Straits Times, the military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, on April 15, warned that Iran would sink American ships in the Strait of Hormuz if the United States decided to “police” the key shipping bottleneck. “Mr. Trump wants to become the policeman of the Strait of Hormuz. Is this really your job? Is this the job of a powerful army like the US?” Mr. Mohsen Rezaei, a former commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who was named as a military adviser by Mr. Khamenei in March, told state TV. “These ships of yours will be sunk by our first missiles and have created a great danger for the US military. They can definitely be exposed to our missiles, and we can destroy them,” Mr. Rezaei, wearing his military uniform, told the state broadcaster. Rezaei is a hardliner even within the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army; Mr. Rezaei said it would be “great” if the United States launched a ground invasion of Iran, as “we would take thousands of hostages, and then for each hostage we would get a billion dollars.” He also added, without giving further details: “I am not in favor of extending the ceasefire at all, and this is a personal view.” Mass murderer Mohsen Rezaei, who years ago had his own son assassinated, is now on regime TV in full uniform. His son hated the regime and left Iran. And this evil demon has him killed. He is personally responsible for taking thousands of Iranian lives through his career. pic.twitter.com/bTorGSjAu6 — ︎ (@NiohBerg) June 15, 2025 Fox News Report Fox News reported that a senior Iranian official warned that U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz are within striking range, claiming American naval forces are now “under our missile launchers.” Iran International reported that Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the remarks in a video, escalating tensions in the strategic waterway. “The launchers have most likely been moved by our brothers and are now aimed at the Abraham Lincoln and all American warships,” Rezai said. “They are all under our launchers now, and we will sink them all. We will not allow a single one to escape us.” Rezaei, a former IRGC commander (1981-1997) and military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the remarks in a video, escalating tensions in the strategic waterway. Iran could view this as existential and is capable of anything.  However, a new round of talks is expected to take place within days. The post Hardliner, Killed His Own Son, Threatens to Sink Every US Ship appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Central Command’s Admiral Brad Cooper are holding a news conference on the war with Iran early Thursday. Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have addressed reporters several times since President Trump launched “Operation Epic Fury” in late February. This follows desperate Democrats hoping to influence the November elections by filing articles of impeachment against him, charging war crimes. The post Watch Secretary Hegeseth Briefing Live as Tensions Heat Up appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

California is giving taxpayer-funded sex change operations to illegal aliens for free if they are homeless or just pretend they are. It attracts all sorts of people who pretend to be homeless. These communists, with their horrendous anti-American policies, are making fools of their voters. They are also misusing federal tax dollars. Homeless shelters are housing illegal immigrants, but also they are apparently housing a population of male-to-female “transgender” illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain “gender-affirming care.” And, to our shock, state and local governments apparently are providing it. City Journal St. Vincent De Paul’s MSC-South facility is San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter, and, in 2024, signed a $66 million service contract with the city. After we arrived at the front entrance, an employee wearing a do-rag and a light green polo shirt showed us around and confirmed that illegal aliens were living there. “You got a few people here from El Salvador. . . . You got a few people here from Venezuela. You got a few people here from a little bit of everywhere,” he said. As a rule, he suggested, management instructed employees to refuse cooperation with federal immigration authorities. “When the ICE thing was going around, we all had a meeting, and they told us, ‘We ain’t letting them in.’” Read more at City Journal. SCOOP: California is giving free sex-change procedures to homeless illegal aliens. Our team went into the shelters and discovered that trans migrants are coming into the state for hormones, breast implants, and “bottom surgeries”—all on the taxpayer dime. https://t.co/mDs7ivwjG5 — Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) April 15, 2026 EXCLUSIVE: “Jacqueline” is a transgender migrant who lives in a California homeless shelter and told us the state gave him free breast implants. Now he’s waiting for “bottom surgery,” in which doctor will castrate him and create an artificial vagina—all funded by Gavin Newsom. pic.twitter.com/ADeJbMqLZn — Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) April 15, 2026 The post California Gives Free Transition Surgeries to Illegals with Tax $$$ appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.