Wednesday, December 31, 2025

'In shock right now!' Man calls 'fraudulent' Minnesota daycare center, and phone rings office of Gov. Tim Walz * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'In shock right now!' Man calls 'fraudulent' Minnesota daycare center, and phone rings office of Gov. Tim Walz * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

Meanwhile, the FBI is surging resources to Minnesota to combat massive fraud linked to the state's Somali community. FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday: "Even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs." "To date, the FBI dismantled a $250 million fraud scheme that stole federal food aid meant for vulnerable children during COVID. The investigation exposed sham vendors, shell companies, and large-scale money laundering tied to the Feeding Our Future network."

The way we were-----Why Britain Taxed Windows: The Story Behind the Window Tax (1696–1851)

American Journalist Claims Islam is Peaceful, Then FLIPS OUT When Bill M...

The very definition of a "culture of corruption"!-----$5B in ‘questionable’ rental assistance under Biden revealed — including to thousands of ‘deceased tenants’ and non-citizens: HUD report

HUD officials said a “large concentration” of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states — in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers’ dollars under the Biden administration. - Josh Christenson
WASHINGTON — A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration — including around 30,000 “deceased tenants” and “thousands” of potential non-citizens, The Post can reveal...
A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of President Joe Biden’s administration....

CBS News on X: "A recent video by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley alleged nearly a dozen day care centers in Minnesota that are receiving public funds are not actually providing any service.

After the video went viral, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced a "massive investigation on childcare CBS News@CBSNews
  • "...CBS News conducted its own analysis of nearly a dozen day care centers mentioned by Shirley: all but two have active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations were visited by state regulators within the last six months. 
  • CBS News' review also found dozens of citations related to safety, cleanliness, equipment, and staff training, among other violations, but there was no recorded evidence of fraud.


Black lives matter? The accused serial killer you have likely never heard of | Blaze Media

Black lives matter? The accused serial killer you have likely never heard of | Blaze Media

Elder postulates that race is the primary reason. "The media are FASCINATED by white serial killers. Black ... serial killers? Not so much," he wrote.

After listening to Elder, Bob Hoge of RedState agreed that the "corrupt corporate media" isn't interested in reporting on the cases because McDaniel "doesn’t fit their narrative."

Since "these alleged murders were not carried out by white supremacists or MAGA fans," national media outlets act "as if it never happened," Hoge claimed.

Trump, You Magnificent Bastard: YOU THUNK MY BATTLESHIP

After our hike along Lk. Michigan yesterday, I asked Gemini AI - "lake michigan near muskegon seems very low. how does the level compare with past high/low levels"

Hike Muskegon - West Michigan Parks - Every Tue/Sat 11am | After our hike along Lk | Facebook

After our hike along Lk. Michigan yesterday, I asked Gemini AI - "lake michigan near muskegon seems very low. how does the level compare with past high/low levels"

AI's response:
It is not just your imagination—Lake Michigan's water levels are currently in a notable downward trend. As of late 2025, the lake is roughly 8 to 11 inches lower than it was at this same time in 2024.
  • While the water may seem low compared to the "extreme" highs of a few years ago, it is still well above the historical "rock bottom" levels.
How Current Levels Compare
According to the most recent US Army Corps of Engineers data, Lake Michigan (which is technically measured as one body of water with Lake Huron) currently sits at an elevation of approximately 577.85 to 578.50 feet.

Perspective Level Difference (Approx.)
vs. Long-Term Average 5 to 8 inches lower than the historical average.
vs. Record High (1986) ~42 inches lower (about 3.5 feet down).
vs. Recent High (2020) ~43 inches lower (the peak of the most recent cycle).
vs. Record Low (2013) ~24 inches higher (still 2 feet above the all-time low).

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: How Democrats Justify Fraud

Noon-toon

 


Tim Walz scurries to defend record after video alleges new Somali-linked fraud | Blaze Media

Tim Walz scurries to defend record after video alleges new Somali-linked fraud | Blaze Media

On Friday, independent video journalist Nick Shirley published a video on X that he claims shows widespread fraud involving purported day-care centers in Minnesota. Shirley wrote that he “uncovered over $110,000,000 [in fraud] in ONE day.” The video is the latest public allegation of fraud tied to Minnesota’s Somali community and comes as failed Democrat vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faces renewed scrutiny over the issue.

What if??!!

 


Wow! Media covered THESE fires up??!!-----The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires

The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage.  - Francis Menton 
  • It turned out that the big problem was that these facilities were subject to large and dangerous fires on a regular basis. 
In some cases the same facility would catch fire multiple times
  • That post reported on major fires in California at a site called Valley Center in San Diego County in September 2023, and at another one 
  • called Moss Landing south of San Francisco in September 2022. 
  • In January 2025, the Moss Landing facility had another major fire. From the EPA website:
  • There were prior fires at the Moss Landing facility in September 2021 and February 2022.
  • Back here in New York, my March 2024 post reported on no fewer than three major fires at grid battery storage facilities in this state that had taken place during 2023...
Might you have the idea that these fires are becoming less frequent over time? 
If so, that’s only because these fires are one of those things — like the Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota — that the liberal media just don’t choose to report. 
  • It turns out that the Convergent Energy facility in Warwick, New York had another big fire just last week. From Etica AG, December 22...

"...“We have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into [the child care] business..."

 


They lied!-----False refugee study used by Dems to justify open borders — and massive spending

How does this report somehow find that refugees, a population with demonstrably higher welfare usage, outperform the average American fiscally? - Don Barnett
But that talking point is based on a federal study that was rejected in 2017 by the first Trump administration as methodologically unsound and preposterous in its conclusions. 
The study was resurrected and expanded by the Biden administration in 2024.
How does this report somehow find that refugees, a population with demonstrably higher welfare usage, outperform the average American fiscally?
  • First, by omitting major government spending programs... (LONG LIST. Read all!!)

#1 This day 1958-----1958 HITS ARCHIVE: The Chipmunk Song - David Seville

Are Hybrid Vehicles Death Traps? | Power Line

“Fatal crash risk ‘three times higher’ in hybrid cars than petrol.” - John Hinderaker 
But data from the U.K. suggest that hybrids are unusually dangerous.
  • From the London Times: “Fatal crash risk ‘three times higher’ in hybrid cars than petrol.”
Motorists in hybrid cars are substantially more likely to die in road collisions than those in conventional petrol vehicles, according to statistics from the Department for Transport...
Overall, the data shows that there was
  • one death for every 8,000 hybrid cars on the roads last year
  • compared with one death for every 20,000 diesel vehicles, and 
  • one death for every 25,000 petrol engines...

"The Somali community, the refugee community, and the immigrant community represent the best of who we are as Green Bay residents and as Americans…”

 


Incredible Win Over Gender Madness: California Blocked from Secretly Transiting Kids in School

Incredible Win Over Gender Madness: California Blocked from Secretly Transiting Kids in School

California teachers can no longer hide children’s gender identities from their parents following a permanent injunction issued Monday in a class action lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed by teachers who felt a moral duty to protect children and strongly objected to being dishonest with parents about their kids, as the state’s “Parental Exclusion Policies” required them to do. Several California Department of Education policies were “designed to create a zone of secrecy around a school student who expresses gender incongruity,” according to the court order, preventing teachers and school staff from sharing vital information with parents.

‘Hatecrimed five times in one night’ – here are the 31 campus hoaxes uncovered in 2025

...The College Fix exclusively covered a hateful incident hoax involving a Purdue University basketball player Trey Kaufman-Renn.
...The College Fix exclusively covered a hateful incident hoax involving a Purdue University basketball player Trey Kaufman-Renn. 
He claimed in March that his teenage brother, mom, and girlfriend were all subjected to racist language during a game against the University of Illinois. 
Only problem? 
It never happened, according to reports obtained by The Fix...
  • Then of course there are the obvious hoaxes, like the student at University of Tennessee who claimed he was “hatecrimed five times in one night.” Student Jaden Clark told the late Charlie Kirk that “freshman year I was hatecrimed five times in one night. Three of them by Trump supporters.”...



AM Fruitcake

 


History for December 31

History for December 31 - On-This-Day.com  
George Marshall 1880
  • 1695 - The window tax was imposed in Britain, which resulted in many windows being bricked up.
  • 1857 - Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.
  • 1879 - Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
  • 1891 - New York's new Immigration Depot was opened at Ellis Island, to provide improved facilities for the massive numbers of arrivals.
  • 1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
  • 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The NLRB now can serve the American people, not the Democrat party * WorldNetDaily * by Gene Hamilton, Real Clear Wire

The NLRB now can serve the American people, not the Democrat party * WorldNetDaily * by Gene Hamilton, Real Clear Wire

The Biden-era NLRB's bias wasn't limited to a single decision. It attempted to rewrite the law to favor partisan unions. In case after case, the NLRB used regulatory fiat to undermine worker choice, silence employers, and consolidate political power. Chief among its moves was the Cemex ruling, which effectively replaced long-standing secret-ballot elections for card checks, exposing employees to pressure and eroding a core safeguard recognized for decades by courts and Congress. The same "we know what's best for you" mindset drove changes to captive-audience restrictions, which sought to limit employers' ability to hold voluntary meetings to discuss unionization. And, it allowed unions to stall decertification elections simply by filing complaints. None of these shifts came from Congress; they were made by unelected officials and benefited politically aligned unions like the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

The way we were-----Gadsden Purchase The Land Deal that Shaped America

Worth your time!!-----New Climate Visualization Tool

We Live in an Age of Miracles: Five Real Advances and One Mental Shift That Will Change Everything

Here are five innovations likely to change our world over the next year – and a sixth, quieter shift in how we think, without which none of the others will matter. - Jamie K. Wilson
1. Artificial Intelligence As a Competence Multiplier...
2. Biology Becomes More Usable...
3. Early Detection Turns Time into the Miracle...
4. Space Becomes Infrastructure...
5. Agriculture Decentralizes and Solves Problems We Thought Were Intractable...

The EU could be gone in four years: A revolutionary eruption is coming - Brussels Signal

The EU could be gone in four years: A revolutionary eruption is coming - Brussels Signal
In 1988, if you had told anyone that the Soviet Union would cease to exist just four years later, you would have been dismissed as a crank. The institutions looked solid, the bureaucracy entrenched, and the power absolute. Yet by 1992, it was history.
Today, European politicians in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris suffer from the same dangerous optimism...
  • But looking at the trajectory of the European Union, I believe we are closer to a revolutionary moment than the elites dare to imagine...
If you want to understand Europe’s current predicament, look instead to France in 1788 or Russia in 1917...
By overextending ourselves financially and militarily for a conflict we cannot sustain, European governments are delegitimising themselves at home. 
  • You cannot demand that your citizens sacrifice their living standards for a war in the Donbas when they are worried about the cost of heating their homes.
  • This brings us to the second pillar of Europe’s decline: The Soviet-style prioritisation of ideology over economic reality. Nowhere is this clearer than in our energy policy...

WATCH: Elon Musk identifies 2025 'Word of the Year' as Minnesota fraud takes mind-boggling turn * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

WATCH: Elon Musk identifies 2025 'Word of the Year' as Minnesota fraud takes mind-boggling turn * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

In just two days Shirley's video exposing fraud in Minnesota has collected more than 78 million views on X alone, as fraud tied to the state's Somali community is estimated at $9 billion.

Deepfake Video Has Snuck into the Courtroom

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐏𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 — 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝟣𝟢𝟢% 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 “𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐌”

Taxpayers paid nearly 𝟤 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 dollars because an exam was ruled “racist.” - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
Why was it racist? 
  • Because it didn’t produce the “correct” racial outcome. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 
Not because the test mentioned race. 
Not because it targeted anyone. 
But because pass rates didn’t match demographic quotas. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 
  • Heather Mac Donald explains the insanity plainly: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ “𝘠𝘰𝘶 … 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴.” ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 
That’s it...


Lunch video-----Outbound Americans, Inbound Migrants: Inside Michigan’s Changing Demogra...

Noon-toon

 


Wake up and smell the Islamic invasion of the West | Blaze Media

Wake up and smell the Islamic invasion of the West | Blaze Media

This conflict has never been about Jews alone. Jews are the first target, not the last. Islamist ideology ultimately targets all non-Muslims and any society that refuses submission.

The West must decide whether it intends to defend its civilization or continue subsidizing its erosion — through mass migration without assimilation, foreign entanglements without strategy, and alliances that demand silence in exchange for access.

Are they ALL in on it??!!

 


Much here, read all!!-----The legacy media didn’t miss the Minnesota Somalian fraud story.

They actively dismissed it as made up, racist, or xenophobic. - Drew Holden@DrewHolden360
Before the stories are quietly edited, I’ve got screenshots. 
  • I can’t believe this is real, but @AP basically did the Somalians-founding-America meme as a straight reported piece on how beneficial the community has been in Minnesota...


Americans are not stupid.

When politicians outperform the market by 559%, people can see the corruption very clearly.  - Michael Carbonara
  • They’re tired of being played while insiders like Pelosi cash in and get rich. 


How Deepfakes Could Lead to Doomsday | Foreign Affairs

America’s Nuclear Warning Systems Aren’t Ready for AI - Erin D. Dumbacher
  • Yet AI poses another insidious risk to nuclear security. 
It makes it easier to create and spread deepfakes—convincingly altered videos, images, or audio that are used to generate false information about people or events. 
And these techniques are becoming ever more sophisticated. 
  • A few weeks after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a widely shared deepfake showed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky telling Ukrainians to set down their weapons; in 2023, a deepfake led people to falsely believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted state television to declare a full-scale mobilization...

#1 This day 1962-----The Tornados ~ Telstar (1962)

Intersectionality is all the Rage – Just Ask “Turtle Island Liberation Front”

Our Op-Ed in the NY Post: “Intersectionality” is the mother’s milk of the anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Western ideologues who have been ramping up their violence this year. - William A. Jacobson
Intersectionality does not get the attention that Critical Race Theory and Diversity Equity and Inclusion receive, but it’s the source for CRT and DEI. 
  • It’s the mother’s milk of group identity theory...
The recent indictment of the Turtle Island Liberation Front caused us to refocus on Intersectionality and the need for the Trump administration to include it in the fight against DEI...
On Tuesday, a bombshell grand-jury indictment alleged that the group plotted to use “weapons of mass destruction” to “completely pulverize” tech companies and other targets...

So much winning!

 


They Got Her: FBI Caught Hillary Clinton Talking Donations with Foreign Felon on Tape

They Got Her: FBI Caught Hillary Clinton Talking Donations with Foreign Felon on Tape

Among the evidence available to investigators, according to their questions: A recorded conversation between Clinton and Indian hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal in which Clinton discussed donations to the foundation and her remaining 2008 campaign debt. The new documents confirm that the FBI had at one time been “intercepting individuals associated with the Clinton Foundation.”

But when Clinton arrived to the FBI two months later, in July 2016, to answer questions about her use of a private email server in a separate investigation codenamed “Midyear Exam,” D.C. agents asked nothing about the allegations of pay-to-play with foreign governments or use of the global charity as a slush fund.

Is It Over for Tim Walz? | Power Line

The scandal has now expanded far beyond Feeding Our Future.
Joe Thompson, the Assistant U.S. Attorney who has prosecuted the fraud cases, has said publicly that at least half of all spending on Minnesota Medicaid programs is fraudulent. 
  • That would be around $9 billion. 
And there are other welfare programs that are neither Feeding Our Future (administered by the Department of Education) nor Medicaid. 
Child care centers, for example...

Elon Musk on X: More than any the daily readership of all newspapers in America combined"

You are the media now! - Elon Musk@elonmusk
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BREAKING: Nick Shirley’s Minnesota Somali fraud video just crossed 100 million views on X. You are the media now!