Propaganda during the COVID pandemic didn’t arrive as force.

It arrived as care. - Mandi Johnson 

It spoke in the language of safety, responsibility, and solidarity, and it framed obedience as morality.

• Questioning wasn’t banned; it was simply rebranded as dangerous.

Uncertainty, the foundation of real science, was treated as a threat. 

“The science” was presented as fixed and unanimous, which was convenient, since science normally advances by being neither. 

• Once science became a conclusion instead of a process, disagreement stopped being intellectual and became ethical.

Fear carried the message...

Criminally "Consistent".

 

Unearthed Surveillance Video Shows Parents Allegedly Helping with Fraud

Unearthed Surveillance Video Shows Parents Allegedly Helping with Fraud: 

Unearthed surveillance footage from 2015 reportedly exposes how parents have participated in fraud schemes with Minnesota daycare centers. Video shows parents dropping their children off at a facility and coming back to retrieve them minutes later. Another clip shows parents being handed envelopes containing what is believed to be “kickback payments” for their involvement in the scheme.

Oh, the humanity!-----Amherst erupts after student reporter exposes sex skits thrust upon freshmen at orientation | The College Fix

Campus leaders and student government officials at the private, preppy $90,000-a-year Amherst College in central Massachusetts are going into overtime working to respond to a lengthy article that detailed sexual students skits performed during freshman orientation and included pictures and short videos. -  Dave Huber - Associate Editor

One in particular earlier this year ruffled a lot of feathers — he dared to take on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and faced harassment and death threats over it, as The College Fix reported at the time. 

• So upsetting was his op-ed that the school’s Title IX office hit him with a “No-Communications & Restricted Proximity Order” due to a complaint by a female student to whom Allen had never spoken.

Now Allen is back in the hot seat. 

Most recently, Allen — president of the Amherst College Conservatives — published a piece in The Washington Free Beacon about the school’s “Voices of the Class” program, part of its freshman orientation...

• The same morning Allen’s Free Beacon story hit on Dec. 12, Amherst President Michael Elliot and Vice President for Student Affairs Angie Tissi-Gassoway sent out a campus-wide email informing students the “safety and wellbeing of our students and staff is our immediate priority,” and that they were “exploring possible responses” to Allen’s piece.
• The officials also provided numbers for the campus Center for Counseling and Mental Health and noted “Student Care and the Class Deans can assist students in accessing further resources.”...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 2

History for January 2 - On-This-Day.com 

Isaac Asimov 1920 

• 1492 - The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
• 1910 - The first junior high school in the United States opened. McKinley School in Berkeley, CA, housed seventh and eighth grade students.
• 1953 - "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
• 1968 - Fidel Castro announced petroleum and sugar rationing in Cuba.
• 1974 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.

BREAKING: Kash Patel Says Minnesota Fraud Probes Were 'Buried' Under Biden - They Implicated His 'Allies'

BREAKING: Kash Patel Says Minnesota Fraud Probes Were 'Buried' Under Biden - They Implicated His 'Allies': 

FBI Director Kash Patel says major fraud investigations opened during the Biden administration were deliberately stalled because they risked implicating political allies. The allegations were reported Tuesday by journalist Catherine Herridge, who shared details in a post on social media platform X. According to Herridge, Patel has been personally tracking the probes for months, with a focus on Minnesota, where the cases were initially opened and where Somalis are accused of defrauding taxpayers of billions of dollars via fraudulent day care centers and other social service programs.

The way we were-----Signing of NAFTA (1993)

The Babylon Bee Presents: Our 100% Accurate Predictions For 2026

Washington Democrat Introduces Bill To Shield Daycare Operators From Scrutiny | The Daily Caller

The legislation aims to extend the public records exemption from applying only to family home child care providers to covering any licensed or certified providers of child care - Derek VanBuskirk

• It argues that “child care providers working in licensed centers and other nonresidential care settings also face safety risks, harassment, doxxing and targeted retaliation when their home addresses, personal phone numbers, photographs and other identifying information are released publicly.”...

The official invitation to STEAL an election!-----Minnesota day care scandal sparks concern over election policy that allows a voter to 'vouch' for others | New York Post

A controversial Minnesota election policy that allows a single registered voter to “vouch” for up to eight people seeking same-day registration is under fire amid the state’s massive fraud scandal tied to the Somali community there. - Patrick Reilly

Under Minnesota law, the registered voter must go with the person or people they are vouching for to the polling place and sign an oath verifying their address, according to the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State.

• Those being vouched for still must provide at least one form of identity verification, which includes a valid Minnesota driver’s license or learner’s permit, a “receipt” for them, or a tribal identification card that includes a photo and signature, according to the rules...
• However, critics have noted that Gov. Tim Walz’s 2023 “Driver’s Licenses for All” bill allows people to obtain licenses regardless of immigration status. 
• Licenses carry no marking indicating citizenship, despite being regularly used to register to vote...

Large foreign-aligned group illegally funding U.S. political causes? * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta

Large foreign-aligned group illegally funding U.S. political causes? * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta: 

ITServe Alliance, a massive India-aligned organization, presents itself as a professional trade association for IT services companies. But its own materials suggest the organization is built around a political financing model that may violate federal law. According to ITServe's published membership structure, every $1,000 annual membership fee automatically allocates $300 to what the group openly labels its "PAC" (political action committee), with additional funds directed to "CSR" (corporate social responsibility) and services the organization itself describes as advancing immigration policy goals. This structure raises serious questions about whether ITServe is illegally funding its PAC, particularly given that many of its members are not U.S. citizens.

Around the world: New Year 2026 celebrations

Un-journalism is a sickness that afflicts mainstream news in Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington.

Facebook - James David Dickson

• Un-journalism is when a lazy man like Politico’s Josh Gerstein would sooner suggest that a reporter like Nick Shirley could be shot and killed, than to actually outcompete the guy.

You can spot the un-journalist by his fruits: he has none. 

Go to his story page and you’ll see narratives. 

You will see coverage. 

• But you will not see news.

Weak men make bad journalism. 

Josh Gerstein shows why journalism is going the way of Jeffrey Epstein.

• James Dickson Podcast is coming in hot. Happy 2026.

Lunch video-----Freedom250: New Year's Eve celebration at National Mall

Noon-toon

 

Senate bill would give nearly $6 billion to refugee programs despite record-low intake numbers | Blaze Media

Senate bill would give nearly $6 billion to refugee programs despite record-low intake numbers | Blaze Media: 

An appropriations bill could allocate billions in funding to refugee programs after temporary government funding expires. Congress passed a clean funding extension in November 2025 that expires on January 30, 2026, when new funding allocation could take place.

We've got to get control of our criminal government!

 

ALEX BERENSON: Minnesota was only the beginning: New York's Medicaid grift is far worse

When it comes to waste, fraud and abuse in government programs, nothing holds a candle to healthcare spending. 

And this especially true in New York - By Alex Berenson

It's not just Minnesota. 

Or just daycares. 

• The deepest government honeypot is blue-state Medicaid.

And nowhere does corruption run deeper than in New York State, where everyone wants a piece of a $120 billion honeypot...

Trump stands tall!

 

Publius: Readers' Choice: Best of Right Opinion for 2025 | The Patriot Post

A selection of articles our editorial team thought best represented both the news and reader interest in 2025. - Publius

• Ann Coulter: Who’s Defying Court Orders Again? — Liberals don’t care about respect for the courts. They just like discriminating, and they love savage Venezuelan gangs.

• Ben Shapiro: A Society Paralyzed by the Presence of Evil — Many Americans are so alienated from each other that the simple sight of a young woman bleeding to death doesn’t draw action.

• Ann Coulter: ‘Original Sin’: It’s Worse Than the Authors Know — The media is not the handmaiden of the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party is the handmaiden of the media.

• Babylon Bee: 10 Things More Popular Than Democrats Right Now — Jehovah’s Witnesses on your front porch: They may be annoying, but they’re far less dangerous than Democrats.

#1 This day 1967-----THE MONKEES - I'M A BELIEVER - 1966 Original (HQ-856X480)

Must read!-----𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚: 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐈𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 - Karin McQuillan

Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. 

Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. - Patricia Anthone 

• That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment."
• In plain English: s--- is everywhere. 

People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water...
Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. 

Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism...

• Senegal was not a hellhole. 
• Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms. 
• But they are not our terms. 

The excrement is the least of it. 

• Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible...

It ain't bragging if it's true!