The Morning Report — 6/ 26 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. The scope of the disaster in Venezuela, in the wake of a devastating earthquake staggers the imagination.
Look at the despair and the sorrow of the people unable to rescue their injured loved ones from beneath the tons and tons of rubble, some of them calling out, dying, in homes transforming by the hour into tombs. . . There's no search and rescue, there's no ambulances, there's no hospitals, there's no fire trucks, and yes, fires are breaking out nightmarishly enough -- Venezuela's health care lies in ruins - nor is there an organized effort to dig out.Socialism has well and truly taken over in that country, and as this leftish but still good essayist in the Caracas Chronicles notes, one of the effects is that the state has abandoned its basic functions of government. . .
Since at least 2022, the Venezuelan state has increasingly adopted a hands-off approach to governance. This shift, shaped by a post-socialist form of laissez-faire economic policy, reduced state control over large parts of the economy and contributed to a modest but visible revival in business activity. In many ways, the tate appeared to retreat from major areas of public administration while preserving absolute control over others, particularly the security apparatus and the machinery of censorship and political repression.
Young urban voters across the country are flocking to the hip new politics of urban socialism. Across urban America, the socialists are on a roll. This week, all three democratic socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primaries for the U.S. House in deep blue New York City. You might be tempted to dismiss the latest victories on the grounds that New York City — which recently elected Mayor Zohran “Warmth of Collectivism” Mamdani — is America’s designated socialism containment zone. But the far-left’s momentum is by no means unique to The Empire State. Arguably more important are the democratic socialists’ victories in some of America’s other largest cities, representing a realignment where the urban, educated base of the Democratic Party increasingly sees the once-poisonous s-word in a candidate’s biography as a credential rather than a liability.
And yet, despite that, I give you this glimmer of hope.
Political scientist John Sides recently dropped a data-heavy report detailing a massive vibe shift that has left the professional panic-mongers utterly bewildered. For decades, the media smugly preached the gospel of the "inevitable liberal consensus." The theory was simple: as old conservatives died off, the enlightened youth would usher in a progressive utopia of gender-neutral communes and government-mandated weed dispensaries. It was a nice little fantasy for the faculty lounge, but the data shows it has officially crashed at high speed into the brick wall of reality. . .. . . The beautiful irony in all of this is that the left’s aggressive push to colonize every corner of American life has utterly backfired. By turning every major institution—from universities to comic books to Fortune 500 companies—into a humorless, hyper-woke HR department, they did the unthinkable: they made conservatism cool again.
So, as we approach America's 250th birthday whither our future? Will the era of Donald Trump be merely a one-off last desperate gasp of the last remnants of the saner children of the Greatest Generation to stave off disaster or will it be the harbinger of American revival?
As Tina Turner sang it "Will our story shine like a light, or end in the dark?!"
With that I bid you,
Have a great weekend,
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Daily Tech News 26 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- As we saw yesterday, Micron has locked in contracts delivering the company 90% margins. (The Register)
For the next five years.
- Apple has raised prices on everything except its phones by between 20% and 30%. (Notebook Check)
Apple's memory prices were starting to look almost reasonable given the chaos going on in the PC market.
No longer.
Also, all the high-end models like the 512GB Mac Studio are simply gone.
The MacBook Neo now starts at $699 rather than $599.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - June 25, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From Julie Smith
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Open thread, as always. Content supplied for those who are interested. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
[Top photo: Pigeon Point Light Station, a historic California landmark constructed in 1871]
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Thursday Night Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
by @aestheticsguyy
Raising a baby goat found freezing as a newborn on the coldest night of the year.
A single swan egg was found abandoned in a nest. So a guy hatched it and raised it.
A murmuration of horses.
Fancy pigeon wears a fur!
And very fancy geese as well!
Niagara Falls, but in winter. It's not as nice.
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Europe Prepares for Remigration?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Remigration" being the preferred euphemism for "kicking them out and sending them back home."
They plan to send illegal aliens to detention areas outside of Europe as their meritless asylum claims are processed.
The European Union could have its first deportation centres operating outside its borders before the end of 2027 and could even begin establishing them as early as next year.That was the message from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in an interview with the Financial Times, in which she said that several European governments are already working alongside the European Commission to turn into reality one of the most controversial migration proposals of recent years and one of the key priorities championed by patriotic movements seeking to reverse the damage caused by years of uncontrolled immigration.
According to Frederiksen, there is a genuine "coalition of the willing"--using the phrase normally associated with European countries unconditionally supporting Ukraine--among several member states that aims to develop these return hubs in third countries with European funding.
The Social Democratic leader said that preparations are already sufficiently advanced for the first centre to become operational within a relatively short timeframe. Her position demonstrates that concerns about immigration are not merely ideological but also a matter of effective governance.
Her comments come only days after nineteen EU member states publicly endorsed the possibility of financing similar structures with European funds, inspired by the model established by Italy in Albania. The European Commission has also confirmed that the necessary legislative framework is already in place and that it is now up to member states to submit concrete proposals.
The shift is difficult to overlook. For years, outsourcing migration management beyond Europe's borders was considered both a political and legal taboo. When Denmark proposed transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda in 2021, the initiative triggered strong criticism from human rights organisations, left-wing parties, and numerous European governments.
Today, the debate is no longer about whether such a system should exist, but about how it should be implemented. The question is no longer what, but when.
Well, those seeking "asylum" should have no objection because they will be granted asylum in these third country areas while their claims are processed, right?
On the other hand, if they're just migrants gaming the system to gain entry into the countries with the welfare systems of their choice, they might not like the plan.
But I'm sure it's mostly the former, right?
Meanwhile, the same left that insisted that Haiti was a beautiful country when Trump offhandedly referred to it as a "shithole" are now saying it's a death sentence to send Haitians back to Haiti.
But I thought it was a beautiful country...?
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Five girls were walking on a street in NJ when an member of an unspecified religion threw acid in their faces, scarring them for life.
Five people are recovering after someone drove up in a vehicle and threw acid on them in Jersey City, according to police.It happened on Monday near 105 Wilkinson Ave. Five women were outside the location when individuals riding in a vehicle drove up and threw what is believed to be sulfuric acid at them, according to preliminary information from Jersey City Police.
All five victims were taken to a local hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries that included skin burns and peeling.
All the victims are stable.
Police say the incident appeared to have been targeted and may have stemmed from a dispute between a large group of people earlier in the day.
Police will only identify the attacker as a "juvenile."
What kind of juvenile?
The left is pro-terrorist, period.
Pro-Palestinian groups are calling for justice for the eight activists indicted on federal vandalism charges for allegedly attacking the homes and buildings of pro-Israel groups and people.However, national security and pro-Israel groups are saying that Jewish people must be protected against violence.
The reactions follow the June 10 announcement of an indictment of eight pro-Palestinian individuals, at least seven of whom are affiliated with the University of Michigan.
The indictment outlined information about these individuals; Zainab Hakim, Alexander Sepulveda, and Marian Odeh are graduates of UMichigan, Amatullah Hakim, Paige Feyock, and Jonathan Zou, are current students, while Ahmet Korkaya formerly lived in Ann Arbor and Colin Weger currently does as well.
The indictment's counts included charges of the transmission of threats in interstate and foreign commerce, witness intimidation, and the destruction of property to prevent seizure.
In the terror plot culminating in a Texas cop being shot in the neck, leftists are claiming that the Mexican national terrorist got 30 years for "reading leftist magazines."
That's a lie, obviously. When the terrorists were being rounded up after shooting the cop, they called the Mexican national and told him to get rid of their antifa propaganda. Possibly they wanted to dispose of the evidence that they committed the shooting as part of an antifa terrorist action.
This was evidence being sought in a terror shooting, and the Mexican national did attempt to dispose of the evidence.
A far cry from "he got 30 years for reading The Nation."
Hiding/destroying evidence usually involves paperwork like this. It only occasionally involves destroying "sexy" evidence like drugs, explosives, or guns.
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrewAmong the most stupid posts ever here on X.
He was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction.
Hiding the material to prevent it from being found by law enforcement is an obstructive act punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The FACTS of the case -- "relevant conduct" as to all who were convicted -- involved an ambush and shooting at an ICE facility.
One of the law enforcement officers was shot in the neck and seriously wounded.
EVERYONE involved in the conspiracy has that aggravating fact applied by the Judge when he determined their sentences -- from 30 to 100 years
Ben Petersen @bennpetersenCNBC Host Joe Kernen CALLS OUT Hakeem Jeffries after he refused to condemn socialist NY Democrat nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier for calling to abolish police, prisons and borders
KERNEN: "I know it takes time from the interview... but it doesn't really answer the question... It totally shifted from what we're talking about"
"When the Democrat Party includes someone in that tent that believes these things, I don't think any of those things are gonna solve what you just talked about..."
"They were saying you're next about Hakeem Jeffries. 'You're next! You're next! You're next!'"
"You can't think this is a positive development in New York politics, can you? And oh they'll, Dems will be Dems, I don't see how you can say that"
"You need to reject those things, I think"
JEFFRIES: Donald Trump...
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The Supreme Court Defends Its Bruen Decision, Refusing Hawaii's Insistence That the "Spirit of Aloha" Overrides the 2nd Amendment
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Hawaii claims "the spirit of Aloha" allows them to do a lot of things, like discriminate in favor of native-born Hawaiians over newcomers. Maybe this will serve as a precedent for a ruling knocking down that racial discrimination.
But for the moment, the Supreme Court has ruled that Hawaii's "spirit of Aloha" does not grant the racist state
special license to deny American citizens their second amendment rights.
And the states of California, Maryland, NJ, and NY will likewise have to accept that the Supreme Court meant what it said when it reaffirmed that Americans generally have the right to self-defense.
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for gun owners to bring their guns onto private property that is open to the public unless they have the property owner's specific consent. In Wolford v. Lopez, by a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with a group of Maui residents with concealed-carry permits that the law violates the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms.Thursday's decision will have an impact not only in Hawaii, but also in four other states -- California, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey -- with similar laws.
In his 24-page opinion for the court, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the law "hobbles what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who dissented, countered that the law "fairly applies a first principle of property law--the right to exclude--and does no harm to the Second Amendment."
Hawaii passed the law in 2023, just under one year after the Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. In Bruen, the court invalidated a New York handgun-licensing law that required state residents who wanted to carry a handgun in public to show that they had a special need to defend themselves. The court also made clear that the Second Amendment protects a broad right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense. In his opinion for the majority in Bruen, Justice Clarence Thomas emphasized that courts should uphold gun restrictions only if they are "consistent with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
Before Hawaii's ban could go into effect, three Maui residents with concealed-carry permits, as well as a local gun-rights group, went to federal court to challenge the law. A federal appeals court upheld the ban, finding that there was likely "a national tradition ... of prohibiting the carrying of firearms on private property without the owner's oral or written consent."
The challengers then went to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh in. The court agreed to do so in October and heard oral argument in January.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court reversed. Alito found it clear that the Hawaii law fell within "the plain text of the Second Amendment" and was therefore "presumptively unconstitutional." "No party," he wrote, "disputes that" the challengers in the case "are among 'the people' protected by the Second Amendment or that they seek to 'bear,' i.e., to carry, 'arms.'" Alito stressed that the Hawaii law "unquestionably imposed a new and significant burden on the exercise of the right" to bear arms.
He acknowledged that under the Hawaii law, property owners can still "admit or exclude" gun owners "who are carrying guns for self-defense." But the difference between the Hawaii law and the default rule elsewhere in the country -- that gun owners with concealed-carry permits can enter private property open to the public "unless expressly prohibited from doing so" -- "will determine where carry-permit holders may lawfully carry firearms," Alito said, when "the owner either pays no attention or does not care about such issues."
Note that the Court says that property owners can in fact exclude guns from their property -- but the state can't make it a crime to bring guns to someone's property, if that property owner hasn't said anything about guns either way.
The key question before the court, in his view, was whether there was a history of similar regulations in early U.S. and English history. Alito first rejected Hawaii's contention that, "whatever the situation in other parts of the country, in Hawaii, opening private property to the public" does not give permission to bring a gun onto that property. Alito countered that "the Second Amendment has the same meaning in all parts of the United States," where there is "'overwhelming evidence'" of "an 'enduring American tradition permitting public carry.'"...
Alito also strongly spurned the state's reliance on "an 1865 Louisiana statute that made it unlawful 'for any person or persons to carry fire-arms on the premises or plantations of any citizens,'" without the owner's consent, calling it "remarkable." That law was "neither widespread nor widely accepted," Alito contended, and in any event, it was adopted as part of the "so-called Black Codes" to discriminate against formerly enslaved people in the wake of the Civil War. "Hawaii's claim that this tainted artifact illuminates the original understanding of the right to keep and bear arms cannot be taken seriously."
Citing "Black Codes" to justify your gun-grabbing? For shame, Hawaii. For shame.
Member of "Ziz" Cult -- Which Claims That Transgenders Are Supreme -- Charged in Murder of Parents
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Watch how ABC and the AP carefully avoid ever mentioning that this cult is made up entirely of men who pretend to be women:
Member of cultlike Zizians group charged in the killings of her parents in suburban PhiladelphiaA member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their home on her 30th birthday.
His parents, you mean. It's a dude who wears a wig. They all are.
MEDIA, Pa. -- A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday she wasn't acting alone.
Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said evidence from a neighbor's doorbell camera, ballistics and analysis of cellphone records have left investigators certain Michelle Zajko is at least partly responsible for the deaths of her parents, Rita and Richard.
They were shot in her childhood playroom on New Year's Eve 2022, surrounded by her old dolls and toys.
His old dolls and toys, and what a psychopathic staging of the murder of one's parents.
"At this time we do not know who her co-conspirators were, but we are very certain that Michelle Zajko was in the home and arranged for the death of her parents," Rouse said.
Yeah it's the other transgenders in the "Ziz" cult. They're almost all murderers. The cult is responsible for a string of brutal murders across the US and the media tiptoes around it.
So close to Pride Month?!!? You're charging "Her" so close to Pride Month?!?!
The new charges against Zajko, who has been jailed in Maryland on other charges since February 2025, include murder, burglary and conspiracy charges in her parents' deaths. She has denied killing them, and in court filings suggested her father might have killed her mother and himself."I didn't murder my parents," she wrote in an April 2025 " Open Letter to the World" that her attorney sent to The Associated Press.
Authorities had long described Zajko as a person of interest.
Here comes the only hint that this is a cult of transgender lunatics:
The two deaths are among six linked to the Zizians, a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists who appear to share radical beliefs about veganism, animal rights, gender identity and artificial intelligence.
They "share beliefs about gender identity" is not quite admitting the truth that they're all "transgender women" and in fact believe that "transgender women" have superpowers, like the X-Men.
Since 2022, members have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on a California landlord, the landlord's subsequent killing, the Zajkos' deaths in Pennsylvania, and a highway shootout in Vermont that left a border agent and another Zizian dead.
In the Pennsylvania case, investigators spent years painstakingly collecting evidence, Rouse said, including video from a neighbor's doorbell camera that captured two people getting out of a car outside the Zajkos' home in Chester Heights, a voice shouting "Mom!" and another voice exclaiming, "Oh my God! Oh, God, God!"
Authorities haven't found a weapon, but Zajko made a list describing mistakes such as leaving shell casings behind, he said. Those casings matched ammunition from Zajko's home in Vermont and from a firing range in her backyard, Rouse said.
"If she wasn't the one who actually pulled the trigger, she was certainly aligned with those who did," he said.
Incredible -- exactly like the grooming gang cover-up in the UK. The media will simply lie to protect protected "identities" responsible for heinous crimes.
Here's the little lady, below:
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We've Brought the Arab Middle East to America (and It's the Same Here as It Is There)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Open thread.
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Trump: I'm Not Signing Any Bills Until the Senate Passes the SAVE Act
—Disinformation Expert Ace
President Trump canceled the signing of a bipartisan housing bill on Wednesday, saying he would not sign the legislation until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act."Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The development underscores the tension between Trump and Senate Republicans on the SAVE America Act.
If Trump doesn't sign the bill within ten days, it is automatically vetoed. That's the so-called "pocket veto."
Trump had earlier ordered the Postmaster General to not deliver federal mail-in ballots to states which refused to turn over their voter lists for vetting.
The Postmaster General confirmed he will obey that order, in congressional testimony.
Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration's rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government.
The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.
Steiner confirmed he would follow the rule after Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters asked "If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposal rule?"
"Under our proposed regulation, no," Steiner said, according to the New York Times. "We would tell the state that we need the manifest."
Supreme Court Overrules Lower Leftwing Judges: Trump May Turn Away Illegals at Border Without First Letting Them Into the Country, The "Temporary" Protected Status Afforded to Syrians and Hatians is, Get This, TEMPORARY and May Be Rescinded
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's incredible that Trump had to fight for the right of the executive to turn illegals away at the border rather than requiring the executive to let them into the country to submit their falsified asylum claims.
Now, if an illegal alien is in the US, judges have ruled he gets to stay while his fake claims are heard (for 8-12 years).
But Trump was turning them away before they got into the country.
Leftwing judges decided that even turning them away into the border was still letting them "arrive in the US," so they get to stay 8-12 years while their phony claims are heard.
In other words -- this is so stupid it's hard to graft -- if you stop an illegal alien before he crosses into the country, leftwing judges insisted he still "arrived in America" when he came to the border and now you have to let him in and let him stay.
The Supreme Court said: "No."
Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
NEWS: The Supreme Court just gave the federal government the power to turn away asylum seekers at the border before they ever set foot on American soil.In a 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court held that a migrant standing in Mexico has not "arrived in the United States" under federal immigration law until he physically crosses the border. Until that moment, the government owes him no inspection and no chance to apply for asylum.
The decision clears the way for the Trump administration to revive "metering," the practice of stationing officers at ports of entry to cap how many asylum seekers are processed each day and block the rest from crossing.
Justice Alito, writing for the majority, rested the case on the ordinary meaning of a single phrase. To arrive in a place is to enter it, he reasoned, and "that conclusion does not change because someone or something blocks entry."
Justice Sotomayor, in a scathing dissent joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, said the ruling lets the Executive Branch "circumvent all these mandatory procedures by having U.S. immigration officers stand at the border and physically block noncitizens from setting a foot onto U.S. soil." That holds, she wrote, "even if the asylum seeker is certain to be persecuted, or killed, if she is turned away." She accused the majority of an interpretation "driven almost entirely by a fixation on a single word: 'in.'"
Alito was joined by the chief justice, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The three liberal justices dissented.
Leftwing judges had also insisted the TPP status -- Temporary Protected Person status -- granted to nationals of Haiti and Syria were effectively permanent and Trump could never end them, Because Muh Racism.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.
They Haiti disaster was an earthquake in 1993.
The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.The Trump administration argued judges that can't second-guess immigrations officials' decisions about the protections, which were intended to be temporary.
Immigration attorneys said the countries remain unsafe to return, and the administration ended them in an unlawfully hasty process tinged by racial animus. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating dogs and cats.
The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court after judges postponed the end of the program for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The high court sided with the administration before and allowed the end of the program for people from Venezuela.
Federal authorities deny that racial animus played a role. They also cited a Supreme Court decision from Trump's first term that rejected bias claims based on his social media posts and upheld a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.
DHS has ended the protections people from 13 countries since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, including some that had been in place for more than a decade.
The terminations were made even though countries like Haiti and Syria remain dangerous, immigration attorneys said. Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents.
The House passed legislation with a rare bipartisan vote in April that would extend protections for Haitians, though the bill has languished in the Senate.
The U.S. first granted protections to Haitians in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake, and extended them multiple times amid ongoing gang violence that has displaced more than a million people, according to court documents.
Syrians, meanwhile, were first granted protected status in 2012, during a civil war that lasted for more than a decade before the fall of President Bashar Assad's government in late 2024.
TPS was created by Congress in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters, civil strife and other instability. It allows people already in the country to stay with work permits in increments of up to 18 months, but it doesn't provide a path to citizenship.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
The descent into socialism that NYC seems to have embraced was not created out of whole cloth. This was not some covert effort to insinuate a crypto-socialist into the halls of power, the way Obama slithered his way into the Oval Office. The NYC versions are out-and-proud Islamo-fascists who cover themselves with a thin veneer of socialism that in and of itself is compatible with Islam.
What they did was clever...embracing the disaffection of an over-educated youth whose worthless degrees and lack of any actual worthwhile skills prevented them from entering the highly competitive workforce of NYC, all while expanding their cutely named "Democratic Socialist" platform to include a reprehensible foreign policy that centers around Jew-hate. That attracted the new 3rd World immigrants and the AWFLs. Couple that with a notoriously low turn-out and obvious vote manipulation, and Bingo! We have a NYC that is indistinguishable from Cuba.
Their platform is simple. America is evil. Israel is evil. Market economies are evil. Wealth is evil. The rule of law is evil. Confiscatory taxation to fund a comprehensive welfare state to benefit their voters is the only way to run a city, state, or nation.
Jeffrey Carter, a finance guy who came within a few thousand votes of the Republican nomination for NV Treasurer, has written a primer on the emergence of socialism in America, and it is worth a careful read. He is polite, and sometimes calls them Democrats, but the results are the same.
Democrats played the very long game. Where did it start? Post 1960s, the radicals quit trying to change society overtly. They all went into education. They became respected members of the professor class, and frankly, that professor class had a bias toward welcoming them in. That’s how Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, worked. Here they are. Smiling commies with their red stars. Totally accepted in the Obama network.Never forget, The Weatherman and 60s radicals all grew up wealthy. Ayer’s father was the CEO of Commonwealth Edison. They have trust funds and generational wealth to rely on. President FDR was the same. They won’t part with it, but they are happy to take yours.
It took a couple of generations via taking over the public and private school system, but we have a lot of people out there who do not understand capitalism and think America is a racist country with a flawed founding.
They are easily persuaded to communism, socialism, or whatever you want to call it.
No amount of data can get them out of their confirmation bias.
Well, there is one bit of data that will convince them of the evils of socialism, but that is the end game, when they are lined up against a wall and shot for being enemies of the state. That is the unavoidable result of the ignorance that is engulfing the West. As Marx himself said:
When our turn comes, we shall make no excuse for the terror.
So where will patriotic Democrats go, now that the hard left of their party is subsuming the rest of them?
The center of the Democratic Party is gone. It's over for people like Senator Fetterman. There are no Danny Rostenkowskis, Scoop Jacksons, or Tip O' Neills. Rahm Emanuel is running around the country trying to save it but he was the butler who helped usher in the communists as Obama's Chief of Staff.
The answer is that they will support the obscenity of the Democratic Socialist wing because the political philosophy of the Democrat party is simply a prettier version of Stalin's...the lust for power is all-encompassing, and mainstream Democrats will hold their noses and continue to vote for what can only end in Gulags and concentration camps and wholesale murder and death.
They seem nice!
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The Morning Report — 6/ 25 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Venezuela was rocked by its strongest earthquakes in over a century on Wednesday afternoon — causing widespread destruction in the capital of Caracas and fears of as many as 100,000 casualties. A magnitude 7.2 quake struck roughly 100 miles west of Caracas, followed by a 7.5 magnitude tremor just a minute later, according to the US Geological Survey. “High casualties and extensive damage are probable, and the disaster is likely widespread,” the USGS warned.
Closer to home it looks as if a couple of political earthquakes are shaking up the establishments of both parties. On the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar as well as on the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, both CBD and i discussed the ramifications locally in NYC and nationally with the victory of Mad Mamdani minions who are equally insane and tyrannical in their views.
Carville freaked out at the results. He noted that Avila Chevalier, who was born to Dominican immigrants, once said white people should not be in interracial marriages. “Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you,” Carville said. “I’m sorry. I’m just not. And I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the ‘s’ word: schism. I really do. Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no. We’re a coalition. We’re a big tent. And there’s just some sh*t I can’t be in the same tent with.” Carville then insisted that despite winning their Democratic primaries, “these people are not Democrats.” He then suggested that establishment Democrats “negotiate the terms of a schism” with democratic socialists in the party.
Oh, James, old boy, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are most definitely in the same party as this filthy evil slag. Meh, this would be amusing if it weren't so disgusting. The descriptor of "Far-Left" for some Democrats is the same as "Radical" for Muslims. It's a redundancy. It's a naked attempt to whitewash and minimize the core beliefs and values of each which are self-evident through their actions over a long and bloody history. A history of causing a civil war to preserve slavery, and then to repress the freed slaves for over 100 years and create one of the most massive welfare states to keep them enslaved for your political gain at the cost of trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of wasted lives. And when you've genocided the hell out of your base, the only thing left is to throw open the borders and register third world wetback criminals by the millions as Democrats and steal the elections you still can't win legitimately.
Carville, you and yours have done all you could to hack away at the Constitution and individual liberty in order to create a gargantuan centralized bureaucracy where your fellow travelers are at the controls generationally and in perpetuity. The views of Wilson and FDR are crystal clear in dismantling America as founded in service of that fever dream of absolute power.
And the disparate groups in your big tent share one thing in common — an incandescent hatred for this country, its citizens, history, heritage and western Judeo-Christian civilization, morality and sanity, and so for Carville and others of his ilk to be freaking out over what happened in NYC, where the hell was he when Bernie Sanders was elected to the Senate over and over again on a platform of naked in-your-face communism which is exactly what got elected in NYC and lookie here what's happening in California, surprise surprise!
The Mamdani regime in New York City has already been making noises about moving on this sort of thing, and now the LA County Board of Supervisors is following suit. People will call this socialism but in some ways this is worse. They’re not just proposing a government takeover of private property, what they’re proposing to do is to use government power and taxpayer money to seize private property and turn it over to their political allies who will run ‘community groups’. This is fundamentally no different than politicians using eminent domain to seize property and transfer it to their political allies who then fund their political campaigns. . .. . . Socialist governments create pressure on landlords through every possible means. As prices rise and housing stock drops, creating a ‘housing crisis’, they cite the homeless vagrants as evidence that there is a serious threat and justify property seizures. We’re now in stage 3 of their plan. Stay tuned for stage 4.
You know what else has a "stage 4?" Incurable cancer.
As we also noted on the podcast, this bit of very positive news.
The Prairieland case in Texas is actually worth celebrating because it’s one of the few times the feds went after an Antifa-linked group with real teeth, leading to the first federal terrorism-related convictions and sentencing of individuals affiliated with Antifa in U.S. history.For once, the material support law was used, and it worked. But at the same time, it’s nowhere near enough, and that’s the frustrating part.
President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization back in September 2025. That was supposed to mean something. Americans were supposed to see mass action against the violent extremists terrorizing our country. But months later, Prairieland stands out as almost the only case where they brought terrorist charges and took a group to trial over it.
Think about what the domestic terrorism definition actually says. It covers acts that are dangerous to human life, break criminal laws, and look like they’re meant to intimidate civilians, push the government to change policy through fear, or mess with government functions through destruction or attacks.
The Prairieland case is not the only time Antifa planned an attack meant to intimidate and cause mass destruction. It’s not even the first time that the violent group has acted to shut down federal immigration enforcement.
And Antifa is the unofficial (wink-wink) Democrat/Leftist brownshirt goon squad that take to the streets to commit political terrorism with the protection of Democrat politicians and worse Judges, Attorneys General and other corrupted appendages of our justice system to further their collective aims at societal dissolution and the accrual of absolute power.
Let's hope they all rot in prison and that God-forbid a future Democrat president does not set them free.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Venezuela on Wednesday, swaying buildings and homes in the capital of Caracas.
Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquakes in over a century, fears up to 100K deaths — Trump vows US is ‘ready, willing, and able to help’
- Corrupt, criminal and radical.
LA County Proposes to Seize Houses and Turn Them Over to Political Allies
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Daily Tech News 25 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Walmart has signed a deal to buy 176 megawatts of nuclear power for 15 years. (MSN)
Enough, says the article, to power 150,000 homes, assuming those homes have gas heating and no gaming PCs.
- The Trump administration has announced $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new nuclear reactors. (AP News)
Coming soon to a Walmart near you. Well, soon is about ten years from now. Soonish.
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Wednesday Night ONT - June 24, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Will reading the content earn you free Triscuits? No. Will it entertain and inform while you eat your Triscuits? Perhaps. Only one way to find out.
[Top photo: Carla Manneh]
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Kangaroo Backyard Brawl Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oregon
Ben Milbrath
Poor little dog just wants peace.
Pet squirrel is crying because wild squirrels stole her stored nuts.
After a long day of work, it's nice to come home.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A team of elite civil rights attorneys announced they will represent Karmelo Anthony in the appeal of his murder conviction for fatally stabbing fellow high school athlete Austin Metcalf.Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe, veteran appellate attorney Russell Wilson, civil rights lawyer Brooke Cluse from Ben Crump Law, and others have joined forces in an effort to overturn Anthony's conviction and 35-year prison sentence, CBS News reported.
They will conduct an independent review of the trial to determine whether any errors occurred during the trial in their pursuit of an appeal, the lawyers said in their announcement on Monday.
End Wokeness @EndWokeness15h
NY-13 nominee Daraliza Avila Chevalier is a founder of CUAD. The org's stated goal?
"Eradication of Western civilization"
The loathsome Dan Goldman lost his bid for reelection in NYC's 10th Congressional district to -- get this -- an anti-Jewish communist.
Greg Price @greg_price113h
Dan Goldman losing is truly hilarious because he has one of the most liberal voting records in Congress and is unapologetic about being willing to tell any incendiary lie about Republicans, but refused to pledge allegiance to third-world terrorists on the other side of the planet and was, therefore, not radical enough for the new Democrat base.
Also losing last night: Jack "Kennedy" Schlossberg, who I would call a nepo baby but don't you need an actual job to be a nepo baby? All this fag does is troll people online and appear on leftwing chat shows to embarrass his family. He's like an even less-accomplished Ron Reagan Jr.
Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
Against all odds, Manhattan voters made the right call on Tuesday: They handily rejected Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old influencer with four trust funds and no actual employment history, in New York's 12th Congressional District.
Against all odds, Manhattan voters made the right call on Tuesday.Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old Kennedy scion who has never worked a real job, was handily defeated in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional District, sitting in third place with less than 11 percent of the vote. George Conway, the mentally disturbed Lincoln Project cofounder and frequent guest on The Jim Acosta Show, sat in fifth, trailing not just Schlossberg but also a woman named Nina Schwalbe.
Schlossberg's defeat is worth celebrating for several reasons.
The Kennedy family is a toxic cabal of bloated, boat-shoed sex pests and trust-fund layabouts still living off the fortune amassed by Joseph P. Kennedy, the wealthy patriarch best known for his efforts to make peace with Adolf Hitler. Tuesday's outcome suggests the family's once-mythic reputation is in the midst of a long-overdue correction.
John F. Kennedy, Schlossberg's grandfather, was the Eric Swalwell of the White House, while his great uncle Ted Kennedy was the Eric Swalwell of the U.S. Senate, a reputation he cemented in 1985 by making a "waitress sandwich" with Chris Dodd at a local fine-dining establishment.
To be fair to Swalwell, there's no evidence (that we know of) to suggest he's ever fled the scene of an accident after a woman drowned in his car. Ted Kennedy, on the other hand, continued to serve in public office until 2009, more than 40 years after Mary Jo Kopechne's death.
Days before the election, Schlossberg told the Wall Street Journal he would view his loss in the primary as proof that our political system is irrevocably broken. "If I can't do it, then nobody can," he said.
Indeed, if a 33-year-old Kennedy brat with four trust funds and what the New York Times described as "little traditional work experience" can lose a primary in one of the country's wealthiest congressional districts despite being endorsed by David Letterman and spending $1 million of his own inheritance, the American Dream is truly dead.
And of course ultra-cuck George Conway:
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew
Kellyanne Conway served as Senior Counsel to President Trump in his first term, after having had a senior role in his campaign that went from 1% GOP support in July 2015 to winning the Presidency in November 2016.Her now ex-husband George Conway, once believing himself to be the best choice to serve as Solicitor General of the United States -- the DOJ Attorney responsible for arguments in front of the Supreme Court -- received the votes of 1 out of every 17 NY Dems who cast ballots for a new Representative in their district yesterday, finishing in 5th place.
He spent $6.65 million and received 1,050 fewer votes than 4th place finisher Nina Schwalbe.
She spent $457,000.
They both finished behind Jack Schlossberg, reported by many in the media to be mentally ill.
If Conway had won or come close, at least some Never Trumpers might have made it official and tried grifting as Democrats. But now that it's proven that no one likes a traitor, the NeverTrumpers will have no choice but continuing their grift of pretending to be "Republicans."
Here's what USAID money was actually paying for:
Catherine Herridge @C__HerridgeSTUNNING: USAID + THE BIG GRIFT
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.
Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ's Yemen affiliate.
Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ's cause.
Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.
This 1997 Aulaqi mugshot is for soliciting prostitutes.
Good catch first flagged Feb. 2025 via @browne_pamela
@intelwire
A San Francisco socialist politician took a three month "mental health leave" because she just can't even right now.
A lefty member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who abruptly went on leave at the end of March melted into tears as she explained to her constituents Tuesday why she needed the mental health break.Supervisor Jacqueline Fielder is set to return to work next Monday, after her absence earlier in the year fueled theories on what motivated the first-term lawmaker to go missing from City Hall meetings for weeks before checking herself in for treatment.
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In a Tuesday post on Instagram, Fielder said "I left the work I love so much not because I wanted to but because my mental health demanded it."
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She seemed to attribute her crisis to the pressures of being a politician."At the end of the day I'm a human being and a renter, a working class candidate that is now a supervisor," Fielder said, "but I was going 100 miles a hour since early 2023 when I started the campaign for supervisor, and being a grassroots candidate is a lot of elbow grease."
Her medical leave made her realize that she has colleagues and others who share the weight of representing the city with her, she said.
"I'm coming clear-eyed and grounded and eager to serve in this role again," said Fielder, who ended her note on encouraging others dealing with mental health issues to also seek help or take a leave.
Here's a short video of this lefty basketcase.
One of the many rioters in NYC after the Knicks' win dumped and then stole a trash can.
Turns out she is -- or was -- a DEI executive at JP Morgan.
A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City's Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.
Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Sources say the bank looked into the incident after the video surfaced and a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told The Post, "This employee is no longer with the company."
Báez could not be reached by The Post for comment Tuesday. Sources noted she had attended the parade in her personal capacity.
I hate rioters, but I also understand that people with low IQ and poor impulse control can get "swept up" in them. I wouldn't be gleeful about her being fired except for the fact that, let's face it, she never should have had a job in the first place.
So nothing lost.
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Texas, DOJ Sign Joint Decree Declaring Biden's Prior "Backdoor Amnesty" to be Illegal and Void
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You of course know of the Democrats' favorite strategy of sue-and-settle, whereby a friendly third party is invited to sue the Democrat government. The Democrat government gives up the case and agrees to a "consent decree" resolving the issue -- and this resolution has the force of law, despite no legislature having ever voted for it.
Well, two can play at that game. Steven Miller's organization America First Legal joined with Texas to sue the DOJ over a Biden-era policy allowing immigration judges to put immigration cases on "administrative pause," forever. Biden allowed judges who would otherwise be required to deport illegal aliens to instead "pause" the case against them, effectively granting them amnesty (and even the "right to work").
Technically, they're still illegal aliens in the middle of deportation proceedings but the reality is that those proceedings are now "paused," forever. So every illegal alien getting his deportation "paused" is effectively granted backdoor amnesty that Congress never even contemplated, let alone voted to make law.
Texas and Steven Miller sued the DOJ over this blatant end-run around the actual law of the land and the DOJ said "Fair" and signed a consent decree admitting this was always illegal and now is forbidden.
Judge blocks Biden-era immigration rule hours after Texas AG and Stephen Miller's group sued DOJ
On Monday, Ken Paxton's office asked the judge to block the rule, a request the federal agency then agreed with. The suit echoes a similar move in 2025 that killed a 24-year-old state tuition law.
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule on Monday that allowed immigration judges to indefinitely close a deportation case against immigrants on the same day Texas sued to stop the rule.The rule, which was adopted in 2024, allowed immigration judges to close a deportation case after hearing arguments from the federal government and the immigrant in deportation proceedings, especially if the person could qualify for a benefit that allows them to stay in the country legally.
But on Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas in Wichita Falls to block the rule with U.S. Judge Reed O'Connor, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice was also co-filed by America First Legal Foundation, an organization founded by Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Trump who has focused on ways to limit both legal and illegal immigration to the country. America First Legal Foundation also previously filed various lawsuits representing Paxton against the Biden administration's immigration policies, which helped derail President Biden's immigration agenda in his lone term.
In this latest complaint, Paxton's office said in the 43-page lawsuit that the Biden-era rule "effectively grant(s) indefinite amnesty to aliens illegally present in this country."
Lawsuits usually take several months to years to settle, but in this case O'Connor ruled late on Monday in favor of Texas after the Department of Justice filed its response saying it agreed with Paxton's office.
Before this lawless action by Biden, 130,000 cases were paused. After Biden gave his leftwing immigration judges permission to dole out personalized amnesty, the number of "paused" cases "skyrocketed" (as the judgment says) to 1.08 million. And then, a year later, it doubled again to 2.2 million.
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Feds Announce Arrests of 455 Defendants Responsible for $6.5 Billion in Fraud Looted from the American People
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nick shirley @nickshirleyyJun 23
"The fraud is not real"
Today: 455 fraudsters charged, $6.5 billion exposed
*silent*
Society will never improve until people and the media can look at issues with a logical perspective of: Is this right or wrong to be happening?
EXPOSE IT ALL
Think of how many trillions have been stolen -- or allowed to be pilfered by Democrats.
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 455 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $6.5 Billion in Alleged Fraud
The Justice Department today announced the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims and significant patient harm, including death.Today's Takedown represents a new era in federal, state, and international cooperation to combat health care fraud: cases in 56 federal districts and 45 U.S. states and territories, with 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units participating, the most in Department history.
In addition, unprecedented international cooperation over the two-week Takedown resulted in the apprehension and return to the United States of the following health care fraudsters: one defendant in Kyrenia in connection with an over $3.7 billion scheme; two defendants in Estonia in connection with a previously charged $10.6 billion scheme; and, in the Philippines, one of FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters in connection with a previously-charged $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme.
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Today's coordinated enforcement action involves a whole-of-government approach, including:
* Actions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend 1,079 providers and revoke billing privileges for 1,403 providers.
* 48 Civil Monetary Payment settlements amounting to over $73 million, over 1,400 provider exclusions, and 25 actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("HHS-OIG") under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law seeking more than $10 billion in payments to the Medicare Trust Fund from payments that CMS caught and suspended before the funds were paid to the fraudulent providers.
* Civil charges against 13 defendants for $14.8 million in health care fraud schemes, as well as civil settlements with 31 defendants totaling $23 million.
* 928 administrative cases by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seeking the revocation of authority to handle and/or prescribe controlled substances since October 1, 2025.
Fake wound graft treatments were a big source of fraud:
Charges were filed against 11 defendants, including a company executive and eight medical professionals, across six districts in connection with billions of dollars in fraudulent claims for amniotic wound allografts. In the District of Arizona, the Vice President of Sales for a company that sold allografts was charged in a nationwide illegal kickback and health care fraud scheme. From approximately December 2021 through June 2024, providers billed Medicare over $4 billion for this company's allografts, resulting in over $2 billion in payments. This significant spike in allograft billings was alleged to have been driven not by medical necessity, but by a kickback scheme that generated substantial profit margins and lavish lifestyles for marketers and providers who participated. The company did not manufacture allografts and instead acquired allografts from tissue banks and relabeled them for sale at a 2,000% mark-up, charging up to $1,450 per square centimeter. The defendant is alleged to have paid illegal kickbacks of approximately 40% of that amount, allowing marketers and medical providers to pocket approximately $500-600 per square centimeter.
The hive of fake hospices in California were raided:
In the Central District of California, charges were brought against a hospice owner and two marketers for a $27.7 million Medicare fraud scheme in which the hospice owner allegedly tried to avoid detection through a scheme to purchase information of the recently deceased from a funeral home employee. The defendant was allegedly carrying out a hospice fraud scheme in which he fraudulently enrolled patients who were not terminally ill.Concerned that Medicare and law enforcement used data analytics to monitor the percentage of patients discharged from hospice alive (an indicator of fraud), the hospice owner allegedly paid illegal kickbacks of $1,000 to $3,000 per person to a funeral home employee in exchange for deceased Medicare beneficiaries' information. The defendant then allegedly billed Medicare for a few days of hospice services for these recently-deceased individuals who hadn't received hospice care and created fake, back-dated medical records claiming that the beneficiaries had been seen by a physician, thereby allegedly seeking to deceive Medicare by reducing his outlier data metrics.
And of course the fake "adult day care" scam:
In the Eastern District of New York, charges were brought against eight defendants for their role in a $38 million fraud on New York Medicaid for social adult day care services that were medically unnecessary, procured by kickbacks to marketers and beneficiaries, and never provided. Although the permitted occupancy of the social adult day cares (shown below) was only 30 people, the defendants fraudulently submitted claims for services provided to hundreds of beneficiaries per day.
One of Trump's bugaboos is opioid distribution. 28 licensed medical professionals, mostly doctors, were charged in illegally writing opioid prescriptions.
...The defendants allegedly operated a voicemail refill line that allowed patients to request and receive refills of Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions--though some patients who used the refill line to obtain Schedule II controlled substances from the defendants suffered drug overdoses and died, the defendants continued to operate the refill line to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances without interacting with patients.
F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli
@USAttyEssayliToday, under the leadership of @VP Vance and @DAGToddBlanche, we are announcing the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown involving 455 defendants charged in connection with $6.5+ BILLION in alleged fraud.
One person arrested by @FBILosAngeles in the Central District of California was Jeannie Choi, 57, of Torrance.
She is charged along with two other defendants--Oren David Shachar, 59, of Van Nuys, and Abraham Shin, 66, of Corona--with a hospice fraud scheme that caused Medicare to pay nearly $27 million in fraudulent claims.
Shachar allegedly exploited deceased Medicare beneficiaries by collecting their personal health data and medical records through meetings with surviving relatives. He then directed staff to use those identities to create false, backdated hospice records claiming evaluations and terminal certifications that never occurred.
Shachar paid Choi and Shin between $1,000 and $3,000 for each deceased beneficiary fraudulently enrolled in hospice care.
Shachar and Shin have pleaded not guilty and have a trial scheduled for August 11. Choi is expected to make her initial appearance and be arraigned today in Los Angeles federal court.
Public health programs intended to help the elderly and sick are being undermined by fraudsters, threatening the financial stability of these programs for all Americans. We are committed to rooting out the rampant fraud that has plagued our institutions for too long.
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