France Races Towards a Debt Crisis as the Nation Continues to be Besieged by Violent Foreigners Demanding to be Paid for Peace

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Before getting to that, let me offer a completely-unrelated bit of history. Via Google AI:

Danegeld was a tax raised in Anglo-Saxon England and Francia from the 9th to the 11th centuries to pay tribute or protection money to Viking raiders to stop them from ravaging the land.

Key Historical Facts

• Meaning: The word comes from Old English, literally translating to "Dane payment" or "Dane yield".

• Early Tribute vs. Army Tax: Originally known as gafol when paid directly to Vikings as bribes, it later evolved into a kingdom-wide land tax called heregeld (army tax) used to fund a standing defensive force or pay mercenary armies.

• King Æthelred the Unready: The practice became most prominent during the reign of King Æthelred II (978--1016), who paid massive quantities of silver pennies (such as £10,000 in 991 CE and up to £48,000 in 1012 CE) to buy off invaders

With that irrelevant, off-topic mention of large bribes paid to violent invaders to not loot and pillage and kill them, let's turn to a completely different subject.

France's, uh, guests are demanding, supposedly, more "resources" for schools.

This demand comes at a very bad time. Because France's dysfunctional government is made up of alleged "centrists" and even some "conservatives" in a coalition with socialists and communists, no one can agree on a budget.

So they just keep borrowing money, growing the deficit more and more.

You can only borrow freely until the markets begin to doubt you can ever repay your debts. And then the cost of borrowing rises, and you have to borrow more and more at higher and higher interest rates until it becomes impossible to repay the debt and then people stop lending you money completely, and your finances collapse.

France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt.

For most of the past decade, lending money to France was considered almost as safe as lending money to Germany.

That belief is now breaking down, and it is happening fast.

Last week, investors demanded up to 5% a year to lend to the French government for 10 years. France had not faced borrowing costs that high on its 10-year bonds since July 2002.

The extra return investors want to hold French debt instead of German debt rose to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis of 2011-2012.

France now pays more to borrow than Italy and Greece, two countries that sat at the centre of that crisis.

This matters well beyond the bond market. Government borrowing costs influence the rates on mortgages and business loans and the interest bill that every French taxpayer ends up covering.

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Beyond the rise in France's 10-year bond yield to 5%, its widening gap with Germany shows investors are increasingly concerned about French debt.

Its premium over Germany's equivalent Bund reached 152 basis points, or 1.52 percentage points, returning to levels associated with the 2011 eurozone crisis.

Intesa Sanpaolo strategists, led by Gian Marco Salcioli, argue that the speed of the move matters more than its level.

When yields jump this fast, they say, the fear shifts from the price of borrowing to the risk of not being repaid in full, and France is the clearest example.

"The move tends to transform rate risk into something broader, first and foremost credit risk," Salcioli said in a note to clients.

Díaz-Alvarez said this was "the largest weekly widening in said spread in seventeen years."

Politico 4 Kidz, Axios:

France is dealing with a major debt crisis and social unrest ahead of its presidential election next year.

Why it matters: Worries are rising about contagion in Europe and beyond, and the situation is drawing comparisons with the sovereign debt crisis that rocked the European Union in the 2010s.

"Government bond yields in France are spiraling out of control. Contagion to the rest of high-debt Europe is unfolding rapidly," Brookings' Robin Brooks wrote recently.

Where it stands: Yields on government debt are rising across Europe and in the U.S., but the situation in France is worse.

Investors are demanding higher yields to hold French debt, compared with bonds from Germany, which are seen as a safer alternative.
On Friday, the difference, or spread, between the two countries' bond yields, was the widest it has been since the debt crisis.

The spread is widening due to "higher sovereign default risk in France," Macquarie's Thierry Wizman wrote in a note Thursday titled: "Are the French Toast?"

Meanwhile, the foreign guests continue ravaging the countryside while demanding the peasants pay them more money in exchange for a few months of pillage-free "peace."

Cornell Sexual Assault Survivor: This Whore Sodomized Me While I Was Too Drunk to Consent

—Disinformation Expert Ace

By "sodomized," he means she gave him a blow-jay while he was drunk and passing in and out of sleep. Therefore, by the credibly-accused rapist's own argument, he was unable to consent to such an act and she raped him by mouth.

And this is not a sex act you can force on someone except through actual force -- holding a knife to their neck, for example. Which is not what she claims happened. She claims she had just been too drunk to give "real" consent.

And oral sodomy is an act, I'm told, which requires considerable effort and seems unlikely to be performed by someone too drunk to even form the mental state of consent.

Why is there no justice for this sexual assault survivor?

'Cornell 7' frat bro claimed accuser 'sodomized' him and that school didn't care he was sex-assault 'survivor:' report

The frat brother at the center of the "Cornell 7" gang-rape allegations claimed to campus officials that the accuser "sodomized" him -- and complained nobody cared he was a sex-assault "survivor," an explosive new report says.

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Ingalls -- the Chi Phi brother who the accuser said sparked her alleged 2024 gang rape -- wrote to campus officials in a seething email that the Ivy League school was guilty of "gender discrimination" and "entrapment" as it conducted its investigation into him and six of his fraternity brothers over the alleged horror.

"You received information that I was sodomized by her while I was incapacitated back in November, and you never once thought to alert me of my rights under these procedures as a survivor of this assault?" Ingalls said in the February 2025 missive to Cornell's Title IX office and obtained by ABC.

"The very fact that I had to bring this to your attention now in February confirms my worst fears: that this process is rolled [sic] with gender discrimination," he said.

The email came three months after the woman, only identified as Jane Doe in her civil lawsuit involving the allegations, accused Ingalls of inviting her to his frat house and plying her with drugs and alcohol, then propositioning her for a three-way that quickly escalated into rounds of fraternity brothers stopping into the room to join in on the sex.

Doe insisted she was too intoxicated to consent and called the incident rape -- something she also told Campus police in 2024, about three weeks after the alleged attack.

But Ingalls was also drinking and drugging heavily that night -- with a 2024 statement from Doe describing how he kept falling asleep during the encounter before waking up to rejoin the alleged assault.

After Doe made rape claims against him, Ingalls tried to frame his own intoxication to suggest that he was the victim that night, Cornell investigative documents showed.

I mean, why isn't he?

Heather MacDonald wants to know why, if there is a fraternity house rape crisis, do women keep going to fraternity houses?

It's as if they know this whole "crisis" is made-up ideological horseshit.

"Believe survivors," the campus activists and leftist politicians admonish us.

But which "survivor" statements are we supposed to believe?

In the weeks following her alleged gang rape at a Cornell University frat house in 2024, "Jane Doe" was unequivocal: She had not been raped.

A day after the incident, she texted one of her sex partners, saying "non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly I really liked being with u" -- and she suggested another get-together.

The next day she texted him again, including an affectionate note: "I luv you king."

She angled herself an invitation to the annual Halloween party at the frat where she was allegedly raped.

Up to that point, Doe's statements and her behavior had been consistent: She considered herself a voluntary participant in group sex, after she'd deliberately downed 10 shots of alcohol.

After the alleged assault she solicited further contact with her rapists, considered them her friends and sought to revisit the crime scene for more partying.

For an actual rape victim, such behavior is inconceivable.

But the rumor mill was circulating: Jane Doe's sorority mentor told her that people were shaming her as a "slut."

The frat's president disinvited her from the party "for her own good."

Doe was furious.

That's when she played the assault card, nearly a month after the incident.

Yet the campus rape industry cannot tolerate Doe's earlier honest self-evaluation.

If females take full responsibility for their own behavior, the lucrative, bureaucracy-bloated grift will come crashing down.

So the college assault complex has a surefire method for erasing such moments of clarity: Don't believe those "survivor" statements.

Females are only credible as purported victims.

As NPR put it last week, a victim's initial statements "often cannot be taken at face value" because they are the product of her "trauma."

That means the only statements from a "survivor" that can be believed are statements claiming that she has been raped.

College rape allegations, in other words, are unfalsifiable: Heads the campus rape complex wins, tails the truth loses.

In fact, the seminal surveys of campus rape that jump-started the assault complex depended on this double standard.

Go back to the 1987 study that produced the fantastical statistic that up to one in four co-eds will be sexually assaulted in college.

To generate that finding, academic rape researchers did not ask "survivors" outright if they had been raped -- because doing so yielded disappointing results.

Rather, the researchers decided whether or not an alleged victim had been raped, based on her description of her (overwhelmingly consensual) sexual encounters.

When asked directly, 73% of the survey respondents whom the academics classified as victims said they had not been raped at all.

The academics chose not to believe them.

Even more damningly for the reliability of this research, 42% of the college women whom the researchers classified as sexual-assault victims went back for more sex with their putative assailants.

Again, inconceivable behavior after being subjected to the second worst crime, after murder, a female can experience.

Subsequent feminist rape studies have repeated this same discrepancy between the researchers' results and the subjects' own views.

Wow: New text drops showing "Jane Doe" was a willing participant in the orgy and was critical of those who thought she was a slut.

She says she's catching a lot of "heat" from "the Phi Phi girls" -- sorority girls were calling her a slut.

"I don't think we should feel any shame... our body our choice."

And so, the accusations began, almost a month after the event.

This is a real rape victim you guys.

Citing Microsoft's Practice of Laying Off American Workers and Replacing Them With H-1B "Indentured Servants," Trump Suspends Microsoft's Ability to Use the Green Card Program

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Niiiiice.

Should have been done long ago.

Hit Disney next.

The terrorist-aligned AP is sad.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas as it accuses the company of fraud.

Supporters of the Republican president have long argued that various programs like the one Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of abusing essentially empower American companies to recruit foreign workers for jobs that end up undercutting Americans. In a wide-ranging announcement Thursday, Vance and other top administration officials also called out universities over their use of J-1 visas for international students and information technology outsourcing firms.

The announcement came hours before Trump was scheduled to award the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, part of an event at which he is granting some of the nation's most prestigious science and technology awards to his tech billionaire allies.

Thank you for that completely irrelevant Democrat party attack line in the middle of the article, AP.

Vance said the program from which Microsoft is being suspended requires companies to advertise jobs in America before applying to the Department of Labor to show they need to give a foreign worker a green card because of a lack of American workers.

"They'll put an advertisement in a small-town newspaper. They'll go out there and say that 'We have advertised for a position with our company, and nobody is responding to it.' And they will use that lack of response to then go and replace American workers with what is effectively foreign indentured servants," Vance said. "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has used this system more than Microsoft."

Microsoft is No. 5 among U.S. employers when it comes to using H-1B visas, according data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Amazon is No. 1.

Um, the "system" he's referring to includes fraudulently "advertising" for positions where the advertisement is intended to never be seen. So your attempt to "correct the record" with another Democrat party attack line fails.

Now for some more Democrat-Corporate Party messaging:

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Doug Rand, a former senior adviser at USCIS during the Biden administration, called Vance's announcement "incoherent."

"If the Trump administration were truly concerned that H-1B workers are 'indentured servants,' then the last thing they would do is block companies from helping their own H-1B workers get green cards," he said. "Once you have a green card, you're no longer dependent on your employer for your immigration status -- you're a permanent resident who can change jobs and negotiate higher wages without fear."

These are just the figures for a single year:

Vance said Microsoft last year laid off 6,000 American workers but also obtained 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards.

"If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said in a White House news conference announcing the decision. "Our message to Microsoft is: You're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers."

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The H-1B program has long been a target of Trump supporters who say that the program undercuts American workers and is rife with abuse.

H-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill. Technology companies are the biggest users, with nearly three-quarters of approvals going to workers from India.

Trump also moved to punish so-called universities for abusing the system. Foreigners come over to study at universities and work at jobs during and after their study. Trump wants colleges to pay $70,000 per student to cover the costs to the government of this pain in the ass.

And also, cut down on abuse -- I imagine that many foreigners are coming just to take a couple of credits per semester, using the program as a backdoor to scam what is effectively another H-1B visa.

Rubio Delivers Speech at the Acropolis, Rallying the West to Embrace Western Values and Western Roots

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It seems strange that anyone would even have to advocate for this.

Ben Whedon for Just the News:

Rubio's Acropolis speech pitches Trumpism as a return to Western roots

Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a speech Wednesday at the Acropolis in Athens cast the Trump administration and its broader movement as a conscious revival of the foundational principles of Western Civilization and urged Europe to follow its lead.

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Rubio's decision to deliver the speech against the backdrop of the Acropolis was deliberate. The ancient site is perhaps the most widely known monument associated with classical Greece, which scholars have traditionally viewed as the progenitor of what is now called "the West."

"For thousands of years, the civilizations that built what stands behind me have captivated the imagination of the Western world," Rubio opened. "The things we owe to this place as Americans -- and as Westerners -- are actually far, far deeper. What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man."

But Rubio went beyond romantic invocations of the ancient past and insisted that the modern Trump administration was working to advance a classically-influenced theory of politics. He further spelled out a tangible theory of statecraft on the world stage and encouraged European nations to adopt it themselves.

"For all their lofty ideals, the ancient Greeks were not naive," Rubio argued. "They understood that nations have interests. They understood that statecraft requires prudence and diplomacy. But they also understood that it requires the ability to wield force with prudence when diplomacy fails."

"They understood that power requires not only having the means to defend yourself, it requires the credibility that you are willing to use it. This is the classical understanding of politics and of statecraft that the Trump administration hopes to reclaim, reclaim not just for our country, but for the whole of our civilization. We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago."

Rubio then went further to explain how to weave those ideas into the political landscape of a modern, increasingly international world, saying "[n]ational interests did not vanish in the face of international institutions" and that nations still faced threats that required them to respond.

He stated that the path forward was to rebuild international institutions while "understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them, but is to defend them, and that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests."

That position seems to come as a rebuke of globalism, cultural uniformity, and mass immigration on a large scale as many Western nations shift toward the political right in response to the influx of non-Western immigrants.

The full speech is here.

The speech begins with a narrative about the rise of democracy and western values. I'll skip past that to get to the part where he begins to make his argument.

This passage is about the need for actual competition in a society, and standards of excellence, lest that society devolve into shapeless, useless communism.

For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit of excellence was the very principle of man's existence. They organized all of civic life around contest, ambition, competition: in philosophy and poetry, in sculpture and drama, in athletics and art, in war and statecraft. The classical Greek city was an arena for great men to test and prove themselves, to hone their potential through perpetual struggle -- to be the best, the strongest, the most beautiful, straining to inch ever closer to perfection.

Now I know that to modern ears, what I just described, this way of life, may sound odd; it may even sound cruel. The ideal of many ideologies in our time has, frankly, become a world of perfect safety, devoid of risk or failure, with neither the glory of victory nor the shame of defeat. Too often these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure no one will lose; we preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average, the ordinary, the mediocre.

The men who made the Parthenon, they built upwards. They held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life was to surpass all others, to strive to be the best in all things. The ancient Greek city-states were filled. They were filled with intense passion and rivalry and faction and conflict. But from that constant struggle for distinction -- from that came the great flowering of art and philosophy and political and intellectual energy that would transform a collective of Mediterranean cities into the birthplace of the greatest civilization in the world.

The thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it -- the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride -- is the heart of great civilization. And without it? Without it, nations lose their will to fight, the will to strive, the will to survive.

Today, too much of the West has forgotten this quality. Over time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world. Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. We no longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness.

The word "nationalism" became a dirty word. And so we tore down our monuments; we condemned our own history. And in too many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process, we opened our borders and outsourced our industry, and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.

And with every passing year, we seemed to outsource more of our sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control.

But others were all too happy to fill the vacuum that we left -- the vacuum left behind by our weakness. And as the West's confidence faltered, its adversaries and its rivals only grew more assertive, building up their own wealth and their own power in our stead.

And now, today, we find ourselves at a crossroads. Because the next decade and the decisions we make will write the story of the next century. The course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline. We will either choose to act now or lose the choice to act at all.

Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice. We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power: to take back control of our critical supply chains, to reindustrialize our economy, to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future.

We choose to reach for new frontiers: in advanced manufacturing and super intelligence; in drones, weapons, and warfare; in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain of human possibility. To unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon and launch a new age of exploration in space.

That's a refutation of fake, communist "equity," in which everyone is a winner and everyone gets a participation award, and of course no one accomplishes or produces anything because there's no benefit to doing so.

He also attacks transnationalist "Davosism," the socialist dream of all national borders melting away into one gigantic ultrastate.

Now it's has become fashionable today to believe that enlightened foreign policy means prioritizing the global community over one's own people. And I think here, too, we have much to learn from the men of ancient Greece because they knew that there was nothing selfish or wrong about loyalty to your nation, nor anything selfish or wrong about fighting to defend its interests above all else.

They believed -- fiercely -- in the ideal of the great man: the exceptional individual who obtains immortality through his own deeds. But they believed that glory and fame, those things were won through striving, sacrificing and achieving greatly for something larger than yourself. The recurring hero of the ancient Greek world was the man who was willing to pay any cost for a cause worthy of his loyalty.

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These -- these are the qualities that would shape the Western moral imagination. From the Christian martyr who refused to betray his faith to the patriot who gave his life for his country; from Saint Thomas More to the Battle of the Alamo, running through the immortal closing words of the Declaration of Independence of the United States which says, "We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

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This is wholly different from what we see, even now, for example from fanatics like the radical mullahs of Iran, whose cult of death hails child suicide bombers as national heroes, and portrays martyrdom as an end to itself.

Our heroes -- our heroes may be willing to die for their cause; but our heroes do not worship death. It is precisely because we value life that we come to recognize the heroism in those who would sooner sacrifice it than to betray their principles. Now, we take the West's conception of these things -- heroism, honor, duty -- we take these things for granted. We assume that these somehow are universal to all people in all times and in all places. They are not. They are the product of a distinct character, a distinct character which arose here and shaped the whole story of the civilization that came after it. A civilization that we must fight to defend today with the same passion as our forefathers did.

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The greatest Americans of every generation have carried the unmistakable features of their forefathers -- born in Athens, formed by Rome, baptized in Christendom, hardened in the furnace of medieval Europe, endowed with the English genius for liberty, and then carried across the Atlantic to be reborn on the shores of a new world.

Together, we must now rediscover that spirit. We are at an inflection point -- an inflection point not only in the history of my nation, but an inflection point in the whole of our civilization.

The threats we face today are every bit as real as they were on the dramatic stage of antiquity.

National interests did not vanish in the face of international institutions. War did not disappear simply because we preferred peace. Other states continued to arm, to seek influence, to compete for territory, and technology, and resources, and markets, and energy, and power.

And now, there is war again. There is new competition between great powers again. There is vulnerability, aggression, terrorism, a whole universe of new threats and attacks again.

And so we must rebuild our institutions and our alliances to face these threats together -- understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them; it is to defend them. And that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests.

An excerpt:

Don't Call Them Somali Gangs. Call Them Well-Armed Doctors and Engineers.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Somali community, and the left generally, continues to rage that Somali gang members are called Somali gang members. They want them called "American" gang members. And they insist that the problem isn't Somalis, it's just guns.

FoxNews:

Violence tied to Somali-American gangs in the Twin Cities metro erupted in recent days, with law enforcement recovering nearly 100 casings after a gunfight captured on a resident's surveillance camera -- as officials warn they need help to contain the problem before it escalates.

Video of that shootout below. When you have a Somali tribal beef that involves shooting one hundred bullets next to suburban bedrooms where children are sleeping, people's indulgence of endless migrant crime begins to run out.

The warning follows a burst of violence across several Twin Cities suburbs -- including a Bloomington shootout that left nearly 100 shell casings and another shooting in Eden Prairie -- as law enforcement says the incidents have entered a retaliation cycle and officials race to disrupt the groups before the violence evolves into more entrenched drug- and money-driven crime.

"We have the opportunity to fix it," Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said of a surge in Somali gang violence across the Twin Cities -- but warned authorities could be facing a much more difficult problem if the groups escalate the resources they use.

"It's early. Once they evolve into drugs, we're in trouble. Once they evolve into money, more money, we are in trouble," said Fletcher, whose county is anchored by St. Paul and runs along the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Fletcher estimated that about 300 juveniles are involved and said part of the problem lies in the Somali gangs' relative novelty to local law enforcement and what he characterized as a reluctance to aggressively prosecute offenders across the river in Minneapolis.

"We need more people focused on this problem. Because 50 kids in this 300 need to go to jail, 25 need to be prosecuted by the feds for RICO and and another 25 need to be prosecuted at the local level. Take 50 of the most active out of the mix, and we will see dramatic changes," he said.

But the lesbian tank operating as Hennepin County's DA says that we shouldn't resort to simplistic answers like putting criminals in jail.

He ascribed some of the reticence to neighboring Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, saying she has not been sufficiently "aggressive" in prosecuting such offenders.

"One of the misconceptions is that somehow when you prosecute people, put them in jail that you're destituting them to some terrible life. This is how kids get corrected," he said.

Moriarty's office pushed back on the assertion, with spokesman Daniel Borgertpoepping saying the neighboring communities are "looking for solutions" and that Moriarty's prosecutors "communicate daily with law enforcement [and] will participate in any group that moves us toward sustainable public safety."

"The way we approach prosecution of violent crime is consistent regardless of the race or ethnicity of those involved," Borgertpoepping said.

Uh-huh.

Citizens know this is bullshit. One railed against the endless flow of obfuscatory left-wing bullshit to hide the real problem.

"We don't need more virtue signaling, yard signs, DEI initiatives, or community conversations that lead to nowhere. We need competent government, accountability, and safe neighborhoods," he said, also blaming Moriarty's office for "refu[sing]" to properly address the issue.

He also suggested officials have sometimes generalized the ethnicity of those involved, remarking that it "feels more comfortable for some people to say East African. I don't even know that that's a fair term, because 98% of these gang members are Somalians."

Yesterday I mentioned a police chief stating that these gangland shootouts aren't even about money or drugs (yet). They're just well-off teenagers who are devolving to the Somali preference for internecine warfare.

In nearby Bloomington, where about 100 casings were recovered from the scene of a late-night firefight that appeared to involve automatic weapons, Police Chief Booker Hodges took a confrontational tack toward the suspects who remained at large -- while warning they do not fit the typical stereotype of gang members.

"They're coming from two parent homes, living in apartment buildings with $3,500 a month rent, driving Beamers and Mercedes. They're not dealing with money. There's no drugs in the house. They're purchasing legal firearms," he said.

Michele Tafoya, running to be a senator from Minnesota, is campaigning on the issue.

The Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota is sounding the alarm about crime levels in the state amid a wave of Somali gang violence and a foiled terror plot by an American born to Somali parents.

"I hear a lot of concerns from Minnesotans on the campaign trail about crime, and no matter what form that crime takes, Minnesotans know that they feel under a level of threat that has increased lately here in Minnesota, and in the last week and just today," Michele Tafoya, running as a Republican against Minnesota's Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "We saw the arrest of an 18-year-old Somali American citizen to Somali parents arrested for a terrorist -- planning a terrorist attack -- at the Mall of America during a Hmong celebration."

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The FBI alleges Mohamud had digital communications beginning in December 2024 with a confidential human source he believed was a member of al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist terror group and offshoot of ISIS.

"I can't wait until I kill kuffar man. October 24 is the day insha Allah," one of the messages said. "Kuffar" is a term used to refer to non-Muslims, and "insha Allah" means "God willing."

The Hmong people are indigenous to Southeast Asia and boast a relatively large population in the United States.

"We have a large Hmong community here in Minnesota as well, and he basically stated that he wanted to take out anyone who was not a Muslim. He also noted that the Mall of America is owned by people who are Jewish," Tafoya said. "And so this was his plan, and thank goodness for the FBI in Minneapolis here and local law enforcement for catching onto this plan and derailing it well in advance. This is a guy who has pledged his allegiance to ISIS. Again, he is of Somalian descent and terror is alive and well and thank God we averted this massive crisis."

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"And we have had Somali-related -- Somali gang-related -- attacks here locally in our suburbs at a high school football game during homecoming, at a Catholic Church parking lot, at a gas station, and this is all just really started to peak here in the last couple of weeks. So it's undeniable. Our law enforcement here are calling it out as the product of Somali gang violence, and we've got to identify it, and we have to find a way to deal with it."

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"I don't know how you can legislate that assimilation, but we simply cannot tolerate the level of crime," she said. "We've seen it with fraud here. It's in the paperwork that the Feeding Our Future fraud was largely ... in terms of percentage, probably 98%, Somali people involved in that fraud," she said.

"What I do think is any guests of this country who commits crime should be sent home with no pathway back," she said. "If you're coming here to be a guest of this country or to live in this country you cannot break our laws, and if you're an American, you cannot break our laws, period."

Below, the shootout caught on surveillance cameras.

Imagine living with this.

El-Sayed, Ready to Campaign with Shit-Fingered Midas, Previously Said Obama Was a Failed President Who Left the Country Off Worse Than When He Found It

—Disinformation Expert Ace

We have something in common with Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed: We agree that the SCOAMF was a disaster.

'The list of his failures goes on': El-Sayed's Obama criticism resurfaced ahead of campaign rally

Former President Barack Obama is set to hit the campaign trail for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed later this month, years after El-Sayed criticized Obama's presidency at times as a failure, saying it left the country no "better off."

In comments reviewed by CNN's KFile from Obama's 2012 reelection through the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, El-Sayed faulted him for perpetuating war, eroding civil liberties, overseeing record deportations and preserving economic and healthcare systems that he said favored corporations over ordinary people.

LOL. The "Deporter in Chief" fake-insult was contrived by Obama in league with open borders advocates to claim he was a super-deporter when in fact he threw the borders wide open. He didn't deport people -- he pulled another statistical sleight-of-hand and redefined persons merely turned away at the border as "deported," which they had never before been counted. This allowed him to greatly inflate the number of "deportations" he was conducting and thus claim to be a border defender instead of what he was, a border eraser.

He also dismissed the Affordable Care Act as insufficient and argued that Obama's incremental approach helped create the conditions for Donald Trump's rise.

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El-Sayed's criticism of Obama was often searing.

In a 2012 HuffPost essay written shortly after Obama won reelection, El-Sayed -- who said he had voted for him -- accused the president of failing to deliver the "hope and change" that defined his 2008 campaign. "This leader has perpetuated war, violated our civil liberties, deported more people from our shores than any other president before him, and the list of his failures goes on," he wrote.

Obama's tepid prosecution of the War on Terror was too much for this proud and arrogant terrorist spokesman.

"That memory will serve not as a reminder of the history we made that night -- but of the silly emotions of a naïve young man who didn't understand that hope and change required more than flowery prose and a winning smile," El-Sayed wrote of Obama's first election. "I have little hope because there has been less change."

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El-Sayed also took shots at the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature accomplishment and legacy across his two terms, calling it a "watered-down reform that kowtows to the interests of healthcare lobbies."

Full communism or bust.

El-Sayed said that Obama's fake recovery -- propagndized with another sleight-of-hand redefinition, changing "jobs created" to "jobs saved or created" -- was in fact fake.

"There's frustration [among voters] with the fact that they're being told by elites that their economy is back and that they should just be happy," El-Sayed said. "But it's not. Frankly, the economic comeback has largely benefited corporations and has not really benefited people like them."

This is a story that Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed -- by the way, he told critics to "keep my name out of your mouth," so f*** you, Vain Terrorist, I'll use your full name every time I refer to you -- does not need. Black voters are already wary of him.

A little good news, maybe: Early voting has started in Michigan and ballots from Trump counties are coming in at a faster rate than they have before.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

Cutting taxes is always...ALWAYS...a good idea. The leviathan needs to be fed to live, and cutting taxes decreases what our feckless and cowardly legislators can spend.

Except...it doesn't. they are happy to spend money we don't have, simply by borrowing from the world. And $40 trillion later, that is one hell of a bill coming due.

Trump Says He Is Considering Suspending Federal Gas Tax

In an Oct. 5 post on Truth Social, he said, "What's driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now on an almost daily basis, but the word, 'Refineries,' where Russia's are being blown up by Ukraine, and where ours are being closed up, in Blue States, like California."

As for the refinery crisis in America? Yes, and we should have been building them for the last 40 years, but thanks to the watermelons in almost every state, and onerous and restrictive federal regulation, building a refinery is a huge undertaking. California has been closing refineries since the 1980s, and America has lost about 10 refineries just this decade!

Perhaps President Trump can nationalize the recently closed refineries in California in the interest of national security. And fast-track the expansion of existing refineries and the building of more in red states that are amenable to high-paying jobs.

To be fair, American refineries have become more efficient and have expanded production significantly, so the raw number looks worse than it is. But spreading production around the country is a good idea, simply to make sabotage of our refining capacity a more complex operation.

And of course the delightful bonus of stick a thumb in the eye of the rabid environmentalist left never gets old!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Cobbler Studying Doll's Shoe
Norman Rockwell

The Morning Report — 10/8 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Let me say that as repulsive and distasteful as I find the likes of Bernie Sanders, Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez and of course the Mamdani/El sayeds, I know they're coming for my throat and my bank account. So I can deal with knife-wielding terrorists and tyrants heading straight at me. But some traitorous scumbag eager to plunge a shiv in my back is something else entirely. So, with that be it resolved that Tom Tillis and everyone like him in the GOP, the Grifting Oleaginous Parasite Party must be completely and utterly destroyed. Even if it means losing seats in Congress or perhaps even the Presidency, we must have an effective, engaged and dedicated political party that truly reflects and represents our will and recognizes the existential threat that comes from the Democrat Party and who and what it represents. And with that, as the set-up you can guess the rest, but here it is anyway as your emetic for the day:

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said the Republican Party should ditch President Donald Trump’s populism and “go back” to its conservative core.

To a repugnant desiccated coprolite like Tillis, that means surrender to the Left and Islam, and let us lying, criminal traitorous scumbags wet our beaks in peace! If somehow the supposed Blue wave fails to materialize come the Midterms, well hopefully we won't be saddled with a fresh crop of Tillises, which means President Trump's agenda for his final two years is likely dead in the water, which would be exactly the same thing but without impeachments, or perhaps with impeachments depending upon the status of J.D. Vance, that is railroad him as well and install Mike Johnson or Hakeem Jeffries as POTUS?!

If all that isn't enough to gag a maggot, I give you the following items.

Jessica Valenti, a feminist writer and creator of the Substack “Abortion, Every Day,” called abortion “an affordability issue,” and contended that “you’d be hard pressed to find something more important to your financial life than whether or not to have a child, than whether or not that you’re gonna be forced into pregnancy, or not even just forced into pregnancy, but forced into massive medical debt because your pregnancy goes wrong and you can’t get an abortion.” 

Once again we have the Democrat/Left giving a very unsubtle green light to engage in infanticide. Postpartum by multiple trimesters!

The Lindsay Clancy Social Contagion feels even more real after this latest report about a Texas mother accused of trying to murder her two small children. One child is just ten months old. The other is three years old.

Well it's Texas so I'm sure if James Talarico should defeat Ken Paxton, he'll get right on this. That is make this a common occurrence!

Ugh. Even with this, and in the wake of yesterday being the third anniversary of the Islamic Mass wave of butchery from Gaza which the aforementioned story is Islamic in its theme... For some reason I'm still optimistic about the future, as you can see from my posting the essay about Marco Rubio up top. Y aqui

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is currently traveling to Iceland, Greece, and Portugal, stood where the West was born and urged our allies to reject its decline. The imagery was stunning, but the message was more important — it's something that's been a theme throughout Rubio's time at the State Department over the last 20 months: We must maintain the values that make us great. 

When was the last time any real American leader spoke this way and actually meant it?! Should he, by some miracle, become President at some point in the future he will be outstanding (his baggage from his early days, in particular the Gang of 8 amnesty foolishness), and of course the opposition from the Democrat/Left and worse the Tom Tillis saboteurs of the GOP should they still be a factor.

And so here's to better days, but for now I bid you all to have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• We take the West’s conception of these things  heroism, honor, duty – we take these things for granted. We assume that these somehow are universal to all people in all times and in all places. They are not.
  Wow! Marco Knocks It Out of the Park — Again — With a Speech on Protecting Western Values

Daily Tech News 8 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

• I wondered recently when Saleforce blamed their failure to increase profits on their AI spending habits what the hell they were doing with it, because while they didn't put a number on it the figures they did mention implied it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year, enough to build twenty production-grade compilers or one public toilet in San Francisco.
  
  Well, it's not Salesforce, but I have found someone doing something useful with AI coding tools: ArtCraft. (Get ArtCraft)
  
  ArtCraft itself is an AI-assisted art program. That's not the neat part, though.
  
  The neat part is the smaller associated apps.
  
  PhotoCraft is a photo editing program. VectorCraft is a vector graphics program. FilmCraft and EffectCraft are for video editing and effects. DesignCraft is for document layout.
  
  If this sounds like the offerings of a certain major software company to you, you are not alone.
  
  And it's all free as in beer and as in speech. Download the binaries, download the source code, and do whatever you want with them. All the programs run on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, and on web browsers.
  
  Early days yet; two programs are in alpha and the others haven't even got that far, but this is what we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future.

Wednesday Night ONT - October 7, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.

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.

If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

Early morning activity planned here, so won't be around much in the ONT comments tonight. Please don't make a mess of the place. The cleaning charge is horrific. JQ is in charge and will rule with an iron fist.

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ONT Department of Science and History

You had me at "Radioactive Dinosaurs."

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ONT Food Content

Spaghetti in a bucket from Little Ceasars. Not sure...real or AI?

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ONT Department of Feline Food Fashion

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ONT Department of Science News

Whisky to be aged in space for first time in university satellite project

Engineers in Scotland and Japan are planning to put Scotch on a rocket in 2028, sending a satellite containing samples of whisky and its base ingredients on a five-year mission to orbit the Earth.

It is hoped the frequent changes between extreme heat and freezing cold experienced by the whisky as it rotates the planet every 90 minutes could speed up the maturation process.

This could potentially open the door to future production of space-aged whisky, which the scientist behind the project expects to have "very bold" flavours as a result of its unusual journey.

Funny. My university experience did not involve launching rockets to age alcohol.

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Mandatory Maiden

Iron Maiden released its ninth studio album in 1992 titled "Fear of the Dark." The song "Fear of the Dark" was written by bassist Steve Harris. It was the twelfth and final track on the album. I'm not a musician or a music critic but it is in a different class than the other eleven. I scrolled through the rest of the album thinking that a deep cut might be fun to feature and kept coming back to "Fear of the Dark."

The song has become a staple of Iron Maiden's live shows. It has a mix of tempo, the crowd sings along, and Dickinson adds a theatrical flair. It is metal, but there is nothing else like it. It is unmistakably Maiden. It is over seven minutes of pure energy. It isn't just a song - it is an event.

I had initially planned to include a clip from Metallica shows at the Las Vegas sphere for this part of the content but the clips I saw didn't resonate with me. Impressive visuals and nothing about the music was objectionable, but it felt like Metallica was providing the soundtrack for a movie which was inserted between the crowd and the band.

I have likely included Fear of the Dark before and probably will again. I make no apologies. Anyway, here is Iron Maiden playing Fear of the Dark live in Brazil in 2017 - twenty five years after the song's 1992 release:

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Burls Art. The sole and exclusive purpose of the channel is showing crazy ways to build guitars. Yes, it has a little shock value but the workmanship and visibility into the process earns it a place in the content. It is a business rather than a hobby. He also builds commissioned guitars.

The host does not give his real name. The channel has over 784k subscribers. Several videos have attracted millions of views. Posting frequency is about three to five a year. I'm not qualified to opine on the quality of the guitars as musical instruments or art, but I'm mostly fascinated that someone can sustain a single YouTube channel dedicated solely to making guitars.

One man's trash is another man's treasure? Playing metal with metal?

This guitar sold for $4,800.

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Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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Stone cold crazy for the big ONT finish:

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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly sorted and processed. Are you lurking ????

Close it up

Deep Dark Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Inside Grundtvig's Church, Denmark
By: kenny ollseon

They're putting up the Krampus decorations already? They've completely commercialized the true meaning of Krampus!

A cat does cat-like things.

The now-abandoned Summit Tunnel at the Donner Pass.

A lot of fuzzy mouths to feed. This guy thinks he's a dog owner but when you have twenty huskies in your house you're more of a dog hostage.

Supposedly, a tricky paint job on the front of this building creates the illusion that it's warped by non-Euclidean energies from Yuggoth. I'm wondering if it's actually AI. If not, it's a very impressive illusion.

Larry Byrd doesn't get talked about much these days, except when talking about Dee Reynolds, but he was pretty good.

Ever get out of bed but you can't shake the sleep off your back?

Hyena and sons.

1949 film to advertise the Boeing 337 Stratocruiser.

Dog would like some attention now please and thank you.

The longbow v. crossbow argument has a new entrant: Chakram? And how about the simple sling?

Hot chick with a lion cub.

Ace the Bat-Hound. (Silver Age Batman had hound named Ace.)

The Burj Khalifa skyscraper (from Mission Impossible 4), by drone.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

We must trust the Deep State with all of our might.

A former CIA officer admitted in a plea deal Tuesday that he disclosed details about a secret U.S. intelligence source to a foreign official and embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government.

David Rush pleaded guilty in Virginia federal court to one count of wire fraud after an FBI raid on his home in May uncovered 298 gold bars worth $46 million, $2.1 million in cash and dozens of luxury items.

Justice Department officials said Rush embezzled $194 million from the federal government, using his position at the intelligence agency to create an elaborate scheme designed to facilitate his "maximum self-enrichment at the expense of the United States."

...

Rush admitted in a plea document that he disclosed "certain descriptive information of a U.S. government clandestine human source" last year that could "endanger the safety and life of the human source and the U.S. government officers working with the source," according to NBC News.

He also admitted his actions jeopardized America's "ability to recruit human sources, who rely on the U.S. government's assurance of absolute secrecy."

Which country he sold us out to was not revealed. His plea deal calls for merely up to 20 years in prison.

Maryland jury finds that males falsely accused of sexual assault are therefore the victims of sex-based harassment.

In what may amount to a landmark decision for college campuses, a Maryland jury has declared a man falsely accused of sexual assault the victim of sex-based harassment.

A male college student falsely accused of sexual assault scored a major victory for due process and equal rights late last month, after a federal jury found the University of Maryland failed to protect him from severe harassment after he was falsely accused and ultimately cleared through the school's own Title IX process.

The jury sided with the falsely accused student -- identified as John Doe in a federal lawsuit reviewed by The Daily Wire -- who accused the University of Maryland of failing to protect him from severe harassment, including a student-led smear campaign, after he was fully cleared from from the female student's allegations.

The case was heard before an Obama-appointed judge, Paula Xinis, and the jury found evidence that falsely accused man faced harassment that was "so severe, pervasive, and objectively offense that it deprived him of equal access to an educational opportunity or benefit at the University of Maryland." It also found that the University of Maryland "was deliberately indifferent to the harassment."
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The ruling marks the first time that a jury has ever found that false sexual assault accusations can be considered sex-based harassment, according to the man's attorney, Jason Greaves of the Binnall Law Group.

Sanity half-prevails as a federal judge upholds New Hampshire's new election-security rules, which state that a student cannot just show a student ID to prove his eligibility to vote. He must show official ID showing he's a permanent resident of New Hampshire.

Unfortunately, this woke judge then struck down New Hampshire's rule that all voters must show an official ID. He claims that's an "overstep" of authority that might keep illegal aliens from voting for Democrats.

He didn't say the last part, but that's their concern.

New Hampshire students will no longer be able to use a student ID card as proof of identity when they show up to the polls to vote after a federal judge upheld the state's new voter ID restrictions.

The ruling, issued by U.S. District Court judge Joseph Laplante, upheld a New Hampshire law requiring students to have a government-issued photo ID, such as a driver’s license or passport, to vote.

But Laplante's decision also sided with good government groups who sued over New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan's unilateral extension of that requirement to the voter registration process, ruling that the state's top election official overstepped his authority.

"The State has offered no independent justification for that broader prohibition," Laplante wrote in the ruling. "Under the Supreme Court’s standard for evaluating voting regulations, even a minimal burden on the right to vote must be justified by the State’s interests, and the State has identified no interest."

Trump continues his agenda of a Reagan-like rearmament.

I know that's bad because Tucker Carlson says no nation has the right to go to war, ever, unless it's Nazi Germany or Putin's Russia. Or probably one of the Arab states he may or may not be partnered up with.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the construction of a major shipyard in Baltimore, which he said would be the largest new shipyard in the U.S. since World War II.

"Today, we're officially launching the construction of the largest new shipyard in the United States since World War II, there's been nothing like what we're doing today," Trump said.

The $3.7 billion investment from Anduril will receive billions more in support from the federal government. The facility will span 2 million square feet and be known as Arsenal-2.

Trump said the new yards will help build submarines.

No way.

Content warning on hitting the link -- it runs with lightly censored pictures of this cow having sex. She's about as cute as you'd expect a Democrat weirdo "they/them" hobbyist pornographer to be.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Oct 5

🚨SCOOP: Nebraska Democrat nominee runs p**nographic OnlyFans pages

Meet Whitney Hansen, the Democrat nominee for Douglas County Board of Commissioners in Nebraska, who uses "They/Them" pronouns.

She runs MULTIPLE p*rn webpages where she posts disturbing p*rnographic images of herself.

According to images provided by a source, Hansen made posts about how she loves to "fantasize and play with younger girls."

She also allegedly posted p*rnographic photos WHILE working as a teacher at @MillardPS.

Hansen is currently working as a public employee at @NatlParkService.

This is who Democrats want to elect...

The NYT is attempting to get Sophie Cunningham banned from the WNBA.

A New York Times columnist says WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, an outspoken opponent to transgender athletes in women's sports, has turned games for her team, the Indiana Fever, into a "circus" and that the team should release her.

The Fever was eliminated last week from championship contention, and the 30-year-old Cunningham is now an unrestricted free agent for a second consecutive offseason.

"Cunningham is too combustible, her takes too turbulent to be paired with [league star] Caitlin Clark," columnist Candace Buckner writes in her opinion story, published Tuesday.

"Clark, by her presence alone, already can't get through a season without being thrown into gutter debates that pit White against Black; hate that appears even in the DMs of her own teammates. Cunningham, with only a few words, introduced new divisions."

Akademiks TV
@AkademiksTV

WNBA Playoffs lost 70-76% of their viewers After Caitlin Clark was eliminated 🫪

2026 WNBA Semifinals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Las Vegas Aces drew approximately 500,000 viewers on NBC and Peacock & the Atlanta Dream and New York Liberty drew approximately 654,000 viewers compared to the 2.1 million average viewers (peaking at 2.6 million) that watched the Aces face the Indiana Fever in Game 1 of the first round just a week prior😬

A Chinese foreigner "professor" of Islam at Haverford "College" has been charged with threatening a Jewish colleague with violence and calling for a new Holocaust.

He also threatened the colleague's child.

Religion of peace, you know.

Oh, and he posed as "MAGA" in doing it.

Lot of that going 'round.

Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79

NEW: Haverford Professor Guangtian Ha has been arrested and charged with cyberstalking a Jewish colleague.

Posing as a MAGA anon on X, he allegedly messaged another Haverford professor around 50 times between October 2025 and May 2026.

In addition to posting vile antisemitic messages (see below), he allegedly posted his colleague's "home address, infant child's name, a photograph of the family's mailbox, countless antisemitic slurs and threats, and reference to real-time observation of their home."

The target's wife twice moved out of the home with their three children because they were so terrified.

Ha is a member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine.

He has called complaints about antisemitism on campus "Zionist witch hunts."

Originally from China, he is an associate professor of religion at Haverford who studies Islam in China.

He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia. His dissertation is entitled, "Religion of the Father: Islam, Gender, and Politics of Ethnicity in Late Socialism."

He won the 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for his book, The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China.

He is "charged with one count of cyberstalking pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §
2261A(2). The statutory maximum for cyberstalking is five years' imprisonment, three years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment."

Here are some of the messages he posted (brace yourself):

"Jew, get the fuck out of my country"

"Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion"

"If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments"

"LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons."

"@[Victim 1] Eliminate thejewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. [Victim 1], you will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust."

"@[Victim 1] Fat jew, leave lower merion."

"@[Victim 1] Jew, watch your [Victim I's minor son's true name]. There shall be a sign."

After the victim took security precautions: "@[Victim 1] The goyim have woken up, jew. Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won't help."

"[Victim 1], the jewish state will stop existing, whether you like it or not, which is why as an Israeli zio jew you want to recreate america in 'iSrAeL's' image. This won't work. You and your family have no future here. Homeless dogs jews will once again become, if you do survive."

"That's right[Victim 1]The end of American jews is close. Let's start with the jews in Lower Merion. Watch out jewish nigga."

"[is] that blood, [Victim 1]? We know jews are blood-sucking demons. Only the libtard niggas [...] will protect you. But soon we are going to make sure you have no place to hide, fat rat."

"Nothing wrong to hate jews. We started to decline the moment we stopped hating, eradicating and expelling jews. Babylonians knew, the Romans knew, the Spaniards knew. American jews have been exposed. Fuck anti-Zionism. HH [i.e., "Heil Hitler"]."

Haverford College has placed Ha on administrative leave and barred him from campus. His information has been wiped from the college's website.

Somali Aspiring Doctor and/or Engineer Arrested for Plotting to Shoot Up the Mall of America for ISIS

—Disinformation Expert Ace

We're hitting Economic Contribution and Cultural Enrichment levels that shouldn't even be possible!

In another persuasive example of how diversity increases our strength, the FBI conducted what appears to have been a sting operation that netted a Minnesotan Somali man who was planning a terrorist attack at the Mall of America later this month.

Details of the plot are still emerging, and it's unclear whether the man was acting alone. Clearly, the FBI had reason to suspect him, since the charges indicate that he bought a weapon from an FBI agent and discussed his intentions, pledged support for ISIS and terrorism in general, and his desire to die for Allah. Obviously, something directed the FBI to this man as the plotting was going on, since they had been following his movements for two years.

Some People Plotted to Shoot Some Other People.

According to an affidavit unsealed on Wednesday, FBI agents arrested 18-year-old Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud on Tuesday directly after he purchased an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition with the stated intent of carrying out a mass shooting.

The criminal complaint alleges Mohamud had messaged an informant for nearly two years, discussing his hatred of non-Muslims and his desire to align with an Islamic terror group. He floated the idea of joining al Qaeda and al Shabaab before deciding to lend his support to the Islamic State.

Mohamud repeatedly expressed his admiration for Islamic terrorist attacks, including the New Year's Eve 2024 attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans; the 2017 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida; and the 2025 mass shooting during a Hanukkah gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney.

When the informant tried to talk Mohamud out of such an attack, he replied, "I am 100% committed [sic] to the cause of dying for the sake of Allah only."

Messages indicated he planned to target the Hmong Arts Celebration at Mall of America on Oct. 24 because "it will be a lot of people." ... During that transaction, he explained that he was "an active member of ISIS" and that "part of his motivation was that the Mall of America was owned by Jews," the complaint states.

Videos at the link.

Meanwhile: United allows a jihadi to fly its commercial planes.

A United Airlines pilot who described the October 7 attack as "resistance by a brave people" and said it was "not unprovoked" is still flying passengers for the airline.

Ibrahim R. Mossallam was temporarily removed from flying duties after the post sparked outrage, but later returned to the cockpit. Since then, he has continued posting strongly anti-Israel statements.

Mossallam also serves as Vice President of the Board of CAIR-New York.

Nick Shirley Exposes How Bums Sell Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps to Scammers -- Often "Foreign" -- for Cash to Buy Drugs.
The Homeless Bums Chase Him Down the Street for Exposing the Scam.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Mediaite:

That all came after a wild investigation which showed how street hoods trade their SNAP funds for cash -- or fentanyl, oftentimes. Shirley likened it to swapping Pokemon cards, only this was for pennies on the dollar; he asked a man who said he had $306 on his food stamp card how much he was willing to deal it for, and the man said he was willing to sell it for $120.

Shirley then linked up with a middle-aged woman from Vietnam who said she could make a deal with him. She ushered him over to a seafood market where the cashier rang them up for $120 for a can of spam and one plate of sushi; Shirley -- who was donning a Seahawks beanie and face mask as he tried to hide his identity -- said it was clear the woman was part of a "mafia-style ring," where she was getting a kickback from the store for funneling bogus food stamp deals to them.

I assume the woman would then "refund" him like $60, taking $120 in a "sale" of one can of spam (which taxpayers pay for) and then giving the guy presenting the card half of that back in cash.

After leaving the store together, Shirley and his crew confronted the woman.

"You're committing fraud. Food stamp fraud. It's against the law," Shirley told her.

The woman took it in stride. "I know, yeah." She then started ratting other people out on the street who were apparently running the same scheme.

Shirley then returned to the seafood market to ask why they were allowing the fraud to take place. While there, all hell broke loose on the sidewalks outside, with one of the security guards trading blows with a "homeless individual" -- which led to his gun falling out in a crowd of suspected fentanyl addicts. The security guy then started punching other guys around him when no one would return his gun.

Once he was filled in as he was leaving the store, Shirley and the other members of his crew started running for safety. A homeless suspected drug addict tried to join their getaway, but he apparently couldn't keep up.

"I'm on fenty, I can't run!" the man yelled as Shirley skirted off.

Nick shirley
@nickshirleyy

🚨 1 can of Spam for $120.

Food stamps have become the new ATM for fraudsters as they partner with local businesses to commit the fraud as they trade SNAP cards like Pokémon cards on the streets.

Across America food stamp fraud is happening everywhere. It has become a billion dollar fraudulent industry as taxpayers fund the $100 billion program.

We caught a fraudster on the streets of Seattle as she attempted to buy a can of spam and sushi for $120 in a food stamp for cash exchange, it's a billion dollar fraudulent scheme stealing from the poor and hungry. This is a must watch and is happening everywhere.

EXPOSE AND SHUT IT ALL DOWN.

Jihadi Zohran Mamdani: I'd Like to "Grieve" the 1,100+ Victims of the October 7 Hamas Attacks. That Out of the Way (In Just Three Sentences), Let Me Now Explain Why Hamas Was Right to Massacre Jews and They Brought It On Themselves.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Oh no he didn't, you might be thinking.

But Oh yes he did:

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government's devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians--including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them -- all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

Note his justification of Hamas terror murders, kidnapping, and rapes is much more detailed and particularized than his brief, begrudging "Some People Did Some Things" blow-off of October 7.

Do you want the US to support full ethnic cleansing of the "Palestinian" territories? Because this is how you get the US to support full ethnic cleansing of the "Palestinian" territories.

And if you keep on justifying your cult's constant terrorism, you might see worse than that.

Keep it up. Keep telling us exactly what you really believe, and what you really have in store for us kafirs once you wipe the Jews off the map.

Noam Blum @neontaster

"On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us take a moment to reflect on the lost beauty of Dresden..."

Two weeks before the attack. https://t.co/0Sj9XvMjkX

— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 7, 2026

Last week, David Strom wrote that Islamists are increasingly brazen about admitting their plans for sharia law and the subjugation of non-Muslims -- but they get away with it because the communists they're in league with lie and say They Don't Really Mean It, Bigots.

The homepage of the group raising money for a new 40,000 square foot Islamic facility near Plano, TX prominently features a Christian church being replaced by a mosque. Islamists are not here to “coexist” or assimilate. They are here to conquer and replace America’s Christian heritage with Sharia.

— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) September 30, 2026

“We’ll make sure no non-Muslims live in our city.”

How?

By charging a “service fee”, and funneling 75% of it to the mosque.

“We’ll name our streets after the greatest Islamic conquerors, like Khalid bin al-Waleed.”

“If they keep saying Muslims want to take over America, it will become a reality.”

“We’ll use the infidels to serve Islam. John Smith will get us the permits. We have the money.”

— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) September 29, 2026

Dearborn Shiite Imam Usama Abdulghani:

"9/11 was a big lie, made up. The apologies by the Muslims were shameful and sad to see. Islam wants us to embrace its absolute supremacy over everyone else."

https://t.co/4K0RAWehPU

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 30, 2026

After defending his fellow pro-terrorist Muslim Hasan Piker for a year, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed only now calls Piker to tell him to stop telling the world what they really think only because it's hurting his poll numbers.

Just keep silent until November 7 -- then you can let it all hang out.

Black and Jewish leaders are warning that they and many in their communities need more outreach. Multiple people relayed to CNN conversations they've had with El-Sayed in which he's asked for their support but also noted that he can make up the votes he loses in their communities elsewhere.

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"I'm not the Democrat the Democrats want, but I am the Democrat that Democrats have. And I am decidedly not a Republican. But this is what I'll tell you: I am a Democrat that Michiganders want," El-Sayed told CNN outside the food truck.

El-Sayed says he's been pressured to modulate his positions since he beat the more moderate Stevens in the August primary, though he insists he will not. But he talks less about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which spent $33 million through its super PAC trying to defeat him, and sticks more to frustration over high prices for ground beef, gas and healthcare.

El-Sayed has quietly made one concession: He distanced himself from Hasan Piker after campaigning through the end of the primary with the streamer, who's said that Jews who keep supporting Israel should worry about their safety and that America is "pound for pound" worse than Al-Qaeda. El-Sayed recently called Piker and warned his rhetoric was costing El-Sayed votes, asking him to stop, according to two people El-Sayed told about the conversation. Piker did not respond to requests for comment.

Republican Mike Rogers predicts that he'll win 50% of the state's Jewish voters.

Don't worry: "Western" "elites" will keep telling you that Muslims don't mean what they keep on saying.

The Bee:

Close it up

Totally-Normal Rompin'-Stompin' Heterosexual James Talarico Mysteriously Vanishes for 11 Days As Campaign Comes to Climax

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Mysteriously disappearing is totally a male thing to do and not something that Judy Garland would do on a pill-bender.

Joseph Chalfant at Townhall:

With just 28 days remaining until he faces off against Republican candidate Ken Paxton, Democrat James Talarico is nowhere to be found.

Talarico has not been seen publicly in Texas in over a week, with his last appearance occurring on Saturday, September 26, before he took a fundraising trip to New York City. There, he was treated to a VIP fundraising dinner where attendees, like a filmmaker who labeled America a "shithole" and a group that advocates for child sex change surgeries, were charged $27,000 a plate.
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On Wednesday, September 30 Talarico was slated to speak with the U.S. Hispanic Business Council in the Rio Grande Valley, but instead joined virtually from a hotel because "his staff says he's ill and was unable to travel." During the appearance, Talarico claimed that he was forced to seek care at an urgent care clinic in Dallas, but social media users have disputed the timeline offered by the candidate.

Then, on Friday, October 2, the Talarico campaign chose to recycle footage from a February 22 rally before Talarico had even won the Democrat nomination, and tried to pass it off as current.

Next, his campaign cancelled an event slated for October 5 with the Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium. The campaign has offered no explanation as to why the event was suddenly canned.

I don't want to spread any WITHOUT EVIDENCE theories. And like Candace Owens, I am not a medical doctor.

That said -- I think it's obvious that this is AIDS-related bipolar disorder.

He's got "the AIDS crazies."

Speaking of people missing from the campaign trail -- for some reason, Joe Biden, the Healthiest and Most Vital Man in the Whole of Christendom, is skipping out on campaigning for his fellow socialist civilization-razers.

Former President Joe Biden has been largely absent from the campaign trail as Democrats fight to win back House and Senate majorities in November, even as former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris step up efforts to boost the party's candidates.

Biden, 83, has kept a limited public schedule while battling advanced, metastatic prostate cancer. He has endorsed candidates and is helping Democrats raise money, according to a source in Biden's political circle. But the former president has made few political appearances this year.

The contrast is increasingly visible with four weeks to go until Election Day.

Obama is cutting ads for Senate and gubernatorial candidates, helping the party fundraise and preparing to hit the trail during the closing stretch of the midterm campaign. Harris, the Democrats' 2024 presidential nominee, is also campaigning across key battleground states, including a recent stop in Michigan with Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

Biden has appeared at just a handful of political events this year. He spoke in February at a reception honoring his 2020 South Carolina primary victory, which propelled him toward the Democratic nomination and eventually the presidency. In June, he addressed a Maryland Democratic Party event.

One of the two statements below is true, and one is false.

Can You find the true statement?

Longtime Democratic strategist Michael Ceraso told Fox News Digital that some in the party's elite and fundraising class are concerned that "if Biden were to be pushed out there in any sort of way for virtual or in-person opportunities, he could be a liability."

Veteran Democratic strategist Maria Cardona had a different take, telling Fox News Digital, "There are still a ton of Americans who love Joe Biden."

Talarico's partner in weirding everyone out, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, denies that he's a dual citizen of Egypt.

One problem with that -- he openly bragged about being a dual citizen on videotape.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told a Detroit audience in 2016 that he has "dual citizenship" in the United States and Egypt, according to previously unreported video. It's the second time he's been documented making the claim, even though his campaign now claims he was never a dual citizen.

El-Sayed made the remark about his dual citizenship onstage at a GlobeMed conference in Detroit, where the far-left Democrat served as the city's health director at the time.

"I carry dual citizenship, and I grew up spending most of my summers in another country where I understood what it meant not to have the right to self-govern," said El-Sayed, whose parents emigrated from Egypt to the Detroit area in 1978.

El-Sayed went on to tell a story, one he still tells on the campaign trail a decade later, that he was questioned by Egyptian police during one of those summer visits for publicly cursing Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president at the time.

The newly revealed 2016 video marks at least the second time El-Sayed has publicly claimed to have Egyptian status. His academic résumé stated in 2014 that he was a citizen of the United States and Egypt, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.

El-Sayed's campaign told the Free Beacon, which reported in January on the dual citizenship claim made on his résumé, that El-Sayed was mistaken about his citizenship status.

Uh huh.

AfD Wins Speakership of Regional Government in Saxony-Anhalt; Socialist Open Borders Spanish PM Calls for New Elections

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The actual vote in the Saxony-Anhalt regional elections happened weeks ago. It was covered here. AfD won, but were three seats shy of gaining majority control of the regional parliament. As usual, the so-called "right-leaning" parties would join with socialists and communists to keep the AfD from ever exercising political power.

However, there was a far-left party which was willing to negotiate with AfD. The left-wing party is pro-Russia and had common ground with the AfD on this point.

The deal was struck -- AfD will control the regional government. They secured additional votes beyond those from the far-left party.

AfD leader Alice Weidel announced the news:

Alice Weidel @Alice_Weidel

Oct 6

Translated from German

Congratulations to Tobias Rausch (AfD), the newly elected President of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt – and the first AfD Landtag President in the history of our party. Rausch received 48 votes -- and thus 9 more than the AfD parliamentary group has members. A great success!

PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7

Oct 5

Marine Le Pen is LEADING the polls to be next French President.

The right is LEADING the polls to win the upcoming Spanish election.

The AfD party has seen massive success in recent regional German elections.

The Freedom Party in Austria lead the polls at around 40%

The right wing/Libertarian FrP party of Norway has a massive lead with 35% support in latest poll.

The socialist Spanish PM who amnestied at least 500,000 illegal aliens and probably 1,000,000, Pedro "Dirty" Sanchez, has called for new elections. This is because his political position is weak and he wants a fresh mandate of support.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called a snap election for Nov. 29, a vote that could signal the demise of the EU's last major Socialist government and remove one of Europe's chief critics of U.S. President Donald Trump from the political front line.

Already weakened by the corruption cases battering his Socialist Party, Sánchez took a further knock this summer when he faced fierce blowback over his handling of the ongoing migrant crisis in the North African exclave of Ceuta.

But the bitter topic of unaffordable housing -- something that tops the list of voters' concerns in Spain and which has sparked nationwide protests -- has finally prompted Sánchez to call an early election in an apparent bid to seize a campaign battleground he believes could work to his advantage.

But he's unlikely to get that. Political oddsmakers said he was 56% likely to be booted out of power -- and that was before he actually called for snap elections.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

BREAKING:

Snap elections in Spain this year and PM Sanchez's fall from power is now likely according to Polymarket.⁠com

The likelihood has skyrocketed from just 12% a few days ago to 56%

Sanchez will likely loose power to Vox and the PP party, that are expected to form a coalition government.

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The related "next prime minister" market on Polymarket.⁠com has Feijóo near 80% and Sánchez around 13%.

Recent poll averages put PP near 33%, PSOE near 26%, and Vox near 18%, with PP+Vox seat projections often above the 176 seats needed for a majority coalition government.

The ongoing Ceuta migration crisis and upcoming legal cases based on corruption charges against Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez and his close allies make snap elections this year a better choice than waiting for the term's natural end next summer.

Sanchez also believe that going to election on housing issues is much better campaign terrain for the left than mass-immigration and the invasion of Ceuta, which has greatly angered the Spanish public.

Now Polymarket says he's 70% likely to lose:

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

Oct 5

🚨 JUST IN: Socialist Spanish PM is likely to be OUSTED after his leftist government failed, and he called snap elections for Nov. 29

Center-right Feijóo's party has allied with populist Vox, and that could ENSURE Sanchez is no longer Prime Minister

70% chance the PP party -- center-right -- WINS, per Polymarket.⁠com

WAY BETTER THAN SOCIALISM. This party has worked with right-wing VOX, which I hope eventually wins NATIONAL control

MAKE IT HAPPEN, SPAIN! Trending in the right direction!

Minnesota Under Siege By, Get This, Somali Gangsters

—Disinformation Expert Ace

See video here of tribal gangsters brazenly shooting automatic weapons in the suburbs. They're not running. They know no one will come to chase them.

I can't believe it.

Of all the things I can't believe this is the most can't believiest.

The Somali gangbangers shot up a couple of towns right after a community meeting to air grievances about the Somali gangsters shooting up towns.

It's completely unbelievable.

Gunfire in Eden Prairie, Bloomington follows Edina 'gun violence' community meeting

Sources told Alpha News that the shootings in Eden Prairie and Bloomington were also related to Somali gangs.

I am nonplussed. I have shed of all of my plusses.

A community meeting was held at Edina City Hall Monday night to discuss recent violent incidents in the city and surrounding areas.

The recent incidents include shots fired on the campus of Edina's Our Lady of Grace church and school late last month, which the police chief later said involved Somalis, and a double shooting at Eden Prairie High School's homecoming game this past Friday, which that city's police chief later confirmed was Somali gang violence.

The deuce you say. The absolute deuce!

Hours after the meeting ended, Eden Prairie police confirmed that shots had been fired in yet another incident in their city Monday night.

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Additionally, police are investigating a shooting in Bloomington that took place early Tuesday. Sources say that shooting was also related to Somali gangs.

For serious? This doesn't sound like the invaders from a warlord-controlled degenerate third-world hellscape of constant tribal warfare that I know.

Monday's community meeting in Edina, framed as a "community conversation addressing gun violence," began with a long prologue from Mayor Jim Hovland acknowledging the "Somali youth gang-type problem" in the metro area. Hovland followed up with comments about a potential "community cohesion problem" and urged people to avoid associating the violence with other people with Somali identity. "Somali families and other residents are understandably concerned" over being stereotyped or targeted, Hovland said.

Well that's the most important thing, worrying that the people causing the gangster shooting epidemic will be blamed for causing the gangster shooting epidemic. Let's not solve the gangster shooting epidemic, let's put all of our effort into making sure the people causing the gangster shooting epidemic don't feel bad about causing the gangster shooting epidemic.

One of the police chiefs from that video I linked at the top of the post stated that the Somali Gangster Shooting Epidemic isn't about poverty -- he said the "youths" shooting up neighborhoods live in "$3500 a month apartments" or in homes "worth more than my mortgage."

It's also not about money or drugs, surprisingly.

He says it's just about "social media beefs." Another way to say this is that foreign invaders come from a place where it expected and valorized that "youths" will form violent gangs to war with other violent gangs over nothing except position and advantage and reputation, and that Minnesota has imported the Somali warlord-and-gang problem.

What's amazing is that Doctors and Engineers would descend into such wanton violence.

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Members of the public lined up to comment and were given about three minutes each to speak. Several Somali or East African commenters said they lived in the area and were also concerned about the violence. However, some wondered why officials were using the word "Somali" in connection to the gang violence and asked officials stop using the word Somali. They also asked for more investment in Somali youth through programs and funding as a potential curb to the violence.

Oh, the Somalis want state "funding." Again, I am open-mouthed in disbelief as if smacked in the face with a frozen carp.

Other commenters included a married couple who are Edina school bus drivers, one of whom stated he believed the violence was due to "spillover" from Minneapolis crime, which was "brought on by the sanctuary policies of Gov. [Tim] Walz."

That's as racist as it is true.

Local police want to take more aggressive measures-- but the Somali Criminal Protection Racket that is the Hennepin County government refuses.

*Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is backing calls for a regional task force to address Somali gang violence in the Twin Cities.

*Fletcher criticized Hennepin County leaders as he pushed for a stronger regional response to recent gang violence.

* Fletcher said law enforcement needs to arrest more suspected gang members to send a message that shootings and violence will not be tolerated.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher threw his support behind a regional task force to tackle Somali gang violence while blaming weak prosecution of crime for letting the issue fester, specifically calling out Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.

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Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is calling for a regional law enforcement task force to address what he describes as Somali gang violence across the Twin Cities.

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The sheriff made it clear that the individuals responsible for the violence are a small fraction of the greater Somali community.

"I've told you the number is about 300," said Sheriff Fletcher. "We sent 250 letters to known gang members for the state fair. That number still is a good number, but we need to arrest a big chunk of these kids and send a message to the groups as a whole that we're not going to tolerate this type of shooting and violence. And I do want to I want to mention this number again, because this gets really politically contorted. We're talking about a small number of 300 children. There are over 100,000 Somalis living in Minnesota."

Fletcher explained that arresting even just 50 of the estimated 300 gang members would "dramatically" cut crime. He says he'd like to see 25 of those 50 face federal RICO charges.

"We have to be honest, right?" added Ramsey County Deputy Jama Shine. "We do have a gang problem. We do have a Somali gang problem, and we know who these kids are. We know their parents. We know where they live. They're very mobile, and they're causing a lot of problems in the community. I have to say this, the Somali community are not the first immigrants that dealt with gang issues, right? If you look at the 80s and the 90s. The Hmong community, Asian communities, and the only way to overcome it is to address the issue."

This problem, like so many others, begins with an arrogant, ideological fanatical woke white lesbian with a body type resembling a beer truck.

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The sheriff also called out Hennepin County leaders for not taking enough action to confront the gang violence.

Specifically, he mentioned Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt. For Moriarty, the sheriff questioned whether the county attorney's policy on young offenders was effective.

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"I don't actually think it would take any money myself," said Sheriff Fletcher. "It takes commitment. You know, the commitment we made in Ramsey County to retask some of these bodies. Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, we need Dawanna Witt to commit to this project. It cannot succeed over there if the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office doesn't put bodies into this mix, because they're the biggest agency over there."

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Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt fired back at Sheriff Fletcher's comments during a press conference Tuesday afternoon in Bloomington. Witt was speaking about a shooting early that morning that police believe was also connected to gang violence.

Sheriff Witt said her department had already repurposed two task forces to focus on gangs that were working to provide information to regional partners. Speaking Tuesday, she told Fletcher to mind his own business.

"He just has a habit of talking about stuff he don't know nothing about," Sheriff Witt said. "He never called me and asked me that question. So just because he doesn't know doesn't mean it's not happening. So he shouldn't mind Ramsey County business."

Rich McHugh @RichMcHugh

12h

EXCLUSIVE: 'We need honesty'

There have been 3 Somali gang shootings in the past 4 days in Minnesota. Elected officials say there are no Somali gangs here, and yet, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says there have been a hundred shootings and 14 Somali gang-related deaths in the last year. He's created a unit devoted to Somali gangs, and brought us inside.

Several of his deputies are Somali. Deputy Jama Shine tells me "I'm from the community. This case doesn't represent me. It doesn't represent our community. We need it to stop, and we need to hold them accountable."

Sheriff Fletcher @RamseySheriff likens the situation to what's happened in Europe: "we better work our butts off right now to fix this problem in the Somali community, or we are going to launch into a 200-year legacy that won't be unlike what some of the European countries are seeing."

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

One of the obvious and glaring differences between the 2016 and 2024 Trump Administrations has been in the cabinet. This time around, Trump has some real fighters and loyalists doing critical work for his administration, and who can meaningfully "move the ball down the field" on key objectives. The person most people would probably mention first if asked is Marco Rubio. Sure, he is Secretary of State and doing a tremendous job there, he has also become something of a "minister without portfolio," jumping in wherever he's needed and whipping things into shape while wiping the floor with the opposition. Rubio is a key policymaker and much of what he is doing will pay dividends for years to come.

Looking past Rubio, there are other cabinet standouts. Linda McMahon has been doing meaningful work at Education, working to roll back much of the prior era's disastrous wokification of public education and working to cut some of the supports out from under the ideological sewer that is "higher education." Sean Duffy has been quarterbacking major initiatives around air traffic control and cutting back on Biden-era regulatory nightmares like the "green" highway construction requirements. Chris Wright has been a dynamo at Energy (pun intended, enjoy), clearing the decks for increased atomic power and helping to degrade the war on oil. There are various others doing the work to move the agenda and set the country up for success, but there may be no cabinet secretary who is doing more to secure the future of the Republic than Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.