Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 30, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Tuesday night ONT has arrived. It's also the penultimate day and penultimate ONT of the year. Not to be confused with the ultimate pen. Is there such a thing as the ultimate pen? Bic? Montblanc? Parker? Erasermate? Whatever. Let's get this penultimate party started!
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Pouncing School Cafe
—Ace
Little pup finds the warmest bed.
Dog tries, unsuccessfully, to interest a cat in playing with him.
Clever Puppy. Or possibly AI.
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As Questions About Ilan "Omar's" Sudden Fortune Grow, Her Husband Begins Deleting Information from His "Venture Capital" Website
—Ace
Venture capital, huh?
Bet he has a lot of Somali "investors."
Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband's venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details -- including former Obama officials -- as scrutiny grows over the family's skyrocketing wealth, The Post has learned.Omar (D-Minn.) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year -- as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in the North Star State.
Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty "Squad" member, though she has not been accused of wrongdoing.
It was Somalia-born Omar -- who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal -- who introduced the legislation that critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic.
The Jimmy Choo-wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government-sponsored children's meal programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies.
Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar's husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital, a venture capital management firm, in 2022.
The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, and touted its officers' $60 billion in "previous" assets under management -- an amount many Wall Street money managers only dream of."There's a lot of strange things going on," said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center. "She was basically broke when she came into office and now she's worth perhaps up to $30 million ... she needs to come clean on these assets."
Rose Lake Capital, which touts its "deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries," had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to Omar's financial disclosure.
Yet despite the reported windfall, the business's only address is a WeWork in DC, according to its LinkedIn page.
WeWork is a business that lets you rent out temporary, shared office space. So this multimillion dollar "global" capital venture firm doesn't have an actual permanent office.
Between September and October -- when federal prosecutors announced charges against eight more individuals, including six of Somali descent, for their roles in the welfare scheme -- the names and bios of Rose Lake Capital's nine officers and advisers were removed from the website. None of them were charged in the fraud.
These names include lobbyist and former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough; and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, who once described Amalgamated as "the institutional bank of the Democratic Party."Meanwhile, Mynett's other business, a California winery that previously faced fraud allegations and was declared a failed venture in 2023, was suddenly worth between $1 million and $5 million in 2024 -- a windfall of 9,900%.
Sounds like money laundering. "To conceal the source of money as by channeling it through an intermediary."
...It too is listed as operating out of a WeWork, and doesn't appear to actually sell any wines anymore, according to extensive internet searches.
Despite the high worth placed on the business, its website is a broken link, the phone number is disconnected and the last social media post for the winery dates back to 2023.
"While working families were being ripped off by a massive welfare scam, Omar's campaign took money from convicted fraudsters, her husband launched a firm that suddenly ballooned in value, and [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz looked the other way," according to Kiersten Pels, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee.
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Mynett did not return The Post's messages, and both his businesses' numbers were not working.
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With Discovery of Rampant Somali Piracy, Small Business Administration Head Kelly Loeffler Stops Federal Grants to Minnesota
—Ace
Closing the barn doors after Biden let the horse thieves empty it.
SBA halts grants to Minnesota in wake of fraud scandalSmall Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Monday that her department is halting annual grants to Minnesota, amid an investigation into alleged fraud in COVID-era lending programs.
Loeffler said on the social platform X that the SBA is pausing yearly funding to Minnesota "while we investigate $430 million in suspected [Paycheck Protection Program] fraud across the state."
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was established by the 2020 CARES Act, which passed Congress and was signed into law by President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The House Committee on Small Business has launched a probe into "fraud and concealment" within the PPP and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, also formed during the pandemic.
Loeffler sent a letter last week to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) outlining at least $2.5 million in PPP and EIDL loans sent to individuals indicted as part of a wide-ranging investigation into fraud involving Minnesota's social services.
So I assume the scam would involve foreign fraudsters claiming that they had going businesses, employing, of course, their mentally retarded criminal family members, and took "loans" from the federal government to keep these unemployed lowlife parasites "employed" in their jobs of sitting around collecting welfare from actual Americans.
Loeffler explains herself at Fox News:
When the news broke of convictions for rampant fraud across several pandemic programs in Minnesota, the $1 billion price tag and over 90 indictments were staggering. We now know this is a very low estimate of the price Americans have paid to fund deeply corrupt state-administered welfare programs.The criminal nature of the scandal rocked the country: a vast network of Somali nonprofits systematically ripped off federal programs and denied Minnesota families of vital services at the height of the pandemic. In defrauding programs for nutrition, education and healthcare, the massive and sophisticated enterprise siphoned billions in taxpayer dollars.
Thanks to lax oversight under Democrat Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, organized crime crept in and then brazenly flourished. Even when dozens of whistleblowers repeatedly raised concerns to state oversight bodies and to his own office, Walz simply blamed racism and shrugged off the allegations.
The governor recently defended the state's "generosity" which allowed Somali fraudsters to purchase luxury cars, homes and vacations at the expense of hungry Minnesotans. Its welfare state is widely considered a magnet for those seeking to become beneficiaries. Alarmingly, welfare is now the state's single-largest annual expenditure -- higher than education, highways and public safety.
But new investigations have revealed that fraud runs much deeper than initially suspected, including at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
During the pandemic, the agency issued $1.2 trillion in loans, helping save millions of small businesses and jobs. Much of that lending was legitimate, and many of the loans were forgiven, consistent with the 2020 CARES Act legislation. But the program was expanded in 2021 and became rife with fraud -- at least $200 billion, most of which went completely unaddressed and largely forgiven under the Biden administration.
At my direction, SBA launched an investigation into the Minnesota fraudsters. It took just days to find about $3 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) for numerous indicted nonprofits, including groups like Feeding our Future and Action for East African People.
With this disproportionate level of possible fraud -- and ongoing allegations arising across other federal programs -- we broadened our scope to investigate every COVID-19 loan granted in Minnesota. In a matter of weeks, we uncovered a staggering 13,600 PPP loans that were flagged for fraud but later approved, totaling about $430 million in potentially fraudulent funds that should have been used to save Main Street jobs and businesses. In many cases, the loans were forgiven entirely.
On Dec. 23, I informed the governor that SBA has halted about $5.5 million in annual funding to Minnesota pending further review, in an effort to prevent taxpayer dollars in a state that clearly lacks appropriate controls to responsibly steward federal funds. And we are actively working with our law enforcement partners to hold criminals accountable for the possible pandemic-era fraud now under investigation.One thing is clear: the sheer breadth of fraud in Minnesota proves that the abuse of federal dollars is endemic to the state's welfare system -- and the logical consequence of socialist programs designed to pump out funding without accountability. Other states should be on notice.
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With over 80 federal welfare programs that spend $1 trillion annually, there is much work to do. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing bad actors and implementing reforms to protect welfare programs for real American families who need it -- while also ensuring it is a lifeline, not a lifestyle.
Leaders in Minnesota have not been interested in or capable of meeting that mission, and the developing scandals raise serious questions about what may be going on in states like California and Illinois. The Trump administration is committed to exposing welfare abuse everywhere it exists -- and enforcing accountability in states that have allowed fraud to fester at the expense of law-abiding Americans and taxpayers.
It might not be just Somali fraud rings plundering our nation:
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Entertainment and Media Sector Sheds 17,000 Jobs in 2025, Up 18% from 2024's Job Losses
—Ace
Survive until 2025, they said after covid and the twin strikes, expecting that 2025 would be a comeback year for the media.
That has not happened.
And 2026 will be worse.
The media is dying. It's finally dying and nothing can save it now.
The entertainment and media industries bled more than 17,000 jobs in 2025, the latest in a brutal, ongoing contraction that's left newsrooms, studios and streaming giants hollowed out by consolidation, cost-cutting and the accelerating use of artificial intelligence.US-based media companies spanning TV, film, digital publishing and broadcast announced 17,163 job cuts through November, an 18% increase from 2024, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Layoffs surged fivefold in 2023 compared to the prior year as companies moved aggressively to slash costs, unwind failed growth bets and prepare investors for a leaner future.
In corporate business generally -- not just the media -- 54,000 jobs were lost to AI automation. That will eventually decimate the media.
...The Paramount Skydance merger led to the elimination of roughly 2,000 positions, while Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal each launched their own restructuring campaigns this past year -- cutting staff ahead of planned cable spinoffs as traditional television revenue continued to erode.
Newsrooms continue to be hard hit, with advertising declines and shifting audience habits forcing publishers to shrink.
News organizations logged 2,254 job cuts this year, including 179 in November. The total actually marked a 50% drop from last year's pace, according to Challenger data.
The Washington Post, which billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has sought to overhaul, cut roughly 4% of its workforce around the start of the year -- about 100 ink-stained wretches -- after posting an estimated $100 million loss in 2024 tied in part to digital ad weakness.
CNN eliminated about 200 jobs early in 2025 as it pivoted toward digital operations and prepared for corporate restructuring tied to its parent's cable strategy, while CBS News laid off about 100 staffers in October and canceled multiple streaming news programs.
Hollywood's creative collapse will bring down the movie exhibition industry -- theaters -- as well.
Some comeback!The past 12 months were supposed to turn things around for struggling cinemas. But instead of heralding a dramatic return to moviegoing, 2025 is running neck-and-neck with the middling 2024 box office, and will fall far short of the $9 billion in domestic ticket sales that most analysts expected the theatrical movie business to easily eclipse. Prior to the pandemic, North American revenues would regularly hit between $10 billion to $11 billion. The 2025 results are a massive disappointment that no amount of spin can change. (Already there's talk of how much better 2026 will be.)
Yes but they thought 2025 would be better. "Survive until 25."
"There's an unfortunate trend, which that we just can't get the industry to $9 billion at the domestic box office," says Mike Sherrill, the chief operating officer of dine-in cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse. "It looks like it's going to be two years in a row that the industry flatlined."
More worrisome is the reality that many of the movie business's biggest franchises are showing signs of oversaturation or fatigue. Marvel continued to struggle with its B Team heroes; February's "Captain America: Brave New World" and May's "Thunderbolts" lost tens of millions during their theatrical runs, while July's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" will only eke out a modest profit. And even though "Avatar: Fire and Ash" ($760 million and counting), "Wicked: For Good" ($504 million) and "Jurassic World Rebirth" ($869 million) will rank among the year's top-grossing releases, they will fail to match the revenues of previous films in their respective series. Clearly, the theatrical industry can't thrive on sequels and spinoffs alone.
It would be easy to declare an end to comic book movies. That said, genres have risen and fallen throughout Hollywood history -- just look at musicals or westerns or raunchy comedies, which have faded in popularity after once being surefire draws. What really has theater owners and some studio chiefs concerned as the year closes out is what the future will hold if Netflix is able to secure government approval for its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Already, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has hinted that he believes that "windows," industry jargon for the amount of time that movies play exclusively in theaters, are too long. He told Wall Street shortly after the pact was announced that he expects that they will "evolve" in a more "consumer friendly" direction. Everyone knows exactly what he meant by that.
Yes, they mean that they're going to crush theatrical exhibition and set themselves up as a monopoly for showing movies. I can't see how the Justice Department can approve this.
Don't worry, Netflix knows exactly what the public wants to see.
A series of teenagers coming out as gay, from sea to fabulous sea.
Critics are review-bombing "Stranger Things'" penultimate episode, calling character Will Byers' coming-out scene "cringey" and accusing the creators of prioritizing politics over storytelling.In the show's most recent episode, "The Bridge," Will gathers all his friends and family for a tearful confession, telling them that he's just like his friends in almost every way -- except, he says, "I don't like girls." Fans noted that the timing of his monologue seemed odd and forced, as the cast was in the middle of trying to defeat Vecna, the series' villain.
"Woke ruins everything," one user wrote on X, blasting the development as "LGBTQ+ nonsense."
"Netflix decided to RUIN their most popular show of all-time, Stranger Things, by focusing their final season on Will coming out as a homosexual, promoting the propaganda that Will's superpowers are because he's 'embraced his sexuality' & the villain telling Will that his friends won't like him if they find out he likes dudes..." he added.
Another user said, "How did Stranger Things go from such a great show to the only way they could defeat Vecna is if Will tells everyone he's gay first."
Brandon Leslie, founder and CEO of Florida's Voice and RightLine news, also weighed in by seizing on a tweet that discussed creators Matt and Ross Duffer's intent for the scene, more specifically that Byers had to face his fears and accept himself in order to fully face Vecna.
"Netflix is doubling down on pushing the gay agenda -- the 16-year-old boy couldn't kill a dark magic demon unless he came out of the closet," he wrote, adding, "Horrible and forced."
The now-infamous scene wasn't the only source of upset, as other fans critiqued the final season's pacing, acting, plot and more.
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One user likened the latest season to "Game of Thrones," arguing that both were too rushed to adequately complete the story.
I watched the first season and quit watching in the second season, two or three shows in. I never understood the hype. It was a semi-cute idea, but... who cares.
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Minnesota Retard Tim Walz: Akshually The Real Fraudsters and Criminals Are White Men
—Ace
This message paid for by Make America Somalia Again.
Tim Walz, who insists that he's been the real Fraud Detective all along, now tells us that the real criminals behind all the fraud in Minnesota are white men.
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Somali Pirate "Day Care Centers" Are Suddenly Filled (Well, not "Filled") With Rent-a-Kids
—Ace
The Quality "Learing" Center Minneapolis, a purported day care flagged in a viral video designed to expose fraud, may have been bustling with kids Monday, but it is typically such a ghost town that it appeared closed, a local told The Post.The resident called the kiddie scene at the site Monday -- a few days after explosive footage called it out and suggested it was part of widespread state fraud -- "highly unusual.
"We've never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed," the person said.
Monday's busy parking lot and the roughly 20 kids streaming in and out as The Post staked out the site were in stark contrast to the neighbor's description and YouTuber Nick Shirley's video showing what appeared to be a facility that wasn't in use.
"You do realize there's supposed to be 99 children here in this building, and there's no one here?" Shirley asked the person answering the door to the site in his clip, which was posted online Friday.
No children appeared to be at the center at the time. The facility says its hours are Monday to Thursday, 2 to 10 p.m.
Ibrahim Ali, the son of the owner who said he was the manager, claimed to The Post on Monday that Shirley's visit came before they opened for the day.
"Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, 'Hey, they're not working'?" Ali argued to The Post.
He also blamed a graphic designer for the now-infamous typo on the site's sign.
"What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn't think it was a big issue," said Ali, 26, who claimed he helps out with homework and paperwork at the facility.
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Ali said there were about 16 kids inside the center Monday afternoon.
Sixteen? I thought 99 Phantom Children were enrolled here.
...A woman opening the center at 2 p.m. Monday said Shirley's reporting was inaccurate.
"We don't have fraud. That's a lie," she said, adding, "I don't want to talk to you. I want to talk to my lawyer."
Outside the center, another worker took out his smartphone to record a Post reporter who was asking him questions about the situation.
"Don't f--king come to this area. Get the f--k out of here," the employee said angrily.
Sounds like some of the Pirates are considering the Josh Gerstein Second Amendment Solutions.
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Judge Rules That Trump May Share Illegal Alien Medicaid Data with ICE
—Ace
Right?
Right?
Judge rules Trump admin can share illegal migrant Medicaid data with ICEU.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that ICE officials can access six categories of "basic" personal information: Address, citizenship, immigration status, phone number, date of birth and Medicaid ID.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration can share Medicaid information pertaining to illegal migrants with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers next month.
The ruling comes after 22 Democratic states sued to stop the government from sharing the information in July, which was granted while the case played out. The liberal states can still appeal the ruling.
The order approved an agreement between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security in July that allowed ICE officials to access the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses, to track down the illegal migrants.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that ICE officials can access six categories of "basic" personal information: Address, citizenship, immigration status, phone number, date of birth and Medicaid ID.
"The sharing of such information is clearly authorized by law and the agencies have adequately explained their decisions," Chhabria wrote in the seven-page order.
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The order, which is limited to migrants known to be in the country illegally, comes because seven blue states allow migrants to receive state funds through their respective Medicaid programs, but not federal ones.
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Politico "Reporter" Josh Gerstein: Somalis Should Shoot Citizen Reporters Who Knock on "Day Care Center" Doors to Ask Questions
—Ace
Remember when the communist media demanded that Erick Erickson be fired from CNN after he mused about shooting census workers that knocked on his door?
You won't be surprised to learn that communists employ a "Who, whom?" analysis to their supposed moral imperatives. Who is doing it, and to whom it is being done, determine whether it's criminal or mandatory.
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The Morning Rant: The Fall Of Iran?
—CBD
How many times have we heard that the Mad Mullahs are teetering on the brink, and will be driven out of Iran by THE PEOPLE?
And how many times have we been disappointed?
Sure, Obama had a lot to do with the failure of The Green Movement in 2009, and his convenient $400,000,000 payoff to the Mullahs in 2016 probably helped them retain power. And of course the Grand Poobahs of the EU have no particular interest in a free Iranian people when the Mullahs are buying their technology and selling them oil. And let us not forget the desire of the Bien Pensants for a powerful Iran as a counterbalance to those filthy Jews in Israel. No matter that Iran also funds terrorism throughout the world and is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents, and indirectly responsible for hundreds of thousands more. Oh, they have their pet resistance movements, in particular the NCRI, whose leader wears a hijab! Amazing that it is the symbol of repression in Iran, but Europe loves them some hijabs, so...
In a sane world there would be an armored column driving toward Tehran while the air was filled with bombs destroying every nuclear and security facility in Iran. And the world would have driven Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and their Iraqi proxies out of their stolen countries.
But we don't live in a sane world that values self determination and freedom. So expecting the Iranian people to be successful in their desire to free themselves from the vile, murderous Mullahs without Western help is long on hope and short on reality.
Protests escalated across Iran on Monday as demonstrators confronted security forces in Tehran and Mashhad, with authorities deploying tear gas amid strikes and street clashes, according to reports.An Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, reported that a large crowd of demonstrators marched along Jomhouri (Republic) Street before moving into nearby areas, including Naser Khosrow Street and Istanbul Square in Tehran.
Except...there is a wild card, and his name is President Donald Trump. Will the President take a public stand in support of this nascent popular uprising? Will he back it up with concrete actions? Will he mobilize his new friends in the Arab world to confront Iran?
With Trump's and America's support, unlike in years past, it is possible that the Iranian -- or perhaps we should call them Persian -- people will have the opportunity to do what they could not do since the heady few months after the fall of the Shah. And Iran is weaker than it has been in a very long time, with Israel destroying Iranian proxies on its borders, and carefully creating security bulwarks against Iran.
But they still have to deal with the comprehensive internal security apparatus that the Mullahs have assiduously created over the last 45 years. It is brutal, cruel, and all-encompassing, and unless the collapse occurs very rapidly (see: Romania), there is the possibility of horrendous death and destruction as the Mullahs lash out against their subjects.
Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson will be despondent if the Mullahs fall, but that might be the best part of the whole thing!
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The Morning Report — 12/30/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. The penultimate day of 2025. As the scope of the absolutely gargantuan fraud committed against the AMERICAN people and I emphasize that word because the perpetrators are American in name only, essentially being a plague of bipedal locusts emerging from a purulent lesion known as Somalia. And this plague has been unleashed on us primarily by the Democrat Left and sadly, those we foolishly elect to try and check them but who instead aid and abet in our destruction by being paid confederates.
Right now I'm staring directly at a lanky, festering coprolite known as Tom Emmer:
Minnesotans begged House Majority Whip Tom Emmer more than a decade ago to halt the flood of Somali refugees to the area, but the lawmaker scolded them for their concerns.Minnesota’s Somali population is back in the spotlight after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video canvassing multiple Somali-run childcare centers accused of fraud. However, A resurfaced audio clip from “This American Life” shows that voters were concerned about mass Somali migration long before the recent controversy.
And this is courtesy of commenter "D" who has the misfortune of having Emmer as his rep.
It's a long listen but this is a recording from a 2015 townhall in St. Cloud Minnesota where Tom Emmer basically told the citizens of St. Cloud that they have to take as many Somalis as they say whether they like it or not because "America". He calls them the fastest assimilating immigrant group, and says they are just like the Germans. A few weeks after this he founded the Somali Caucus in the house of representatives. What people don't understand is Minnesotans did fight this and they were told to "shut up and sit down" by the Mn GOP.
Ah yes, I have to agree that the Somalis are indeed just like the Germans — the Germans that operated the gas chambers and comprised the Einsatzgruppen.
Yes we can blame Leftists/Democrats et al for all the misery, suffering and waste of life and human potential that have brought us to the brink of dissolution, but as per the famous quotation “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Well there's good men doing nothing and then there is covering up and running interference while pocketing ill-gotten lucre to act as shills and confederates. No "GOOD" men to be found! This has been the nature of the GOP since as far back as I can remember and likely longer than that.
This is why Donald Trump is sitting in the White House and why Democrats and far too many Republicans want him and an energized formerly silent majority dead. . . And I mean literally dead. Which brings me to this story that at its heart is reflective of my observations
“Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, Biden, Weissmann, Rosenstein … When are these people being charged?” political strategist Roger Stone told Breitbart News after he was asked if he believes FBI Director Kash Patel is “knocking down enough doors” at Turning Point USA’s 2025 AmericaFest conference. “I think Kash is doing a very good job of fighting terrorists. I think he’s doing a good job of fighting child sex trafficking,” Stone said, adding, “The question, really, is: Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, Biden, Weissmann, Rosenstein, and on, and on.” “When are these people being charged?” Stone continued. “It’s been many months since Tulsi Gabbard declassified the documents that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt these people engaged in extra-constitutional, illegal coup d’état. When are their indictments?”Stone was referring to former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, among others — all embattled with scandal.
“It didn’t take them long to indict me on trumped-up charges,” Stone added. “It didn’t take them long to charge General [Michael] Flynn. It didn’t take them long to charge Donald Trump in a New York courtroom.” Stone then offered another example, pointing to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).
“It is now absolutely clear that Gov. Tim Waltz knew about and covered up the theft of billions of dollars of federal funds. That’s a crime. When is he being arrested?” Stone said.
If the aim truly is to make America great again, there is only one way to do so — it is the restoration of the shattered trust that all Real Americans have in their criminal justice system. The only way that that is going to happen is if those who destroyed it are ruthlessly and mercilessly punished. And everyone in the rotten system that abrogated their oath of office is disrobed, disbarred and run out on a rail. There must be a reckoning, or else all of this is for naught and we are once again on the expressway straight to hell.
If you think that that is hyperbole, I give you this to chew on:
Days ahead of trial, a federal judge has dismissed an indictment against a TikTok streamer shot by ICE earlier this year, citing constitutional violations by the government. In a Saturday order, U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin cited the deprivation of Carlitos Ricardo Parias’ access to counsel while held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and the government’s failure to comply with discovery deadlines — including the timely release of body worn camera footage that captured the shooting. Federal authorities had accused Parias, a well-known TikTok streamer of local breaking news, of ramming his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in and tried to arrest him during an immigration enforcement operation in October. An ICE officer opened fire, striking Parias in the arm and injuring a deputy U.S. marshal with a ricochet bullet.That same day, prosecutors charged Parias with assault on a federal officer. In November, he was indicted by a grand jury. Parias was scheduled to go to trial on Tuesday.
In his 28-page order, Olguin dismissed the indictment with prejudice, meaning prosecutors cannot refile the same charges of assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon and depredation of government property.
Olguin is an Obama appointee. Parias is well connected with local Democrats.. . . Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli has been a disaster and needs to go, but the bigger picture here is that California Dems have simply decided that violence against ICE personnel, much as they decided that violence against Southern California Jews by Hamas supporters, was the ‘right thing to do’ and those carrying it out need to be protected.
(The analogy isn’t accidental because Judge Olguin had previously thrown out a lawsuit by Jewish parents over antisemitic ethnic studies materials in the classroom.)
That’s the equivalent of legalized lynching in the South and it has to be treated that way.
The sanctuary state is becoming an insurrection.
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Daily Tech News -1 January 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Binance's Trust Wallet Chrome extension turned out to be misnamed. (Web3isGoingGreat)
It got hacked - from the inside, a so-called supply chain attack where a developer's system is compromised and used to slip malware into critical applications - and users lost $7 million.
Binance has updated the extension and will reimburse users who lost money due to the attack.
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Overnight Open Thread [12/29/2025]
—CBD
Wow. Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent, and the tallest free-standing (whatever that means) mountain in the world.
But the damned giraffe makes the photo!
It's also linked to an excellent short story by Ernest Hemingway called The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which is a bit pompous, but still a good read. Well, Hemingway is a bit pompous. And an asshole. But his early stuff is magnificent, and he is absolutely in the top five greatest American short story writers.
And yes, I will fight you.
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Icebreaker Cafe
—Ace
Turtle wants a polish.
Reindeer under the Northern Lights.
Stray dog is proud of his toy.
Baby otter (evil) sucks his thumbs.
It's still Christmas if you believe it is.
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J6 Pipebomber Says He Wanted to Hurt Both Parties
—Ace
Matt Margolis reports on the DOJ's memo asking for the detention of the bomber.
Cole told investigators he followed the 2020 election controversy on YouTube and Reddit after things "started happening" and felt "bewildered" by what he saw. But it wasn't just one side that captured his attention. He believed that both major parties were ignoring legitimate concerns from voters who felt something was wrong. The real trigger? How both parties were dismissing and labeling those concerns."I really don't like either party at this point," Cole told agents when they asked him why he targeted both the RNC and DNC.
He wasn't some Trump cultist. He was angry at everyone in charge.During his initial video interview, Cole denied everything at first. He claimed he drove his Nissan Sentra to D.C. alone to attend a protest. "I didn't agree with what people were doing, like just telling half the country that they -- that their -- that they just need to ignore it. I didn't think that was a good idea, so I went to the protest," he said. He insisted he's "never really been an openly political person" and avoids political talk with family to prevent conflict.
But after agents confronted him with surveillance footage, Cole admitted the truth. He said that he assembled the devices in the hours before driving to D.C. on January 5. He cleaned them with disinfectant wipes. He didn't go to attend a protest. He went specifically to plant bombs.
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Cole told investigators "something just snapped" after "watching everything, just everything getting worse." He wanted to "do something 'to the parties' because 'they were in charge.'" His inspiration? The Troubles in Ireland. He denied that his actions targeted Congress or were related to the January 6 proceedings. In fact, the bombs had hour-long timers, so they weren't even supposed to go off on January 6.
Here's where it gets interesting. Cole felt that "the people up top" on "both sides" shouldn't ignore grievances or label concerned citizens as "conspiracy theorists," "bad people," "Nazis," or "fascists." If people believe their votes are being nullified, "at the very least someone should address it," he said. When something as important as voting seems tampered with, "someone needs to speak up."
I'm glad he isn't confirming the media's claim that he was animated to plant the bombs over Trump's completely-false claims of the election being rigged.
Because if he did, he'd be eligible for an insanity plea, because we all know 2020 was the most secure and fraud-free election in history.
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Suspect In Mass Stabbing on Paris Metro Turns Out to be... Oh But Why Spoil the Shocking Twist?
—Ace
I guess it's not that shocking.
An illegal migrant from Africa who had a deportation order is suspected of stabbing three women on the Paris metro on Friday in what appears to be another example of the French immigration system failing to protect the public.A Malian migrant was arrested on Friday evening after three women were attacked on the number 3 line of the Parisian metro system between 4:15 and 4:45 pm local time.
Thankfully, the lives of the three victims are not in danger as their wounds were superficial. However, the 25-year-old African should not have been in the country had authorities performed their duty, reports indicate.
According to Le Figaro, citing sources from within the Paris prosecutor's office, the illegal from Mali was previously imprisoned last year for aggravated theft and sexual assault.
He was released in July and was issued with a OQTF deportation orders, yet nearly half a year later, has still not been removed from the country.
Following the attack on Friday, an investigation into attempted murder has been opened by the Regional Transport Security Service (SRT), which is reportedly not currently considering terrorism as a motivating factor. The suspect is believed to be "mentally unstable".
The UK just welcomed back a true Cultural Enricher who had previously been arrested in Egypt.
The UK actively campaigned for his release and his return to England.
The man routinely calls for the murder of Jews and "colonialists" of all kinds as well as for more "suicide bombings" and more murders of police.
He routinely declares how much he hates "white people" and how they, get this, need to be killed and dominated.
Oh and he also declared his intent to "take over ur towns and rape ur women."
But I mean that's obviously just a "joke," as he says now. No Muslim migrants would ever take over British towns or rape British women. Obviously he's just being satirical or something.
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"MS-NOW's" Ratings Crash After Separation from Garbage Network NBC
—Ace
MSNBC recently decided to rebrand and changed its name to MS Now which sounds like a fundraiser for a disease or the old portal for Microsoft.
Did the ratings improve? Not so much.
...According to Nielsen Media Research, released on Monday (December 15), Fox News averaged 2.72 million primetime viewers and 287,000 viewers in the key Adults 25-54 demo in 2025. This was up 14 per cent in total viewers and 18 per cent in the demo compared to 2024.
In comparison, MSNBC (now MS NOW) averaged 923,000 total viewers (down 25 per cent on 2024) and 81,000 demo viewers (down 39 per cent), and CNN averaged 580,000 total viewers (down 15 per cent) and 105,000 demo viewers (down 29 per cent).
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MS Now lost 25% of its overall viewers in one year and 39% of its younger viewers.
At this rate, I don't know how much longer it's going to last.
MSNBC -- "MS-NOW" -- was forced to mention the exploding scandal.
You'll never guess how they played it.
Unless you guessed "it's a racist ploy by white supremacists to weaponize the government against minorities for political reasons." In that case, you did guess it.
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As Predictable As the Setting Sun: After Conspiracy Theorist and Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on Trump, the NYT Offers Her a Puff-Piece with an Attempted Glamour Shot
—Ace
The Calvin Coolidge Project
@TheCalvinCooli1New: Marjorie Taylor Greene told The New York Times that President Trump would stop at nothing to remain in office even after his second term ends and that he will try to cling to power
She is predicting that Trump will start a war to remain in power past his second term
She claims to the NYT -- which expresses no skepticism, of course -- that Trump "screamed" at her to not release the name of Epstein's "clients," because, as Trump "screamed," "My friends will get hurt!"
Marjorie Taylor Greene has not, to my knowledge, released this "list" which she supposedly had in her hands.
The New York Times didn't see fit to ask her about that.
Kate @kate_p45Dec 28
Instead of reading names of Epstein clients like Marjorie Taylor Greene promised existed, she quietly flew to Costa Rica to enjoy her beach vacation in her new $5 million dollar home.
Marjorie is a liar.
Massie is a liar.
Outgoing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene openly speculated that President Trump lacks religious beliefs and slammed the "sexualization" of women at his lavish Mar-a-Lago club in a blistering series of interviews.Greene (R-Ga.) reflected on Trump's stunning remarks at the memorial service for late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, in which the president was taken aback at how the Turning Point USA co-founder "wanted the best" for his enemies.
"That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them," Trump declared at the same September memorial where Erika Kirk powerfully forgave the sicko who allegedly killed her husband in cold blood.
"That was absolutely the worst statement," Greene told the New York Times. "It just shows where his heart is. And that's the difference, with her [Erika] having a sincere Christian faith, and proves that he does not have any faith."...
She publicly decried the arrests and treatment of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, backed Trump's dubious claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and even briefly garnered some buzz that she could be his VP pick last year.
LOL. "Buzz" that this retard fame-chaser planted.
..."Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you're wrong," Greene moaned about Trump's grip on the GOP.
"You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don't believe in doing that. I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud."
She later added: "For a lot of MAGA, Trump is a savior, and he's like a god to them."
While looking back on the causes of her falling out with Trump, Greene concluded that "it was [Jeffrey] Epstein. Epstein was everything."
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Greene also took issue with the aesthetic of women at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, contending that they're oversexualized.
"I never liked the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization. I believe how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women," the congresswoman said.
"I have two daughters, and I've always been uncomfortable with how those women puff up their lips and enlarge their breasts. I've never spoken about it publicly, but I've been planning to."
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More Somali Piracy: In Ohio, Somalis Are Defrauding the State Home Health Care System for $250,000 Per Year "Caring" for Phantom "Aged Parents"
—Ace
Once again, the system has been set up so that all you have to do is submit the paperwork and wait a week for your rubber stamp.
A welfare program was enacted, supposedly, to pay people to stay at home and provide care for their disabled elderly relatives. Whose existence and infirmity, I'm sure, was "proven" by simple box-checks.
You won't believe what happened next!
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 WOW. Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke CONFIRMS MASSIVE fraud in Ohio, another hotbed for Somalis
They run fake "home health" and bill $250,000 PER YEAR, per FAMILY, when no work is actually being done
She says it also happens in PENNSYLVANIA
"Audit America. Audit Ohio now. And I'm pushing for that in every single state!"
"The state will, as long as the doctor has approved it, continue to pay you. It could be for 10 hours, 12 hours, up to 24 when it's critical care."
"So you could sit at home without caring for an elderly parent who really doesn't need it, make about $75,000 to $90,000 a year. Now you add two parents, that's $180,000. Now you add your in-laws $250,000."
"You continue to add this and you wonder what are the services being provided? So a lot of providers came and said fraud is occurring because we said we weren't going to rubber stamp this paperwork."
"So they went to other providers, their home health care networks saying we'll make it worth your while. Well, sounds like a kickback to me."
"So we really need to investigate the Medicaid system and how much it's increased since the Somalian population came and who really needs critical care because that's meant for our disabled, our elderly and people who really need it, not to just live off our system."
"And that's what's happening in Ohio. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's despicable, but authorities are now looking at it from the Attorney General's office to the U.S. Attorney's office."
"I flagged them all because this is Ohio tax dollars and we have to take it seriously. I'm tired of people telling me, well, this is the way it's always been. It's subjective and we can't really check. No, you can." @MehekCooke
And it's also going on in Pennsylvania. And, frankly, all other states, let's be serious.
But especially Newsom's Graft Empire of California.
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