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January 02, 2026

The Morning Report — 1/2/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. So with the great Somalian Samolian Swindle in full swing This happened over in Turtle Bay –

What absolutely perfect timing, eh?

The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer highlighted the absurdity of handing over the presidency of the Security Council to “the #1 Worst Country in the World on the failed state index last year.” . . . “Somalia is a failed state that under 12 indicators was ranked the world’s worst on terrorism, corruption, inability to collect taxes, mass displacement, economic collapse, group grievance, brain drain, and chronic insecurity,” he continued.

I wonder if there is any connection to the Turtle Island Liberation Front that came to the fore in the waning days of last year. TO refresh your memory:

Multiple splinter cell members of the radical Turtle Island Liberation Front, which posts disturbing slogans such as “Death to America” on social media, were arrested last Friday for allegedly plotting a New Year’s Eve terror attack in the Los Angeles area. Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), a little-known “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” extremist group, has quietly been raising funds and resources to usher in a “revolutionary change in government.” “TILF also calls for the working class to rise up and fight back against capitalism,” an FBI affidavit noted. “Moreover, TILF advocates that liberalism and peaceful protest will be the downfall of those who believe it is enough, and that ‘direct action is the only way.’”

And, speaking of Somalia, the Somalian Samolian Swindle and the UN, get a load of this!

Just when you thought the Somali welfare fraud story couldn’t get any more ridiculous, allegations have emerged that Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali and Somalia’s UN Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman ran a company called Progressive Health Care Services Inc in Cincinatti, Ohio.

What America desperately needs is the ATBLF, the Anti-Turtle Bay Liberation Front!


But I digress. But then again, speaking of failed states, wars on capitalism . . "terrorism, corruption, inability to collect taxes, mass displacement, economic collapse, group grievance, brain drain, and chronic insecurity" , look what happened on New Years Eve just a few miles south of Turtle Bay in New York's City Hall Park:

Scores of Zohran Mamdani fans who braved freezing temperatures to celebrate the new mayor as he was publicly sworn into office Thursday were left disappointed by the bash the socialist pol had promised.

Around 10,000 supporters stood outside City Hall during the event — billed as an “Inauguration for a New Era Block Party” by Mamdani’s staff — crammed into several barricaded pens without access to bathrooms or any food concession stands.

The hilarity of this is just priceless!!! No food and no bathrooms in sub zero temperatures. Somewhere out in the great beyond Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Ivan Denisovich and the tortured souls that haunt the Gulag Archipelago are pointing their fingers and laughing their asses off at NYC's braindead schmucks.

To paraphrase a punchline from the radioactively non-PC yet funny book for those old enough to remember it, "Race Riots" the reason there was no tree bark lasagna on hand for the rubes was because the political prisoner with the recipe had died.

Ah yes, the glories of Socialism. Live it and Love it, all you young fools taken in by Bernie, Titty Caca Cortez and this lanky, swarthy Jew- and America-hating hunk of piss. Good and hard my ex fellow New Yorkers.

Of course he was sworn in with his reptilian claw on a Koran.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said it succinctly on Wednesday, commenting on the news that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani intended to be sworn in on the Qur’an: “The enemy is inside the gates.” . . . At a cursory glance, swearing in on the Qur’an doesn’t seem to present any problems. ne primary reason, however, why many people object to American officials being sworn in on the Qur’an is because the Islamic holy book teaches values that are vastly different from American and Judeo-Christian values, particularly the necessity for Muslims to wage war against non-Muslims and subjugate them under the hegemony of Islamic law. . . Even more important for the concept of taking an oath to serve faithfully and honestly is the fact that the Qur’an sanctions lying to unbelievers under certain circumstances. The Qur’an teaches that deception is allowed: “Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security.” (Qur'an 3:28). . . Of course, it is forbidden today, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” to discuss the actual contents of the Qur’an and their possible relevance to the question of officials being sworn in on the Qur’an. Still, it is jarring to think of American officials pledging to uphold the U.S. Constitution on a book that calls for warfare against non-Muslims and allows lying to them.

No wonder there is such an affinity between Democrat/Leftists and Muslims. They're the Cerberus of Chang and Eng Bunkers of Rosy Grier/Ray Milland Incredible Two-Headed Transplants.

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Daily Tech News 2 January 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • OpenAI is betting big on audio. (Tech Crunch)
    OpenAI is betting big on audio AI, and it's not just about making ChatGPT sound better. According to new reporting from The Information, the company has unified several engineering, product, and research teams over the past two months to overhaul its audio models, all in preparation for an audio-first personal device expected to launch in about a year.
    This is going to sink without a trace and I am here for it.
    It's not just the tech giants placing this bet. A motley crew of startups has emerged with the same conviction, albeit with varying degrees of success. The makers of the Humane AI Pin burned through hundreds of millions before their screenless wearable became a cautionary tale.
    OpenAI's effort is going to burn through far more money and achieve the same results, which is to say none whatsoever.

    We already have phones. They already do everything these AI devices do, and more, and if we don't want to look at the screen, we can just not look at the screen.

    But there's a reason video killed the radio star.

    At least Tech Crunch has an early entry in its "Dumbest Things in Tech in 2026" roundup.


  • The phone is dead long live... What, exactly? (Tech Crunch)

    OpenAI and the unlamented Humane pin are not alone in this folly. There's billions of dollars chasing this lack of ideas.

    The one place where I see possibility is AI glasses. You can integrate a camera and a speaker and a microphone and a tiny display. Your hands are free to do whatever. There are problems, yes, but also real value.


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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 1, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

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Happy New Year, Hordelings! First ONT of the year. Aren't you glad you stopped by?

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New Years Day Cafe

—Ace

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Sunrise over the Great Sand Dunes
Krista Mae Photography

This better not awaken anything weird in me.

Caught, in flagrante delicious!

Dog believes that it's time to get up.

The neighbor dogs.

Dogs smiling for the camera.

Leaping into the new year like...

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Always Sunny Discusses 9/11 Open Thread

—Ace

"The Gang Starts Listening to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens."

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Beaver Lovers Open Thread

—Ace

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New York Circa 1746 Open Thread

—Ace

This better not be AI.

One of my favorite parts of movies is -- or was -- the use of models and later CGI to recreate historical cities.

Now people are cranking these out at home.

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Family Fun With Crossbows Open Thread

—Ace

Happy New Year!

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Democrat Hitman Jack Smith Admits: I Never Called Madison Cornbread to Testify Because Her Testimony Was Nothing But Second- or Third-Hand Gossip and Hearsay

—Ace

Any day I can say "Madison Cornbread" is a good day.

Madison Cornbread -- government name, Cassidy Hutchinson -- was the low-level sorority sister aide who decided to become a Democrat superstar influencer by peddling a lot of nonsense about what other people supposedly said to her about Trump violently seizing the steering wheel of the presidential limo (from the back seat!) in order to wrest the controls away from the driver and go to the Capitol so he could lead the insurrection.

All of her "testimony" was nonsense along the lines of "and then Bill told me something to the effect of" or "and then John told me something to the effect of."

She was very proud of the "to the effect of" phrase. She thought it made her sound smaaaaaht.

Jack Smith now says that all of her testimony was something to the effect of bullshit nonsense hearsay, and all, by the way, denied by the people she claimed she had heard it from, and that's why he never even considered calling her as a witness.

. This brings us back, then, to the strange case of "Madison Cornbread." She became the "star witness" of that Star Chamber charade because she was willing to share mere gossip -- "so-and-so told me that Trump said this" -- in particular claiming that Trump had attempted to physically overpower his limousine driver to force him to drive to the Capitol. Actual witnesses immediately contradicted this testimony, but of course the J6 committee never presented these contradicting witnesses, allowing Cassidy Hutchinson's dubious testimony to become the defining narrative.

Naturally, Simon & Schuster gave her a fat advance to write a book, a six-figure payoff for her service to the anti-Trump cause.

Of course, another six-figure media payoff. And Republicans continue to permit this.

And now, more than three years after her 15 minutes of fame, we get this ironic coda:
The House Select January 6th Committee's "star" Cassidy Hutchinson provided "secondhand hearsay" about the 2021 Capitol riot and wasn't considered as a witness in the election interference case brought against President Trump, according to former special counsel Jack Smith.

Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition on Dec. 17 that Hutchinson -- who testified at the Jan. 6 select panel's made-for-TV hearings in June 2022 -- "certainly" wouldn't have made a "powerful" witness because she couldn't provide "firsthand" testimony.

"My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson, at least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people," the ex-Trump prosecutor testified to the Judiciary lawmakers and staff, the deposition's transcript shows.

Game. Set. Match.

Here we have the special counsel who got the assignment to put Donald Trump in prison over the 2020 election dispute saying, under oath, that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony was just gossip. Any first-year law student has to know that hearsay is inadmissable as evidence in a legal proceeding, and Jack Smith couldn't go to court with that stuff.

Thanks to The Patriarch Tree.

I'm not working today, just some open threads and then a Cafe, but I thought you'd like an update on Madison Cornbread.

What are your plans? I've got a good one. I haven't been to a restaurant in at least a month but I'm going out for steak. Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.

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The Morning Rant And New Year's Swap Meet

—CBD

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Happy New Year!

Who wants to swap my 70-year-old 10-key for a slide rule and a pair of warm socks?

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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The wasteland II
Jeffrey Smart

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The Morning Report — 1/1/26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. Happy new year everyone! Sadly we kick things off on a truly tragic note; many fatalities have been reported as a result of a fire at a Swiss ski lodge that broke out on New Year's eve. Given everything going on in the world today, while there is scant information about the cause, the Islamic angle is certainly top of mind. Yikes.

Well, it is indeed a new day and a new year but sadly much of the same old insanity as well as flashes of normalcy as we still have President Trump firmly in the Oval Office pushing the MAGA and America first agendas domestically and internationally.


As CBD and I discussed on the final episode of 2025 linked here as well as in the sidebar and available on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, Donald Trump isn't necessarily a revolutionary as he is or positions himself a "reformer."


As was the case with this Amy Vermin Jackson hack-in-black who illegally blocked his Constitutional authority as Chief executive from running this CFPB politburo (itself a completely anti-Constitunal entity as we discussed yesterday). God bless the President he still has faith that an utterly corrupt institution and those who belong to it that are at the heart of the corruption will act honorably and play by the rules and not act as partisan anti-American internal enemies of the people in advancing their goal to take him down and take America down. That has always been his Achilles heel. He cannot or will not distinguish mere rivals from mortal enemies in the figurative and literal sense.

In 2025 there were two assassination attempts on the President and a possible third that was linked to the regime in Tehran. On top of that of course was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a leading light and voice of American political and societal revival who more than anyone in recent memory was able to reach and steer the youth of this nation away from the siren song of Leftism. For that direct threat to the multi-generational assault on this nation and society by those who continue to seek our destruction and/or subjugation, Kirk had to be taken down. Regardless, TPUSA and its mission continue. How many young people has the late Charlie Kirk inspired or otherwise enlightened and set on the straight and narrow, as President Trump is fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see.

Of course the fallout over the Somali immigrant sacking and looting of the Minnesota and quite likely state treasuries of Ohio and quite a few other blue and sadly red states as well will be the top story as we head into 2026. While the Leftist controlled propaganda machine will do all it can to embargo and bury the truth or otherwise completely distort it as a Trump Hitlerite white supremacist assault on the African Somali immigrant community whose presence on our soil is a blessing and gift from Heaven instead of at least two of the 10 plagues of Passover/Exodus fame.

Were it not for the intrepid and wonderful reportage of one Nick Shirley, who at the tender age of 23 to me for this alone is the grand old man of real journalism. For doing what he did, he now likely has a gigantic target on his head

YouTuber Nick Shirley said on “PBD Podcast” on Wednesday that people have been telling him he will be assassinated like Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk after his viral video on alleged Somali fraud.

Shirley’s Friday video showed him finding that multiple supposed Minnesota Somali-run daycare centers, including one that reportedly obtained $4 million in taxpayer funds, lacked children. On the podcast, Shirley detailed threats he has received, along with how his family has been affected. (RELATED: Corporate Media Outlets Turn Blind Eye To Somali Fraud Scandal)

Considering the players involved, no not just the low-level hoods but the top echelons of the Minnesota and quite likely national Democrat Party as well as Al Shabab ISIS and other terrorist organizations operating in Somalia and elsewhere, do you really think they're going to let someone get away with putting them out of business? Minnesota is likely the tip of the iceberg as it probably goes way beyond Minnesota and the Somali community but other immigrant groups and native -born fraudsters.

Already, the usual suspects are preemptively justifying and calling for the assassination of anyone who dares even come near them.

The top legal reporter for Politico.com apparently suggested Tuesday a person can be legally shot for asking questions at the doorsteps of businesses.


Just look to the hell that Project Veritas' James O'Keefe (whose name I just couldn't remember for the life of me when we spoke of this on the podcast) has been put through over the years for his incredible exposés of Leftist graft.

And lest we forget the decade of hell the evil fellatrix Kamala Harris as Attorney General of California put David Daleidin and Sandra Merrit through for their explosive exposé of Planned Parenthood's dismembering and selling of of infant body parts.

Here's hoping and praying that 2026 sees legions of Charlie Kirks and Nick Shirleys coming forward. Again, as we bemoaned on the podcast President Trump can't be expected to drain the swamp, the size and depth of every ocean on the planet, all by himself. And here's hoping that the prognostications about our youth drifting and even rushing headlong to embrace socialism are somehow off base and missing something that would indicate otherwise. I have the greatest respect and admiration for our dear friend Jim Lakely at heartland.org but every time we talk to him about his polling, vis a vis the aforementioned I want to slit my wrists.

Other than that, could the Mullahs in Iran at long last finally be on the ropes and perhaps dangling a la the Ceaucescus from ropes on a Tehran lamp post. We've seen this picture before and sadly the protests fizzled and more accurately were brutally crushed by the IRGC. And lest we forget back in 2009 Barack Obama refused to support the Persian people and threw his full throated support behind the Mullahs with pallets of cash to help the build their nukes and export Islamic terrorism around the globe.

But this time is different because the Iranian currency the RIAL is cratering, their water supply is in tatters along with their oil refineries, the people are sicker than ever with the mullahs and their thugs, and Donald J. Trump is in office and no doubt will try and unseat the Mullahocracy if at all possible via sanctions and perhaps other means.


If Iran can be liberated after more than 45 years of ISlamo tyranny, what a blessing for their people and indeed for the world as a whole since they are the #1 with a bullet biggest state sponsor of global terrorism.

Have a great day And here's wishing all of you a very happy healthy and prosperous 2026.

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—Pixy Misa

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New Years Eve ONT - December 31, 2025 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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New Years' Rockin' Eve Cafe

—Ace

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Chinese are good at fireworks.

Japan, too.

Hong Kong.

Are you celebrating? I've got my "big move" planned.

Guy invents a kickass exercise for The End Times and finds out that other gym-goers want to learn his moves.

"Fashion."

Me, starting now.

The Supervisor.

Cynics will say that this is AI


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Minnesota Policy Allows Voters to "Vouch" for Up to Eight Unregistered People (Who Don't Show Proof of Citizenship, Of Course) to Allow Them to Vote Through Same-Day Registration

—Ace

Disqualify Minnesota's electoral votes. We cannot allow brazen election theft.

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

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

"A registered voter from your precinct can go with you to the polling place to sign an oath confirming your address. This is known as 'vouching.' A registered voter can vouch for up to eight voters," the website reads.


Those being vouched for still must provide at least one form of identity verification, which includes a valid Minnesota driver's license or learner's permit, a "receipt" for them, or a tribal identification card that includes a photo and signature, according to the rules.

Vouching is then used to verify a potential voter's residence in the precinct.

As long as the prospective voter can prove they live in the state, proof of ID can include a driver's license or learner's permit from any of the 50 states, a passport, an expired ID, military ID, or high school or college ID.

However, critics have noted that Gov. Tim Walz's 2023 "Driver's Licenses for All" bill allows people to obtain licenses regardless of immigration status. Licenses carry no marking indicating citizenship, despite being regularly used to register to vote.

"It was made for fraud," Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, declared in on X.

US Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he believes his SAVE Act (Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility) could throw a wrench into Minnesota's policy.

Under the bill, which passed in the House but has stalled in the Senate, voters would be required to provide proof of citizenship to cast their ballots in federal elections.

It would establish criminal penalties for election officials who register applicants who have not provided such documentation.

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Wall Street Journal: Yes, Trump Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago in 2003 After Being Informed Epstein Pressured an 18-Year-Old Spa Worker for Sex

—Ace

But-- but-- But Muh Trump.

Via Ed Morrissey:

Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a frequent visitor to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The club was also sending spa employees--usually young women--to Epstein's nearby mansion for massages, manicures and other spa services, according to former Mar-a-Lago and Epstein employees. ...

The spa occasionally provided house calls for members. Epstein wasn't a dues-paying member of the club, but Trump told staff to treat him like one, the employees said. Epstein had an account at the spa where his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, booked appointments on his behalf.

They came to a halt in 2003, after an 18-year-old beautician returned to the club from a house call to Epstein and reported to managers that he had pressured her for sex, former employees said.

A manager sent Trump a fax relaying the employee's allegations and urged him to ban Epstein, some of the former employees said. Trump told the manager it was a good letter and said to kick him out.


Morrissey adds:

The WSJ notes that Mar-a-Lago aestheticians and spa workers had begun warning each other about Epstein previous to this incident. However, all of these employees were "typically licensed," which means they were adults. The young woman in this incident was 18 years old at the time it occurred. Furthermore, this appears to be the first time that the employees raised this concern all the way to Trump himself. As soon as Trump heard about it, he acted to cut off Epstein's access to Mar-a-Lago and stopped socializing with him at the same time.

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Somali Pirate: Racist Thieves Broke Into Our Very Legitimate Day Care and Stole All the Enrollment and Employee Records That Would Prove This Is a Legitimate Business and Not a Pirate Plundering Operation

—Ace

Drat -- the racist thieves stole the very documents that would allow the pirates to clear their good piratical names!

Oh, and he slips it in that they tore off checks from the "day care's" checkbook, too. Not the whole checkbook, for some reason, but just certain checks.

So if you find any checks from the company going to pay for obviously-personal luxuries -- well, that must have been the racist thieves.

So convenient of the thieves.

He also -- get this -- claims to be a victim of racism, you Racists.

A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in and stole "important documents" as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services.

Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building's office, sometime on Tuesday.

He said the alleged prowler stole "important documentation" including children's enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.


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Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, at a press conference with other individuals, one of whom holds a sign that reads "Racism Has NO Place in Childcare".
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Absolute LOL.

Look at that uggo Karen holding her Racists Repent! sign.

Mohamed blamed last week's viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley, in which he visited nearly a dozen day care facilities looking for evidence of fraud, for the incident.

"This is devastating news, and we don't know why this is targeting our Somali community as one video made by a specific individual made this all happen," he said, claiming they've received "hateful" and "threatening" messages over the last several days.

"This is frightening and exhausting," he said, calling Shirley's reporting "false."

Nakomis Day Care Center was not one of the facilities featured in Shirley's video, which has been viewed over 110 million times.


At least $1 billion in fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Minneapolis so far, including fraudulent food, housing and child care payments, with warnings from the US Attorney's Office that the true figure could be as high as $9 billion.

Ninety-two people have been arrested in connection with the scheme, 80 of whom are Somali immigrants.

On Tuesday night, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced it was freezing all child care payments to Minnesota -- which totaled $185 million in 2025 alone -- unless proof is provided that the payments are legitimate.

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More Daycare Fraud Suspected, This Time in Washington

—Ace

Via John Sexton, a citizen journalist went to the listed address of a "daycare" that's received $210,000 in federal funding this year.

But no one sees any kids enter the place, and the people at the address refuse to answer the door.

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Five Billion in "Questionable" Rental Assistance Went to Dead Tennants, Illegal Aliens Under Biden

—Ace

No wonder they loved covid so much.

While we were locked down, they were living the high life, on our dime.

We just saw new allegations that illegals and Somali pirates scammed the covid-era loans for businesses program.

$5B in 'questionable' rental assistance under Biden revealed -- including to thousands of 'deceased tenants' and non-citizens: HUD report

WASHINGTON -- A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to "questionable" rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration -- including around 30,000 "deceased tenants" and "thousands" of potential non-citizens, The Post can reveal.

HUD officials said a "large concentration" of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states -- in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers' dollars under the Biden administration.

"A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden's watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration's failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments," HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement.


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HUD's Office of the Chief Financial Officer uncovered $5.8 billion of the "questionable" payments out of nearly $50 billion in total federal rental assistance to public housing authorities, contractors, landlords and other non-federal entities in fiscal year 2024, the 183-page report disclosed.

The around 11% of taxpayer dollars from HUD went to more than 200,000 possibly ineligible tenants -- of whom 29,715 (around 14%) were dead, 9,472 (4%) were non-citizens and 165,393 (82%) were receiving sums that exceeded the threshold for assistance in their geographic region, particularly in New Orleans and other large metro areas.

The HUD programs are designed to help low-income residents who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford shelter -- and the possible grift means those truly in need could have been left out in the cold.

HUD officials faulted the Biden administration for a directive "to push funding out the door with minimal oversight" as well as rent assistance programs placing "substantial trust and responsibility in these non-federal entities ... to accurately assess tenant eligibility."

Now, HUD will have to reach out to the public housing authorities and other entities to confirm the extent of the fraud -- and either pause or revoke funding. Officials will also make criminal referrals when warranted.

"HUD is implementing processes and procedures to revoke or pause funding as part of its efforts to hold bad actors accountable," one official said. "Additionally, the Department could make criminal referrals and exercise other enforcement actions once it has confirmed fraud occurred."

We're still funding this?

And if you think Minnesota fraud is a scandal: Get a load of the massive industrial-scale looting in California.

A fresh 92-page bombshell from the California State Auditor lays it all out.

"This latest report was issued by the state auditor, and that's a nonpartisan position; that state auditor now puts eight state agencies on the high-risk list of agencies to watch out for, for things like fraud and mismanagement as well as waste," Newsmax correspondent Heather Myers revealed last week. "Here's a look at that 92-page report. Newly added to the high-risk list is California's food stamp program. If the state doesn't get the improper payments under control, it could cost an extra $2.5 billion. Also on there is the Department of Finance, which was tasked with giving out COVID relief funds. Critics say $32 billion of that was taken by fraudsters. Then there are infrastructure issues like California's deteriorating dams, and also the high-speed train that's already cost taxpayers 18 billion without a single section of track complete."

But wait, there's more!

"Other reports cite $24 billion spent on the homeless issue that critics claim the state lost track of. More recently, there's a report that says California cell phone users paid a surcharge for years to upgrade the state's 911 system," she added.

Tallied all up, California taxpayers lost $70 billion to fraud.

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Best wishes for a speedy recovery! [CBD]
Trump Says 'We Have the Makings' of a Peace Deal in Ukraine It sounds nice, but please take Winston Wolf's advice. [CBD]
This isn't Christmas Eve fare, and I thought about waiting until the 26th to post it, but supposedly an amateur detective has solved the Zodiac killer mystery. And the horrific Black Dahlia killing. He says it's the same person! I always thought of them as very far apart in time but I think Black Dahlia was mid-fifties (nope, 1947) mid and the Zodiac murders began in 1968 so it's possible it's the same killer.

The killer, if it's the same man, would have been in his 20s when he killed the Black Dahlia and his 40s when he did the Zodiac murders. Possible.

A little caveat: I saw someone snark on Reddit, "The Zodiac case gets solved more often than Wordle." There are a ton of coincidences here, supposedly, like a Zodiac cipher being solved by the name "Elizabeth." Elizabeth Short was the name of the so-called Black Dahlia.

If you don't know about the Black Dahlia, don't look it up. Just accept that it's grisly on the level of Jack the Ripper.

Yes, the named suspect resembles the police sketch of Zodiac.

Here's a podcast with the amateur sleuth who claims he cracked the Zodiac.
Daily Mail article.
Link to get around the LA Times' paywall for their article.
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Podcast: The great Trump fleet? The economy is solid, Somalia's corrosive effect on America, Merry Christmas, and more!
Former Republican liberal Ben Sasse announces that he has stage IV metastasized pancreatic cancer: "I'm gonna die"
It's not just a "death sentence," as he says, but a rapidly coming one. I hope he can put his affairs in order and make sure his family is in a good as a position as they can be.
Brown killer takes the coward's way out. Naturally.
Still not identified, for some reason.
Per Fox 25 Boston, the killer was a non-citizen permanent legal resident
It continues to be strange that the police are so protective of his identity.
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Podcast: Will Ukraine be a flashpoint for a Korean conflict, Trump's intemperate Reiner comments, it's the economy stupid! the Monroe/Trump Doctrine, Bondi, Brown, MIT, and more!
Fearful French cancel NYE concert on Champs-Élysées as migrant violence grows
The time is now! France must fight for its culture! [CBD]
Megyn Kelly finally calls out Candace Owens
Whoops, I meant she bravely attacks Sydney Sweeney for "bending the knee." (Sweeney put out a very empty PR statement saying "I'm against hate." Whoop-de-doo.)
Megyn Kelly claims she doesn't want to call people out on the right when asked about Candace Owens but then has no compunctions at all about calling people out on the right.
As long as they're not Candace Owens. Strangely, she seems blind and deaf to anything Candace Owens says. That's why this woman calls her "Megyn Keller."
She's now asking her pay-pigs in Pakistan how they think she should address the Candace Owens situation, and if they think this is really all about Israel and the Jews.
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