Quick Hits
—Ace
Dr. Oz, head of Medicare and Medicaid, reports we're beingreipped off to the tune of billions:
DrOzCMS @DrOzCMSUPDATE: It's worse than we thought.
In October, we flagged $1.3 billion in Medicaid funds that 6 states may have unlawfully spent on health care for illegal immigrants.
Since then, we’ve gathered more data and the total has grown to over $1.8 billion across 8 states.
It's against the law to spend federal Medicaid funds on non-emergency healthcare for illegals. If states use their own money to do it, there needs to be a clear paper trail proving that federal dollars didn’t fund those services.
These states failed to provide that for this $1.8 billion. So today, CMS is announcing that we're withholding nearly $300 million from California -- which is by far the worst offender -- until they demonstrate to our satisfaction that they’re spending that money properly.
Medicaid dollars belong to Americans, not illegal immigrants, and we won’t stop until we’ve held rogue states accountable and recovered their misspent funds.
More announcements to come.
US orders partial evacuation of military personnel at Qatar military base.
The United States military has ordered some personnel to evacuate the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar amid ongoing demonstrations in Iran and President Donald Trump's suggestion of possible military action, the Associated Press reported, citing "a U.S. official."Al Udeid previously came under Iranian fire in the wake of U.S. strikes on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program last year. The scope of the evacuation remains unclear.
Does that mean the strikes are coming? I don't know. Trump announced that he had it on "good authority" that Iran had stopped massacring its people, which sounds like a possible off-ramp to a strike.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was told by Iran that the killings of protesters will stop and that there are no plans for further executions.Iran has reportedly killed at least 2,000 anti-regime protesters so far as demonstrations engulf the Middle Eastern country. Some foreign leaders have predicted that Iran's regime is in its final days.
Trump said his information was coming from "very important sources on the other side," and that executions, including one of an Iranian shopkeeper, are not expected to take place, despite a notice to the shopkeeper's family indicating otherwise.
"We were told that the killing in Iran is stopping, and there's no plan for executions," Trump told reporters. "The killing has stopped. The executions have stopped. There's no plan for executions or an execution. I've been told that on good authority. We'll find out about it. I'm sure if it happens I'll be very upset."
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Trump Stops the Issuance of Visas to Migrants from 75 Welfare-Sucking Countries
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Department of State @StateDeptThe State Department will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates. The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.
The pause impacts dozens of countries -- including Somalia, Haiti, Iran, and Eritrea -- whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival.
We are working to ensure the generosity of the American people will no longer be abused.
President Trump's State Department moved Wednesday to halt immigrant visa processing from 75 countries after internal data showed migrants from those nations are entering the United States and enrolling in taxpayer-funded welfare programs at what officials described as unacceptable rates.The decision, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, places an immediate pause on visa approvals until the U.S. can verify that future immigrants will be financially self-sufficient rather than dependent on public assistance.
In a formal statement, the United States Department of State said the freeze is intended to prevent additional strain on American taxpayers and ensure the country's immigration system no longer rewards welfare dependence, stressing that the administration's priority is protecting American workers and public resources.
The pause affects dozens of countries identified by the department as consistently producing high numbers of migrants who become public charges shortly after arrival, including Somalia, Haiti, Iran, and Eritrea, with officials emphasizing that the policy will remain in place until safeguards are in place to stop what they view as systemic abuse of U.S. generosity.
The Islamist United Kingdom Bans Scalding Hot Commentator Eva Vlaadingerbroek From Entering the Country Even As It Welcomes a Radical Hamas-Supporting Muslim Hate Cultist
—Ace
Queer Starmer has ended free speech in the UK.
Journalist and political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek says the UK government has revoked her authorization to travel to Britain, citing that her presence is "not considered to be conducive to the public good," a move she says followed days after she slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his government's approach to online speech.Vlaardingerbroek shared an image of a notice from the UK government stating that her Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) had been cancelled effective January 13, 2026. The notice states that she may not travel to the UK without a visa and that the decision cannot be appealed.
"Holy sh*t. I've been banned from traveling to the UK. They revoked my ETA," Vlaardingerbroek wrote on X. Quoting the notice, she added, "Your presence in the UK is not considered to be [conducive] to the public good." In a follow-up, Vlaardingerbroek said, "No reason given. No right to appeal. Zero due process. Just an email saying the UK government deems me 'not conducive to the public good' - exactly three days after I criticized Keir Starmer. I guess my point that the UK is no longer a free country has been indisputably proven."
Meanwhile, Queer Starmer is blocking an effort to outlaw first cousin-marriage in the UK -- which didn't previously need to be outlawed, because the actual British population long ago stopped doing it -- to appease his last bastion of diehard supporters, Muslim migrants.
. In the UK, 4% of infant deaths are caused by birth defects stemming from first-cousin marriages--about three times the rate of deaths from substance abuse.Despite the obvious health issues associated with the practice, the National Health Service, as a sign of support for the Muslim community, published a report on the benefits of first-cousin marriages. I kid you not.
The NHS has been urged to apologise for publishing an article extolling the benefits of first-cousin marriage despite the increased risk of birth defects.
The article published last week by the NHS England's Genomics Education Programme says first-cousin marriage is linked to "stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages".
But the practice has also been linked to oppression of women and also has a proven increased risk of genetic disease in offspring of first-cousin relationships.
Richard Holden, the Tory MP, told the Mail On Sunday: "Our NHS should stop taking the knee to damaging and oppressive cultural practices.
"The Conservatives want to see an end to cousin marriage as a backdoor to immigration too, but Labour are deaf to these sensible demands.
"Sir Keir Starmer should stop running scared of the misogynistic community controllers and their quislings who appear in the form of cultural relativist-obsessed sociology professors, and ban a practice the overwhelming majority, from every community in Britain, want to see ended for good."
Yes, you read that right. The NHS admits that first-cousin marriage is terrible for health, but should be praised because it is good for "extended family support and economic advantages." I guess that is why the British Muslim community is so culturally healthy. Can we get a similar explanation for why child marriage is good for the economic viability of the families who sell their daughters to wealthy men?
Linda Duberley @LindaDuberleyThis is the last straw. I have seen first hand the catastrophic disabilities caused by first cousin marriage - on one occasion a young girl permanently fed by a nasal-gastric tube and unable even to use a wheelchair - one of two children with birth defects born to the same mother. @Keir_Starmer should be ashamed of himself that he would rather allow this terrible situation to continue than challenge those Labour MPs of whom he is afraid
Christine Hardman @Christi44330266Jan 12
Absolutely. He should visit some of the paediatric palliative care homes for these children. They are heartbreaking. Setting aside the funds needed. The children have problems beyond the imaginable.
I have a friend who worked for the social services transport services taking disabled children to 'school' and she picked up 3 from the same family all in wheelchairs
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TSA Agents Tracked $136 Million Being Taken Out of the Country Through Ohio Airports
Plus: Iran Directly Threatens to Assassinate Trump
—Ace
From Minnesota to Ohio to Amsterdam to Dubai.
Somali Suitcase Stash: Feds say $130 million moved from Ohio airport to Minnesota on way overseasOfficials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration agents tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023. This follows reports that millions of dollars were discovered leaving Minnesota airports.
By John SolomonPublished: January 13, 2026 11:00pm
Federal agents investigating a Somali immigrant operation that moved massive amounts of cash in suitcases from the Minneapolis airport to overseas have uncovered a new leg of the courier journey: the Columbus, Ohio airport.
Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.
The cash movements were made by U.S. citizens of Somali origin who flew out of the Columbus airport en route to either the airports in Minneapolis or Atlanta, and the couriers always declared the cash as legally required on documents, officials said.
"Typically, when they go to Minneapolis, they drop off the cash and then a subsequent courier travels abroad from Minneapolis to Dubai through Amsterdam," one official familiar with the investigation told Just the News on Tuesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
The officials said they appear to have uncovered a massive cash movement operation that gathered money from multiple Somali immigrant communities in the West, Midwest and South that eventually brought luggage filled with currency to Minneapolis for flights overseas.
Just the News reported exclusively last week that TSA detected nearly $700 million in cash in luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport in 2024 and 2025, frequently headed on a route to Amsterdam and then Dubai where U.S. officials lost the tracking. The TSA agents routinely alerted investigators during the Biden years, but there was little interest in probing the money movements further until President Donald Trump took office last year.
Unrelated: Iran state TV to Trump: "This time, the bullet won't miss."
Iran issued a sickening threat against President Trump Wednesday, broadcasting a picture of the commander in chief during the 2024 Butler rally assassination attempt -- with the words "This time it will not miss the target."The ominous warning was aired on Iranian state-run TV, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
It marks Tehran's most direct threat yet against Trump, following his repeated threats that the US will strike the country if it continues its brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Iran appeared to step up threats against Trump by broadcasting a photo of him during the Butler assassination attempt.
The image of a bloodied-Trump appeared to be taken from a pro-government rally in Iran, which has been allowed to air despite nationwide blackouts over the protests against the regime.
Trump was infamously the target of an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he was shot in the ear by gunman Thomas Crooks.
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Former McDonald's Worker (?) Kamala Harris Buys $8 Million Graft Mansion
—Ace
Boy, "civil servants" who supposedly make much less money than they would command in the private sector sure do get filthy rich.
How does that happen?
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is upgrading her Los Angeles real estate portfolio, trading one celebrity-soaked neighborhood for another.
Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff recently dropped a little over $8 million ($8.15 million) on a 4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, six-bathroom home in Point Dume, a neighborhood in Malibu that's home to a who's who of both Hollywood and -- more recently -- Silicon Valley power players, the California Post has learned.
Oh right, her woman-beating husband is a lawyer.
In recent weeks several Point Dume residents have spotted Emhoff strolling through the neighborhood which rests on a 63-acre promontory perched above one of California's most famous and exclusive beaches known as Little Dume.Access to Little Dume, which boasts one of the most coveted surf breaks in all of California requires a special key that only a select group of Point Dume residents can possess.
While much of Malibu remains devastated by the one-two punch of the 2018 Woolsey Fire and the 2025 Palisades Fire, Point Dume is in relatively good shape compared to other parts of Malibu.
Speaking of: Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass promised they would clear the red tape to allow people to rebuild the houses the California government burned down.
Barely any houses have been rebuilt.
Mike Kelley @MikeKel25187159Jan 12
Adam Carolla just revisited Malibu. He found one house being rebuilt. The owner had to spend $2.5 million just for his foundation to meet CA requirements. It looks like a missile silo. Meanwhile, the nearby wooden pier still stands after 120 years.
Yup, they sure cleared out that red tape...
Look at what the government required this property owner to build before he could put down the first beam of his house: Caissons four stories deep!
They're also forcing him to build a sea wall to protect against erosion. The sea wall is also required to be built with caissons extending down four to five stories to the bedrock.
Clearing out the red tape, requiring citizens to build sea walls to protect the coast one property lot at a time.
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Agent Run Down by Mentally-Ill Queer Terrorist Suffered Internal Bleeding, Is Now In Hiding, Fearing Assassination by Other Left-Wing Terrorists
—Ace
The queer terrorist just "bumped" him with her car, like they were dancing.
CBS News @CBSNews
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
Under mounting threats and online harassment, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good is now in hiding, according to President Trump's border czar Tom Homan, who confirmed Tuesday that the situation has deteriorated to the point where the agent's safety -- and that of his family -- is at risk.Speaking on Will Cain Country, Homan said ICE agent Jonathan Ross has been forced out of public view as activists circulate his photograph, personal information, and even "wanted for murder" posters online, accompanied by what Homan described as explicit death threats.
Homan said Ross is remaining out of sight while investigations into the shooting continue, stressing that facts -- not political pressure -- should determine the outcome.
"I know for a fact now he has to be in hiding," Homan said, confirming that the threats extend to Ross's family as well.
Cain pressed him directly on whether the agent was in hiding, and Homan answered flatly: "Yes. For the safety of him and his family."
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
The fraud problem in government programs is blowing up in a way that may cause serious problems for the government at all levels. What Nick Shirley exposed began as "Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota." It quickly ballooned to "Somali program fraud in Minnesota" and then to "Somali program fraud in multiple states" and is now in the process of becoming "widespread fraud everywhere." This is, to put it mildly, bad and presents a conundrum in terms of how the government will respond to it.
It's a tough problem because of widespread it is, how long it has been going on, record low trust and the need to maintain legitimacy. There are a few ways to try to address what is clearly a systemic, all-levels problem and I suspect Bessent's declaration yesterday that "5%-10%" of the federal budget is stolen is a key part of framing a response that can thread the needle.
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The Morning Report — 1/14/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. It's all well and good that President Trump has named a few Muslim Brotherhood branches overseas as terrorist organizations. Which should've been done ages ago but the existential threat to whatever shred of America as founded that still exists is right here.
When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found. At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.
It's a very short walk from childish pranks to disturbing the peace and then ultimately terrorism. The decomposing zombie who attempted to ram ICE agents in Minneapolis didn't just make a snap decision that led to her demise. She was propagandized to the point of brainwashing. No right thinking rational person would have ever put himself/herself in the position to be directly confronting law enforcement officers let alone attempt to kill them. They allowed themselves to be absorbed into a death cult to become cannon fodder. Cut off the money and you cut off the lifeblood of the cancer that is killing us from within.
Meanwhile, the citizens' uprising in Iran which has been going on for days has led to ever increasing violence and repression on the part of the Mullahs, which is in direct proportion I assume to the growing fear that their hold on power might at long last be at an end. Beyond crucial moral rhetorical and diplomatic support for the Iranian people, President Trump is upping the ante.
As the death toll from Iran’s crackdown on anti-regime protests reaches staggering levels — with families searching through body bags, over 10,000 arrested, and executions underway — President Donald Trump canceled all talks with Iranian officials, declared “help is on its way,” warned that regime killers “will pay a big price,” and urged protesters to “take over your institutions” against the brutal Islamic Republic theocracy, while the U.S. urged Americans to leave the country.
Is it bluster or will the President back up the tough rhetoric with concrete action, meaning military strikes on regime targets? There are pluses and minuses to be sure, as the erudite Michael Goodwin notes in his analysis of the situation...
American power can make itself known in various ways, as Teddy Roosevelt brilliantly outlined with his famous admonition to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”Truth be told, Donald Trump has never been a fan of speaking softly, but his Tuesday comments on the upheavals in Iran still managed to be close enough for now.. . .He noted that “hawkish U.S. policies toward Iran have historically empowered hardliners” and that military action “risks changing the subject from Iranians’ justified grievances against the regime to its international opponents,” namely Israel and the US.
“Trying to appropriate domestic opposition inside Iran risks undermining it,” he adds, and argues that “a pragmatic, hands-off approach should guide U.S. policy in the days ahead.”
Additionally, with Washington increasingly focused on the midterm elections, Trump is already facing domestic controversies, such as the ICE crackdown, and, most important, tough polling numbers on his handling of the economy.
A Real Clear Politics average of surveys taken in recent weeks shows 41% of respondents approving of his economic policies and actions, with 56% disapproving. . . Against that backdrop, and with events in Venezuela still unsettled, a military entanglement in Iran would probably not be popular at home.
That’s not to say the US should turn its back on the brutal regime’s crackdown. But the political reality is that the president can’t afford to turn his attention too far or too long from Americans’ kitchen table issues.
As you probably could have guessed, Jackson struggled through a series of nearly incomprehensible statements about sex, gender identity, and sports classifications. It was embarrassing.“You have the overarching classification, you know, everybody has to be, um, uh, uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth. Um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that. Meaning, a distinction, meaning that, um, for, uh, cisginger [sic] girls they can play consistent with their gender identity, w- for transgender girls, they can’t.”
It’s hilarious that Jackson stumbled over the pronunciation of one of the left’s favorite made-up words, all while failing to understand the difference between real girls and boys who pretend to be girls.
SCOTUS observers have noted that it was not a shining moment for those promoting the transexual madness and that sanity might actually prevail. But of course this is the Supreme Court and the preservation of Leftism and its pomps has been its priority, Heller and Dobbs among a few other rare exceptions notwithstanding.
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- Lloyd Billingsley: When Somalia-born Minneapolis cop killed the woman who called 911.
When Mohammed Shot Justine
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Daily Tech News 14 January 2026
—Pixy Misa
- Every part of human bodies from the brain to, um, other bits, is increasingly overrun with microscopic particles of plastic, unless somehow every study generated by the entire field is measuring contaminants or misinterpreting normal biological processes. (The Guardian)
But that couldn't possibly be true, could it?"I'm convinced we detected microplastics," she said. "But I've always said that [the amount estimated] could be maybe twice lower, or 10 times higher." In response to Kuhlman's letter, Prof Lamoree and colleagues said he had "incorrectly interpreted" the data.
Well, that doesn't sound convinced. And Lamoree was the lead author on a 2022 paper that first detected microplastics in human blood.Prof Lamoree said: "I really think we should collaborate on a much nicer basis - with much more open communication - and don't try to burn down other people's results. We should all move forward instead of fighting each other."
Don't ask questions. Questions are mean!"We do have plastics in us - I think that is safe to assume," said Materić.
Assume?"But real hard proof on how much is yet to come."
And may never arrive.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 13, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT. Appreciate you choosing to end your day here. There's content for those who care. Open thread as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Aussie Animal Rescue Cafe
—Ace
Yorkshire, England
See it before it's gone
How the progressive movement is led by key influencers.
Now he thinks he's a tough guy.
Pygmy possum is just a touch bigger than a cricket.
Adopting an orphaned bear cub.
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Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities
—Ace
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during a speech in Detroit that his administration will cease federal payments to sanctuary cities and states starting next month amid pushback over his immigration policies....
Trump made the declaration during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club, where he also claimed that the United States is at the beginning of an economic boom under his administration.
"Starting Feb. 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens," Trump said. "And it breeds fraud and crime and all the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary."
He also said he'd denaturalize foreign-born criminals.
Trump is also calling for Kash Patel to fire all of the seditious FBI agents involved in the "Arctic Frost" prosecutions of Republicans for the crime of opposing the Democrat Party.
President Trump is publicly demanding a housecleaning at the FBI, calling on Director Kash Patel to remove agents after reacting to a Just the News report detailing how a former senior bureau official helped push the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected conservatives.In a Truth Social post responding to the article, Trump accused FBI personnel involved in the probe of abusing their authority and urged Patel to act immediately, framing the episode as another example of federal law enforcement being turned against political opponents under prior Democrat leadership.
The Just the News report summarizes congressional materials and internal FBI communications related to Arctic Frost, an inquiry that began as a January 6--related investigation but later expanded well beyond the Capitol riot. According to the documents, the probe ultimately placed Trump himself -- along with major conservative groups and GOP officeholders -- under scrutiny, even as agents acknowledged internally that there was no direct evidence tying Trump to criminal conduct.
Records released by Chuck Grassley identify then--FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault as a key figure in driving that expansion. Internal emails show Thibault circulating left-leaning media articles, opinion pieces, and podcasts to colleagues as justification for escalating the probe, while privately conceding the evidentiary basis involving Trump was weak.
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Emails reviewed by lawmakers show Thibault pressing colleagues to include "DJT" in Arctic Frost's launch paperwork and encouraging the use of open-source material and human intelligence to justify the probe after the fact.
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The scope of Arctic Frost extended beyond Trump. Congressional materials cited in the reporting show the probe widened to include major conservative institutions, including the Republican National Committee, the Republican Attorneys General Association, and Turning Point USA, founded by Charlie Kirk.
Patel has since confirmed that his internal review uncovered extensive surveillance and data collection involving elected officials -- eight Republican senators and one congressman -- with records stored in a restricted FBI cyber vault requiring top-level authorization. Patel testified that he located the materials, terminated agents involved, and dismantled CR-15, the Washington Field Office's public corruption unit, which he described as the center of politically motivated misconduct within the bureau.
Justice D-EI Babbles Incoherently and Proves the Danger of Socially Promoting Retards for Racial Beancounting Purposes
—Ace
Sorry for the low-effort blogging. I am bushed today.
Justice D-EI, the least qualified judge (nevermind "justice") in the history of America, continues trying, and failing, to "understand" lawyers' arguments.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh2h
🚨 BREAKING: Attorney EXPERTLY PUMMELS SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Jackson's argument in favor of men in women's sports in the name of "transgender rights"JACKSON: "But they are being prevented from playing on the team that matches their gender identity, correct?!"
ATTORNEY: "That's the effect...so let me use your example from earlier. You said there's a cisgender woman, she can play on the team she wants."
"There's a boy who identifies as a girl, he can't play on the team he wants."
"Take that same boy and switch his gender identity, but say he still wanted to play on the girls' team. Say he was a very unathletic boy. He likewise COULD NOT play on the team."
"So it's NOT the gender identity that's keeping him off the girls' team, it's his biological s*x. His gender identity is wholly irrelevant to it."
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Left-Wing Mentally-Ill Revolutionary LARPers Don't Know That Law Enforcement Officers Load Their Guns With Real Bullets
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They think this is all a Marvel movie.
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Bill Clinton Is a No-Show At Congressional Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein; Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges
—Ace
Steve Bannon went to jail for refusing to show up for testimony.
Former President Bill Clinton appears to have defied a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning.Clinton was compelled to sit for a sworn closed-door deposition in the House's bipartisan probe into Jeffrey Epstein, but Fox News Digital did not see him before or after the scheduled 10 a.m. grilling.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had threatened to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Clinton if he did not appear Tuesday.
Comer said Tuesday morning, "We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee ... to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress."
"I think everyone knows by now Bill Clinton did not show up. And I think it's important to note that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner by this committee," Comer told reporters after formally ending the deposition.
"No one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions. And that's why the Democrats voted, along with Republicans, to subpoena Bill Clinton."
He said "not a single Democrat" showed up to the deposition on Tuesday.
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Hillary Clinton had also been subpoenaed to appear on Wednesday but likely will not show up.
The Clintons' attorney sent Comer a letter confirming they're challenging the legality of the subpoenas issued against them.
"[T]he Subpoenas issued to President and Secretary Clinton are invalid and legally unenforceable. Mindful of these defects, we trust you will engage in good faith to de-escalate this dispute," reads the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital.
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"Your continued insistence that the former President and Secretary of State can be compelled to appear before the Committee under these circumstances, however, brings us toward a protracted and unnecessary legal confrontation that distracts from the principal work of the Congress with respect to this matter, which, if conducted sincerely, could help ensure the victims of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell are afforded some measure of justice for the crimes perpetrated against them, however late. But perhaps distraction is the point."
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Trump Ends "Temporary" Protected Status for Thousands of Somali Pirate Nomads
—Ace
BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them.
But... that's no reason for blackpilling. Change almost never comes with one magic silver bullet. It comes from a lot of small changes sustained over time.
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in USSeveral thousand Somali nationals currently living in the US must leave the country by March 17
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status (TPS) for Somalia, affecting several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S. and several hundred currently living in Minnesota under the protection.
Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17.
"Temporary means temporary," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law's requirement for Temporary Protected Status."
"Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests," Noem added. "We are putting Americans first."
Search their bags on their way out:
Mike Netter @nettermikeBREAKING: TSA data reveal nearly $700 million in declared US cash flagged in luggage by Somali couriers departing Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and yet the Biden The White House told TSA to stand down.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security Administration (TSA) flagged approximately $692 million ($342.4 million in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025) in declared U.S. currency detected in passengers' luggage departing from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)--roughly $1 million per day over the two years--John Solomon, the editor-in-chief of Just the News reports.
The investigative reports state that most of these cash transports were carried by Somali-American couriers on flights to Somalia or other Middle Eastern destinations. The cash was legally declared (as required for amounts over $10,000 under U.S. law), so no immediate seizures or arrests occurred at the airport. However, federal authorities are now probing these movements as potentially linked to money laundering and the export of proceeds from large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota.
Federal investigators suspect fraud proceeds were converted to cash and exported via couriers (often using informal hawala networks common in Somali culture for remittances). Some probes have allegedly linked funds to regions in Somalia controlled by al-Shabaab (a terrorist group).
Source: The Tennessee Star
Update: They'll even skim the money they give to you to bribe a juror.
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Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year
—Ace
I mentioned this on Friday but it's getting more notice now.
Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.
Somewhere between 5-10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
"If we can narrow that number, President Trump asked for a $500 billion increase in the defense budget to fortify the 10 to 20 years of neglect," Bessent told journalist Christopher Rufo in a recent interview.
"If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me."
A GAO analysis found that between $233 billion and $521 billion was lost annually due to fraud during fiscal years 2018 through 2022.
Since fiscal year 2003, improper payments -- separate from fraud -- have likely cost taxpayers about $2.8 trillion, the GAO also found.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to Minnesota -- and in another bit of insurrection, Tim Walz refused to provide security for the visiting Secretary.
Bessent says Walz knows what's coming:
When Bessent came for this roundtable discussion, Gov. Tim Walz reportedly didn't guarantee security at the state capitol, which led to Bessent delivering this haymaker:Tim Walz is a coward. He is a coward. He would not guarantee that the Treasury Secretary would have protection in the Minnesota State Capitol. He's afraid of what is coming."He's not gonna be able to hide," he said. "We will get there."
I hope that means an arrest is coming, and in fact I do take him as implying that.
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Scott Adams, Humorist and Rebel, Dies at Age 68 After Long Fight with Prostate Cancer
—Ace
He's gone to the great Corporate Meeting in the sky.
In more recent years, he became a prolific presence through his books, on social media, through his livestreamed podcasts seven days a week, offering real-time commentary on news and media narratives.In 2023, newspapers across the United States and abroad dropped Dilbert from syndication, ending a run that had lasted more than three decades, after comments Adams made on his podcast were taken out of context to allege that he was racist. He would later describe this encounter with cancel culture as one of the more liberating moments of his life.
While he lost access to longtime readers of his comic strip in newspapers, he gained a huge following among conservatives, who saw the mercilessness of cancel culture at play with him. Still, he continued to publish Dilbert online.
As a podcaster, he started every livestream with his patented "Simultaneous sip," where he would invite everyone watching and listening to join him in "sipping your favorite beverage. I like coffee." From there he would do a one-man monologue, usually for an hour, on the topics of the day, scientific and technology news, and anything else that interested him. He rarely interviewed guests, and did not play audio or video from other media. He typically would just describe it in low-tech fashion.
But because it was a livestream, he would continually interact directly with his audience in real time, monitoring and reading listener comments. So even though his was the only voice you heard, it felt as if he was having a conversation with his audience.
While Adams resisted calling himself a conservative, his point of view most often reflected the Donald Trump base, though at times, he would challenge that base on some issues.
In late 2025, Adams disclosed that he had earlier been diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer, and while he continued to undergo a multitude of aggressive treatments under his doctors' supervision, he continued to appear on his podcast seven days a week, for the most part, right up until yesterday.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Weren't we assured by legions of brilliant 26-year-old journalism majors that tariffs would explode the deficit and inflation would skyrocket? Weren't we breathlessly informed that President Trump's economic policies were reckless and would result in recession, high unemployment, rampant homelessness, Americans starving and, probably, hemorrhoids? Weren't we told that his immigration enforcement would leave American businesses without employees, and that our crops would rot in the fields?
Yet none of that has happened, because the analyses by the media and their academic lackeys who lust after appearances on television were catastrophically wrong, and obviously driven by irrational hatred of the president. Oh, we must add rank ignorance and stupidity to the mix...how many "journalists" know anything about basic economic theory?
So what is going on? Tariffs are filling the government coffers at an astonishing rate. Inflation has been tamed. Businesses are relocating manufacturing to America, the administration isn't spending our tax dollars like the maniacs of the last administration, and there is downward pressure on housing because of deportations (both forced and self). All of that conspires to return the economy and inflation to some semblance of rational behavior.
And let us not forget petroleum! oil prices are dropping to levels we haven't seen since...oh...the last Trump administration! That does two things; it improves our economy, and it injures economies that are overly reliant on oil revenue. You know: Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc!
US Annual Inflation Holds Steady at 2.7 Percent to Finish 2025
The headline says it all! And while the preferred inflation rate of 2% according to the Federal Reserve is still in the future, business can now plan with some reasonable expectation that their costs will not soar in three or six or 12 months. That adds stability to the economy, and to our own finances!
President Trump has chipped away at the deep state and its insane spending, and he has shifted federal revenue away from the taxpayer and onto foreign producers. The shift to tariffs is essentially a consumption tax, but one borne in part by foreign countries, which seems delicious since we have been paying for their defense for the last 80 years!
Of course the judiciary is furious, and has thrown up obstacle after obstacle in the administration's way, but the President and his cabinet have stayed the course, and a gratifying number of their policies have ultimately been upheld. Add in the traitorous senators who are actively supporting the Democrat agenda of obstruction, and it is a wonder that President Trump has gotten anything done, but he has, and the American people see it. Whether that momentum continues into the summer and fall of 2026 is the real question, but if it does, the possibility of an election victory in November will be real, and it will be spectacular!
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