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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 13, 2026 [Doof]
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Lavika Gupta, a resident of Gaur City Avenue-1, in central Noida, recently filed a police complaint against her husband and four in-laws, alleging that she was deceived when she agreed to marry her spouse in 2024. Among her accusations, the woman claims that she was promised a man with lush, healthy hair, but married a bald man wearing a wig.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) filed at Bisrakh police station, Lavika Gupta and Sanyam Jain were married on January 16, 2024. The wife claims that she was deceived at the time, with Jain and his family concealing various details about his physical appearance, education, and financial status.
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Gupta added that when she agreed to marry Sanyam, she was promised a man with “thick hair”, but she later learned that her spouse was bald and wearing a patch to conceal his lack of hair.
Must have been a really good hairpiece!
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Guys can always use more tools, right? I'm not really sure what the purpose of these are, though. Need someone to mansplain, please!
Vampliers come from the company Vampire Tools, a Japanese manufacturer that uses premium high-carbon steel for its professional-grade tools. It has an entire lineup of Vampliers, which refer to specifically designed pliers that can get you out of difficult situations.
Suppose you are using your electric screwdriver to screw in a long screw to hold up some curtains. As you're pressing it into the wall, your driver slips and strips the head of the screw. You try to put your screwdriver back into the head of the screw, but it can't catch any of the edges, and it won't turn the screw anymore. What are you supposed to do?
I've been in situations like this before, and the goal is to get some kind of traction on that screw so it turns. A good set of pliers can feel like a forgotten tool, but even ones that you normally have may not work with their design. At that point, you either want to just get the screw out of the wall, so you can replace it. I've tried different methods, like putting a rubber band onto the top of the screw and adding my screwdriver against that in hopes that the rubber would conform to the top of the screw and allow me to turn it.
With Vampliers, they are engineered with a patented design that has serrations not only vertically down the tip of the pliers but also horizontally. This gives you a greater chance of being able to grab the side of the screw head, rather than having to deal with the stripped head. You can latch onto the side from a downward angle or from a side angle, allowing you to potentially spin the screw and get it to come out.
Help me out, fellas. Are these really must-haves??
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OK, back to the fellas. What's your aiming spot?
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No cognitive dissonance here, right?
2024 Elizabeth Warren: Jerome Powell needs to cut interest rates.
2025 Elizabeth Warren: Trump needs to stop calling for Jerome Powell to cut interest rates.
Now that DoJ is going after Powell, Democrats have declared him to be a saint. So predictable.pic.twitter.com/jDG15KJfLM
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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.
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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.
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
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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
@EricLDaugh
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🚨 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."
🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court
"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the… pic.twitter.com/QTkpru6EqO
Apparently this retard made up a fake new word -- "cisGINGER" -- instead of the correct fake word, "cisgender."
Alito asks a good question -- how can you claim sex discrimination when you claim there is no real thing called "sex" to discriminate on the basis of?
Lawyer representing Hecox refuses to define “man” and “woman,” leading Justice Alito to ask how courts are supposed to determine if there’s been sex-based discrimination without knowing “what sex means.” @FDRLSTpic.twitter.com/aIHYnfrqfS
Overall, the Justices seemed to side with the "cisginger" arguments advanced by the states.
"Given that half the states are allowing it, allowing transgender girls and women to participate, about half are not, why would we at this point, just the role of this court, jump in and try to constitutionalize a rule for the whole country while there's still, as you say, uncertainty and debate?" Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked.
The court has six justices who are considered conservative leaning and three considered liberal leaning.
Kavanaugh, a President Trump nominee, coached a girls' basketball team at his daughters' school for years. On Tuesday, he called the rise of female athletics "inspiring" and questioned whether striking down the bans would eliminate decades of progress.
"There's a harm there, and I think we can't sweep that aside," he said.
Justice Samuel Alito noted that female athletes across the country have voiced opposition to biological boys identifying as girls competing against and alongside them.
"What do you say about them. Are they bigots?" Alito asked. "Are they deluded in thinking they are subjected to unfair competition?"
People are making their own South Park clips, given that the actual South Park guys have jumped the shark and are now tedious anti-Trump establishment c*nts.
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."
🚨 BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee is now moving to hold BILL CLINTON in CONTEMPT of Congress after he refused to testify in the Epstein investigation
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 US
Several 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:
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BREAKING: 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.
Treasury Sec. Bessent tells @christopherrufo one of the many shocking fraud stories out of MN: "One of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. As it turned out, she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000." https://t.co/c9C3CwCROHpic.twitter.com/Na7i0DlLa3
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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Iranian demonstrators set mosques ablaze during heated protests against the country’s Islamic government, according to local video and reports this weekend. Protesters in Iran have set numerous fires since the riots broke out Dec. 28, with Tehran’s fire department claiming as many as 34 mosques were burned, according to multiple outlets. One video verified by NBC News showed a crowd cheering Friday night while a Tehran mosque became engulfed in flames. (RELATED: ‘Death To America’ Radical Complains She Got Detained By Customs After Iran Trip) The mass uprising reportedly began in response to economic woes but follows months of instances of women shedding their mandatory headwear in a statement against the country’s forced Islamic norms. Another video posted by Reuters showed a mob vandalizing the Abuzar Mosque in Tehran on Thursday, scattering furniture and laying incendiary devices. The Iranian regime has massacred hundreds while clamping down on the disorder, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists in Iran reports, according to The New York Post.
President Donald Trump on Jan. 2 hinted at possible military action if Iran kills protesters, leading to a social media duel with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the following days that involved the ayatollah posting an image of Trump in a coffin. Trump previously bombed multiple Iranian nuclear facilities amid conflict with Israel, marking the most overt U.S. military operation against the regime in years.
So, okay, why do I find this interesting and telling? Considering that Iran is a majority Muslim nation and that its government since 1979 has been a Muslim theocracy based on the strict tenets of Sharia law, that mosques are being torched by the protesters at the very least underscores a disaffection with the aforementioned. And admittedly, here is where I might be stretching things but nevertheless I am going to formulate a bit of an hypothesis and make an assumption.
Remember that the self-styled cognoscenti, elite and thought leaders have unceasingly been hocking a tchainik over our heads here in America and the west that Islam is a religion of peace and to dare even question that would be Islamophobic, bigoted and racist, etc. etc. ad nauseam.
Well then if that is the case then how to explain the Iranian Muslim "street" rising up and torching their own houses of worship if the shibboleths about Islam and Sharia as paragons of peace and moral order are as we have been forced to accept under pain of being labeled a racist xenophobe Islamophobe for defiance of that.
I'm sure the usual excuses will be given that just like the true believers who took down the World Trade Center were "extremists" who bastardized the true meaning of Islam or were Israeli Mossad agents or even Americans sent in by President Trump or both if you're Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. But that of course is nonsense.
So, here's my take. It tells me that the Persian/Iranian people have taken to the streets not merely to replace the Muallhs with other Mullahs. They recognize it's the entire system that is corrupt, inept, destructive and lethal to their thriving as a functioning and advancing society. Prior to 1979, Iran was a modern, flourishing and western-oriented (politically and culturally) nation. And that is still within living memory of many Iranians and it is something that the younger generations are desperate to return to.
Here's where maybe I'm stretching things a bit and quite possibly wish-casting — Look at Iran's history prior to 1979, the excesses of the Shah and Mossadegh notwithstanding, ask any average Iranian expat and they'll tell you that life under them was paradise compared to what Khomeini and his successors wrought.
Now look at present day Turkey through that lens. A secular, modern, society thanks to Kemal Ataturk and turned into an Islamic thugocracy through the tyrannical rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP since 2002. Could what's happening in Iran spread to Turkey?
Lest we forget that Afghanistan at one time was also a fairly modern society until the coming of the Taliban and then of course the Soviet Invasion and later our insane Democracy Project in the wake of 9/11 and Gulf War 2. Result, over 3,000 American soldiers dead, Taliban still there and weaponized courtesy of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants snap bug-out of 2020 with untold numbers of Afghani jihadists here in our country given political asylum.
In any case, the Cliff Notes version of the above is, I suppose, I'm wondering can Islam reform itself? That is is what we are witnessing in Iran a scintilla of hope that we are not doomed for all time to face an existential threat from the followers of Mohammed
Then again, the bitter irony is that as Teheran and Istanbul duke it out over which one gets to be the capital of a global caliphate, or perhaps both turning a new leaf and experiencing an enlightenment and rebirth as paragons of western civilization, Europe and the West become the axis upon which a reenergized and even more virulent Islam rotates. When the #1 baby name in England and other nations is Mohammed, the future doesn't look so bright.
Federal prosecutors say the man accused of torching Mississippi’s oldest and largest synagogue admitted he selected the building because of its connection to Judaism.
Authorities arrested a suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, Saturday night. Investigators said an intentionally set fire gutted Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss. Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man charged with torching the synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” after police arrested him at a hospital where he was treated for burn injuries from the early-morning fire, according to The New York Times.
Investigators identified Pittman after his father contacted the FBI and reported that his son had confessed to starting the fire, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Monday. Location data from a tracking app running on Pittman’s cellphone reinforced that account, showing him leaving his home in a Jackson suburb, stopping at a gas station to buy fuel, and then driving directly to the synagogue. . . Prior to this incident, another high-profile attack targeted a synagogue in Manchester, England, where a man killed two people outside the building, highlighting broader security concerns surrounding Jewish houses of worship. The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was reportedly free on bail at the time of the synagogue attack after previously facing an alleged rape charge.
Synagogues are connected to Judaism? Wow, I'm shocked. Maybe he should've targeted the Weather Channel for a twofer, after all Jews control the weather and the media, nein?
In all seriousness, where did this bastard get the notion to torch a synagogue and attack Jews? Meh, where did the now deceased Renee Good get it in her head to use her SUV to try and ram ICE agents?
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The Heartland Institute will host the World Prosperity Forum January 19 to 23 in Zurich, Switzerland, bringing together international leaders and policymakers to challenge the globalist, leftist agenda advanced each year at the World Economic Forum. The World Prosperity Forum will coincide with, and present a clear alternative to, the World Economic Forum taking place on those same dates in Davos, Switzerland. . .The Heartland Institute will be streaming LIVE every day from Switzerland five straight days beginning January 19, 2026 Speakers will include former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Czech Republic President Václav Klaus World Prosperity Forum Takes on the Globalist-Left’s World Economic Forum
When activists obstruct lawful arrests and politicians shout “murder,” the truth is lost: weaponizing a car against police turns ideology into a fatal choice. George Floyd Redux: Renee Good
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President Donald Trump issued a demand on Truth Social for FBI Director Kash Patel to remove agents from the bureau, referencing a news report detailing the role of a former FBI official in reportedly advancing the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected officials. ‘Kash Better Get Them Out, NOW!’: Trump Orders Cleanup of Corrupt FBI ‘Scum’
On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department eliminated the Biden guidelines that ordered lenders not to consider immigration status when evaluating loan and credit applications, a rule that had major implications for mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, Bloomberg reported. Trump Cancels Biden Rules Forcing Banks to Give Loans to Illegals (Now abolish Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - jjs)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) lodged criminal charges against Luis Nino-Moncada, a Venezuelan national living unlawfully in the U.S., per a Monday announcement from the agency. During a federal immigration enforcement operation in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, Nino-Moncada allegedly damaged property and put Border Patrol agents in harm’s way when he repeatedly rammed a law enforcement vehicle with another car. (RELATED: Meet The Murderers, Child Rapists ICE Is Arresting In Minnesota) Feds Accuse Illegal Alien Gangster Of Ramming Border Patrol With Prostitute’s Car Before Shooting
US President Donald Trump is considering air strikes on Iran to stop a crackdown on protesters, the White House said Monday, adding that people were being “killed on the streets.” But a channel for diplomacy remains open, with Iran taking a “far different tone” in private discussions with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Trump keeping Iran air strikes on the table: White House
Protesters in Iran have set numerous fires since the riots broke out Dec. 28, with Tehran’s fire department claiming as many as 34 mosques were burned, according to multiple outlets. One video verified by NBC News showed a crowd cheering Friday night while a Tehran mosque became engulfed in flames. (RELATED: ‘Death To America’ Radical Complains She Got Detained By Customs After Iran Trip) Iranians Burn Down Mosques
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Multiple news sources, including Minnesota's Alpha News, report that there are suitcases of money being taken to Dubai and ending up in Somalia. There is a Byzantine path through which government money is freely given for a Somali-run non-emergency medical transportation system, whose vans have been parked for years. A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World War III'
The Fed chairman on Sunday night took the unprecedented action of releasing a video accusing the Trump administration of using the Justice Department to put pressure on the central bank. He said that the Fed on Friday had received subpoenas for a grand jury and been threatened with criminal charges related to the renovations of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington, DC, and his related testimony to a Senate panel last year. But these inquiries were merely “pretexts,” Powell claimed. The real goal was the subversion of Fed independence. Powell Declares War on the Trump Administration (Filthy grifting bloodsucker needs to be cut off and cut loose - jjs)
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From European no-go zones to American cities like Dearborn, Michigan, we ask what resistance looks like now and whether Christendom remembers how to defend itself. JIHAD IN THE MODERN ERA: Armenian genocide to 9/11
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Authorities arrested a suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, Saturday night. Investigators said an intentionally set fire gutted Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss. Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man charged with torching the synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” after police arrested him at a hospital where he was treated for burn injuries from the early-morning fire, according to The New York Times. Suspect In Mississippi Arson Says He Targeted Synagogue Because It’s Tied To Judaism
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finally issued a full-throated condemnation of pro-Hamas goons, but she owes voters an explanation for her history of standing up for antisemites. On Friday, AOC slammed the roughly 200-strong mob of anti-Israel demonstrators who chanted “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here” just outside Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, and steps from a yeshiva, Thursday night in Queens. In her usual Internet-snark tone, she posted: “Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with a chant saying ‘we support Hamas’ is a disgusting and antisemitic thing to do. Pretty basic!” Where was Titty-Cava AOC’s fury at antisemitism during Columbia protests?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Ofcom, which was empowered by the Conservative government-era Online Safety Act to impose fines up to £18 million or 10 per cent of a social media firm’s global revenue or even potentially ban platforms outright, said that in response to “deeply concerning” reports about Grok image generation, it will formally investigate Musk’s X platform to “determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from illegal content.” UK Speech Regulator Ofcom Launches Investigation Into Elon Musk’s X
Peltola positioned herself as an independent-minded Democrat in her announcement video, saying her agenda will focus on “fish, family and freedom” as well as introducing term limits and addressing rising costs in the state. The top Democrat recruit served as Alaska’s sole House member for over two years before Republican Nick Begich defeated her by less than three percentage points in 2024, the same year President Donald Trump won the state by 13 points. Shot: Former Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola Launches Longshot Senate Bid In Deep Red Alaska
Donald Trump was an America-rescuing reaction to the Republican Party’s craven weakness and the Democrat Party’s Marxist corruption. A Tale of Two Parties
We're still in the chilly early days of the new year, so the loons aren't even getting warm yet. The Democrats will be running against Trump this year even though he won't be on any ballots. That's an opportunity for the Republicans, as the behavior of Dem candidates won't be enhanced by the relentless focus on the president. There should be a lot of unforced errors for GOP candidates to take advantage of. Let's Buckle Up for an Election Year Worsening of the Dems' TDS Fever Dream
"Marco Rubio, an American of Cuban descent and Secretary of State of the United States, has been characterized throughout his political career by a lack of ethics, corruption scandals, extreme mythomania, far-right positions, and his unhealthy obsession with overthrowing progressive and sovereign nations in Latin America, mainly Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, as well as the current governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico," the article begins. For the Cuban Regime, He's a Supervillain — But in the U.S. He’s the Quarterback
The 2019 and 2022 work focused on computer models and the geological features in the region of the theorized ocean, including evidence of possible past tsumanis. This new research focuses on the debris piles at the base of Valles Marineris’ cliffs, all of which appear to end at similar elevations. New research supports theorized intermittent ocean exiting Mars’ giant Valles Marineris canyon
"It doesn’t want to offend Islamists!” (Good for Cleese, but to be perfectly honest, for his entire career neither did Cleese, while dragging Christianity and Judaism through the mud for cheap yucks.) John Cleese Denounces the BBC
The Forest Preserve District of Kane County announced that the animals first arrived at a Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve corral on Dec. 5, according to a Kane County Connects press release. The project brings together three partners. Bison Return To Chicago’s Outskirts After More Than 200 Years
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Over the last two months Windows 11 has fallen from 53.7% of the PC market to a very slim majority at 50.7%, with Windows 10 growing from 42.7% to 44.7%, and most of the remainder going to Windows 7, which came out all the way back in 2009.
A very dry paper, but in short decision makers tend to over-rely on AI advice even when it directly contradicts available empirical data. And this was in the context of an iterated prisoner's dilemma scenario, where optimal strategies are simple and well-known.
If a zero-day vulnerability is one that must be fixed immediately because it is open to instant exploitation, what do you call one that has been actively exploited for a year before the developers notice?
Mt. Baldy (Mount San Antonio) is probably 15 miles from Rancho Cucamonga, and one can see the peak from Interstate 15. It's also 10,000 feet high and will kill you without any effort at all!
Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
-- Josh Billings
It isn't difficult to prepare oneself for most eventualities. Sure, that Chinese missile strike on Los Angeles might put you in a bit of a pickle, or the massive earthquake that shakes half the mountain down on your head will probably cut into your clubbing that night, but for most days? Appropriate footwear, appropriate clothing, water and a bit of food, and a good map in case your phone dies.
Personally, I like being armed, but in California that might get you arrested.
The current hysterical news cycle is dominated by a failing attempt to portray Renee Good as some sort of paragon of loving motherhood and sweetness and light. It is the typical trivialization of the human condition that the left is fixated by, and it is an indicator of just how evil they are. Apparently because Good had stuffed animals in her car and had children, she was incapable of trying to run down an ICE officer. Obviously that makes no sense, but is also reminds me of the socialist view of humanity, that we are all just one thing, and completely interchangeable.
Well, the Aufseherinnen (female guards) in the Nazi concentration camps mostly led normal lives before they became unspeakably evil. One thing does not prevent the other.
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Sorry, but I watched this, so you have to also. I will not suffer alone.
This man says if you are a Trump supporter you should not eat sushi, Mexican food or celebrate Cinco de Mayo,
What's the big deal? It's not like it's an otter penis or a penguin penis!
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The world's leading expert on European wasps walks into a record shop.
He asks the assistant, “Do you have European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2? I believe it was released this week.”
The assistant checks the computer and then says, “Certainly. Would you like to listen before you buy it?”
The expert replies, “Of course!”
The assistant hands him a pair of earphones and puts the record on a turntable near the counter, and turns it on.
The expert listens for a few moments and says to the assistant, “I'm terribly sorry, but I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and this is not accurate at all. I don't recognize any of those sounds. Are you sure this is the correct recording?”
The assistant checks the turntable. “Yes, sir,” he says. “This is the European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2. Let me skip ahead to the second track.”
Again the expert listens for a few moments and then says to the assistant, “This just can't be right! I've been an expert in this field for 43 years and I still don't recognize any of these sounds.”
The assistant apologizes and lifts the needle to the next track. As soon as the track starts playing, the expert throws off the headphones. “This is outrageous false advertising! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and no European wasp has ever made a sound like the ones on this record!”
The manager of the shop overhears the commotion and walks over. “What seems to be the problem, sir?”
The expert turns to him, red-faced and fuming. “This is an outrage! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps. Nobody knows more about them than I do. There is no way in hell that the sounds on that record were made by European wasps!”
The manager glances down and notices the problem instantly. “I'm terribly sorry, sir. It appears we've been playing you the bee side.”
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New Nick Shirley Video Said to Expose Fraud "Ten Times Worse" Than Prior Videos Pro-Terrorism, Pro-Antifa AG Announces Lawsuit to Stop the "INVASION" of Minnesota by the Federal Government
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday -- is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.
In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years.
And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.
I think that sentence was glitched.
"What I believe is the core of all this is this non-emergency medical transportation. A search showed that Minnesota recognizes 1,020 NEMT [Non-Emergency Medical Transport] companies. Almost 900 of them are Somali-owned," he told Bessent. Hoch went on, "In the second video, Nick Shirley and I went to 16 of them -- I've actually been to about 70 of them." At this point, he held up his papers and leaned forward to Bessent to emphasize, "THEY DON'T EXIST."
They visited the NEMT companies to find the addresses went to places with "no vehicles." Fronts included, "an apartment building. One of them is a liquor store. Another one is a wire transfer. Another one is totally unrelated -- it's a grocery store. There are no vehicles." He said, "The vast majority of these companies exist on paper only. They are not real."
He said that the average NEMT company in the United States has about "20 vehicles and each vehicle generates about $70,000 a year." He said that if you run those numbers, "800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70,000 a year? It's an enormous sum of money that's going out."
Preview of the video at the link.
Minnesota is launching a lawsuit to stop the "invasion" of Minnesota by... the government of the United States of America.
Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding
—Ace
I don't know if this is true or not. Karoline Leavitt retweeted this story telling people:
"Stop what you're doing and read this!"
Does that mean it's true? No!
Because I spent the weekend watching videos about the Maduro capture, and I discovered that we are all currently living in a Tom Clancy novel.
Do you remember first reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising and wondering, Could this bullshit be true? Are we living in a sci-fi world that is being kept secret from us?
And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.
Is Leavitt confirming we really have a directed energy weapon that Delta Force uses to incapacitate people at a distance? Or is she just pushing this story because she wants Iran to think we have it?
The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.
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Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared -- "barely eight," by his count -- deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.
But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.
"They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."
What ensued, he said, was not a battle but a slaughter.
"We were hundreds, but we had no chance," he said. "They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute."
Well they are among the best-trained shooters in history. And they carry some really good guns. I have a video linked below about that.
Then came the weapon that still haunts him.
"At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it," he said. "It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside."
The effects were immediate and horrific.
"We all started bleeding from the nose," he said. "Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon -- or whatever it was."
The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt's sharing of the post -- captioned, "Stop what you are doing and read this..." -- indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.
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The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.
"Those 20 men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us," he claimed. "We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it."
The military has had directed energy weapons -- which neutralize targets using focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams -- for years, but this could be the first time it's been used in combat by the US, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post. China reportedly used a microwave weapon in 2020 against Indian soldiers during a border dispute in Ladakh.
This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.
A Venezuelan security guard for Maduro warns against fighting Americans describing the U.S. raid: 20 men with superior tech disabled radars, downed drones, and killed hundreds unharmed. They fired 300 rounds/min and used a sonic weapon causing instant bleeding and incapacitation.… pic.twitter.com/tTVT2l5Qwk
Now here are some of the things I saw claimed in various videos about the capture.
Some of this is confirmed by General Caine, in his post-action briefing. Some of it is speculative. I think people are asking AI to summarize what happened or what probably happened, and AI is offering possible scenarios, which are being claimed as fact.
But a lot of this at least seems likely to me. I'm sharing it because it's neat. I don't know if it's the truth. But it's a neat story.
1. General Caine said that CIA spooks were infiltrated into the country weeks before the invasion. He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."
One assumes they already had the layout of his presidential hidey-hole, because Trump revealed they went in with powerful blowtorches to cut through the steel doors of the panic room they knew he would run to. (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.) The Deltas practiced on a replica presidential building for months before the op.
2. This is one of the most jawdropping things -- the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro. The US needed to park an aircraft carrier (our newest super carrier currently in operation, the Gerald R. Ford) off the coast and flood the skies with surveillance planes and drones, to map out all of Venezuela's communications and their SAM missile arrays. They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.
So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.
3. The drug-boat operation stuff also had another purpose, apart from cover and sigint collection and actually stopping the drug boats. The US wanted Venezuela's military and their radar operators to accept that there would be dozens and dozens of US planes in their airspace at all times. They wanted to get them to treat this as Situation Normal, No Big Deal. So the operation went on for 48 days, with Venezuela no longer on high alert just because there were 100 US planes in their skies. So on the night of the operation, they would have no idea that something big was in the air, until it was already all over.
4. The Nightstalkers (the US elite helicopter squadron) used modified Chinooks and Blackhawks with some stealth capability. Like, the helicopters have radar-absorbing skin. But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet. I think they crank out 100 decibels when moving. Because they would be flying nap-of-the-earth, anyone on the ground would hear them.
So this is pretty neat: The military couldn't make the helicopters any quieter, so instead, they made everything else noisier. They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise. Someone observed that the F-35s, which do have a good stealth ability, had all of their stealth sliders turned down so that they'd be all anyone could hear.
Some F-35s did use stealth, when they were actually attacking targets like the radar installations and Russian SAM trucks, but the US put 150 planes into the sky just to create an "acoustic shield" that would effectively create a dome of stealth for the helicopters.
In addition, all of those planes in the sky meant that Venezuelan radarmen had their screens packed with contacts and could not notice six or eight helicopters flying towards the military base at Fuerte Tiuna.
5. Ultimately US planes began attacking positions in the Fuerte Tiuna military base, mostly not for any direct tactical advantage, but just create chaos and confusion and noise.
While the operation killed at least 100 Venezuelan guards and Cuban mercenaries, it was pretty merciful, otherwise. When Venezuelan pilots scrambled to challenge the invading planes, they were told over the radios, in Spanish, "return to the ground or you will be destroyed." Most did. Some Venezuelan planes attempted to follow the helicopters as they flew back into international waters, but US pilots locked their missiles on them, and the missile-lock warning was enough to convince the pilots to turn around and return to their bases.
And this is just speculation on my part, but I think we were trying to convince Venezuela that if we took action against them, it would be a conventional amphibious invasion kind of thing. I think Trump warned that there would be land-based attacks on Venezuela just to prime them to expect that kind of attack. And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.
Just amazing stuff, even if you don't believe the US now has some kind of weapon that can stun and incapacitate dozens of men at a distance.
Our newest supercarrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in the operation. It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it. A second aircraft carrier in the new Gerald R. Ford class, the USS John F. Kennedy, will be commissioned early in 2026. The Ford had a tough roll-out because it apparently employs 23 new technologies and some of them were buggy, but the John F. Kennedy is built with the lessons learned from the Ford and will hopefully be ready for action more quickly.
A big new innovation in both ships is that the catapults that launch the planes are driven by electromagnets, not steam as in the Nimitz-class carriers, and can launch planes more than twice as quickly as the older flattops.
Under Pressure by Judicial Watch Lawsuit, Oregon Finally Agrees to Remove 800,000 Ineligible/Fake/Dead Names from Their Voting Rolls Violent Leftwing Sissyboys Get Knocked TF Out
Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state's registration rolls, a move that comes after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits filed against the state in recent months.
Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read, in a press release Friday, outlined two new directives he said will "restart" the "routine cleanup of outdated, inactive voter registration records" in accordance with state law to address the roughly 800,000 inactive voter records that are being maintained by election officials.
The first directive orders counties to immediately cancel long-inactive voter registrations that already met the legal requirements for removal before 2017. These are registrations where election mail was returned as undeliverable, voters failed to respond to official notices, and they did not participate in multiple federal elections. State officials estimate roughly 160,000 registrations fall into this category and should have been removed years ago.
The second directive changes how the state handles inactive voters going forward. It updates the language on voter confirmation cards to clearly warn voters that their registrations will be canceled if they do not respond or vote within the required time frame. State officials say this step restores a process that allows routine cleanup of inactive registrations under federal law.
Together, the directives are designed to address a backlog of inactive records and restart regular voter-roll maintenance after Oregon paused removals in 2017.
"These directives are about cleaning up old data that's no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up-to-date," Read said. "From day one, our goal was clear: run elections that are secure, fair, and accurate. This move will strengthen our voter rolls and reinforce public trust in our elections."
State officials acknowledge there are about 800,000 inactive registrations total, roughly 20% of Oregon's voter rolls, though they stress multiple times in the press release that inactive voters do not currently receive ballots, saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots, and these inactive records have no impact on Oregon elections."
The claim that these "inactive voters" don't receive ballots is false. The nation is flooded with mail-in ballots sent to old addresses of voters who moved (or died) long ago, and the left routinely collects these up -- and pays people to collect them -- and then submit them as illegal votes.
Buzz: Tim Walz May Resign From Governorship Today, As Nick Shirley Prepares to Release Video About Walz Threatening Whistleblowers to Protect Somali Fraudsters
—Ace
I have no idea if this is true. People are claiming it on twitter.
The story goes that, as TheJamesMadison speculated last week, Walz is now a target of the federal fraud investigation. Further, it's claimed that Nick Shirley is dropping a "Part 2" to his fraud investigation and that will be damning to Walz.
But... didn't Shirely already drop a Part 2? I already posted him talking with an investigator revealing that Walz threatened that he would fire any whistleblowers for cause and make sure they never got another government job again, and could not even receive unemployment insurance after their firing.
Is this a Part 2 to that video?
I dunno.
The claims say that he will either resign this week or next week, depending on who's doing the claiming.
Carter Hughes
@itscarterhughes
Jan 10
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is set to resign within the next week, according to multiple reports from within the Walz campaign.
This comes after he was referred for a criminal indictment over massive Somali fraud within the state.
🚨 🔥 Tim Walz is set to resign after today! @bennyjohnson : "We have on high authority that Tim Walz will resign after Nick Shirley's part two dropping today" Many others inside Minnesota government will also resign! 🍿 pic.twitter.com/TxSjioTHAQ
ABC Talk Radio is reporting the buzz as well, though they can't confirm it:
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is set to resign within the next week, according to multiple reports from within the Walz campaign. pic.twitter.com/plbqZsg73P
This may be some evidence that the buzz is real: Minneapolis Mayor Frey is, some say, "throwing Walz under the bus," by admitting the fraud is very real and that "everybody" could have done more to stop it.
Jacob Frey after months of Democrats claiming there’s no fraud: “Everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. The fraud is real. The fraud is very real.”
Maybe the Democrat Party has decided that Walz is beyond saving, so they'll Biden him: Pretend that he is solely responsible for the criminality they all supported, and now that he's out, the Democrat Party is pure and holy again.
Jeanine Pirro Opens Investigation Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Deceptive Congressional Testimony About His Rampant Overspending
—Ace
He told Congress that he was only spending billions on remodeling the Fed for strictly functional upgrades, like "waterprooofing" the building.
He denied spending billions just to make it a "Taj Mahal" of the Deep State, as Julie Kelly puts it.
The current bill is over $2.5 billion, with $700 million of that overspending not originally budgeted for.
Powell, who oversees the nation's currency, says "Whoops!"
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
18h
This is how it's done:
NYT tonight confirmed DOJ investigation into Fed Reserve chairman Jerome Powell.
"The inquiry, which includes an analysis of Mr. Powell's public statements and an examination of spending records, was approved in November by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of President Trump.
It is not clear whether Ms. Pirro has convened a grand jury or issued subpoenas. But prosecutors in her office have contacted Mr. Powell's staff multiple times to request documents about the renovation project, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation who discussed an open inquiry on the condition of anonymity."
The renovation project is a whopping $700 million over budget.
"A 2021 version of the Fed's proposal described private elevators and dining rooms for top policymakers, water fountains and new marble features, in addition to a rooftop terrace for staff. Pressed at a congressional hearing in June, Mr. Powell denied that many of those features were part of the latest proposal."
This appears to be the testimony in question related to the criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
I’m not sure whether the specificity of his claims here are enough to bring intentional false statements charges—however his overall description of the nature of… pic.twitter.com/VVeNRyQXzs
Powell is claiming this is purely political investigation because Trump opposes Powell's purely-political refusal to reduce interest rates. Note that Powell reduced interest rates for Biden months before the election, despite inflation being out-of-control at the time.
🚨 BREAKING: US Attorney Pirro has launched a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
He LIED TO CONGRESS about massive Federal Reserve spending on his massive “renovation” boondoggle.
Here's my take: Trump may in fact favor an investigation for political reasons and yet the investigation may still be fully warranted by the circumstances.
What does Powell demand, that we have no investigation into misbehaving officials so long as they oppose Trump?
If there's no crime, then there's no crime -- but the federal government should be investigating fraud and, frankly, money-laundering politicians and elected officials all the time.
In fact, Pam Bondi just announced the creation of a new Deputy AG with a very specific jurisdiction: defrauding the federal government (and taxpayers).
Jerome Powell never objected to Letitia James, Merrick Garland, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Jack Smith investigating and prosecuting Trump for fake crime after fake crime just because those prosecutions and investigations were politically motivated.
🚨 JUST IN: Trump advisor Peter Navarro EVISCERATES Fed Chair Jerome Powell, now under CRIMINAL investigation.
"He is the POSTER CHILD for politicizing the Fed!"
Tousi TV: France closes embassy in Tehran, US Department of State advises all US citizens to get out of Iran He's been saying that Tuesday will be a decisive day. Other reports say that Trump is in the last stages of planning an action against the mullahs. (And other reports say that Tucker Carlson Simp JD Vance is attempting to get Trump to agree to "negotiations" with Iran -- for fucking what? What do we get out of saving the fucking mullahs and letting them kill and torture their own people? Apart from Tucker Carlson getting to pretend he's a Big Man Influencer and that he's worth all the Qatari money he's receiving.)
Asmongold predicted that AWFLs would turn on immigration the moment we started importing hot women into the country, and he was right via garrett
New Yorkers are shocked after footage goes viral of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Tenant Director stating that white people will be HEAVILY impacted after they transition property "as an individual good to a collective good" [CBD]
Podcast: The Somali grift might be the biggest financial scandal in American history, will the Mullahs finally fall? CFPB gets a lifeline from a corrupt judge, Brigitte Bardot...RIP, and more!
