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Starting this week, sex in North Carolina will be defined only as male and female. It’s part of a law that’s already in effect, but this specific provision goes into effect on Thursday, with the start of the new year. The provision in House Bill 805 defines sex as only male and female and says those definitions should be based on biological sex, not gender ideology. The bill says gender identity “Shall not be treated as legally or biologically equivalent to sex.” While on the floor in July, the bill was debated heavily. Democrats originally supported the bill as it...

REUTERS—A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request by several South Sudanese nationals and an immigrant rights group to prevent the Temporary Protected Status they had been granted from expiring as planned after Jan. 5. Kelley issued the order after four migrants from South Sudan, along with African Communities Together, a nonprofit group, sued. The lawsuit alleged that action by the U.S. Department...

How much effort should a country expend to rescue someone who appears to hate its values? That is the question posed by the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Abd el-Fattah is an Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner who has been in and out of prison since 2006 for opposing the regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and for drawing attention to torture and other abuses. In 2021, he was granted British citizenship through a somewhat tenuous connection—his mother, Laila, had been born in London while her mother was studying in the United Kingdom—which gave the British government greater standing to...

Newly resurfaced surveillance footage and investigative reporting confirm that the now-exploding Somali daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota follows a well-documented playbook that state officials were warned about as early as 2013, and repeatedly thereafter. Yet year after year, the fraud was allowed to metastasize, draining hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from programs meant to help poor children, while far-left Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and radical Rep. Ilhan Omar looked the other way. The scandal exploded into the national spotlight this week after a viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley went mega-viral, accusing Somali-owned daycare centers of...

The Council approved the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, legislation that would allow community land trusts to purchase properties before they go for sale on the open market, 31 to 10. Ann Korchak, board president of Small Property Owners of New York... “COPA will make New York City an affordable housing wasteland and trigger the extinction of small owners,” said Korchak in a statement. “This government-engineered, socialist scheme sanctions politically-connected, nonprofit housing slumlords and predatory developers to snatch private property ...”

As previously reported, Wisconsin Cinnabon employee Crystal Wilsey was fired from Cinnabon after a clip of her using profanity and the “N-word” to Somali customers who were allegedly harassing her went viral. The Somalis allegedly instigated the altercation by harassing and threatening Crystal Wilsey before they pulled out their phone to record. In the clip, a man can be heard accusing Crystal of “sexualizing” her body before she asks, “Are you recording me?” The Somali woman taunts her: “I’m going to record you. Yes.” The clip then cuts to her saying, “I am racist, and you are a n*gger.” “Don’t...

Somali grifters have looted taxpayers for as much as $9 billion in Minnesota. If only that were the extent of it. Via LifeZette: An independent journalist in Ohio has released a video investigation alleging extensive fraud schemes involving the misuse of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) benefits within parts of the state’s Somali community, adding to broader scrutiny of welfare programs and oversight failures. A favorite scam involves connecting restaurants to grocery stores. According to the journalist, these grocery stores are able to process EBT transactions for bulk food purchases, which are then used to supply the adjacent restaurants. Then the...

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Thousands of people have signed a petition urging the U.S. government to review Nicki Minaj’s immigration status and possibly face deportation over her recent public statements. As of Monday (December 29), over 9,800 people had signed a Change.org petition, started by Tristan Hamilton, accusing the rapper of abandoning values she once... ... Minaj, who was outspokenly critical of Donald Trump during his first presidency, has been working with the administration as the president pushes unfounded claims of targeted Christian persecution in Nigeria. The rapper also recently appeared alongside Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, at the Turning...

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is calling for the deportation of Somalis connected to widespread fraud schemes in Minnesota, including the revocation of US citizenship for naturalized individuals, as federal investigations into the activity continue to expand. In a statement posted to social media, Emmer said those found to have defrauded American taxpayers should be removed from the country, regardless of immigration status. He said he would support changes to federal law if necessary to make that possible. “I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud against American taxpayers: Send them home,” Emmer wrote. “If they’re here illegally,...

Scapegoat [verb]: To blame a person or thing for something bad that someone else has done. -- Cambridge University dictionary [emphasis added.] It was a breathtaking bit of brazen blame-shifting. On Monday's Morning Joe, Mara Gay, a MS NOW analyst and member of the New York Times editorial board, claimed that Somalis in Minnesota are being "scapegoated" over the massive social program fraud that has taken place on Governor and former Kamala running mate Tim Walz's watch. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Work continues apace toward the goal of gestating babies outside a woman’s body. Scientists have now implanted human embryos in “organoids” made of tissues that mimic the uterine lining. From, “Researchers are Getting Organoids Pregnant,” published in the MIT Technology Review: In three papers published this week by Cell Press, scientists are reporting what they call the most accurate efforts yet to mimic the first moments of pregnancy in the lab. They’ve taken human embryos from IVF centers and let these merge with “organoids” made of endometrial cells, which form the lining of the uterus. The reports—two from China and...

As we discover Somalians ripping us off for billions… What % of the population pays % of Federal Income Taxes? White: 59% pays 70%-75% Hispanic: 19% pays 10%-12% Black: 13% pays 6%-8% Asian: 6% pays 8%-10% Other: 3% pays 4%-6% This the “white privilege” the Left cries about?

Kickbacks to parents involved in alleged daycare and autism center fraud schemes have been a feature in the wave of scandal that has been taking place in the Somali community of Minnesota. Both allegations as well as criminal charges have highlighted the tactic being used by the alleged fraudsters. Unearthed videos from a 2018 fraud case in Minnesota show parents as well as daycare providers taking part in a daycare fraud scheme going back to 2015. In the video, a man is shown handing an envelope to parents with alleged kickback cash for their participation in the fraud at a...

New legislation would require schools to teach students about the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. According to the New York State Senate, the legislation will amend the Education Law to include instruction about the Jan. 6 insurrection as part of the state’s required courses regarding patriotism, citizenship, civic education and values, shared history of diversity, religious tolerance and human rights issues. The legislation, proposed by John C. Liu from New York’s 16th Senate District, is currently in the Senate’s Education Committee. If passed and signed into law, the amendment would take effect in July.

More than 20 public middle and high schools in Seattle are facing scrutiny after reports that students were asked questions about gender identity and sexual orientation through a districtwide survey, without parents being informed of the survey’s content or how the responses would be used. According to National Review, the survey, known as the state’s “Check Yourself Survey,” is administered in every Seattle middle school and high school and includes questions that students as young as 10 years old are required to answer. The prompts reportedly touch on sensitive topics ranging from sexual attraction and gender identity to mental health...

Star New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs, who's played a key role in the meteoric rise of Pro Bowl quarterback Drake Maye, was accused of felony strangulation, Massachusetts court records revealed on Tuesday. Diggs, 32, also faces a misdemeanor assault charge, stemming from an alleged incident that happened on Dec. 2, Dedham District Court records showed. That would have been a day after New England beat the New York Giants, 33-15, on "Monday Night Football." He's set to be arraigned on Jan. 23, which would be two days ahead of the AFC championship game, according to court records. "The...

Somalis are living in mansions with nice cars while Americans struggle to afford our mortgages and Republicans responded on Monday by writing strongly-worded tweets. The White House must have realized that people were ready to riot, because Kristi Noem's team took a minute off their paid government Christmas vacation to let us know that a few agents (and a cameraman or two) are on the case: Homeland Security Investigations @ICEGov are on the ground in Minneapolis right now conducting a massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud. More coming. pic.twitter.com/wmQ1x0t4Sc— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) December 29, 2025🚨 BREAKING: MORE Somali...

Although it's undeniably true that Minnesota has a large and proud Somalian community, there are some who have suggested that community is operating in Minnesota in a sinister way. One particular bugaboo for Conservative critics of the Somali community in Minnesota, and the state's embrace of those immigrants, has to do with the changing of the Minnesota state flag. The state adopted a new state flag in 2024, and some think that state flag resembles the state flag of Somalia. Now, many want to know whether that's actually the case. Here's what we know. The new Minnesota flag vs. the...

VIDEOLiberals are having a tough time grappling with the VAST fraud exposed by Nick Shirley in Minnesota. A lot of brain dead moments here but my favorite brain dead moment was when the liberal claimed that "HUGE" prosecutions on the Minnesota fraud had already been done by Merrick Garland. However, PAID DNC troll Harry J. Sisson gave that brain dead liberal strong competition in the brain dead department.