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Federal Medicaid policy creates little incentive for states to stop potential fraudsters. Fixing that should be the priority, not demonizing Somali immigrants.A sprawling welfare scheme that saw fraudsters steal over $9 billion in Minnesota is a damning indictment of a federal and state bureaucracy that failed at some of its most basic responsibilities to taxpayers. That fraud is back at the top of the news this week after YouTuber Nick Shirley went viral with a 42-minute video in which he claims to be "investigating" the fraud scandal. In the video, Shirley knocks on the doors of several day care centers...

Fari-right political commentator Nick Fuentes has stated that he isn’t gay in response to a question put to him by Piers Morgan. The far-right commentator, 27, has made a name for himself thanks to his extreme views and antisemitic and homophobic remarks. Joining Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday (8 December) Fuentes was asked about theories that he wasn’t attracted to women. “I am attracted to women,” the young commentator said before confirming he isn’t gay. He then added: “But I will say women are very difficult to be around. So, there’s that.”

A retired San Francisco schoolteacher is accusing the city of running a “Big Brother” surveillance dragnet that illegally tracks everyday drivers. Michael Moore, a retired public school teacher, filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday alleging sweeping Fourth Amendment violations. Moore says the city’s Flock license-plate reader system unlawfully monitors his movements as he drives to stores, his sons’ schools and family gatherings — all without a warrant or probable cause. San Francisco has installed roughly 450 to nearly 500 Flock cameras along major roadways, making it “functionally impossible” to drive anywhere in the city without having your license plate photographed,...

KYIV, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of U.S. troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees, and also raised what he called a faked attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence. Zelenskiy told the media in a WhatsApp chat that Kyiv was committed to continuing talks on how to end the war triggered by Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion and he was ready to meet Putin in any format.U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he and Zelenskiy were "maybe very close" to an agreement to end...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian just made a stunning admission that reveals the Islamic Republic's desperate strategic position. In an interview posted to Supreme Leader Khamenei's official website, Pezeshkian declared Iran is in a "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe—a public acknowledgment of defeat that represents a geopolitical earthquake for the Middle East. This declaration comes six months after Operation Rising Lion, the devastating 12-day June 2025 conflict that killed 1,100 Iranians including Iran's entire military high command. Israeli F-35 stealth fighters and US B-2 bombers systematically destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz, eliminated IRGC Commander...

The YouTuber claims he is facing serious threats after a viral investigation into alleged Minnesota daycare fraud drew national attention and fierce online backlashIndependent content creator and YouTuber Nick Shirley has declared that he is receiving serious threats as a result of his viral expose into the alleged fraud surrounding childcare and other taxpayer-funded services in Minnesota, USA. Shirley's footage, which accumulated tens of millions of views on social media, shows several licensed daycare centres allegedly receiving large amounts in government subsidies despite showing little or no activity. Viral Expose and Money Claims In a 42-minute video released shortly before...

U.S. Southern Command just announced the latest strike on a Venezuelan drug boat in the Eastern Pacific. In a significant milestone, this marks the 30th strike against a narco-terrorist drug boat. Two were killed in today’s strike. Watch the footage: VIDEO AT LINK.................. Backup here if needed: On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male...

"Holy (expletive) i did not know all that insane (expletive) Ms. Bardot stood for," Roan wrote Monday in a post on her Instagram Stories.Grammy-winning singer Chappell Roan has backtracked on her praise for Brigitte Bardot after learning about the late French film icon's "very disappointing" far-right political beliefs. "Holy (expletive) i did not know all that insane (expletive) Ms. Bardot stood for," Roan wrote Monday in a post on her Instagram Stories. Bardot, an international sex symbol who starred in Roger Vadim's "And God Created Woman" and Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt," gravitated toward the French far-right in her later years. She...

It sounds broken record-ish to keep saying this, but it's worth repeating all the same that journalists continue to demonstrate that they learned nothing from the 2024 elections. The latest example, of course, is the fallout from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulling a "60 Minutes" segment that sympathetically portrayed deported illegals who had spent time at the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with Weiss wanting to see an on-the-record interview from a high-ranking Trump administration official in the piece before it aired. Though critics of Weiss, including the reporter at the center of the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, accused her...

Over the weekend, Covid-cautious individuals shared clips on social media of Jon Stewart punching down on people who are masking, who are presumably doing so to protect themselves from Covid, the flu, and other infectious diseases that are spreading across the United States. On the December 11 episode of the podcast The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart, guest Tim Miller of The Bulwark said there have to be at least two people at fellow guest Jon Favreau’s workplace wearing masks because it’s a progressive organization. Stewart responded, “There’s always two, and you always say, ‘Oh, are you sick?’ And they...

In this video I investigate Minnesotas billion dollar fraud scandal involving Tim Walz and the Somali population... if this video gets 100K likes I will do a part 2! Video is 43 minutes long may want to bookmark for later but thought you all might want to see this.

Tyler Robinson’s legal team wants to boot Utah prosecutors off the Charlie Kirk murder case because one of their relatives was in the crowd at the time of the deadly shooting, a newly unsealed transcript has revealed. The details of prosecutors’ alleged conflict of interest were first raised during a closed-door hearing on Oct. 24 — but the transcript from the hearing was only made public on Monday. “The Utah County Attorneys have advised us that a family member of one of the attorneys was present at the incident at which Mr. Kirk was shot and killed,” defense attorney Richard...

Live and lear. The infamous misspelled sign outside the Quality “Learing” Center in Minneapolis has finally been corrected a day after The Post stopped by to investigate fraud allegations against day care centers in the city. A hastily applied sticker was spotted Tuesday morning, restoring the name of the alleged day care facility to “Quality Learning Center” as originally intended. However, the center’s street address on the transom beneath the sign was still misspelled as “Nicolet” instead of “Nicollet.” Manager Ibrahim Ali told The Post Monday that the center’s graphic designer was to blame for the typo, and that it...

A Canadian actress and comedian is seeking a medically assisted suicide after a long-term battle with several crippling mental health issues, according to reports. Claire Brosseau, 48, is suing for the right to die through Canada’s Medical Aid in Dying program after struggling with manic depression, anxiety disorder, substance abuse disorder, chronic suicidal ideation and a plethora of other mental illnesses since her childhood, she detailed to the New York Times. Brosseau, a Montreal-born actress who appeared in dozens of movies, revealed she has attempted suicide several times and has been under the care of a slew of different psychiatrists...

Here’s how our economy currently works. We raise taxes on working Americans to give the money to Somali non-profits who claim to help kids and who then give the money to a Somali political candidate who threatened to blow up a school bus full of America kids for Somalia. Meet Ubax Gardheere, who was part of a conference on how Americans are racist, who ran as a progressive and who did this. In 2010, Gardheere faced felony charges after she boarded a Highline School District bus making its morning rounds and demanded the driver inform his dispatch “that a national...

Gen Z right-wing influencers like Nick Fuentes have suggested they may not support Vice President JD Vance if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee in 2028 and have praised California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. Why It Matters The 2028 election is years away, but talk about who could run for higher office has already begun. Vance is viewed as the frontrunner on the Republican side. The Democratic primary is likely to be more competitive if current polling stands, and Newsom is viewed as a leading candidate. He has cast himself as a staunch rival of the Trump administration. The...

This is a very good expose' on the fraud in Minnesota and what's been done about it so far. It was published to YouTube 2 months ago and also has an interview with head fraudster Tim Waltz. 'What the Fraud?': A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS special report

The New York Times rolled out another installment of its favorite genre — Ron DeSantis, Destroyer of All That Is Good™ — this time lamenting that New College of Florida, long a leftist sandbox where grades were optional, and gender theory reigned, has been rudely interrupted by a governor who thinks college should actually teach … well … college. “At the state school, gender studies is out. ‘The Odyssey’ is required reading. A Charlie Kirk statue is coming. Has one ideological bubble replaced another?” the Times hyperventilated. The Times paints the picture with a heavy brush: gender studies out, Homer’s...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at age 35. The news was shared by the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation, on behalf of Tatiana's extended family. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," read the post, which was signed by "George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory." Schlossberg announced that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in an essay published by The New Yorker in Novem

Explanation: Yes, but can your comet tail do this? No, and what you are seeing is not the tail of a comet. The picture features a cleverly overlayed time-lapse sequence of a group of satellites orbiting Earth together in June. Specifically, these are Starlink communications satellites in low Earth orbit reflecting back sunlight before sunrise to Inner Mongolia, China. Although the satellites appear to the human eye as points, the 20-second-long camera exposures caused them to appear as short streaks. Currently there are over 9000 Starlinks in orbit, with more being launched nearly every week. Other satellite constellations are also...