The Foundry.

A Virginia judge on Tuesday blocked a Democrat redistricting plan designed to give the party more seats in Congress.

Judge Jack Hurley Jr., a judge on the Tazewell County circuit court, ruled that the Democrat-controlled state Legislature did not follow procedure to approve a state constitutional amendment on redistricting.

Democrat Speaker Don Scott of the Virginia House of Delegates stated on X following the ruling, “We will appeal immediately, and we expect to prevail. Voters—not politicians—will have the final say.”

But that trick never works….

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Democrats have been thieves since forever.

Human Events.

Scenes from Minneapolis on Saturday night showed anti-ICE protesters occupying a “no-ICE zone,” an area that appeared to be protected by Minneapolis police and the National Guard, which was deployed by Governor Tim Walz earlier that day.

Footage from the scene showed National Guard members and police officers lining surrounding streets, with outer barricades set up on each block in all directions. Dozens of people remained inside the zone despite temperatures dropping below zero throughout the night. The situation drew comparisons to the CHOP or CHAZ autonomous zone established in Seattle in 2020 during the height of the George Floyd protests, when protesters created a self-declared autonomous area within the city.

Many protesters gathered in the cold to pay tribute to Alex Pretti, an armed protester who was shot by federal agents during a confrontation over the weekend. Protesters were seen lighting candles and laying flowers in a quiet vigil.

Minnesota is now in a state of insurrection, supported by the Governor and the state government.

Tim Pool has a summary: Watch it.

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I’m not suggesting rooftop solar subsidies are the sole cause of California’s fiscal crisis, California’s economic mismanagement is far broader than just the subsidies. But signing a bill to throw $60 billion at a self inflicted cost of living crisis probably won’t help fix the state’s financial problems.

California’s 2025 state government deficit was $18 billion dollars. This year’s budget is projected to be $35 billion deficit. What do you think the 2026 California deficit will be?

Will future historians look back on the coming collapse of California, and identify a desperate attempt to subsidise soaring green energy prices as the final straw which broke the state economy? Or will historians focus on the wealth expropriation bill as the trigger for the collapse? What do you think?

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After two years of Hamas supporters assaulting NYPD officers and Jewish community members, besieging synagogues, blocking streets, vandalizing buildings and making death threats, New York Attorney General Letitia James finally took action. Against Jews.

In a press release, AG James, who had previously worked to shut down the NRA because she disagreed with its politics, announced that she had closed down Betar, a pro-Israel group , for appearing at synagogues to defend them from Muslim mobs, for claiming that “that all devout Muslims ‘hate America’, and for making derogatory remarks about Islam and Gaza.

Shortly after nearly all New York politicians condemned Hamas supporters showing up outside a Jewish school to chant, “we support Hamas”, a fairly straightforward case of bias intimidation, Attorney General James instead decided to announce action against a Jewish protest group rather than against the Islamic and Antifa groups whom it had been defending against.

Many of the ‘charges’ laid out by AG James are forms of speech that may be derogatory or abrasive towards Islam, Muslims or Islamic terrorists, but are not in any way illegal.

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Last week CPB commander Greg Bovino was asked what makes Minneapolis different from other cities where ICE enforcement operations have taken place. Bovino noted in the Minneapolis region there is no separation between the extremists on the ground and the people in local government. Today, Vice President JD Vance concurs and expands on that sentiment.

What Vice-President Vance says here is very important.  The regional government is a stakeholder in maintaining the chaos on the streets.  Why?  Because for two decades a cancer of rampant financial fraud has been permitted to spread throughout the Minneapolis region and has now reached the stage of visible metastasis.

Shortly after the George Floyd shooting, some of us started looking into a background issue where it seemed like local police and Floyd had a knowledgeable relationship with each other prior to the encounter on the street.  The initial contact between Floyd and police was about Floyd passing off a counterfeit $20 bill to a business that was not part of the approved money laundering operation.

When you follow that trail, you end up in a really weird place where it seemed like millions of counterfeit dollars were entering the country through Mexico, going by rail into the U.S. mainland and then transitioning through the Minneapolis region. I stopped researching it when I discovered that Floyd and police officer Chauvin were friends, and worked together at one of the laundry businesses; a nightclub.

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In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 1A, giving the green light to start planning a high-speed railway connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles, which would be built by 2020 and cost around $35 billion. Well, it’s 2026, and the Golden State’s “Futureland-esque” project is woefully over-schedule and over-budget, now projected to cost around $135 billion.

Lee Ohanian, a Hoover Institution senior fellow, joins Jack Fowler on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” to discuss California’s Tomorrowland disaster and more:

“It was Disney’s future land. It was trains that would travel as fast as 220 mph. They would move people from LA to San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes. LA to San Francisco was supposed to have been finished about five years ago, and as you noted, [cost] $35 billion. The price tag could be as high as $135 billion [today].

“Now the project is woefully over budget—woefully behind schedule. And you know, Jack, in 2019, when Gov. [Gavin] Newsom gave his inaugural speech right after he was elected, he noted the problems that were happening with high-speed rail at that time. And he said, in a very interesting way, we don’t have the money to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And the project has been subject to not enough oversight and not enough accountability.

“And he was absolutely correct about that.”

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A labor and delivery nurse in Boca Raton, Florida, has been fired after posting a profane social media message hoping for harm to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt during childbirth.

Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital said Friday that Alexis “Lexie” Lawler is no longer employed after posting that it would bring her “great joy” if Leavitt suffered a severe childbirth injury known as a fourth-degree tear.

A fourth-degree tear is extensive muscle and tissue damage that can lead to lasting medical complications.

UPDATE: Unhinged Florida nurse fired after foul TikTok rant directed towards Karoline Leavitt goes viral (Rachel del Guidice/New York Post)

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In the last election, Democrats again campaigned as moderates, including Abigail Spanberger.

Once in control of the Governor’s mansion and the legislature, however, Virginia Democrats have moved quickly to fulfill the worst stereotype of a tax-hungry, economy-crushing party.

The Democrats introduced an array of new taxes on every aspect of life.

At the same time, Spanberger moved to take control of Virginia universities and colleges after years of trying to move those schools to the center.

Now, members are pushing rent control legislation and defining landlords as “gougers” if they raise rents by as little as 3%.

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The media has been giving quite a lot of attention to Aimee Bock, the head of a Minnesota nonprofit at the center of the largest pandemic relief fraud in the nation’s history – which she now says Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison had to have known about.

in federal funds meant to feed underprivileged children in Minnesota roughly 125 million nonexistent meals. According to prosecutors, as little as 3% of the funds were actually used to feed children. Bock, 45, was charged with signing off on reimbursement claims for the unserved meals, as well as collecting bribes. She maintains her innocence, while one Somali community leader told a local reporter that Bock was “a modern-day Robin Hood.”

Feeding Our Future was a “sponsoring organization,” meaning it approved meal sites, approved meal counts, and distributed the reimbursements to hundreds of sponsored food sites across the state which were mostly operated by Somalians that submitted fraudulent claims. However, in exchange for Bock’s sponsorship and approvals (she sued the state for discrimination in November 2020, claiming the Department of Education was unfairly targeting minority-led programs), the Somalians paid kickbacks to Bock and other Feeding Our Future employees, prosecutors said.

So far, 98 people have been charged in the fraud, 85 of whom are Somalians – unlike Bock, who is white. Hence the media focus on her. Over 64 of those charged have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.

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Jack Smith’s testimony before Congress did more than expose weaknesses in his own case against President Trump. It also laid bare just how partisan the entire January 6th investigation had become—and how willing Democrats were to elevate sensational claims they knew could never survive real scrutiny.

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Virginia Democrats have proposed a bill to permanently embed and test “inclusive history,” including racial and LGBTQ+ topics, in children’s classrooms across the state.

The state House bill was introduced on Jan. 13 and would require all public elementary and secondary schools to adjust history and social science classes to include “the contributions, perspectives, and experiences of historically marginalized communities, including racial and ethnic minorities; immigrants and refugees; women; individuals with disabilities; individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+),” and others.

The bill states this is necessary “in order to affirm such communities and promote a more holistic understanding of history” and “to ensure comprehensive, accurate, and inclusive education.”

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Now, Democrats appear to have settled on a new cause: illegal immigration.

In this framing, enforcing immigration law is portrayed not merely as a policy disagreement but as an expression of white supremacy itself. Illegal immigrants, the argument goes, must be allowed to remain in the country, and any attempt at enforcement is morally suspect.

This is a stretch — one that suggests demand for examples of systemic American racism has outpaced the available supply.

The Foundry.

Remember when Democrats spent an entire election cycle talking about “affordability” as if that’s all they care about now? Well, if you bought that, then there’s a socialist mayor in New York who’s got a bridge to sell you.

But New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t actually the one completely blowing up the affordability farce, it’s assumedly “moderate” Virginia Democrats.

Much of the media touted Abigail Spanberger as the moderate Democrat gubernatorial candidate who could lead the party back to power. The Wall Street Journal even called her the “anti-Mamdani.”

“Abigail Spanberger is seen as a potential moderate face for her struggling party,” read The Wall Street Journal’s subheadline.

Moderate face, Maoist heart, I guess.

UPDATE: ‘Life Just Got Harder and More Expensive’ in Virginia Less Than 1 Week Into Spanberger’s Term

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Lock ‘er up

UPDATE: These Democrats Voted to Hold Clintons in Contempt for Obstructing Epstein Probe

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Tuesday’s CBS Mornings served as further proof of what we found earlier this month about their evening counterpart (the CBS Evening News), which is they’ve been the strongest in covering the widespread Somali fraud scandal in Minneapolis. This time, CBS News Minnesota’s Jonah Kaplan interviewed Aimee Bock, the leader of the infamous group Feeding Our Future, as she awaits possibly decades behind bars for her role in a quarter-billion dollar scheme.

“Now to a CBS News exclusive interview with the woman who prosecutors say it was the mastermind of the biggest Covid-era fraud scheme. 44-year-old Aimee Bock is her name. She’s not part of the Somali community. Last year, she was convicted of orchestrating a $250 million plot to defraud government program to feed hungry kids,” declared co-host Gayle King in cuing Kaplan.

Kaplan began by pointing out “there’s been so much focus on the Somali community here in Minnesota because of the widespread fraud and most of the suspects charged and convicted in the schemes, they are from the Somali community, but…the mastermind, according to prosecutors, federal prosecutors, she is not Somali.”

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In the lexicon of polite political discourse, we are told that “kleptocracy” is a phenomenon reserved for the decaying regimes of the third world—banana republics where dictators in gold-braided epaulets stuff suitcases with cash while their people starve. This is a comforting fiction. It allows the American mind to believe that corruption is something that happens over there, in places without marble capitols or Ivy League economists.

But this definition is archaic. It fails to capture the sophistication of the modern predator state. A true kleptocracy in the twenty-first century does not require a dictator with a Swiss bank account; it requires a bureaucracy with a grant-making authority. It does not steal with a gun; it steals with a regulation.

The modern Democrat Party is not merely a political coalition; it is a syndicalist engine of wealth extraction. It has evolved beyond the crude graft of Tammany Hall, where votes were bought with turkeys and beer, into a highly complex “NGO-industrial complex” that launders public treasury funds into private political power. They are not governing. They are looting. And they have built a moral fortress around their theft so that to question the robbery is to be branded a heretic.

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“Trump, and all the bottom-feeding morons…” will be targeted, prosecuted and jailed. The Supreme Court will be packed to insure the pogroms are ruled Constitutional.

Beware. Be advised. Midterms are vital.

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Sophia Miller does a deep dive.

Why Tesla’s Fremont expansion was canceled despite aligning with California’s climate goals

How state regulations and net-zero mandates added billions in hidden costs

The ripple effect on suppliers, small businesses, and working families

Why manufacturing jobs are leaving California — and where they’re going

How climate policies can backfire when ideology replaces economic reality

Thousands of jobs vanished. Billions in tax revenue disappeared.

And the state that wanted to lead the clean energy revolution may now be falling behind it.

Get Woke—go broke.

NOTE: I have no reason to believe that this video isn’t AI-generated, and something about it makes me suspect that it is. Nevertheless, the information is spot on.

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The House Oversight Committee is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and her rapidly rising family wealth after her latest financial disclosure listed her net worth at $30 million, the New York Post reported.

“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told the Post.

The report comes as federal agents investigate a growing fraud scandal in Minnesota, the cost of which federal prosecutors estimate could top $9 billion.

UPDATE: House, feds probe to unravel mystery of ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing wealth: ‘It’s not possible’ (New York Post)

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Rebecca Madigan does a deep dive.

Babylon Bee.

Beautiful plumage, just like the Norwegian Blue.

UPDATE: 9 Easy Ways To Avoid Getting Attacked By Law Enforcement (Babylon Bee)

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Democrats like to say, for a lack of a better term, that Republicans hate sick people. I have cystic ?brosis: a chronic, life-threatening genetic disease, and I’m sick and tired of Democrats lying and fear mongering to people who are already sick and tired.

The Affordable Care Act was fundamentally flawed from the start, and was never designed to function without massive, unsustainable subsidies. It ultimately was doomed to fail. The ACA drove up costs, narrowed provider networks, and reduced access to care.

In fact, the ACA is one of the main reasons I kept working even when my doctors told me I was too sick to do so.

I had to maintain my private insurance. Without it, I would have lost my doctors, faced longer wait times, lost the ?exibility to complete treatments outside the hospital, and been cut o? from the quality care I needed, not just to stay alive, but to remain a functioning member of society.

And somehow, Democrats are now pushing something even worse than the A?ordable Care Act: universal health care.

The American Mind.

The alternate reality Democrats have constructed is falling apart in real time. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the following when asked to comment on an ICE agent’s shooting of a woman in Minneapolis who was attempting to run over him with her car: “What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life.”

She then called “disgusting” the “editorializing” of those who argue that the ICE agent was in front of the car as it was accelerating, just before he fired. “Watch it for yourself, watch it for yourself,” she concluded, with supreme confidence that any viewer would see with the same skew of her own lenses.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey went even harder over the rhetorical cliff in responding to the shooting. He classified interpretations of the ICE officer’s action as self-defense as “bull***t” and demanded that ICE “get the f**k out of Minneapolis.” Mayor Mamdani in New York followed suit, calling the event a “murder” and a “horror.”

It is a stark bit of evidence of how American society has been warped by the twisted rhetoric of the radical Left regarding political conflict in our country.

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Cea Weaver makes Zohran Mamdani look like Jeb Bush.

New York City’s neo-Marxist mayor tapped Weaver, 37, as his Tenant Czarina. The alumna of Housing Justice for All became ensnared in scandal as she took over the Office to Protect Tenants.

Weaver’s social media posts and videos have surfaced to haunt her. Collectively, they are an e-book of “The Communist Manifesto” and a digital cry for help from a white woman who hates white people, especially white males.

Weaver did not daydream these comments during Political Theory 101 at Bryn Mawr, her alma mater. She was a grown woman, at least 27, when she shared these insights via social media.

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After the latest wave of exposes made Somali fraud a national story, Democrat state officials from Minnesota to Washington to Maine scrambled to conduct cover-ups and threaten anyone exposing the fraud.

The head of Seattle’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, Hamdi Mohamed, “the first Somali woman elected in the state”, convened a meeting with Gov. Bob Ferguson, representatives of Attorney General Nick Brown, Seattle City Attorney Erika Evans, as well as other elected officials, who promised to protect Somalis from investigations and enforcement.

Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson, a radical leftist, declared that she stands “in solidarity with our Somali and Muslim communities” who are facing ICE as well as alleged “doxxing, harassment, and hate” which is how investigations of Somali fraud have been described.

The Robb Report.

Billionaires are fleeing California ahead of a proposed 5 percent wealth tax, with at least six members of the ten-digit club moving their business to other states before the bill’s January 1 deadline to be considered for the levy. And more may be on the move still, if the tax actually comes to pass, Bloomberg reported.

Well, that will free up a lot of high-end housing. (Won’t help the homeless much, but proglodyte celebrities ought to benefit.)

And though the proposal hasn’t been signed into law, the idea alone was strong enough to send some UHNW individuals out of the state. Both Peter Thiel and David Sacks packed their bags right at the end of 2025, with the PayPal cofounder heading to Florida and the venture capitalist going off to Texas. Global investment firm Iconiq Capital’s founder Divesh Makan says he’s aware of four or five families that left California, explaining that the floodgates would open even further if the bill was passed, according to Bloomberg. David Lesperance, whose company helps affluent families with immigration and taxes, has helped move four billionaires out of the state, he told the publication.

The bill itself calls for a one-time tax on California residents who have over $1 billion to their name. Though it’s not a sure thing by any means, with the move still needing enough signatures to even appear on the state’s November ballot; then, of course, it would need to be voted into law. Governor Gavin Newsom is strongly opposed to the measure; other detractors say it would harm the California’s tech economy, as many start-ups may not have the funds to cover the levy. And, since the state’s economy overall relies heavily on existing taxes on the uber-rich, the bill may actually end up costing California money in the long term if these UHNW individuals happen to exit. The union that introduced the proposal aimed to generate $100 billion to fund gaps in health care, food benefits, and education statewide.

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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin quietly began unwinding portions of their financial empires in California in the days leading up to Christmas, according to corporate filings reviewed by The New York Times, as progressive lawmakers consider a proposed billionaire wealth tax. This development confirms our earlier note that California is on an accelerated path toward self-destruction.

ATQUE: Google Founders Quit California Over Billionaires Tax Proposal

They’ve never been happy since Republicans freed their slaves.

ATQUE: Democrats Once Again Threaten Civil War To Stop Republicans From Taking Away Their Slave Laborers (Babylon Bee)

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New York City parents may soon have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds, under a plan set to be unveiled Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The two Democrats are expected to detail the program at a news conference Thursday morning, along with a pledge from Hochul to pursue a wider, statewide free child care initiative.

“There’s one thing that every family in New York can agree on, the cost of childcare is simply too high,” Hochul said in a statement. “As New York’s first mom Governor, fighting for New York’s families has always been at the core of my agenda.”

Until they run out of other people’s money—as happened with the ‘Affordable Care Act’.

Newsbusters.

s The Atlantic magazine trying to send its readers a not so secret message? Although it’s profile of California Governor Gavin Newsom by Helen Lewis on Tuesday, “The Front-Runner,” was generally positive it was also chock full of Gettys as in the oil fortune family of patriarch J. Paul Getty.

In fact the name “Getty” was so important in Newsom’s personal, business, and political background that it appeared a total of 22 times in the article (including the Getty Images attributions of five of the photos used). Although a Republican presidential hopeful so attached to a family whose fortune was based on oil would be savaged for the connection, with Newsom it seems to be okay because of the magic (D) by his name.

The Telegraph (UK).

The hammer-wielding intruder accused of smashing the windows of JD Vance’s house is the transgender child of a Democratic donor.

William DeFoor, 26, was charged on Monday with obstructing official business, criminally damaging or endangering, criminal trespass and vandalism after an overnight break-in at the vice-president’s £1m home in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Police and federal officers swarmed the five-bedroom residence early on Monday morning after a suspect smashed several windows of the Vances’ property with a hammer and tried to break in, according to officials.

DeFoor, who attended a $27,000 (£20,000)-a-year Catholic school now appears to identify as a woman, going by the name Julia, according to the Daily Mail.

ATQUE: Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Vandalizes J.D. Vance’s Ohio Home (The Other McCain)

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Move over Nancy Pelosi, there’s a new insider trader, err, investor in town whose portfolio has you beat.

Pelosi’s investment record during her decades in Congress has long drawn criticism, with her portfolio posting a whopping 54% return last year. The California Democrat, who plans to depart at the conclusion of her term in January 2027, recorded a more modest 18% gain in 2025—still a figure that would make some on Wall Street blush.

In 2025, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D- NY) led all Democrats with the strongest portfolio performance, according to data reviewed by The New York Post. The figures come from alternative-data platform Quiver Quantitative, which tracks congressional stock transactions amid heightened public and political fallout from lawmakers’ investment returns.

Suozzi’s portfolio rose 35%, substantially exceeding major market indexes, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 14% gain, the S&P 500’s 17% advance and the Nasdaq Composite’s 21% increase, according to data provided exclusively to The Post by Quiver Quantitative.

“Some members seemed to spend more time managing their portfolios than they did at their day job on Capitol Hill,” Quiver Quantitative CEO Christopher Kardatzke told The Post. “We have seen members making day trades, options trades, and – for the first time ever – meme coin trades.”

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A group of New York state Senate Republicans is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to immediately commission an independent audit of state social service programs, citing “disturbing reports” and warning that weak oversight may have allowed significant misuse of taxpayer funds.

In a letter dated Jan. 2 addressed to the governor at the State Capitol, lawmakers raised alarms over alleged misuse of public funds tied to sham child care centers and other illegitimate entities exploiting taxpayer-funded assistance programs.

The senators warned that vulnerabilities in New York’s oversight systems could allow fraud, waste, and abuse to flourish unchecked.

If Minnesota is corrupt, can New York be far behind?

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I don’t care if you support Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis or the Easter Bunny, any American who doesn’t realize the tenuous future of our union, after reviewing the information within this testimony, is going to forever live in a collapsed dystopian nightmare, if they vote for any political representative who supports it.

The House Judiciary Committee has released the [VIDEO] and [TRANSCRIPT] of special prosecutor Jack Smith’s deposition. What is outlined within it is alarming in the extreme. I strongly urge anyone with any platform to review the details and quickly highlight the content therein. There is no time to waste.

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A state Assembly campaign in Queens is attracting controversy after public statements from a candidate supported by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani raised questions about her views on American national holidays and broader U.S. traditions.

Aber Kawas, a longtime activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is running for the Assembly seat representing New York’s 34th District. She has drawn support from Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America’s Electoral Working Group in a contest to succeed Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, who is not seeking reelection.

Writings attributed to Kawas from 2015, first widely circulated this month, say she does not celebrate major federal holidays such as July 4th, Labor Day, or Veterans Day because she believes they “represent the silencing & destruction of our movements.”

In a journal entry from September 2015, Kawas wrote, “Today I do not celebrate a day off, I only recommit myself to a global movement that fights against the death, displacement, and exploitation of people for capital,” according to the New York Post.

Kawas added, “For this movement, a day off is not a victory. A day off means nothing, because liberation means everything.”

I think we can safely assume that this person is not registered as a Republican.

The Foundry.

This past year, the Left crossed a Rubicon in normalizing political violence.

The year opened with many on the Left praising a man who allegedly murdered a health care CEO, and it ended with Virginia Democrats overwhelmingly voting for a man who fantasized about shooting his political opponent and wished death on his opponent’s children.

Jay Jones, now Virginia’s attorney general-elect, made the most bloodcurdling endorsement of political violence I have ever seen from an elected official, and he justified it with this sentence: “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

Jones apologized for the remarks, but he remained in the race, and he even shared a stage with none other than former President Barack Obama. I had hoped my fellow Virginians would reject this message in November, but Jones won the election—setting a horrifying precedent for American politics.

Jones’ election victory highlights the negative partisanship in America, and it comes at the end of a truly horrifying year of left-wing violence. Here are 10 incidents of threats or violence aligning with the Left’s attacks on Trump and his party.

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Consider this post a place to discuss the Minnesota food program fraud, the Minnesota child care fraud, the Minnesota health care fraud, the involvement of Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz, the relationship to the assassination of the Hortmans, the lack of coverage by the Minneapolis Times Tribune, the larger problem of fraud in government programs, fraud as an intrinsic component of the business model of the Democrat Party, or anything else for that matter.

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“California is on a path to self-destruction. Hollywood is already toast and now the most productive entrepreneurs will leave taking their tax revenues and job creation elsewhere,” Bill Ackman wrote on X, citing a New York Times report that said several billionaires, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page, are preparing to flee the state as a proposed one-time wealth tax ballot measure gains momentum.

Time to leave.

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Left-wing Governor Tim Walz, under intensifying federal pressure, faces a widening Somali-linked fraud scandal in Minnesota. Federal prosecutors state that the scheme currently totals at least $9 billion, with the final figure potentially much higher. Recent reporting by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo alleges that some welfare funds were funneled into an overseas terrorist organization. Now, a bombshell video from a citizen journalist suggests the fraud extends beyond Medicaid into the state’s daycare system.

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As the old aphorism goes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.” Nobody likes paying taxes, but most Americans accept them as a necessary evil and are willing to pay their fair share, unless politicians waste those tax dollars in extraordinarily—well—wasteful ways, or steal them outright.

I refer, of course, to California, where, as the classic Eagle’s song Hotel California goes: “You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”

California, it’s no secret, is in deep financial trouble. In 2022, Gavin Newsom bragged about a $97.5 billion dollar surplus. By the 2024-25 budget, that surplus turned into an estimated $73 billion deficit. By the end of 2025, it’s likely far worse and virtually no one trusts state government’s estimates.

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More than five years ago, I wrote in these pages of a growing trend on the left toward compelled speech – the forcing of citizens to repeat approved views and values. It is an all-too-familiar pattern. Once a faction assumes power, it will often first seek to censor opposing views and then compel the endorsement of approved views.

This week, some of those efforts faced setbacks and challenges in blue states like Washington and Illinois.

In Washington state, many have developed what seems a certain appetite for compelled speech.

For example, Democrats recently pushed through legislation that would have compelled priests and other clerics to rat out congregants who confessed to certain criminal acts.

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Washington Post uncorked their alarm on the front page on Friday when the Trump administration declared it would ban federal funding from any hospital that provides gender-denying care to minors.

The Post headline was “Trans care for minors targeted.” The Times headline was “U.S. to Halt Care for Trans Youth.” The surprise here was neither of these stories used the Orwellian term “gender-affirming care” in their left-tilting dispatches. “Gender transition care” or “gender-related care” were the replacements.

The Times story – penned by Azeen Ghorayshi, Amy Harmon, and Reed Abelson – was more panicked. “The administration’s action is not just a regulatory shift but the latest signal that the federal government does not recognize even the existence of people whose gender identity does not align with their sex at birth.”

Actually, I have no problem with it. Parents who are willing to mutilate their children in the name of fashion deserve to have their genes removed from the gene pool. Tough on the kids, of course, but it’s traditional in such circumstances to murder your parents.

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Well, comparatively speaking….

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An attorney for Fulton County, Georgia admitted earlier this month that the county accepted roughly 315,000 early votes that were not lawfully certified in the 2020 presidential election.

Attorney Ann Brumbaugh made the admission while representing the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections at a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board, according to Wednesday’s reporting by The Federalist.

The SEB hearing pertained to a complaint filed by election integrity activist David Cross, who accuses Fulton County of having violated Georgia law by counting early votes that were not properly signed off by election workers.

As quoted by The Federalist, Brumbaugh told the board that Fulton County does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.”

ALSO: ‘Yes, We Stole the Election. Oopsie.’ (The Other McCain)

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Disgraced DC Police Chief Pamela Smith appeared completely unhinged during her exit speech at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters on Friday, shouting, “To all my haters, f*ck you.”

“Never would I compromise my integrity. Never would I compromise 28 years in law enforcement for a few folk who couldn’t stand to be held accountable. And if I had to do it all over again… so I’m going to the Bible when I say this: to my haters, F you,” Smith emphasized.

She continued, “The same folks who said in that report that they changed their numbers and I did not. The report is very clear. I did not direct anyone. You should investigate those folks.”

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A mortgage fraud probe of a Democratic congressman began last month after William Pulte, the Republican head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, referred allegations from a conservative news site to his agency’s inspector general for possible criminal investigation, government emails seen by Reuters show.

On Nov. 12, The Gateway Pundit published an article alleging U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell had improperly listed his Washington, D.C., home as his “principal residence” on mortgage paperwork. Swalwell, a critic of President Donald Trump who represents a ?Northern California district and is now running for governor of California, an office that requires residency in that state, has said he is a ?permanent resident of California. According to loan documents, however, Swalwell had listed his home in Washington as his “principal residence.”

An email reviewed by Reuters shows Pulte sent a link to the article to the FHFA’s acting inspector general that day, urging him to take ?all appropriate action “including — if warranted — engagement with the Department of Justice regarding potential mortgage, tax or other fraud related to the representations made in mortgage documents or other items in the below article.”

Read it.

This week, Senator Chuck Grassley released Department of Justice and FBI records that provide a new look on how FBI and DOJ leadership sabotaged the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

These records, which include internal emails, summaries of high-level meetings and calls, and intelligence from confidential human sources, reveal the Clinton Foundation investigation was sabotaged from the start.

During the Obama Administration, both DOJ and FBI leadership were openly hostile to the investigation. US Attorneys declined to cooperate, denying requests for subpoenas or other investigative support. And during the first Trump Administration, actors within the FBI and DOJ obstructed and delayed the development of the investigation by not approving the release of FBI materials and slowing the release of witness interviews to investigators. A frustrating tale of corruption and incompetence.

Relying on these new documents, as well as other public source materials and Special Counsel John Durham’s report, here is the comprehensive timeline of the Clinton Foundation investigation, as well as other parts of the overall Clinton corruption investigation that are relevant. It is an infuriating tale of corruption and incompetence from the highest levels of government which ultimately protected the Clinton’s schemes to trade on their political influence for millions of dollars.

Bill & Hillary Clinton may not be the biggest crooks in the Democrat party today—the competition for that title is pretty fierce—but they’re certainly in the running.

The New Neo.

One wonders how much of the social welfare money handed out all over the country has been to perpetrators of fraud. We’ve always known fraud existed in such programs, but the scope of the fraud being uncovered seems mind-boggling even to many people already cynical about the subject.

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