The Foundry.

The Census Bureau recently released updated population figures through June 2025. The country grew slightly, but that growth wasn’t equally distributed. Many red states, like South Carolina, Idaho, and Texas, grew significantly. In just one year, each of those states saw their population increase by more than 1%.

Blue states aren’t keeping up. California, Illinois, and New York now have fewer people than in 2020. In contrast, Florida’s population is up around 9%.

There’s an obvious and important takeaway here. Blue states implemented leftist ideas. They have high taxes and regulations that strangle construction. They have failing schools that teach students to hate America. They force female athletes to compete against boys.

The results have been so intolerable that millions of people have moved out. It’s yet another example of people fleeing socialism.

There’s a less obvious but just as important takeaway. After the decennial census, states gain or lose congressional seats based on population. Those adjustments change the Electoral College. States receive electoral votes based on how many House and Senate members they have.

The forecast from the American Redistricting Project shows Democrats losing nine seats in reliable blue states. Two swing states, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, would each lose a seat. Those 11 seats would go to states that Trump won in 2024. A different projection from Jonathan Cervas at Carnegie Mellon University has solid red and lean red states gaining 13 seats.

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Representative Ilhan Omar is one of the most sanctimonious corrupt Democrats in congress, and she’s loud and proud about it because she understands how to engage in financial fraud safely. Just do what everyone else is doing but do it bigger, that way there’s no way her peers can approach it.

Someone in DC gave House Oversight Chairman James Comer the familiar tap on the shoulder and told him they don’t investigate their own Uniparty tribe. So, Comer drops his planned review of Omar’s corruption and shifts it to the ethics team.

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Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have announced charges in a major welfare fraud case tied to a local restaurant, alleging more than $1 million in stolen government benefits were funneled through a multi-state scheme involving stolen identities and SNAP fraud.

Authorities say the lead defendant, Raul Fernandez Vicioso, operated El Primo Restaurant and worked with three co-defendants to obtain SNAP benefits using the identities of more than 100 victims, according to Newsmax crime correspondent Jason Mattera on Monday’s “Wake Up America.”

Investigators allege the group collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in EBT funds between 2023 and 2025, using the cards to purchase bulk food from wholesalers and stock the restaurant at taxpayer expense.

Prosecutors say the fraud extended beyond SNAP, with the same group accused of filing bogus COVID-era unemployment claims in multiple states, netting more than $700,000 in additional funds. Federal officials say the case highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in benefit programs and the need for tougher enforcement when state officials fail to act.

The defendants now face multiple federal charges, including fraud and conspiracy.

Ponder why you never see these massive fraud cases in Red states. The nature of the Democrat party as a criminal enterprise is becoming painfully clear.

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Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is openly pushing training sessions to arm agitators with tactics to obstruct ICE operations and dox agents, escalating the left’s war on border security.

For which she ought to be arrested and prosecuted.

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After having lived in California the past four years, I can attest to the near-insanity of progressive politics in this state, yet California’s very progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, is considered a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2028.

Given how the Trump administration has helped to tank the economy through its tariffs, inflation, and outright regime uncertainty, there is a real possibility that Newsom can make California governance a reality for the entire country.

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Hey, that’s what Democrats are all about.

No wonder California is a Turd World shithole.

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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding documents from the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., after new financial disclosures showed his business holdings skyrocketed in value — a surge Republicans say raises red flags about transparency, investor influence, and potential misconduct.

In a release Friday, Comer said financial disclosure forms filed by Omar indicate that her husband, Tim Mynett, holds ownership stakes in two companies — eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC — whose reported value surged from a combined total of as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.

Comer said the lack of publicly available investor information for the firms makes the dramatic increase particularly concerning.

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A damning on-site investigation has revealed that the winery co-owned by Ilhan Omar’s husband is nothing more than a phantom operation, fueling suspicions of fraud amid scrutiny of her skyrocketing wealth.

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Top leaders of the nation’s two largest teachers unions spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury resorts, golf getaways, and casino hotels in 2025, even as they publicly warned that Trump administration policies were putting teachers under financial strain.

Newly disclosed union financial records show executives at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) traveled to high-end destinations including Las Vegas, Miami, Palm Springs, California, Honolulu, and golf resorts across the country, the Washington Examiner reported.

Many of the expenses were categorized under vague labels such as “professional development” or “staff education,” while some were not itemized at all.

What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

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California’s public-sector unions are the Colorado River of political spending. Normal people and our donations? A trickle. An unstoppable torrent flows from over 1.1 million union members collecting nearly $1 billion a year in dues. If you wonder how California politics got so bad, this is how.

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Not only did Maryland Gov. Wes Moore lie about a Bronze Star, his Baltimore origins, a fictional football Hall of Fame introduction and his academic credentials, but a new report also suggests he fabricated a story about his great-grandfather fleeing the KKK.

Next to stealing, lying is what Democrats love best to do.

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Democrats have spent years insisting illegal immigrants do not vote, yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just gave the whole game away.

In a letter to GOP leadership, they demanded a slate of “reforms” to immigration enforcement as the price for funding the Department of Homeland Security, including targeted enforcement, no masks, mandatory use of body cameras, and other demands, several of which I suspect are nonstarters.

I don’t see Democrats getting anywhere with these, but the big thing is that buried in that list is a rather revealing demand:

Protect Sensitive Locations – Prohibit funds from being used to conduct enforcement near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc.

Polling places?

They went out of their way to include polling places right alongside hospitals, courts, and churches. There is only one thing that happens at polling places that would matter to illegal immigrants, and it is not the bake sale.

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Democrat Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, have warned credit reporting giant Equifax against what they describe as potential price gouging tied to new Medicaid work requirements.

The senators sent the warning via a letter, according to The Hill.

The lawmakers said that the sweeping changes to Medicaid eligibility, which require millions of recipients to verify work status or actively seek employment, could allow Equifax to further consolidate its dominance in employment and income verification services.

“Because Equifax is already dominant in this market, the law’s new red tape requirements allow the company to consolidate power even further, using extractive contracts to price-gouge states, squeeze competitors, and drive-up profits,” the senators wrote.

‘Price gouging’ is a catchphrase used by proglodytes to defame people who are charging more than proglodytes think they ought to.

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It’s AI, but well done, and the story itself is telling.

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Two Minnesota school districts and a statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block immigration enforcement operations near schools, escalating legal challenges to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegals in the state, The Hill reported.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, asked a judge to prohibit federal immigration agents from carrying out enforcement operations within 1,000 feet of school property or school bus stops unless agents obtain a judicial warrant or face what the suit describes as “exigent circumstances.”

The case was brought by the Fridley and Duluth public school districts, along with Education Minnesota, a union that represents more than 80,000 educators statewide.

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In one of his most revealing moments years ago, Don Lemon sat down with Morgan Freeman and admitted exhaustion with the race narrative. “Sometimes, I get so tired of talking about it,” Lemon said. “I wanna just go, ‘This is over. Can we move on?’”

Today that same man harasses pastors, calls ordinary churchgoers entitled because of “WHITE SUPREMACY,” and defends mobs that storm Christian services.

Lemon’s dramatic transformation reached a new level this month when he was arrested by federal agents in connection with the anti-ICE mob that disrupted a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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By no co-incidence whatever, ‘legal observers’ is what the anti-ICE mobsters call their agents provocateurs,

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In recent weeks, calls to defund or even abolish ICE have ramped up from the Democratic Party, particularly after the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. However, despite their rhetoric, American voters are far more aligned with Trump’s immigration crackdown. In fact, it looks like their views on immigration enforcement are so far out of touch with mainstream America that it could cost them the midterm elections.

The latest Cygnal survey has made some rather telling discoveries: enforcement is popular, defunding ICE is toxic, and Democrats are walking straight into an electoral buzz saw by pretending otherwise.

Cygnal, widely regarded as one of the most accurate private pollsters in the country, polled likely 2026 midterm voters and found that voters still see the border as a question of law, not vibes. A full 73 percent of voters say that entering the United States illegally is, in fact, breaking the law, which means most Americans still accept the basic premise behind the word “illegal.”

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Congressional Democrats said Tuesday they plan to subpoena President Donald Trump to testify under oath about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein if they regain control of the House, citing what they describe as a new precedent set by Republicans’ aggressive oversight tactics.

“We are absolutely going to have Donald Trump testify under oath,” Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., a member of Democratic leadership, told NBC News, saying the issue would be a priority once Democrats have subpoena power.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., a former House majority leader who is retiring at the end of this Congress, said the prospect of Trump testifying would be significant. “It is a big deal,” Hoyer said. “And it’d be interesting to see what former President Trump thinks of that premise.”

Newsbusters.

In fact, the only people who have a problem with it are Democrats, becuse it stands in the way of their favorite sport, stealing elections.

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Yet Another Corrupt Black Democrat Politician.

Hmm. That would make an interesting book….

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A viral video compilation circulating on X has laid bare the dramatic reversal in Democratic positions on immigration, showcasing top party figures advocating for robust border security measures that they now vehemently oppose.

This shift comes amid growing public demand for deportations, exposing a calculated pivot away from policies that once aligned with American interests.

The video, posted by @WesternLensman on X, features archived clips of prominent Democrats articulating views on immigration that echo today’s America First agenda. It underscores how border security was once a bipartisan consensus before the party’s radical elements took over.

The New Neo.

Of course he does:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday condemned legislation requiring ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote as “nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0.”

Probably more like Jim Crow 2000.0, since the Democrats are fond of calling nearly everything the GOP proposes “Jim Crow.”

So, how would a person prove citizenship under the SAVE Act as proposed? If you listen to the left, “millions” couldn’t comply even though they are citizens:

The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

The article then goes on and on about passports, as though that’s the way it needs to be done, and although it’s already said birth certificates are fine. It mentions that real IDs wouldn’t work for the purpose.

The only people afraid of voter ID are those intending to cheat. It’s just that simple.

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The Federal Communications Commission is moving to overhaul the government’s nearly $1 billion Lifeline program after an internal audit found widespread fraud, with California responsible for the vast majority of the abuse.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the commission will vote this month on sweeping reforms aimed at tightening eligibility, preventing fraud, and ensuring taxpayer dollars go only to legal and eligible recipients.

The move follows an Inspector General advisory showing Lifeline providers received nearly $5 million in federal funds to supply phone and internet services to more than 116,000 deceased individuals.

More than 80% of that fraud occurred in California.

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It has come to my attention that, even though election fraud has been in the news regularly both at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 and for the last six months, many people seem unaware of the methods by which election fraud is being perpetrated. So, here, are some basics for those who new to the subject.

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“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun,” King Solomon famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in Minnesota.

On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison initiated a lawsuit on behalf of the North Star State, along with municipal co-plaintiffs Minneapolis and St. Paul, against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, and the rest of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement apparatus.

In his press conference announcing the suit, Ellison emphasized the same basic arguments as his formal complaint: Namely, that ICE’s enforcement “surge” in Minnesota amounts to a “violation of the Tenth Amendment and the sovereign laws and powers granted to states.”

In essence, Ellison and his Minnesota’s Democratic Party leadership confreres argue that the constitutional federalism articulated in the 10th Amendment and its corollary of “states’ rights” can shield the Land of 10,000 Lakes from the long enforcement arm of federal immigration law. Ellison and Minnesota Democrats claim that by declaring their state and cities to be illegal alien “sanctuaries,” they can “nullify” federal immigration law.

Stop me if you’ve heard that one before.

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Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says a recent state court ruling blocking Democrats’ attempt to advance a gerrymandered redistricting plan is firmly rooted in Virginia law and could ultimately be upheld on appeal.

Following the inauguration of Gov. Abigail Spanberger this month, Democrats are now firmly in control of Virginia government and seeking to add four Democrat seats ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Speaking with The Daily Signal’s Joe Thomas, Cuccinelli said the judge found the amendment process violated Virginia law on three independent grounds: notice requirements, election timing, and constitutional limits on special legislative sessions.

“The judge ruled on three separate, independent bases that the way the Democrats have gone about advancing their redistricting constitutional amendment violates Virginia law,” Cuccinelli said.

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And, indeed, that’s the whole point of the anti-ICE agitation.

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New York’s Manhattan borough president has launched a campaign targeting Newsmax and seeking its ban in the city’s taxicabs.

Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, announced this week that he is demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani pull Newsmax from the city’s taxi TV screens.

Newsmax called the move an “act of pure censorship.”

New York City’s taxicabs are privately owned. The City issues licenses — called “medallions” — to cab owners.

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After the House Ethics Committee announced it found over two dozen instances of “serious financial crimes” against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., announced on Thursday night he will be filing a resolution to expel the congresswoman.

“In November, I filed a resolution to expel [Cherfilus-McCormick] following her indictment by the [Justice Department],” Steube posted on X. “Today’s House Ethics findings detail more than two dozen counts of serious financial crimes. When we return to Washington, I’ll call up a resolution to expel her from Congress.”

The Department of Justice previously charged Cherfilus-McCormick for allegedly stealing over $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds and making illegal campaign contributions. If convicted, she could face upward of 53 years in prison.

Yet Another Corrupt Black Female Politician.

UPDATE: Jeffries says vote to expel Cherfilus-McCormick “going to fail” (Andrew Solender/Axios)

UPDATE: Rep. Steube to Force Vote on Expelling Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick

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Two years ago, Zakia Khan and her son Ahsan Ijaz hosted an NYPD promotion ceremony for the first Pakistani inspector in the New York City police department. After an Imam recited a prayer and everyone, including NYPD personnel, rose and put their hands on their hearts for the Pakistani national anthem, hailing Pakistan as the ‘citadel of Islam’ in the “shadow of Allah.”

Last year, Khan pleaded guilty to a $68 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving her adult day care centers, which had been the sponsors of the NYPD event, and earlier this year more members of the Muslim fraud ring pleaded guilty as well. Others are still awaiting trial.

The day care fraud not only dragged in Khan and her son, but also Malik Nadeem Abid, a prominent Democrat who had served as the vice chair of the Nassau County Democratic Party, had chaired a DNC committee, had been honored by both branches of New York’s legislature, and had been closely associated with a number of Democratic members of Congress.

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A short summary of why Pretti pretty much committed Suicide By Cop.

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A nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University Health has been terminated after posting a series of videos urging sabotage against ICE agents, including injecting them with paralytic drugs and poisoning their food and drinks.

Yes, really.

The unhinged suggestions highlight the escalating threats faced by law enforcement amid leftist campaigns to obstruct deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is facing backlash after comparing federal immigration officers to Nazis while promoting legislation aimed at restricting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the city.

Krasner, a liberal prosecutor whose campaigns have received backing from billionaire George Soros, made the remarks during a press event outside City Hall backing a new “ICE OUT” initiative, which seeks to sharply limit ICE activity on city property.

“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are,” Krasner said. “In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”

The comments immediately drew condemnation from Republicans, including Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., who told Newsmax that Krasner’s rhetoric was dangerous and irresponsible.

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.

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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.”