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December 30, 2025
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IS THERE ANYTHING IN MINNESOTA (ASIDE FROM JAMES LILEKS) THAT ISN’T BASED ON FRAUD?
HOLY COW
MINNESOTA VOTER FRAUD
This is the form used to vouch up to 8 voters on Election Day (for people that don’t have IDs).
If you read closely it says,
“Employees of residential facilities may vouch for an 👉UNLIMITED👈 number of facility residents.”
This is legal.… pic.twitter.com/gg25yEid14
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) December 29, 2025
BYE-BYE JOHNSON AMENDMENT: If, as expected, a federal judge in Texas upholds a consent decree agreement among the National Religious Broadcasters, et. al. and the IRS, churches will no longer be barred from advising congregants of the Biblical perspective on issues and candidates in the public square. There is also a chance the case could end up in the Supreme Court, so definitely one to keep an eye on in 2026.
HEY, BIG SPENDER: OpenAI offering over half a million a year salary for ‘stressful’ job.
ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI is looking to hire a “Head of Preparedness.” According to a job posting on the company website, the role is focused on leading “technical strategy and execution” around OpenAI’s “approach to tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm.”
“This role requires deep technical judgement, clear communication, and the ability to guide complex work across multiple risk domains,” the job posting continues.
It also pays over half a million dollars a year, $555,000 to be specific.
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman calls the job a “critical role at an important time.”
He goes on to say that “models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges.”
Those problems, according to Altman include AI’s potential impact on mental health. The job posting also mentions mitigation of other major risk factors, including cyber and bio attacks.
“If you want to help the world figure out how to enable cybersecurity defenders with cutting edge capabilities while ensuring attackers can’t use them for harm, ideally by making all systems more secure, and similarly for how we release biological capabilities and even gain confidence in the safety of running systems that can self-improve, please consider applying,” Altman said in a post on X.
Maybe those guardrails work on LLMs, but if Artificial General Intelligence is self-programming, what’s to stop it from removing puny human guardrails?
IT’S THEFT, ALL THE WAY DOWN:
If welfare and redistribution were really about helping people, then their proponents should care *more* about fraud. That’s money not going to the stated purpose of these programs. Their hostility to all scrutiny proves their stated goals were always lies. It’s just patronage. https://t.co/83N8mkJ9cr
— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) December 29, 2025
Related:
I guess the question is why did the New York Times allow a kid with an iPhone to put millions of eyeballs on this instead of them.
Journalists would love to answer this question but they can't. It's lunacy. It's industry suicide because they don't want to called racist by their…
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2025
The scale of fraud in this county might just be the biggest story since 9/11 or the West’s victory in the Cold War — and the Complicit Media is largely uninterested.
Is their studied disinterest purely ideological, or are they somehow in on the theft?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Mamdanigeddon Is Almost Here — Time to Take Bets on NYC’s Survival. “I’ve expressed my affinity for New York City many times. It’s played a huge part in my stand-up career. My daughter got both her undergrad and law degrees there, and still lives in Brooklyn. I would greatly prefer that the leftists not be able to wreak any more havoc there. Unfortunately, they’re about to get their best shot yet at doing so.”
COVERUP COMING A BIT LATE:
Stunning – it appears they have taken down the license look-up website so Minnesotans can’t see who the Medicaid service providers are or what licensing violations they may have. @Tim_Walz @ DHS should restore this immediately. https://t.co/hT1Yhj88vu
— Kristin Robbins (@KRobbinsMN) December 29, 2025
Related:
After the fraud scandal in Minnesota, a TikToker decided to investigate daycare centers in Ohio, which has the country’s second-largest Somali population.
By plugging the addresses into Google Maps, he discovered that many of the buildings didn’t look like typical childcare… pic.twitter.com/geubb1DwiC
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 30, 2025
Plus:
Within the next 72 hours, expect a Jussie Smollett-style fake bomb threat against a Somali “learning center” that Democrats will try to blame on MAGA right-wingers on X.
They desperately want to distract in any way they can from the fraud.
Bookmark it.
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) December 29, 2025
IRAN: Protests erupt in Iran over currency’s plunge to record low.
Iran’s largest protests in three years erupted Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to a record low against the U.S. dollar, and the head of the Central Bank resigned.
State TV reported the resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin, while traders and shopkeepers rallied in Saadi Street in downtown Tehran as well as in the Shush neighborhood near Tehran’s main Grand Bazaar. Merchants at the market played a crucial role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought Islamists to power.
The official IRNA news agency confirmed the protests. Witnesses reported similar rallies in other major cities including Isfahan in central Iran, Shiraz in the south and Mashhad in the northeast. In some places in Tehran, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters.
There’s also this from the report: “The rapid depreciation is compounding inflationary pressure, pushing up prices of food and other daily necessities and further straining household budgets, a trend that could worsen with a gasoline price change introduced in recent days.”
Developing…
THE SCAMS WERE A FEATURE, NOT A BUG:
Factually, the person in charge of vetting Kamala's vice-president pick was…. Eric Holder. [look it up]
President Obama's former U.S. Attorney General was in charge of reviewing all of the research on Governor Walz.
Now, think about his selection again carefully. https://t.co/bikwKaG36N
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 29, 2025
SURGE:
DHS is on the ground in Minneapolis, going DOOR TO DOOR at suspected fraud sites.
The American people deserve answers on how their taxpayer money is being used and ARRESTS when abuse is found. Under the leadership of @Sec_Noem, DHS is working to deliver results. pic.twitter.com/7XtRflv36b
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 29, 2025
YOU’VE BEEN ROBBED:
It’s a very real possibility that the United States is looking at over $2.5 trillion/year in fraud from state and federal entitlements.
That’s more than next year’s estimated federal budget deficit.
This is a national security issue. https://t.co/6v0erL5IpZ
— TimOnPoint (@TimOnPoint) December 30, 2025
THIS WILL MAKE YOUR DAY: Doug Ross assembles a superb set of cartoons/graphics to illustrate how one young man with a laptop, cellphone camera, basic research and interview skills, and the assistance of a very capable “David” blew the roof off the biggest state-level fraud scandal in American history.
For those of us old enough to have been in the first generation of bloggers, what Nick Shirley has accomplished — exposing a scandal estimated to reach $9 billion with his self-produced 42-minute documentary that drew 120 million views in 48 hours — is yet more proof of what we’ve been saying about the power of citizen journalism since before 2004 when Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds, Powerline’s John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson, and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs exposed CBS News Anchor Dan Rather’s reliance on fraudulent documents in a “60 Minutes” segment intended to help defeat President George W. Bush’s re-election.
Question: How do we encourage the two, three, many, many more Nick Shirleys that are out there even today? Odds are deep blue states like California, Illinois, New York are prime candidates for exposing similar and worse than what Shirley dug up in Minnesota.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Minnesota’s Somali scams get worse by the day — but who will pay?
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FOLLOW THE MONEY… FOR MONEY:
In case you're looking for a side gig, whistleblowers on federal fraud receive between 15% and 30% of the recovered amount. https://t.co/mut2saReAs
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) December 29, 2025
HMM: California drops lawsuit over Trump pulling high-speed rail funding.
California has dropped its legal fight to restore $4 billion in federal funding for the state’s high-speed rail project pulled by the Trump administration, saying the project will proceed without federal assistance.
In a filing last week, the California High-Speed Rail Authority voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit that asked a judge to restore the funding.
An authority spokesperson said in a statement that “the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California.”
“As a result, the State has opted to move forward without the Trump administration. We regret that they will not share in California’s success,” the spokesperson said.
The decision caps a months-long fight by California to restore the roughly $4 billion in federal taxpayer funds.
President Trump has long expressed animosity toward the project, which has faced years-long delays and ballooning estimated costs that have surpassed $100 billion.
Even without that funding, Sacramento hopes to get the first passengers moving at high speed between Merced and Bakersfield — a distance of just 171 miles — by sometime in the middle of the next decade.
Maybe.
I AGREE:
I cannot stress how important it is for Trump to make an example of Walz and Minnesota.
While his term thus far has been very successful (border, foreign policy, BBB, etc.) much of MAGA is dissatisfied because so many crooks and conspirators from the past 10 years have yet to…
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) December 29, 2025
NOT HARD ENOUGH: Minnesota Fraud Controversy Shakes Capitol Hill.