FRAUD IGNORED: Former Homeland Security investigator reveals how fraud cases weren’t prosecuted.

Christenson told Collin that “around 2015, a case landed on my desk from my supervisor. He advised me that the state was running a fraud case regarding daycare fraud in Minneapolis through Health and Human Services or Department of Human Services.”

“Over the next several weeks and months, I attended … planning meetings with this task force of about 20 personnel of various law enforcement agencies, the Health and Human Services, BCA, St. Paul PD, Minneapolis PD and it was all revolving around fraudulent daycares,” Christenson said.

“They were setting up sham daycares, fake bills, fake students, or just enrolling students that never came,” he added.

Christenson also pointed out a suspicious detail: “Never — not one of the daycares I served warrants on, not one person was ever present.”

As for evidence, he explained how investigators found “empty buildings, stacks of invoices, and student records of people that our surveillance showed never went there.”

But what happened next has bothered Christenson ever since. He said the investigative task force “all of sudden, it just evaporated — just went away into thin air.”

It’s one thing to expose the fake daycare centers, but now investigators need to follow the money.

LET THE DENATURALIZATIONS AND DEPORTATIONS BEGIN:

A Somali Islamist speaking in Minnesota claimed the U.S. will no longer remain a Christian nation and asserted they are present to “take over.” pic.twitter.com/D0W5wSXNql

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 7, 2026

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Re-Ranking China After ‘Absolute Resolve’ (and Russia, Too). “If global power rankings came out every Monday morning like they do for the NFL, this season’s strongest playoff contender just got knocked down a notch or two after a stunning shutout this weekend to the seasoned vets of Operation Absolute Resolve.”

INCITEMENT:

BREAKING – It’s been revealed that Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan told constituents to “put their bodies on the line” to protect illegals from being “kidnapped” by ICE, weeks before a woman who did just that was shot while trying to ram an ICE agent in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/b3LWp4T4Q0

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 8, 2026

JONATHAN TURLEY: Minnesota Democrats choose ‘rage politics’ over sanity.

To be fair, there’s a lot less grift and power to be had from sanity.

“EXPERT” DOESN’T MEAN WHAT IT ONCE DID:

"Experts are stunned…"

The phrase of the decade https://t.co/nBOZbLHbrY

— Lomez (@L0m3z) January 8, 2026

Related:

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The Atlanta Fed just SURGED the Quarter 4 GDP forecast to a whopping +5.4%

This is huge.

Trump's economy really is gearing up for a BOOM in 2026! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/YrXcWA5ZOk

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

If you want to escape, say, $38 trillion in debt, you can either default, inflate, or grow your way out.

Trump has chosen that last option.

THIS ACCOUNT HAS PROVIDED LOTS OF GREAT VIDEO FROM IRAN, BUT NOW THIS…:

Hard to get live footage from Iran right now. Things are turning dark

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 8, 2026

I hate to think Iran shut down comms to commit mass atrocities, but that is what I’m thinking.

UPDATE: “Amid Iran’s internet shutdown, Elon Musk has quietly enabled free Starlink access for protesters, according to people familiar with the matter.”

BREAKING: Government Cuts Off Internet in Iran as Protests Reach Critical Mass.

INTERESTING:

This is called a dilemma.

Russia is damned to attacks by Ukrainian drones if they use AIS beacons on shadow tankers…

…and they damned if they don't use AIS beacons because they can be seized as "Stateless" ships.

2/2

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) January 8, 2026

HMM:

NOTAMS have just been issued across Iran. Something big might be about to happen. pic.twitter.com/XWo5MAqb4e

— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) January 8, 2026

Stay tuned.

THEY WON’T BE SWAYED BY FACTS, REGARDLESS: Don’t Tell Gun-Grabbers That Murder Rates Plummeted While Gun Ownership Has Surged.

The United States added tens of millions of first-time gun owners since 2020. NSSF estimates about 26.2 million Americans bought their first firearm between 2020 through the end of 2024, including an estimated 8.4 million first-time buyers in 2020 alone. NSSF-adjusted verification background checks tied to retail sales suggest Americans purchased roughly 21.1 million firearms in 2020 and about 14.6 million in 2025.

NSSF reports those adjusted checks remained above one million per month for years, totaling roughly 86 million since July 2019. At the same time, the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) operations reporting shows 2020 produced 39,695,315 unadjusted NICS background checks, the highest year in the history of the system.

If “more guns equals more murders” were a dependable rule, this is the period when the trend should be unmistakable and persistent. Except it isn’t.

Only 26.2 million new gun owners? Those are rookie numbers.

ALMOST ANYTHING, REALLY: Here’s What Dems Don’t Want You to Know About the Woman Who Attacked ICE Agents.

ARE THESE THE SAME EXPERTS WHO HELPED ENGINEER A DECADES-LONG OBESITY CRISIS? RFK Jr. rolls out new dietary guidelines backing more protein and full-fat dairy. “The new recommendations drew mixed reactions from experts, who criticized the emphasis on meat and dairy while praising limits on ultraprocessed foods and added sugars.”

Update: New guidelines just dropped. Eat accordingly.

BREAKING NEWS: Democrats release their own food pyramid in response to RFK's pic.twitter.com/uCfdaQbHti

— Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 (@AlpacaAurelius) January 8, 2026

GOOD LORD:

An important lib thought leader who didn’t want kids because ‘what do you get out of it?’ ended up treating a violent pit bull like his child. The dog bit everyone and caused his divorce.

You can’t make this stuff up. If you did it would be unbelievable. https://t.co/qirB4ive2V

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 7, 2026

VICTORIA TAFT: From Now to Election Day, Karen Bass Will Have This Guy Talking About Her Horrible L.A. Fire Response.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GIGGLE FIT: Larry Page Leaves Calif. Amid Billionaire Wealth Tax Push.

Page has shifted the registrations of several key entities — including his family office and a flying-car venture — from California to Delaware, according to state filings.

He has also personally relocated out of California ahead of a potential statewide vote on a wealth tax. Page told friends last month he was considering a move to Florida.

The proposed measure would impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals with assets exceeding $1 billion.

5% of nothing is how much?

HMM: President Trump and NASA Administrator Isaacman: Please Take the Crew Off of Artemis II.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. What Separates Tim Walz From Other Democrats Is He Got Caught.

Now, however, Walz is most known as the Minnesota governor who oversaw and enabled a years-long scam in which Somalis occupying large swaths of his state were pocketing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with fake child care and health care operations that provided no services to anyone at all. The scheme was uncovered mostly through federal prosecutions, which were then covered by our dying national news media. But most devastating for Walz and the state’s whole government was a 45-minute video produced by a 23-year-old YouTuber who demonstrated just how brazen the fraud was by simply knocking on “child care center” doors — only to be greeted by savage Somalis who spoke next to no English and had no kids inside.

The mass fraud was made possible by obscene welfare programs that Democrats like Walz — especially Walz — champion in order to lock in votes from impoverished foreigners and otherwise ne’er-do-wells who have no interest in working. “We have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that,” Walz said at the vice presidential debate last year. “We were able to do it in Minnesota.”

Read the whole thing, including a lovely use of the word “presumably.”

CHANGE: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Anatomy of the Death of a Daily Newspaper.

THEY’LL PROBABLY AWARD THE PHOTOG A PULITZER:

A masterclass in propaganda. One photo, zero context. The caption says “terrorized innocent man.” The reality – he grabbed the officer’s weapon moments earlier, and that’s pepper spray, not a firearm. This is how outrage is manufactured. https://t.co/qNLQxw8Dpt

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) January 8, 2026

DREAM BIG: Trump calls for $1.5T budget for ‘dream military.’

“After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives, I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion Dollars,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.

“This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” he said.

Trump said that if it were not for the revenue from his administration’s tariffs on other countries, he would say the budget should be kept at $1 trillion.

$1.5 trillion is 4.84% of GDP, or about 22% smaller in GDP terms than Ronald Reagan’s peak defense budget in 1986.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hear It for the (Red-Blooded American) Boy! “In Wednesday’s Morning Briefing, our own Kevin Downey, Jr. talked about AWFLs, the affluent white female liberals who are ruining our country. In an effort to be fair and balanced, I’d like to add that behind every one of them is usually some effeminate, affluent, white, liberal ‘man’ who wishes he could menstruate, watches Property Brothers, and secretly wishes his favorite AWFL would paint his toenails to match hers.”

Sarah Anderson is filling in for Kruiser today.

BRITAIN: Young women are radicalising.

The 2024 voting patterns of young women tell a very different story. Nearly one in four (23 per cent) of 18- to 24-year-old women voted for the Green Party at the last general election, compared to just 6.7 per cent of the general population (12 per cent of young men voted for the Greens). Greens performed far better with young women than with any other key demographic (just 10 per cent of 25- to 49-year-old women voted Green, and only 4 per cent of 50- to 64-year-olds). In last year’s general election, young women moved to the populist left considerably more than young men moved to the populist right.

Current voting intention polls show these trends not only persisting but becoming more pronounced. Recent data from More In Common shows that one in three (33 per cent) of young women now say they will vote for the Green Party. Meanwhile, young men, far from being more right wing than the population as a whole, are as likely to vote Green as they are Reform (20 per cent) with Reform still significantly underperforming with under 25 males relative to other age groups.

In fact, the UK is not alone in seeing young women move increasingly to the left. Recent elections in the US, Germany and Portugal all show similar movements between the sexes.

As it says in the subhead, “Britain’s young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing,” and none of these things are on accident — and all three are interrelated.

Meanwhile, in New York:

Go on and laugh, but she'd order you into a cattle car just as soon as look at you. https://t.co/wX2kylTeC6

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 7, 2026

Orwell knew.

ICYMI: Trump’s ‘Peace on Earth’ Raid: The Monroe Doctrine Is Back, Baby.

PRIVACY: News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.

On Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein denied objections that OpenAI raised, claiming that Magistrate Judge Ona Wang failed to adequately balance the privacy interests of ChatGPT users who are not involved in the litigation when ordering OpenAI to produce 20 million logs.

Instead, OpenAI wanted Stein to agree that it would be much less burdensome to users if OpenAI ran search terms to find potentially infringing outputs in the sample. That way, news plaintiffs would only get access to chats that were relevant to its case, OpenAI suggested.

But Stein found that Wang appropriately weighed ChatGPT users’ privacy interests when ordering OpenAI to produce the logs. For example, to shield ChatGPT users, the total number of logs shared was substantially reduced from tens of billions to 20 million, he wrote, and OpenAI has stripped all identifying information from any chats that will be shared.

That actually looks like a pretty solid compromise.