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.”

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…

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

ICYMI: Minnesota Is THE Moment of Truth for Bari Weiss.

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.

THANK YOU: Commerce Secretary Saved Taxpayers $21 Billion With One Move.

ENABLING OUR DESTROYERS:

BREAKING: New Covenant killer documents released by the FBI confirm @TheTNStar reporting the killer bought guns with Pell Grant money. https://t.co/CCeqmqcz3S

— Michael Patrick Leahy (@michaelpleahy) December 29, 2025

THE COMPLICIT MEDIA: Drew Holden’s LENGTHY Thread of Media Actively HIDING MN Somali Fraud a MUST-Read. “Just when you think you’ve seen the mainstream media at its worst, Drew Holden puts a thread together highlighting just how abysmal they have been in ignoring the Somali fraud in Minnesota. Sorry, they’ve not just been ignoring it, they’ve been outright dismissing and even hiding it.”

ICYMI: Insert Completely Gobsmacked Pacific Palisades Fire Headline Here.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is It Over for Tim Walz?

With the incompetence (or worse) of Tim Walz’s administration being the number one news story in the country, my non-Minnesota friends ask me: “Tim Walz couldn’t possibly be re-elected. Could he?”

Let’s first dispose of any criminal issue. Elon Musk, in the tweet embedded above, urges that Walz be prosecuted. But there is no evidence that he, or other members of his administration, have committed crimes. Rather, they have perpetrated the dodge that has been a mainstay of the Democratic Party for going on 100 years: buying votes with other people’s money. They have pumped billions of dollars into Minnesota’s relatively small (100,000-150,000) and insular Somali community, and by doing so have created a solid and reliable voting bloc that has helped to swing one election after another their way. Why should they care if half or more of those billions of dollars were fraudulent? Criminal or not, the spending bought votes.

Did Tim Walz know the frauds were going on? Of course. Even Walz isn’t that stupid. But absent taking bribes, of which there is zero evidence, he has not committed a crime.

That said, Walz’s standing with Minnesota voters is teetering on the edge. Conventional polling has shown him around even in approval/disapproval, with approval a little under 50%. Not great, but not hopeless. I think the most meaningful poll is the one that was conducted for American Experiment by Meeting Street Insights and published here. We found a very high level of awareness of the frauds among Minnesota voters, and also a high level of concern: 68% said that fraud would play a role in their vote for governor in 2026, with 50% saying it would play a major role.

Walz ought to resign in disgrace and drop forever out of public life, but we know that will never happen.

THAT’S A START, BUT HOW ABOUT SOME HANDCUFFS? Small Business Administration Cuts Off All Minnesota Grants Over Somali Fraud.

PEARL HARBOR II, AT SAN DIEGO AND BY REMOTE CONTROL: Chinese Forces Fielding Intercontinental Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles Capable of Reaching U.S. West Coast, Pentagon Says. “While China has not revealed the system’s existence, The Washington Post covered the Pentagon’s assessment of the DF-27’s supposed anti-ship capabilities following Pentagon leaks in 2023. The Defense Department’s 2021 China military report to Congress also acknowledged its development, but did not claim that the missile could conduct maritime strike missions.”

THEY’RE NEVER HAPPY: The J6 Pipebomber Explains His Motive, and the Left Won’t Be Happy.

IT’S NICE TO SEE EUROPEAN NATO GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT ITS DEFENSE AGAIN: Russia vs. NATO Video Roundup.

NATO is racing to build a multi-billion dollar 2,000 mile long defensive line that stretches across the entire European continent.”

“There are several names for the new fortification depending on the section you’re standing at. In the Baltics, it’s officially known as the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line, which is a 500 mile long network of bunkers and fortified border zones.”

“The Eastern Flank Deterrence Line is not mainly physical barriers, because the distance is far too great. Instead, it’s a network of computer sensors to fill these physical gaps. It’s not designed to completely defeat a potential Russian conventional advance. It’s made to slow down and channel the enemy’s forces into these predetermined kill zones.”

“The Army and NATO’s focusing their efforts at the places deemed most vulnerable in the Baltics. Here they’re deploying a layered modular barrier system that runs 30 miles deep.” First they hit sensors lines, then get a dose of HIMARS and artillery, then drone swarms in the air and on the ground. “Estimates are these methods will have to kill or wound 70% of the attacking force to be successful.”

The length of the entire defensive line is roughly the length of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump’s tough love is having the desired effect.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

The New York Times and The Washington Post were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes for the now-debunked Russia collusion hoax, built on fake intelligence and anonymous sources.

Meanwhile, an independent YouTuber uses public records, real documents, firsthand investigation, and…

— TMK (@TheMagaKing2_0) December 29, 2025

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Minnesota Is THE Moment of Truth for Bari Weiss.

RIGHTS ARE RIGHTS: Anti-Gun Film Makers Don’t Respect Workers’ Rights Any More Than Gun Rights. “Workers on the set of ‘The Gun on Second Street,’ a film that had Sean Penn and California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell listed as executive producers, walked off in protest while attempting to negotiate a union contract.”

WITHHOLDING: Bessent: Americans Should Get ‘Gigantic’ Tax Refunds in 2026. “I can see that we’re gonna have a gigantic refund year in the first quarter because working Americans did not change their withholdings. I think households could see, depending on the number of workers, $1,000- $2,000 refunds.”

Honestly, I’d rather owe a little.

THE YEAR IN PICTURES (JWST EDITION): Stunning James Webb Space Telescope Images of 2025.

FAIR QUESTION:

Um, what are you going to do about it?

— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) December 29, 2025

EVERGREEN: The Far-Left’s Talking Out of Both Sides of Its Mouth Again. “The CSPI ‘2025 Progress Report’ was mailed to my house last week in an effort to solicit a donation before the year’s end. Out of pure curiosity, I opened the 8-page newsletter and was appalled by the very first page. Before I was halfway through the product, I had a pen in my hand and made notes just to keep track of the lies, insinuations, and fear mongering.”

YOU’VE BEEN ROBBED:

I'm starting to detect a pattern. https://t.co/xsLtyDoYmu

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 29, 2025

But the media doesn’t want you to know:

Still no coverage in NYT, WaPo, CNN, or Minneapolis Star-Tribune of massive fraud being uncovered in Minnesota. The media's willingness to ignore stories that hurt Democrats is truly astonishing. pic.twitter.com/xZcZcbUSm9

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 29, 2025

And here’s some perspective from Elon Musk: “My lower bound guess for how much fraud there is nationally is ~20% of the Federal budget, which would mean $1.5 trillion per year. Probably much higher.”

When Democrats in government import huge numbers of fraudsters and Democrats in the media refuse to report on the resulting fraud, you have to assume that Democrats in both institutions are in on it.

EDIT: I also assume that many Republicans are effectively Democrats. Although that’s less of an assumption than a proven fact.

Related (From Ed): Rushing to Ilhan Omar’s Defense, New York Times Hides Somali Fraud Scheme from Readers.

The New York Times recently dedicated more than 1,500 words to President Trump’s “Anti-Somali attacks” — but somehow failed to mention the staggering fraud operation allegedly being run by Minnesota’s Somali community, which precipitated the attacks from Trump.

The piece centers on Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), who has “long been a target of racist insults by the president.”

And while Omar and the Somali community have undoubtedly faced inappropriate attacks from the president, it is journalistic malpractice that the Times fails to mention the elephant in the room: federal prosecutors said last week that the fraud scandal could end up costing taxpayers around $9 billion.

More than 90 people, the majority of whom belong to Minnesota’s Somali community, have been accused of defrauding public assistance programs.

Without mentioning the fraud as a major driving factor behind Trump’s criticisms and the immigration crackdown in the state, the Times allows Omar, who emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was twelve, to reflect “on the latest cycle of dehumanizing personal attacks on her by the president.”

Evergreen: