Good morning, Pat! I slept in some today so no stars here; temp is 44 w/cloudy skies. Definite absurdity writ large!!! Wheezer was sleeping on the chair but woke up when I opened the blind. He had eaten most of the tuna but a good bit was stuck to the sides of the dish. I brought it in and added more tuna, which he promptly scarfed before re-settling himself on the chair.
Morning Filly!!
I have to run t othe PO this morning–not to mail the walker bag–although I did have some thought how i could do what i wanna do with it–but to mail Mom’s Thanksgiving card/letter. She’s only 4 hours drive from here, but cards and letters take over a WEEK to get to her. figure that out!
A protester named Jake Lang entered the Dearborn, Michigan city council meeting and said “You marry 4 or 5 women, you out breed us, you make all of our country look like the places that you fled from. We don’t want you here. Respectfully, get the f*ck out of my country.”
@KitabiAbdul 2h Replying to @Osint613 I was born Muslim, in a Muslim family, under a Muslim government. I will never move to a city where Muslims are the majority again. Once they become the majority, they don’t just live their beliefs, they start imposing them on everyone around them.
People don’t realize that “expansion” and “dominance” are not fringe ideas in Islam, they’re baked into the ideology. Islam is not separable from politics or the state. The Prophet Mohammad’s life, the Hadith that Muslims are told to model themselves after, includes around 80 wars. Westerners are committing suicide by inviting this ideology into their institutions, their politics, and their offices and pretending it’s just another private belief system. That is not how this works.
A federal grand jury in Miami has returned an indictment charging Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and several co-defendants with stealing federal disaster funds, laundering the proceeds, and using the money to support her 2021 congressional campaign.
According to the indictment, Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.
Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday night signed the Epstein Transparency Act, which authorizes the Justice Department to release all unclassified files related to the late-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The House and Senate passed the legislation on Tuesday, with only Louisiana GOP Rep. Clay Higgins voting against the bill. Trump promised on Monday to sign the act if it passed both chambers of Congress.
The president claimed that it was actually Democrats who should be concerned about the files because Epstein allegedly had more friends in the Democratic circle.
“Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress.
“Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him,” he continued. “Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories.”
Just The News: “President Donald Trump’s administration is quietly preparing a detailed 28-point framework aimed at resolving the Russia-Ukraine war, crafted with input from Russian representatives and organized into four main sections: ending hostilities in Ukraine, postwar security arrangements, broader European stability, and the future of American ties with both Moscow and Kyiv.
The proposal is modeled in part on Trump’s recent Gaza cease-fire initiative and reflects understandings reached when Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska in August. Specific provisions regarding control of eastern Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russian troops have not yet been publicly disclosed.
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is overseeing the agreement’s development and has reportedly conducted direct talks with Kirill Dmitriev, a senior Russian official who heads the country’s sovereign wealth fund and serves as a diplomatic channel on Ukraine issues.
Dmitriev visited Miami from October 24-26, for discussions with Witkoff and other members of Trump’s team, later characterizing the exchanges as constructive and focused on Russian security requirements alongside a broader reset of U.S.-Russia relations.
A White House spokesperson said Trump believes a lasting agreement is achievable provided all sides show willingness to compromise, with the administration working to finalize a formal text before Trump’s next scheduled contact with Putin.”
Attention, Veterans discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine: You may qualify to have your GI Bill benefits restored. Learn how to request a review and apply for VA education benefits here: https://t.co/iA8niRUREW
“VA pulls the plug on Biden’s $77M EV-charger earmark — VA will instead ensure money is used to improve care and services for Veterans”
For immediate release: November 19, 2025, 11:45 am
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it has terminated a Biden-Administration mandate to spend $77 million on electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities. The money will instead be redirected to critical health care construction projects.
In fiscal year 2023, the Biden White House forced VA to divert $77 million from its construction and technology budget to build solar powered electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities. The Democrat-controlled Congress approved this funding diversion, but the Biden Administration never spent any of the money, and not a single charging station was built.
The Democrats’ government shutdown this year gave VA the authority to return the $77 million to its construction and technology budget. VA Secretary Doug Collins exercised that authority Nov. 6, after deciding the money would be better spent on critical health care construction projects.
VA is still assessing how to reallocate all of the funding, but so far:
$10 million will be redirected to upgrading VA’s Friendship House compensated work therapy residence in Oklahoma City.
$21.3 million will be used to expand and renovate the MRI ward at the Providence VA Medical Center.
$13.8 million will go to upgrade the radiation oncology unit at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VAMC in Jackson, Mississippi.
“In Joe Biden’s VA, the department was distracted by woke social-justice programs and green-energy boondoggles, but those days are long gone,” said VA Secretary Doug Collins. “VA exists to serve Veterans, and we’re making sure all of our resources go toward that noble purpose.”
EXCERPT: “With millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums projected to rise in 2026, due partially to enhanced Obamacare subsidies expiring, Republicans are eyeing health savings accounts as a solution. “Both sides agree the cost of health care is too high. But sending billions of dollars to insurance companies while premiums continue to rise and the deficit continues to grow is not a solution,” Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a Wednesday hearing.
Crapo reiterated the general view of Republicans that renewing the enhanced Obamacare Premium Tax Credits, which are set to revert to original pre-pandemic levels on Dec. 31, will do nothing to address rising health care costs.
The taxpayer-funded PTC – established under the Affordable Care Act and temporarily expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic – is a subsidy that goes directly to health insurance companies, which use it to lower ACA marketplace enrollees’ monthly premiums.
Republicans argue the subsidies benefit insurers over patients, and that the expansion of the PTC led to increased fraud and inflated premiums. President of Paragon Health Institute Brian Blase, whom Republicans called in as a witness, called the subsidies “ill-designed and inflationary.”
“More subsidies lock in a high-cost system and permit large insurers and hospital systems to remain inefficient,” Blase told lawmakers. “When enrollees pay only a small slice of the premium, or no premium at all, insurers face almost no price discipline. Insurers can raise premiums knowing that taxpayers will absorb almost all of the increase.”
He said the very structure of the subsidies – particularly with the COVID-19 additions that included 100% coverage of some enrollees’ monthly premiums and lifted the subsidy cap at four times the Federal Poverty Level – incentivize misreporting and fraud.
The Paragon Institute estimates that the number of ineligible enrollees in fully subsidized health insurance plans rose from an estimated 5 million to 6.4 million from 2024 to 2025, likely costing taxpayers $27 billion in 2025 alone…..”
Just The News: “President Donald Trump says he will meet with incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House, where they are expected to discuss such key issues as affordability and public safety. Mamdani said last week that he planned to reach out to the White House to establish a relationship with the president “because this is a relationship that will be critical to the success of the city.”
Trump echoed the sentiment on Sunday, despite Mamdani’s victory over former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The president said Wednesday night in announcing the White House meeting that Mamdani in fact reached out to him but offered no details about the agenda.
Mamdami, a democrat-socialist, was the Democratic Party nominee in the Nov. 4 mayoral race. Campaign promises such as enacting a rent freeze and free bus fares have raised concerns among Republicans including Trump, a native New Yorker who at one point vowed to withhold federal funding for New York City if Mamdani won.
“Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday nigh. “We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!”
Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec told Politico that the duo would discuss public safety, economic security and “the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.”
Just The News: “The House voted unanimously Wednesday night to repeal a provision in a bill that reopened the federal government that allowed senators to sue the government if they aren’t notified of instances when law enforcement seeks their phone records.
The provision was for eight Republican senators whose phone records were accessed as part of an FBI investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The investigation started in 2023 and sought and obtained data about the senators’ phone use from Jan. 4 through Jan. 7, 2021.
The provision also required that the senators be notified if their data is disclosed. If the senators had not been notified and they successfully sue, the court would have been required to award “the greater of statutory damages of $500,000 or the amount of actual damages” for each violation.
The provision does not apply if the senator is the target of a criminal investigation or if a court ordered that the notification be delayed.”
In the mail today we got a Swiss Colony flyer. (overpriced meats, cheeses and other items). Only one family in the flyer–selling family pajamas–a black dad, a white mom and one black and one white child. All other children shown were white children. There was a single black woman shown selling a sweat suit. Not a singe white male in the whole flyer.
Missouri is trying to take on Chyna. I am hoping the ultimate goal is to take land the ChiComs own as payment of debt
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has escalated its attempt to seize Chinese government-owned property across the United States, asking the Trump administration for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic that Beijing has flatly rejected. Missouri has asked the U.S. State Department to formally notify China that the state intends to pursue assets with full or partial Chinese government ownership to satisfy the judgment, state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said Wednesday. The move stems from a lawsuit alleging China hoarded personal protective equipment during the early months of the pandemic, harming Missouri and its residents. A federal judge ruled for Missouri earlier this year after China declined to participate in the trial, calling the lawsuit “ very absurd ” when it was filed in 2020.
really long article but it exposes SEVERAL of the fraud schemes in Minnesota and the Somalis committing it.
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Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”
Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.
If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
On August 1, Minnesota’s Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to “credible allegations of fraud.” Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the “vast majority” of the HSS program was fraudulent.
On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow—six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota’s Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.
“Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren’t just overbilling,” Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. “These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that’s unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota.”
Thompson said many firms enrolled in the program “operated out of dilapidated storefronts or rundown office buildings.” The perpetrators often targeted people recently released from rehab, signing them up for Medicaid services they had no intention of providing. He noted many owners of companies engaged in HSS fraud had “other companies through which they billed other Medicaid programs, such as the EIDBI autism program, the . . . Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services program, the . . . Integrated Community Support program, the Community Access for Disability Inclusion . . . program, PCA services, and other Medicaid-waivered services.”
“What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending,” Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.”
On September 18, the same day that the HSS fraud charges were announced, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that a man named Abdullahe Nur Jesow had become the 56th defendant to plead guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
Founded in 2016, Feeding Our Future was a small Minnesota nonprofit that sponsored daycares and after-school programs to enroll in the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The organizations that Feeding Our Future sponsored were primarily owned and operated by members of Minnesota’s Somali community, according to two former state officials with connections to law enforcement.
In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.
In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit’s rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future “caters to . . . foreign nationals.”
“That’s the standard operating playbook for that cohort: when in doubt, claim racism, claim bias,” says David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator and a nonprofit leader. “Even if the facts don’t point to that, it allows for many folks in the middle, or on the center-Left, to stay silent.”
Gaither believes the mainstream media, alongside Minnesota’s Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community. This, in turn, allowed the problem to metastasize. “The media does not want to put a light on this,” Gaither said. “And if you’re a politician, it’s a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don’t win the Somali community, you can’t win Minneapolis. And if you don’t win Minneapolis, you can’t win the state. End of story.”
The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota’s elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar’s deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.
Just days later, on September 24, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced his office’s first indictment in yet another fraud case. This time, the scheme involved federally funded autism services for children.
The accused is a woman named Asha Farhan Hassan, a member of Minnesota’s Somali community, who has also been charged in the Feeding Our Future scam. She’s alleged to have played a role in a $14 million fraud scheme perpetrated against Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
Hassan and her co-conspirators “approached parents in the Somali community” and recruited their children into autism therapy services. It didn’t matter, prosecutors suggested, if a child did not have an autism diagnosis: Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent one.
In a press release announcing the indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office made clear that the alleged autism fraud scheme extended to a wide network of people. “To drive up enrollment, Hassan and her partners paid monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of children who enrolled,” the release reads. “These kickback payments ranged from approximately $300 to $1500 per month, per child. The amount of these payments was contingent on the services DHS authorized a child to receive—the higher the authorization amount, the higher the kickback. Often, parents threatened to leave . . . and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks.”
Much like with the HSS program, autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years—from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023. Meantime, the number of autism providers in the state spiked from 41 to 328 over the same period, with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers, citing the need for “culturally appropriate programming.” By the time the fraud scheme was exposed, one in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism—a rate more than triple the state average.
“This is not an isolated scheme,” Thompson, the U.S. attorney, said in a press release. “From Feeding Our Future to Housing Stabilization Services and now Autism Services, these massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Each case we bring exposes another strand of this network.”
What Thompson arguably hinted at, but left unsaid, should be obvious: this “network” of “fraud schemes,” which “form a web” that has stolen “billions of dollars in taxpayer money,” involved many members of Minnesota’s Somali community. The Feeding Our Future, HSS, and autism-services cases are far from the only examples. At least 28 fraud scandals have surfaced since Walz was elected governor in 2019. Most of the large-scale fraud rings, according to two former FBI officials who spoke with City Journal, have been perpetrated by members of the Somali community.
Kayesh Magan, a Somali-American who had worked as a fraud investigator at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, identified the problem last year: “We must grapple with something that is uncomfortable and true: Nearly all of the defendants in the cases I’ve listed are from my community. The Somali community.”
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Somalia fraud story is the scale, with total costs running into the billions of taxpayer dollars. That raises the question: What happened to all that money?
The Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums in remittances, or money transfers, from Minnesota to Somalia. According to reports, an estimated 40 percent of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad. In 2023 alone, the Somali diaspora sent back $1.7 billion—more than the Somali government’s budget for that year.
Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of “hawalas,” informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab.
According to Glenn Kerns, a retired Seattle Police Department detective who spent 14 years on a federal Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Somalis ran a sophisticated money network, spanning from Seattle to Minneapolis, and were routing significant amounts of cash on commercial flights from the Seattle airport to the hawala networks in Somalia. One of these networks, Kerns discovered, sent $20 million abroad in a single year. “The amount of money was staggering,” Kerns said.
Kerns’s investigation eventually expanded to Minnesota, where he realized the same thing was happening. “I worked on it for five years,” Kerns said. “We had sources going into the hawalas to send money. I went down to [Minnesota] and pulled all of their records and, well shit, all these Somalis sending out money are on DHS benefits. How does that make sense? We had good sources tell us: this is welfare fraud.”
Kerns then investigated the hawalas in Somalia that were receiving the money transfers. He determined, primarily through human sources, that significant funds were being sent from America to Al-Shabaab networks in Somalia. Whether the money was intended for Al-Shabaab or not, Kerns said, they were taking a cut.
A second former official, who worked on the Minneapolis JTTF, confirms the story’s general structure. This former official, who requested to remain anonymous, worked on two terrorism cases that intersected with Minnesota’s Somali community and has studied the flow of funds from Minnesota to Somalia.
“Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way,” the former official said. “For every dollar that is transferred from the Twin Cities back to Somalia, Al-Shabaab is . . . taking a cut of it.”
A third source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the close links between the Somali-American community in Minnesota and Islamic terror groups abroad. Ten years ago, the source was recruited as an “independent contractor” for a three-letter agency investigation into the “Minnesota men” who had joined, or attempted to join, ISIS. That year, a Homeland Security task force report found that Minnesota led the nation in the number of Americans who had joined, or attempted to join, ISIS. Of the 58 Americans who had done so, nearly half came from Minnesota.
Scott Johnson, who has covered these and related stories for years, attended several of those men’s trials, reporting on them for City Journal. He noted that the Minnesota men “gave the outward appearance of American assimilation”—including being “sophisticated users of social-welfare benefits.”
The relationship is ongoing. “This is a third-rail conversation, but the largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,” the third source said. “There is an issue here that is real, and if there is ever an event that is traceable back to these funds, or to people from this area, then this situation will take on a whole new set of optics.”
Welfare fraud is likely to become a major issue in Minnesota’s 2026 elections. Governor Tim Walz, now seeking a third term, has presided over a litany of scandals and faces Republican Kristin Robbins, who has made fraud prevention central to her campaign.
Gaither, the former state senator, said “political blowback is brewing” in the state and that, as more information emerges from ongoing investigations, “it’s a real rough place to be if you’re the current administration.” He added that if you talk to law-enforcement officials and others close to the probes, “they will tell you off the record that we aren’t even close to being halfway there” in understanding the true scale of the fraud.
The first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it. By extension, that means recognizing the problem’s true source. So far, Minnesota’s governing class and its media establishment have failed to take that basic step. Minnesotans will have to confront the uncomfortable but unavoidable reality: members of the Somali community have played a central role in the massive fraud now engulfing the North Star State.
“The ‘N’ in SNAP stands for nutrition not nuggets with a side of fries,” Ernst told Fox News. “I wish I was McRibbing you but $250 million per year at the drive-through is no joke and a serious waste of tax dollars. I hate to be the one to say McSCUSE ME, but something needs to be done because taxpayers are not lovin’ it.”
This is pure insanity!!!! How on earth can words = molestation??? SMDH
“Sweden: 90-year-old nursing home resident charged with inciting hatred after telling staff, ‘All Muslims should leave Sweden’ — Police investigated the case as a suspected crime against democracy, reviewing his internet and social media activity for any relevant material, but found nothing”
ReMIX, Thomas Brooke, November 20, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A 90-year-old man in a Borås nursing home has been charged with inciting hatred after allegedly telling staff that all Muslims should leave Sweden, comments witnesses say he made after drinking a couple of shots of schnapps with his lunch.
The incident took place in August in the home’s cafeteria, where the man routinely has two shots of schnapps during meals to help with pain relief. According to witness accounts provided to police as cited by Samnytt, he grew irritated with the staff — many of whom are Muslim — and muttered that he was “fucking tired of this place” and that “these Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to stay.”
He then allegedly directed the remarks at a Syrian staff member wearing a headscarf, telling her that all Muslims must leave the country and that she “shouldn’t stay here.” According to Sveriges Radio, staff reported that the atmosphere in the lunchroom became tense after the remarks and that they ultimately contacted the authorities. The case is now proceeding to court.
Three colleagues, two of them also Muslim, told investigators they heard the comments clearly. The woman targeted told police she became distressed, cried, developed a headache, and had to go home because she was unable to continue working. She later said the incident felt deeply violating and has since expressed her intention to seek compensation.
During questioning, the 90-year-old said staff later told him he had been loud and behaved inappropriately, for which he apologized, but he insisted he has no memory of making any remarks about anyone’s religion. “I’m just blank about this incident,” he told police, saying he could neither admit nor deny the accusation, according to Swedish media reports.
Police investigated the case as a suspected crime against democracy, reviewing his internet and social media activity for any relevant material, but found nothing. The man has no criminal history.
Prosecutors argue that around 30 people were present in the dining room when the comments were made, meaning the statements were spread broadly enough to meet the legal threshold for incitement. They are also seeking a conviction for molestation as an alternative charge.”
EXCERPT: “All over Europe, farm shops often feature an “honor system” where customers can enjoy self-service. The system mostly works, but in recent years, certain individuals have been taking advantage of the system more and more.
In one case in Kinttelfeld, a farmer’s shop was robbed for the third time, with the operator now publishing photos of the suspects. The robbery has prompted German commentator and journalist Anabel Schunke to lament that the high-trust societies seen throughout Europe are now turning into multicultural low-trust societies.
The family farm, run by Garbiele Eberhardt and her husband Benedikt, wanted to offer the self-service option to its “loyal customers,” but it has been targeted by a number of robberies in the last weeks.
Described as a “small, lovingly run farm shop” by the Austrian newspaper Heute, the shop sells homemade products twice a week, but because customers want to shop outside those hours, the Eberhardt family offered a freely accessible refrigerator with access to their products. “This works well, but unfortunately, there have been several recent thefts,” an annoyed Eberhardt told Kleine Zeitung.
In the videos, the clearly foreign suspects, who are not speaking German, can be seen laughing as they rob the small farm store.
Remarkably, the thefts are a family affair, with the family publishing videos of the theft on their Facebook page. It shows a young man with two children showing up and emptying out the fridge in seconds while the children hold a bag to fill with loot. The fact that the farm shop was clearly labeled with signs that showed there were CCTV cameras did not appear to deter the thieves.
“It’s now the third time in a short space of time that they’ve completely cleared out the fridge for us,” said the farmers. After the first thefts, they even put up photos of the suspects next to their products, which means they saw that they were being filmed, but still kept robbing the hard-working farmers….”
they need to spend the bucks for a security person and arrest these people. perhaps they do not understand the sign or the customs, but I would quickly put a stop to it.
The sun set at 1:36 PM yesterday in Utqiaġvik, Alaska and won’t rise again until January 22. That’s 63 days of darkness. Perfect for introspection, depression, and selling Vitamin D gummies at a 400% markup…
A tattoo artist in Brazil got two giant LOTR-style tusks implanted in his face so he can look like a real-life orc. Future archaeologists will absolutely lose their minds…
👁️ The Golden Ring Seen During Cataract Surgery
Looks holy. Feels medical. Represents fluid cleaving the layers of your eye. Your dad had surgery years ago. Good. Tomorrow? Maybe don’t do it tomorrow…
Just The News: “Justice Department prosecutors moved to dismiss assault charges on Thursday against a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago amid the federal immigration crackdown. Prosecutors filed the motion just hours before a status hearing in the case regarding Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ruiz, 21, The Associated Press reported.
Martinez’s lawyer, Christopher Parente, praised the U.S. attorney’s office “for doing the right thing here and dismissing the indictment.” The U.S. attorney’s office and lawyers for Ruiz did not immediately respond to the AP’s requests for comment.
Federal prosecutors had accused Martinez and Ruiz of using their vehicles to strike and box in Border Patrol agent Charles Exum’s vehicle on Oct. 4 in Chicago. Exum then exited his car and shot at Martinez, who suffered seven gunshot wounds.
The agent allegedly bragged about his shooting skills afterward, according to texts presented as evidence during a Nov. 5 hearing. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes,” the text read. “Put that in your book boys.” Martinez and Ruiz faced charges of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, a vehicle. No officers suffered serious injuries.
Parente claimed body camera footage contradicted the DOJ’s narrative of Martinez’s actions. He said the Department of Homeland Security released “objectively wrong information,” and he claimed that Exum “steered into” Martinez rather than vice versa. The lawyer also accused federal authorities of tampering with evidence when Exum was allowed to drive the car back to Maine rather than keep it in Chicago to be examined.
Both Martinez and Ruiz were released pending trial after a judge noted they had no prior criminal record.
DHS has characterized people who have protested its illegal immigration crackdown as violent rioters and vowed to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. However, of the more than two dozen people arrested for impeding or assaulting federal officers or other protest-related offenses, none have gone to trial, and charges have been dropped against at least nine.”
i am tired of protestors getting away with stuff. I didn’t see the incident, but i know protestors have been boxing in ICE and getting violent with them as well. backing off from stuff only emboldens them.
“Several messages from the myriad of Epstein files already released this month have given an insight into the friendship between the disgraced financier and tech tycoon Gates. Epstein spoke with Gates’ adviser in 2017 about a venture that never materialized – partly because the Microsoft founder’s spouse wanted them to stop speaking, the newly-released messages suggest. “He wants to talk to you but his wife won’t let him,” Gates’ adviser told Epstein, per CBS News.
The adviser reportedly followed up with a series of text messages, adding that “he loves you,” “he says hi,” and “he feels bad” about having to abandon their business proposals. “He thought ‘great idea’ but his wife wouldn’t allow,” the adviser wrote.
Melinda and Bill Gates divorced in August 2021 after 27 years of marriage, and Melinda said his friendship with convicted pedophile Epstein was a key factor in their split. “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. I made that clear to him,” she told Vanity Fair at the time, adding that she met the sex offender “exactly one time.”
Frustrated residents complained that the “popping” sound of the sport – which has spiked in popularity in recent years, especially among retirees – has been echoing through the seaside community and driving them nuts, according to sfgate.com.
“The Dems Fear a Corruption Purge like Saudi Arabia 2017”
Clandestine, Nov 20, 2025
“Trump’s ally, MBS, visited the White House Tuesday. The same day, as MBS was arriving, the Dems started freaking out and telling US MIL to ignore orders from Trump. What are they afraid of?
What is MBS known for? The infamous corruption purge of 2017.
They are afraid Trump is going to use the US MIL to replicate what MBS did in Saudi Arabia in 2017. MBS unleashed a massive anti-corruption military operation to detain and charge all the corrupt elites, senior military officers, politicians, billionaires, etc.
MBS unleashed a great reckoning and drained the Saudi Arabian swamp. The Dems are afraid of Trump and the US MIL doing something similar to them.”
Read on X 🚨 New court filings, including the grand-jury transcript, show U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan PROPERLY obtained the indictment against James Comey.
Despite the media’s best efforts to misreport and cover for their favorite deep-state actor, James Comey.
I. The court and the foreperson confirmed the vote on the 2-count indictment.
II. The court acknowledged the clerical discrepancy and directed the docketing of the 2-count true bill.
III. The transcript leaves no room for ambiguity.
Accordingly, any assertion that the grand jury “never voted on the two-count indictment” is contradicted by the official transcript.
Sew Colorful 
Good Morning All!
well the sky is full of stars this morning…it’s so pretty…sparkling diamonds everywhere! The temp is only 19* though…lol
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Good morning, Pat! I slept in some today so no stars here; temp is 44 w/cloudy skies. Definite absurdity writ large!!! Wheezer was sleeping on the chair but woke up when I opened the blind. He had eaten most of the tuna but a good bit was stuck to the sides of the dish. I brought it in and added more tuna, which he promptly scarfed before re-settling himself on the chair.
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Morning Filly!!
I have to run t othe PO this morning–not to mail the walker bag–although I did have some thought how i could do what i wanna do with it–but to mail Mom’s Thanksgiving card/letter. She’s only 4 hours drive from here, but cards and letters take over a WEEK to get to her. figure that out!
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Typical PO BS….and it probably goes waaaay out of the way, then comes back. Stupid!
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agreed!
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SMH – there should never be any NV (no votes) – this is why they were elected!!!!
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AGREED!!! the only way you get to not vote is if you’re IN the hospital or there;s a death in the family. otherwise DO YOUR JOB!
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Exactly!
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Charlotte99
November 20, 2025 2:09 am
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Video at the link
A protester named Jake Lang entered the Dearborn, Michigan city council meeting and said “You marry 4 or 5 women, you out breed us, you make all of our country look like the places that you fled from. We don’t want you here. Respectfully, get the f*ck out of my country.”
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1991209315802210474#m
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Charlotte99
November 20, 2025 2:11 am
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@KitabiAbdul
2h
Replying to @Osint613
I was born Muslim, in a Muslim family, under a Muslim government. I will never move to a city where Muslims are the majority again. Once they become the majority, they don’t just live their beliefs, they start imposing them on everyone around them.
People don’t realize that “expansion” and “dominance” are not fringe ideas in Islam, they’re baked into the ideology. Islam is not separable from politics or the state. The Prophet Mohammad’s life, the Hadith that Muslims are told to model themselves after, includes around 80 wars. Westerners are committing suicide by inviting this ideology into their institutions, their politics, and their offices and pretending it’s just another private belief system. That is not how this works.
https://nitter.poast.org/KitabiAbdul/status/1991260192726741502#m
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Dem Congresswoman steals $5MILLION from FEMA for her campaign
Per the DOJ:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/breaking-democrat-congresswoman-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-stealing/
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Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday night signed the Epstein Transparency Act, which authorizes the Justice Department to release all unclassified files related to the late-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The House and Senate passed the legislation on Tuesday, with only Louisiana GOP Rep. Clay Higgins voting against the bill. Trump promised on Monday to sign the act if it passed both chambers of Congress.
The president claimed that it was actually Democrats who should be concerned about the files because Epstein allegedly had more friends in the Democratic circle.
“Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress.
“Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him,” he continued. “Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories.”
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Just The News: “President Donald Trump’s administration is quietly preparing a detailed 28-point framework aimed at resolving the Russia-Ukraine war, crafted with input from Russian representatives and organized into four main sections: ending hostilities in Ukraine, postwar security arrangements, broader European stability, and the future of American ties with both Moscow and Kyiv.
The proposal is modeled in part on Trump’s recent Gaza cease-fire initiative and reflects understandings reached when Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska in August. Specific provisions regarding control of eastern Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russian troops have not yet been publicly disclosed.
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is overseeing the agreement’s development and has reportedly conducted direct talks with Kirill Dmitriev, a senior Russian official who heads the country’s sovereign wealth fund and serves as a diplomatic channel on Ukraine issues.
Dmitriev visited Miami from October 24-26, for discussions with Witkoff and other members of Trump’s team, later characterizing the exchanges as constructive and focused on Russian security requirements alongside a broader reset of U.S.-Russia relations.
A White House spokesperson said Trump believes a lasting agreement is achievable provided all sides show willingness to compromise, with the administration working to finalize a formal text before Trump’s next scheduled contact with Putin.”
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great news!
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“VA pulls the plug on Biden’s $77M EV-charger earmark — VA will instead ensure money is used to improve care and services for Veterans”
For immediate release: November 19, 2025, 11:45 am
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it has terminated a Biden-Administration mandate to spend $77 million on electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities. The money will instead be redirected to critical health care construction projects.
In fiscal year 2023, the Biden White House forced VA to divert $77 million from its construction and technology budget to build solar powered electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities. The Democrat-controlled Congress approved this funding diversion, but the Biden Administration never spent any of the money, and not a single charging station was built.
The Democrats’ government shutdown this year gave VA the authority to return the $77 million to its construction and technology budget. VA Secretary Doug Collins exercised that authority Nov. 6, after deciding the money would be better spent on critical health care construction projects.
VA is still assessing how to reallocate all of the funding, but so far:
“In Joe Biden’s VA, the department was distracted by woke social-justice programs and green-energy boondoggles, but those days are long gone,” said VA Secretary Doug Collins. “VA exists to serve Veterans, and we’re making sure all of our resources go toward that noble purpose.”
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what a joke! $77 Million for charging stations?
better that cash should go for something veterans truly need!
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Exactly!!!
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heading to the PO…back soon!
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EXCERPT: “With millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums projected to rise in 2026, due partially to enhanced Obamacare subsidies expiring, Republicans are eyeing health savings accounts as a solution. “Both sides agree the cost of health care is too high. But sending billions of dollars to insurance companies while premiums continue to rise and the deficit continues to grow is not a solution,” Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a Wednesday hearing.
Crapo reiterated the general view of Republicans that renewing the enhanced Obamacare Premium Tax Credits, which are set to revert to original pre-pandemic levels on Dec. 31, will do nothing to address rising health care costs.
The taxpayer-funded PTC – established under the Affordable Care Act and temporarily expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic – is a subsidy that goes directly to health insurance companies, which use it to lower ACA marketplace enrollees’ monthly premiums.
Republicans argue the subsidies benefit insurers over patients, and that the expansion of the PTC led to increased fraud and inflated premiums. President of Paragon Health Institute Brian Blase, whom Republicans called in as a witness, called the subsidies “ill-designed and inflationary.”
“More subsidies lock in a high-cost system and permit large insurers and hospital systems to remain inefficient,” Blase told lawmakers. “When enrollees pay only a small slice of the premium, or no premium at all, insurers face almost no price discipline. Insurers can raise premiums knowing that taxpayers will absorb almost all of the increase.”
He said the very structure of the subsidies – particularly with the COVID-19 additions that included 100% coverage of some enrollees’ monthly premiums and lifted the subsidy cap at four times the Federal Poverty Level – incentivize misreporting and fraud.
The Paragon Institute estimates that the number of ineligible enrollees in fully subsidized health insurance plans rose from an estimated 5 million to 6.4 million from 2024 to 2025, likely costing taxpayers $27 billion in 2025 alone…..”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/lawmakers-weigh-replacing-obamacare-tax-credits-health-savings-accounts
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stop giving FREE healthcare to illegals! they are told go to an emergency room and you HAVE to be seen and for free. that’s raising costs too!
and get rid of the third parties–benefits managers–THAT’S raising costs too. everyone who “advocates” on your behalf has their hand out!
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Just The News: “President Donald Trump says he will meet with incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House, where they are expected to discuss such key issues as affordability and public safety. Mamdani said last week that he planned to reach out to the White House to establish a relationship with the president “because this is a relationship that will be critical to the success of the city.”
Trump echoed the sentiment on Sunday, despite Mamdani’s victory over former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The president said Wednesday night in announcing the White House meeting that Mamdani in fact reached out to him but offered no details about the agenda.
Mamdami, a democrat-socialist, was the Democratic Party nominee in the Nov. 4 mayoral race. Campaign promises such as enacting a rent freeze and free bus fares have raised concerns among Republicans including Trump, a native New Yorker who at one point vowed to withhold federal funding for New York City if Mamdani won.
“Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday nigh. “We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!”
Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec told Politico that the duo would discuss public safety, economic security and “the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.”
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what a weasel. i would have someone taping EVERY word.
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Just The News: “The House voted unanimously Wednesday night to repeal a provision in a bill that reopened the federal government that allowed senators to sue the government if they aren’t notified of instances when law enforcement seeks their phone records.
The provision was for eight Republican senators whose phone records were accessed as part of an FBI investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The investigation started in 2023 and sought and obtained data about the senators’ phone use from Jan. 4 through Jan. 7, 2021.
The provision also required that the senators be notified if their data is disclosed. If the senators had not been notified and they successfully sue, the court would have been required to award “the greater of statutory damages of $500,000 or the amount of actual damages” for each violation.
The provision does not apply if the senator is the target of a criminal investigation or if a court ordered that the notification be delayed.”
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anyone think the Senate will vote for this? LOLOLOLOL
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LOL
I am infinitely cheerful in the morning! then the news starts coming in and i get grumpier and grumpier…LOLOL
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Not me! It’s always best to let me get that first cup of coffee down!
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good to know…LOL
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In the mail today we got a Swiss Colony flyer. (overpriced meats, cheeses and other items). Only one family in the flyer–selling family pajamas–a black dad, a white mom and one black and one white child. All other children shown were white children. There was a single black woman shown selling a sweat suit. Not a singe white male in the whole flyer.
overpriced TRASH!
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Definitely not worth the price!!!
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those nails are freaking hideous!
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IKR? Ridiculous!
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what the heck can she DO with them?
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Absolutely nothing! People who do stuff like that are really just exhibitionists!
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hmmmm…wonder if they’re on to something here? lol
booger 71
November 20, 2025 10:18 am
Missouri is trying to take on Chyna. I am hoping the ultimate goal is to take land the ChiComs own as payment of debt
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has escalated its attempt to seize Chinese government-owned property across the United States, asking the Trump administration for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic that Beijing has flatly rejected.
Missouri has asked the U.S. State Department to formally notify China that the state intends to pursue assets with full or partial Chinese government ownership to satisfy the judgment, state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said Wednesday.
The move stems from a lawsuit alleging China hoarded personal protective equipment during the early months of the pandemic, harming Missouri and its residents. A federal judge ruled for Missouri earlier this year after China declined to participate in the trial, calling the lawsuit “ very absurd ” when it was filed in 2020.
There is more of the story here:
https://www.ky3.com/2025/11/20/missouri-seeks-federal-help-pressing-china-25-billion-covid-damages/
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really long article but it exposes SEVERAL of the fraud schemes in Minnesota and the Somalis committing it.
article
Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”
Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.
If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
On August 1, Minnesota’s Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to “credible allegations of fraud.” Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the “vast majority” of the HSS program was fraudulent.
On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow—six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota’s Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.
“Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren’t just overbilling,” Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. “These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that’s unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota.”
Thompson said many firms enrolled in the program “operated out of dilapidated storefronts or rundown office buildings.” The perpetrators often targeted people recently released from rehab, signing them up for Medicaid services they had no intention of providing. He noted many owners of companies engaged in HSS fraud had “other companies through which they billed other Medicaid programs, such as the EIDBI autism program, the . . . Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services program, the . . . Integrated Community Support program, the Community Access for Disability Inclusion . . . program, PCA services, and other Medicaid-waivered services.”
“What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending,” Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.”
On September 18, the same day that the HSS fraud charges were announced, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that a man named Abdullahe Nur Jesow had become the 56th defendant to plead guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
Founded in 2016, Feeding Our Future was a small Minnesota nonprofit that sponsored daycares and after-school programs to enroll in the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The organizations that Feeding Our Future sponsored were primarily owned and operated by members of Minnesota’s Somali community, according to two former state officials with connections to law enforcement.
In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.
In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit’s rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future “caters to . . . foreign nationals.”
“That’s the standard operating playbook for that cohort: when in doubt, claim racism, claim bias,” says David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator and a nonprofit leader. “Even if the facts don’t point to that, it allows for many folks in the middle, or on the center-Left, to stay silent.”
Gaither believes the mainstream media, alongside Minnesota’s Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community. This, in turn, allowed the problem to metastasize. “The media does not want to put a light on this,” Gaither said. “And if you’re a politician, it’s a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don’t win the Somali community, you can’t win Minneapolis. And if you don’t win Minneapolis, you can’t win the state. End of story.”
The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota’s elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar’s deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.
Just days later, on September 24, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced his office’s first indictment in yet another fraud case. This time, the scheme involved federally funded autism services for children.
The accused is a woman named Asha Farhan Hassan, a member of Minnesota’s Somali community, who has also been charged in the Feeding Our Future scam. She’s alleged to have played a role in a $14 million fraud scheme perpetrated against Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
Hassan and her co-conspirators “approached parents in the Somali community” and recruited their children into autism therapy services. It didn’t matter, prosecutors suggested, if a child did not have an autism diagnosis: Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent one.
In a press release announcing the indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office made clear that the alleged autism fraud scheme extended to a wide network of people. “To drive up enrollment, Hassan and her partners paid monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of children who enrolled,” the release reads. “These kickback payments ranged from approximately $300 to $1500 per month, per child. The amount of these payments was contingent on the services DHS authorized a child to receive—the higher the authorization amount, the higher the kickback. Often, parents threatened to leave . . . and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks.”
Much like with the HSS program, autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years—from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023. Meantime, the number of autism providers in the state spiked from 41 to 328 over the same period, with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers, citing the need for “culturally appropriate programming.” By the time the fraud scheme was exposed, one in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism—a rate more than triple the state average.
“This is not an isolated scheme,” Thompson, the U.S. attorney, said in a press release. “From Feeding Our Future to Housing Stabilization Services and now Autism Services, these massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Each case we bring exposes another strand of this network.”
What Thompson arguably hinted at, but left unsaid, should be obvious: this “network” of “fraud schemes,” which “form a web” that has stolen “billions of dollars in taxpayer money,” involved many members of Minnesota’s Somali community. The Feeding Our Future, HSS, and autism-services cases are far from the only examples. At least 28 fraud scandals have surfaced since Walz was elected governor in 2019. Most of the large-scale fraud rings, according to two former FBI officials who spoke with City Journal, have been perpetrated by members of the Somali community.
Kayesh Magan, a Somali-American who had worked as a fraud investigator at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, identified the problem last year: “We must grapple with something that is uncomfortable and true: Nearly all of the defendants in the cases I’ve listed are from my community. The Somali community.”
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Somalia fraud story is the scale, with total costs running into the billions of taxpayer dollars. That raises the question: What happened to all that money?
The Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums in remittances, or money transfers, from Minnesota to Somalia. According to reports, an estimated 40 percent of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad. In 2023 alone, the Somali diaspora sent back $1.7 billion—more than the Somali government’s budget for that year.
Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of “hawalas,” informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab.
According to Glenn Kerns, a retired Seattle Police Department detective who spent 14 years on a federal Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Somalis ran a sophisticated money network, spanning from Seattle to Minneapolis, and were routing significant amounts of cash on commercial flights from the Seattle airport to the hawala networks in Somalia. One of these networks, Kerns discovered, sent $20 million abroad in a single year. “The amount of money was staggering,” Kerns said.
Kerns’s investigation eventually expanded to Minnesota, where he realized the same thing was happening. “I worked on it for five years,” Kerns said. “We had sources going into the hawalas to send money. I went down to [Minnesota] and pulled all of their records and, well shit, all these Somalis sending out money are on DHS benefits. How does that make sense? We had good sources tell us: this is welfare fraud.”
Kerns then investigated the hawalas in Somalia that were receiving the money transfers. He determined, primarily through human sources, that significant funds were being sent from America to Al-Shabaab networks in Somalia. Whether the money was intended for Al-Shabaab or not, Kerns said, they were taking a cut.
A second former official, who worked on the Minneapolis JTTF, confirms the story’s general structure. This former official, who requested to remain anonymous, worked on two terrorism cases that intersected with Minnesota’s Somali community and has studied the flow of funds from Minnesota to Somalia.
“Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way,” the former official said. “For every dollar that is transferred from the Twin Cities back to Somalia, Al-Shabaab is . . . taking a cut of it.”
A third source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the close links between the Somali-American community in Minnesota and Islamic terror groups abroad. Ten years ago, the source was recruited as an “independent contractor” for a three-letter agency investigation into the “Minnesota men” who had joined, or attempted to join, ISIS. That year, a Homeland Security task force report found that Minnesota led the nation in the number of Americans who had joined, or attempted to join, ISIS. Of the 58 Americans who had done so, nearly half came from Minnesota.
Scott Johnson, who has covered these and related stories for years, attended several of those men’s trials, reporting on them for City Journal. He noted that the Minnesota men “gave the outward appearance of American assimilation”—including being “sophisticated users of social-welfare benefits.”
The relationship is ongoing. “This is a third-rail conversation, but the largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,” the third source said. “There is an issue here that is real, and if there is ever an event that is traceable back to these funds, or to people from this area, then this situation will take on a whole new set of optics.”
Welfare fraud is likely to become a major issue in Minnesota’s 2026 elections. Governor Tim Walz, now seeking a third term, has presided over a litany of scandals and faces Republican Kristin Robbins, who has made fraud prevention central to her campaign.
Gaither, the former state senator, said “political blowback is brewing” in the state and that, as more information emerges from ongoing investigations, “it’s a real rough place to be if you’re the current administration.” He added that if you talk to law-enforcement officials and others close to the probes, “they will tell you off the record that we aren’t even close to being halfway there” in understanding the true scale of the fraud.
The first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it. By extension, that means recognizing the problem’s true source. So far, Minnesota’s governing class and its media establishment have failed to take that basic step. Minnesotans will have to confront the uncomfortable but unavoidable reality: members of the Somali community have played a central role in the massive fraud now engulfing the North Star State.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab
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“The ‘N’ in SNAP stands for nutrition not nuggets with a side of fries,” Ernst told Fox News. “I wish I was McRibbing you but $250 million per year at the drive-through is no joke and a serious waste of tax dollars. I hate to be the one to say McSCUSE ME, but something needs to be done because taxpayers are not lovin’ it.”
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This is pure insanity!!!! How on earth can words = molestation??? SMDH
“Sweden: 90-year-old nursing home resident charged with inciting hatred after telling staff, ‘All Muslims should leave Sweden’ — Police investigated the case as a suspected crime against democracy, reviewing his internet and social media activity for any relevant material, but found nothing”
ReMIX, Thomas Brooke, November 20, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A 90-year-old man in a Borås nursing home has been charged with inciting hatred after allegedly telling staff that all Muslims should leave Sweden, comments witnesses say he made after drinking a couple of shots of schnapps with his lunch.
The incident took place in August in the home’s cafeteria, where the man routinely has two shots of schnapps during meals to help with pain relief. According to witness accounts provided to police as cited by Samnytt, he grew irritated with the staff — many of whom are Muslim — and muttered that he was “fucking tired of this place” and that “these Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to stay.”
He then allegedly directed the remarks at a Syrian staff member wearing a headscarf, telling her that all Muslims must leave the country and that she “shouldn’t stay here.” According to Sveriges Radio, staff reported that the atmosphere in the lunchroom became tense after the remarks and that they ultimately contacted the authorities. The case is now proceeding to court.
Three colleagues, two of them also Muslim, told investigators they heard the comments clearly. The woman targeted told police she became distressed, cried, developed a headache, and had to go home because she was unable to continue working. She later said the incident felt deeply violating and has since expressed her intention to seek compensation.
During questioning, the 90-year-old said staff later told him he had been loud and behaved inappropriately, for which he apologized, but he insisted he has no memory of making any remarks about anyone’s religion. “I’m just blank about this incident,” he told police, saying he could neither admit nor deny the accusation, according to Swedish media reports.
Police investigated the case as a suspected crime against democracy, reviewing his internet and social media activity for any relevant material, but found nothing. The man has no criminal history.
Prosecutors argue that around 30 people were present in the dining room when the comments were made, meaning the statements were spread broadly enough to meet the legal threshold for incitement. They are also seeking a conviction for molestation as an alternative charge.”
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what a crock of shit!
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EXCERPT: “All over Europe, farm shops often feature an “honor system” where customers can enjoy self-service. The system mostly works, but in recent years, certain individuals have been taking advantage of the system more and more.
In one case in Kinttelfeld, a farmer’s shop was robbed for the third time, with the operator now publishing photos of the suspects. The robbery has prompted German commentator and journalist Anabel Schunke to lament that the high-trust societies seen throughout Europe are now turning into multicultural low-trust societies.
The family farm, run by Garbiele Eberhardt and her husband Benedikt, wanted to offer the self-service option to its “loyal customers,” but it has been targeted by a number of robberies in the last weeks.
Described as a “small, lovingly run farm shop” by the Austrian newspaper Heute, the shop sells homemade products twice a week, but because customers want to shop outside those hours, the Eberhardt family offered a freely accessible refrigerator with access to their products. “This works well, but unfortunately, there have been several recent thefts,” an annoyed Eberhardt told Kleine Zeitung.
In the videos, the clearly foreign suspects, who are not speaking German, can be seen laughing as they rob the small farm store.
Remarkably, the thefts are a family affair, with the family publishing videos of the theft on their Facebook page. It shows a young man with two children showing up and emptying out the fridge in seconds while the children hold a bag to fill with loot. The fact that the farm shop was clearly labeled with signs that showed there were CCTV cameras did not appear to deter the thieves.
“It’s now the third time in a short space of time that they’ve completely cleared out the fridge for us,” said the farmers. After the first thefts, they even put up photos of the suspects next to their products, which means they saw that they were being filmed, but still kept robbing the hard-working farmers….”
https://rmx.news/article/multicultural-societies-are-all-low-trust-societies-suspect-robs-austrian-farm-shop-3-times-on-video-with-the-help-of-his-children/
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they need to spend the bucks for a security person and arrest these people. perhaps they do not understand the sign or the customs, but I would quickly put a stop to it.
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❄️ Vitamin D Supplement Business, Anyone?
The sun set at 1:36 PM yesterday in Utqiaġvik, Alaska and won’t rise again until January 22. That’s 63 days of darkness. Perfect for introspection, depression, and selling Vitamin D gummies at a 400% markup…
🌸 Exceptionally Rare Pink Grasshopper Found
Chonky. Vibrant. Genetic miracle. Nature’s “limited edition.” Also extremely vulnerable to predators because it glows like a neon sign…
🧝 Brazilian Man Gets Permanent Orc Tusks
A tattoo artist in Brazil got two giant LOTR-style tusks implanted in his face so he can look like a real-life orc. Future archaeologists will absolutely lose their minds…
👁️ The Golden Ring Seen During Cataract Surgery
Looks holy. Feels medical. Represents fluid cleaving the layers of your eye. Your dad had surgery years ago. Good. Tomorrow? Maybe don’t do it tomorrow…
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that guy looks disgusting!
the pink grasshopper is cool though!
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IKR? I simply can’t imagine doing that to yourself!!!
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he’s a side show freak.
he will be in books and known because he’s an idiot.
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Just The News: “Justice Department prosecutors moved to dismiss assault charges on Thursday against a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago amid the federal immigration crackdown. Prosecutors filed the motion just hours before a status hearing in the case regarding Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ruiz, 21, The Associated Press reported.
Martinez’s lawyer, Christopher Parente, praised the U.S. attorney’s office “for doing the right thing here and dismissing the indictment.” The U.S. attorney’s office and lawyers for Ruiz did not immediately respond to the AP’s requests for comment.
Federal prosecutors had accused Martinez and Ruiz of using their vehicles to strike and box in Border Patrol agent Charles Exum’s vehicle on Oct. 4 in Chicago. Exum then exited his car and shot at Martinez, who suffered seven gunshot wounds.
The agent allegedly bragged about his shooting skills afterward, according to texts presented as evidence during a Nov. 5 hearing. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes,” the text read. “Put that in your book boys.” Martinez and Ruiz faced charges of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, a vehicle. No officers suffered serious injuries.
Parente claimed body camera footage contradicted the DOJ’s narrative of Martinez’s actions. He said the Department of Homeland Security released “objectively wrong information,” and he claimed that Exum “steered into” Martinez rather than vice versa. The lawyer also accused federal authorities of tampering with evidence when Exum was allowed to drive the car back to Maine rather than keep it in Chicago to be examined.
Both Martinez and Ruiz were released pending trial after a judge noted they had no prior criminal record.
DHS has characterized people who have protested its illegal immigration crackdown as violent rioters and vowed to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. However, of the more than two dozen people arrested for impeding or assaulting federal officers or other protest-related offenses, none have gone to trial, and charges have been dropped against at least nine.”
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i am tired of protestors getting away with stuff. I didn’t see the incident, but i know protestors have been boxing in ICE and getting violent with them as well. backing off from stuff only emboldens them.
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Agreed!
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Extraordinary Entrance
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is that a brand on the horse’s left rear?
that house is a little too open for me…lol
and that entrance is cool–double horseshoes!
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Yep – the Royal House brand. I wouldn’t want to sleep overnight in that house!!!
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me neither!
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Mt. Shasta
Down the watery mountain
Japanese heavy flying boat Kawanishi H8K2 “Emily.” Antennas of the onboard search radar station are visible on the bow and sides of the boat. 1944
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After POTUS renamed it Gulf of America!!! they’re too scared to come ashore now…LOLOLOL
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“Several messages from the myriad of Epstein files already released this month have given an insight into the friendship between the disgraced financier and tech tycoon Gates. Epstein spoke with Gates’ adviser in 2017 about a venture that never materialized – partly because the Microsoft founder’s spouse wanted them to stop speaking, the newly-released messages suggest. “He wants to talk to you but his wife won’t let him,” Gates’ adviser told Epstein, per CBS News.
The adviser reportedly followed up with a series of text messages, adding that “he loves you,” “he says hi,” and “he feels bad” about having to abandon their business proposals. “He thought ‘great idea’ but his wife wouldn’t allow,” the adviser wrote.
Melinda and Bill Gates divorced in August 2021 after 27 years of marriage, and Melinda said his friendship with convicted pedophile Epstein was a key factor in their split. “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. I made that clear to him,” she told Vanity Fair at the time, adding that she met the sex offender “exactly one time.”
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Frustrated residents complained that the “popping” sound of the sport – which has spiked in popularity in recent years, especially among retirees – has been echoing through the seaside community and driving them nuts, according to sfgate.com.
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“The Dems Fear a Corruption Purge like Saudi Arabia 2017”
Clandestine, Nov 20, 2025
“Trump’s ally, MBS, visited the White House Tuesday. The same day, as MBS was arriving, the Dems started freaking out and telling US MIL to ignore orders from Trump. What are they afraid of?
What is MBS known for? The infamous corruption purge of 2017.
They are afraid Trump is going to use the US MIL to replicate what MBS did in Saudi Arabia in 2017. MBS unleashed a massive anti-corruption military operation to detain and charge all the corrupt elites, senior military officers, politicians, billionaires, etc.
MBS unleashed a great reckoning and drained the Saudi Arabian swamp. The Dems are afraid of Trump and the US MIL doing something similar to them.”
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/the-dems-fear-a-corruption-purge
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posted at wolf’s…i posted at Maricas too
K1tt7-fzn(@k1tt7-fzn)
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November 20, 2025 15:58
H/T arksirc
The memorial service for Georgia was this last Saturday and the video is posted at the McClane Funeral Home webpage.
https://www.mclanefuneralservices.com/obituaries/georgia-smith
It’s 40 minutes long and the pastor begins speaking at 14:50 followed by her stepdaughter and daughter.
Very nice, lots of pics and some great stories.
Georgia was a very special lady.
I don’t know how long it has been up so I don’t know how long it will be posted.
In my experience it takes a couple days (probably Monday) for them to post it and then eventually is taken down or made private
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Gloucester Cathedral
Decent, but could use an overstuffed club chair in that corner.
Oops
He was just trying to pay his respects
I have the tickets for this weekend
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oh yeah…wicker is all wrong for that room!
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Good night, Pat!
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Good Night Filly!
just finished the dishes. We had pancakes, sausages, hash brown patties and grapefruit.
it was tasty!
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Good Night All!
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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
3h• 3 tweets • 1 min read •
Read on X 🚨 New court filings, including the grand-jury transcript, show U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan PROPERLY obtained the indictment against James Comey.
Despite the media’s best efforts to misreport and cover for their favorite deep-state actor, James Comey.
I. The court and the foreperson confirmed the vote on the 2-count indictment.
II. The court acknowledged the clerical discrepancy and directed the docketing of the 2-count true bill.
III. The transcript leaves no room for ambiguity.
Accordingly, any assertion that the grand jury “never voted on the two-count indictment” is contradicted by the official transcript.
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