FBI Surging Agents To Minnesota After Big Investigative Video

By William Teach December 29, 2025 – 10:30 am

Here’s a report that none of the Credentialed Media bothered with, because it would require them to leave the office and it would be going against Somalis and Minnesota Democrats

Not that many of the leftist media outlets are even bothering to cover this, and the few who are tend to bury the story

FBI surges resources to Minnesota as Director Patel calls $250M fraud scheme ‘tip of a very large iceberg’

FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency has surged additional personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota as part of an ongoing effort to “dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs.”

Patel said Sunday that the bureau moved resources into the state before recent online attention intensified, pointing to the Feeding Our Future investigation, which uncovered a $250 million scheme that siphoned federal food aid intended for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The case has already resulted in 78 indictments and 57 convictions, with prosecutors also charging defendants in a separate plot to bribe a juror with $120,000 in cash, Patel said, adding that the investigation remains ongoing.

“The FBI believes this is just the tip of a very large iceberg. We will continue to follow the money and protect children, and this investigation very much remains ongoing,” he wrote on X. “Furthermore, many are also being referred to immigrations officials for possible further denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible.” (snip)

Republican lawmakers, including House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., as well as Vice President JD Vance, have responded to the viral video, with Emmer accusing Gov. Tim Walz of sitting “idly by while billions were stolen from hardworking Minnesotans.”

Democrats are circling the wagons, because Waltz is a Democrat, Trump rails against Somalis, and it is just “a small amount of fraud compared to the federal budget.” But, imagine how many Americans could be helped with the money if it wasn’t given away fraudulently.

But, we do have some “pouncing”

MAGA World zeroes in on Minnesota over fraud scandal

It’s always wonderful how the MSM goes after Republicans when it was Democrats which did wrong. Back to the original

An X account calling itself Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary, which says it consists of more than 480 Minnesota state staff members, wrote that Walz is “100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.”

“We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports,” the group claimed. “In addition to retaliating against whistleblower[s], Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance.”

Anyone want to bet that Walz is a target of an investigation at this point?

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EPA Cancels Absurd Grant To Study “Health Effects Of Wildfires”

By William Teach December 29, 2025 – 7:00 am

It is very silly

From the link

Marina Vance: I’ve been working on air quality since I was an undergraduate student in Brazil — for more than 20 years. I was at Virginia Tech for eight years for my Ph.D and as a postdoctoral researcher, and then I came to the University of Colorado in 2016.

Growing up in Brazil, I’m from an island in a very humid place. Wildfires are not big where I’m from at all. And then living in Virginia, I wasn’t exposed to them either.

I remember my first summer here. From the window of the townhouse I rented, I could see a plume of smoke from a fire burning in the Flatiron Mountains. When I stepped out of my townhouse, I could see that plume far away, and I could smell the smoke. And I thought, “This is really important.”

I got a grant for $549,000 to study wildfires. I was inspired by the movie “Twister” — scientists collecting samples out into the real world. The idea was to hunt the wildfire wherever it might be.

Imagine that, the whole thing was inspired by the movie Twister. If she said that, the grant should have been killed to start with. Also, I do not remember wildfires in the movie. It was about….tornadoes.

We wanted to be in a place where folks would be sheltering in their homes. If there’s a wildfire, you’re going into your home and you’re going close all the doors and the windows. The walls, the windows, and the doors in houses act like a filter. But there’s very little data saying what happens to the distribution of particle sizes as they penetrate a home.

The size of a particle dictates where it ends up. The particles that are really, really small stick to some surface, so they’re gone from the air. The particles that are really big are more likely to settle through gravity. And then you have these particles that are in-between, hundreds of nanometers in size, that stay suspended in air longer. They’re more likely to be inhaled.

So we were thinking about finding these homes, measuring particulate matter indoors and outdoors. We were going to develop interventions that were cheap and easy for people to use — portable air cleaners, that sort of thing.

You mean like….air purifiers? Devices that have been commercially available for decades? Like the one I have at home (bigger one), and a couple small ones? Maybe we could come up with something which connects into our AC/heating systems that cleans the air. We could call them “air filters.” And, yeah, I use pretty good ones because I am allergic to dust mites.

On April 24, I was checking emails over breakfast, and there was an email from the EPA. It said, “Attached is your termination of award from the U.S. E.P.A.” It was just one .pdf file. It said, “The objectives of the award are no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities.” I had to return roughly $360,000.

I can’t imagine something more related to the E.P.A.’s mission than understanding wildfires and protecting people in their homes. That to me is frustrating and confusing. This is the kind of research that can have direct and immediate impact — not 10 or 20 years in the future, but this year, when the next wildfire hits.

This was a waste of taxpayer money. It may seem like chump change against the federal budget, but, what if we killed off all the absurd, unnecessary spending?

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Illinois Governor Sued By Federal Government Over Law Restricting Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach December 29, 2025 – 6:45 am

It would be way more fun for the Trump admin to simply ignore the law and watch the caterwauling, but, I suspect they want to humiliated JB Pritzker and not put federal law enforcement and local cops on a collision course, because you know there will be a small number of Chicago cops who will think they can arrest federal immigration agents

Feds sue Illinois governor after signing bill that restricts immigration enforcement near courthouses, allows officers to be sued

The Trump administration has sued Illinois Governor JB Pritzker after he signed a law that restricts immigration enforcement near courthouses and allows ICE officers to be sued more easily.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a?lawsuit?against Pritzker and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, challenging their attempt to regulate federal law enforcement officers through the “Illinois Bivens Act” and “Court Access, Safety, and Participation Act.”

The DOJ said that the laws are illegal attempts to regulate and discriminate against the federal government while also threatening the safety of federal officers who have “faced an unprecedented wave of harassment, doxxing, and even violence.”

“The Department of Justice will steadfastly protect law enforcement from unconstitutional state laws like Illinois’ that threaten massive punitive liability and compromise the safety of our officers,” said Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

“Unfortunately, Illinois politicians prefer to attack law enforcement with lawsuits and punitive damages rather than support ICE’s Criminal Alien Program, which prioritizes the safe removal of dangerous criminal aliens like murderers, child rapists, and other serious offenders,” said U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft for the Southern District of Illinois.

We all know what’s going to happen: a left wing wacko judge will rule for Pritzker, and then an appeals court will overturn the left wing wacko.

The bill includes the Illinois Bivens Act, which aims to “hold federal immigration enforcement accountable” by allowing for civil legal action against any law enforcement officer who knowingly violates the Illinois or United States Constitution.

Good luck with that: for one thing, there’s a thing called qualified immunity. Good luck with this law, Illinois.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 28, 2025 – 2:01 pm

…is horrible heatsnow because Other People drive fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Somali fraudsters being referred for denaturalization and deportation.

It’s bikini week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 28, 2025 – 9:13 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. A nice cool day, we get the 1st Pick Bowl (Giants vs Raiders), and I got some great advice on changing how I do some chest exercises*. This pinup is by Pearl Frush, with a wee bit of help

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Watts Up With That?: Contrails and their claimed climatic effect
  2. American Greatness: The Pence Mirage: Why the Right Isn’t Leaving Trump
  3. Bearing Arms: Everytown’s Defense of ‘Vampire Rule’ Renders the Second Amendment Meaningless
  4. Campus Reform: Department of Education stopped $1 billion in student aid fraud, promises more crackdowns in 2025
  5. Doug Ross @ Journal: Tim Walz and the Somalis – The Infographic
  6. Gates Of Vienna: “Foreigners Should Not Vote in Swedish Elections”
  7. Gatestone Institute: Few on the ‘Far Right’ Turn Against the Jews
  8. GeeeZ….: Sunday Faith Post
  9. Geller Report: CULTURE JIHAD: Muslims Attack Catholic Bookstore For Selling the Bible, Christian Books, Statues of Jesus and Mary
  10. IOTW Report: Chevron CEO Responds to Newsom After Leaving California
  11. Jihad Watch: Tucker Carlson Doesn’t Know Anyone Who’s Been ‘Killed by Radical Islam’
  12. Legal Insurrection: “Where Are the Children?” Minnesota Daycare Fraud Caught on Video
  13. Moonbattery: Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan Wears Hijab While Pandering to Somalis
  14. Pacific Pundit: Ilhan Omar’s husband has name quietly removed from venture capital firm’s website after revelations of Minnesota charity and welfare fraud
  15. And last, but, not least, Sultan Knish has “The Somalization of North Dakota”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

*I learned that you need to keep your elbows in when doing chest presses. I had mine out way too far, which meant I couldn’t come down below a 90 degree angle, and was putting too much pressure on my shoulders and elbows (have a bad spot on the right). Lifting way less weight, but, making a big difference. And for flys, don’t hug a tree, keep those arms straight. Went from 45 to 30 pounds, and, believe me, I can feel it from both.

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Democrats Re-Introduce Bill To End 287(g) Immigration Program

By William Teach December 28, 2025 – 7:00 am

But of course they want to do this

House Democrats reintroduce bill to end federal immigration enforcement program

A team of House Democrats is reintroducing legislation aimed at ending a federal program that allows state and local law enforcement to participate in federal immigration enforcement.

The “PROTECT Immigration Act” is being reintroduced by House Democrats ahead of the new year. The bill targets the 287(g) program that allows the federal government to deputize local law enforcement for immigration enforcement purposes.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said the program undermines police-community relationships.

“When immigrants and their US citizen loved ones have to live in fear of being abducted off the street and deported, they stop calling the police,” Jayapal said.

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), who has championed the bill since 2017, said the legislation aims to protect relationships between local law enforcement and communities.

“The legislation we are announcing today aims to protect the relationship between local law enforcement and the communities they serve,” Quigley said.

What communities? They are here illegally, in violation of federal law, as we all know, and, further, that the Constitution requires Congress to pass laws to defend the nation from foreign invasion. What this bill aims to do is only allow federal immigration officers and certain authorized DHS employees to engage in investigating, apprehending, and detaining aliens, legal or illegal.

It’s no wonder Jayapal is involved, she wants to make sure as many Islamists as possible make it into the U.S

Meanwhile

DHS arrests 17,500 criminal illegal immigrants under Laken Riley Act

The Department of Homeland Security has arrested more than 17,500 criminal illegal immigrants under the Laken Riley Act since President Trump took office, officials announced Dec. 24.

The law, signed as Trump’s first piece of legislation, requires federal detention of illegal immigrants accused of theft, burglary, assaulting law enforcement officers and any crime causing death or serious bodily injury.

The act is named after Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student killed by a Venezuelan immigrant and member of the Tren de Aragua gang.

The suspect had been previously arrested and released under the Biden administration in September 2022, then arrested again by New York police for acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 before being released back into communities.

Let’s not forget that 159 Democrats voted against this in the House, and only 12 Dems voted for it in the Senate.

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Experts Stunned By End Of California Permadrought

By William Teach December 27, 2025 – 2:59 pm

Remember this?

Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever
Even if you can’t define a drought, you should by now know exactly what one looks like: California.

And this?

A state of permanent drought

And it was all your fault

Experts stunned as US reservoirs reach historically high levels: ‘Incredible’

Reservoir levels in California are at a historical high after years of drought.

According to Newsweek, which cited data from the Golden State’s Department of Water Resources, water levels in all key reservoirs are at or above 100% of the recorded averages for this time of year. The major reservoirs serve as main water sources for almost 40 million Californians in addition to farming operations across the state.

After several unprecedented atmospheric rivers — long, narrow regions in the sky that transport water vapor and can cause extreme rainfall — across the state, particularly in the Sierra Nevada, water levels surged dramatically. (big snip)

With record high heat and this year expected to be the hottest in history, the warming climate is making storms exponentially stronger, creating extreme weather events that are devastating food and water supplies. Small changes in your routine to minimize pollution and use less plastic make a big difference to cool things down and alleviate the stress on the planet.

So, the drought is over (water storage is 115% of normal), and it is still your fault for flood.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible snow from the Arctic cold wandering down due to carbon pollution, you might just be  Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the 12 days of global warming.

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Wacko On Meth Steals Washington State Trooper’s Cruiser

By William Teach December 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

This is wild, and wonderful example of failing Police Operations 101

Maniac on meth carjacks state trooper’s patrol cruiser on Seattle freeway

A meth-fueled maniac is behind bars after allegedly dragging a Washington state lieutenant from the driver’s seat of her patrol car on a Seattle freeway and speeding away in the stolen cruiser, police said.

Alexander Eugene Smith, 24, was cuffed after the brazen broad-daylight heist sparked a wild police chase that ended when authorities rammed into the hijacked squad car, bringing it to a halt on the busy Christmas Day highway just before noon, according to an arrest report obtained by KOMO News.

The victimized Washington State Patrol lieutenant found herself lying on the pavement of Interstate 5 after responding to reports that a man was casually wandering across the lanes around 11 a.m.

Let’s watch

I dropped some replies to some of the vids, and I did ask a retired city cop friend of mine, and she agreed. You have

  • Driving forward, back, forward, back, but, failing to park far enough away from the nutter, while also creating confusion for the traffic behind her
  • Allowing the wacko to walk right up to her cruiser.
  • Allowing him to open her cruiser door, which should be locked at all times. Basic police academy knowledge, and rookies get abused if they leave doors unlocked
  • Being dragged out immediately because she was not wearing a seat belt, offering zero resistance

I won’t say that women shouldn’t be police. Many shouldn’t. Many men shouldn’t. But, this woman shouldn’t. She’s a lieutenant, for goodness sakes, and violated so many protocols that, at best, she should be put on permanent desk duty. Three police cars were damaged due to her incompetence. And, as my friend noted, State Police tend to spend a goodly chunk of their time enforcing traffic laws, which seems safe, right? No. Walking up on a pulled over vehicle can be very dangerous. One has no idea what is going to happen. Most of the time, things are fine. But, if things go wrong, there is nowhere to hide. And state troopers tend to operate alone, often with no one close for backup.

One has to wonder, if a lieutenant operates so poorly, what about the rest? Is she an aberration, someone who just flouts the rules, doesn’t care about them? Did she fail upwards? Do the others operate so poorly?

Perhaps she was about to exit the cruiser, but, that means she had horrible situational awareness. This will surely show up as a training video in many police departments as What Not To Do.

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Who’s Up For Some Climate Doom Therapy?

By William Teach December 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

I wonder how much this costs?

Finding healing in the face of climate change: Amherst therapist helps people cope with ‘eco-grief’ as changing landscapes take a toll on mental health

Growing up in Putney, Vermont, Sadie Forsythe loved that every winter brought a foot or two of snow.

“We didn’t see the ground for months,” said Forsythe, an Amherst-based therapist whose certification includes climate psychology, a discipline that helps to address eco-grief.

Eco-grief refers to profound sadness, anxiety and despair related to witnessing or learning about environmental destruction, climate change impacts and the loss of ecosystems, species and landscapes. One of the ways Forsythe offers her services is through climate cafes.

They forget to add “worrying about fake issues irrationally”.

“They’re structured, one-off opportunities held at places like local libraries or environmental centers,” she said. “They’re led by two facilitators and require no commitment for participants beyond the two-hour session.”

Those who attend often report feeling more connected, but Forsythe noted that, “all therapy can feel worse before it feels better, because you’re digging into hard stuff. Yet it can help you metabolize (feelings) and think differently.”

I should start a side hustle where I offer therapy where I advise the Warmists to give up their own fossil fueled travel, eat bugs, only buy 2nd hand clothes, and move into a tiny home. For a price, of course

She noted that many people say they need to talk about (eco-grief) but aren’t doing so in their families and workplaces. “There are cultural barriers to talking about hard things,” she said. “People worry about burdening their spouse or grandchild or whoever they’re trying to protect from difficult feelings.”

They worry about others judging them as wackadoodles.

One response to climate despair is “deepening our connection to nature, and savoring it. The more we invest and connect, the more energy we’ll have to respond.”

Clients arrive in Forsythe’s office with varying concerns, “but (eco-grief) comes up for nearly everyone,” she said. “Concerns about weather, droughts and floods can be tucked into worries like affordability and relationship strain.”

They’ve been indoctrinated to freak out over the weather. They should take up a nice hobby.

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