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Minnesota residents of Somali descent and Hispanic heritage are suing President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to effectively shut down federal immigration enforcement across the state.
On Thursday, the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing Somali immigrant Mubashir Khalif Hussen, Mahamed Eydarus, who is American and of Somali descent, and Javier Doe, a Hispanic American, filed suit against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE Director Todd Lyons, among other agency officials.
The lawsuit is asking a federal court to issue a statewide injunction to stop what it calls “unlawful policies and practices” being carried out by ICE agents, including allegations of racial profiling.
Washington Post Staffers Call Out Owner
Bezos For His Silence On FBI Raid Of Reporter's Home replies
Bezos For His Silence On FBI Raid Of Reporter's Home replies
Washington Post staffers have responded to the silence of the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, on the FBI's raid of a reporter's home, calling it "nauseating and irresponsible." (snip) The search was related to an investigation into a government contractor in Maryland with top secret security clearance (snip.) The system administrator, Aurelio Perez-Lugones, was charged earlier this month with unlawful retention of defense information (snip.) Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that the search was conducted at the request of the Defense [sic.] Department and that the reporter had been "obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor."
Two Brooklyn scammers pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding a whopping $68 million from the state’s controversial Medicaid home care program by paying health care kickbacks for services they didn’t provide at three Big Apple businesses.
Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao, both 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud for referring Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day cares and a home health company in exchange for illegal kickbacks and bribes, the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Between October 2017 and July 2024, Wasef and Antao worked as marketers and recruiters for
Military newspaper Stars and Stripes will “refocus” to no longer cover “gossip” and “woke distractions,” the War Department announced Thursday.
“The Department of War is returning Stars & Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
Parnell said the changes will bring the publication “into the 21st century.” “We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members,” he wrote.
“Stars & Stripes will be custom tailored to our warfighters,” Parnell continued. “It will focus on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability, and ALL THINGS MILITARY.
For years now, the H-1B debate has been sold to us as a tech-company issue or a skills argument. But what doesn’t get talked about is how much of the H-1B pipeline starts long before the lottery or the job offers and way before the actual paperwork gets filled out. A recent piece from the Times of India just admitted the ugly truth out loud. For many Indian families, an American student visa has zero to do with education. It’s quietly understood that the student stuff is a progression that starts with admission and a visa and moves through internships and graduation and ends with work authorization long enough
Will the U.S. soon launch a devastating strike to take out Iran's shaken fundamentalist Muslim regime? Or just wait for enraged Iranians to topple the teetering mullahs? Either way, Iran's regime looks finished. So what should we do? As a start, roll back President Jimmy Carter's tragic Iran mistakes of nearly 50 years ago that still win Democratic support today.
The radical regime in Tehran must go. Iranians have tired of inflation, corruption, and oppression by their own government. The mullahs recognize no rights, and routinely imprison, torture, and kill their own citizens, as extensively documented.
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said that he survived an arterial bleed following a surgical procedure to remove a cancerous tumor, his friend Jack Fowler announced on Thursday.
Hanson announced that he was undergoing surgery on Dec. 30 to remove the malignant tumor in his lung, which took several months for doctors to diagnose. He suffered a hemorrhaging from unknown origins in the recovery room and had to undergo an emergency operation, prompting a gradual recovery.
“The 12/30 cancer removal surgery a little more than two weeks ago went well. But as happens (I’m 72) sometimes, an arterial bleed of unknown origins developed in the recovery room.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sweeping new sanctions Thursday on senior Iranian officials and regime-linked financial networks, saying Tehran’s ruling elite are “rats fleeing the ship” as they frantically wire tens of millions of dollars out of the country amid mounting unrest. At the direction of President Donald Trump, Bessent said the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown on protesters, while moving to choke off the regime’s sanctions-evasion pipelines used to launder proceeds from Iranian petroleum and petrochemical sales.
If Minnesota officials don’t like President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest Wednesday night and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists — predictably enough — rioted.
In response to the unprovoked attack on the officer, Mayor Jacob Frey once again blasted ICE.
Imagine, he implored,
A certain class of analyst purported to be scandalized by the American night raid on Venezuela that snatched away strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife. By ordering the attack on a weak hostile nation, these people claimed, President Trump has given permission to every global bad actor to misbehave.
China has been given a green light to invade Taiwan. Russia is finally free to trespass on . . . I don’t know, maybe Ukraine?
Even by today’s declining standards, that line of analysis is pathetically shallow.
Neither Xi Jinping nor Vladimir Putin look to the US for permission. The opposite is closer to the truth:
White House Border Czar Tom Homan warned leftist agitators interfering with federal immigration enforcement that he is urging the Trump administration to develop a plan to "make them famous."Inject that directly into my veins, please.
Homan's comments, which he made during an interview with Fox News personality Laura Ingraham on Thursday, appear to be a direct response to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who amped up the ongoing chaos in his state by inciting protesters to harass ICE agents.
Rather than turning down the temperature as street thugs continue to try to impede government operations, the governor posted a video encouraging the already unhinged to "film ICE agents"
With all the fraud constantly being exposed, it’s no wonder our national debt keeps increasing at an alarming rate — politicians overspend, and fraudsters suck up billions more. Our taxpayer-funded programs seem extremely vulnerable to fraud, including Medicare and Medicaid. Five ophthalmology practices in Florida have agreed to a $6 million settlement with the federal government over their fraudulent billing through a third-party for transcranial doppler ultrasounds (TCDs), according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). “These settlements are a continuing testament to the United States’ commitment to fight healthcare fraud and ensure that federal healthcare dollars are spent consistently with the law,”
On Thursday afternoon, I wrote about how María Corina Machado visited the White House and had lunch with Donald Trump. While I was writing that article, some rumors were circulating about a big gesture she made, but I couldn't confirm them at the time. Now I can. The Venezuelan opposition leader, on behalf of her people, gave the president her Nobel Peace Prize. Not a replica. The real thing. Since the meeting was purposely kept private, I wasn't sure that a photo would surface, but one got out, and as of late Thursday night, both the White House and Machado have shared it on social media.
Canada and China are forging ahead with a new strategic partnership and both sides stand to make “historic” gains as they leverage each other’s strengths, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday.
“Particularly in agriculture and agri-food, energy, and finance,” Carney said. “That is where I believe we can make immediate and sustained progress.”
Carney, the first Canadian prime minister to visit China since 2017, was on a mission to Beijing this week to forge a new partnership with Canada’s second-largest trading partner after the United States, building on months of diplomatic efforts to turn the page on previous tensions and conflict.
Some Are Saying Nick Shirley's Latest
Video on Somali Fraud Is Worse Than the
Daycare Investigation replies
Video on Somali Fraud Is Worse Than the
Daycare Investigation replies
Well, it dropped a little late, but the second video is here. YouTuber-turned-investigative reporter Nick Shirley dropped his second video, albeit much later than his initial deadline yesterday. Still, it was worth the wait, with many noting that usually sequels are not as good as the original—not this time.[snip] This latest video featuring Shirley and Hoch delved into welfare fraud.[snip]medical transportation companies, where these Somali-led operations are being paid for vehicles that are supposed to be ferrying patients but are instead sitting idle in lots.[snip] estimated that around $6 million was ferried through the airport per week between 2016 and 2021.
Trump advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News, and he reminded the men and women of ICE that the administration had their back, no matter how much Democrat politicians and leftist agitators tried to attack them. (Snip) At this point, Democrats are completely off the rails. We've already seen some of the crazy comments from people like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
But I guess Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) wanted to try to challenge them for the worst possible take. This is truly insane. Democrats have lost their minds.
Here in California, billionaires are under attack as the Democrats are pushing a referendum that would levy a 5 percent wealth tax on unrealized gains and other assets of these very rich people in the Golden State. In Washington, DC, Donald Trump is telling big financial corporations that he’s going to limit their credit card interest rates to just 10 percent instead of the 20 percent or 30 percent they’ve been charging their customers. On the one hand, these are terrible economic policies. They are the opposite of classical conservatism. It’s ridiculous to tax unrealized gains
The Left thinks they're above the law, and Democrats in D.C. and elsewhere have encouraged their voters to take to the streets to resist ICE, often violently, as we're seeing in Minneapolis. The violence led to the death of Renee Good, who hit an ICE agent with her vehicle after stalking the law enforcement officers for most of the day, and a shooting last night. (Snip) That's a lesson Jennifer Cruz of Jacksonville is discovering. She decided to FA, and now she's FO. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier posted a pic of Cruz being arrested after she decided to exit her vehicle and punch a Trooper in the face.
Oh no. Somebody call a therapist, a spokesperson, and maybe a safe space — wittle Zohran got so mad.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in full-blown fury mode because federal immigration authorities committed the ultimate sin in progressive politics: they enforced the law. Calmly. Quietly. Professionally. Without asking permission from City Hall or consulting the feelings of the mayor first.
The offense? A New York City Council employee — unlawfully present in the United States — was detained by federal authorities during a routine immigration appointment. Not a raid. Not a sweep. Not a door kicked in at dawn. A routine appointment.
When firefighters arrive at a fire, they don't carry cans of gasoline. Their job demands judgment, timing, and courage. Anyone adding fuel while claiming to quickly calm fires reveals their priorities.
Thanks to the ACLU's branch in Minnesota, Minnesota now faces that moment.
A Lawsuit at the Worst Possible Time
The ACLU of Minnesota filed a lawsuit to stop ICE from arresting Somali and Hispanic illegal aliens living in the state.
Their idea is to target cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration agents, saying any arrests violate constitutional protections.
You know, for those fine, peaceful people who aren't supposed to be here.
Their timing couldn't be worse.
Minneapolis has turned into a powder keg
President Donald Trump has once again threatened to bust out the Insurrection Act, to quell the violent, organized mob actions against federal law enforcement in blue cities, abetted by the TDS-riddled despots in their "sanctuary" fiefdoms who imagine they are more powerful than the federal government. The situation is making it impossible for the government to go about its business, enforcing the law.
Even last October, Trump claimed he was free to invoke the act if activist courts continued to stymy his efforts to send the National Guard to recalcitrant cities. "Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that, and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything,"
The communists were hoping that the rightful shooting of Nicole Good, the annoying, Marxist-trained apparatchik who thought she'd drive her vehicle at an ICE agent in Minneapolis (resulting in a bullet or three to the noodle), would inspire a George Floyd-like, nationwide assault on our peaceful society, led by young pinkos eager to topple the United States.
But that didn't happen.
FACT-O-RAMA! A BLM scavenger did show up and pretended to be angry about... something, and demanded money for....something, but thus far, many of the agitators are doddery, white "wrinkle-Americans."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, and she was on fire, especially when it came to answering one "journalist" from The Hill. Let's just say he had a question about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, but he kind of already had the answers — or, at least, his version of them — prepared in his head, and Leavitt didn't let it go.
Leavitt called on Niall Stanage, who asked: "Earlier, you were just defending ICE agents generally....Secretary [Kristi] Noem spoke to the media and she said, among other things, that they are doing everything correctly —
It’s Time for Trump to Retake Momentum
By Reminding the People Why He’s Doing
What He’s Doing replies
By Reminding the People Why He’s Doing
What He’s Doing replies
His Campaign for the Midterms Starts February 1
On Feb. 24, 2026, President Donald J. Trump will stand before the Senate, Congress, the judiciary, and the American people to deliver his State of the Union Address, and already, it will be epic. Try as they might to create distractions, the Democrats in the building will not be able to diminish all that the Trump administration has accomplished in the first year of Trump’s second term.
The sad thing is that Trump isn’t getting proper credit. According to an AP-NORC poll, roughly 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance.