Flotsam and Jetsam - 'Simoleans for Somalians' is Still the Story

Is It Over for Tim Walz? asks Power Line's John Hinderacker, hopefully. PJM's Stephen Kruiser hears Bells Are Jingling All the Wrong Way for Tim Walz. NYPo remembers Tim Walz bragged about child care business in Minnesota during VP debate before $9B Somali fraud scandal came to light. Leave no Somali child unattended! Paul @WomanDefiner, "Remember when Democrats tried to make Universal daycare a thing for the last 15 years? Now you know why." Quote Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "The same Somali scams are happening in Seattle. And Maine. And Columbus, Ohio. And a Clarkston, Georgia. x.com/thehoffather/s…" The FOO @PolitiBunny, "Democrats claim there’s a problem … for example, childcare is too expensive. Democrats decide to create a government program to fund and support affordable childcare. Democrats explain people will need to pay more in taxes so childcare is more affordable. Dumb people believe them. Democrats fund groups who are friendly to Democrats who turn around and fund more Democrats. Meanwhile, blaming Republicans because childcare is still not more affordable for some reason. Repeat with ANY ‘problem’ Democrats want to fix." From Fox, Tim Walz pushes back on Minnesota fraud allegations following viral daycare video claiming he "has spent years working to "crack down on fraud" and has taken steps to strengthen oversight of state programs, including initiating investigations into several facilities." He was either complicit or incompetent, or both. Nick Arama at RedState sees New Twists in Viral MN Daycare Story Amid Response From Officials That Won't Go Over Well The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub, "I cannot stress how important it is for Trump to make an example of Walz and Minnesota. While his term thus far has been very successful (border, foreign policy, BBB, etc.) much of MAGA is dissatisfied because so many crooks and conspirators from the past 10 years have yet to face justice. This is the perfect opportunity to change that! . . . ?" From ET, FBI Surged Resources to Minnesota Early in Federal Fraud Investigation, Patel Says, "‘The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota,’ he said, referring to a recent viral video about an allegedly fraudulent day care in the state." From Da Caller, Kash Patel Says FBI Investigation Into Alleged Minnesota Fraud Will Broaden As New Details Emerge. At PM, FBI threatens to denaturalize, deport Somali scammers in Minnesota. "Many are also being referred to immigrations officials for possible further denaturalization and deportation proceedings." Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "In case you're looking for a side gig, whistleblowers on federal fraud receive between 15% and 30% of the recovered amount." Quote JD Ross @justindross, "There is a $10B+ startup just waiting to be built in identifying and successfully litigating against federal and state fraud, double that if you can go after health and disability fraud Like an apolitical, decentralized for-profit DOGE." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Walz Announces $8 Billion Grant To Somali Company To Investigate Fraud https://buff.ly/92fvWoA."

This new Tim Walz ad goes hard.

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Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays "I'm starting to detect a pattern," Quote Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes "Attorney Mehek Cooke says massive fraud is taking place in Ohio She says fraudulent Somalian healthcare companies are being created charging as much as $250,000 per family per year FOR DOING NOTHING, it’s all fraudulent It’s all being billed to Medicaid and taxpayers are payingShow more" Elon Musk is on a Xroll: Elon Musk @elonmusk, "The fraud of your taxpayer money is happening nationwide and is liberally applied to attract illegal (and some legal) immigrants who will reliably vote Democrat. The more you look, the more you find. And you don’t need to be a world-class detective to figure it out. This is brazen, daylight robbery," "My lower bound guess for how much fraud there is nationally is ~20% of the Federal budget, which would mean $1.5 trillion per year. Probably much higher," "Wow," "More than any the daily readership of all newspapers in America combined" Quote DogeDesigner @cb_doge "BREAKING: Nick Shirley’s Minnesota Somali fraud video just crossed 100 million views on X. You are the media now!" Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Just stop caring whether they call you racist or not. They do that to scare away inquiries. Doing so used to work, but not any more. Fraud is fraud and it doesn’t matter what race someone is," Quote Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, HOLY CRAP! Nick Shirley just DROPPED THE MIC on Tim Walz after he called anyone "racist" for pointing out Somali fraud "You're going to call a white person 'RACIST' for calling out FACTS?"

At Da Signal, Minnesota Fraud Controversy Shakes Capitol Hill. Austen Allred @Austen, "Kinda funny that the two stories dominating my X feed are: 1. Needing to take 5% of net worth from billionaires to prop up government spending 2. Fraudsters brazenly taking billions of dollars of taxpayer money with little being done to stop it." Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo, "We opened the discourse with the Somali fraud story. Now it's built into a massive social reaction. But the question is whether the Trump Administration will deliver results: investigations, arrests, mugshots, prosecutions. Ultimately, only action matters." Ace, More Somali Piracy: In Ohio, Somalis Are Defrauding the State Home Health Care System for $250,000 Per Year "Caring" for Phantom "Aged Parents." Ted Cruz @tedcruz, "Um, wut?" Quote Kristen Mag @kristenmag, "There are 539 childcare centers in Washington state that list Somali as the primary language. Most don’t even give a street address. I don’t know how many of these are submitting fraudulent claims for state grants and subsidies, but I have a strong hunch the number is not zero." Matthew Marsden @matthewdmarsden, "Um, what are you going to do about it?" At Insty, SOMEONE SHOULD LOOK INTO THIS: Katie Miller @KatieMiller, "BLS data confirms home health aides as the fastest-growing U.S. occupation with a 10% surge to over 500,000 in 2024. It's MOSTLY Medicaid-funded. 42% are foreign-born across the US. 78% are foreign-born in NYC where most home health aides are used. Want to guess where the fraud is?" Cathy Salgado at PJM reports Small Business Administration Cuts Off All Minnesota Grants Over Somali Fraud. It's a start. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican "I'm glad this is all being flushed out, but can we please get some messaging on why it is so difficult to prosecute or deport fraudsters & accomplices? Like Keith Ellison and Ilhan Omar. Is it a state jurisdiction thing? Are you being slow-walked in the administration? So many questions..."

Bad Hombre @Badhombre "A YouTuber who started his career making prank videos in high school just gave a masterclass in journalism to all the entities on the right." Doug Ross has Nick Shirley's Exposé - The Infographic ""With 𝕏, _you_ are the media" proven correct, again." Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP, "Still no coverage in NYT, WaPo, CNN, or Minneapolis Star-Tribune of massive fraud being uncovered in Minnesota. The media's willingness to ignore stories that hurt Democrats is truly astonishing." TMK @TheMagaKing2_0, "The New York Times and The Washington Post were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes for the now-debunked Russia collusion hoax, built on fake intelligence and anonymous sources. Meanwhile, an independent YouTuber uses public records, real documents, firsthand investigation, and on-the-ground video to expose an $800 million daycare fraud scheme in Minnesota, and the mainstream media ignores it. That’s why they’re called fake news." At Twitchy, Un-EFFING-Believable: Drew Holden's LENGTHY Thread of Media Actively HIDING MN Somali Fraud a MUST-Read. Drew Holden @DrewHolden360 "THREAD The legacy media didn’t miss the Minnesota Somalian fraud story. They actively dismissed it as made up, racist, or xenophobic. Before the stories are quietly edited, I’ve got screenshots." TownHall's Matt Vespa asks What Do You Notice About All These Stories About Somali Fraud in the Press? Ace, YouTuber Exposes Another Huge Ring of Somali Pirate Fraud as Legacy "Journalists" Refuse to Investigate or Report Others' Investigations.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes Mamdanigeddon Is Almost Here — Time to Take Bets on NYC's Survival. It'll survive. Rome survived the Goths, after all. Just barely. Althouse catches a modern puff piece, "The most new York couple is: very sweet man that everyone loves with a wife way out of his league that he’s obsessed with." "That's the top rated comment on this TikTok about Rama Duwaji, the wife of Zohran Mamdani:" At the Manhattan Contrarian, Doubling Down On The Worst Possible Public Policy ("Affordable Housing" In Manhattan).

At PJM VodkaPundit says Insert Completely Gobsmacked Pacific Palisades Fire Headline Here "An hour after midnight Jan. 1, as a small brush fire blazed across Topanga State Park, a California State Parks employee texted the Los Angeles Fire Department’s heavy equipment supervisor to find out if they were sending in bulldozers. “Heck no that area is full of endangered plants,” Capt. Richard Diede replied at 9:52 a.m, five hours after LAFD declared the fire contained. “I would be a real idiot to ever put a dozer in that area,” he wrote. “I’m so trained.”"

VodkaPundit at Insty thinks IT’S NICE TO SEE EUROPEAN NATO GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT ITS DEFENSE AGAIN: Russia vs. NATO Video Roundup. USNI News, Chinese Forces Fielding Intercontinental Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles Capable of Reaching U.S. West Coast, Pentagon Says. Shouldn't that be the "left coast?" Sundance at CTH hosts U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer Giving a Strong Recap of President Trump Trade Policy. 

Atop Da Hill, California drops lawsuit over Trump pulling high-speed rail funding. "An authority spokesperson said in a statement that “the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California.”" Good. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn warns we may still be Possibly Looking at Bi-Coastal Energy Price Shocks for 2026.

From TNP, Far Left Embarks on Formal ‘Boycott’ of ‘Occupied’ Trump-Kennedy Center. Althouse, "The artists who have protested in recent weeks include Kristy Lee, a folk singer from Alabama, who announced she was pulling out from a free concert...." ""'I won’t lie to you, canceling shows hurts,' she said in a social media post. 'This is how I keep the lights on. But losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.'" From "New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled/The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was 'evidently' connected to President Trump’s name being added to the arts center" (NYT). Art is not logic." Take the whole Kennedy Center and move it to a site along the Missouri River in Bismarck, ND. Why should the hinterlands pay tribute to DC so they can build themselves pleasure palaces? Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Democrats have called Trump Hitler for a decade. Now he’s the most honored non-Israeli in most of our lives." Quote Fox News @FoxNews "BREAKING: Netanyahu announces Israel is awarding President Trump the Israel Prize. It is the country's highest cultural honor, and has not been won by a non-Israeli in nearly 80 years." Readers added context "This is incorrect as the last non-Israeli to win the award was Indian conductor Zubin Mehta in 1991." Roger Kimball at Am Great on The Pence Mirage: Why the Right Isn’t Leaving Trump, "The Heritage Foundation “mutiny” isn’t a conservative realignment so much as the latest anti-Trump mirage, with Mike Pence cast as a moral standard-bearer no one is following."

Matt Margolis at PJM sees The J6 Pipebomber Explains His Motive, and the Left Won’t Be Happy. From the Victory Girls, DOJ: J6 Pipe Bomber Hated BOTH Political Parties. Ace, J6 Pipebomber Says He Wanted to Hurt Both Parties. "I'm glad he isn't confirming the media's claim that he was animated to plant the bombs over Trump's completely-false claims of the election being rigged. Because if he did, he'd be eligible for an insanity plea, because we all know 2020 was the most secure and fraud-free election in history.

From Mediaite ‘Dangerous!’ CBS’s Jan Crawford Skewers Liberals Over Attacks on the Supreme Court. Shipwreckedcrew finds it amusing The Supreme Court Tells Pres. Trump He Can Only Use The Insurrection Act To Assist ICE In Enforcing Immigration Law. "The language of the statute relied upon is a historic anachronism that only Congress can fix, or it can watch as the Executive uses the only tools SCOTUS says he has -- the Army and Marines " and reports that Judge's Order To Release All ICE Detainees Is Stayed by Seventh Circuit Pending Appeal. "Biden Admin. entered into "consent decree" to not detain certain illegals scheduled for deportation hearing and Chicago Judge ordered enforcement of that agreement -- paused for now." Teri Christoph at RedState says More of This, Please: Utah GOP Refuses to Fold After Judge Forces Democrat-Friendly Map. From Front Page, Obama Judge Legalizes Assaulting ICE Personnel "The sanctuary state is becoming an insurrection."

At the College Fix, the Latest on the Brown shooting: Custodian warned about shooter, police chief put on leave.

WokeSpy hears Tom Homan Drops the Mic on Child Separation “It’s unfortunate families got separated, but it happens to American families every day. It’s going to happen in Albany today, that American family will be separated by law enforcement because the child can’t go to jail with a parent,” Homan said.. . . . Homan then shifted focus to child trafficking, stating that a large number of children were trafficked into the United States during Joe Biden’s tenure and that many remain unaccounted for. “We want to talk about family separation. A half a million children Joe Biden were trafficked in this country. They can’t find 300,000 of them. That’s a separation,” Homan said." Front Page wants you to Imagine America With Only 450,000 Immigrants a Year "Liberals are horrified at the idea."

Ace finds it As Predictable As the Setting Sun: After Conspiracy Theorist and Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on Trump, the NYT Offers Her a Puff-Piece with an Attempted Glamour Shot. From Twitchy, The Easiest Grift Flip from The Bulwark: MTG Bashes Trump, Jonathan V. Last Falls in Love.

Michael Patrick Leahy @michaelpleahy, "BREAKING: New Covenant killer documents released by the FBI confirm @TheTNStar reporting the killer bought guns with Pell Grant money." John Sexton at Hat Hair reads the Washington Post: It's Not Cheating If You Feel Like a Girl "Yesterday the Washington Post published a story which was clearly intended to paint a trans-female athlete in the most positive light possible. The story is titled "For young transgender runner, racing wasn’t the hardest thing." The hardest thing, the story argues, was poverty or maybe opposition to her competing as a girl and repeatedly beating out actual female competitors in various races." Yeah, we get the WaPoo. This story was a couple full pages and mores, all weepy about how hard it was when people booed him for still medals from the real girls. It almost filled up the news 'taint.

At RCP Chris Barnard celebrates The National Movement to Trim Higher Ed Bloat.