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— Media Research Center (@theMRC) April 2, 2026

On a tip from abcanc.

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From City Journal:

From unemployment insurance and Medicaid to failed homeless initiatives and welfare programs, seemingly every state program has been compromised by criminals. The best estimates suggest that, on the governor’s watch, fraudsters, scammers, and organized crime rings have stolen at least $180 billion from taxpayers.

The fraud has been out of control since barely a year after Newsom took office, when California’s tyrannical overreaction to Covid shut down the economy, throwing millions out of work while Newsom dined with his fellow rich moonbats at the French Laundry.

In response to the crisis, Newsom sought to dump pallets of cash across the state—as quickly as possible.

It was dumped largely into the pockets of fraudsters.

Not only did the state have some of the most generous welfare programs in the country; its bureaucrats had also failed to implement some basic fraud controls during Newsom’s tenure.

Scammers have been robbing California taxpayers from as far away as Romania. Others do it from Tennessee:

Around September 2020, Fontrell Antonio Baines, a rapper from Memphis known as Nuke Bizzle, released a music video on YouTube entitled “EDD.” In the song, Baines bragged about ripping off California’s UI [unemployment insurance] program. “Go to the bank with a stack of these,” Baines rapped, holding up EDD envelopes. Another rapper can be heard saying: “You gotta sell cocaine, I just file a claim.” All told, Baines obtained more than $700,000 in stolen funds using preloaded EDD debit cards.

Democrats know how to take care of their base.

California’s prison population apparently got in on the action, too: the EDD allegedly paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims in prisoners’ names, including those of at least 133 inmates on death row.

Covid was a looting spree:

State officials eventually admitted to having paid out approximately $20 billion in fraudulent claims during the pandemic, and to making an estimated $55 billion in improper payments.

Actual numbers are of course higher. According to fraud expert Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government,

“In California, at one point, you had more people applying for unemployment insurance benefits than you had people over the age of 18.”

The looting did not stop after Covid hysteria ran out of gas. Just considering the California implementation of Medicaid,

California’s attorney general has conceded that “Medi-Cal fraud could reach billions of dollars annually.”

That is to say, many billions.

Based on state experts’ best guesses of annual Medi-Cal expenditures and applying a conservative, 15 percent fraud rate to each fiscal year since 2019, Medi-Cal has lost some $146 billion in taxpayer funds to fraud on Gavin Newsom’s watch.

The fraud is too massive to ignore indefinitely. Democrats have been forced to respond — by making fraud even easier:

State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas sponsored a bill that would raise the threshold for felony welfare fraud from $950 to $25,000. The measure would also make it more difficult to charge perjury based on misstatements to county welfare departments. Republican State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio has said that if the bill becomes law, it will effectively “legalize welfare fraud” in California.

Thanks to Trump being in office, the Feds are stepping in.

Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, announced the creation of a federal task force to combat fraud and corruption in the state’s homelessness programs. The task force has already brought charges in several multimillion-dollar homelessness-fraud cases—and Essayli has vowed that more are coming. “California has spent $24 billion in the last five years on homelessness, and no one can account for where that money has really gone,” Essayli said in January. Gavin Newsom, he added, is the “king of fraud.”

With fraud on this scale, it is no wonder California is crumbling and cannot pay its bills. But at least Democrats are innovative when it comes to finding new ways to confiscate other people’s money so they can waste it. For example, a San Francisco homeowner was fined $50,000 for trimming trees that required it:

A San Francisco California resident is facing a $50,000 fine for trimming 5 trees he through was on his property

“The city explains, they're not his, and he wasn't authorized to do it”

The man trimmed 5 trees right in front of his unit because branches were touching the… pic.twitter.com/DsrzmdDGuD

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 2, 2026

On tips from abcanc and Wiggins.

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Via AOL:

The father of a student at Parcells Middle School district was upset after discovering some classrooms displayed the pride flag.

Looks like it is actually the Progress Pride Flag, which represents anti-Caucasian race ideology as well as an array of sexual depravity.

He recorded it, and sent it to parent groups.

Asked the outraged father,

“You continue to let these groomer teachers push their distorted worldview upon your children and the values that you raise them with?”

The district responded by banning him from setting foot on school property on the grounds that revealing what they were rubbing innocent children’s faces in was “intimidating.”

On a tip from Ryan H.

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The New York Post reports:

Newsom — who signed an executive order to cut spending in the state, à la Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is hitting roadblocks with the plan amid a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit.

The erstwhile Golden State handed Boston Consulting Group as much as $20 million to help it trim $2 billion in spending — a seemingly easy task amid the blizzard of waste that characterizes California under Democrat rule.

But the group — which hired former Newsom cabinet Secretary and Department of Finance Director Ana J. Matosantos — is now expected to only find $810 million in savings, according to legislative analysts.

That number may even go down later in May, analysts added, as indicated by the Newsom administration.

Regarding cuts that actually get made, expect the savings to go down to zero — or rather, to negative $20 million, after the firm has been paid.

On a tip from patthedog.

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A Colorado lawyer sounds off:

Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.

Please understand:
– I do not practice immigration law.
– I do not practice… pic.twitter.com/khYDf5TkQd

— Ian Speir (@IanSpeir) April 2, 2026

By obstructing the enforcement of federal laws intended to defend the country from foreign invasion, Colorado is effectively at war with the United States.

On a tip from RoCar.

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Sky News Reporter says that the Apollo missions to the Moon didn't represent humanity because "Apollo was all white men…"pic.twitter.com/xuvLEeWFOu

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2026

On a tip from Wiggins.

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PNW Daily reports:

As of March 29, 2026, Robertson’s self-published children’s book, Norma Normal, remains for sale online. The promotional website also remains active. Robertson published the book in 2020.

It follows a child who “lives naked” in nature.

Robertson is described as a local activist “known for organizing Bellingham’s chapter of the World Naked Bike Ride.”

He says the kiddie porn was research for his unsavory book. However:

Robertson’s wife called police after coming home and finding him on the couch with a laptop open and a blanket over his lap. She reported seeing movement beneath the blanket and believed he was touching himself. She confronted him. Robertson quickly closed the laptop and tried to hide it. She opened it and found thumbnail images, including one larger image showing multiple fully nude girls she estimated were between 7 and 10 years old.

What’s the problem? Love is love, we are told.

On a tip from abcanc.

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The Daily Mail reports:

A black Kansas City businessman has been forced to scrap his plans to open a new nightclub after a local football fan club comprised mainly of liberal white women complained that the name was ‘racist.’

By “football,” they mean “soccer.”

Casio McCombs said this week he was ‘deeply disappointed’ that his plans to open a club named Sundown HiFi were halted due to outcry from KC Blue Crew, a supporters club for women’s soccer team KC Current.

Here’s why the word “sundown” has been struck from the Newspeak Dictionary and is no longer permissible, despite McCombs regarding it as essential to the project:

The ‘sundown’ name was deemed by the group to be a reference to a ‘sundown town’, a 19th Century term for all-white communities that would practice racial segregation and terrorize any black people unfortunate enough to find themselves on its streets after dark.

Liberals live in an alternative world based on a sinister version of the century before last.

The nightclub was set to be opened on a development site named Current Landing located next to the CPKC Stadium, leading the women’s group to issue a statement arguing the ‘sundown’ name would tarnish the sports area. …

In the KC Blue Crew statement calling for the development of the nightclub not to go forward, the group did not note that the SunDown HiFi club was being led by a black businessman.

Of course not. That would draw attention to how absurd they are.

Presenting members of the KC Blue Crew. People like this determine what words we can use.

On a tip from patthedog.

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Via Breitbart:

At least 1,411 people have been killed by illegal migrants, nearly all of whom have been killed during the last 25 years, according to a list assembled by a grassroots group that opposes mass migration.

“The reason we put the list out is that a lot of people don’t realize how large the scale actually is — they usually just hear a blurb about the latest [victim],” Bill Gheen, founder of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) grassroots group, told Breitbart News.

The 1,411 figure is likely the tip of the iceberg, because the illegal alien status of killers cannot always be confirmed. Media and government are often unhelpful in this regard. The government keeps track of how many Americans are killed by cows, by falls from ladders, by lightning, et cetera — but not by migrants, for political reasons.

On a tip from abcanc.

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Dimon said that high taxes and a declining quality of life are key factors pushing residents and businesses out of Democratic-led states.

“I tell people everyone’s got to compete, including cities, and for a city to compete, of course it’s quality of life. It’s your subways. It’s your hospitals,” Dimon said. “But it’s also individual taxes, state taxes, corporate taxes, and it drives people out.”

Washington State is a case in point. Via Seattle Red:

Washington lost half a billion dollars in adjusted gross income to out-migration between 2022 and 2023, right as the state’s capital gains tax was being implemented…

The capital gains tax was supposed to be the line. Democrats held it. Then they passed a 9.9 percent income tax on earnings over one million dollars anyway, and the departure announcements started stacking up within hours.

Even woke Starbucks founder Howard Schultz has bailed out for Florida.

Adam Wright, Vice President of Finance and Accounting at Pacific Rim Land, Inc., posted on LinkedIn that the entire revenue projection for the income tax rests on an assumption already collapsing in real time. When high earners leave, Wright noted, they do not just take their tax payments with them. They take businesses, investments, and jobs.

From the Democrat viewpoint, this is not a bug but a feature. By driving out not only the most productive citizens but also opportunities for others to succeed, they can send a jurisdiction into the Democrat Death Spiral, by which ever more liberal government increasingly drives out everyone but welfare-dependent losers likely to vote for ever more liberal government, creating single party rule.

This maelstrom of moonbattery laid waste to our former wealthiest city Detroit. It is currently destroying cities like Chicago and whole states like California and New York.

On tips from DCGere and Anonymous.

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2023. Newsom's wife/First Partner cried after they toured the South and she heard a story of a white supremacist shooting a black kid.

Poor thing. That's the type of violence you just don't hear about in California. pic.twitter.com/CRgtAe3jIn

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 1, 2026

Newsom's wife and First Partner wants to hold tech leaders accountable for her children seeing "alt right, extreme, Jordan Peterson type" content that teaches them hate, racism, and misogyny. pic.twitter.com/ovv0hvUfSa

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 1, 2026

Delusional moonbat Jennifer Siebel Newsom would be First Lady under President Gavin Newsom. On tips from Wiggins and Anonymous.

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In 1990, it was even 98% white. Or as the Minnesota Post described it, with a shudder, “an almost entirely homogeneous white community, not much different from many towns across Minnesota.” But Faribault was an hour away from Minneapolis at a time when it was being overtaken by Somali mass migration, and it had a meat processing plant, now partly shut down, which is always a draw for illegal aliens and migrants.

By now Somali colonists have discovered more lucrative pursuits than taking low-level jobs from Americans.

Faribault was the epicenter of a $2.6 million Somali Medicaid ride fraud scam in which 8 Somalis, two of them named Mohammed, stole hundreds of names to bill taxpayers for rides, interpreters and acupuncture services that never happened.

It was also part of the $250 million Somali meal scam that first broke open Somali fraud.

Somali fraud in Minnesota has likely cost taxpayers more than $9 BILLION.

The fraud also penetrated the Faribault public school system as investigators are also trying to figure out where $1 million in grant money to stop Somali drug abuse solicited by Lul Bashir Ali, initially identified only as a Somali mother, went.

Whites are down to 65% of the population and sinking fast.

By 2018, minority students made up a majority of the school system. Today, 60% of the school district is minority and only 36% white.

Not only whites are becoming minoritized in their own country but Americans in general.

The Faribault School Board has recently been debating teaching science, health and social studies in Somali. As of 2022, there were over 900 Faribault students who didn’t speak English.

Somalis have complained about the possibility of their offspring becoming “English-dominant” so that “parents and children no longer shared a common language, weakening communication and cultural connections within families.”

Yet again we see that as a rule, Somalis lack even the willingness to assimilate. That’s why Democrats import them.

Faribault might as well teach the students in Somali because state test proficiency scores showed that math proficiency was at 13.7%, science was at 16.1% and reading was at 29.8%. Test scores, graduation rates, attendance and every possible metric are below state standards.

Faribault represents new standards that are fully compliant with the liberal agenda.

Faribault school statistics show that students for whom English is their native language perform over three times better on math, science and more than twice as well on reading. Students who aren’t on welfare perform four times as well on math and science.

Welfare dependence among Somali colonists is stratospheric.

“Faribault has become our city,” a Somali interviewed by the Minnesota Post bragged.

The objective is to multiply Faribault times every town in America. Then Democrats won’t even have to cheat to win every election. That’s why they demonize ICE.

On a tip from patthedog.

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Via Fox News:

The mayor of Rhode Island’s capital city is calling for a mural reportedly backed by Elon Musk to honor Iryna Zarutska —the Ukrainian woman whose brutal murder while riding a North Carolina train prompted calls for harsher punishment for career criminals — to be taken down.

Artist Ian Gaudreau said he did not intend the tribute to be political. But moonbattery is a totalitarian ideology; all things must either advance it or be suppressed.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley squeaks that “the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like this across the country is divisive and does not represent Providence.”

Smiley is getting his way. Via WJAR:

The owners of The Dark Lady, the downtown gay club where the mural is located, released a statement to the community apologizing for the controversy:

“We are deeply and sincerely sorry for everything that has taken place over the past week. After reflecting and learning, we have made the decision to discontinue this project and will move forward with removal as soon as possible. We remain committed to fostering unity, safety, and care for all members of our community, and we will continue to listen, learn, and act with those values at the forefront.”

More from WJAR:

A mural honoring Iryna Zarutska in Providence is being removed following Mayor Brett Smiley’s decision, sparking backlash from residents.

Calls are growing to remove the mayor from office.pic.twitter.com/ebpruSE2Te

— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) March 31, 2026

If they succeed in vaporizing Iryna Zaruska, all the more innocent victims will share her fate.

In contrast, they want us to remember a career criminal who died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest. The city even painted a noisy and deliberately divisive Black Lives Matter mural on Washington Street:

Providence, RI allowed multiple privately funded murals around the city in memory of George Floyd, including a formal ceremony and ribbon-cutting for a downtown BLM mural, but when it came to a mural of slain refugee Iryna Zarutska, this is where they decided to draw the line… pic.twitter.com/BR5hgGGLaG

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) March 31, 2026

On tips from Barry A and abcanc.

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The New York Post reports:

In a letter to First Lady Melania Trump, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) proposed rebranding the annual White House Easter Egg Roll — which dates back to 1878 — into a “Make America Great Easter Potato Roll,” complete with dyed spuds, sack races and “hot potato” games.

They left the “Again” out of MAGA, possibly because they agree with Andrew Cuomo that America was never that great. Maybe it will be one day, if it completely succumbs to moonbattery. Easter potatoes would be a step in that direction.

Scolds PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk:

“Easter fun doesn’t have to come at a hen’s expense.”

In Liberal Land, an unborn baby is just a clot of cells to be disposed of. But every egg laid by a chicken must be allowed to hatch, or a crime has been committed against the hen.

In a separate letter, Elisa Allen, PETA’s vice president of programs in the UK, claimed potato-rolling would “reduce animal suffering, teach children empathy and kindness, help the planet and support British potato farmers.”

Allen went on to claim that chickens are “inquisitive, intelligent individuals who form complex social bonds.”

Whether there are any intelligent individuals in PETA is another question.

On a tip from Franco.

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