Surprising Few, Ohio Immigration Judges Can Be Bribed

You don't say.

In exclusive footage obtained by Townhall, evidence has emerged suggesting that migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania are exploiting the U.S. immigration and asylum system in Lockland, Ohio, raising serious questions about the integrity and oversight of the process.
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The footage includes allegations that some migrants are being coached on how to navigate the asylum system, encouraged to fabricate claims to meet legal thresholds, and informed -- according to sources on the ground -- that favorable rulings can be secured through illicit means. These claims point to systemic vulnerabilities that make the immigration system susceptible to abuse and corruption.

At the center of the operation is Patricia Golder, who, according to the footage, has turned the alleged manipulation of the asylum process into her business. Golder says she takes a portion of the pay given to the Mauritanian migrants in exchange for helping them navigate the system, and she claims she can bribe judges to rule in the migrants' favor. The footage also suggests that many of the migrants involved neither embrace nor intend to adopt core American values, even as they access public resources designed to protect legitimate asylum seekers.

In the 26-minute video, the undercover reporter is introduced to Golder by one of Golder's friends, identified as Cindy Reis, who says Golder helps Mauritanian migrants get their papers.

"She gets them their papers. She does," Reis says before introducing the reporter to Golder. "He knows about Mulberry Street."

"I try to work with them the best I can," Golder says.

"You know, we were talking about maybe getting them some work," the reporter tells Golder

"Yeah, that's what I'm going to do," Golder replies.

"And then the question is, do they have papers or not?" the reporter asks.

"Some of them have papers, some don't," Golder says. For those that don't have paperwork, Golder adds, "we pay them cash."

"And then, we can make an authorization where you say they volunteer, and you pay them," Golder says.<

Golder says that to get migrants work at big companies, she has to sign for them. But Golder declines to name the companies.

"I have to say I can't do that...that's because of the threat of ICE, so they don't want me to leak, because ICE would go there and take them away. ICE don't play," Golder says.

Golder and Reis know they're working with illegals.

"You gotta work under the radar," Reis tells the reporter.

Video of these admissions at the link.

We are importing rampant third-world corruption to our country for no reason, except to assuage leftwing white woman guilt.

This happens all the time.

2 plead guilty in scheme to bribe DMV employees to issue commercial driver's licenses -- 4 others charged
DMV employees altered records to show individuals had passed driving tests

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Two defendants, including a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a scheme to sell commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) to buyers who never took the required tests.

In addition to Tuesday's guilty pleas, four more individuals, including two other DMV workers, were charged in a 17‑count indictment unsealed Friday. The charges stem from separate but related probes conducted by the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the California Department of Motor Vehicles' Investigations Division, Office of Internal Affairs.

Google AI's digest:

Numerous cases of illegal alien driver's license bribe schemes involving DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) employees have been exposed across the United States. Recent investigations in states like Kentucky and Florida in 2025 highlight that this is an ongoing issue involving corruption, bribery, and the fraudulent issuance of identification documents.

Details of the Schemes

Bribery: DMV employees and third parties (like driving schools or immigration services companies) have been found to accept cash payments in exchange for illegally processing driver's licenses. Bribes have reportedly ranged from a couple of hundred dollars to several thousands of dollars per license.

Bypassing Requirements: In many cases, the fraudulent schemes involved bypassing essential requirements such as written tests, driving exams, vision tests, and necessary immigration status screenings. Employees would falsify records or use shared logins to process applications without the proper documentation or procedures.

Targeting: The individuals seeking the fraudulent licenses were often undocumented immigrants who needed valid identification for employment or other purposes.

Widespread Impact: These schemes have resulted in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of fraudulent licenses being issued.

Consequences: The schemes have led to numerous arrests and convictions of both DMV employees and the individuals who paid for the fraudulent licenses. Those involved face serious federal felony charges, including bribery, conspiracy, identity theft, and forgery, with potential prison sentences and substantial fines. Licenses issued fraudulently are subject to revocation.

Recent Investigations (2025)

Kentucky: Whistleblower lawsuits and investigations revealed an alleged scheme where temporary workers in regional offices were selling licenses for around $200 each to undocumented immigrants, often bypassing the Homeland Security screening process.

Florida: Eight individuals, including two DMV employees, were arrested in Bay County for a "driver's license for cash" scheme. Investigators seized over $120,000 in illicit proceeds and believe hundreds or more fraudulent licenses were issued over a two-year period.

New York: Multiple DMV employees and a driving school were implicated in a scheme to sell fraudulent licenses, sometimes for up to $2,000, to Chinese immigrants who were not required to take or pass the necessary tests.

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Jonathan Turley: Gay Sexual Assaulter Don Lemon Is Talking Himself Into a Prison Sentence

A lot of crimes turn on mental state -- "intent." James Comey can tell you all about that. He reads "intent" requirements into laws that don't have it, like the Espionage Act.

Many times, you can take prohibited actions but not be chargeable with a crime because you didn't have the specified mental state.

Don Lemon obviously did invade a church. The question is: Did he intend to traumatize them? Did he intend to impede their civil rights through threat or force?

Did he show animus against their religion?

Don Lemon is yet another 70 IQ DEI disaster, like Candace Owens, who thinks he's smart because he's been awarded Participation Trophy after Participation Trophy.

Legal analyst Jonathan Turley urges him to shut his mouth, because he's on a media tour in which he satisfies each and every requirement of the crime out of his own cocksucker.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

Don Lemon did his best to perfect the case against the protesters in the Minneapolis Church as targeting the congregants over their faith. In what sounds like a pitch for prosecution under the FACE Act, Lemon zeroed in on the religious values of the congregants in a new tirade...

In other words, he makes it clear he is targeting the church because he hates their religious views. Not just intent, but animus.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

16h

...The former CNN host dismissed criticism for storming a church gathering, explaining "I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled, and that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a White supremacy"...

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

16h

...This follows organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong, who leads the local Racial Justice Network, is declaring that the churchgoers "need to check their theology and the need to check their hearts."...

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

16h

...Lemon and Armstrong are playing directly into the language of the FACE Act, which "prohibits the use or threat of force and physical obstruction that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person seeking to ... exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship."

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Minnesota Democrat Lawmaker (and Transgender): The Church Invasion That Resulted in Children Fleeing in Fear Is "Essential," "Must Continue"

They want the shooting to start.

Anti-ICE mob storming church 'essential' and 'must continue,' Democrat state lawmaker says

The mob screamed at women and children and harassed a young family that was trying to drive away in their vehicle.

By Hayley Feland

State Rep. Leigh Finke, a Democrat from St. Paul, posted on Facebook following an anti-ICE mob storming a local church service, calling the incident "essential" and saying that it "must continue."

"Actions like this--nonviolent resistance in the face of government inaction or oppression--are essential," Finke wrote in a Facebook post. "And they must continue until I.C.E. is out of our state, the administration is out of the White House, and dignity and humanity for all of our neighbors is achieved."

On Sunday, about 20 individuals stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul and shut down their morning worship service. The mob screamed at women and children and harassed a young family that was trying to drive away in their vehicle. People in the church were left traumatized, which former CNN reporter Don Lemon said is "what protesting is about."

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In the past, Finke has defended rioting and called for abolishing the police. "So I'm here to tell you that there will be more riots. We remember Stonewall as a riot and we know now that it was necessary. The next riots will be necessary too," Finke said during a speech in 2022.

We might start violently disrupting your gatherings. And won't that be fun.

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The Morning Rant: Violence Is Being Normalized

The existential conceit of the modern West is that our concept of civilization has been the steady state throughout history. Sure, we know that there have been paroxysms of violence on a regular basis, but those are deviations from the baseline. Peace is the ultimate goal of everyone!

And that can't be further from reality. The history of Man is violence. Every day... every week... every year... every century! The rule of law has limited that violence, but only marginally, and only where that law is respected, or feared.

Our current situation in a mostly law-abiding country is becoming increasingly murky. The calls to violence from the hard left is axiomatic, but it has expanded into the soft left, the useful idiots who shriek nonsense at protests, blockade streets, and now assault law enforcement. That they are unfamiliar with the realities of attacking men with guns doesn't prevent them from obeying the directives of their puppet masters, and it is only the restraint of law enforcement and the indecision of our political leaders that has minimized bloodshed.

But that has emboldened the left, and the calls for violence are becoming more clear, have expanded even into the politicians of the left, and may very well precipitate a political crisis, which is of course the goal; they want an overreaction to the violent protests that they are planning in blue cities so that the American public sours on ICE's efforts to deport criminals.

And this is in spite of widespread support for the federal government's efforts to rein in illegal entry into America, and start to deport those who are already here illegally.

But that means nothing to the left, which has spent the last 100 years assiduously breaking down the rule of law, respect for our institutions, and the very concept of a moral people. They have also enlisted the latest crop of ignorant, arrogant, entitled suburban women into their battle with traditional culture. These are people who have never encountered violence, but feel morally superior and in high dudgeon in every way when confronted by rational limits on protest. Add to that the expectation that their womanhood will be a powerful shield against a response to their own violence, and we have the unfortunate but unsurprising outcome that we saw in Minneapolis two weeks ago.

Until the American people unequivocally demand a robust response to these violent protests, they will continue. Until we see the American people take a much more active role in the fight against leftist violence, it will continue.

Perhaps Minnesota is entirely populated by beta males, which might explain the cowardly and weak response to roving bands of leftist agitators stopping random people to demand their bona fides against the entirely legal efforts of the federal government to root out violent illegals in our midst!

How would that play out in Florida or Texas or Montana? Perhaps it is time to find out.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Approaching Thunder Storm
Martin Johnson Heade

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The Morning Report — 1/20/26

Good morning kids. Yesterday I took quite a bit of flak in the comments about my asking what is PresidentTrump's "fixation" about Greenland. I also made it perfectly clear, or perhaps not! That I do indeed recognize the geographical and geopolitical importance of Greenland vis a vis its proximity to America as well as our foreign adversaries'/enemies' obvious interest in having a base on that island or total control over it and indeed the Arctic itself as a means of hemming us in if not outright crippling us economically and militarily in the event of some future hot confrontation. Also, as I thought I clearly stated yesterday, the President's foreign policy initiatives have been nothing short of brilliant in securing our interests and that of our allies and moving the world in a better direction all-around. In that regard he has been more successful than perhaps any president I can think of.

Yet that said, there is an actual hot confrontation happening right now and it is with our nation's most dangerous enemy of all — the anti-American Left and its political epicenter the Democrat Party. Collectively they have, as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it long before he became President in the wake of the Democrats touching off the Civil War, the reverberations of which we are still suffering from over 160 years later as a result of permitting the Democrat Party and what it eventually mutated/metastasized into. The anti-American communist beachhead has been here all this time, Greenland or no Greenland. The Democrats are rotting away at the vitals of our nation.

Unless and until Don Lemon, jasmine Crockett, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and everyone who invaded and Terrorized that Minneapolis church are sitting down to have dinner with Renee Good somewhere in the Infernal Reaches, we shall never know a moment's peace. As I said yesterday, either this ends now or ultimately it ends us.

Democrats are playing with fire, but it’s the whole country that’s likely to get burned.
For a democratic republic to function, you need certain key elements. 
First, elections must be generally regarded as honest. 
Second, candidates and their supporters have to abide by the results of those elections when they occur.
Third, winners of elections must not behave in a way that makes losing the contest a matter of life and death (or lifetime imprisonment).

Democrats are undermining — or just outright wrecking — all three.
Ellen DeGeneres draws criticism for comments on Minneapolis protests
Don Lemon blasts Minnesota churchgoers harassed by anti-ICE protesters for ‘entitlement’ and ‘white supremacy’

On the electoral trustworthiness front, Democrats are standing united against measures to ensure that only legitimate voters can cast votes, and that the votes cast are counted honestly and transparently.
When it comes to abiding by elections, the Democrats have treated President Donald Trump’s victories in both 2016 and 2024 as illegitimate. (In fairness, he did the same in 2020 — but accepted Joe Biden’s presidency after Inauguration Day.)
In Trump’s first term, Democrats formed a “resistance” movement — as if the administration of a duly elected president was analogous to a German occupation government in World War II — and pushed the patently false claim that his victory was a “hacked election” or the product of (nonexistent) “Russian collusion.” 
In his second term the “resistance” is expanding, with suggestions that Trump is ruling as a “king” — and now with the often violent protests aiming to block the legitimate enforcement of duly enacted immigration laws. 
Democratic governors and mayors in Minnesota, Oregon and Illinois have gone so far as to actively enable the chaos by withdrawing police protection.  
Finally, winners of elections must not pose an existential threat to the losers; they can’t carry out, or even hint at, mass imprisonment or blanket prosecution. Finally, winners of elections must not pose an existential threat to the losers; they can’t carry out, or even hint at, mass imprisonment or blanket prosecution.  
Take a lesson from history: Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon to seize power in Rome because his political enemies were plotting to subject him to political prosecutions that could have led to his death or exile.  
Caesar saved himself (for a while) — but his action, and the behavior of his opponents that triggered it, killed off the Roman Republic.
Historically in American politics, electoral losers have accepted the results, however grudgingly, and concentrated on winning the next election. 
This new trend of treating Republican electoral victories as inherently illegitimate is a departure — and very dangerous.
It’s made more dangerous by widespread threats from important Democratic figures to prosecute not only Trump and his administration, but lower-level officials — and now, even federal law-enforcement agents. 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been raising this specter for months, and other prominent leftists are following his lead.
In September, Jeffries said that Democrats would prosecute members of Trump’s Justice Department once they regain power: “Donald Trump and this toxic administration will be long gone, but there will still be accountability to be had.”
In December, he issued a message on X to “all these GOP extremists and [Trump] sycophants . . . the statute of limitations is 5 years! It will be well beyond the end of the Trump admin.”
We’ve heard similar statements from Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic consultant James Carville and ex-CNN gadfly Jim Acosta.  This month, the drumbeat got louder amid stepped-up immigration-enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Minn.
Leftist commentator Jennifer Welch recently used her podcast to push “relentless” prosecutions of Trump, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller and other Republicans if Democrats regain power, arguing it would be necessary for “true national reconciliation.”

And just last week Jeffries was back warning rank-and-file ICE officers to expect a Democratic administration to prosecute them for any crimes it could discover (or perhaps, given the history of efforts to prosecute Trump in the past, invent).
“Every single one of these people who we see brutalizing the American people, they’re gonna be held accountable,” Jeffries said of ICE agents. “And the statute of limitations . . . is five years.”
As Caesar’s experience demonstrates, you can’t have a democratic republic if every election is an existential struggle in which the loser risks extinction. 
People don’t want to be rendered extinct, and they can be expected to take steps to prevent it.
If Democrats keep up this thuggery, Republicans will be all but forced to respond in their own defense — and any action they may take could destabilize the nation even further.
The last time such a breach happened in the United States was in 1860, where pro-slavery Democrats seceded from the country rather than abide by the results of a presidential election.  That resulted in a Civil War that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and devastated much of the nation — a war driven by Southern “fire-eater” rhetoric that’s not unlike what we’re hearing from some Democrats today.
It needs to stop, or the consequences might be much worse this time around.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• With more than 50 consulates in the U.S. today, Schweizer writes, the Mexican government “is blatantly interfering in our domestic politics, working with American political advisors to turn legal and illegal migrants inside the US into a political force to wield for their benefit.” In particular, Schweizer writes, the Mexican government sends about a million textbooks to American schools every year to teach its version of U.S. history, among other subjects.
  MEXICO’S ELECTION PLOT UNMASKED: How Mexico’s 50+ Consulates Are Running Shadow Campaign to Sway U.S. Elections (Screw Greenland, maybe annexing Mexico would do infinitely more for our national security - jjs)

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Daily Tech News 20 January 2026

Top Story

• Two things to clarify from yesterday. First, that quote at the top of the post explaining the DRAM Apocalypse was from Jatin Malik, an engineer at Atlassian.
  
  Second, brains are computers.
  
  
  
• Agent psychosis: Are we going insane? (Armin Ronacher)
  
  Apparently, yes:

  You can use Polecats without the Refinery and even without the Witness or Deacon. Just tell the Mayor to shut down the rig and sling work to the polecats with the message that they are to merge to main directly. Or the polecats can submit MRs and then the Mayor can merge them manually. It's really up to you. The Refineries are useful if you have done a LOT of up-front specification work, and you have huge piles of Beads to churn through with long convoys.

  That's from the Gas Town Emergency User Manual which would be a great name for a work of surrealist speculative fiction but is quite literally a user manual.

  Looking at Gas Town (and Beads) from the outside, it looks like a Mad Max cult. What are polecats, refineries, mayors, beads, convoys doing in an agentic coding system? If the maintainer is in the loop, and the whole community is in on this mad ride, then everyone and their daemons just throw more slop up. As an external observer the whole project looks like an insane psychosis or a complete mad art project. Except, it's real? Or is it not? Apparently a reason for slowdown in Gas Town is contention on figuring out the version of Beads, which takes 7 subprocess spawns. Or using the doctor command times out completely. Beads keeps growing and growing in complexity and people who are using it, are realizing that it's almost impossible to uninstall. And they might not even work well together even though one apparently depends on the other.

  What is Beads?
  
  Beads is a quarter of a million lines of code to manage Markdown files in Git repositories.
  
  I have written entire enterprise systems with paying customers and decade-long track records that are no larger than that.
  
  But I didn't have agentic AI to help me, so they actually worked.
  
  There's a term in programming called technical debt, which measures the cost of a quick fix that you know you will have to rip out and fix properly one day.
  
  Vibe coding is the technical debt singularity.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (01/19/2026)

*****

The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

As someone whose political views have changed over the years, I have always marveled at the one big, gaping chasm of uncommon ground between the right and the left: liberals can't seem to understand that their actions are 100% related to the unstoppable boot of consequences headed toward their non-binary crotches — and that boot has a steel toe. Kevin Downey, Jr.

Quote II

“The sad truth is, for way too long, antisemitism has been allowed to grow unchecked in this country. Too many institutions have abdicated their moral responsibility to speak up. Too many so-called leaders have stayed quiet. Actions have consequences and inaction has consequences, too,” US Attorney General Pam Bleach Bondi

Quote III

I, for one, can’t afford the nuanced opinions and delicate sensibilities of my more liberal neighbors. Bill Glahn

And finally Dr. Thomas Sowell nails it when looking at the AWFLs ..................

Quote IV

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Zoomies Cafe

North Yorkshire

Dog massage.

Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear half evil.

The Furgitive.

It's not old, it's Classic (TM): Golden birthday party.

Wilford the Bear makes himself a bed-hole.

Making pumpkin salad with the hot new kitchen tool, an M60 grenade.

Bringing your bull to Starbucks for a pup cup. No I mean a Hereford bull, not a David French Craigslist bull.

Tractor trailer zoomies.

Highland zoomies.

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Quick Hits

Democrats are dodging the question, "Can a man become a woman?"

They won't say yes. They won't say no. They just won't answer.

"True Conservative" and professional homosexual Tim Miller of the Bulwark (of course) is having a sissyfit over anyone in the media even asking this "bullshit question." Quién es más sassy?

Transgender nosering is, get this, a mentally-ill violent extremist.

Tomorrow, leftists will be "Walking out of work" -- well, let's say they're walking out of the place that gives them paychecks for sitting on their asses and scrolling TikTok videos all day -- to "peacefully demand" that everyone in the Trump administration be impeached.

Don Lemon asked for "likes and subscribes" as he violated the KKK Act.

Mentally-ill leftwing women love firing up the cellphone and taking narcissistic video of themselves emoting and sobbing.

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Emails: Fauci Knew That Natural Immunity Far Surpassed the Non-Immunity Conferred by the Covid Non-Vaccine, But Lied to the Public Anyway and Fought for Mandated Vaccinations of the Already-Immune

Trust the Science, Science-Bigots.

Anthony Fauci privately acknowledged "impressive data" showed stronger immunity from a COVID-19 infection than vaccination while publicly pushing mandated shots, newly released documents show.

Former President Joe Biden's top pandemic response officials discussed a thorough study from Israel showing the superiority of natural infection in August 2021, simultaneous with the initiation of federal vaccine mandates via an Aug. 24 Pentagon memo, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Protect the Public's Trust, indicating officials who helped compel COVID shots had contemporaneous scientific evidence they were unjustifiable for millions of Americans. The officials distorted the evidence in public statements, repeatedly saying vaccination is necessary for immunity.

"What does it say about our own institutions that, despite billions spent every year, Americans had to rely on Israeli research for their health information, and that our own officials tried to bury what didn't fit their preferred narrative?" Protect the Public's Trust Director Michael Chamberlain told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "There's been a lot of handwringing about reforms and personnel actions by the new leadership at HHS, but this is just more evidence that the public health bureaucracy was ripe for a thorough housecleaning."

The revelation comes amid an ongoing investigation under President Donald Trump's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary into deaths following the COVID vaccines in children and young adults. Further details could uncover whether people died from shots mandated by Biden administration officials aware of their redundancy for people with prior immunity.

"This is the evidence right here showing that our nation's scientific leaders were not acting scientifically, and there needs to be accountability," said Stephanie Edewaard Weidle, executive director of Feds For Freedom, to the DCNF. "We in the medical freedom fighting world, we already knew this, but to see it spelled out in these FOIA documents just makes it worse. People lost their jobs and their lives were turned upside down based on the argument that natural immunity was not enough."

Just the News:

The Biden administration grappled with research suggesting natural immunity was more effective than COVID-19 vaccination shortly before federal vaccine mandates in 2021, admitting the rigor of the massive Israeli study and worrying it might undermine its promotion of one-size-fits-all vaccination, newly released emails show.

The Freedom of Information Act production to Protect the Public's Trust, shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, gives the most compelling evidence to date that federal officials knew their pending mandates were scientifically shaky yet repeatedly asserted in public -- misrepresenting federal research -- that natural immunity couldn't match vaccine-acquired immunity.

The emails add heft to prior claims by a now-former Food and Drug Administration adviser, going back four years, that the feds ultimately rejected natural immunity as an exemption to vaccine mandates for bureaucratic reasons and kept pushing vaccines on all ages and conditions for the sake of simpler messaging, not science.

They also reaffirm the glaring lack of rigorous research by U.S. institutions on basic questions about SARS-CoV-2 and treatment outcomes, with many of the most important findings coming from abroad. The abnormally high risk of heart inflammation in young people post-vaccination, for example, emerged from Israeli data and institutions.

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He also said Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told him at a 2023 meeting that the feds didn't target "high-risk groups" for vaccination because that was too "nuanced" and some at high risk wouldn't get jabbed unless everyone was told to do it.

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The newly revealed emails show Fauci telling colleagues including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky that the Israeli study of nearly 800,000 people, which got wide visibility in Science, was "rather impressive."

The study, then a preprint that hadn't gone through peer-review, showed natural immunity was 13 times more protective than Pfizer vaccination against reinfection and 27 times more protective against symptomatic COVID.

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, then a medical professor, mocked the feds for "fishing" for a study to justify its COVID policy on Fox News.

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Harmeet Dhillon Prosecuting Church-Terrorists Under the KKK Act?

The KKK Act -- an act designed to criminalize the terrorism of the Klan -- makes it a federal offense to stop someone from exercising their civil rights by violence, threat, or force.

These dick-sucking demons, for example, might be prosecuted under the KKK Act.

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"Protesters" Now Assaulting Random People on the Streets of Minneapolis Hunting for ICE Agents and Invading Churches

Major Error: I had intended to fix a typo in this post, but I accidentally put it back into draft. So apparently this post was only up for five minutes, and there was no new content on the blog until 1:30.

Sorry. I'm going to put this post back up for a while.

...

When leftists passed the FACE Act, to make it illegal to protest outside an abortion clinic, jackass Republicans went along with it, but insisted that it also make disrupting/"protesting" a church service as well. (I say they're jackasses because they didn't block this law entirely.)

Leftists are now violating the FACE Act that Biden used to throw peaceful protesters in jail.

LOCK.

THEM.

UP.

Before that: Via John Sexton, the DOJ has subpoenaed Walz, Frey, and other Minnesota officials. They're looking for evidence that these men are violating federal law by conspiring to block federal law enforcement efforts.

DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents

The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders there, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

One of the sources, a U.S. official, said the investigation stems from statements that Walz and Frey have made about the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents deployed to the Minneapolis region in recent weeks.

Subpoenas are likely to be issued in the probe, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Walz and Frey, both Democrats, have vocally denounced the federal deployment to the Twin Cities, accusing federal agents of creating chaos and undermining public safety through aggressive tactics.

Earlier this week, Frey said the federal deployment had created a situation that was "not sustainable."

"We're in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street," Frey said. "We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another."

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who visited Minneapolis with FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday, appeared to make a vague reference to the investigation earlier this week.

"Walz and Frey- I'm focused on stopping YOU from your terrorism by whatever means necessary. This is not a threat. It's a promise," Blanche wrote on X earlier this week.

They also should be investigated for refusing to arrest antifa and other violent anarchists for attacking citizens in the street:

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze

So to catch you up on events:

- Protest group chased two innocent dudes out of a diner.

- Attacked an innocent guy on the street who was actually with them.

- Harassed an innocent guy with an SUV and demanded to see his ID.

- Blocked an innocent guy because of his rental car plates

- Have now stormed into church services.

And I haven't seen a single Minneapolis police officer in any of the previous week's video footage.

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Illinois Governor (and Possible Presidential Candidate) JB Pritzker Signs Law Sealing Criminal Records to Protect Illegals from Deportation by the Feds

And also, as many people observe, to stop people from immediately looking up the criminal histories of the next scumbag to kill an innocent citizen. No more "arrested 58 times previously" headlines in Illinois.

They won't stop crime. In fact, they'll promote it.

But they will stop you from noticing crime.

Governor JB Pritzker
@GovPritzker

Jan 16

Today, we're empowering those seeking a second chance.

With my signature, Illinois will create an automatic process to seal the criminal records of those convicted of non-violent crimes.

We're opening up opportunities for those re-entering society to live healthy, stable lives.

Grok:

Illinois Governor Signs Clean Slate Act to Seal Nonviolent Records
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Jan 18

Governor JB Pritzker signed the bipartisan Clean Slate Act on January 16, automating the sealing of nonviolent criminal records for about 1.7 to 2.2 million eligible residents. It covers misdemeanors after two years, certain felonies after three or more, and petty offenses twice yearly, while excluding serious crimes like murder, sex offenses, and DUIs--law enforcement keeps full access. Supporters like Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth call it justice and redemption, citing higher wages and lower recidivism; critics including Republican lawmakers argue it protects repeat offenders and burdens background checks. The law phases in from June 1, 2026, with a task force monitoring impacts through 2034.

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@fleshsimulator

Jan 18

Well, I suppose that's ONE way to prevent news stories about someone with fifty prior arrests cutting an old lady in half with a sawzall on the subway or whatever

wanye
@xwanyex

Jan 17

There are so many things you can spend your time on, things to be motivated by, things that worry you, that bother you, that keep you up at night. And for progressives it just couldn't be clearer that near the top of that list is making life better and easier for criminals.

@amuse
@amuse

Jan 17

LAWFARE: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's signed of the Clean Slate Act sealing criminal records like theft, drug possession, and disorderly conduct to protect illegal criminals including MS-13 and TdA gang members from deportation.

wanye
@xwanyex

Jan 17

There are so many things you can spend your time on, things to be motivated by, things that worry you, that bother you, that keep you up at night. And for progressives it just couldn't be clearer that near the top of that list is making life better and easier for criminals.

Offenses like property crimes and narcotics charges will be wiped from records -- and taxpayers are told to trust the system

@amuse
@amuse

Jan 17

LAWFARE: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's signed of the Clean Slate Act sealing criminal records like theft, drug possession, and disorderly conduct to protect illegal criminals including MS-13 and TdA gang members from deportation.

Of course, employers will no longer be able to discover if applicants are career thieves and drug abusters.

Commissioner Sean Morrison
@SeanMMorrison

Jan 17

JB Pritzker and Illinois Democrats passed laws allowing millions of criminal convictions to be sealed.

This isn't "reform" it's protecting criminals over citizens.

The result?
• Employers can't fully vet who they hire
• Landlords can't properly screen renters
• Businesses can't assess real risk
• Citizens lose basic transparency and protection from scammers

Public safety depends on truth and accountability, not hiding criminal histories to satisfy ideological talking points.

Once again, Illinois democrats puts ideology first, and everyday citizens pay the price.

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As Part of the VP Candidate Vetting Process, Kamala Harris's Staff Asked Josh Shapiro If He Was a Double Agent for Israel

People whose only loyalty is to a resurrected Soviet Union sure seem overly bothered by "dual loyalty" paranoia.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was already irritated by what he describes as "unnecessarily contentious" questions from the team vetting him to be Kamala Harris's running mate when a senior aide made one final inquiry: "Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?"

The question came from President Biden's former White House counsel Dana Remus, who was a key member of Harris's vice-presidential search team.

Shapiro, one of the most well-known Jewish elected officials in the country--and one of at least three Jewish politicians considering a run for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination--says he took umbrage at the question. "Had I been a double agent for Israel? Was she kidding? I told her how offensive the question was," Shapiro writes in his forthcoming book, Where We Keep the Light, a copy of which The Atlantic obtained ahead of its release on January 27.

The exchange became even more tense, he writes, when Remus asked whether Shapiro had ever spoken with an undercover Israeli agent. The questions left the governor feeling uneasy about the prospect of being Harris's No. 2, a role that ultimately went to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. After Harris and Walz lost to Donald Trump, many Democrats were critical of her decision to bypass Shapiro, the popular governor of the nation's largest swing state. In his book, Shapiro says that the decision may not have been fully hers; he says he had "a knot in my stomach" throughout a vetting process that was more combative than he had expected. Shapiro wrote that he decided to take his name out of the running after a one-on-one meeting with Harris that featured more clashes, including about Israel.

The Biden/Harris "antisemitism envoy" objected to the question.

Should we also ask Muslims if they are loyal to "the Caliphate"? Actually, question retracted. We certainly should.

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THE MORNING RANT - Volkswagen’s Electric Vehicle Misfire: Its Made-In-America, Flagship EV is the Slowest Selling Vehicle in the United States

While I get some schadenfreude from documenting the financial damage that legacy American automobile manufacturers such as Ford and GM have inflicted on themselves with their EV misadventures, the mess at Volkswagen is deeply upsetting to me. Be it right or wrong, I know that the US government will bail out Ford and GM, if necessary, to help mitigate the damage done by their irresponsible executives. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is likely to pull out of the US market and close its US manufacturing operations if it can’t right its ship.

I have long been a fan of Volkswagen products. In the post-Beetle era, its lineup has provided modern German engineering and a German driving experience to the mass market. My wife and I had a Passat which was an exceptional vehicle. I might have bought an American-made VW Atlas for my most recent vehicle purchase if I wasn’t so disgusted by Volkswagen pursuing an all-EV future. I didn’t want to buy a car that VW’s executives were determined to kill off.

If Volkswagen is going to survive in the U.S., it had better re-commit to gasoline-powered (“ICE” vehicles, because its flagship electric offering, the ID.4, is the slowest selling car in the United States.

It would take 527 days to sell out the inventory of ID.4s in the United States, making it the slowest-selling vehicle in the country in January, according to metrics from CarEdge.

Have you ever heard of the Maserati Grecale? Me neither. It may be obscure and hard to sell, but it turns over faster than Volkswagen’s electric car.

The No. 2 slowest-selling vehicle in the United States in January was the Maserati Grecale.

Normal vehicle inventory takes 60 – 90 days to turn, and dealerships have historically targeted a 60-day supply of vehicles to ensure the optimum mix of vehicles without carrying excess inventory. For a vehicle which moves so slow that dealers are burdened with more than a year’s supply, they’d generally prefer to have zero units in stock. On the off chance a customer came in wanting to buy such a slow-moving vehicle, the dealer could easily get another dealer to transfer one.

Over the past several decades there has been an economic explosion in the American South, thanks in part to so many auto manufacturers locating plants in the region. In addition to those manufacturing operations, numerous suppliers also established nearby operations, and suppliers to those suppliers sprung up too. The cycle of prosperity and economic activity flows well when manufacturing is strong. Pretty much all the major Japanese, Korean, and German car companies have operations in the southern U.S. It’s a golden goose laying golden eggs.

But the EV fever somehow captured the minds of many auto executives and southern politicians, and they pursued EV investments in the South, even though the explicit goal was to kill-off the golden goose of existing ICE auto manufacturing.

In 2019, Tennessee’s then-governor, Republican Bill Haslam waxed enthusiastic about killing off ICE vehicles in favor of electric vehicles when he hyped VW’s announcement of a new Tennessee EV plant, “The shift toward electric vehicles is a trend that can be seen worldwide, and Volkswagen’s decision to locate its first North American EV manufacturing facility in Chattanooga underscores Tennessee’s manufacturing strength and highly-skilled workforce.” The state of Tennessee kicked in about $50 million of taxpayer dollars toward this ill-fated EV plant that was built alongside VW’s existing Tennessee plant.

Initial expectations were for the EV plant to assemble about 7,000 units per month, with the ability to ramp up to a volume exceeding 100,000 per year.

The actual demand has been negligible, averaging less than 20,000 units per year, even with federal rebates and aggressive pricing. But in Q4 of 2025, after the federal EV incentives expired, Volkswagen sold a nominal 248 electric ID.4s. That averages out to just 83 units per month, and annualizes to less than 1,000 units.

Volkswagen built a taxpayer-subsidized EV plant that was expected to produce about 10,000 electric vehicles per month, but it cannot even sell 100. The company may have no choice but to scrap the glut of unsold ID.4s, since consumers have made it clear that there is virtually no price at which they’re willing to buy them.

The failure of Volkswagen’s EV foray is an overall good thing for the American auto industry. The golden goose of ICE manufacturing lives on. But it is infuriating that politicians wasted taxpayer money on this malinvestment, and it will be especially sad if VW has to pull out of the American market and close its legacy Tennessee manufacturing plant due to the awful EV Gamble.

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The Morning Report — 1/19/26

Good morning kids. Whatever is happening with Venezuela, whatever the situation is in Iran and I am cheering on the long-suffering Persian people that they and the rest of humanity may at long last emerge from the shadow of Islamic terror, both of those pale in comparison to the mortal danger America, the American experiment and this nation faces now. Like many of you, I'd wager, despite my initial diffidence about Donald Trump 10 years ago, there is no doubt he has become one of the most important and consequential (in a positive sense) American presidents and indeed world leaders in our history. All that said, what the hell is with this fixation over Greenland?!

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that acquiring Greenland is “essential” to U.S. national security and that an impending “fight for the Arctic” is real. “President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security because … let me tell you what will happen. And it might not be next year, might not be in five years, but down the road, this fight for the Arctic is real,” Bessent began.

But as I stated, there are other frozen wastelands much closer to home that if we do nothing about them right here and right now will be our undoing.

Let me state it about as plainly as I can. The political leadership of the state of Minnesota, along with an alarming number of the citizenry, have de facto seceded from the Union and have all but openly declared war on the rest of the nation. You can read any of the links in the Civil War section or take in the totality of the headlines alone and that is a warning klaxon louder than a Concorde engine through a Marshall Amp as tall as the Washington Monument at full volume.

It seems that Minneapolis lefties have started patrolling the streets for drivers who happen to be behind the wheel of the same make of SUV as used by ICE and interrogating – not to say threatening – them. This video shows a gaggle of people’s tribunes who have brought an SUV to a stop (the video doesn’t show how) and forced the driver out to explain himself. They surround him, demand that he open the hatch to show them what he has inside, and then commence interrogating him. All that’s lacking are the Mao jackets and the caps with red stars. . . The driver’s attempts to ingratiate himself are almost as annoying: “I really appreciate what you guys are doing.” A century and a half ago, the socialist Commune took control of Paris and immediately started executing people. As they led one businessman to the killing ground, he cried out, “Why must I be shot … I know nothing of politics.”

The communard commander replied: “That is why you must be shot.” A century and a half, and they still haven’t woken up.

This is the mentality of the Cheka, the Red Guards, the Khmer Rouge – of every last attempt to introduce socialism by force -- out in the open and plain to see. One of the worst things about socialism is the way it empowers, encourages, and unleashes the foulest members of the human community. It can’t be crushed soon enough.

Elsewhere, the Neo Red Guards stormed into a church looking for blood:

The demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network stormed into the Cities Church and called out resident pastor David Eastwood, who they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.  A David Eastwood is listed as an employee with the field office, but it’s still unclear if that is the same man as the Cities Church pastor. The Post has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to check.

Mistaken identity-Schmidentity! Like the Urine-soaked lice-infested whorehouse mattress AKA Jasmine Crockett, accusing Lee Zeldin of accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein, who as it turned out was not the infamous Epstein but someone unlucky enough to have the same name.

So, they take out the wrong guy, but the message has been sent. Mr. President, there is no alternative but to invoke the Insurrection Act, declare Minnesota in rebellion, arrest Walz, Frey, suspend the state legislature, dissolve Minneapolis' city charter, and appoint a territorial governor and mayor to run affairs and call in the armed forces to patrol the streets and restore order. Anyone who even raises an eyebrow should be arrested for conspiracy to aid and abet insurrection.

What are the risks politically? So we lose the midterms and perhaps 2028. The Democrat rigging machine will no doubt be going all out to make what happened in 2020 look like child's play. To let Minnesota get away with this ultimately means we lose the nation. This cannot stand and must not be allowed to stand. President Trump rightly rails against Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants as "the worst president in history" but if Donald Trump fails to set an example of Minnesota, he may go down not merely as the worst president but as the LAST real president in US history because the USA truly will cease to exist. In the years ahead, we may outwardly resemble America, but the spirit of this nation, the Constitution and the rule of a just and stable law based on the ascendancy of 2,000 plus years of Judeo-Christian and western history, culture and morality will come crashing down around us.

Hyperbole? You tell me.

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Daily Tech News 19 January 2026

Top Story

• The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
  
  — Unknown
  
  
  
• The mythology of conscious AI. (Noema Mag)
  
  This article gets one important thing right: LLMs are not conscious.

  In a 2022 interview with The Washington Post, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made a startling claim about the AI system he was working on, a chatbot called LaMDA. He claimed it was conscious, that it had feelings, and was, in an important sense, like a real person. Despite a flurry of media coverage, Lemoine wasn't taken all that seriously. Google dismissed him for violating its confidentiality policies, and the AI bandwagon rolled on.

  I commented on that story at the time. Lemoine is a crazy as a sack of rats on crazy pills. And was also completely and very obviously wrong, which is not the same thing.

  As AI technologies continue to improve, questions about machine consciousness are increasingly being raised. David Chalmers, one of the foremost thinkers in this area, has suggested that conscious machines may be possible in the not-too-distant future. Geoffrey Hinton, a true AI pioneer and recent Nobel Prize winner, thinks they exist already.

  Wait. David Chalmers said what?
  
  Huh. He did say that. A mostly sensible article summarising the evidence on both sides, concluding that pure feed-forward LLMs are not conscious but extended LLMs with recurrent processing - feedback loops - could be. (Boston Review)
  
  Back to Noema:

  Taken together, these biases [anthropocentrism, which is irrelevant, human exceptionalism, which is irrelevant, and anthropomorphism, which is actually the key here - Pixy] explain why it's hardly surprising that when things exhibit abilities we think of as distinctively human, such as intelligence, we naturally imbue them with other qualities we feel are characteristically or even distinctively human: understanding, mindedness and consciousness, too.

  A little bit of nonsense thrown in at the start but an accurate description of the problem in the end.
  
  But then it all falls apart:

  The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation.

  Which is rather like assuming that water is a molecule made of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms.

  More specifically, that implementing the right kind of computation, or information processing, is sufficient for consciousness to arise.

  Because it is.

  This assumption, which philosophers call computational functionalism, is so deeply ingrained that it can be difficult to recognize it as an assumption at all.

  As much as the molecular structure of water is an assumption.

  But that is what it is.

  Nope.

  And if it's wrong, as I think it may be, then real artificial consciousness is fully off the table, at least for the kinds of AI we're familiar with.

  "Kinds of AI we're familiar with"? Do you mean feed-forward models, which are definitely not conscious, or enhanced systems with feedback loops?

  Challenging computational functionalism means diving into some deep waters about what computation means and what it means to say that a physical system, like a computer or a brain, computes at all. I'll summarize four related arguments that undermine the idea that computation, at least of the sort implemented in standard digital computers, is sufficient for consciousness.
  
  First, and most important, brains are not computers.

  And we're dead.
  
  Brains are obviously computers and it is trivially easy to prove this.
  
  Take a line of BASIC code, like:
  
  10 PRINT 3+7
  
  What does that do?
  
  It prints 10.
  
  How do you know?
  
  Because you can execute that code in your head.
  
  How can you do that?
  
  Because your brain is a computer.
  
  It may be more than a computer - though nobody has produce a coherent, let alone convincing argument for this - but it is unquestionably a computer.
  
  There follow dozens of paragraphs of irrelevancies I won't get into, but suffice to say that it all goes downhill from there.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - January 18, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. So glad you stopped by. Wouldn't be the same without you!

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