Everybody was Tab-Fu fighting, those clicks were fast as lightning …
Media is gonna media. The top story in the state — devastating for journalists’ political party — is well over ONE BILLION DOLLARS stolen by members of this community from taxpayers via brazen fraud, some of which ended up in the coffers of a terrorist organization back home. https://t.co/lZuWflHMJp
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) December 4, 2025
Ed: This has been the Protection Racket Media narrative all along. Call it the Only Some Somalis strategy. I wrote more about it earlier today. The media has been trying to protect top-ranking Democrats, including Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, and Tim Walz from implications of involvement or malicious neglect in this scandal.
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KSTP: Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committees, announced he has launched an investigation into the widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs.
In a news release, Comer claims that the state tried to cover up the fraud and retaliated against whistleblowers, citing reports and whistleblowers.
The committee requested “documents, communications, and records” from Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. They have until Dec. 17 to respond.
Ed: Good. Perhaps this will prompt the House Ethics Committee to deal with Omar’s connections to this fraud, finally. This is long overdue, given the amount of federal funds that disappeared into this corrupt combine over the last few years, and the utter lack of action by Minnesota authorities to stop it.
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MUST WATCH: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison says there is nothing he would have done differently after the state was warned about fraud that cost taxpayers over $1 BILLION, and they repeatedly ignored it.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “Is there something you wish you had done… pic.twitter.com/3fcG18X3C0
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 4, 2025
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “Is there something you wish you had done differently?”
ELLISON: “No.”
REMINDER: “In December 2021, Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison met with a group of individuals tied to the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, including at least two eventual defendants. They openly offered financial support for “elected officials that are interested in protecting communities of color” and complained about unfair state scrutiny of their nonprofits and restaurants. Ellison, in turn, said he was “here to help.””
Ed: Again, I wrote about that earlier today. However, Bill Glahn wrote about it eight months ago, and I notice that CNN and Anderson Cooper still haven’t mentioned that part of the story. Quelle surprise.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! It’s been revealed that Minnesota AG Keith Ellison MET with Somalis and fraudsters and got offered CAMPAIGN contributions, “that he later accepted” 🤯
It’s not only Tim Walz.
It’s the entire Democrat leadership of Minnesota!pic.twitter.com/tlkNVlbwSh
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 4, 2025
Ed: Again, Bill Glahn revealed this eight months ago. I’m glad it’s coming out now. Let’s not forget that the media suppressed it for most of this year.
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Matt Margolis at PJ Media: House Oversight Democrats embarrassed themselves again on Wednesday with yet another stunt masquerading as transparency. They released what they hyped as never-before-seen photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. …
There was just one problem: The images weren’t new at all.
The post turned out to be the latest humiliation of Democrats in their attempts to anoint themselves as the party of transparency regarding the Epstein files. In fact, investigative journalist James O’Keefe and his O’Keefe Media Group had already made those same images public roughly seven months earlier.
Ed: See below for O’Keefe’s response to this. Democrats have played checkers with this strategy while House Oversight Republicans played chess. It’s not even clear what these pictures prove anyway, other than Epstein had been an unconscionable predator … which we already knew. Democrats are redacting repurposed material to insinuate they have dirt that Republicans are covering up, in order to generate more Epstein hysteria. It’s all they have at the moment.
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The @OversightDems are now redacting Epstein photos @OKeefeMedia released in May.
Phone book:
“Karyna”
“Anna cell”
“Steph cell”
“STC office”Chalkboard:
“Dank Brain”
Other redactions can hardly be made out in the uncensored photos.How can they claim to be “fighting the… https://t.co/YPvSTHttrp pic.twitter.com/xN7TEFO1Yn
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 3, 2025
How can they claim to be “fighting the coverup” when they’re redacting photos we already been released!?!?
Ed: Redacting previously released photos would look more like a cover-up, no? The nonsense nature of these redactions, blocking irrelevant details, exposes the demagoguery.
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Alan Dershowitz: If members of Congress now receive lists of names from alleged victims and read them on the floor, both the members and the accusers would claim immunity from lawsuits. This would deny a legal remedy to anyone who is falsely accused. Those named would be presumed guilty merely on the basis of unproved accusations.
The current frenzy over Epstein lists is in fact reminiscent of the frenzy over communism in the 1950s. In the midst of such frenzies, few seem to care about the due process rights of those who have been falsely accused. …
Victims’ advocates have said they have a list of 20 alleged abusers, including prominent people. I know, based on my legal representation of Epstein and a thorough review of the records, that at least some of those on the list are innocent. Like those accused by McCarthy, their reputations will be hurt by being included on the list, and they will have no legal recourse.
From the day I was falsely accused, I demanded release of all the documents, recordings and other information that would help get to the truth. But information that might raise questions about the credibility about the accusers has been suppressed by the courts, by the FBI and by the media.
Ed: House Democrats keep trying to feed the hysteria as a means of smearing their political opponents. Read all of Professor Dershowitz’s warnings here, and the Democrats’ bad faith becomes very obvious. They know what they are doing, and they know the damage it will create, and they just don’t care.
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Next up: I am breaking my silence on the Star Wars prequels https://t.co/yN6kwHSzUd
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) December 3, 2025
Ed: This reminds me of a song …
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Jewish Journal: UCLA medical student Eliana Jolkovsky arrived on Wednesday, December 3, at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and saw a group of about 15 protesters, their faces masked by keffiyehs, chanting, “Baby Killers,” “Zionist Pigs,” and “Occupation no more.” …
“They screamed anti-Israel phrases at the top of their lungs,” recalled Jolkovsky. “Everyone told them to get out, this is not the place. We said there are children downstairs at the nursery and this is a place of worship, but they didn’t care.”
Security soon escorted them out, but seconds later, out of the blue, Jolkovsky heard the sound of shattering glass. One of the protesters, who had pretended to come for the lecture, smashed a glass vase inside the synagogue before being taken out as well.
The shards of broken glass nearly hit Jolkovsky and others in attendance.
“There were pieces of glass everywhere. It seemed like some protesters entered through different doors and pretended to be part of the event, but this guy smashed a glass vase and it shattered all over the floor. He said, ‘Genocidal terrorist, s**k my d—k,’ and other profanities.
Ed: Read on to learn about the use of a baby as a human shield by that protester, which is … pretty on-brand for Palestinian radicals. The event was a joint project with the Korean community in Los Angeles on how to deal with hatred. I’d say the Korean community leaders got a very clear look at the radical Left and hatred.
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Prince Harry wades into U.S. politics with an appearance on Colbert
The Duke of Sussex teases Americans for their interest in the British Royal Family. Colbert pushes back, “I wouldn’t say we’re obsessed with royalty.”
“Really?” Harry replies. “I heard you elected a king.”… pic.twitter.com/EtBeOav9Gm
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 4, 2025
Later on, he suggests Colbert was canceled because he didn’t “settle a baseless lawsuit with the White House”
Ed: The booing was aimed at Trump, obviously. But apparently, the irony of the No Kings movement promoting a prince to rag on an elected head of state escaped both the audience and the bookers at The Late Show. (Via Twitchy)
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Axios: President Trump, staring down criticism that he’s prioritized global issues over pocketbook worries, next week will kick off a year of heavy stateside travel that’s focused on selling his economic agenda ahead of the midterms.
Why it matters: Trump’s approval rating has sunk as he has pursued peace deals around the globe and “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean, while Americans have become more pessimistic about affording a better life.
With Republicans in danger of losing control of the House next November, Trump needs to be a lift — not a drag — in tough districts if the GOP is to defy powerful historic trends and keep its majority.
Ed: It seems as if the lessons from elections this past month have been recognized and absorbed by Trump and his team. He needs to put himself at the top of the ticket in the midterms, symbolically if not literally. Furthermore, Trump and J.D. Vance are currently the only charismatic figures for the GOP at the national level. This plays to Trump’s strengths, and frankly, to his preferences too. He has focused hard on getting things done in his first months of this term, but if he wants to have a real shot at getting things done in his final two years, he needs to work his butt off to keep the House and Senate in Republican hands.
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“When you think about the indoctrination of students, you think about our college campuses…What should be a huge concern to all of us is this is happening in high schools. This is happening in junior high schools. This is happening in kindergarten, in grade school.”
In our… pic.twitter.com/rjC2PeHOWE
— THINC Foundation (@THINCfdn) December 4, 2025
In our latest THINC Voices video, singer-songwriter @johnondrasik, who performs under the name Five for Fighting, warns that ideological indoctrination and rising anti-Americanism and antisemitism aren’t limited to universities – they’re reaching our youngest students. It is incumbent on all of us to stand up against it.
Visit THINC’s website to learn more about our mission to combat ideological extremism in K-12 classrooms.
Ed: As the Jewish and Korean communities learned yesterday, it’s a fight that will need to continue.
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