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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Grassley releases data showing Biden admin placed over 10K migrant children with unvetted sponsors
[JustTheNews] Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday released new data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which confirmed his concern that the Biden administration placed over 10,000 migrant children with unvetted sponsors.

The Trump administration provided Grassley with the information as part of his oversight investigation and requests, which were largely ignored or stonewalled by the previous administration.

The data found that HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement from January 2021 through January 2025 placed 11,488 unaccompanied migrant children with unvetted sponsors who were not their parents or legal guardians. During that same period, the department also declined to conduct home studies for over 79,000 migrant children under the age of 12, including in homes where a study was recommended.

The Trump administration has since moved to reform the unaccompanied minor program, including launching an interagency initiative and investigation in February into the suspected fraud and trafficking of the program.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/19/2025 10:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Grassley doesn't know that Biden had his very own way of vetting those sponsors because it was all off the books.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/19/2025 12:21 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Evidence builds that DC crime stats were manipulated, as Trump calls for investigation
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/19/2025 10:07 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:




Home Front: Politix
Billionaires For Socialism: The $2 Billion
[ZeroHedge] The money trail revealed in Sam Antar's breaking report is straightforward enough. Soros donates to the Open Society Institute, a $4.5 billion "charity" that enjoys generous tax deductions. OSI then transfers millions to other "charities" like Tides Foundation, which mysteriously claims to run a $350 million operation with zero employees. From there, the money "converts" into political cash: Tides passes funds to the Working Families Organization, a 501(c)(4), which then wires millions to PACs that bankroll candidates like Mamdani.
Flow chart at the link.
What you have is billionaire money dressed up in "working families" clothing, masquerading as the will of the people while being anything but.

And don't take my word for it. These groups openly admit to "common control" and "shared staff" across their charities and political arms. In plain English: the same people make decisions for both sides of the ledger. One day they're signing checks for the "charity," the next for the political arm. The IRS explicitly forbids this. Charities must operate "exclusively" for charitable purposes. The moment they cross into political campaigning, their exemptions should be revoked.

Auditors have already blown the whistle. Deloitte and Withum both flagged "significant deficiencies" and "common officers" across these supposedly separate entities. The IRS has a simple doctrine for this: substance over form. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and flaps like a duck, it doesn't matter if the paperwork calls it a horse.

The numbers are staggering. Soros's network alone controls $5.57 billion in assets, generating untaxed returns. If properly taxed, that would mean roughly $450 million a year back to American taxpayers. Instead, the money is siphoned into a political machine that signals to the public that it represents them while pushing the Open Societies agenda.

Meanwhile, the watchdogs were compromised. Larry Moskowitz, a 15-year WFP veteran, sat on the New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) while these schemes played out. A senior staffer at the same agency, David Duhalde, the former deputy director of the DSA, also worked at the CFB while his organization ran someone for mayor.

In other words, the referees were not only wearing the team jersey—they were helping write the playbook.

And so you see things that are mathematically impossible: same-day circular transactions, PACs that pay for services with money they never had, taxpayer matching funds generated by coordinated activities that should have been disqualified. In any other setting, this would be called fraud. In politics, but when progressives control the government agencies, it's called "movement-building."

The IRS has more than enough evidence. Over a thousand pages of filings, audits, and disclosures show the same thing: systematic tax fraud, documented in their own paperwork. The question is whether anyone in Washington has the courage to act.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/19/2025 07:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [34 views] Top|| File under:

#1  True that Reid Hoffman and the Soros complex is funding Mamdani

However, if it weren't for the sophisticates in secondary media and for Mamdani's glibness and tik tok utilizing ability it wouldn't have done him much good.

Cuomo was also well funded in the Dem primary.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/19/2025 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  The Warning

Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/19/2025 12:28 Comments || Top||


White House mocks 'unserious' NJ Dem Rep. LaMonica McIver after she claims 'Liberation Day' is 'racist' and code for 'white power'
[NYPOST] The White House slammed New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver on Monday after she argued that President Trump's ''Liberation Day'' mantra is code for ''white power.''

McIver — who was hit with federal charges in June accusing her of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center — leveled the accusation as she railed against Trump's crime crackdown in Washington, DC, which she fears ''will start a civil war'' if he tries it in other Democrat-run cities.

''I think there's an ultimate agenda of this administration to do these types of things,'' the congresswoman said of the president's decision to take control of DC's police department and deploy federal law enforcement and National Guard troops in the nation's capital, during an interview on the ''Defending Democracy with Marc Elias'' podcast last week.

''Sic the military on the very people that they're supposed to be protecting in these cities and then expect a certain response so that it can escalate — I truly believe that that's what the president hopes for,'' McIver argued, before calling the effort — and Trump's ''Liberation Day'' for DC label — ''racist.''

''When he says, oh, you know, it's Liberation Day, and all of these things, those are, you know, ways of him saying, oh, it's white power,'' McIver said.

''Those are racist remarks,'' she argued. ''His number one targets are cities that are led by black mayors.''
Because that's where the sewage is
McIver went on to bemoan that Trump's ''number one targets are sanctuary cities that, you know, support immigration.''

The New Jersey Democrat charged that Trump's push to clean up DC and end sanctuary city policies ''show us each and every day how much of a bigot he is.''

The White House brushed off McIver's allegations, mocking her ''attempted catfight'' outside the Newark ICE facility that landed her in trouble with the feds.

''LaMonica McIver, whose claim to fame was assaulting federal agents, is an unserious person whose comments are nothing more than a political stunt, much like her attempted catfight in front of an ICE facility,'' White House spokesman Harrison Fields told The Post.

''Congress would be better off if she left, and the people of New Jersey would benefit greatly if she pursued her apparent passion for street fighting,'' he added.

Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2025 01:36 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [103 views] Top|| File under:

#1  African Union Wants End to Mercator Projection Map Use Over “Disinformation”
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/19/2025 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2 
Some Liberals, just seeing a white sheet on a bed, scream KKK.

This one I could see protesting that tampons need to be other colors than white.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/19/2025 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Delmonte green beans are now racist somehow. I will soon be marinating in white power aka the workday.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/19/2025 6:31 Comments || Top||


Beto's Fundraising for Wayward Texas Democrats gets an Expanded TRO
[Kileen Daily Herald, h/t Epoch Times] A judge has expanded a temporary restraining order against former U.S. Rep. Robert (Beto) O’Rourke and his organization, Powered by People, as well as ActBlue and any bank or financial institution with whom they do business.

On Saturday, Judge Megan Fahey issued an expanded TRO through Sept. 5 and scheduled a hearing for a temporary injunction on Sept. 2.

"The Court finds that harm is imminent to the State, and if the Court does not issue this order, the State will be irreparably injured," Fahey said in her ruling. "Specifically, Defendants’ fundraising conduct constitutes false, misleading, or deceptive acts under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act" and Texas business codes. "Because Defendants are raising and utilizing political contributions from Texas consumers to pay for the personal expenses of Texas legislators, in violation of Texas law. Because this conduct is unlawful and harms Texas consumers, restraining this conduct is in the public interest."

The court’s initial order blocked O’Rourke and Powered by People from continuing to raise or distribute money for absconding Democrats. After the ruling, O’Rourke said the order wasn’t stopping him from raising money. The next day, he held a rally in Fort Worth, saying, "Still here, still raising and rallying to stop the steal of 5 congressional seats in Texas," referencing the the new proposed maps that could flip up to five Democrat-held seats to Republican in the 2026 midterms.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [73 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  They left; they came back; mostly they won. Now the have a TRO so they don’t have to pay their hotel bill.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/19/2025 6:27 Comments || Top||



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