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The Brew: Our Diversity Is Somalia’s Strength

Let’s not be unfair to the Democrats: the move to turn Minnesota into a colony of Somalia began with the George W. Bush administration, which concluded from the 9/11 attacks that Islam is a “religion of peace,” and that the problem with states like Minnesota and Maine was their deficit of “diversity.” So that Republican administration massively ramped up immigration from Muslim countries, flying “refugees” from desert hellholes like Somalia over a dozen safe Muslim countries to plant them in snowy American states. How’s that working out? City Journal offers an answer:

Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.

In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.” …

The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.

Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.

On August 1, Minnesota’s Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to “credible allegations of fraud.” Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the “vast majority” of the HSS program was fraudulent.

On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow—six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota’s Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.

“Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren’t just overbilling,” Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. “These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that’s unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota.”

Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s apparently the goal of the government of Great Britain, which is arresting dozens of native citizens daily for complaining about its policy of colonizing the country with Muslims. Want to see what that looks like in real time? Here’s a glimpse:

Pope Leo XIV Urges U.S. Bishops to Slam Trump for Enforcing Immigration Law

Gateway Pundit reports:

Last week on Wednesday, the US Bishops released a near unanimous statement condemning President Trump for his aggressive raids on illegal aliens.

Meeting at their annual conference in Baltimore, the bishops voted 216-5 (with three abstentions) to approve a “Special Message” on immigration — the first such action in 12 years.

After the overwhelming vote, the assembly of bishops stood and applauded, underscoring the moment’s importance.

Longtime church observers called it perhaps the strongest collective denunciation of a U.S. president by the Catholic hierarchy in American history.

Nothing like this was launched at Joe Biden, who supported and funded abortion up through birth, and allowed 450,000 immigrant children to be lost in the system, released to cartels and sex traffickers. But then, the U.S. bishops didn’t make $5 billion in just 15 years from moms in crisis pregnancies choosing life — as they did from federal contracts to process immigrants. If only we could find a way to provide bishops such a bounty, they might become pro-life advocates, instead of open borders fanatics.

The Bush Dynasty Schemes to Retake the GOP

There’s plenty to criticize about President Donald Trump and his decisions. But let’s not be bratty and spoiled: the worst day of the Trump presidency is better than the best day of George W. Bush’s term in office. Alas, too many wealthy donors inside the GOP don’t see things that way, as The Daily Mail warns us:

Now, rumors are stirring of a plot to end the so-called ‘Bush Exile’ and take back the GOP from the so-called scourge of Trumpism.

Behind the scenes, and still with deep connections around the country, a shadow Republican Party is lying in wait to take over when Trump is gone.

And, while the former president is determined not to publicly criticize Trump – much to the frustration of some of his former aides – he may not be averse to quietly helping to shape the Republican Party’s long-term future.

Want to see what such a future would look like? Check out the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who pushed us into the stupid war in Iraq, and recruited Dr. Anthony Fauci to start the bioweapon program that gave us COVID. It was a bipartisan group hug, a Uniparty game of Twister, bringing together longtime “enemies” who united at last in their hatred of President Trump and his voters. It reminded us just how high are the stakes of the spiritual warfare we face.

The Implosion of the Right: Scapegoated White Men Try to Scapegoat Jews Instead

In case you have been following the controversy over Tucker Carlson promoting antisemite guttersnipe Nick Fuentes, and the opportunistic effort of Establishment Republicans to purge the GOP of populists in response, here are two pieces I wrote trying to find the Golden Mean between lurching into mindless tribalism on the one hand, and handing back the reins of the conservative movement to the military/industrial complex on the other.

This piece at Chronicles Magazine points to the authentic horror of the Jew-baiting cult Nick Fuentes is running — and the malign neglect of conservative institutions that handed him a golden opportunity to succeed. Fuentes’ movement

has all the ugliness and inhumanity we’d expect to find in a toxic subculture composed of abuse victims desperate for revenge. The fact that this movement has such a broad appeal among young people is perhaps the worst indictment possible of the churches, conservative groups, and other institutions that were meant to shape and form the always-vulnerable youth. Now some of those same institutions are lashing out at the people they failed, like an abusive father hitting his son with a belt, shouting, “You’re crying? I’ll give you something to cry about.” …

The purveyors of stale, neoconservative ideology winked at the invidious tribalism among nonwhites and leftists but are now using the pathologies their callous neglect helped to create as a means to purge conservative institutions of every potential competitor. “You see what happens when you unleash populism?” they seem to be demanding. “Now just hand us back the keys and we can go back to the salad days of a movement led by Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and David French.”

But let’s cut no slack to the lazy demagoguery that’s rising on the Right in response. A piece I published at The Daily Wire responds to Tucker Carlson’s flippant attack on Christian martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was linked to efforts to assassinate genocidal tyrant Adolf Hitler:

Bonhoeffer’s actions are almost universally regarded as heroic — but not to Carlson, who declared recently that Bonhoeffer had simply “decided … Christianity is not enough, we have to kill the guy.”

Carlson held Bonhoeffer up as a warning to conservatives who criticize antisemitism on the Right, saying, “once you start calling people Nazis, we really have no choice but to start shooting them,” Carlson said….

Carlson is right that falsely labeling someone a “Nazi” or a “fascist” today paints a target on that person. It was reckless, for example, for California Governor Gavin Newsom to call White House advisor Stephen Miller a fascist, prompting leftists in Miller’s neighborhood to dox him, plastering telephone poles and lampposts with Miller’s home address.

But what does any of this have to do with Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He wasn’t sloppily using “Nazi” as a slur against his political opponents, the literal Nazis. Nobody was falsely claiming that the ordinary enforcement of just laws amounted to genocidal terror. Genocidal terror was written into the laws of a regime which had seized power in a crisis, suspended the constitution, outlawed all opposition, and stripped Jews of citizenship.

These are dark times indeed. Pray hard.

Along The Stream

What’s the worst problem on earth? Maybe it’s the disappearance of endangered species … such as human beings, the image of God.

Want an aesthetic and theological treat? Check out this setting of King David’s psalms to classic American blues music.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.



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