Diversity is our strength, the $9B MN edition
In response Trump announced a federal fraud division of the DOJ to investigate benefits fraud.
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Minnesota isn’t the only state that should be investigated.
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Never forget, Jan 6th.
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More on the weak leftist defense of the MN Somali community (using incarceration rates as a bad proxy for crime rates), and a better statistical analysis with obvious conclusions.
Consider a simple example: two groups of 40-year-old men, one American-born, the other immigrants who arrived in the U.S. at age 39. The groups are otherwise identical and have the same crime rates.
Will they be equally likely to be incarcerated at age 40? Obviously not. The immigrants will have had just one year to commit a crime and end up behind bars; the American-born will have had decades of opportunities to do so.
Accordingly, in this make-believe example, native-born Americans will be mechanically more likely to be incarcerated at age 40, even though the two groups have identical crime rates by design. By the same logic, their very different tenures in the United States mean that you cannot infer from incarceration rates that the immigrant group has a lower crime rate. Even if an immigrant group were to offend at very high rates, differences in tenure alone could still yield lower incarceration rates than those of native-born Americans who commit fewer crimes.
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Satire roundup. There are good memes in the comments too.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/the-week-in-pictures-ice-ice-baby-edition.php
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Not a bad idea
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Legacy media reports on legacy media. WashPo fires 1/3 of their staff
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html
…and nothing of value was lost.
As an example,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/bird-names-racism-audubon/
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Satire round up
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/the-week-in-pictures-get-off-my-land-edition.php
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lol
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Democracy dies in a sea of red ink. WashPo loses $125M for 2025.
A lotta good ones on Iran this week
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/the-week-in-pictures-ayatollahed-you-so-edition.php
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What do you do when the demand for white supremacist hate exceeds supply, and your main business is raising money talking about Bad Whites? This was serious threat to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who raked in nearly $1B in offshore non-profit donations under the guise of “exposing right wing hate”.
And at that time [1980s] it was real hate. But he eventually ran out of Grand Dragons to conquer and started going more and more mainstream with the targets of the hate that Dees and his organization were exposing. And eventually it started getting to mainstream conservative groups
They did what any amoral business-minded organization would do - they paid the KKK and the US Nazi Party to make sure they kept holding events that they could report on and fundraise off of “exposing” them. They also smeared tons of conservative and right wing groups not doing anything Hateful, and got sued and sometimes lost and had to sheepishly admit some guy or another wasn’t Hateful, but who’s counting court cases? They raised $100Ms.
Sadly for them, the Trump DoJ noticed some good reporting on this and now we have them sued for fraud and conspiracy and money laundering, which will cost them $Ms but better yet their what’s left of their reputation.
six counts of wirefraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Some background on their generally shady actions since they, like the ACLU, lost their way and original purposes a decade or more ago.
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Satire roundup
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/04/the-week-in-pictures-frauds-all-the-way-down.php
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Following up on the Southern Poverty Hate Mongers, a senior guy in banking sector compliance breaks down how bank fraud and wire fraud are slam dunk cases for the feds since they merely involve lying on your applications to the bank and then moving money, which are very well documented in this case.
It’s a very long read but if you like knowing the inner workings of the financing institutions we deal with, it’s good stuff to know.
Also, in an excellent twist of fate, the same blacklist they used to block Hateful people from getting donations has now turned on the SPLC, since who wants to allow donations to an indicted bank fraud organization? Who wants to use their blacklist for screening the suitability of potential account applicants against a fraudster’s list? Nope, bank compliances is super conservative and will be dumping these guys rapidly. Fidelity and several other Donor-Advised Funds used for charitable donations have pulled the SPLC from their list of allowable charities.
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