💸 🇺🇸 🇸🇴 Luxury cars and private villas: See how Minnesota fraudsters spent millions intended for hungry kids

The files document a spending spree in which defendants, many of Somali descent, took taxpayer money meant to feed hungry children and used it to buy cars, property and jewelry. Videos show them popping champagne at an opulent Maldives resort. In a text message, one defendant boasts: "You are gonna be the richest 25 year old InshaAllah [God willing]."

Nur is one of dozens who siphoned hundreds of millions in stolen taxpayer funds — with questions still swirling about where all the money went. The crime has drawn renewed attention in recent weeks: House Republicans last week launched a probe into Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's handling of the cases, and the Treasury Department said it will investigate whether money made its way to al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab, which is based in Somalia.

In one text, Farah instructed someone to "please send $1000 to Mogadishu bakara," an apparent reference to a one-time al Shabaab stronghold that was the site of the infamous 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident in which 18 American servicemembers died.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said Sunday on "Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan" that any link between allegations of fraud by members of the Somali community and terrorism would be a "failure of the FBI."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-fraud-spent-millions-luxury-cars-villas/

🇺🇸⚡- President Trump has classified fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

💉 🇺🇸 President Trump announces a groundbreaking Executive Order classifying fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction:

"No bomb does what this is doing. 200 to 300 THOUSAND people die every year — that we know of."

📎 Trump War Room

🇺🇸 🇸🇾 US officials view extending the 𝗦𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁’𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 over the fractured country as a key step toward combating remnants of ISIS.

𝗨𝗦 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 leaders are working to broker a merger between the SDF and the new Syrian army.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

📎 Levant24

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- 45 countries will participate in a CENTCOM-led meeting on the Gaza ceasefire deal tomorrow in Doha, Qatar.

Turkey has been barred from attending, as Israel vetoed their participation, Israeli Channel 11 and Haaretz report.

🇮🇱 ❌️ 🇵🇸 Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push

Israel’s security cabinet has signed off on plans to formalise 19 illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank, in a move Palestinian officials say deepens a decades-long project of land theft and demographic engineering.

Israeli media reported on Friday that the decision also revives two northern West Bank outposts dismantled during the 2005 “disengagement”.

The Israeli press outlet Ynet claimed the plan “was coordinated with the US in advance”, while Channel 14 said the push came from far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – a settler himself and one of the most hardline figures in Israel’s governing coalition.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/12/israel-approves-19-new-west-bank-settlements-in-major-annexation-push

🇵🇱 🇧🇾 A few days ago Polish border guards @Straz_Graniczna discovered a tunnel into Poland from Belarus. It was used for trafficking illegal migrants into western Europe.

130 illegal migrants were caught. Mainly Afghani and Pakistanis, Indians, Nepalese, and Bangladeshis.

📎 Polish Connection

💉 🇺🇸 DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION - The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses.

The manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized criminal networks, threatens our national security and fuels lawlessness in our hemisphere and at our borders. The production and sale of fentanyl by Foreign Terrorist Organizations and cartels fund these entities’ operations — which include assassinations, terrorist acts, and insurgencies around the world — and allow these entities to erode our domestic security and the well-being of our Nation. The two cartels that are predominantly responsible for the distribution of fentanyl in the United States engage in armed conflict over territory and to protect their operations, resulting in large-scale violence and death that go beyond the immediate threat of fentanyl itself. Further, the potential for fentanyl to be weaponized for concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the United States.

As President of the United States, my highest duty is the defense of the country and its citizens. Accordingly, I hereby designate illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/designating-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/

✡️ StopAntisemitism Founder wants anti-semites hunted down and ruined financially.

"Google and SEO will follow you for the rest of your life. When you look for a job, when you look for a spouse, when you look for a nanny, when you look for anything, our work will always be documented"

"When we act, lives change. And anti-semites learn sometimes for the very first time in their lives and history that targeting Jews will come at a price"

🔗 Seethroughitall (@seethroughit2)

👮‍♂️ 🇸🇴 🇺🇸 Somalian communities in Minneapolis are setting up roadblocks to prevent ICE from coming into their neighborhoods.

📎 Son of Somalia

👮‍♂️ 🇺🇸 🇸🇴 Federal agents now using paintball guns to move crowd back.

📎 Jonah Kaplan

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Current composition of U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy's largest forward-deployed numbered fleet.

Put this together for @grok since he replied to my last map and said "around 200 ships were operating in the region and assigned to the Pacific Fleet."

• Out of a total battle force of 290 ships, 101 (35%) are deployed
• 69 ships are in U.S. 7th Fleet AOR (deployed or forward-deployed)
• ~20% of the fleet is in maintenance, sea trials, or post-deployment, with the remaining ~45% in port but active/available or conducting local ops

@elonmusk Happy to provide Grok access to the latest @iejmedia military database for training. Includes comprehensive info on the U.S. Navy and Air Force, PLA Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force, China Coast Guard, U.S. local and overseas ops, and broader air/naval activity in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Europe, and South America.

📎 Ian Ellis

Bloomberg: Chevron reduces the price of Venezuelan crude for US refineries following a seizure in the Caribbean