🚨🇮🇷 TEHRAN BAZAARS SHUT DOWN - IRAN PROTESTS ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Large crowds filling Amir Kabir Street today, protesting economic collapse under the Islamic Republic. Multiple bazaars closed, demonstrations spreading across central Tehran arteries. This is coordinated popular mobilization against the regime itself, not simple labor strikes anymore. Iran's currency has cratered, inflation's gutting purchasing power, and the government just burned through foreign reserves propping up proxies from Gaza to Lebanon to Yemen. Meanwhile, sanctions keep tightening and oil revenue stays suppressed. The bazaar merchant class shutting down is historically significant - these aren't students or activists, they're the economic backbone that kept the regime stable through previous uprisings. When the merchants walk, the system's foundation cracks. Timing matters: protests erupting while the regime's stretched thin internationally, Hamas is broken, Hezbollah's degraded, and Syria just collapsed. Iran's axis of resistance is in pieces, and now the home front's combusting. The Islamic Republic survived 2009, 2019, and 2022 by fragmenting protests before they could unify. Multiple districts moving simultaneously changes that math. This either gets crushed in the next 48 hours or it spreads big time.

🇺🇸 MEET JODI HARPSTEAD: RAN MINNESOTA'S DAYCARE OVERSIGHT 2019-2024 - "THEY KNEW" ABOUT THE FRAUD While Nick Shirley was finding $110 million in fraud in one day, one name keeps coming up: Jodi Harpstead. She ran the Minnesota Department of Human Services agency overseeing daycares from 2019-2024. The agency that licensed these facilities. Processed payments. Documented violations. And kept paying anyway. Video surfaced of Harpstead at a hearing: "It takes tax dollars to track down fraud, and it's tricky to determine the appropriate level of oversight and examination of fraud." Read that again. The person responsible for stopping fraud is arguing that stopping fraud costs money and determining how much oversight is "appropriate" is "tricky." Quality Learning Center: 95 violations from 2019-2023. Including: - Failure to keep hazardous items away from children - No records for 16 children - Multiple safety violations Harpstead's agency documented every violation. Then renewed the license. Then kept paying millions. The "appropriate level of oversight" argument: Harpstead's literally saying: We know there's fraud. Stopping it costs money. So we have to decide how much fraud is acceptable before spending money to stop it. The state decided some level of fraud was acceptable because eliminating it would cost more than tolerating it. Nick Shirley proved that wrong. Cost him travel money and an iPhone. Found $110 million day one. Harpstead's statement reveals the bureaucratic mindset that enabled billions in theft. "Appropriate level of oversight" means "we're not going to look too closely because looking costs money and might be politically uncomfortable." Meanwhile: - Facilities can't spell "learning" correctly - No children visible during business hours - 95+ safety violations documented - Staff slamming doors on visitors And Harpstead's agency kept cutting checks. The accountability gap: Harpstead's no longer running the agency. Left in 2024. Perfect timing - before the scandal broke nationally. Before FBI surged resources. Before federal prosecutors started filing charges. Whether she'll face consequences: Unknown. Whether anyone in her agency will: Unknown. Whether the institutional culture that produced "appropriate level of oversight" will change: Doubtful. Every regulator who visited facilities and saw no children - they knew. Every bureaucrat who processed payments for 99-kid facilities with zero staff - they knew. Every auditor who saw the violations pile up - they knew. Every politician who got briefed on fraud concerns - they knew. They all knew. They decided the political cost of acting was higher than the financial cost of ignoring. Then Nick Shirley knocked on doors nobody else would knock on. And exposed what everyone knew but nobody would say. Harpstead's "tricky to determine appropriate oversight" quote will be the epitaph for Minnesota's fraud enabling. It wasn't that they couldn't catch the fraud. It's that they decided catching it wasn't worth it. Source: Oversight, House, twitchy, YouTube, KSNI Radio

🇺🇸 WALZ'S DEFENSE: "I'VE WORKED FOR YEARS TO CRACK DOWN ON FRAUD" - THEN HOW DID $9 BILLION DISAPPEAR UNDER YOUR WATCH? Tim Walz's official statement after Nick Shirley's video exposed billions in fraud: "The Governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and ask the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action." Let's examine that claim against reality: What "worked for years" produced: $250 million Feeding Our Future scam (ran during his administration) $14 million fake autism diagnosis scheme (approved under his watch) Housing fraud sending money to Kenya (happened on his watch) $110 million+ in daycare fraud Nick found in one day (active right now) Assistant U.S. Attorney estimates possibly $9+ billion total fraud "Working to crack down" ..? That's presiding over the largest state-level fraud operation in American history. Walz's November statement before full scale emerged: "If you're committing fraud, no matter where you come from, what you look like, what you believe, you are going to go to jail." Since then: How many have gone to jail under state charges Walz's administration brought? The federal government brought the charges. FBI ran the investigations. U.S. Attorneys prosecuted the cases. Walz's administration? Licensed the facilities. Processed the payments. Missed the violations. Renewed the licenses. Kept paying. The violations were documented: Quality Learning Center alone: 95 violations from 2019-2023 including: - Failure to keep hazardous items away from children - No records for 16 children - Multiple safety violations Minnesota DHS documented all of it. Then renewed the license. Then kept paying millions. That's systematic avoidance. Why Walz can't defend himself: Every explanation makes it worse: Option A: "We didn't know." Then your administration is incompetent beyond belief. The fraud was obvious enough that a citizen journalist found $110 million in one day, but your entire state apparatus with thousands of employees and hundreds of millions in oversight budget missed it for 5 years? Option B: "We knew but couldn't stop it." Then you just admitted powerless inability to enforce your own regulations. Why should voters trust you with anything if you can't shut down facilities violating 95+ safety requirements? Option C: "We knew but didn't act because political considerations." That's the answer nobody will say but everyone suspects. Investigating fraud in specific communities became politically radioactive, so enforcement stopped. The timing destroys Walz: He was the Democratic VP nominee in 2024. Lost. Now this breaks wide open in December 2025 as he's positioning for future runs. If this had come out in October 2024? Harris-Walz loses Minnesota. Possibly the election. So either: - Trump/Republicans knew and held it for maximum damage - Investigations were slow-walked until after the election - The scale only became apparent recently None of those scenarios make Walz look good. The political calculation Walz faces: Resign now: Admits guilt, destroys career, becomes cautionary tale Fight it: Faces years of investigation, potential prosecution, career destroyed anyway Blame underlings: Nobody believes governor didn't know about billion-dollar fraud in his state What the statement tells you: "Worked for years" = We knew there was a problem "Ask legislature for more authority" = Blame them for my failure "Take aggressive action" = Haven't actually done it yet That's just an admission wrapped in bureaucratic language. The fraud didn't happen despite Walz's efforts. It happened during them. Under his authority. With his appointees. In his state. Either he's incompetent or complicit. Pick one. Source: KTTC, Minnesota Reformer, NY Post

🇺🇸 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: HOW MINNESOTA LET FAKE DAYCARES STEAL MILLIONS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Independent journalist Nick Shirley dropped a 42-minute investigation on December 26 that turned into one of the biggest fraud stories of the year. He visited multiple Minnesota daycare centers, most of them Somali-run, that are licensed to care for dozens of kids but appeared completely empty during weekday business hours. The star example: Quality “Learing” Center, licensed for 99 children. It received roughly $1.9 million in state childcare assistance in fiscal year 2025 alone, about $4 million total over a broader period. When Shirley showed up? No kids. The sign outside was misspelled "Quality Learing Center." Doors locked. Windows blacked out. Staff had no answers about where the children were. This wasn't an isolated case. Shirley documented multiple facilities with the same pattern: licensed for large numbers of kids, collecting massive state payments, but showing zero evidence of actually providing childcare. At one building, he found more than a dozen "healthcare" entities sharing the same address, billing for home health and medical transport services while giving vague answers about what they actually do. The verified numbers are staggering. Individual centers pulling in low to mid seven figures over a few years while appearing non-operational. The unverified claims go much higher, with some estimates suggesting up to $8 billion in welfare program fraud across Minnesota when you include childcare, Medicaid, home health, and non-emergency medical transport. Minnesota already has a documented fraud problem. The state prosecuted the Feeding Our Future case where $250+ million in federal meal program funds disappeared. This isn't new. What's new is the scale becoming impossible to ignore. Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison are taking heat for oversight failures. State agencies received repeated warnings about suspicious billing patterns years ago but response was slow, fragmented, or buried in bureaucracy. Rep. Tom Emmer publicly pressed Walz about the $4 million daycare, calling it "one of thousands of fraudulent businesses operating in Minnesota." The FBI has now signaled they're dedicating more resources to Minnesota fraud cases and discussing possible denaturalization and deportation for naturalized citizens found guilty of large-scale program fraud. Here's what we know for certain: there are facilities collecting millions in taxpayer money while appearing to provide zero services. Staff refuse basic questions. Public records show the money flowing. Law enforcement is finally paying attention. What we don't know yet: the full dollar amount stolen, whether any money is connected to extremist groups, and how many people will actually face charges. This is taxpayer money disappearing into a black hole while legitimate families who need childcare assistance struggle to find spots. Empty buildings with misspelled signs shouldn't be collecting seven-figure checks. Accountability needs to start at the top with the officials who ignored the warnings and end with prosecutions for everyone involved in the fraud. This story went viral because the evidence is sitting there on camera. The only question now is whether anyone in power will actually do something about it. Source: Breitbart, International Business Times, Fox News, New York Times, Center for Immigration Studies, ABC 3340, WLT Report, Yahoo News

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🚨🇺🇸NICK SHIRLEY'S FRAUD VIDEO HITS 75 MILLION VIEWS - FOX NEWS AIRS HIS FOOTAGE- THE INSTITUTIONAL MEDIA GATEKEEPERS JUST LOST 75 million views. Still climbing by the hour. 400,000 likes. 150,000 reposts. Fox News running his footage on national television. Nick Shirley just proved the entire thesis: One guy with a camera documenting fraud beats every newsroom in America combined. Here's what just changed permanently: Traditional media ignored the Minnesota story for years. MSNBC, CNN, local stations- they all knew about welfare fraud allegations. Nobody investigated. Too politically sensitive. Too much work. Not worth the risk. Then Nick Shirley walks to addresses, knocks on doors, films empty buildings billing millions, and gets 75 million people watching in days. Fox News didn't break the story. They're airing footage from a YouTuber because he did the journalism they didn't. That's the power shift documented in real-time. Institutional media had monopoly on investigation and distribution. You needed newsroom resources, editorial approval, broadcast access. Now you need an iPhone and the ability to read public records. Nick found $110 million in fraud on day one. Put it on YouTube. The algorithm did the rest. The incentive structure just got established: 75 million views = significant ad revenue. More importantly = proof that fraud investigation content scales. Every creator just saw the formula work at massive scale. Next week: hundreds of imitators descend on every major city looking for their viral fraud expose. Because Nick just showed them the map and the treasure's real. That's the beginning of institutional media becoming aggregators of citizen journalism rather than primary sources. The barrier to entry just collapsed: You don't need: - Journalism degree - Newsroom budget - Editorial approval - Broadcast license - Corporate backing You need: - Public records access (free) - Camera phone ($1000) - Ability to walk to addresses - Willingness to knock on doors Nick proved the economics work. Now watch what happens when a generation realizes fraud investigation pays better than content creation and requires less creativity. This is the DOGE army that can't be stopped: Centralized reform efforts get bogged down in bureaucracy. But 1,000 Nick Shirleys documenting fraud simultaneously? No institution's built to counter that. Every empty building exposed forces response. Every viral video creates political pressure. Every imitator makes the fraud harder to hide. The decentralized investigative swarm just proved it works at scale. 75 million views is the proof. Welcome to the new media. Too big to ignore. Too distributed to stop. Too economically viable to quit. Source: YouTube analytics, Fox News

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