I'm not going into this year until you tell me what, exactly, is "new" about it. Not one of those wussy 'oh, things'll change soon...' I expect a list of upgrades by midnight or I'm staying in 2025.

Minneapolis Police Chief Apologizes to Somalis After They Were Caught in Multi-Billion Dollar Scam
January 1, 2026

□ [“Gavin Newsom Has Unhinged TDS Meltdown in ‘All-Caps’ New Year’s Post"]

He doesn't come across as very coherent.  Now maybe he's doing some sort of chemical which interferes with that or maybe he's usually reading someone else's script when speaking in public.  At least I hope it's him writing this, I'd hate to think that someone has to get paid to come up with this stuff.  He starts off with (I will take it out of all-caps) "Happy New Year to everyone, especially the deeply disturbed losers suffering from extreme Newsom Derangement Syndrome ('NDS.')"  He can't even make up something original, he has to steal this from Trump supporters.  The actual post is all one paragraph, all in caps which just doesn't look good outside a comic book.

He's totally on the offensive, and not just by insulting anyone who doesn't agree with him.  He doesn't mention how the rebuilding from the fires a year ago is coming, or any progress on the high-speed train he's building.  Or where all the money went for those endeavors.  Because if you had to guess, who do you think has wasted more taxpayer money on fraud, Minnesota or California?  Me too.

He's trying to set up for a presidential run in three years so he desperately needs to ignore this stuff.  I've been going through my coverage of 2025 and have noticed that the Trump 2.0 administration had started finding this stuff very early on.  If Newsom is any example, Democrats in the mid-terms and the next presidential campaign are going to need to promise to keep everyone ignorant on these scams.  That's guaranteed to fail but it's their only option.  This article even cites some of the fraud that's been found in California and except for those already rich and powerful, even Democrats aren't going to put up with people stealing their money and lying about to stay in power.

New Year’s Eve Explosion and Fire in Luxury Swiss Resort Kills Dozens – Hospitals Overwhelmed With Victims
January 1, 2026

□ [“German Streamer Tries To Prove That Women in Cologne are Safe on New Year’s Eve – is Repeatedly Attacked on Camera"]

This is why women in Muslim communities are not allowed to go outside unless a man is there to watch over them.  You disobeyed that rule so you deserve what happens.  This is what you wanted, you got it, dressed like a whore.  You need to learn the rules in Cologne.

Like everyplace else, western Europe is probably ready to explode that their elites have let things come to this.  We may even expect some exposure of the taxpayer fraud to happen within a week or month, as we see from Somalis in Minnesota.  At this point I don't really know if that will get anything started, given how long they've let the invaders rule Europe, but maybe *this time* it'll be different.

It's strange how leftists like this female are so willing to go along with this oppression.  It's what they claim to oppose yet they're fine when it happens in this manner.  I'm not even sure it's specifically about being female, leftist or both, it just seems to be some bizarre mindset that always wants to make things worse and uses their own ideology to impose what they claim to oppose.  Maybe it has to do with priorities, opposing rape is one thing but being called "racist" is much worse?

Tim Walz’s 20-Week Paid Leave Program Now in Effect — Open to Illegals and Non-Citizens
January 1, 2026

□ [“Two Women React Strangely When They Mention 'Fraud' at Minnesota Rally"]

Now we get to watch how the left tries to figure out what to do with this mess they've created for themselves.  The first female was non-white and dressed as a Muslim.  I don't know if she literally went off-script but she said the word "fraud" and that's when she stopped.  My impression is that she had been told not to say that word even though it's a very obvious word to use in this situation.  She'd broken the rules that *someone* had given her so she had to stop immediately.

The second woman was white and had a similar problem.  She had started saying that fraud was bad and said "there is fraud" before she had to stop.  She knows it's going on but is supposed to ignore that entirely.  And that's where the problem is.  She can't say it's just the fraud that's been exposed and she knows nothing of anything else going on because then she'd be asked why she's so sure that nothing else is happening and why this shouldn't be checked out.  But if that's not what she means, what "fraud" is she referring to?  Whichever way she goes, she loses so she had to quit.  But first she had to give a few lines to blame those in charge, who made these decisions to waste taxpayer money.

Which is a relevant point.  Someone in authority had to decide that these fraudsters would or wouldn't get taxpayer money.  They'll just keep doing that unless they're exposed and punished.  And that points to all the Democrats who've been in charge for years, what are you doing about them besides always voting for them?

Next they're going to run into a problem of hiding behind children.  And not just because abortion would have solved this problem, how many Somali women are really getting any abortions?  It's why all the funding has to be stopped to determine who's doing what here.  The sooner you get started on that, the sooner you can fix the problem and provide actual childcare, but not until then.

We already know this isn't limited to Somalis or Minnesota, not by a long shot.  What we're starting to see is that this is a fundamental technique Democrats use to gain and maintain power all around the country, if not the world.  How much money and how many years did they spend on this?  They're going to need a big weapons to distract people if they hope to survive.

A Black Bear Has Lived in a California House Basement for a Month – Homeowner Sues State for not Removing It
January 1, 2026

□ [“Trump Orders National Guard Withdrawal from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland"]

Almost like it was planned to end at the end of the year.  He does make a point of adding that they'll be back if crime returns.  Might just be a generic threat or they might know when and how they're going to do it.  A lot of criminals had to go-without while the troops were there and they'll need to reclaim their turf.  And what are the mayors going to do about that?

The troops will probably get combat patches or whatever equivalent the National Guard has.  Hopefully there will also be a difference made in how the judicial system is handled.  Not just with how the NG handled this in the field but also the Supreme Court demanding the withdrawal.  That might be a subtle legal issue, not that important to the rest of us, or it might go deeper.

It's also going to create another problem for the left, if Trump is such a tyrant then why is he obeying the court order and withdrawing his men-with-guns?  Well they'll probably just ignore that and treat it like a serious victory, they were directly involved in defeating Trump on the streets of Chicago or Portland.  That sounds ludicrous but look who we're talking about.

New Year’s Eve Massacre on Christian Community in Nigeria
January 1, 2026