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Romanian-Linked Theft Ring Accused of Draining $4M From CA Public Assistance Accounts
Pie is rich now.
So when is he visiting?
He’s probably on some beach somewhere with a hottie enjoying his Ill-gotten gains.
Look for the sparkles?
He’s a dedicated gym goer. Those gains are totally legit.
$4 million would buy a lot of gear.
“draining”
lol nice touch 🦷
300 TSA workers quit amid Dems’ refusal to fund DHS
Can the rest of them quit too?
58,000 total employees and the news will tell us .5% quitting will cause planes to blow up.
Never mind that their attrition rate is something like 10% annually.
If we do not engage in the ritual humiliation of the screening by unskilled idiots then the sky gods will be angry with us and smash planes from the air!
So, a solution is found to get rid of those that enjoy hassling people for a living? Maybe the Dems are on to something.
Walz will be hiring those displaced experienced folks. Who would know best how to sort out fraud?
Six million Minnesotans, I’m sure some of them are good people.
I’m sure all the Somalis who used to work for TSA at the Minneapolis airport will start their own companies and contract their services back to the airport.
Quality Goping Center will get tons of tax money to screen passengers.
Nicely done Pope
I think they would probably remember the r in groping. They are more familiar with that word than the other.
Reminds me of a joke. What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
Just an FYI I’m getting a Error code: SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT in Firefox running on Windows 11 this morning. The site .lLoads fine in Edge.
I forgive you for running Edge.
In all seriousness, the site appears fully functional in Brave. Turgid, even.
I’ve never heard of the Turgid browser.
STEVE SMITH SHOW YOU TURGID BROWSER
No problems in Safari/macOS
The problem has resolved itself.
Your handler forgot to log in this morning.
Slumbrew:
Cut his handler some slack! Traffic was really bad this morning and it took him forever to get to his post at the urinal in the bus station. (I’m assuming that would be the handler Tonio has).
Tonio’s handler is Larry Craig?
#8 will shock you!
#9 was always a shocker to me.
It can be predicted
You need fingers, three
And you can skip six and seven and go past eight too,
But nine’s always a shocker to me
Today’s theme seems to be our vibrant friends’ fraud.
“The Dark Side of AI”
lol I was *certain* that was gonna go in a different direction before I clicked.
And all the cops get to
Go home to their warm beds, and retire.
Now all we have to do is ensure the Stanley Cup remains in the States.
Also, the NHLs ads that Silver is the real gold or something is funny yet again as our boys on sleds beat the silly Canucks for gold.
It was a blowout, so not the most exciting game. But this is the first time any country has won gold in men’s, women’s, and para hockey in the same year. It’s nice to see my sport getting some attention.
Do they also play hockey in the Special Olympics? Can we get four in a row?
There is a thing called “special hockey”. I’m not sure it’s in the Special Olympics. But I have seen it played, and you’ve never seen anyone happier to score a goal. It’s a beautiful thing.
The grandma story and facial recognition is a failure of basic police work from the minute they used the technology and solely relied on it rather than spending a weekend realizing this lady aint the person.
She should sue both States for violations of her rights and be allowed access to a woodchipper for various reasons.
“A Wood-chipper in Every Pot”
I’ll print up the buttons
In a truly just world, she could. I suspect the states will cover their asses by playing the sovereign immunity and standing cards. Would be nice to see the DOJ take an interest in this case.
Yeah, how you get it that wrong and then your follow up is to release her into the cold and tell her good luck is just bullshit. We got you here, I’m sure you can find your way back. Too lazy to even check for cell phone use, bank records or any other confirmation before arresting her? This should be an easy suit to win, but won’t be due to the usual suspect of qualified immunity. The facial recognition vendor should at a minimum be sued out of business.
Relied on fugitive from justice, another failure, to justify the immediate lock up and no bail.
Cops hire detectives not from the ranks of people that have the investigative skills or care to do a good job but internally from the ranks of people who have been cops long enough to get promoted.
Like how McCain, Romney, and Biden got a chance to be president. It was their time.
Innocent Grandmother Wrongfully Jailed for 6 Months After Facial Recognition Error.
That is truly horrifying, and it gets worse. She lost her home and dog while incarcerated. She was released from jail in ND in the middle of winter wearing the Tennessee summer clothes in which she’d been arrested. The cops are stonewalling. And, of course, she is the only person who will go to jail over this.
Well, at least the beneficiaries of her estate will likely be wealthy. At the expense of taxpayers, of course.
Really horrifying. She should have a hell of a lawsuit.
JFC.
Oh well, she’s probably guilty of something else. Hiding in NoDak involuntarily in the winter?
This story is pretty rage inducing. I’ve always said this; the state is the biggest bully of them all.
We’re Sorry
Also sorry
Nightmare fuel.
That’s the warmth of collectivism for you.
I’ve been warning all of you for years about the danger of NoDaks! Did you listen? No!
‘Compelled and coerced’: Michael Cohen’s allegations about anti-Trump testimony has Letitia James on the hot seat
And nothing will happen. Prominent Dems are protected from any malfeasance.
Especially that one and for multiple reasons.
I’m not sure I believe anything he has to say, especially when it just happens to serve his current interests.
Not sure what you’re referring to but it works as a general-purpose comment.
inorite?
Meant to reply to WTF, but fuckit.
“Dean’s Razor” candidate.
Yeah, people who believe lying weasels when they say things they want to believe are, well, the bulk of humanity.
Don’t know who you’re referring to exactly but I agree 100%.
Did the Senate change its composition when I wasn’t looking, or has the PostMillenial not changed their Schumer template in a few years?
I mean..are they wrong though?
It’s not like anything passes the Senate without Schumer’s approval, so . . . .
To be fair, I’m sure he falls asleep every night believing he is the majority leader.
The four defendants are Razvan Balu, Juan Trandafir, Hassib Baraekzay, and Veronica Ochoa. Balu and Trandafir, both Romanian, are respectively accused of stealing $160,000 and $145,250 from victims’ CalWORKS benefit accounts. CalWORKS administers grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help families remain housed.
Juan Trandafir sounds like a Romanian with roots in the Indian subcontinent.
There’s Juan in every group.
Okay Pie, which one of those is your alias?
Veronica Ochoa most likely. Perfect cover
Jacobin
@jacobin
Reasonpilled and Revoltmaxxing. 3/16.
https://x.com/jacobin/status/2027377796801019984
commies…
Normally I’m better at this, but…can’t tell if parody.
I clicked around and it appears real, or at least a real attempt to appeal to today’s trendy Youth.
OTOH that whole outfit has always felt like performance art so who knows.
Well, they are revolting…
They stink on ice….
Wow socialism is so cool and edgy!
/teen
someone needs fill the gap left by teenvogue.
The socialists are into anal?
“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” was a fun watch with great satirical themes.
Since I’m a high-brow sophisticate, I went with The Wrecking Crew last night. It was as expected.
We need to start talking about whatever unholy deal Morena Baccarin has struck. She’s getting hotter, somehow.
We watched that a couple weeks ago. Good ole American action film with absolutely no expectations of than lots of explosions. And agreed on Morena.
Matt Helm is highbrow, isn’t he?
Nope. Matt Helm is James Bond, stripped of all the 60’s jet-set pretensions (including the pretension that he’s anything other than a professional enforcer and button man.)
You do realize I was making a joke about the fact that there is a Matt Helm movie called The Wrecking Crew….
I did LOL at:
“I don’t speak Spanish – I’m from Brazil, we speak Portuguese”.
“Yeah, but that’s just drunken Spanish”.
The Ambassador was a pleasant surprise in an otherwise mediocre movie.
We watched one, can’t be arsed to figure out which, of the Jurassic World movies because Netflix said it was an Academy Award nominee. Maybe for cinematography? Certainly wasn’t for screenplay or acting. On the island of lizardy death, the single father and three teenagers has a lower mortality rate than the team of crack mercenaries.
I realize that you were making a joke about the fact that there is an insipid, brainless Dean Martin comedy attempt that shares the name The Wrecking Crew, and nothing else at all, with the Donald Hamilton novel.
I did wonder for a moment if the movie wasn’t another attempt to put the Matt Helm series to film. Sad that the series seems to be poisoned.
Matt Helm is right up there with Mac Bolan.
The Wrecking Crew!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185418/?ref_=fn_t_2
On the island of lizardy death, the single father and three teenagers has a lower mortality rate than the team of crack mercenaries.
Why wouldn’t a wholesome family do better than a bunch of rent boys?
I would say that Matt Helm is what Mac Bolan would have been if Don Pendleton could actually write.
The Remo Williams movie, on the other hand, was actually pretty good…
To make a pale piece of pig’s ear into a destroyer of evil a Master of Sinanju is required!
It got more and more reficuliois as it went along.
I did not finish it.
Or don’t remember finishing it.
Never heard of it. Looks like fun and Sam Rockwell is always a plus when he shows up in a film.
He plays a good asshole. Somehow, I suspect he’s not really playing.
The Chuck Barris movie was a gem.
Mammary Monday is totally defeated and wants a deal.
https://archive.is/jTxRv
depths of wikipedia!
@depthsofwiki
https://x.com/depthsofwiki/status/2033183350123635013
Dave Smith
@ComicDaveSmith
Islam is such a violent religion. Every time we murder a bunch of their children, they try to kill some of us. Disgusting.
https://x.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/2033314035765002451
going full retard…
Every time we doodle a sketch of some child rapist named Mohammed, they kill some of us too.
Norm will never die as long as his meme lives on
Blowback isn’t a thing now?
Blowback is not the only thing by far.
Of course not but that’s the concept he’s outlining and we’ll receive quite a bit of it from this moronic and unnecessary venture.
Iran is getting blowback from having its proxies attack Israel and try to shut down international shipping?
Iran is also getting blowback for attacking basically of all its neighbors.
That’s the thing about blowback. It also sucks.
It’s not authentic blowback unless it’s a response to the Blow region of America. Otherwise it’s just sparkling response.
I like Dave, but I listen a lot less than I used to. Mostly, every show is either him griping about being in some Twitter pissing contest with some other podcaster, or him going on about how everything is Israel’s fault. He has good points, but he goes a bit far at times. There are plenty of people who have been itching to bomb Iran. It doesn’t mean they have sworn fealty to Zionists.
That’s about where I’m at. October 7, 2023, broke his brain. Longtime listener, now much less so. I’m absolutely against this Iran War crap, but listening to him on Middle East-related subjects is a drag.
See below about Kelly vs. Levin.
Ben Shapiro was attacking Piers Morgan for having Dave Smith on his show.
The whole thing is childish.
#MeToo
I started listening to him shortly after Covid and he was great on that subject.
Quit listening when he shifted from anti-Covid rants to anti-war rants.
That half whit has never read Sura9. Or any of the Koran for that matter.
And he’s not funny.
*wonders what to call the residents of Moron, Cuba*
Idiotas de Cuba?
Cretans?
The weather yesterday was quite wild. Thunderstorms followed by crazy wind, followed by “snow squalls”. At least the power was only out an hour or so.
Thats where a few of us are at today too. A nice crack of thunder at 1:30am woke the whole house enough to keep the dogs awake for an hour or so.
Yesterday: About 90 USian degrees out, bright and sunny.
Today: Fifty degrees colder, howling winds.
It wasn’t GT being loud that kept you awake?
74 Yesterday; 33 this morning, snow squalls as well. Going to get down to 20 tonight.
It was blustery with a flurry yesterday morning then warmed up to about 50.
Dearly today so far and may make it to 55 or so.
Prediction here is highs in the 60s, lows in the 20s.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s creepy, why are you spying on other people’s dogs?
Rule 34, Minnesoda edition.
Uffda.
Minnesoda legislature might actually do something good for once.
Looking at the pols involved, I’m pretty sure they are doing it for the wrong reasons, but I’ll take it. My guess is that they think Trump is going to use these reverse location warrants to arrest them for their anti-ICE activities. They will probably try to repeal this law when the next Dem wins the Presidency.
But at an inauguration, they’re perfectly legit.
“WASHINGTON — President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.
Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/trump-briefed-that-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-is-probably-gay/
Who knows?
Tonio?
I read in another rag that elder guy was reticent because his son was dull. They need to get their transparently stupid propaganda straight.
And here I thought a major point of the revolution in Iran back in the day was to get rid of hereditary rulers, and maybe the mullahs didn’t want Ayatollah Jr. to run the show for that reason.
The point was that the mullahs gain power. Nothing more, nothing less.
“Two missing “Doctor Who” episodes feared to be lost forever will be broadcast for the first time in 60 years after they were found stuffed in a cardboard box….
The episodes — “The Nightmare Begins” and “Devil’s Planet” — were originally broadcast in November 1965 during the show’s third season starring the late William Hartnell as the Doctor. The episodes are part of a 12-part serial called “The Daleks’ Master Plan” which is still largely missing.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/entertainment/two-lost-doctor-who-episodes-broadcast-only-once-in-1965-found-stashed-in-cardboard-box/
Oooo… Missing Dalek episodes are extra rare because of Terry Nation’s ambitions.
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Welcome to being a “millionaire” in NYC.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/mamdanis-rental-plan-risks-pushing-small-landlords-toward-extinction-b3228648?st=DvkRyq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The 65-year-old currently owes $24 million on his loan. Though he could likely sell for around $30 million, the associated capital-gains tax from the sale would exceed his profit and bankrupt him. He and his mother also still live in the building.
That’s the point.
NYC can suck it. They voted for this. Repeatedly.
My friend who lives in Brooklyn said that Mamdami basically won due to low voter turnout and apathy. His base were people who depend on government benefits and the liberal laptop class. And also the opposing candidates where clowns.
“And also the opposing candidates where clowns.”
That too.
The question becomes how much damage can he cause before the voters wake up.
The one saving grace is that much of it requires state approval. Kathy is getting wobbly but if she’s primaried by a similar commie, then the damage can get very extreme.
Um… “giant multifamily firms” can’t run a business at a loss for very much longer than mom-and-pop landlords.
The whole thing is an attempt to put private housing out of business – period.
“A teen mom from Washington state allegedly filmed an upbeat TikTok video as her infant son was dying from “abusive head trauma” — that she and the baby’s dad are accused of inflicting, according to reports.
Alyssa Jade Vanderbeck, 19, and Mark Anthony Labaco Clamor, 21, were hit with second-degree murder charges, and Clamor with additional homicide abuse raps, for the death of their 7-week-old son earlier this month, according to court records obtained by People.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/us-news/mom-filmed-tiktok-dance-in-hospital-room-while-baby-was-dying-from-abusive-head-trauma/
CWAC
Murdermaxxing?
Babymogging?
I don’t get the new slang.
End them.
““I’m sorry you have a micro penis, but don’t drag the rest of us into your drama,” Kelly snapped back on X.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/us-news/trump-defends-mark-levin-after-pundits-wild-podcast-feud-with-rival-megyn-kelly/
Will you people stop acting like you are in High School?
Levin is a Lindsey Graham level sack of trash and he deserves whatever abuse he gets.
Amen!
Levin’s show is on the radio when I get in the car to go to the gym at night. I can’t stand him. Like Graham, another beta male trying to cope by being the biggest war monger out there.
Can’t we give them a rifle and drop them on Kharg island? Everyone wins!
Sorry to shoehorn this in, but have we covered the Florsheim kerfuffle around here yet?
For those who have been spared the misfortune of hearing about this: supposedly OMB sees a cabinet member, guesses their shoe size, and orders them a few pairs of $145 Florsheim “dress oxfords” made in Chyyyyyna. And the cabinet members wear them in public despite the shoes not fitting. Guffaws and mockery all around from the politico-fashion mavens at the NYT, etc.
I’m not buying it for a second. Guys who wear $10,000 suits daily aren’t about to slip on some glued-together crap shoes. Hell, I haven’t put on a suit since I retired six years ago, and I’m wearing better shoes than that.
What you y’all think? Legit story, or another anecdote like the Russian piss hookers that’s total bushwah but won’t die anytime soon?
Sounds like bullshit.
Sounds like bullshit.
*Fist-bumps Tater*
Bullshit in stereo!
Is that a Rush album?
That’s what all Rush albums sound like.
If this were true, someone like Rubio would quietly buy another pair that actually fit before wearing them in public.
I’m seeing some of the bigger accounts on X congratulating the US Sled Team on yesterday’s win. It’s really nice to see that kind of attention. Hopefully Trump will invite them to the White House. I can’t vouch for all of them, but I know a few guys who’d love to go.
Let’s face it TOK, my attendance at your games made sled hockey cool.
Faux News gave them some love this morning, too.
Hopefully Trump will invite them to the White House.
He was going to, but then he found out a bunch of them didn’t stand for the national anthem, so….
This man is a national treasure.
Oh dear, I just heard the US ambassador to the UN use the word “optionality”.
“Google has dropped a new artificial intelligence search feature that gave users crowdsourced health advice from amateurs around the world.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/16/google-scraps-ai-search-feature-that-crowdsourced-amateur-medical-advice
Everything is retarded.
Amateurs like Anthony Fauci?
I’ll be thrilled if amateur health turns out to be as big a change agent in the medical world as amateur pr0n was to the video world.
Rule 34 implies *someone* is into your amateur porn.
NB: As always, I am not that someone.
Your need to point that out just makes me not believe you harder.
You like Jimbo’s lutefisk porn?
Well… everybody likes that.
arctotherium
@arctotherium42
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2h
An admin for one of the biggest right-wing Facebook groups DM’d me with his impressions/experience with Facebook moderation and censorship (and gave me permission to post this thread). RW Facebook was big in 2016/17.
The big crackdown began in summer 2017; it did not take the form of bans for hate speech but rather all publicly-known admin accounts getting suspended for no reason, leading to the pages disappearing.
…
The interesting thing is that the non-public admins did not get taken down, even though they would’ve been easily visible from inside Facebook, which implies that the crackdown was using lists of accounts compiled by outside groups (probably academics).
My source believes the suppression of RW Facebook, with its relatively higher standards, paved the way for the current degenerate grifter dominance on the e-Right, as the purges destroyed any sort of internal group hygiene/emergent standards.
https://x.com/arctotherium42/status/2033523491866136844
I got FB banned about a month after Twitter banned me without giving a reason.
It’s my guess that the companies talk to eachother and I would love to know how much.
Some “automotive youtuber” I had barely heard of (Jimmy Oakes? drifter, maybe?) popped up on my feed with a string of videos about buying some sort of SUPERCAR kit car. It’s all about how strange and baffling this thing is. It has a small block chevy from a sprint car (whatever that is)! Now, I get it. Youtube content is all about ginned up “drama”. But are these clowns really that clueless?
a) cars like that get parked and “abandoned” for a reason
b) haven’t any of these yahoos ever heard of a leakdown tester?
It’s not AI slop?
Sprint Car is the open wheel racing class where they slide sideways all around the track. I think Sprint Car engines are built to a certain spec and then sealed to keep the racing even.
I’m getting lot of auto crap on YT with open mouthed arms akimbo headline pictures.
I will not click on those videos.
They guys look stupid and say even dumber things.
Also, while I’m engaging in purposeless speculation:
I wonder what your average everyday professor of feminism would make of Peter Gunn’s girlfriend.
She is a 100% solid gold self-actualized BABE.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
It’s not AI slop?
Sloppy humans.
Huh, Whoopi Goldberg actually said Trump started the Iran war to distract from Epstein and Nancy Guthrie.
There was a time, at the beginning, when her black “valley girl” schtick was amusing. But it didn’t take long for her to turn into a righteous cunt.
Her takes are so retarded most if the time I’m leaning towards her being something like retarded, but I don’t want to insult retards by calling her that.
I don’t think Whoopi is retarded. I think she’s just stupid.
And why Guthrie?
I think she’s just stupid.
Willfully ignorant.
Willfully willing to say ignorant things to continue the paycheck.