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Minnesota Department of Human Services Employees

Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It's scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.

In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz's friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.

As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it's Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.

Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we'd be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz "buddies."

As such, we can't fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we're appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz's agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.

We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.

Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.

@nytimes
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Oh if only they were Orange Pedophiles, then it would be perfectly okay!
#6 | POSTED BY SYCODEFLECTOR

Deflection shields on 10!

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When weed gets even remotely close to alcohol or tobacco in annual deaths then I might get concerned. Agree with Donnerboy.

The Doors - Riders On The Storm

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad

Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah

..

"We are doing everything necessary to make sure that Nassau County is safe," Bruce Blakeman bleated. "We are installing technology along the border of New York City that will read license plates, that will have facial recognition, that will have video cameras."

NCPD employs about 2,400 police officers and this is a horrible excuse to expand their police powers while raising revenue from tickets and eroding privacy safeguards. NY State Police also patrol parts of Nassau County, so they will have access to the information gathered by the new surveillance system.

One wonders which Israeli hi-tech security firm or Republican insider was awarded the contract.

This MAGA abomination amassed an incredible litany of blasphemies in 2025, to wit:

In Jan 2025, Bruce Blakeman refused to lower county flags to honor the late Jimmy Carter. In Feb 2025, Blakeman was sued for creating an "illegal militia" of armed and deputized private citizens and in July 2025 he allowed local police officers to wear masks while assisting ICE raids. In June 2025, Dummkopf Trumpf endorsed this troglodyte for re-election in a move meant to clear the field for bland, unpopular House Republican Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to run for NYS governor.

Republican-leaning Nassau County is just east of Queens on Long Island and has a population of 1,381,715, 53% white. Per capita income is $60,980 and the median household income is $141,568.

Map: Nassau County

In 2021, this loser barely squeaked by his election and so people in Nassau County are stuck with power-hungry, money-wasting, good-for-nothing fear-mongering Islamophobe Bruce Blakeman.


"Do you believe the same vigorous reviews are happening under Trump and Hegseth?"
When I was doing this, there were expansive legal reviews at multiple levels to ensure that the target was a valid military target and any action against it complied with both the Geneva Conventions and International Humanitarian Law. That legal review would be handed off to the General Officer who would approve or disapprove the strikes. Ultimately, it was that star who would hold responsibility.
And I never was in a situation where the SECDEF personally ordered a strike. I have to make the assumption that the process has not changed all that much since I stopped doing this stuff, but prima facie it looks as if there may not be the type of vetting I did going on anymore.
#76 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-30 03:44 AM

Glenn Kirschner - Pete Hegseth's "Kill Them All" Order Constitutes a War Crime!
203,931 views Nov 29, 2025 All the "King's" Men: Trump's lackeys and their disservice to America

The Washington Post just reported: "Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say" Kill them all." Hegseth's order, and the resulting murders in international waters, violates domestic law, international law, and the law of war.

A statement just issued by the "Former JAGs Working Group" concludes that the killings carried out on Hegseth's orders "are war crimes."

I sat down for a discussion about this latest development with law professor, military law expert, and member of the Former JAGs Working Group Dan Maurer.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has never met a war or military option he didn't like, whether it's bombing Palestinians, Houthis, Somalis, Syrians, Iranians, Lebanese, Iraqis, and now Venezuelans.

Here he is praising Dummkopf Trumpf, bleating nonsense that Venezuela is a 'narco-caliphate" that should be overthrown: Warmongering Lindsey Graham

For years, good-for-nothing Lindsey Graham has been one of the best at distracting Americans of our inter-galactic wealth disparity between the rich and the poor by either war-mongering or by legislating on behalf of white supremacists, NRA gun nuts, faux Christians, AIPAC, or evangelical Zionists.

"See! Look over there! Taliban Somali Narco-Jihadist Communists!"

Paleolithic status quo guardians Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) must be politely shown the door forthwith:


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