Trump’s tax immunity and J6 cops’ lawsuit
On Tuesday, our Nate Jackson wrote about a settlement reached between President Donald Trump and the IRS that resulted in a $1.776 billion fund to compensate victims of government weaponization. That settlement will also preclude the IRS from pursuing further lawsuits or audits against the Trump family regarding tax returns filed before the settlement date. The move to shield the president and his family from IRS scrutiny has drawn criticism across the aisle. Meanwhile, two police officers, Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, who were stationed at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, are suing to stop the anti-weaponization fund, arguing that “those who enact violence in President Trump’s name will not just avoid punishment, they will be rewarded with riches.” Suggesting J6 rioters avoided punishment is stretching the truth to the breaking point.

Barney Frank dies
On Tuesday, former Massachusetts Democrat Representative Barney Frank died at the age of 86. In 1987, Frank became the first sitting member of Congress to publicly come out as a homosexual. Furthermore, in 2012, he became the first U.S. representative to enter into a same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of his political career, Frank pushed an LGBTQ agenda. He was first elected to Congress in 1980 and held that seat until 2013. Legislatively, he is best known for co-sponsoring the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, an overreaction to the 2008 financial crisis, parts of which were repealed in 2018. When once asked how he wanted to be remembered, he responded, “Oh, that I was smart enough and learned enough about the reaction not to answer that question.”

Pelosi torpedoes Weiner’s House bid
Earlier this week, outgoing California Democrat Rep. and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly endorsed San Francisco city supervisor Connie Chan in the Democrat primary race to fill her seat. Pelosi’s endorsement may torpedo the chances for state Senator Scott Wiener, who has infamously promoted a radical LGBTQ agenda, including legislation making California a “transgender sanctuary state.” However, it doesn’t appear that Wiener’s agenda turned Pelosi against him; rather, her objection to him seems more personal. Wiener’s refusal to resign his state senate seat while seeking a U.S. House seat has prevented Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, from running to fill his seat. Wiener had been leading this race, but Pelosi’s endorsement will throw a lot of support Chan’s way, and may have ended his chances.

The House’s bad housing bill
The House passed a bill intended to limit institutional investment in single-family housing units with massive bipartisan support, 396-13. Limiting institutional investment in homes is broadly popular among Americans, with support from seven in 10 respondents, according to one poll, and has brought Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren together on the issue. However, that support appears poorly reasoned. Institutional investors have been selling more homes than they have bought over the last few years and are responsible for renovating hundreds of thousands of distressed homes. Furthermore, the idea that limiting institutional ownership — currently comprising only 0.65% of the nation’s single-family housing stock — will significantly reduce competition is flawed.

Former DOJ prosecutor charged with stealing Trump investigation docs
Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, the former Justice Department prosecutor who supported Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s possession of classified documents, has been charged with theft of government property. Lineberger, who was serving as the managing assistant U.S. attorney for the Fort Pierce, Florida, branch office, faces four criminal charges related to her handling of Smith’s final report on his Trump investigation. In an apparent response to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s blocking the public release of Smith’s report, FBI Director Kash Patel explained, “Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.” Lineberger faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Minnesota daycare fraudster indicted
The owner of the Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whom Nick Shirley exposed, was charged on Wednesday with defrauding the state’s Child Care Assistance Program. Fahima Egeh Mahamud is “accused of defrauding multiple government programs for over $5 million, including the aforementioned $4.6 million through Minnesota’s CCAP and an additional $850,000 from federal programs designed to aid child nutrition,” reported the Washington Examiner. She filed 13,000 fraudulent claims from 2022 to 2025 to receive government grants to supposedly provide 60,000 meals per month to children from low-income families. Mahamud was also indicted for her role in the $250 million fraud involving the COVID Feeding Our Future program. After Shirley’s viral video, she permanently closed the “daycare center” and attempted to flee to London but was arrested by law enforcement the day she booked her flight.

Colorado’s Supreme Court orders child gender mutilation
Colorado has embraced gender mutilation on a structural level. On Monday, the Centennial State’s Supreme Court ruled that Children’s Hospital Colorado must resume offering “gender-affirming care” to minors. The 5-2 ruling agreed with the plaintiffs that ending puberty blockers and hormonal therapy for gender “transitions” was discrimination since those medications are available to children with genuine medical illnesses. The court went further, suggesting that not interrupting puberty with medicalization risks “irreparable harm” by letting the child develop naturally. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been fighting to end child gender mutilation, arguing, “There is divine worth in every person. It shines most brightly in our children that was commanded us to protect them.”

Pakistani rape gang faces charges quarter-century later
Much has been said about Britain’s Muslim rape gang issue, which is ongoing and horrific, but some halfhearted justice is at last being meted out. Nineteen Pakistani men and one woman were convicted and sentenced last year for their actions as a rape gang from 1995 to 2003, and now the details of those convictions are being reported. Ansar Mahmood Qayum, now 49, was sentenced to 10 years for three rapes and two indecent assaults. Sajid Majid, 53, got the highest sentence of 28 years for five rapes and three indecent assaults. Manaf Hussain, Tariq Azam, and Zulfiqar Ali got 25, 24, and 22 years for their rapes and other crimes. These men will be behind bars for decades, but they walked free for decades, and Muslim rape gangs are still an issue today. Is a 20-year delay before punishment true justice?

Meta laying off 10% of workforce
Big Tech giant Meta laid off 8,000 employees on Wednesday, accounting for roughly 10% of its workforce. The AI-induced layoffs were first announced last month. An email to the laid-off workers explained, “We have decided to reduce headcount as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making.” Chief People Officer Janelle Gale told remaining employees that they would move into new roles, with some 7,000 of them working on AI-related initiatives. Before the layoffs, some Meta workers had expressed fears over being monitored and tracked by AI while at work. An anonymous employee stated, “The sort of unapologetic, ‘we’re training your replacement, and we’re not paying you more for it’ approach is just another signal of how little Meta cares about the humans that it employs.”

Headlines

• San Diego mosque shooters hated basically everyone, possible manifesto shows (Daily Caller)

• Muslim security guard killed by neo-Nazis made Facebook posts admiring Hitler, blasting Jews (Not the Bee)

• Texas Dem: Let’s put all “Zionists” in camps — and castrate them (Hot Air)

• Harvard votes to cap A’s in effort to curb grade inflation (WSJ)

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