LostBlueDogNow

Lost Independent Voter. Policy over Party. Lost Trust in Media. One Set of Rules (Outrage & Praise) for all Politicians. Coastal Midwesterner

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Eric Weinstein: 100% of the population has gone completely insane — And here’s the proof

Not a metaphor.
He says you can pretty much prove it.

Biden spent four years with the nuclear football while declining. Almost nobody treated it as a crisis. Stage-managed, like Roosevelt.

The entire management of COVID was completely fake.

We still can’t “get to the bottom” of Jeffrey Epstein.

Nobody trusts Harvard. People are losing faith in CNN.
Everything is bananas, fictionalized, managed wall-to-wall.

We’re living in what he calls managed reality.

Most people have accepted it.
He’s stuck watching it.

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,

My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.

The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.

I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.

I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.

Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.

Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.

A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.

This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.

There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.

Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.

I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.

This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.

Three things would change the math overnight.

Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.

End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.

Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.

I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.

Respectfully,

Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

[Sassygal @Sassygal1971]

He sure did try to warn us👇👇

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

To my American friends, from a Frenchman. From a European. Before you vote in the midterms, let me give you some perspective, because we've already lived the movie you're being sold.

The Soviet Union promised equality and delivered gulags, famine, bread lines, and a state that lied about everything. Solzhenitsyn spent his life documenting it. Tens of millions dead, and an entire people taught that truth was whatever the Party said it was. Nobody votes for that on day one. You vote for "a little more state," "a little more redistribution," "a little more control over what you can say." It's a slope, not a cliff.

France is what the middle of that slope looks like. One of the heaviest tax burdens in the developed world. Public spending around 57% of GDP. A state that touches everything and fixes nothing. Schools set on fire during riots. Insecurity so normal that people stop reporting it. Engineers, founders and doctors leaving every year for London, Dubai, Lisbon, or your country. And worst of all, a whole generation that no longer believes tomorrow can be better than today. That's what kills a country. Not one bad law. The death of hope.

I build my company between Paris and San Francisco. I know exactly where ambition is welcomed and where it's punished.

You have something we don't: Elon Musk on your side. Please, listen to him. A man who voted Democrat most of his life didn't switch sides on a whim. He saw something coming. We in Europe are already living it.

Don't hand back even part of the keys. We did. Look at us.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

[Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev]

BREAKING: Europe has received $320.7 billion worth of energy supplies from Russia since 2022 - Russian DPM Novak.

This figure is even larger than a $250 billion estimate by President Trump!

The astounding hypocrisy of EU bureaucrats who criticize the US-Russia diesel deal. 🤷‍♂️

[Rep. Ilhan Omar @Ilhan]

Make no mistake: the fact that one of the most powerful people in the world was investigated impartially and indicted is testament to the fact that we still live in a nation of laws. And no one is above the law.

[Dr. Dale Wen @dale_wen]

Numbers don't lie.

Here is a compilation of data: how much aid the US and EU have provided to Ukraine, how much they have paid to purchase Russian fossil fuels.

The EU’s cumulative purchases of Russian fossil fuels exceed its aid allocations to Ukraine by approximately €37.7 billion.

[LostBlueDogNow @LostBlueDog]

@DavidAFrench @jessesingal Where has French been living the last decade?

[Saritha Komatireddy @sarithaforny]

The Attorney General’s Office should never be used as a political weapon.

Tonight, I confronted Letitia James about her record and the politicization of an office that is supposed to deliver equal justice under the law.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:

— The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’Humanité €6.5 million and Libération €6.3 million

— The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation

— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies

— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”

— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.

— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.

https://t.co/LpyxOXtFAY

— Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.

[Sam @SRA338]

Minnesota does not have a gun-law problem. It has a gun-prosecution problem.

State law says a felon caught with a firearm gets five years in prison. Mandatory. Here is what the state's own Sentencing Guidelines Commission says actually happens.

Statewide, July 2024 to June 2025:
- 1,632 firearm cases reported by county attorneys
- 149 never charged
- 315 charged, then dismissed
- 191 pleaded to offenses with no mandatory minimum
- 472 got the mandatory sentence

That is 29 of every 100. Of the 329 waivers, prosecutors asked for 183. Judges did the other 146.

Hennepin County, 41% of the state's caseload: 672 charged, 151 dismissed, 204 got the minimum. 30 of every 100.

Then it got worse. Since October 15, 2025, Mary Moriarty's office will not prosecute felonies found on stops for expired tabs or a broken taillight, guns included, unless a supervisor approves an exception.

On Tuesday, after 100 rounds were fired on a Bloomington street, Chief Booker Hodges said: "We have received multiple charging declination letters from the county attorney when we stop people for a petty misdemeanor traffic stop, and we find weapons and drugs."

Another leader at the same podium: "The gun possession crime is going to lead to that gun violence crime if you don't take care of it."

And the excuses are gone. Hodges on the shooters: "They're coming from two-parent homes, living in apartment buildings with $3,500 a month rent, driving Beamers and Mercedes." No drugs. No cash stashes. Asked about root causes: "I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I have no answer for you."

No poverty. No drug trade. No youth-program gap. That leaves one variable: consequences. As one official put it: "Why stop if nothing's going to happen to you?"

The fix is not a new law. Stop the car. Charge the gun. Impose the minimum. Every time.

Before the Capitol writes another registry bill for people who follow the law, ask why seven in ten gun cases end without the sentence the law already requires.

Sources: MSGC 2026 Report to the Legislature, pp. 37-42; KSTP 9/19/25; Bloomington news conference 10/6/26

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

HE IS MOVING FORWARDS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT

[British Stand @britishstandd]

Labour MP Bursts Into Tears As Rupert Lowe UNCOVERS The Biggest Cover Up In Modern British History!

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

The Lt. Gov’s race in Vermont does not get a ton of coverage but this has to be one of the most brutal questions I’ve ever seen one candidate ask another and her answer was so smug.

[Jacob Kaplan @JacobKaplan17]

Every Democrat running in a red state

[Brenton Steinmann @BrentSteinmann]

5 years ago I would have agreed with this statement.

Several years ago I had someone close to me say something derogatory about the Somali community. I defended the community. My defense? It's not everyone from that community. I'd worked alongside people from the community and those I'd worked with seemed like, and probably to this day, are good people.

Now many years later, I'm questioning my defense.

The community, by and large, doesn't seem to want to assimilate. They share very few American values. Their children born here identify more with being Somali than being American. They don't like this country, yet they accept government assistance at an alarming rate with no end goal to get off assistance. They commit massive amounts of fraud. And so on.

Are there good, honest, hardworking, America-loving Somali Americans? Absolutely there are. Is it the vast majority? I no longer believe so.

They rarely accept accountability. They rarely hold their own communities accountable. Any criticisms are automatically met with accusations of racism. Heck, the parents of the Somali American 18 year old that was just arrested today for planning out a Mall of America terror attack refused to talk to the FBI when contacted earlier about their son's radicalization.

5 years later. I'm sick and tired of it.

Something has got to change.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'It leads me to believe the calibre of politician we have in this country is woeful. It's pitiful!'

@MichelleDewbs asks why Labour and Green Party politicians appear to consistently be caught out in interviews on basic facts and figures.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

It’s always crazy to me how a .45 cent per gallon gas increase can cost a political party control of Congress, but an additional $1500 dollars in public school property taxes isn’t enough to get people to question their school boards.

[Rob Ketterling @robketterling]

Minnesota’s Somali settlement is a case of compassion without a standard. It is failing and we are at a critical moment. It is what happens when a low-education refugee population from a clan-based, low-trust society is settled in one metro, given immediate access to a generous welfare state, and told that maintaining a separate culture is the goal.

There are about 80,000 to 110,000 people, most already citizens, concentrated in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Ramsey, and St. Cloud with new enclaves and concentrations building in neighboring counties. There are too many to undo and that is not a legal option as well so let’s look for real solutions. We need to stop feeding the problem.

**What has failed**

Equal rules were dropped. Students see Somali classmates skip the punishments everyone else gets.

About 12 gangs, roughly 300 kids with an additional Halo of perhaps 1000 more young men and thousands that will not cross them. There are a known 14 homicides and 100-plus shootings in two years, plus incredible amounts of carjackings, ongoing fights and physical altercations, and mall robberies.

Welfare is the norm. About half the children in poverty, weak English after a decade, food stamps and Medicaid in most households. (79% are on some form of welfare.

Fraud used the same nonprofits that did the welcoming. Meal, autism, and housing cases were overwhelmingly this network.

No Western country with a dense Somali population has closed the gap. Sweden is worse.

** Send them back is not a real option.**

Most are US-born or naturalized. Citizens cannot be deported for failed integration.
Some are removable, non-citizens after serious convictions, status fraud, and the few thousand who never naturalized. That is a slice and not a realistic solution.

**What would work**

Same offense, same consequence in schools and courts. No racial suspension targets.

Federal gun charges, adult charging for carjacking, trespass bans, witness support.

English and work required for cash and food aid. Contract bans after fraud convictions.

Stop new placements and chain migration into Minnesota.
Deport the removable slice. Offer paid exit to anyone who will take it. Do not pretend the citizens are leaving.

Churches: quit the resettlement pipeline, back one standard, help individuals who will live by it. Stop the feel good compassion that is actually hurting not helping. In the Muslim community, Imams need to stop making an apology from leaders naming Somalis a condition for helping. They must stop defending the wrongdoing otherwise they are a veto to any progress.

Electing new leaders that will not allow the corruption to continue. Holding all of our elected leaders, principles, administrators, and religious leaders accountable. Many of our current leaders are in on the grift and cover up and it’s time for this to end. Others live in fear of retribution for breaking with the ranks.

** If there’s a model we can follow, it’s Denmark, not Sweden. **

Denmark already has done the version people called cruel: lower benefits, temporary status, breakup of the enclaves, mandatory early learning of Danish. They cut the inflow of Somalis. It did not remove the citizens. Minnesota has not done even the mild version of that. “Minnesota Nice” is the perfect environment for the problem to continue, we need to toughen up. If not, the neighborhoods and the schools are in huge trouble. It’s way past time to take this problem seriously and we need everyone to work together to turn things around in Minnesota.