John Fund

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[John Fund @johnfund]

60 Minutes has been tarnished for years. It's more the haunt of aging, arrogant prima donnas than it is a crown jewel of investigative journalism. https://t.co/GwBychyJL6

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Here’s all the items California fraudster Paul Randall purchased with stolen Medi-Cal fraud money

- Over $270 million in fraudulent claims
- Over a dozen Ferraris
- Multiple Lamborghinis
- A Bugatti
- A Lotus
- Kobe Bryant game-worn sneakers
- Jackie Robinson baseball card
- Mickey Mantle baseball card
- 7 real estate properties total
- One mansion in an exclusive area of Orange County with 8 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms

I looked into this and found was able to do all this on under 1 year, May 2022 to April 2023 which is about 11 months

Randall, along with co-conspirators exploited a temporary Medi-Cal rule change during and after COVID that suspended prior authorization requirements for certain medications

- They billed for 19 expensive, non-contracted drugs that contained low-cost generic ingredients.
- Many claims were for drugs that were not medically necessary and often not even provided to patients

They then laundered proceeds, including kickbacks to Anderson, to conceal the fraud

Democrats and California agencies let this happen. They should be the ones held accountable

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

@SmullenNewYork New York government schools spend nearly $40,000 per student per year. They steal too much money from taxpayers already.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Progressives call them "homeless encampments," but they are open-air drug scenes. Ask the homeless themselves what their lives are like, and they will tell you it's about feeding their fentanyl & meth addictions and being victims of violence by other addicts and dealers.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

On Karen Bass and Nithya Raman's watch - mayor and chair of the city’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, respectively -- Los Angeles has become a worldwide leader in homelessness — in the bad way.

"Los Angeles has more people living on the streets than any other city in the United States, which almost certainly makes it the homelessness capital of the developed world.

There are 15 counties in California whose total populations are smaller than the homeless population of L.A. County, which exceeded 75,000 people in 2023. If you filled Dodger Stadium with all the county’s homeless people, you’d have enough left over to fill Crypto. com Arena downtown."

[THE GLOBAL WATCHDOG @glwatchdog]

🚨WATCH: NBC asks Spencer whether this is just about self-promotion to get your brand?

Spencer Pratt: Everything I ever worked for burned in my house, everything my parents worked for burned in their house. I started this to expose corruption

Running for mayor is Not Fun. I have to have 24/7 security.

[John Fund @johnfund]

"Give her four does of NPR, two of the New York Times..we'll have to quarantine her."

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

These Spencer Pratt videos by @dsonoiki are better than 99.9% of political consultant ads. He does it again.

[John Fund @johnfund]

California Post poll has LA Mayor Race Tied.

Smaller sample than Thursday LA Times poll but with a more defensible definition of who is likely to vote.

https://t.co/Qno4QGhjOM

[John Fund @johnfund]

Europeans marvel at how ubiquitous air conditioning is in the US.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

There is, amongst even the Americans, one state without majority AC uptake...

[John Fund @johnfund]

Judge agrees to reopen Trump’s $10B IRS case for further scrutiny. The president himself admitted the irony and strangeness of the fact that "he was basically suing himself" since he runs the IRS. The strangest part of the settlement - the IRS can never again investigate Trump or his family - is bound to raises questions even among MAGA voters.
https://t.co/C5Vyu5g5eS

[John Fund @johnfund]

Tunku Varadarajan visits the dystopia of LA that is fueling the anger of Spencer Pratt supporters:

"I saw hundreds of addicts, many hunched over while standing up, like waxwork men melting in the sun. Men and women injected themselves in plain view. A group were piled onto a prone body, fists flailing, beating the victim to a pulp. A man tried to wrestle a Canada goose, while a woman defecated at the edge of the park’s lake.

On a corner, a charity-operated food truck doled out lunches to a long, shuffling line. The squalor was breathtaking."
sensitive’ to prosecute or give tickets or violations to someone without an address.” Under Mayor Pratt, he says, “they’ll have an address if they torture dogs: the jail.”

https://t.co/Wlm0yQOeuY

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all.

What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Spencer Pratt reveals many of the homeless in Los Angeles have actually been bussed in from other states

There are very lucrative businesses that do “body brokering”

These businesses work with NGO networks and the homeless people are their products

Body brokers make money by recruiting vulnerable people, typically with addiction issues, government insurance, eligibility for government-funded services

They then get these homeless people into treatment programs, sober homes, shelters, or NGO-run housing

These body brokers companies earn kickbacks and per-head payments. The scam goes beyond that with over billing

The homeless Industrial complex is a business

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Insane story from NYC:

[John Fund @johnfund]

What a great idea. Papa Johns’ ‘Toy Story 5’ pop-up. I love these films. https://t.co/KyXt9yLnWp via @ladailynews

[John Fund @johnfund]

In October, Washington DC will host a curated Anti-Communist Film Festival - I'll be there. Please join me. https://t.co/TNKing9bPh

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇧🇪 Belgium just convicted Dries Van Langenhove for “hate speech” because he linked mass migration to crime and social decline during a university lecture using statistics and scientific sources.

The judge openly admitted the facts themselves were not false.

That’s the terrifying part.

The ruling basically says you can still be punished even when what you say is true, if the government decides your framing is politically unacceptable.

He’s already spent over €420,000 fighting these cases and says more prosecutions are coming.

Welcome to Europe

Source: @DVanLangenhove

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Darren on the 20-year plan he argues foreign actors used to co-opt American universities and shift Western opinion on Israel:

"The design to co-opt American universities can be traced to a single hotel room in Philadelphia by the FBI.

Where, after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority with Arafat is brought in, and Hamas is considered left out in the cold.

They laid out in this single conversation, that the FBI has transcripts of, their plan to co-opt universities and university teaching, for the express purposes of changing Western opinion over the course of 20 years.

They had a 20-year plan, and it totally worked.

To make it seem like it was this natural formation out of the ether, through moral will, is to dumb down the sophistication of what the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas set out to do.

It was done with intent. It was by design."

[John Fund @johnfund]

this kind of government intervention always fails - Hungary and China other notable examples.

[More Births @MoreBirths]

Turkey's astonishing fertility collapse
Turkey's president Erdoğan made it his mission to revive birthrates. Instead, Turkish fertility has fallen faster than almost anywhere on Earth to just 1.42 in 2025 (just 1.2 outside of Kurdistan).
What happened, and what can we learn? 🧵.

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

Graham Platner vows to ‘come after’ Bezos as Senate hopeful escalates billionaire tax fight

Despite what Platner & Dems claim, Bezos didn’t steal to get his wealth. He had a better way to get customers products more cheaply & faster. Customers better off https://t.co/nnaEitmPhz