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Minnesota’s Somali fraud might not be $1 billion.

They’re now saying it could hit $8 billion.That’s what came out after people started digging. Feeding programs, daycares, healthcare companies. A lot of them weren’t real. Empty buildings, fake kids, the same people billing multiple programs at once. All of it happening in Minnesota under Tim Walz.$8 billion. From one state. And they’re still trying to figure out the full number.We work, we pay taxes, and this is where a chunk of it went. Watch the clip.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

Stephen A. Smith said he cannot understand how the Clintons and Obamas left office worth over $100 million. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas who grew up broke. Obama was a community organizer. Presidential salary never went above $450,000.

Clintons went from about $1.3 million before office to $120 million. Obamas went from $1.3 million to $70 million.

He asked how you enter to serve the people and leave exponentially richer. What do you think happens to that money.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

Minnesota’s Somali fraud might not be $1 billion.

They’re now saying it could hit $8 billion.That’s what came out after people started digging. Feeding programs, daycares, healthcare companies. A lot of them weren’t real. Empty buildings, fake kids, the same people billing multiple programs at once. All of it happening in Minnesota under Tim Walz.$8 billion. From one state. And they’re still trying to figure out the full number.We work, we pay taxes, and this is where a chunk of it went. Watch the clip.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@GregoryDan14990 Dude, gross. Seriously, stop. 🤦‍♂️

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

Stephen A. Smith said he cannot understand how the Clintons and Obamas left office worth over $100 million. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas who grew up broke. Obama was a community organizer. Presidential salary never went above $450,000.

Clintons went from about $1.3 million before office to $120 million. Obamas went from $1.3 million to $70 million.

He asked how you enter to serve the people and leave exponentially richer. What do you think happens to that money.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@redgreenlog Same here. And that's saying something ))

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

Minnesota’s Somali fraud might not be $1 billion.

They’re now saying it could hit $8 billion.That’s what came out after people started digging. Feeding programs, daycares, healthcare companies. A lot of them weren’t real. Empty buildings, fake kids, the same people billing multiple programs at once. All of it happening in Minnesota under Tim Walz.$8 billion. From one state. And they’re still trying to figure out the full number.We work, we pay taxes, and this is where a chunk of it went. Watch the clip.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

Stephen A. Smith said he cannot understand how the Clintons and Obamas left office worth over $100 million. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas who grew up broke. Obama was a community organizer. Presidential salary never went above $450,000.

Clintons went from about $1.3 million before office to $120 million. Obamas went from $1.3 million to $70 million.

He asked how you enter to serve the people and leave exponentially richer. What do you think happens to that money.

[Kira Moss @kiramossx]

TLC sold 10 million albums, won 2 Grammys in one night, then walked backstage and told the press they were broke.

In the clip below, they do the math themselves. I still can’t get over it.

February 1996. CrazySexyCool is the best-selling album ever made by an American girl group.

Seven months earlier, on July 3, 1995, all three members had filed for bankruptcy. Debts: $3.5 million.

Chilli, in the press room:

“We are broke as broke can be.”

A reporter asks how that is even possible. Left Eye answers:

“You can sell 10 million albums and be broke if you have greedy people behind you.”

Then she breaks it down, and this is the part that gets me. Their 1991 contract paid 56 cents per album. Split three ways.

10 million albums is $5.6 million. The label takes back recording and video costs. Then taxes.

“You got about three hundred thousand dollars, if that much.”

Each member reportedly took home less than $50,000 a year.

The group said they never even got their own copy of the contract.

To get out, they reportedly paid $3 million for the rights to their own name. Their own name.

Did the label rob them, or did they sign a bad deal and blame everyone else?

[RedGreen @redgreenlog]

IN GTA 6, ROBBING A LIQUOR STORE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND COUNTS AS A DATE

The Guardian got a look at the game at Rockstar North this week. Jason and Lucia text and call each other when they're apart, and when they're together they can go on dates, like the gym or drinks at a bar. A liquor store robbery counts too. There's even a button to hold hands.

Neglect her and the relationship can go bad. Rockstar didn't say how bad.

Other stuff from the same preview: they start out hotwiring cheap cars and picking basic locks, you can case a store first and kill the cameras or steal the footage, and there are 62 kinds of birds to log with binoculars

Rockstar's head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe said they "could have made GTA 5.5, and done it faster"

5 days left

[Shay @xbtshay]

Celina Powell filmed herself lying in bed next to 6ix9ine while he was asleep and posted the footage online. Two years later that same video was used to destroy Snoop Dogg's 20-year marriage. She doesn't sing. She doesn't rap. She doesn't do anything - her only talent is sleeping with famous men and ruining their lives on camera.

Celina Powell - "The Black Widow" - built her entire career on one skill: sleeping with famous rappers and then exposing every detail to the public. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1995, she grew up as a nobody with a talent for manipulation and an Instagram account. By her early twenties she had assembled a body count that read like a hip-hop festival lineup - Offset, Snoop Dogg, 6ix9ine, DJ Akademiks, Trey Songz, YBN Nahmir, Lil Meech, Waka Flocka Flame, and allegedly dozens more. Her method was always the same: get close, get evidence, then detonate it publicly for maximum damage.

In 2017, while Cardi B was pregnant with her first child, Powell announced she was also carrying Offset's baby. She posted a paternity test naming "Kiari Cephus" as the father of a child called "Karma." Offset's lawyers accused her of trying to extort $50,000. It was all fake - she'd stolen her friend's ultrasound, fabricated the entire paternity test, and later admitted everything on DJ Akademiks' Twitch stream, apologizing to Cardi B on camera like it was nothing.

But it was her 2018 attack on Snoop Dogg that proved she could bring down anyone. Powell claimed she'd hooked up with Snoop twice while he was married to his high school sweetheart Shante - a marriage of over 20 years. She posted text messages, FaceTime screenshots, and video footage of them together. She tweeted that they'd had sex while listening to his own gospel album "Bible of Love." When asked why she exposed him, her answer was simple - "his dick was wack" and "he kicked me out." She said Snoop sent her $20,000 afterward to keep quiet. He never directly denied it. Instead, he announced a TV show called "Clout Chasers" featuring her confession about faking the Offset pregnancy.

His wife Shante posted a cryptic heartbroken message on Instagram. Then in 2020, 6ix9ine - the rapper Powell had filmed sleeping - weaponized her footage of Snoop during their public beef, posting it to millions. Powell later uploaded a sex tape to OnlyFans for $29.95, and Snoop eventually appeared to apologize to his wife in a new song. One woman managed to put a crack in a 20-year marriage and hand the ammunition to hip-hop's most infamous snitch - all because she got kicked out of a hotel room.

The consequences eventually caught up. In December 2018, bounty hunters arrested her in Colorado for $61,000 in outstanding bonds - charges ranging from shoplifting to worse. A white bounty hunter used the n-word during her arrest. She was arrested repeatedly in Miami for driving with a suspended license - her license had been revoked in Colorado for being a habitual traffic offender. Police surrounded her bubblegum pink Lamborghini Urus outside a Target. In 2022, she was sentenced to two years in prison for violating probation. As of 2026, she still has multiple active bench warrants in Florida.

She accused Trey Songz of raping her and said she had a rape kit administered at the hospital, but because of her track record of lies, almost nobody believed her. G Herbo told a podcast she robbed him the first time they met - stole his passport, his clothes, his laptop, and his cameraman's equipment. DJ Akademiks bought her a G-Wagon and she joked about his anatomy on podcasts. She dated Clay from Love Is Blind - the man who said "no" at the altar. Built a net worth of over a million dollars without ever creating a single piece of content that wasn't someone else's humiliation.

Does someone who's lied about pregnancies, exposed marriages, and filmed men without consent deserve to be believed when she says she was assaulted?

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

Stephen A. Smith Presses Abdul El-Sayed Over His Feud With JD Vance — El-Sayed Fires Back by Accusing Trump of Dragging Their Wives Into the Fight

Stephen A. Smith: You’re not going to get into a fight with the Vice President of the United States, are you? He told you to keep his wife’s name out of your mouth.

Abdul El-Sayed: My anger with the vice president is that he’s supporting an administration making Americans poorer and sicker.

We’re fighting a war with Iran that he doesn’t know how to get us out of, and a trade war with Canada that’s costing people in my state $5,600 a year. The man knows better.

And who brought wives into this in the first place? Donald Trump.

Shortly after I was nominated, he posted a picture of himself and his wife alongside me and my wife, trying to suggest that somehow my wife was less American than his. My wife was born here. His wasn’t.

So if JD Vance doesn’t want to talk about wives, perhaps he should talk to his boss about why he brought spouses into it.

And when he suggests his late grandfather would be horrified that someone with my name and faith is running for office, we should ask who else wouldn’t be included in his version of America.

That’s the hypocrisy I think JD Vance doesn’t want to discuss.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@NexoraStories Funny how the money disappears, but nobody seems to know who's responsible. Follow every dollar. No excuses. No exceptions.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@thelowseason And you know what's crazy? Nobody would've noticed if people hadn't started asking questions. Imagine how much is still out there.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@velvetmusea Right?? That's what I'm trying to figure out. How does billions go missing and nobody seems to notice until now?

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@thelowseason Walz let that happen on his watch and still acts like nothing's wrong. Nine billion is more than the whole country of Somalia makes in a year. How the hell is this guy still governor?

[lowseason @thelowseason]

Stephen Miller just called Tim Walz an incompetent loser.

$9 billion stolen by Somalis in Minnesota under his watch. More than the entire GDP of Somalia.

He said a lot of people are going to jail.

How is Walz still in office?

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@soflgreg Yeah, that's a pretty important detail to leave out. If you're gonna call someone out, at least get the timeline right.

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@cev07161982 Lmao, at this point everybody's trying to out-Trump Trump. It's getting ridiculous.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@satanas_jorge Lol, that's what gets me. They complain about one guy getting richer while giving the other guy a pass. Make it make sense.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

Stephen A. Smith said he cannot understand how the Clintons and Obamas left office worth over $100 million. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas who grew up broke. Obama was a community organizer. Presidential salary never went above $450,000.

Clintons went from about $1.3 million before office to $120 million. Obamas went from $1.3 million to $70 million.

He asked how you enter to serve the people and leave exponentially richer. What do you think happens to that money.

[afterglow @SiiennaVale]

@velvetmusea Since when did a politician's faith become a loyalty test? Judge the man by what he does, not what label he claims. 😂

[LabelCut @velvetmusea]

Trump just looked at the camera and said he’s not a Christian.

Not “spiritual.” Not “believer.” Straight up “I’m not a Christian.”

MAGA, you still good with this?

[BeyondTheStory @BeyondStoryHQ]

🚨 CALIFORNIA VOTED FOR TOUGHER CRIME POLICIES. SO WHY IS THE STATE MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION?

A surprising criticism of Gavin Newsom is coming from an unexpected direction.

Ana Kasparian argues that California voters made their position clear: 76% supported Proposition 36, signaling a desire to reverse some of the state’s softer approach to crime.

But there’s a problem.

According to Kasparian, Newsom has failed to provide sufficient funding to make those changes work.

She also points to the early closure of four prisons, plans to shut down another facility, and overcrowding across county and state prisons.

The consequence? Inmates could be released earlier simply because the system is running out of space.

Even Neera Tanden challenged her on whether investing in crime prevention and public safety should be a priority.

This debate raises a serious question: if voters demand tougher action on crime, should politicians be held accountable for failing to deliver it?

California’s criminal justice debate is far from over.