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Federal authorities raided over 20 locations across Minnesota, in connection with an ongoing investigation into massive public assistance fraud. The story should have run across all three major broadcast network evening newscasts but only made it to air on one. The Elitist Media does not like this story.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, April 28th, 2026:
WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews had the sole report on the Minnesota fraud raids across the broadcast network evening news dial.
TOM LLAMAS: In Minnesota tonight, federal and state agents executing more than 20 search warrants at businesses across the Twin Cities, raids linked to a… pic.twitter.com/OcLVyFyn48
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 29, 2026
TOM LLAMAS: In Minnesota tonight, federal and state agents executing more than 20 search warrants at businesses across the Twin Cities, raids linked to a growing fraud scandal that has reached the steps of The White House. Maggie Vespa has been following this one for us and has this story.
MAGGIE VESPA: Tonight, new raids rocking Minnesota, with video showing federal and state authorities executing more than 20 search warrants at sites across the Twin Cities, including autism centers, child care facilities and at least one senior center. All, federal authorities say, tied to allegations of widespread welfare fraud within Minnesota’s large Somali community.
NICK SHIRLEY: It’s just a simple question: where are the children at?
VESPA: Allegations reignited by this viral video posted four months ago by a right-wing influencer claiming multiple Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota were fraudulently collecting state subsidies while sitting empty. But according to the state agency in charge, those centers were operating “as expected.” Today’s raids marking the boldest move yet by a White House fraud task force led by Vice President Vance.
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Chuck Todd is scared, man. He says he’s not going anywhere President Donald Trump is.
“I don’t feel safe,” the former Meet the Press host said Monday on Chris Cillizza’s podcast.
“Wherever Trump is …” Todd added before his soulmate Cillizza jumped in and completed his frightened thought “… chaos follows …”
“… Chaos follows him and you are less safe, right?” Todd finished.
The self-indulgent host of The Chuck ToddCast and the host of whatever it is Cillizza is doing these days commiserated on the subject of Trump “chaos” less than two days after a gunman stormed a security checkpoint in front of the Washington Hilton ballroom where the annual White House Correspond
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Now that we have the full manifesto of the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, we know what we probably could have known from the start: He was an unsound man who was egged on by the conspiracy theories of the left.
Calling Trump “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor” — clearly, ideas taken from the fever swamps of the Jeffrey Epstein-baiting podcast class — Cole Tomas Allen, in the missive sent to family and friends, wrote that he was “no longer willing to permit” the president “to coat my hands with his crimes.”
I am giving Mr. Allen more credit for sense than he deserves by adumbrating his violence-excusing blather. After all, one cannot take seriously a manifesto that ends with “Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.” Allen, who was a teacher and engineer before he almost certainly signed himself up to spend a hefty chunk of the rest of his life behind bars, probably isn’t going to inspire too many people with those words, or with this sort of thing:
President Trump just posted video of Secret Service shooting at attempted assassin from the White House Correspondents’ dinner, allegedly Cole Allen, and photos of him. https://t.co/HKykZwT3Fe pic.twitter.com/UvJBIs3gsg
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) April 26, 2026
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. GOP uses shooting to shill for Trump’s gaudy ballroom Good thing they’re focusing on the important issues! Democrats are leading in polls, but voters want new blood Here’s what they can do to engage young voters ahead of the midterms. Republicans hit airwaves to…
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As pointed out by RedState’s Bob Hoge on April 27, 2026, First Lady Melania Trump put ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on full blast regarding his “joke” on April 23, 2026, prior to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) about Mrs. Trump having a “glow like an expectant widow.” Melania responded with a call for ABC to fire Kimmel, long known for his hatred of all people conservative in general and President Trump in particular, for his hate-filled attempt at humor.
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It’s been 48 hours since the attempted assassination of President Trump and senior Cabinet officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Sadly, one network endeavors to deemphasize the words contained within the shooter’s manifesto, and hide his leanings from viewer consideration.
Watch as correspondent Matt Gutman papers over all of these important insights into the shooter, reducing his statements to his mockery of the security arrangements outside the D.C. Hilton:
THE FADE BEGINS: The sole mention of the WHCD shooter’s writings on tonight’s CBS Evening News alludes to his mockery of the security situation at the D.C. Hilton: no mention of a manifesto, or of his political leanings.
MATT GUTMAN: In an email to family timed to be sent just… pic.twitter.com/FtAqGlXEa2
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 28, 2026
MATT GUTMAN: In an email to family timed to be sent just before the incident, police say the suspect himself expressed surprise at the security footprint. He wrote “I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat. The security at the event is all outside… because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.”
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From illegal war on Iran to an inhumane fuel blockade of Cuba, from AI weapons to crypto corruption, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence.
Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, The Nation publishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too often denied a voice in the national media—stories like the one you’ve just read.
Each day, our journalism cuts through lies and distortions, contextualizes the developments reshaping politics around the globe, and advances progressive ideas that oxygenate our movements and instigate change in the halls of power.
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HOPELESS Russian soldiers are reportedly shooting down their own drones and then disguising them as Ukrainian aircraft so they can claim battle bonuses.
It comes as horror claims emerge that Vladimir Putin’s soldiers are turning to cannibalism as they run low on provisions.
Russians shoot down their own drones due to coordination failures and administrative confusion, United24 Media reported.
But Mad Vlad’s desperate lads are then pretending to have taken down Ukrainian drones so that they can claim cash rewards.
Pro-Russian media describe the situation as a “time bomb”, expressing fears that nearly all of Putin’s drones could soon come under attack from his own hapless soldiers.
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In a press conference minutes after the attack at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump took a more conciliatory tone towards the media, whom he has previously dubbed the “enemy of the people.”
But Leavitt, who was on stage with Trump at the dinner when the incident happened, said there had been “systemic demonisation” of the 79-year-old president.
“Nobody in recent years has faced more bullets and more violence than President Trump,” said Leavitt, who returned from maternity leave to host the briefing at the White House.
“Those who constantly, falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points, are fueling this kind of violence,” she added.
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A would-be assassin with reported intent to target the Trump administration was caught on video charging through a security checkpoint during an event attended by the president and members of his cabinet. This marks yet another assassination attempt against Donald Trump, and like the others, Saturday’s attempt did not happen in a vacuum.
Just days before the attempted assassination, Marxist streamer Hasan Piker defended Luigi Mangione’s December 2024 alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson during an interview with the New York Times (NYT). He invoked Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder” to suggest that Thompson was guilty of “systematized forms of violence” through the health care system.
According to Piker, Thompson was “engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.”
It was stunning commentary to say the least. But what was more shocking was that the Times’ Nadja Spiegelman described the interview as a “lively” exchange. There was no pushback against Piker’s defense and justification of murder, just the Times lending its name-brand “credibility” to the idea that some killings are justifiable.
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It didn’t take long for the White House and its MAGA allies to try to use the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner to push all sorts of items on their agenda.
The one that has gotten the most attention is the call for the White House ballroom to be built, even though the project is illegal and has nothing to do with the incident at a private event on private property.
House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) demanded that the DHS be funded in a post on X, even though the Secret Service was funded last year as a part of Trump’s tax cuts for the rich that Comer voted for.
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One can easily see why Trump would want a distraction at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m not saying I know what happened, just it’s the kinda thing someone who looks this horrific politically would want.
Trump’s numbers aren’t just bad. I worked in polling a while, I’ve never seen numbers like some of these. Famed strategist Joe Trippi has been running national campaigns since 1979, and had a one-sentence verdict: “I have not seen anything like this in the entire time I’ve been doing this.” Trump’s approval with independents is 27%—a number not seen since Nixon was resigning.
He’s down to 70% with Republicans. Tucker, MTG, Megyn–they may be FOS, but if they’re headed where the wind’s blowing, many MAGA nuts are taking the same ride. Latino support’s moving away from Trump at a pace veteran strategist Mike Madrid–an expert on this demo–says he’s never seen before. We’re favored in places like Alaska right now.
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WASHINGTON — The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command.
The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and killed at least 186 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea.
The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.
After Sunday’s attack, Southern Command posted a video on X showing a boat moving swiftly in the water before a explosion left it in flames. It repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes.
The attacks began as the U.S. built up its largest military presence in the region in generations and came months ahead of the raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.
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The media elites are traumatized by the events at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and they will not stop talking about it. The problem is that they were never in any real danger, unlike people in the United States who experience real gun violence in cities, towns, schools, churches, restaurants, grocery stores, movie theaters, concerts, dance clubs, neighborhoods, and their own homes every single day all across the country.
It has been less than a day since a gunman tried to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner, and even though, according to administration officials, the gunman’s manifesto said that he wanted to kill administration officials, the American people aren’t interested in the story.
If you spend five minutes on any form of social media, you’ll soon learn that the consensus reaction is people claiming the gunman was staged, MAGAs who think a White House ballroom will solve everything, and some version of the sentiment that the American people have already seen this movie twice before, and they are bored.
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A Washington D.C. press that makes its living suckling the udder of Donald Trump was going to be completely clueless and traumatized as to why anyone would try to harm the elites in the bubbles of six and seven figure parties for a contrived event that they use to cozy up to power while broadcasting it all on television while Americans can’t afford groceries, healthcare, gasoline, and many are out of a job.
Any person who would take or even consider violent steps probably has some serious mental health issues, because such behavior is never an answer, but instead of taking a look in the mirror and questioning whether they are to blame for platforming, normalizing, and profiting off of Trump’s devisiveness, some in the Washington, D.C. press have deciced that the problem is political rhetoric, and that Democrats are to blame as much as Trump for the culture of divisiion and extemism that currently exists in the country.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, Dana Bash interviewed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
Raskin explained that he went to the White House Correspondents Dinner because he was supporting the First Amendment:
I was so happy that President Trump went to that because he had called the press the enemy of the people. There have been so many attacks on reporters there have been lawsuits brought against media entities, and so there’s been this terrible assault on the First Amendment. Freedom of press and speech.
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If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Trump’s propaganda channel, it’s that they’re going to use incidents like the one this weekend as a cudgel to silence his critics.
Here’s the crew from this Sunday’s Fox & Friends Weekend blaming the media for the apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
JONES: So again, multiple problems. I talked to the president last night on my way home to New York. And again, a lion in his heart — extremely gracious. If I was in this situation, if I was the principal here, I would not have been as kind.
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On April 27, 1994, South Africa delivered a landslide victory to activist and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela and his once-outlawed African National Congress, marking the end of the apartheid era.
The election was held over four days, and over 20 million South Africans turned out, including millions who had long been denied their right to participate in an election. They stood in line for hours, all for a chance to vote in the country’s first truly democratic elections.
“This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country,” Mandela said in his victory speech. “I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy. Pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own.”
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Of all the things that the Trump administration could have asked for in response to a gunman trying to gain entry into the White House Correspondents Dinner, what the Trump administration and their supporters have settled on as a solution to potential mass shootings and assassination attempts is a ballroom.
It’s weird, right?
However, the rallying cry from the Trump administration is “build the ballroom.”
Acting AG Todd Blanche posted on X in response to the lawsuit that is holding up the construction of Trump’s ballroom:
This lawsuit is on behalf of a single person who walks in the vicinity of the White House once a month and expects to dislike the East Wing’s new design. The passing aesthetic gripe of a single person cannot possibly justify delaying the construction of a secure facility for the President to do his job.
The president’s job isn’t to hang out in ballrooms. The president’s job isn’t to build ballrooms. In fact, ballrooms have nothing to do with the presidency.
There is a whole
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Back in 2020, National “Public” Radio promoted a nasty little book called In Defense of Looting. NPR summarized the “Marxist-informed” author Vicki Osterweil in the wake of the “racial justice” rioting in cities: “She argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society.”
It’s interesting to imagine how they would feel if someone stole all their lame Nina Totenberg tote bags, or some transgressive activist broke in and emptied out the designer fashions in NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s residence. They are striking an anti-capitalist pose, and let’s guess it’s not the same if you commit property crimes against socialists.
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Members of the Trump administration are leaking to reporters that the president is bluffing when he threatens Iran, but on Sunday, Trump threatened Iranian power plants.
Trump posted in part on Truth Social:
We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.
Amnesty International said in a statement after Trump first threatened to commit war crimes, “International humanitarian law strictly prohibits direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects. The US President’s threat of extermination and irreparable destruction brazenly shreds core rules of international humanitarian law, with potentially catastrophic consequences for over 90 million people. It may constitute a threat to commit genocide, a crime defined by the Genocide Convention and by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as committing one or more defined acts ’with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.’”
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The two giant super PACs closely tied to Republican leaders in the House and Senate are relying on billionaire donors, the fossil fuel industry, cryptocurrency firms, and Big Tobacco to bankroll their defense of Congress.
Around half of the combined haul of the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) and the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) has come from billionaires—at least $133.5 million—according to a Sludge analysis of Federal Election Commission data from the start of 2025 through March 2026. The billionaires include reclusive President Trump megadonor Timothy Mellon, casino mogul Steve Wynn, Republican megadonors Christopher and Jude Reyes, poultry magnate Ronald Cameron, and cryptocurrency tycoons the Winklevoss twins. It’s possible that more billionaires have donated to the SLF and CLF through their “dark money” affiliates, which hide the names of donors from the public.
The SLF and CLF were the top-spending outside groups nationwide in the 2022 midterms—though this time around, many more super PACs are loaded up with record amounts of cash to spend. The groups, aligned with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), spend heavily on attack ads against Democrats and independent expenditures supporting Republicans each cycle.
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A furious and shirtless Alex Jones went on an unhinged rant after The Onion gained the rights to lease his site InfoWars, describing the parody news website as a group of “bodysnatchers.”
“Just because you’re wearing my shirt doesn’t mean you’re me, let’s be 100 percent clear about that,” the conspiracy theorist, naked from the waist up, raged Monday.
He continued: “The whole thing’s about defaming me. You can’t take something over and then act like you’re somebody, even if you say it’s a parody. You could do a parody of somebody, but not if you took something from them… So you guys, keep laughing, just like you did a year and a half ago.”
Jones’ outburst came shortly after The Onion revealed its planned relaunch of InfoWars as a satirical site, though the deal still requires court approval. The outlet’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, has so far gained the rights to lease InfoWars for $81,000 on a month-by-month basis for six months, until potential renewal.