Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welp, hope you had a happy Christmastime. Hope the kids had fun. Hope the parents had a little downtime. Hope the grandparents had some twinkling in their eyes.

It’s not good news today, I’m afraid.

Let’s get to it.

ALL AT ONCE

We’re faced with a choice.

One would be swift, decisive action. The other giving in to a mix of apathy, incompetence, and rank doomerism.

Until recently, independent YouTuber Nick Shirley was most well-known for doing man-on-the-street interviews. His typical target was unhinged lefties. His typical posture was to ask a series of simple questions and exude calm as these lefties became ever more triggered.

To mix it up, Shirley also did “on-location” reporting, where he’d tour fentanyl or gang-infested neighborhoods, or he’d out open-air scam markets. One of those markets recently got hit with an ICE raid early this year.

Shirley’s most recent on on-location report on daycare and healthcare fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community has rapidly become one of the most-watched videos in the history of X. In it, he enlists an independent researcher and whistleblower who has identified a vast web of fraudulent front........

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