The Elitist Media have mostly avoided having to cover anything to do with massive fraud out of Minnesota. A fresh set of indictments provided the network evening news with an opportunity to do the right thing. A usual suspect failed.  Watch as ABC World News Tonight covers only half of today’s indictment news: WATCH: ABC's brief on Minnesota fraud covers ONLY the sentencing of the Feeding Our Future mastermind, with nothing on today's 15 indictments pic.twitter.com/f809CB1P5V — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 22, 2026 WHIT JOHNSON: Tonight, a former Minnesota nonprofit leader sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison. Aimee Bock was convicted of illegally receiving $250 million in federal funds meant to feed underprivileged children. Her lawyers arguing for a three year sentence. The case became a political flashpoint after President Trump described the state as a hub of illegal activity. Prosecutors have charged 78 people, 60 have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in this scandal. Why not cover the other indictments? It makes absolutely no sense to omit those once you’ve committed to talking about government assistance fraud in Minneapolis. Per CBS News, here’s what was left out: The Future Leaders Early Learning Center was one of 10 Minneapolis daycares visited by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley in December and featured in a viral video. State license investigators had also visited the site on Nov. 10, 2025, and issued a citation for the space not being clean and children's files not containing immunization documentation.     In February, Mahamud notified the state that Future Leaders Early Learning was closing. That same day, prosecutors say she booked a flight to London. In April, at least 20 Minnesota daycares and autism centers were raided by federal agents. It's unclear if Future Leaders Early Learning Center was one of them. CBS even managed to run the story on the Evening News: WATCH: CBS includes today's 15 indictments in their Minnesota fraud roundup pic.twitter.com/Vn3X1YFuq2 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 22, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: Big developments today tied to that fraud scandal in Minnesota. The former leader of Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit behind a $250 million child nutrition scheme, was sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison today. Aimee Bock is her name. She was also ordered to pay back nearly all the money. After the hearing, the FBI announced new charges against 15 additional people allegedly involved in another fraud scheme worth $90 million. One of those people, the FBI said, jumped from a fourth floor balcony to avoid arrest. He was later seen on camera limping into hiding. Unlike ABC in their brief, CBS managed to include mention of the new indictment. NBC’s Nightly News ran a longer report that covered both fraud cases. Is this the beginning of a new transparency when it comes to the coverage of these cases? Probably not. But it’s a start. Except, perhaps, for ABC. Click “expand” to view the full transcript as aired on the NBC Nightly News on Thursday, May 21st, 2026: TOM LLAMAS: Now to Minnesota and the Trump administration announcing a series of criminal charges against 15 people they say defrauded Medicaid and other agencies of $90 million with one of the suspects jumping off a balcony, trying to flee arrest. It was captured on camera. Here's Kelly O'Donnell. KELLY O’DONNELL: : In Minnesota today, the FBI urged the public to help find a fleeing suspect caught on video. Wanted in a sweeping health care fraud investigation. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL: I want you to get a good look at him. O’DONNELL: Authorities say the man jumped off a fourth story balcony, visibly limping to escape arrest. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL: Too often here in Minnesota lately, fraudsters have turned government programs into their own personal ATMs. O’DONNELL: Today, the Department of Justice investigation announced charges against 15 they describe as owners of child care centers and Medicaid providers. The DoJ says this fraud scheme could have reached $90 million, putting the vulnerable at risk. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL: One patient was supposed to be receiving 24-hour care through this program. But he was actually being serviced by a fraudster. And received no services. This patient was later found dead. O’DONNELL: In a separate investigation, a lengthy prison sentence today. Nearly 42 years behind bars for Aimee Bach, convicted in a $250 million covid-related case. As the former head of a nonprofit food program that prosecutors said filed fraudulent claims and took kickbacks. Late today, police in Minnesota say they arrested that fleeing suspect at a home linked to one of his alleged coconspirators. Tom. LLAMAS: All right, Kelly. We thank you.

Three men were killed at the San Diego Islamic Center by two teenagers who were then found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. It’s easy for us to feel unified in horror over this, but it’s also going to become grist for claims America is overwhelmed by "Islamophobia." Longtime San Diego talk-radio host Mark Larson -- now celebrating his 50th year on the radio there -- joined MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and me to discuss it. Mark said the mosque was about four miles from where he works. The local community has united, but the national media is ready to make it political. On Thursday, The New York Times carried the front-page headline “Islamophobia spreads fast, as does fear: Mosque Attack Reflects Rise in Overt Hatred.” The second paragraph argued “To some, the killings seemed like an inevitable result of a swell of Islamophobia in the United States and around the globe. Anti-Muslim rhetoric on the right has become louder.” This aims to connect anti-Islam rhetoric to this violent crime.  On PBS, they brought on CAIR deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell to announce "Anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States is completely out of control." MS NOW's Morning Joe used the occasion to lament about the “Christian nationalism” of Republicans, including the supposedly scary Sunday prayer event on the Mall. (Katy Tur didn’t understand how House Speaker Mike Johnson referred to the God-given rights language in the Declaration of Independence.) The media sound universally defensive on Islam, but they can be very flexible on Christianity: if it helps them, it’s fine to blur into the government, they'll claim Jesus as a socialist. If it hurts them on the social and sexual issues, the menace of theocracy is going to run us over.  Speaking of California, Gov. Gavin Newsom bumbled into using the term "Fight fire with fire" in a Democrat gathering. The press didn't see it as a gaffe, despite the incompetence of Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass in recovering from the devastating wildfires there. They just repeated his line, with MS NOW highlighting "Democrats have promised a more ruthless approach beyond the midterms."  The competence of Mayor Bass is a major issue in the mayoral campaign, with former reality TV star Spencer Pratt driving home the point of how broken the city government is, and how intractable are social problems like homelessness. Mark says fully one-third of the homeless population of America is living in California.  Finally, the Los Angeles Times made fools of themselves in getting into a lather over the end of Stephen Colbert's Late Show on CBS. The TV critic's headline was "We will miss the divine and very human ministry of Stephen Colbert." It's hard to miss that this hints at comparing the comedian to the divinity and humanity of Jesus.  Enjoy the program below: 

On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casually threw Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s viral campaign videos into the same bucket as Iranian regime propaganda. Pratt’s offense that led to this comparison? Using A.I.-generated images to lampoon California politicians as Batman villains and dark side force users from Star Wars. Cornish tried to make the absurd comparison only to receive bipartisan pushback from her three fellow panelists. “From reality TV villain to elected office, we’ve seen this show before,” Cornish started the segment, then played a few seconds from one of Pratt’s A.I.-generated political advertisements. The ad portrayed Pratt as Batman in a burning Los Angeles standing up to comical villains Governor Gavin Newsom, current LA Mayor Karen Bass, and a vodka-swigging Kamala Harris on behalf of the citizens wanting to rebuild their homes after the disastrous wildfires of early 2025 but hindered by California bureaucracy.     Pratt’s own house in the Pacific Palisades was one of the ones totally destroyed by the fires, and according to reports from NBC News and Politico, only about 34 out of 13,000 homes have been rebuilt in the area.  With the panel on CNN This Morning, Cornish drew a comparison between Pratt’s ads and the propaganda of the Iranian regime, which also uses some A.I.-generated videos: These A.I.-generated ads that have sort of taken off, I mean, we're in a moment, obviously, Iran's A.I.-generated ads have also taken off.  Mike Dubke, President Trump’s former White House Communications Director, immediately interjected laughing, “That's a way to connect Spencer Pratt to Iran!” To Cornish, Pratt’s ads and Iranian propaganda were effectively one and the same: “Don’t you think that’s the whole point? The Iran propaganda has also gotten people's attention.” While Dubke conceded that “propaganda is the right word,” he and the other panelists did not assent to Cornish’s absurd claim that the Iranian propaganda was the “same as this” political advertisement.  “Yeah, it's very zeitgeisty,” Elena Schneider, reporter for Politico, said, though unlike Cornish, she did not imply that Pratt was the only political candidate who used or will use A.I.-generated ads: I mean, I think this is a preview of what we can expect also in a 2028 presidential primary, in which we're going to be confronted with this prospect of nonstop A.I.-generated ads. I mean, that's a real question of how we're going to parse through what's real and not.  In the case of Pratt’s ads versus the Iranian regime’s propaganda, though, the line between “what’s real and not” was clear as day. The Iranian propaganda used A.I. videos of bombed-out buildings and dying LEGO characters to portray the reality that they are willing to sacrifice every last man, woman, and child to keep power; and to claim battlefield victories that were completely fabricated to lower American morale. On the other hand, Pratt’s advertisements were not meant to convince viewers that he was literally a vigilante, but rather to present to voters his political stance against the administration that effectively fiddled while Los Angeles burned.  As Democrat strategist Meghan Hays said to the rest of the panel, Pratt was just “tapping into how voters feel.” The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read: CNN This Morning with Audie Cornish May 21, 2026 6:51:19 a.m. Eastern AUDIE CORNISH: From reality TV villain to elected office, we've seen this show before. Spencer Pratt now taking a page from Trump's playbook. But can he go from being the villain on The Hills to being the hero of the hills? See what I did there? [Spencer Pratt campaign ad] CORNISH: His campaign is starting to see real momentum from these fake images. This is an A.I.-generated Batman ad. Pratt, of course, mirroring the showmanship that got President Trump elected. And even Trump’s taking notice. (...) 6:52:35 a.m. Eastern CORNISH: Okay, the group chat is back. So, I wanted to talk about this. Number one, because of these A.I.-generated ads that have sort of taken off, I mean, we're in a moment, obviously, Iran's A.I.-generated ads have also taken off. But I remember when Zohran Mam-  MIKE DUBKE: That's a way to connect Spencer Pratt to Iran! CORNISH: Look at it! Don't you think that's the whole point? DUBKE: No, no I just- CORNISH: The Iran propaganda has also gotten people's attention. DUBKE: We're, yes. Propaganda is the right word and we're- CORNISH: Yeah! It's same as this! DUBKE: - we're in that moment right now. CORNISH: Exactly! DUBKE: We are in that moment. CORNISH: But Zohran Mamdani for a time was called the internet's mayor by Wired. And there is something to be said for capturing public attention that way. ELENA SCHNEIDER: Yeah, it's very zeitgeisty. I mean, I think this is a preview of what we can expect also in a 2028 presidential primary. CORNISH: Oh, great. SCHNEIDER: In which we're going to be confronted with this prospect of nonstop A.I.-generated ads. I mean, that's a real question of how we're going to parse through what's real and not. And in the years to come, in terms of electioneering and ad making. And look, it works because it is eye catching. It's viral. It tells a story. I mean, all these things are valuable ways to run, run, run a campaign. CORNISH: And even with the sound off they work. DUBKE: The other interesting part about this is getting people engaged. A number of these ads aren't actually created by the campaign. They're promoted by the campaign. CORNISH: Right. DUBKE: But this is almost the equivalent of years ago where you had people doing signs themselves and taking them to sporting events and, you know, just an authentic up swell of support. And that's to me, that's what's interesting about what's happening in New York City, in L.A., and other places is that it is the democratization of the political process. (…) 6:55:21 a.m. Eastern MEGHAN HAYS: (…) but he's talking to people. These people haven't been in their homes for over a year. They can't even build. They can't even get permits to do anything. And like that's - that's detrimental. Also, it's an affluent area. So that also plays into there's a lot of money involved that people are really pissed. And I just, I think he's tapping into how people feel. (…)

Six years after the racially-charged George Floyd protests ravaged U.S. cities, Americans doubt that the weeks of often destructive and riot-plagued unrest in 2020 actually brought about improvement in the lot of African Americans, a national Rasmussen survey reveals. In a survey of likely U.S. voters conducted May 13-17, Rasmussen asked the following question: “Did the protests over George Floyd’s death make life better for most African Americans?” Only one in four Black voters (24%) report that the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 made life better for most African Americans - less than half the 51% who say the protests did not help. Ironically, a higher percentage of Hispanic voters (33%) think the protests improved the lives of African Americans, more than any other racial demographic. Just one in five (20%) of all those surveyed say the protests improved the lives of African Americans, while more than half (54%) say they didn’t. Contrary to the liberal, legacy media’s continued narrative, the riots and civil disorder during the 2020 protests were destructive on a historic scale. More than $1 billion of riot damage was done – the most in insurance history – much of it to minority-owned businesses and property. Younger voters are far more optimistic than older voters about the effects of the protests. Fully 39% of 18-29 year-olds say the protests improved African Americans’ lives, but that view declines steadily by age group to just 13% of those 65 and older. Democrat voters (28%) are more likely than either Republicans (17%) or Independents (13%) to think the protests were beneficial to African Americans. Democrats are also the most prone to believe that there will be “more racial protests as widespread as those over George Floyd’s death” in the next few years, with 68% calling it either “very likely” (34%) or “somewhat likely” (34%). In contrast, 61% of Republicans expect more protests, including 24% who think they’re very likely. Among unaffiliated voters, 62% say it’s at least somewhat likely that there will be racial protests in the next few years as widespread as the protests sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was ultimately found guilty of murder. Among all voters surveyed, nearly two-thirds (64%) expect more protests equaling those in 2020, including 34% who think it’s very likely they’re in the nation’s future.

It takes a place as progressively backwards as Colorado to decide school children are safer around accused child molesters than other children who espouse the wrong beliefs.  Colorado's perverse politics makes it just fine to read smut in public schools, but you'll get kicked out of class for believing abortion is murder. Video by @Justine_Brooke pic.twitter.com/FPysToUsPS — MRC Video (@mrcvideo) May 21, 2026 A thirteen year old girl who attends Drake Middle school in Jefferson County’s school district was temporarily banned from her classroom, because she submitted a pro-life poem for a recent assignment.  Students were asked to write a slam poem about a global conflict they are passionate about.  “I chose life,” said the girl in an interview with Libs of Tik Tok.  Her mother explained that her own mom became pregnant with her at only fourteen, but chose to value life, despite the harsh circumstances. Neither the mother nor daughter would be here, otherwise.  But the school considers their heartwarming family story “offensive material,” rendering it “too political” to even allow the thirteen year old inside the room while her classmates were presenting their own poems.  They apparently prefer their "appropriate material" to be riddled with pornography and placed in the hands of little kids.  After all, this is the same state that works overtime to keep "children's" books detailing sexual kinks on school library shelves, and cuts off the microphone at board meetings when parents complain.  Jefferson County is also the same district that hired Patricio Illanes to teach English after he was investigated for inappropriately touching, filming and removing clothing off children in a nearby district. He would later be arrested for allegedly distributing child pornography.