Here’s a heart-breaking story by John R. Platt and Dipika Kadaba of The Revelator. It turns out that 824 Florida manatees died last year, almost 50% more than in 2017.
Those 824 mortalities (deaths) represent 13% of the Florida manatee population, and many of them were caused by people – either directly or indirectly.
The Revelator released a video that goes into more detail about why so many manatees died last year. Click below to watch it, and be sure to visit this link for the original story.
Do not eat, sell or serve certain Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder with expiration dates from 08/2026 to 01/2028, including original and wild berry flavors.
Additional products may be identified through FDA’s investigation. This advisory will be updated as more information becomes available.
Illness usually occurs within 12 to 72 hours after eating food that is contaminated with Salmonella, and the symptoms usually last four to seven days. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. Children younger than five, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems are more likely to have severe infections.
Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder is primarily sold online at the Live it Up company website and other online sites including Amazon, eBay, and Walmart.
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The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating illnesses in a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder produced by Superfoods, Inc. doing business as (dba) Live it Up of New York, NY.
Based on epidemiological information collected by CDC, a total of 45 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported from 21 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from August 22, 2025, to December 30, 2025. Sixteen of 20 ill persons with information available reported consuming Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder before becoming ill. There have been 12 hospitalizations, and no deaths have been reported.
FDA has recommended that Superfoods, Inc. dba Live it Up recall Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder (original and wild berry flavor) products from the market. On January 14, 2026, the firm agreed to initiate a voluntary recall. Consumers and retailers who purchased Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder with expiration dates of 08/2026 to 01/2028 should not eat, sell, or serve this product and should throw it away or return it to the place of purchase.
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The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a recall on 38,043 gallons of Meijer Steam Distilled Water sold in gallon-sized plastic jugs because the water may be contaminated with a “floating black foreign substance.” Meijer Inc. originally initiated the recall on Nov. 13, 2025, but the recall is ongoing, and has yet to be classified by the FDA to determine the severity.
The 1-gallon plastic jugs of Meijer Distilled Water have a red lid, and can be identified by the UPC 041250841197, “best by” date of Oct. 4, 2026, and lot code 39-222 #3. Meijer’s recalled water jugs also have the Product ID 472859 and Meijer Item Code 477910.
The recalled Meijer Distilled Water gallons were sold at Meijer stores across the Midwest in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
If you have the recalled plastic water jugs, you should not drink or use the water. Even though the FDA has yet to classify the recall to alert consumers of its severity, the product is still not safe to consume, as it is contaminated with a foreign black substance that’s floating in the water.
Instead, dispose of the water or return the gallon jug to your local Meijer store for a full refund or replacement.
The recall now includes multiple brands sold across 20 states.
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Nothing adds more flavor than finishing a fresh bowl of pasta with a sprinkling of grated Pecorino Romano. You’ll want to check the grated Pecorino Romano in your fridge, because it may be part of a growing recall.
On January 6, Ambriola Company, a supplier of cheese for Locatelli, Member’s Mark, Pinna, and Boar’s Head, updated a Class I recall of grated Pecorino Romano cheese after routine testing confirmed the presence of listeria monocytogenes.
The affected products were distributed to retail stores and distributors nationwide between November 3, 2025, and November 20, 2025, shortly before the original recall.
Eating contaminated food can put people at risk of a serious infection called listeriosis. For healthy people, symptoms are often milder, but can include fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. This infection is more dangerous for older adults, young children, and people with weakened immune systems. If you have eaten Pecorino Romano cheese and develop symptoms that resemble those of a listeriosis infection, consult your healthcare provider.
We know the cheese was distributed to Walmart, Sam’s Club, Wegmans, Tops Markets, and Big Y grocery stores, but there may be others. This recall spans cheese sold in 20 states across the country. Use the information below and our food recall guide to determine whether your grated cheese is part of the recall.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison may be about to face the full weight of federal law for their roles in the mass Somali fraud.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on independent journalist Nick Shirley’s explosive exclusive on Somali fraud, which exposed millions of dollars in fraud involving Somali daycare centers in Minnesota.
Shirley shared clips of his investigation on X, including footage of the door being slammed in his face while he asked a Minnesota Childcare Center that claims to care for 102 children, which appeared empty.
Shirley released the full 42-minute video of his investigation, noting, “We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day.”
The role of Walz and Ellson in the scandals is noticeable. Estimates indicate that the total fraud could be as high as $9 billion in Medicaid and other social services payments.
This does not happen without the full knowledge and support of state Democrats.
Walz even admitted his role in the fraud scandal during a press conference on Tuesday.
“The buck stops with me. I am accountable for this,” he said. “Because of that accountability, I am not running for office again.”
On Wednesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) sent two separate letters to Attorney General Pam Bondi referring Walz and Ellison for investigation and prosecution.
She accuses Walz and Ellison of “conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and abetting federal offenders.”
Here are the letters:
On Thursday, the DOJ confirmed receipt of the letters.
“The DOJ has confirmed receipt of criminal referrals for
@GovTimWalz & @AGEllison,” Luna wrote. “I look forward to the findings of the investigation and potential prosecution.”
By Cristina Laila Jan. 8, 2026
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday attended the White House briefing to address the fatal ICE-involved shooting, nationwide fraud schemes, and other issues.
Vance announced the creation of a new Assistant Attorney General position to investigate fraud nationwide.
The new position will be Senate-confirmed, and Senate Majority Leader Thune has promised a swift confirmation.
“This is the person who is going to make sure we stop defrauding the American people,” Vance told reporters.
The new assistant attorney general’s work will begin in Minnesota after it was revealed that Somali fraudsters stole billions of dollars of taxpayer money in various schemes.
“It has all the benefits, all the resources, all the authority of a special counsel, but with two crucial differences,” Vance said.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi will not be supervising the new prosecutor.
Vance continued, “Number one, it will be run out of the White House under the supervision of me and the President United States.”
“And number two, it’s actually constitutionally legitimate. As you guys may know, the special counsel statute has some major constitutional questions,” he said.
“When we get the bad guys, we want to make sure we get them permanently, and they don’t have some legal technicality they can get out of, which is why we set it up as an associate attorney general,” he said.
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The Somali-dominated Democratic political machine in Minnesota successfully silenced hundreds of government experts who tracked the huge flow of taxpayer funds through Somali-run businesses, a top Minnesota Republican told a House hearing on Wednesday.
Up to 1,000 government auditors, accountants, and program managers were silenced by Democratic threats, Minnesota House Rep. Marion Rarick told a House hearing:
The most severe ones was that they would be fired with cause so they couldn’t have unemployment insurance, that they would be blacklisted from all state agencies… [including] Hennepin County, Ramsey County. As you know, those are Democrat-run.
Many government experts, non-government professionals, and Republicans detected many of the frauds, but their voices were muffled by Democrats who allied with the Somalians’ political machine in the state. “They don’t want a fraud unit to do anything — they want a fraud unit [only] on paper,” Steve Halicki, a Minnesota fraud investigator, told a TV station in 2015.
In 2023, state employees formed an anonymous group on Twitter to report the fraud to the public: “We are over 480 Minnesota state staff serving with pride & commitment to our people & state. We strive for a better Minnesota free of fraud. Commentary Account,” they wrote.
On January 7, the group declared:
We’ve been yelling from every rooftop possible about fraud. Few understood or listened to the scale of the problem. Systemic issues mean that someone in leadership is advising or forcing staff to commit wrongdoing. And these leaders will be NAMED.
Journalists’ clout in Minneapolis has also been shattered by the political and economic power of the Somali migrants. The result is that local politicians and cops were able to ignore multiple articles and TV segments about blatant fraud by many Somali businesses.
Citizens’ complaints were also suppressed by the political power of the clannish Somali groups in the local Democratic Party.
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“Their collective message has been completely consistent,” Rarick told the House committee when describing the X group of government professionals and experts:
Instead of focusing on fraudsters, [the Minnesota Department of Human Services] leadership focused its surveillance on employees.
Since [January 2025], their expressed fear of retaliation has intensified under an avalanche of fraud in Minnesota. Their numbers have grown from 480 DHS employees, both current and former, to over 1,000 across multiple state agencies. They have told me repeatedly how grateful they are to the House fraud prevention committee for focusing our attention on fraud in the state programs, using their inside information while keeping them completely protected.
They have explained that they live in a constant state of fear of retaliation. One only has to look at what happened to Faye Bernstein to understand why. In a very recent Newsweek article dated December 13 of 2025, Ms. Bernstein, a former compliance specialist, stated: “Minnesota DHS functions in the opposite manner — employees who suggest improvements, or, heaven forbid, report fraud then face significant retaliation. The messenger is shot.”
“In 2019, Bernstein said she alerted Minnesota DHS officials to sloppy contracting practices that were not legally compliant, but it’s not what most people would even consider fraud. She says she was later escorted out of the building, faced lengthy investigation, got trespassed from all DHS-owned and leased properties, and received an involuntary transfer to another agency.”
So she says, “So today, if someone asked me, should I report fraud within DHS? I say no, no, no, it is career suicide, plus a whole lot more.”
Rarick, a former accountant, continued:
In our face to face meetings with [the X] group of whistleblowers, they revealed that [workplace] retaliation now includes threats of being fired with cause — which means you do not get unemployment insurance in the state of Minnesota — being blacklisted from all state agencies, and I would note, most likely our largest counties as well, which are Democrat-run. And then there was a veiled threat of the use of military intelligence against them.
They later informed me that it was discovered that in some targeted employees or suspected whistleblowers’ personnel files were pictures of their homes and their cars. They also described that supervisors asked them questions about their families that to them felt like a threat. One example was, “We need to know where your kids go to school and where their bus stops are.”
I will also note that whistleblowers we spoke to described many times DHS using surveillance programs to surveil employees’ emails and chat and other communications, looking for keywords like “fraud,” “double billing,” “under-spending,” and “overpayments.”
One example that the whistleblowers let me know about [comes from] Lieutenant Governor [Peggy] Flanagan.
On April 12, 2024 Flanagan comes to a DHS Health and Human Services equity conference at the Heritage Center and Brooklyn Center [in Minneapolis]. On stage, Flanagan acknowledged the X account and the fraud concerns it raised [but] publicly denounced the X [government whistleblowers] and called them weirdos and losers sitting in their mother’s basement. This was in a public setting with hundreds of participants and elicited gasps among the crowd,
Gov. Tim Walz “absolutely knew” about the massive embezzlement and theft by the Somali-run business, Rarick said.
The Minnesota defeat of the Democratic-leaning government experts follows the nationwide subordination of American tech professionals to the imported army of mixed-skilled Indian migrants.
The same process is underway in the nation’s accounting sector, where older American partners are boosting their profits by replacing American accounting professionals with mixed-skill Indian graduates. Similarly, compliant foreign doctors and nurses are being hired by hospital chains in place of American professionals.
The replacement of outspoken American professionals by compliant imported workers is a huge loss for ordinary Americans, technology, and innovation. The imported replacements have little or no legal authority to argue with their bosses, partly because many of the migrants must work for years before they can get green cards and then citizenship.
The result is that employers are freer to sideline the remaining American professionals who want to spotlight problems for the public, such as embezzlement of taxpayers’ funds, safety flaws in products, or security threats to citizens’ private data and online funds.
Officials say movement of cash out of Minnesota was substantially abnormal and should have raised red flags during the Biden administration.
Jan 7, 2026 By John Solomon
The cash moved overseas in luggage by Somali couriers from the Minneapolis airport was 10 to 100 times larger than the total foreign exodus of money at other larger American airports the last two years, officials tell Just the News.
Homeland Security Department officials said the statistics they have gathered in recent weeks show the movement of cash out of Minnesota was substantially abnormal and should have raised red flags during the Biden administration, long before the Trump administration began investigating it as part of a major fraud scheme that stole billions from taxpayers in the state.
Just the News reported Tuesday that the Transportation Security Administration detected and flagged nearly $700 million in cash moved in luggage out of the Minneapolis airport by Somali couriers in 2024 and 2025 alone, a stunning total that averaged nearly $1 million a day.
Some of the cash moved to Amsterdam and then to Dubai, a route that has garnered concern in recent days by intelligence agencies and federal criminal investigators, officials said.
“It was like a cash ATM draining American dollars and moving them overseas, and nobody in the Biden administration seemed to think anything of it,” one official with direct knowledge told Just the News, speaking on condition of anonymity. “These couriers were openly flaunting what they’ve doing by legally declaring the cash they were taking out.”
Minneapolis travelers alone had $342.37 million in their luggage in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025, and the totals nationwide are likely to be much higher, the officials told Just the News.
The flow of the Somali couriers’ cash out of Minneapolis was 99 percent larger than the foreign cash detected or declared in 2025 moving in luggage from the airports in Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta or John F. Kennedy International in New York City, the officials said. And it was 90% larger than the amounts that left Seattle, a major hub for Asian travelers.
Similarly, in 2024, the total currency discovered over $10,000 traveling internationally out of Atlanta and JFK was less than 1% of the currency discovered at Minneapolis. And the total in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2024 was 3% of the Minneapolis sums, while Seattle was just 6%, officials said.
Though all were legally declared according to U.S. Customs rules, the bundles of cash in luggage in Minneapolis – some as much as $1 million in a single trip – raised regular suspicions among TSA agents.
The mountain of dollars leaving the country is now being investigated by the Homeland Security Investigations unit as part of a broader probe into a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme centered around the state’s Somali immigrant community, where dozens have been charged with or convicted of federal crimes.
Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Tuesday night that he believes the current Minnesota fraud scandal will embolden Congress to make changes to the law to give federal authorities more power to investigate the exodus of U.S. money to foreign countries, especially from illegal aliens.
“We have to do it. It’s embarrassing that Congress hasn’t done this before,” Crank said. “These are financial controls that any company would have on corporate money. Any good company would have it. The board of directors would fire them if they didn’t. I don’t know why in the world we wouldn’t have those kinds of controls.”
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Socialist Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is much richer than when she entered Congress, and it’s more than just the $174,000-a-year congressional salary. She married her campaign strategist Tim Mynett after her campaign dumped an eye-popping $2.9 million into his consulting business during the 2020 election cycle.When the “independent fact checkers” get involved, they sound like they’re defending the Democrats. An X post by Snopes.com declared: “A rumor circulating on social media claims Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrocketed after she took office in 2019. We reviewed her financial disclosure reports to check the facts.”
Naturally, Snopes checker Rae Deng declined to rate this officially as true, but admitted it wasn’t wrong: “While somewhat factual, this claim required context.” They love acting as “context checkers.” Congressional financial disclosure forms are a little inexact: “Given that we did not have a definitive idea of her exact net worth and the Facebook post did not specify whether it was referencing her individual or household net worth, we have not rated this claim.”
But Omar’s marriage to Mynett has been a definite plus. Snopes reported the majority of value from the listed assets came from her new husband’s businesses and were labeled as “Partnership Income.” Omar’s filing valued Mynett’s winery, eSt Cru Wines, at about $1 million to $5 million. Mynett’s venture capital management company, Rose Lake Capital, was valued between $5 million and $25 million.
So, yes Omar’s “net worth skyrocketed.” But Omar’s office emailed a response to Snopes calling this claim “inaccurate” and a “right-wing smear campaign.” It’s not a smear. It is begging for more disclosure.
Snopes reported Omar mocked the net-worth critiques in a TikTok video posted in September, but they didn’t note she began with this: “Another day, another lying headline about millions of dollars that apparently I have.” Omar’s disclosure forms suggest there is almost no income coming in from these ventures. “Learn to read before you post misleading shit,” she concluded.
Snopes did note Omar claimed her husband’s share in his businesses was minimal. “Keep wishing millions into existence so I could pay off these student loans,” was the scolding caption of her TikTok video.
But the “fact checker” didn’t note the dramatic increase in the stated worth of these companies. The value of the winery grew from up to $50,000 in 2023 to up to $5 million in Omar’s most recent financial disclosures. The value of Rose Lake Capital, seems to have exploded even more dramatically in the past two years. Omar said the firm was worth between $1 and $1,000 in 2023, and now it’s worth five to 25 million. What happened?
Recently, the names and bios of Rose Lake Capital’s nine officers were removed from LinkedIn, raising questions about why. More journalism is required, especially as the massive Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota gains national attention.
It can be a little embarrassing for a socialist to be defined as a millionaire, with Omar telling the press it is “ridiculous” and “categorically false” to say she is worth millions of dollars. But maybe she should “learn to read” before misleading the public about her family’s surge in net worth.
Tim Graham is the Executive Editor at NewsBusters, and he is the Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era.
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