Think More: Friday, June 12, 2026
Over 15,000 child super-sponsors, Comer probes Norm Eisen's fund, the SPLC's tax exemption, and Gabbard's Havana retraction.
Lead · The Children’s Ledger
Blanche Counts 15,500 Super-Sponsors in the Biden Child Pipeline
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the government has identified more than 15,500 “super-sponsors,” adults who each took custody of three or more unrelated unaccompanied minors during the Biden years, and unsealed indictments of three Guatemalan nationals in Ohio accused of smuggling more than a dozen children through the sponsorship system. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin reports 146,000 children located so far, nearly 300,000 still unaccounted for, and recovered children describing sexual abuse that investigators are now documenting.
The Children’s Ledger
Miller: The Government Never Met the Adults It Gave Children To
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller laid out the mechanics behind the count. By his account, officials never met the adults who requested the children; contractors drove the minors to sponsors whose listed addresses were routinely fake or abandoned; the same adult collected multiple children thousands of times; and the cases were then administratively closed, guaranteeing the children would disappear.
Two Utah Court Clerks Indicted for Walking ICE Targets Out the Back Door
Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Morrow, 26, former clerks at the Logan City Municipal Justice Court, allegedly ran court databases to identify every noncitizen on the day’s docket, then escorted ICE’s targets out a rear exit; Joma drove three of them away in her own car, and surveillance footage caught the pair waving at the camera. U.S. Attorney Melissa Holyoak’s office brought conspiracy, harboring, and obstruction charges.
The unaccompanied-minor audit, by the administration’s own count
15,500
super-sponsors identified
146,000
children located so far
~300,000
still unaccounted for
The Tax-Exempt Machine
Comer Asks Norm Eisen What His Charity Is For
House Oversight Committee | oversight.house.gov
Chairman James Comer wants to know why the State Democracy Defenders Fund, the 501(c)(3) co-founded by Norm Eisen, devotes itself to the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, the law firm Platkin LLP, and Apple Inc. His letter sketches a pay-to-play pattern: deductible donations in front, donors’ private financial interests behind, and an IRS possibly unaware of either.
Six House Republicans Move to Strip the SPLC’s Tax Exemption
Rep. Mark Harris and five colleagues are urging Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to revoke the Southern Poverty Law Center’s tax exemption, two months after a federal grand jury approved charges against the organization that include wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Harris calls the group a partisan “left-wing political machine” collecting a charity’s privileges while targeting conservative and Christian organizations.
953 ActBlue Donations in One Ohio Retiree’s Name
A pseudonymous Substack writer ran her family’s names through the FEC database and found a living Ohio retiree, sharing her late grandmother’s name, credited with 953 ActBlue donations totaling $4,173.50 since 2019, scattered at random across races nationwide. One $25 gift looks genuine, she writes; the other 952 look like money moving through a stranger’s identity.
Who Pays the Resistance
Burgum Cuts 43 Partnerships and the $4 Million That Came With Them
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s department is terminating 43 agreements with outside groups, eliminating more than $4 million in planned funding for programs tied to DEI, environmental justice, and services for illegal immigrants, and scrubbing the groups from its websites. The list runs from the Hispanic Access Foundation to the National Geographic Society; Interior says the partnerships were “operating in direct opposition” to its mission.
Mellon Money Funds the Campaign Against Civics Schools
Records and meeting audio obtained by John Sailer show the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, created with $1.5 million from the Mellon Foundation, plotting to discredit the new university civics schools; director Isaac Kamola talks of mapping the centers’ weaknesses and knocking them out, and says Mellon is weighing roughly $10 million for a covert rapid-response operation against conservative higher-education reform.
The Corrected Record
Blanche Convenes the Parents the Biden DOJ Treated as Terrorists
At a Justice Department roundtable on the weaponization of federal law enforcement against parents, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin heard from Scott Smith, the Loudoun County father arrested after his daughter’s assault was covered up by her school district. Deputy AG Stanley Woodward said one agent called the effort “essentially an anti-MAGA task force.”
Eight Charged in Plot to Terrorize Michigan Jews; One Worked for El-Sayed
Federal prosecutors indicted eight University of Michigan students and graduates for a coordinated campaign to terrorize university officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation of Detroit, complete with chemical-filled jars thrown through families’ windows and chats discussing poison and bombs. Among the eight is Mariam Odeh, 24, late of Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign, which initially understated her months on the payroll.
Gabbard’s Parting Shot: The Havana Syndrome Assessments Are Retracted
On her way out the door, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard rescinded the two Biden-era assessments that judged a foreign adversary “very unlikely” to be behind Havana Syndrome, telling congressional leaders the products excluded evidence, mischaracterized sources, and relied on a medical study her office calls ethically compromised. More than 1,500 personnel have reported the anomalous health incidents since 2016.
The Terms of Citizenship
Denaturalization Is the Point: Citizenship Has Terms
The Editors | Washington Examiner
The Washington Examiner’s editors defend the largest coordinated denaturalization campaign in modern American history: 17 actions filed June 8 against naturalized citizens accused of crimes ranging from immigration fraud to a $36 million health care scheme, with USCIS reportedly referring 100 to 200 cases a month to Justice Department litigators. Citizenship fraudulently obtained, they argue, was never the law’s to protect.
Gill Makes the Case for Ending Somali Immigration
Fresh from his task force’s first hearing on Ohio’s Medicaid fraud scandal, Rep. Brandon Gill argues the welfare data condemn the policy: by the figures he cites, 81% of Somali immigrant households receive public assistance, 78% even after a decade in the country, against 21% of native households, with the same pattern across six Western nations. His remedy is legislation barring immigration from Somalia.
Murray: Britain Imported a Problem It Refuses to Name
Douglas Murray | The Spectator
After a Sudanese migrant with refugee status attempted a beheading on a Belfast street, Douglas Murray catalogs the ritual that follows every such atrocity in Britain: the public’s anger gets policed, Nigel Farage’s words draw harsher condemnation than the crime itself, and a government minister feigns bafflement at the phrase “alien culture.” The pretended confusion, Murray writes, no longer covers the problem everyone has noticed.
Built to Last
Wurman: Why the Constitution Was Built to Last
Ilan Wurman | The American Mind
In an excerpt from The Constitution of 1789, his forthcoming Cambridge University Press volume, Ilan Wurman traces the Founders’ break with Britain’s constitution of parliamentary supremacy: writing the fundamental law down settled that the people, not the legislature, are sovereign, and the framers then built an executive energetic enough to govern yet circumscribed enough to remain republican.
Hoffman: The AI Race Will Be Won in Reactor Yards
Daniel N. Hoffman | The Washington Times
Former CIA officer Daniel Hoffman argues that AI’s appetite for electricity makes nuclear expansion a strategic imperative, and that a country which forgot how to build reactors on schedule after Three Mile Island and the Vogtle overruns should build with South Korea’s APR1400, an NRC-certified design with a proven construction record that traces its lineage to American reactor technology.
