Think More: Monday, June 8, 2026
The Walz $9 billion fraud report, the $825M network behind Newark's ICE riots, 101 more Hamas staffers at UNRWA, and more.
Lead · The Cost of Looking Away
A House Report Says Walz Let $9 Billion in Fraud Run
A 205-page House Oversight Committee report concludes that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew of rampant welfare fraud as early as 2019, failed to stop it, and retaliated against whistleblowers. Investigators tie about $300 million in stolen child-nutrition funds to Feeding Our Future and cite a prosecutor’s estimate of $9 billion in Medicaid fraud since 2018, which the Walz administration disputes. The findings were referred to Vice President JD Vance.
The Cost of Looking Away
An $825 Million Nonprofit Network Powers the Newark ICE Riots
Asra Nomani, Michael Dorgan & Preston Mizell | Fox News
Fox News Digital reports that the protests outside Newark’s Delaney Hall ICE facility are organized by a network of about 100 groups, among them the ACLU, Indivisible, and the Democratic Socialists of America, with roughly $825 million in combined annual revenue and some 70 holding tax-exempt status. Encrypted Signal chats coordinated riot gear, and a shared “creator brief” scripted the messaging.
The ‘Delaney Hall 100’: the network behind Newark’s ICE protests, per Fox News Digital
~100
Organizations
$825M
Combined revenue
~70
Tax-exempt nonprofits
The Oldest Hatred
A U.S. Probe Ties 101 More UNRWA Staffers to October 7
Adam Kredo | Washington Free Beacon
The USAID inspector general found that 101 more employees of the U.N. relief agency UNRWA, among them school principals, teachers, and medics, belonged to Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades or allied factions, several taking part in the October 7 attacks. All 101 will be barred from U.S.-funded aid for a decade; the broader probe covers some 1,500 staffers and has blacklisted 108 so far.
A CU Boulder Student Group Celebrates the Pearl Street Firebomber
On the first anniversary of the Boulder firebombing that killed 82-year-old Karen Diamond, the University of Colorado Boulder chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, unrecognized since 2024, released a statement honoring the attacker, Mohamed Soliman, and demanding his release. Soliman, who pleaded guilty and drew consecutive life terms, had firebombed a march for Israeli hostages. The university condemned the statement.
Ideology in the Expert Class
El-Sayed Backed Lockdowns, Then Blessed the BLM Marches
Jerry Dunleavy | Just the News
Abdul El-Sayed, now the Democratic Senate frontrunner in Michigan, spent the spring of 2020 demanding lockdowns and branding beachgoers and conservative protesters as reckless spreaders, then embraced the mass, unmasked Black Lives Matter marches that summer as a remedy for what he called a public-health crisis. Just the News reviewed dozens of his since-deleted tweets making both cases.
The Public Does Not Need Psychiatrists to Judge Its Leaders
Theodore Dalrymple | Law & Liberty
Theodore Dalrymple argues that diagnosing politicians from a distance, from the 1964 Fact magazine survey declaring Barry Goldwater unfit to Bandy Lee’s 2017 volume on Donald Trump, dresses moral judgment as clinical science. The tell, he writes, is the language of “accusation,” a word of blame, not diagnosis. Voters can weigh a leader’s character without a psychiatrist’s authorization.
DEI Outlasts the Executive Orders by Changing Its Name
In a College Fix interview, Simon Olech and Adam Guillette examine how campus diversity programs have outlasted the Trump administration’s executive orders, often by renaming offices and scrubbing websites rather than ending the work. Federal judges paused the Education Department’s “Dear Colleague” guidance, yet the mere threat of lost funding pushed many universities to relabel their DEI operations instead of dismantling them.
Courts, Weaponized and Defended
The Supreme Court Treated Alabama and Virginia Differently for a Reason
Becket Adams argues the Supreme Court’s split redistricting decisions reflect law rather than partisanship: it let Alabama use its 2023 congressional map, a federal Voting Rights Act question reopened after Louisiana v. Callais, while declining to revive Virginia’s, which the state’s own court voided on procedural grounds. The campaign to brand the Court as biased, he writes, is groundwork for packing it.
Trump Walks Out on ‘Meet the Press’ Over the Weaponization Fund
John Hinderaker recounts President Trump’s combative “Meet the Press” exchange with Kristen Welker, which turned on a proposed fund to compensate victims of government weaponization, and on election integrity, before Trump walked out. Citing law professor Ilan Wurman, Hinderaker argues Democrats pioneered the “collusive settlement,” from Cobell‘s $3.5 billion payout onward, that Republicans now stand accused of abusing.
Governing the Machines
Hawley: Do Not Let Silicon Valley Write the Rules on AI
Senator Josh Hawley argues that AI is a tool whose effect on working people turns on who writes the rules, and that the answer cannot be left to Silicon Valley. He points to Festus, Missouri, where the council approved a $6 billion data center over residents’ worries about power and water bills; weeks later, voters threw out every incumbent on the ballot.
Trump Orders the Pentagon to Field Frontier AI, With Safeguards
The White House | whitehouse.gov
A national security memorandum directs the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to adopt frontier AI quickly under four pillars: adoption, adaptation, assurance, and accountability. It bars systems that censor speech, embed ideological bias, or enable unlawful surveillance, and requires that no vendor or adversary be able to disable or alter a model warfighters depend on without federal approval. It also updates the rules on autonomous weapons.
The American Project at 250
Hillsdale’s ‘Revolutionary America’ Tells the Founding as a Story
Bradley J. Birzer | The American Mind
Bradley Birzer reviews Hillsdale College’s new documentary Revolutionary America, a Ken Burns-style telling of the founding narrated by Tom Selleck and timed to the nation’s 250th. He praises its non-ideological sweep from Lexington to the Constitution, faults only the missing Northwest Ordinance, and closes on President Larry Arnn’s charge that every generation must rededicate itself to the Revolution.
An Advanced Reactor Reaches Criticality, a First in Four Decades
Callie Patteson | Washington Examiner
Antares Nuclear’s Mark-0 reactor reached criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, the first privately developed non-light-water reactor to do so in the United States in more than four decades, under the Energy Department’s pilot program. Energy Secretary Chris Wright called it fitting on the eve of the 250th. The milestone is a zero-power test, not commercial power; electricity could follow by 2027.
