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Former St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson, a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, suspended his campaign on Monday after his 22-year-old daughter was savagely stabbed to death.
The Republican Party of Minnesota confirmed Johnson was dropping out and stressed that the group is “heartbroken by the tragic loss of Dr. Jeff Johnson’s daughter, who was killed in a violent crime Saturday night in St. Cloud.”
“There are no words that can adequately express the sorrow we feel for Jeff and his family,” continued the Minnesota GOP. “The loss of a child is unimaginable, and our thoughts and prayers are with them as they grieve this devastating tragedy.”
The City of St. Cloud Police Department indicated that officers responded on Saturday evening to a report of a medical emergency at the apartment of Johnson’s daughter, Hallie Marie Tobler, where they found her dead with multiple stab wounds.
‘Join us in lifting up the Johnson family.’
Dylan Tobler, her 23-year-old husband, was also found at the scene with life-threatening injuries that police believe to have been self-inflicted. Although initially taken to St. Cloud Hospital for treatment, police indicated Dylan Tobler — who is now in stable condition — will later be transported to the Stearns County Jail, “where he will be held for court on charges related to the homicide.”
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Last month, Dylan Tobler pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection to a June 2025 incident in which he choked his wife, reported the Duluth News Tribune.
By Tuesday, Johnson’s campaign page had been stripped down to its header.
The former councilman, who served for two terms in the 2010s, announced his candidacy for governor in March 2025, vowing to tackle Minnesota’s fraud and crime problems, keep businesses from fleeing the Gopher State, work with federal agencies to combat illegal immigration, and stand up to radicalism from the left.
“Quite frankly, Minnesota has been operating in full crisis mode under Gov. Tim Walz for years,” Johnson said at the time in an interview with the St. Cloud Times.
The Minnesota GOP asked for residents of the state “to join us in lifting up the Johnson family during this incredibly painful time.”
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A video of Democratic Texas state Rep. Gene Wu has resurfaced on the internet this week in what one large social media account called a “mask off” moment for the lawmaker.
In a December 31, 2024, episode of “Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas,” Wu, an immigrant who was born in China, openly urged minority racial groups to unite against their “same oppressor.”
‘Because we are the majority in this country now.’
In the video, entitled “In This Texas District, 1/3 of Residents Are Undocumented,” Wu was asked about different racial groups’ relationship to each other and particularly the relationship between Asians and Latinos.
“It’s not just Latinos. It’s not just Asians. It’s not just African-Americans. It’s everybody. Right? We, our country and the forces that be, the powers that be, have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to make sure that those groups are never united, that they always see each other as enemies, as competitors, without ever realizing that they share one thing in common: that their oppressors all are the same,” Wu responded.
“The oppression comes from one place,” he quickly added.
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Without explicitly saying who these “oppressors” are, Wu made it easy to read between the lines: “I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
“Shame on him,” Elon Musk said in response to the clip of Wu, who was first elected to Texas House District 137 near Houston in 2012.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh pointed out the rhetorical double standard between Republicans and Democrats, referencing a more recent controversy in which President Trump shared a meme some decried as racist: “So I’m supposed to be outrage[d] about an Obama monkey meme while Democrat elected officials are labeling the entire white race ‘oppressors’ and openly plotting to conquer and subjugate us? Trump can post all the memes he wants. I really don’t care at all.”
The resurfaced video has since garnered nearly 14 million views on X.
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Most people think parasitic diseases occur in poor and developing countries, or are infections they might pick up on a trip to a foreign country. However, parasitic infections also occur in the United States, and in some cases affect millions of people. Often they can go unnoticed, with few symptoms. But many times the infections cause serious illnesses, including seizures, blindness, pregnancy complications, heart failure, and even death. Anyone—regardless of race or economic status—can become infected.
CDC has targeted five neglected parasitic infections (NPIs) in the United States as priorities for public health action based on the numbers of people infected, the severity of the illnesses, or our ability to prevent and treat them. These NPIs include Chagas disease, cysticercosis, toxocariasis, toxoplasmosis, and trichomoniasis.
While each illness has diagnostic strategies followed by care providers, many patients want to take a proactive stance with respect to parasites. The CDC says the burden of parasitic diseases among Americans is high.
More than 300,000 people living in the United States are infected withTrypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, and more than 300 infected babies are born every year.
There are at least 1,000 hospitalizations for symptomatic cysticercosis per year in the United States.
At least 14 percent of the U.S. population has been exposed toToxocara, the parasite that causes toxocariasis, and each year at least 70 people—most of them children—are blinded by resulting eye disease.
More than 60 million people in the United States are chronically infected withToxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis; new infections in pregnant women can lead to birth defects and infections in those with compromised immune systems can be fatal.
Trichomoniasis can cause pregnancy problems and increase the risk of other sexually transmitted infections including HIV. TheTrichomonas parasite is extremely common, affecting 3.7 million people in the United States, although it is easily treatable.
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“The finance industry is a grift,” is the online headline the New York Times slapped on Oren Cass’s nearly 3,300-word-long screed. In print in the Sunday Times, where the Cass article covered the entire front page of the Sunday opinion section and the better part of two inside pages (a “double truck,” as it’s known), the headline was dialed back to “How the Capitalists Broke Capitalism” and “The Self-Enriching Money Machine: Banks used to build things. Now they just move money around and squeeze us all for profit.”
Maybe, at least for print, the Times editors were exercising some rare self-restraint. Perhaps, upon reflection, “the finance industry is a grift” was a bit of a sweeping overgeneralization for a company whose corporate board of directors includes John W. Rogers Jr., whose Times company bio describes him as “founder, chairman, co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer, of Ariel Investments, LLC, an institutional money management and mutual fund firm, as well as a trustee of Ariel Investment Trust, an investment company.” Or maybe it was impolitic for a company whose latest proxy statement listed more than 30 percent of its Class A shares—considerably more than held by the Ochs Sulzberger family—in the hands of the Vanguard Group, BlackRock, T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc., and Farallon Capital Partners LLC and affiliated entities.
That the online headline implicitly impugned the integrity of the Times‘s own director and shareholders apparently wasn’t enough to give editors at the Times pause about publishing the rest of the piece. Too bad, because it is riddled with falsehoods, tendentious reasoning, and sloppy thinking.
One misleading claim is Cass’s complaint that the financial sector “attracts the highest share of top talent from top schools, in part by offering the highest compensation.” For proof he offers hyperlinks to data from Stanford and Harvard business schools. That’s cherry-picking. At Chicago Booth, 36.7 percent of the class went into consulting, compared to 31.6 percent in finance. At Duke Fuqua School of Business, 34 percent went into consulting and 20.9 percent into finance. At Dartmouth Tuck, 41 percent went into consulting and 27 percent into finance. At Michigan Ross, 33.5 percent went into consulting and 19.5 percent went into finance. Data from those schools show higher total initial compensation in consulting. Even at Harvard Business School, the recent trends cast doubt on Cass’s narrative; in the class of 2025, tech jobs went up to 22 percent from 16 percent the year before, and private equity jobs went down to 14 percent from 19 percent the year before. Career choice of Harvard MBA graduates is known as a contrary indicator; in 2008, just before the great financial crisis, 40 percent of the class went into finance. The data listings are for salaries immediately out of business school; for tech founders the long-term riches can far exceed compensation in the financial sector; ask Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, or Larry Ellison. Three of those four are college dropouts, which calls into question Cass’s notion that the top talent can be found in graduating MBA classes.
The mountain of misleading claims and half-truths is seductive because it taps into deep cultural roots, both Marxist—Karl Marx’s distinction between exploitative “capital” and virtuous, productive labor—and religious—Jesus throwing the money-changers out of the Temple. And Cass also blames “capitalists” for decisions—moving manufacturing overseas, the rise of private equity—that were really political or nonprofit, such as President Clinton’s decision to open up trade with China and public pension funds and university and foundation endowments increasing allocations to private equity.
Along the way, Cass gives short shrift to the many useful things that the financial industry does that are not a grift. Those things include helping many Americans save for retirement, accumulate home equity, and finance purchases; and financing the operations of many businesses with debt and stock sales. Cass is dismissive of “debt refinancings,” but some of us are old enough to remember the 2008 credit crunch when businesses had trouble issuing commercial paper. Plenty of people lost their jobs, and some lost their houses, in that crisis. Debt refinancing is nothing to take for granted.
Whatever froth there is in finance—whether it is private equity or hedge funds—is being ruthlessly wrung out by the very markets of which Cass is so contemptuous. It’s the markets that provide the price signals that let Cass cast his aspersions.
His policy solutions are likely to create their own problems. He writes, “We should establish regulations to curtail the riskiest and most convoluted financial activities.” Yet excessive regulation of the banks is what pushed activity in the first place to the “unregulated lenders” Cass complains about. In the race between regulators and regulated, the regulated will always have an edge—better information, the ability to capture regulators. That’s why allowing markets to self-regulate is usually best. The unregulated newspapers always want to regulate everyone else.
Cass’s proposal to ban stock buybacks would push firms to deploy capital in less efficient ways—such as paying taxable dividends, or empire-building with acquisitions. His idea to rewrite the bankruptcy laws “so that when companies go belly up, workers and their communities get to join the line for compensation ahead of the lenders who financed the mess” is a recipe to drive up the costs of capital, erode property rights, and distort incentives. Why would any union ever make any concession in any future contract negotiation if the workers wind up owning the company if they force it to default on debt?
Cass’s proposal for social shunning of people who take jobs in the financial sector is gross. He writes, “We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all. Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences.” Blackstone isn’t a hedge fund. It’s a company that’s been built by hard work. In July 2025, one of its top employees was gunned down in the lobby. Might Oren Cass muster the decency to wait at least until Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner‘s family is finished saying kaddish for the 43-year-old shot in her office building before Cass starts crapping all over the moral judgment of young women who choose to follow in her footsteps? The unpleasant sight here is Oren Cass parading his own lack of self-awareness.
In the print New York Times, the article is illustrated with pigs, gold coins, and a horned devil. Where would the Times be if, when it was at $3 a share during the financial crisis, lenders had not stepped up to provide runway—even at high interest rates—in a way that allowed the Ochs Sulzberger family to retain control? It’s convenient enough to denounce bankers or hedge fund managers as pigs or devils when business is good, when you’ve got Hewlett Foundation money at your back, or when you’re a sixth-generation Ochs Sulzberger heir. For the rest of us who are still building or rebuilding our fortunes and remember when lenders were not lending—well, we’re less inclined to insult the bankers, and more inclined to be nice and polite and grateful with the knowledge that we might, someday, need their help.
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Any progress in society has to be achieved over the fierce objection of abject liberals.
For decades, the Scandinavian Kingdom of Sweden was known for its open and welcoming society, and it took years of unchecked mass migration to destroy that.
And besides the fraying of the social fabric by an army of unassimilating migrants, Sweden was soon going to have to deal with a surge in organized crime activity, including the use of children for hits.
Now, it’s a common sight to note ‘children being pulled off the streets and searched without a warrant, or having their phones spied on by detectives’.
The Telegraph reported:
“But after four years of gang violence that has seen children as young as 12 recruited on social media to carry out hit jobs against rival gangsters, police say it has become a grim but necessary reality.
In April 2024, Swedish police were handed sweeping new powers to tackle the rise of Middle Eastern drug syndicates that were grooming boys and girls into being ‘foot soldiers’ by offering them up to 150,000 kroner (£12,500) per job.”
Another Swedish case from last year: A 16 year girl named as “Lisa” accepted a gig job as a murder commando. She and a 15 year old boy entered an apartment complex and shot a young women to death, the woman’s husband was shot in his hand.
It was her first job for a criminal gang https://t.co/bwBwXZx610 pic.twitter.com/DPJUh7wxuE
— Birch Brother
Now, Swedish officers have the power to stop and search people and vehicles without specific suspicion of a crime.
“Children under the age of 15 can also be placed under phone and internet surveillance by police if they are suspected of serious crimes, such as being involved in gang assassinations or bomb making.
Two years on, the laws – which had prompted outcry amongst liberals – are working. Sweden has seen the biggest decline in gun violence since the crisis began in 2022, according to the latest data.”
A 20-year-old has been attacked in a park in Stockholm.
The attackers cut his hand off with a machete.
The police say it’s a case of violence between gangs competing for shares of the drug market
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 7, 2025
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In the latest example of the late night comedy shows degenerating into Democratic strategy sessions, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed Kentucky Andy Beshear to The Daily Show on Monday to suggest ways for Democrats to win again and on how Democratic governors can band together to stop Trump and his immigration policies that come with a “body count.”
Stewart lobbed the softball Beshear’s way when he wondered, “Let me ask you this, do you think that the legal system, because, you know—how many Democratic governors are there, 23? Something like that?”
Jon Stewart and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear had a lengthy strategizing session las night with Stewart wondering, “What can the cavalry of Democratic governors do other than lawsuits? To kind of form a coalition of people. I don’t want to say confederation—that has a—the… pic.twitter.com/CXOCBYhwsH
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 10, 2026
After Beshear affirmed Stewart’s count, Stewart continued, “Just under half. You know, what is it they can do? You know, you see what he is doing in Oregon, you see what he’s doing in Chicago, you see what he’s doing in Minnesota. What can the cavalry of Democratic governors do other than lawsuits? To kind of form a coalition of people. I don’t want to say confederation. That has a—the connotations are not great. But how can they force amplify to fight some of these really petty things that are being done?”
Because there isn’t a compelling answer, Beshear was forced to focus on lawsuits and public messaging, “Well, we do. We communicate a lot. And we all know each other well. And what you see is us banding together to go to court, but also to move the court of public opinion. You see right now what is going on in Minnesota.”
As Stewart constantly interjected to voice his approval, Beshear continued, “The videos. The fact that we have an American body count for Donald Trump’s deportation plans. You see his other actions in other states, you see the picture of that 5-year-old child. Listen, that is a child of God just like any other one.”
Since the purpose of Beshear’s appearance was to plot strategy to help Democrats win, Stewart did not provide context or fact-checks for the “body count” or the 5-year old that was abandoned by his father when ICE came to get him, not taken by his mother after she was guaranteed she would not be taken into custody, and then reunited with his father according to his wishes.
Here is a transcript for the February 9 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
2/9/2026
11:41 PM ET
JON STEWART: Let me ask you this, do you think that the legal system, because, you know—how many Democratic governors are there, 23? Something like that?
ANDY BESHEAR: We are—yeah. Just under half.
STEWART: Just under half. You know, what is it they can do? You know, you see what he is doing in Oregon, you see what he’s doing in Chicago, you see what he’s doing in Minnesota. What can the cavalry of Democratic governors do other than lawsuits? To kind of form a coalition of people. I don’t want to say confederation. That has a—the connotations are not great. But how can they force amplify to fight some of these really petty things that are being done?
BESHEAR: Well, we do. We communicate a lot. And we all know each other well. And what you see is us banding together to go to court, but also to move the court of public opinion. You see right now what is going on in Minnesota.
STEWART: Right.
BESHEAR: The videos. The fact that we have an American body count for Donald Trump’s deportation plans.
STEWART: Right.
BESHEAR: You see his other actions in other states, you see the picture of that 5-year-old child.
STEWART: Sure.
BESHEAR: Listen, that is a child of God just like any other one.
STEWART: Right.
The Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, fresh from trashing ICE at the Grammy Awards, organized a highly divisive Super Bowl spectacle that put his leftist Latino identity politics front and center. The ardent adoration it drew from leftists and Democrats underlined its political intent.
MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and news analyst Jorge Bonilla assessed the controversy, or in this case, liberal journalists selling the Kool-Aid that this was all about “love,” that it was unifying. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tried to sell this as a message of unity, which was clearly false.
Don’t miss Jorge’s breakdown of the halftime show on FoxNews.com. We consider him the conservative movement’s expert on all things Bad Bunny and Puerto Rico.
Plus: The racial scolds of the Associated Press broke out the old chestnut that the Winter Olympics are too painfully white before the games began, with a Europe-based sports reporter named Steve Douglas. It wasn’t someone assigned to a “race and culture” beat. Let the bean-counting games begin! The headline: “Europe’s rising diversity is not reflected at the Winter Olympics. Culture plays a big role.”
Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy wrote on how Trump’s jabs at Canada and European countries have “turned beating the Americans in Italy from a crowning sporting achievement to an even greater moral imperative for the president’s rivals.”
Reporters on Friday asked U.S. Olympic athletes at a news conference how they feel representing the country during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions. Freestyle skier Hunter Hess replied that he had mixed emotions since he doesn’t agree with the situation, and that he is in Milan competing on behalf of everyone who helped get him to The Games. “If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it,” Hess said. “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.” President Trump slammed Hess as a “loser.” But why are the reporters making everything about Trump?
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The Election Oversight Group’s 250-page report points to incidents that appear to exceed election worker incompetence and ‘clerical errors’.