Canada #87

Activists Linked to George Soros Are Training Jurors So They Can Help ‘Marginalized’ Defendants

by C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal Jan. 1, 2026

A judicial activist group linked to George Soros’ activist groups is coming under scrutiny for what they call “juror teach-in” sessions to protect “those with marginalized identities.”

Free DC, a Washington-based group which describes itself as a “fiscally sponsored special project” of a progressive nonprofit called Community Change and Community Change Action, will be hosting a Jan. 12 training session which, from its description, sounds suspiciously close to a primer on jury nullification.

The session is being co-hosted with another progressive group, Harriet’s Wildest Dreams.

“We’ll discuss what it really means to serve on a jury and how we can use that role to protect our people especially those with marginalized identities who are disproportionately targeted by the criminal legal system,” the event description reads.

“Jury duty is not just a civic responsibility; it’s a powerful tool for ensuring fairness and justice. As community members, our participation in juries is vital to safeguarding the rights of those who are most vulnerable to systemic biases.

“By serving on a jury, we can influence outcomes and help create a more equitable legal process.”

As of Thursday, the session is “open to everyone,” although that may change given the attention the event has suddenly received.

As the New York Post reported, Free DC’s funding can be traced back to several large progressive philanthropies, including Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The OSF’s $20 million donation to Free DC initially came under scrutiny in August when the group took an active role in fighting President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital after several high-profile violent crimes.

“‘Do not obey in advance’ and ‘Take up space’ are among Free DC’s ‘guiding principles,’ and the group urges supporters to ‘go outside at 8:00 PM and bang pots and pans, sing, chant, or make noise for five minutes’ every night ‘of this occupation,'” the Post reported at the time.

“Free DC has scheduled multiple events since Monday’s anti-Trump protest, including a ‘Cop Watch Training,’ suggesting further protests are planned amid Trump’s effort to make DC the ‘safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world’ – by ramping up law enforcement efforts and removing homeless encampments from public places.”

More:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/activists-linked-george-soros-training-jurors-can-help/

Canada #87

Jack Smith Says Trump Did NOT Have First Amendment Right to Say 2020 Election Was Fraudulent in Newly-Released Deposition

by Cristina Laila Jan. 1, 2026

House Judiciary Republicans on Wednesday released a transcript and video of Jack Smith’s closed-door testimony to Congress.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared on Capitol Hill last month for a closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

Republican lawmakers called Jack Smith to testify over his “partisan and politically motivated” Trump prosecutions.

Jack Smith was appointed as Special Counsel in 2022 by Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump just one day after Trump announced his 2024 bid for the White House.

In June 2023, Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate, which was protected by Secret Service agents.

In a separate case in Washington DC, Jack Smith indicted Trump on four counts: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Jack Smith defended his inquisition in an opening statement to congressional investigators.

“The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts,” Jack Smith said.

During his deposition, Jack Smith said his prosecutors framed the case against Trump as a fraud case rather than a First Amendment issue.

“Fraud is not protected by the First Amendment, so in my mind it was important to make that clear in the indictment…” Jack Smith said as he boasted about the case ‘prevailing’ in the district court with corrupt Obama-appointed Judge Chutkan.

Two of Jack Smith’s charges against President Trump in the DC case were ultimately torpedoed by the US Supreme Court after it issued a ruling on the obstruction statute – 1512(c)(2).

“The president’s statements that he believed that the election was rife with fraud – those are certainly statements that are protected by the First Amendment, correct?” the congressional investigator asked Jack Smith.

Jack Smith said Trump did not have a First Amendment right to question the election.

“Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function, and they’re made with knowing falsity. No, they’re not. That was my point about fraud not being protected by the First Amendment,” Jack Smith said.

The congressional investigator said there is a long list of disputed elections going back to the 1800s, where candidates have spoken out about fraud.

Jack Smith pivoted and claimed there is “no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case.”

Mike Davis, noted attorney and founder of the Article III Project, said Jack Smith must face criminal prosecution for violating President Trump’s constitutional rights by “contorting laws” to criminalize protected First Amendment speech.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/shock-jack-smith-says-trump-did-not-have/

Canada #87

REPORT: Somalia’s UN Ambassador, Who Previously Oversaw Adult Medicaid, Also Served as CEO at a Company Reportedly Placed on a Federal Fraud Exclusion List and Banned from Receiving Medicaid Funds

by Jim Hᴏft Jan. 2, 2026

While Ohio taxpayers are being told to accept daycare fraud as merely “the cost of doing business,” a stunning new report has surfaced that raises serious questions about who has been operating inside the state’s taxpayer-funded welfare ecosystem and how far those connections now extend onto the global stage.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, RINO Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office has brushed off mounting concerns over potential large-scale fraud in taxpayer-funded daycare centers—particularly in Columbus, home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States—as merely “the cost of doing business,” even after two independent journalists uncovered disturbing evidence of potential ghost daycare operations in Columbus, Ohio.

Speaking to the Columbus Dispatch, DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney openly acknowledged that daycare fraud has been “known to the state for decades,” suggesting that outrage from taxpayers is simply the product of naivety.

“If people are out there who could not contemplate that people were trying to defraud the public through day care centers, I understand it’s new to them … but it’s been known to the state for decades,” Tierney said. “So therefore, we have robust anti-fraud measures to try and stop this, this is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business.”

A new bombshell report now reveals that Somalia’s sitting ambassador to the United Nations once worked inside Ohio’s Medicaid bureaucracy, and later ran or represented a healthcare company reportedly placed on a federal fraud exclusion list.

Abukar Dahir Osman, often referred to by the nickname “Baale,” currently serves as Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, a post he has held since 2017.

As of this month, Osman holds one of the most powerful rotating positions in global diplomacy: President of the UN Security Council.

In that role, he:

Oversees Security Council meetings

Sets the Council’s agenda

Manages resolutions and presidential statements

Speaks for the A3+ bloc (African nations plus Caribbean representation) on issues like Afghanistan and Yemen

But before assuming global authority in New York, Osman spent years embedded inside Ohio’s public welfare system.

Osman relocated to the United States in the late 1980s and built his career in Ohio’s taxpayer-funded social services apparatus.

From 1999 to 2012, he worked at the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, serving as:

Case Manager

Social Program Specialist

Osman was also a supervisor for the Medicaid office in Franklin County, Ohio, from 2007 to 2012.

Mr. Osman also founded Beacon Educational Services, according to his profile on the UN. He served as a consultant for the organization from 2007 to 2010.

The most alarming revelation involves Progressive Health Care Services Inc., an Ohio-based home healthcare company linked to Osman.

According to reporting cited by PJ Media and Prime Business Africa:

Osman served as Managing Director of Progressive Health Care Services from 2014 to 2019

He was also listed as a statutory agent in 2018, after becoming Somalia’s UN ambassador in 2017 — raising serious conflict-of-interest concerns

More:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/report-somalias-un-ambassador-previously-oversaw-adult-medicaid/

Canada #87

'We're winning all over the world': Billboard Chris on the global fight against transgender ideology

RebelNews+ Clips January 01, 2026

'The positive message that we push is that our kids are beautiful just the way they are; they don’t need drugs or scalpels. And we’re winning all over the world,' said Chris.

On Tuesday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra was joined by Canadian activist "Billboard" Chris Elston to discuss his global campaign against radical transgender ideology.

Ezra made the point that many of last year’s important political wins, including the executive order issued by Donald Trump defending the rights of women and girls, were made possible by the tireless advocacy of people like Chris.

“Trump did the important executive order, but it was politically possible for him to do that in large part because of the groundwork that you and other activists did,” Ezra told Chris.

“In addition to defending women and girls in sports,” Chris added, “Trump also did a very important thing, which was that he pulled federal funding from any hospital engaged in the sex trait modification of children — of course, I’m referring to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries being done on kids who have been taught this ridiculous notion that they were born in the wrong body.”

Chris went on: “My message has been consistently, ‘There’s no such thing as a transgender child.’ The positive message that we push is that our kids are beautiful just the way they are; they don’t need drugs or scalpels. And we’re winning all over the world.”

Video (9:03)

https://youtu.be/OP7BB0cy36Q

https://www.rebelnews.com/_we_re_winning_all_over_the_world_billboard_chris_on_the_global_fight_against_transgender_ideology

>>24061978

I'll go a bit further: Take the "e' off the end of that nickname and there's Baal. Add apostrophe and it's Ba'al

>>24061632

Pentagon is not supposed to be involved in local elections

OPM, Office of Personnel Management deals with Federal Employees

Secretary of State has nothing to do with local elections

NY judges are corrupt

Each of NYC's five boroughs is a county of its own

Borough County

Bronx Bronx County

Brooklyn Kings County

Manhattan New York County

Queens Queens County

Staten Island Richmond County

https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02877

I am unaware of any law for New York State that allows a Sheriff of any county to disqualify a candidate

>>24062061 (me)

Correction: The only law I know of that disqualifies a candidate is that which pertains to an individual with a Bad Conduct Discharge from the military

>>24062032

California Prosecutor Says AI Caused Errors in Criminal Case

Northern California prosecutors used artificial intelligence to write a criminal court filing that contained references to nonexistent legal cases and precedents, says a Northern California district attorney.

November 07, 2025 • Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee

(TNS) — Northern California prosecutors used artificial intelligence to write a criminal court filing that contained references to nonexistent legal cases and precedents, Nevada County District Attorney Jesse Wilson said in a statement.

The motion included false information known in artificial intelligence circles as “hallucinations,” meaning that it was invented by the AI software asked to write the material, Wilson said. It was filed in connection with the case of Kalen Turner, who was accused of five felony and two misdemeanor drug counts, he said.

“A prosecutor recently used artificial intelligence in preparing a filing, which resulted in an inaccurate citation,” Wilson said in the statement to The Sacramento Bee. “Once the error was discovered, the filing was immediately withdrawn.”

Wilson’s also said his deputies had filed briefs with inaccurate legal references in two other cases, but that they were caused by human error, not AI.

The situation is the latest example of the potential pitfalls connected with the growing use of AI. In fields such as law, errors in AI-generated briefs could impact the freedom of a person accused of a crime. In health care, AI analysis of medical necessity has resulted in the denial of some types of care. In April, A 16-year-old Rancho Santa Margarita boy killed himself after discussing suicidal thoughts with an AI chatbot, prompting a new California law aimed at protecting vulnerable users.

“While artificial intelligence can be a useful research tool, it remains an evolving technology with limitations — including the potential to generate ‘hallucinated’ citations,” Wilson said. “We are actively learning the fluid dynamics of AI-assisted legal work and its possible pitfalls.”

All three of the Nevada County cases are the subject of a petition filed late last month with the California Supreme Court by a defendant in one of them.

Lawyers for Kyle Kjoller, who faced numerous firearms-related charges, said that the errors in each case has the hallmarks of AI hallucinations. They are requesting an investigation and asking for sanctions against the DA’s office.

The Supreme Court has not yet said whether it will consider Kjoller’s petition, which was denied last month by a state appeals court.

“The Nevada County District Attorney’s Office has, in at least three criminal cases in recent weeks, filed briefing citing to fabricated (legal) authority,” wrote lawyers for the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps, which is representing Kjoller along with a Nevada County public defender.

In his petition, Kjoller, who was ultimately convicted on the firearms charges, alleges that all three cases included examples of AI use gone wrong. The petition includes examples of six cases cited in a brief filed in connection with Kjoller’s bail hearing that his lawyers say appear to be hallucinations.

“Case does not exist,” they wrote in a chart detailing the citations. “Reporter citation does not exist. Does not accurately describe.”

The brief also mischaracterized a provision of the California state Constitution, they said.

Worries about fictions created by artificial intelligence used to prepare legal documents have plagued the legal community for the past few years, as the public’s infatuation with the generative technology has grown. When used in legal cases, AI hallucinates between 17% adn 82% of the time, Kjoller’s petition suggested.

Using incorrect or false case references in legal documents has real implications for defendants, because judges rely on these references to help form their rulings, Kjoller’s lawyers wrote.

“Citing to fabricated authority runs the very real risk that a court may rely on a prosecutor’s misrepresentation in its ruling,” attorneys Kjoller’s lawyers wrote in their petition. “In criminal cases, this can have horrific, life-shattering results.”

The petition contends that Wilson’s office did not acknowledge the use of AI in the Turner case, despite pointed questions on the topic from the judge. It also contends that Wilson’s office did not correct its errors in the other two cases.

Kjoller’s lawyers also claim that Wilson’s chief deputy, Lydia Stuart, threatened them with her own sanctions motion, which she denies.

In an email included with the petition, Stuart does point to a California law barring the filing of frivolous requests for sanctions against opposing attorneys. But she says this was in response to a question and was not a threat.

“While we respect and expect zealous advocacy … the assertion that our filing contained ‘hallucinated holdings’ and was ‘so obliquely and misleading as to suggest the entire argument was written by generative AI’, itself strikes as a misleading characterization to the court,” she wrote in the email.

“Here in Nevada County,” she added, “we strive to maintain respectful adversarial practice with our professional colleagues and refrain from exploiting inadvertent errors that arise from the demands of our profession and limited resources.”

Wilson said his office took immediate steps to address the AI problem, speaking directly to the attorney involved and reminding his staff to double-check and confirm any information that it generates.

“All of the attorneys in the office were reminded to verify all legal citations independently and not rely on AI-generated material without confirmation from reliable sources,” he said.

But Wilson insisted that errors in Kjoller’s case and that of Taylor McGrath, who was accused of felony child endangerment along with drug charges, did not involve artificial intelligence.

Just because the Turner case involved AI, “it cannot now be assumed that every citation error stems from the use of artificial intelligence,” he said.

“Prosecutors work diligently and in good faith under heavy caseloads and time constraints, with a deep sense of responsibility to the law, the Court, and the community we serve,” Wilson said. “At no time was there any intent to mislead the court, and any characterization to the contrary misstates the facts.”

https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/california-prosecutor-says-ai-caused-errors-in-criminal-case

Related:

Well, It Happened: Court's Order Cites AI-Hallucinated Precedent

July 11, 2025

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/well-it-happened-court-s-order-cites-ai-5394373/

>>24061846

jpost is trash

haaretz is bullshit

smoloko is skinhead wannabes

timesofisrael is shit sitrring junk

southfront is just as bad

try harder