OH SNAP! White households make up the smallest percentage of government mooches…

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==Every once in a while, a set of numbers starts bouncing around social media that makes you stop scrolling and go, “Wait… is that actually true?”

Well, here we are.==

A viral post breaking down SNAP, Medicaid, and federal income taxes by race has been a hot topic on X for reasons that are pretty obvious once you see the numbers.

According to the post, 24.9 percent of Black households receive SNAP compared with 18.5 percent of Hispanic households, 8.5 percent of Asian households, and just 7.9 percent of White households. The Medicaid numbers follow a similar pattern, while the federal income tax figures suddenly swing dramatically in the opposite direction.

On its face, that’s one helluva contrast.

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So…

Households on SNAP:

Black: 24.9%

Hispanic: 18.5%

Asian: 8.5%

White: 7.9%

People on Medicaid:

Black: 29.0%

Hispanic: 29.6%

Asian: 17.4%

White: 12.9%

Estimated Federal Income Tax Paid:

Black: 6%

Hispanic: 8%

Asian: 10%

White: 75%

Telling…

Those numbers definitely tell a story… they just don’t tell the same kind of story, and if you’re a regular Revolver reader, you know we like to dive in and see what’s really going on… and in this case, it got pretty interesting.

The SNAP and Medicaid figures are real enough to track down. In fact, the Economic Policy Institute recently published virtually those exact numbers using Census Bureau data from 2023.

For Medicaid, the breakdown looked like this.

EPI:

People of color are more likely to rely on Medicaid for coverage.

While non-Hispanic white individuals account for the largest number of Medicaid beneficiaries, Black and Hispanic individuals are more likely to depend on Medicaid for health coverage. In 2023, nearly a third of Black (29.0%) and Hispanic (29.6%) people relied on Medicaid for health insurance (see Figure A below). These figures amount to more than 13 million Black and more than 19 million Hispanic Medicaid recipients who stand to see a reduction in benefits as a result of Republican efforts in Congress to providetax cuts that will disproportionately favor the most affluent householdsin the country at the expense of the most economically vulnerable.

https://revolver.news/2026/09/oh-snap-white-households-make-up-the-smallest-percentage-of-government-mooches/

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EPI 2023 stats

And EPI also lists the SNAP numbers as follows:

White | 7.85%

Black | 24.91%

Asian | 8.50%

Hispanic | 18.48%

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Those numbers are awfully close to the viral post, but there’s one little catch, though, because these percentages are easy to read the wrong way.

That 7.9 percent SNAP figure doesn’t mean White households make up only 7.9 percent of everyone on SNAP. It means that out of every 100 White households, roughly 8 received SNAP, compared with about 25 out of every 100 Black households.

That’s still a massive difference, but it’s worth explaining because those percentages are easy to misunderstand. The Medicaid numbers are calculated the same way.

The tax numbers, however, get a lot muddier. The X post claimsWhites pay 75 percent of federal income taxes, but weirdly enough, there’s no neat IRS chart that backs up that racial breakdown.

Why? Because the IRS doesn’t even ask taxpayers their race or ethnicity.

the Treasury Department says so directly:

“The IRS does not collect information on race and ethnicity on tax returns, so to facilitate analysis of disparities in tax policy,the Treasury Department has developed an approach to impute race and ethnicity in tax data, which it will continue to refine.”

If the IRS doesn’t collect race or ethnicity on tax returns, it obviously can’t just pull up a spreadsheet and tell us exactly what percentage of federal income taxes was paid by each racial group.But it makes you wonder, why don’t they collect that data?

Treasury actually explains that problem further:

“However, it is challenging to perform such analysis by race and ethnicity because there is no single data source with both tax and race/ethnicity information. Tax liability does not depend on race or ethnicity, and this information is not collected on tax returns.”

Still, you have to wonder if there should be a better way to track this. If we’re going to have endless debates about who pays what and who gets what, having more reliable data would seem pretty useful, right?

So, as you can see, tax numbers are harder to nail down, but that doesn’t mean they’re wrong… honestly, they sound pretty spot-on. But since the IRS doesn’t collect race on tax returns, researchers have to estimate these figures using other demographic and financial data.

Interestingly, very similar estimates have been circulating elsewhere, so these numbers aren’t completely out of left field.They’re just not official IRS figures.

So yes, these numbers are very telling indeed. They tell us which US households are living off of the American taxpayers, and it’s likely not a surprise anybody.

https://revolver.news/2026/09/oh-snap-white-households-make-up-the-smallest-percentage-of-government-mooches/

Well, this is an interesting little twist you probably didn’t see coming.

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France just might be one of the most absurdly secular countries in Europe right now, but apparently Catholicism didn’t get the memo that it was supposed to pack up and hit the road.

Pope Leo’s recent trip to France drew a wild and very enthusiastic reception, and there are signs that Catholicism may be stirring again in a country where that faith helped shape everything from its architecture and art to its traditions and national identity.

Most people probably wouldn’t find the Catholic comeback all that shocking… to be honest, it’s shocking that it disappeared in the first place. But it is France, after all. They do strange things, and the migrant invasion hasn’t helped matters.

But one Muslim apologetics group is looking at the same thing we are, and they’re getting very nervous.“Mercy for Humanity” has been watching what it calls a “Catholic revival” taking shape in France and is now openly fretting that France could actually become Catholic again.

This goes against their wishes to make France a Muslim country and influence the rest of Europe in the same way. Now, alarm bells are going off.

LifeSite:

A French Muslim apologetics groupthat actively opposes a Catholic revival has predicted that France could “become Catholic again” within a few generations, following the Pope’s enthusiastic reception in Paris.

On September 25 the group Miséricorde pour l’Houmanité (“Mercy for Humanity”) published a message on X predicting that “France will become Catholic again” amid what it described as a growing Catholic revival, strengthened by American Catholic influence. The group lamented that such a revival couldundermine Islam’s spiritual influencein Western Europe.

You have to admit, there’s something really troubling about reading that. A Muslim organization operating in France is worried that France might become… too Catholic.

Western Europe has spent decades wrestling with the immigration invasion, declining religious participation, and the question of how much of its traditional culture should be preserved as its population changes at the speed of light.

France sits smack dab in the middle of that debate. Catholicism may not dominate French life the way it once did, but pretending it has nothing to do with France would be ridiculous. Walk through Paris, Lyon, Rouen, Chartres, or just about any old French town, and the history is sitting there in stone.

So, when a group whose faith arrived in France thanks to waves of illegal migration starts worrying publicly that the country’s older religion might be making a comeback, it raises a pretty obvious cultural question.

At what point did France’s own religious heritage become something that needed to justify its presence?

The scenes from Pope Leo’s visit were incredible. Swarms of people turned out to see him, filling the streets and greeting the Pope with the kind of enthusiasm that doesn’t exactly scream, “Catholicism is dead.” For anyone convinced that France had permanently moved beyond its Christian roots and was now embracing Islam, this probably wasn’t what they wanted to see.

There’s something very French about those images. That’s a huge part of France’s history rising up, and it’s amazing to see.

But the Muslim group wasn’tsitting there soaking up the good vibes. They were talking about how disappointed they were and even hatching a plan to try and contain Catholicism’s return.

https://revolver.news/2026/09/muslims-worry-that-frances-catholic-revival-is-actually-working/

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LifeSite:

“I am sad when I see all this excitement around Catholicism,” the group wrote. “I have been predicting this for years.… In 45 years, France will become Catholic again and we will be left with nothing but our tears.”

“I am a good player, nevertheless the Catholics are much better organized as well as more determined than us Muslims and even than the Zionists,” the post continued. “We must know how to recognize the strength of the Catholic international.American Catholics will now flood the world with their soft powerat the expense of both Muslim spiritual hegemony in Western Europe and the Zionist lobby.”

Miséricorde pour l’Humanité France has pledged to “fight” what it sees as a Catholic “resurgence.” In another post on X the following day, the group wrote: “Let them [Catholics] know that I have enormous esteem for them as theological opponents, but I will fight to the end, God willing, with cordiality and in compliance with [civil] law, on the intellectual and financial battlefield in order to contain the resurgence of the Catholic religion, just as Ronald Reagan contained the rise of communism.”

There’s a lot packed into that statement, but the phrase“contain the resurgence of the Catholic religion”really jumps off the page at us.

And that’s what makes this whole conversation so infuriating. Because just imagine the situation flipped around. Suppose a large Christian population migrated into a historically Muslim country, grew dramatically over time, and then a Christian organization announced that it intended to “contain” a resurgence of Islam because it feared losing Christian spiritual influence there.

There would be so many red flags flying, you wouldn’t be able to see a patch of blue sky between them.

The question on everybody’s mind is whether France is really heading toward some great Catholic comeback. We sure hope so. But the fact that a Muslim activist group is already worried enough to start talking about how to “contain” it should be the headline here, and something France should be really concerned about.

Because France rediscovering a little bit of France shouldn’t be all that shocking…But apparently, to Muslims, it is.

https://revolver.news/2026/09/muslims-worry-that-frances-catholic-revival-is-actually-working/

Muslim Man Sentenced in the US on Terrorism Charges, Supporting ISIS

Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, a U.S. citizen living in West Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Victor Bolden in the District of Connecticut…

Posted by Headline USA Editor September 29, 2026

Another Muslim man in the United States has been sentenced on terrorism charges, including providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, a U.S. citizen living in West Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Victor Bolden in the District of Connecticut. Elshazly, who was 4 on 9/11, attempted to travel overseas to join ISIS to fight against U.S. troops. Instead, he was caught, pleaded guilty and sentenced to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in September 2018, around the 17-year-anniversary of 9/11 whenElshazly was 21, he expressed a desire to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of ISIS. In numerous in-person and online conversations, he swore “bay’at” allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to court documents. During the U.S. military’s Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS, al-Baghdadi reportedly committed suicide as U.S. forces moved in on his location in Syria.

In October 2019, after al-Baghdadi’s death was reported, Elshazly sent a message to the new leader of ISIS, pledging his allegiance “to the Khilafah,” al-Baghdadi’s successor, Abu Ibrahim Al Husseini Al Hashami Al Qurashi.He also created and administered a pro-ISIS Discord server, which he used to post hundreds of pro-ISIS and other propaganda memes and videos, court documents state.

In December 2019, he paid $500 to an individual he believed would help smuggle him out of the U.S. to Turkey. Once in Turkey, he believed he would connect with an ISIS member who would help him cross into Syria to join ISIS. The individual was an undercover agent. Elshazly made it as far as Stonington, Connecticut, where he thought he was going to board a boat to be smuggled out of the country. Instead, he was arrested and detained.

In November 2022, he pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. While detained, he also had numerous disciplinary infractions, the DOJ said. In August 2025, officers searched his celland “found a handwritten plan for a coordinated uprising at the detention facility, complete with diagrams of the housing unit, instructions for breaching secured areas, and tactics for confronting the Correctional Emergency Response Team,” the DOJ said.

His arrest, prosecution and sentencing were an outworking of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force operation involving the Stonington Police Department, New Haven Police Department, and Connecticut State Police.

The FBI’s JTTF is national and regional, including Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigations, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the State Department, U.S.Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, among other federal agencies.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, nearly every week,a U.S. Attorney’s Office is announcing a new terrorism-related prosecution or sentencing. Five days ago, the Eastern District of New York announced an ISIS-related prosecution of Georgian national extradited to the U.S. who was wanted on multiple terrorism charges, The Center Square reported. Before that, it was the Western District of Pennsylvania, charging a 21-year-old with planning to commit a major terrorist act on behalf of ISIS. Similar cases are being announced nationwide.

The charges are similar: a Muslim man who was either not alive on Sept. 11 or was born shortly after the Islamic terrorist attacks is arrested, charged and prosecuted for supporting an FTO or attempting to carry out a terrorist attack. In each case, attempts to commit terrorism are thwarted by federal agents operating in a joint task force.

https://headlineusa.com/muslim-man-sentenced-in-the-us-on-terrorism-charges-supporting-isis/

Special Award Announced at ‘American Martyrs’ Premiere to a Young Boy Who Saved His Father Following a Stroke (Video)

by Jim Hoft Sep. 30, 2026 8:00 am

The movie premiere of “American Martyrs” was held on Saturday at the Cohen Pavilion in West Palm Beach, Florida.

It was an amazing night – truly amazing with panels of experts including Rudy Giuliani, General Michael Flynn, Lara Logan, and Dr. Simone Gold. Another panel that included the five Proud Boys who had their lives destroyed by the radical Biden Administration who condemned them to years in prison for a crime they never committed.

Maybe someday the wicked men and women behind these lies were be held to account? And if not, let God be their judge.

** The movie, “American Martyrs: The Deep State’s Criminal Actions to Destroy Five Innocent Men,” is now available for purchase at AmericanMartyrsdoc.com.

At one point in the pre-movie presentation a very special award was given to Dean Hoft. As many of you know, in the spring ofthis year my heart was going out. I was dying and needed an operation.

My twin brother Joe was going to come to St. Louis and surprise me before the operation. But instead, the surprise was on him.Joe suffered a severe stroke just hours before his flight was to leave to St. Louis.

What many people did not know at the time, Joe had to drive himself to the hospital. So his son Dean went with him and courageously sat close to Joe and propped him up so he could make it to the hospital!

On Saturday night we gave Dean an award for helping to save his father.

Enjoy.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/special-award-announced-american-martyrs-young-boy-who/

istoric $3 billion donation from Citadel founder Ken Griffin to Carnegie Mellon University

Graig Graziosi

Wed, September 30, 2026 at 9:58 AM EDT

Historic $3 billion donation from Citadel founder Ken Griffin to Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon University just received a historic $3 billion donation from the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin.

Carnegie Mellon, which is located in Pittsburgh, announced the gift Wednesday morning., The university says it intends to use $2 billion to open up a new campus in Miami, called Carnegie Mellon University Miami.

"We are deeply grateful to Ken Griffin for his extraordinary vision, partnership and belief in what Carnegie Mellon can achieve," CMU President Farnam Jahanian said in a statement.

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027 and should be open to new students in 2028, presuming there are no major regulatory hurdles, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Griffin bought the 35 acres in Wynwood, Florida, where the university will be built for $1.1 billion from real estate developer Moishe Mana.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin donated $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University. His gift is the largest individual donation ever made a college or university

A rendering of the planned Carnegie Mellon University, Miami campus, which is slated to begin enrolling students in 2028 (Carnegie Mellon University)

Mana said that the sale is the largest land assemblage deal in Florida history.

The campus is expected to support more than 3,500 undergraduate, master's and PhD students, plus approximately 300 faculty members and more than 600 staff.

The final $1 billion of the donation will go to support Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus. Approximately half will be used to boost the university's highest priority needs, and another half will be invested into its School of Computer Science, which will be renamed the Kenneth C Griffin School of Computer Science in his honor.

CMU said that the donation is the largest individual donor gift ever given to a university.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/historic-3-billion-donation-citadel-134605641.html

Meta slashed its federal tax bill nearly 71% by labeling AI data centers experimental

The company's research tax credits trimmed $3.9 billion from its 2025 tax bill, up from $700 million in 2023

By Cris Tolomia·3 min read·Updated September 30, 2026

Meta $META +3.24% has classified its AI data centers as experimental facilities to claim billions of dollars in federal research tax credits, a strategy the company's own accountants have flagged as legally risky, according to The New York Times.

Starting in late 2024, the company drew a tax distinction between chips destined for AI data centers and those going to ordinary data centers, the Times reported, citing people familiar with Meta's operations. By treating the facilities as "pilot models" under a tax credit created in the 1980s, Meta has been claiming that expensive Nvidia $NVDA -0.72% chips qualify for a research and experimentation tax break intended to spur innovation — not standard business operations.

The results have been substantial. Meta's savings from the research tax credit rose from $700 million in 2023 to $2 billion in 2024 and then $3.9 billion in 2025, according to the Times.That makes Meta the largest beneficiary of the research tax credit among publicly traded companies, a review of securities filings found.

Tax experts have questioned the approach. Andre Shevchuck, a partner at advisory firm BPM who specializes in the research and experimentation tax credit, told the Times that describing data centers as experimental facilities is "kind of wild and out there." The IRS has in the past pushed back against companies attempting to apply the credit to "proven and commercially available equipment and technology."

Meta's own accountants have acknowledged the exposure. In disclosures within its securities filings, Meta cautions investors that the IRS could claw back billions in tax savings, with "uncertainties with our research tax credits" listed as the primary driver of that exposure. Over that same span, the reserve Meta holds against potential IRS challenges climbed 45% — from $12.9 billion to $18.74 billion.

"Meta is claiming billions of dollars in tax benefits that its own accountants are telling investors are at risk of being overturned by the IRS," said Lisa De Simone, a University of Texas business school accounting professor and former EY tax adviser.

Meta spokesman Andy Stone defended the company's position. "Meta is one of the largest investors in research and development in the United States," Stone said in a statement. "Like other companies that invest at this scale, we use the tax incentives Congress established decades ago to encourage this type of domestic investment."

That data center strategy is distinct from a preexisting IRS clash in which the agency is pursuing $355 million it says Meta improperly saved by counting $4.1 billion in stock options exercised by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg as a deductible research cost. A further, far larger IRS matter involves the agency's claim that Meta owes close to $16 billion in taxes and penalties tied to profits it allegedly routed out of the United States to the Cayman Islands.

Meta's AI infrastructure buildout has been expansive. The company expanded its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity at a cost of more than $50 billion, up from a prior price tag of $27 billion.

By the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation's most recent estimate, the research tax credit — ranked second among all federal corporate tax breaks by cost — will reduce government revenues by $32.1 billion in 2025. Meta's credits by themselves represent over ten percent of that total cost to the Treasury.

https://qz.com/meta-ai-data-centers-tax-credits-experimental-093026