[AlphaNews] Minnesota mom launches petition calling for Walz, Peggy Flanagan, Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar and Steve Simon’s resignation: ’I’m just hoping enough people wake up’. That would require shame on their parts. Reminder: They're Democrats. Shame doesn't play into their personas
Groundswell for Gov. Tim Walz to resign continues to mount as Minnesotans learn how much fraud has occurred on his watch.
After seeing a story on X about a fraud case involving $14 million for a fake autism center, one Minnesota mom was fed up and took action.
"I’ve never really been political, but I had to do something," said the mom, who goes by Minnesota Lady America First on X. "Having a child on the spectrum, I was angry. For something this big to happen in our state, Tim Walz had to know about it. I’m just hoping enough people wake up."
Currently closer to 23,000 as of Christmas Eve.
Citing "financial mismanagement and a loss of confidence among the state’s citizens," she recently launched a Change.org petition calling for Walz’s resignation.
"Sign this petition if you believe that Minnesota deserves better leadership, accountability, and a government that truly serves its people. Your voice is crucial in making a change that could benefit generations to come. Join us in demanding Governor Walz, Peggy Flanagan, Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar and Steve Simon resign for the betterment of our beloved state and its hardworking families."
More than 11,000 names have been added to the petition, "Demand Governor Tim Walz Admin Resign in Minnesota," which lists issues of questionable integrity of state leaders, a faltering state economy, widespread fraud, betrayed public trust and denying aid to Minnesotans truly in need. The petition has been active for only a month after being created on Nov. 21.
"While addressing such systemic problems is challenging, it is clear that changes in leadership are often necessary to restore trust and rebuild our communities," states the petition. "Therefore, we are calling for Governor Tim Walz, Peggy Flanagan, Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar and Steve Simon’s resignation. It is time for new leadership that can deliver on promises and rebuild the connection between government and its constituents, ensuring transparency, integrity, and progress for all Minnesotans."
Federal prosecutors estimated during a press conference last week that fraud in Minnesota could be as high as $9 billion since 2018.
The petition has gained traction as U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon publicly called for Gov. Walz to resign in a recent letter due to his handling of the massive fraud in his state. Hard to wake up when all MN TV, radio and newspaper protect Tampon Tim daily. Those outlets never leave Hennepin County. Bring it up north for once we are completely sick of St Paul and Tampon Tim. I know zero people that support Cockwomble Walz.
[Breitbart] A decorated fighter pilot and one-star general will be forced out of the U.S. Air Force on December 31, even after the Board for Correction of Military Records (BCMR) found that he was unfairly targeted due to his opinions on COVID mandates.
Brigadier General Christopher Sage is one of many service members who are still fighting to keep their jobs or get them back after the Biden administration zeroed in on those who dared to question its vaccine, masking, or quarantine protocols. What makes his case particularly rare is that a Pentagon official overturned the BCMR’s ruling that he was a “victim of an injustice” in a shocking decision that has been devastating to Sage, his wife, and five children.
An order that Sage’s attorney says was signed by President Joe Biden’s autopen officially removed him from a promotion list, giving him just days before he will be forcefully retired from the military after decades of service.
While stationed at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and working at Ramstein Air Base in Germany for the Allied Air Command (AIRCOM), Sage spoke exclusively with Breitbart News on Monday.
“For three years and 10 months, we colored inside the lines. We followed the appeal process,” the 31-year veteran said. “We appealed it to my chain of command, and they took no action against me. We appealed it, ultimately, to the BCMR, and we won… It just seems like every time we take two steps forward, we take three steps back. And here we are at the eleventh hour, and we finally decided it may be time to make a little bit of noise here, just to try to get the senior leaders’ attention.”
The debacle started back in 2021, when the one-star general was on his seventh deployment. He arrived to be a wing commander at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base (MSAB) in Jordan. COVID-positive airmen were being quarantined in a structure surrounded by barbed wire. Appalled at the harsh treatment, Sage ordered the barbed wire to be torn down and relocated the infected airmen to VIP quarters with in-room bathrooms so they could recover with dignity.
That was the first major time he pushed back on the base’s pandemic policy. He went on to end redundant COVID testing — which was not even required by the Air Force or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — to allow maintenance personnel to remove their masks when working outside in the hot desert, and to become the first Air Force deployed commander in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to reopen the gyms.
When airmen who were forced by then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to get COVID vaccinations brought up concerns of myocarditis and fertility issues, Sage voiced them to the Air Force’s medical “experts” who told him that the jab was 100 percent safe.
A complainant on base reported Sage’s aforementioned actions to an Air Force Inspector General (IG) investigator back in Washington, D.C., who used said actions as “evidence” to accuse him of not establishing a healthy command climate with the airmen on base.
Sage’s questioning of the safety of the vaccine was labeled “not trusting his subordinates.”
To fight these allegations, Sage had a survey conducted on base. The findings were exceptional — 73 percent of respondents said that their personal morale was either “high” or “very high.”
The investigator ignored the survey.
“This is the sad part. This is how you know you’re outgunned,” Sage stated.
On top of allegedly creating a hostile work environment, the complainant also accused him of numerous instances of committing waste, fraud, and abuse of military resources — all dismissed without evidence.
Even though the complainant’s waste, fraud, and abuse accusations were not found to be credible, the IG investigator still relied on his testimony to pin Sage down on the allegations about the base’s work atmosphere.
Furthermore, the investigator refused to interview Sage’s commanding officer, a four-star general, or the 29 witnesses who supported the brigadier general. When Sage asked the Department of War (DOW) IG to review the Air Force IG investigation, the Pentagon directed the Air Force IG to investigate itself in one of multiple instances that Sage called a “conflict of interest.”
On top of that, the majority of Sage’s eight Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into the investigation have gone ignored for over 18 months, and the couple that have been responded to produced no documents.
As a result of the investigation, Sage was formally disqualified from being promoted to a two-star general by a memorandum marked with President Biden’s signature on March 28, 2024 — a move that Sage and his legal team say should be voided due to the use of Biden’s autopen.
“Under the law, you can only be a one-star [general] for five years, and you can only be a two-star [general] for five years,” Sage explained. “And so when I was on the promotion list, I was just waiting to promote, just like in a normal process… you go to the board, you make the list, then the president nominates you, and then the Senate confirms you.”
If he had been promoted, the five-year clock would have restarted. Since he was removed from consideration, Sage’s separation date looms on December 31.
Quoting a four-star general who had given him some insight into the process, he said, “‘One way they deal with people like you is they just wait you out. They just run the shot clock out on you.’ And that’s definitely the way we feel right now.”
Pointing to President Donald Trump’s November social media post announcing that any documents signed by Biden’s autopen would be “terminated,” Sage said, “Therefore, legally, I should be back on the two star list.”
Things started looking up when the BCMR took a look at the case.
After an Officer Grade Determination came back completely clean, the board said:
In anticipation of the applicant’s forced statutory retirement after five years of service in the grade of brigadier general, the Air Force conducted an Officer Grade Review. The IG report was considered against the backdrop of his actions and leadership in the grade of brigadier general. The results were the applicant acted honorably as a brigadier general, including during his deployed command, and he would retain his grade.
A May 7, 2025 memorandum from the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata explicitly advised the BCMR to “exercise broad discretion” in correcting the records of service members who “suffered harms” resulting from the department’s COVID mandates.
The BCMR report on the investigation and Sage’s subsequent removal from the promotion list concluded that he “is the victim of an injustice.”
“The majority of the Board finds a preponderance of the evidence substantiates the applicant’s contentions,” the board stated.
Citing Tata’s memo, the board found that “discussion of the applicant’s views regarding COVID vaccines and mitigation policies during the investigation, and captured in the ROI, may have negatively influenced the outcome of the investigation, which then led to the adverse actions.”
The board then delivered what should have been a solid win for Sage — an overturn of the decision to deny his promotion and an extension to allow him more time to be reconsidered for the two-star general position:
The majority of the Board determined this is sufficient to justify granting the applicant’s request to overturn substantiation of the allegation in the SAF/IGS ROI, to remove associated adverse actions from the applicant’s records, and, given reinstatement to the previous selection board list is outside the AFBCMR’s authority, to instead provide the applicant the opportunity for a Special Selection Board (SSB) or supplemental consideration for promotion to major general. Additionally, extend the applicant’s current mandatory retirement date to accommodate an SSB or supplemental consideration for promotion to major general, and if selected for promotion, through the Presidential nomination and congressional confirmation processes.
“The majority of the board concludes that the applicant is the victim of an injustice… Now those are two words that I never, ever want to use when I’m describing myself,” Sage told Breitbart News. “I am not a victim. I do not want to be a victim. And you know, it just amazes me that it came to the point where a board said, ‘Yeah, we’ve looked at the evidence.’ This is their word, not my word.”
Then, the other shoe dropped.
In an extremely rare, nearly unprecedented event, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Richard L. Anderson overruled the majority recommendation of the board.
“It got overturned,” Sage recounted. “And then I figured, I have a month and a half left, so I hired this new attorney who’s fantastic… We just requested an extension to my retirement because we’re in the eleventh hour… and within a day and a half, they came back and denied it and said, nope, you’re gonna retire on December 31.”
It has been near radio-silence from his Air Force contacts since then.
“They ignored our comments. They have failed to address it. I’ve emailed other people and said, ‘Hey, what do I do with this?’ And it’s just silence. They do not want to address the auto pen situation,” Sage said.
Several congressmen have sent letters on his behalf, including Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Daniel Webster (R-FL), David Rouzer (R-NC), Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Greg Murphy (R-NC), August Pfluger (R-TX), Eric Burlison (R-MO), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), and Cory Mills (R-FL).
Another 64 letters were sent to the Air Force from senior enlisted members up to four-star generals, vouching for Sage’s integrity.
Still, nothing.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced a series of department reforms on September 30, telling officers at Quantico, Virginia, “We are attacking and ending the walking on eggshells and zero defect command culture. A risk averse culture means officers execute not to lose, instead of to win.”
“I call it the no more walking on eggshells policy,” the secretary continued. “We are liberating commanders and NCOs. We are liberating you. We are overhauling an inspector general process, the IG, that has been weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues and poor performers in the driver’s seat.”
Despite Hegseth’s outlook on “complainers,” the complaints from a faulty witness whose other accusations against Sage were thrown out still remained, even after the board found that he had been targeted for his stances on COVID. The order to remove him from the promotion list, allegedly signed by Biden’s autopen, remained intact.
Sage’s attorney, Davis Younts, illustrated how rare it is for a board decision to be overturned in the way that it was for his client.
“I’ve been doing this since 2015 — been involved in well over 200 board cases,” he told Breitbart News. “This is the first time I’ve seen a decision from the board be overturned in a way that hurts the applicant.”
Speculating on the motives that bureaucrats within the DOW might have for targeting Sage, Younts said they are bent on “undermining the intent of the president and the intent of the secretary of war.”
“We could all agree, logically, that [COVID] was handled poorly by the Department of Defense under Biden, but those same people are still there, right? The same people are still there impacting policy,” he explained.
“It cannot be overlooked how significant it was for the Air Force board of corrections to say in a written decision that the actions that were taken against General Sage were likely the result of his stance on COVID policies,” Younts continued. “I mean, that’s precedential and a very powerful decision for them… And for that to be overturned, and the way it was overturned, there’s no written decision. There’s no explanation.”
Sage’s wife, Jessica Sage, published an open letter to President Trump last week. In part, it reads:
Mr. President, you understand this fight. Despite your bold executive orders to restore common-sense and constitutional order to the military, deeply entrenched obstructionists and lawyers at the Pentagon still attempt to control the narratives—and therefore the decisions. Despite the valiant effort of your political appointees to carry out your vision and policies, many long-term staffers and lawyers still sit in positions of control at the Pentagon, and they are frustrating the implementation and intent of your executive orders and clear directives.
“My Christmas prayer is that somehow either President Trump or one of his trusted advisers will hear and see this,” Sage said, adding, “This decision is being watched closely by the hundreds or possibly thousands of COVID-persecuted Airmen who have yet to submit to the AF BCMR. Many have reached out to me to let me know they are watching very closely. My case was the canary in the coal mine. This sets a terrible precedent.”
The DOW did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this matter.
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He's being paid to defend our political system, not participate in it.
"Seven deployments?" That would be seven USAF 4-6 month overseas deployments. Not sure I'd classify Ramstein as a deployment, four day work week along with US and Host Nation holidays.
[Jpost] “Anti-semitism used to mean somebody who didn’t like Jews. Now it just means somebody Jews don’t like," Gaetz said in the episode.
Former congressman Matt Gaetz
Remember him?
asserted Tuesday that allegations of prostitution and sexual relations with an underage girl were part of an Israeli operation to extort him because of his isolationist foreign policy.
During an interview on The Tucker Carlson Show, Gaetz denied that he had committed statutory rape, engaged in commercial sex, and used illicit drugs as alleged in a 2024 House Ethics Committee report, and that the supposed foreign influence operation was evidently fake due to not being given an opportunity to question witnesses and review records in a proper forum.
"It was an op to silence me, and Israel was involved, and I hate to say that," Gaetz told Carlson.
Gaetz related that his father had been approached by an Israeli consulate worker with images of him with underage prostitutes, seeking $25 million and aid in securing the rescue of a US spy in Iran. He claimed that the alleged extortionist had told Dilbertcomic creator Scott Adams of the scheme. Ultimately, Gaetz said his family went to the FBI about the blackmail.
Fort Walton Beach resident Stephen Alford pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud Gaetz's father after having made false promises to secure a presidential pardon for Gaetz. Gaetz alleged that a second man, Real American Voice host and former Israeli consulate contractor Jake Novak, had also been involved in the plot.
"It was troubling and concerning to me that someone who was getting paid by the Israeli government was involved in a criminal shakedown of a US congressman," said Gaetz. "There was never really an effort to figure out what the government of Israel's involvement was in this matter. But you know that the government of Israel was involved because this was an Israeli government official who was involved in this."
Novak denied having attempted to extort Gaetz in a social media video on Tuesday, saying that he had never met Alford and was not connected to his crimes. Novak said that a friend of his contacted Gaetz's father for help saving the Iranian spy concurrently with Alford. Novak clarified that he had contacted Adams while he was working as a new media advisor for the consulate to discuss the allegations against Gaetz.
I have never extorted anyone, and I have never had any contact with either him or his father," said Novak.
‘ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTISEMITISM’
There have been a lot of psychological studies over the years that show it takes about six months for anti-Zionism to turn into unalloyed Jew hate. So a truer statement would be that anti-Zionism may not yet be antisemitism. Sort of an ontology recapitulates phylogeny kind of thing, philosophically speaking.
Gaetz said that he had been the target of a supposed Israeli operation because he had taken a more isolationist foreign policy.
With "Israel influence operation, it's always fire and ice. It's always outreach followed by consequence and then outreach and then consequence," said Gaetz, noting he had been contacted by someone offering to pay him to come to Israel and speak.
Gaetz shared with Carlson that he still considered himself pro-Israel, but believed "what the Netanyahu government is doing to Israel is bad for Israel. Much in the way the United States created more terrorists than we killed during the wars in the Middle East that have consumed most of my life." Israel was currently engaging in adventurism and expansionism, according to Gaetz.
The former congressman rejected the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, explaining, "I think that you can be critical of foreign policy choices that a country makes without the assumption that you hate the religion or the ethnic group associated with it."
The definition of antisemitism had "migrated" to mean those who didn't like Jews to now mean those whom Jews didn't like, Gaetz asserts, "and that's not a standard that we can live with because...antisemitism is terrible."
Gaetz and Carlson turned their criticism to the newly approved Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, claiming that clips of the State Department representative speaking at The Jerusalem Post Washington Conference revealed parochial interests. Kaploun had said in the clip that it was a game-changer to get off the plan in Indonesia as a representative of the president, making sure that Gazan textbooks did not contain incitement, and how to combat antisemitism online.
“Nothing will convince Indonesia to come our way like sending Rabbi Yehuda,” Gaetz remarked sarcastically, though he did acknowledge that there was pedagogical incitement in Gazan textbooks.
Gaetz said that Kaploun would likely classify Carlson and him as antisemitic because they had been critical of the Israeli government.
Carlson said that there was a rise in antisemitism in the US, but it could be fixed "in a week" by getting groups like the ADL and Kaploun's department to denounce anti-white hate. He contended that if the ADL did so, he would donate to the organization, explaining that universalized principles couldn't be ignored.
Gaetz explained that Jewish groups weren't taking the approach because "when you're a witch hunter, you have to first convince people of the existence of witches."
In 2021, the New York Times reported that Gaetz was under investigation by the DOJ for possible violation of sex trafficking laws. While the DOJ in 2023 declined to bring charges against Gaetz, his associate and former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Micah Greenberg in 2021 pled guilty to sex trafficking of a child, illegally producing a false identification document, aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, stalking, and conspiracy.
The House Ethics Committee came to the conclusion in 2024 that there was substantial evidence that Gaetz had engaged in prostitution, statutory rape, and illicit drug use.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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