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UPDATE: Niskanen Center is also a subcontractor on a $1.25 MILLION federally funded project to help redesign refugee resettlement across America.
And HHS is now recruiting states to pilot the new system.
The Trump administration began funding the Welcoming Initiative for Newcomers through HHS with $1 million in February 2026, followed by another $256,748 in August.
Niskanen’s own September report discloses:
“The Niskanen Center is a subcontractor of WIN.”
It describes the assessment project as “financed 100% with federal funds.”
The project’s stated deliverables include a “nationwide readiness map” showing states’ readiness to adopt the new framework, alongside a roadmap for implementation. WIN identifies World Education Services and the Shapiro Foundation as lead partners.
The underlying state questionnaire asks officials where they could accommodate ADDITIONAL refugees.
The options include major metropolitan areas, secondary cities, smaller urban areas and “Rural areas.”
Then it asks:
“Please list specific regions, metros, or communities where capacity may exist.”
Officials are also asked to estimate how many refugees their states could support annually—with an option for 2,500-plus—and whether the new system would increase that capacity. These are planning estimates, not placement commitments.
The local-provider survey goes further.
It asks organizations to rate how much “Community receptivity” and “Local political context” limit their ability to receive additional refugees.
Those appear alongside housing affordability, wages, staffing and access to public benefits.
The same questionnaire asks whether expanded benefits, higher funding per person and longer service periods would improve refugee outcomes.
Now there is a federal application deadline.
HHS’s September 28 letter tells interested governors or their designees to submit pilot proposals by NOVEMBER 2.
States must explain:
• How they would select refugee-placement locations.
• How they would distribute cases among local providers.
• The anticipated number and geographic distribution of placement locations.
• Their projected capacity and consultation with local municipalities.
HHS also lists “public opinion/landscape” among the factors states should consider.
Under the pilot, participating states would take responsibility for placement and service delivery while ORR retains federal authority. Some components are expected to begin in January–March 2027, with others starting later that fiscal year.
EXC: A Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros funding has identified hundreds of American counties as destinations for migrants. 96.5% of selected counties are majority White .
Residents would have no say.
Its November 2025 immigration blueprint urges policymakers to “enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly.” It also proposes state visa programs and “incentivizing new arrivals to stay in specific states and regions.”
Two weeks later, Niskanen published its Migration Match Index, assessing American communities for their capacity to accommodate more immigration.
The report describes places with “aging, stagnant, or insufficient native labor supply.” It weighs factors including job openings, rental vacancies, affordability, unemployment, and age.
The authors explicitly discuss using updated data to plan resettlement following “an influx of asylum seekers at the border.” They also contemplate applications to a future refugee-admissions system.
Niskanen’s own funding disclosure lists $300,000 from Open Society Foundation for immigration work, covering the period when both documents were published. Other donors include the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Pritzker Family Foundation.
The organization already has a record of helping turn private sponsorship into policy.
Its 2025 annual report says it “helped conceive and implement” Welcome Corps, the private refugee-sponsorship program established under Biden.
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🇺🇸 Senator Elizabeth Warren has repeatedly stated that cryptocurrency is used for money laundering and to avoid sanctions.
Today, the US government fined Bank of America $1.2 billion for violating money laundering regulations and sanctions laws.
What happened to men? How did we get so cucked? White knight simps like this are an embarrassment.
I dont know what turns my stomach more, the fact that Shane Gillis was on Saturday Night Live tonight and said women at the gym “dress like whores” or that there was people in that audience who found his disgusting bit of so-called humor funny. #SNL
Album art can make or break a metal release. What is the single most legendary album cover in metal history? The kind of art that looks perfect on a vinyl jacket or a back patch. Let’s see your picks! 👇 #ThisDayInMetal
A Band that…
I can’t stand : 200 Stab Wounds
Overrated : Mastadon
Underrated : Inter Arma
I Love : Opeth
I always listen to : Meshuggah
Got me into Metal : Metallica
Changed my life : Opeth
I should have seen : Black Breath
And here I am wondering why a cure for baldness hasn't been found.
JUST IN🚨: Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This footage is not breaking news ("JUST IN"). The video was released in 2025 by Tokamak Energy, showing plasma inside their ST40 reactor.
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🚨 RUBIO JUST SAID THE NUMBER THEY NEVER WANTED ON TV 🚨
Americans work 40 years.
They retire.
Social Security: $800. $900. A thousand a month.
Somebody who got here from Cuba three months ago: $1,500 a month.
Marco Rubio said it out loud.
“So imagine if you’ve been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old, able-bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”
You paid in.
They landed.
They beat your check.
That’s not compassion.
That’s a slap in the face with your own tax dollars.
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It is becoming undeniable that U.S. policymakers are choosing to manage the debt burden through financial repression and inflation.
I'm done pretending this is some theoretical possibility.
It’s happening. Right now. They can claim otherwise, but the data proves it.
Over the last six years, the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index has suffered the deepest and longest drawdown on record, while the dollar has lost ~20% of its purchasing power.
Meanwhile, fiscal deficits remain enormous and the federal debt only continues to grow.
There is no credible path to balancing the budget anytime soon, and economic growth isn’t projected to be strong enough to outrun the debt.
So instead, they will continue making the debt worth less in real terms by artificially suppressing bond yields through various mechanisms and allowing inflation to run hot, while bondholders and savers get crushed in the process — just as they have over the past six years.
As the IMF paper below shows, this playbook has been used before, and now we are watching them use it again.
Understanding this dynamic — and the incentives driving it — is critical if you want to protect your savings and your family in the years ahead.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - BF
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When they tried to build a statue of Dolly Parton in Nashville she said not to do it while she was still here. She was too humble for all that. Well, build it now. Because she's the closest thing we had to a saint among us. Talk about someone who NEVER let hate win.💔
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Best version of Rocky Top out there 🧡
A Tennessee legend 🥹🍊
(🎥: @DollyParton / IG)
Men will live out of a suitcase that's been sitting on the the floor for 6 months. Women create menial tasks for themselves, often times overwhelming themselves to the point of tears, then get mad at men for not doing all of these unnecessary tasks they've created.
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PASS THIS FOR THE ENTIRE STATE!!!
TENNESSEE SHOULD NEVER ALLOW ANY ISLAMIC PRAYER AIRED OVER ANY SPEAKER!!!
BETTER YET, GET ISLAM OUT OF OUR STATE!!!
Knox County Commissioner Andy Fox is sounding the alarm on the “designs of Islamists” and he is not bashful in bringing a resolution to curb the amplified “call to prayer” on city streets.
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That's an awful lot of words to say you're retarded.
One of the hardest things to explain to men is just how much hormones and their shift affect the way we women think, feel and experience the world
And of course most men don’t get it, or have a very hard time understanding, because how can they really understand it. They can’t. Their biology is so much different. A quick look at the graph below and you’ll see men are mostly steady all month long. Always the same.
Women experience valleys and hills all month long, all of it with different hormones playing different roles and affecting us differently.
Men obviously have hormones that affect them but they follow a predictable daily rhythm, women do not, and pregnancy is especially brutal in terms of hormonal drops. It is no surprise then that postpartum affects our minds greatly. Many women experience this brain like fog for months. I know I did, with every of my children it takes me at the very least three months to come out of it, for the haze to finally clear.
So when I see people arguing that postpartum depression or whatever aren’t real things, well, no they are very much real. Nobody ever questions whether chemistry affects our brain in any other circumstance except for this one. If someone is up for two days without sleep we do not act surprised to see them affected by it, grumpier and much slower in terms of thinking and decision making. If someone does not eat all day it becomes far easier to lose your temper. This is also no surprise
We understand that when we change the biological conditions under which our brain is operating this can very obviously change the way someone is behaving, feeling or thinking. Hormones fall under this very same thing. They do not become a different thing simply because our bodies produces them.
Obviously hormones are not an excuse for bad behavior, or sin or crimes. But it isn’t a sin or a crime to be extremely sad after having a baby and while postpartum. If we want and desire for women to have babies and for women to desire motherhood then we first must please stop seeing women from the lens of male steadiness and behavior.
Motherhood comes with extreme hormonal shifts and accepting female nature must begin with understanding that women are not men, and thank God for that.
