If you’ve ever wondered what happens when woke politics meets disaster relief, look no further than the latest House Judiciary Committee report on FireAid. It’s the scandalous love child of virtue signaling and fiscal irresponsibility, and it’s got all the ingredients: fake promises, shady spending, and the ever-present stench of leftist activism hiding under the guise of charity.

FireAid, a nonprofit that raised a jaw-dropping $100 million during a benefit concert to help victims of the devastating California wildfires, promised donors their money would go “directly to victims.” But like most promises from the activist class, that turned out to be as flimsy as a paper straw in a hurricane. According to the House report, instead of helping displaced families and scorched communities, the funds were rerouted to a grab bag of progressive pet projects, political causes, and—of course—illegal aliens. Because nothing says “wildfire relief” like fueling the Democrat base.

Let’s break down the numbers, because the devil, as usual, is in the details. Of the $100 million raised, $75 million was actually distributed—but not all of it ended up where it was supposed to. Among the most absurd expenditures: $100,000 went to podcasters. Yes, podcasters. Apparently, wildfire victims desperately needed a new episode of “Feelings & Feelings: A Journey Through Yoga and Grief.” Another $100,000 went to voter participation efforts. Because when your house is reduced to ash, the first thing on your mind is registering people to vote for more Gavin Newsom.

Then there’s the $550,000 funneled to groups involved in political advocacy. Not wildfire response. Not emergency housing. Political advocacy. Translation: left-wing activism in disguise. One of the biggest head-scratchers? A cool half-million bucks given to the Black Music Action Coalition. What does that have to do with wildfire victims? No one knows. The group hasn’t exactly been forthcoming about how the money was spent. Maybe there’s a secret genre of fireproof jazz we haven’t heard about yet.

And let’s not ignore the cherry on top: half a million dollars went to administrative costs and bonuses for nonprofit executives. Because nothing screams “We care!” like cutting fat checks for yourself while people are picking through the ashes of their homes.

The report even notes that an “unknown amount” of funds went to illegal aliens. You heard that correctly. While American citizens were left to fend for themselves, FireAid was busy doling out cash to individuals who shouldn’t be here in the first place. It’s the same open-border, America-last mentality we’ve come to expect from the Democrat industrial complex.

Of course, some of the groups receiving funds claimed they were going to help wildfire victims, but the House panel flagged them because their primary missions had nothing to do with disaster relief. That’s like giving your plumber a bonus to teach yoga. It makes no sense unless the goal was never about helping people in the first place, but about building progressive infrastructure on the backs of donors who thought they were doing good.

This is what happens when the Left treats every tragedy as an opportunity to fundraise for their political machine. They can’t let a good crisis go to waste, and they certainly didn’t with FireAid. It’s a classic bait-and-switch: lure in kind-hearted Americans with emotional pleas, then funnel their money into the same partisan pipelines that keep the progressive circus running.

It’s not just theft—it’s ideological laundering. And while California burns, the only thing these grifters are lighting up is the next woke campaign.

Maybe next time there’s a disaster, we should all just send our donations directly to the people affected. Or better yet, let President Trump’s FEMA handle it. At least then we’d know the money isn’t going to podcasts and political pet projects.