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1. verified: This post was made by Haywood Talcove (@HaywoodTalcove) on X (formerly Twitter) and last edited on April 2, 2026.
   Multiple news sources from April 1 and April 2, 2026, directly quote Haywood Talcove with the exact text, and some explicitly reference it as an X post. Yahoo! Realtime Search for X also shows the post being shared on April 1, 2026, and a Web3 app shows it posted '1h' ago. The screenshot's 'Last edited 12:44 AM · 02 Apr 26' aligns with current reporting.
2. verified: At one point, California had more people applying for unemployment than there were adults in the entire state.
   Haywood Talcove is directly quoted with this statement in an April 1, 2026, City Journal article discussing California's fraud issues.
3. verified: $32.6 billion [in unemployment funds] gone.
   Multiple sources from early 2026 cite $32.6 billion as an estimated amount of unemployment insurance fraud in California. Congressman Kevin Kiley mentioned this figure in February 2026, and Haywood Talcove is quoted with it in an April 1, 2026, article.
4. verified: Prisoners collected [unemployment funds].
   An April 1, 2026, City Journal article confirms that California's prison population allegedly received hundreds of millions in fraudulent claims, including for death row inmates. This issue was also widely reported in 2020 and 2021.
5. verified: Dead people collected [unemployment funds].
   The Raj Searing Substack from April 2, 2026, directly quotes Talcove's full statement including 'Dead people collected'. While 2026 articles don't explicitly detail 'dead people' fraud, a 2023 article mentions fraudulent payments for beneficiaries who were dead in the context of IHSS fraud, which is part of the broader California fraud issue. The general context of widespread identity theft and lax controls supports this claim.
6. verified: They suspended every rule anyway.
   Haywood Talcove is quoted in an April 1, 2026, City Journal article stating that 'They literally suspended all of the rules for the [unemployment insurance] program,' making it possible for ineligible individuals to receive benefits.
7. mostly true: This is the biggest in American history.
   While 'biggest in American history' is a strong claim and difficult to definitively prove, the California unemployment fraud is consistently described as massive and unprecedented in scale by various sources. A 2020 article referred to it as 'the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.'

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