Minnesota
March 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Once again, I had the opportunity today to directly observe the inner workings of the world’s most expensive “lost and found” operation, conducted at taxpayer expense by the U.S. federal district court for Minnesota. Even though ICE itself has wound down Operation Metro Surge in the state, a handful of missing property reports linger on from already-closed habeas corpus cases where the corpus (the former ICE detainee) has long ago
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March 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Federal judges based in Minnesota are presiding over the world’s largest “lost and found” operation. Looking at the court’s official calendar for the next two weeks, among the district’s seventeen (17) sitting judges, only one (1) jury trial is scheduled, and even that’s just a one-day affair for a civil case. But Obama-appointed Judge John Gerrard (on loan from the Nebraska district) has scheduled a contempt-of-court hearing for Monday, March
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March 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Yes, it’s back in the headlines. From Fox News, Minnesota Fraud Exposed New audit exposes flawed system critics say let Minnesota fraud slip through cracks: ‘Didn’t act for years’ Long story short: the state’s Dept. of Human Services refused to investigate reports of kickbacks to “client” families paid by vendors in the state’s billion-dollar autism therapy program because…reasons. The Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud will see six (6) more
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March 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker
American cities, like states, are moving in two very different directions. Some, like Miami, Nashville, Austin, Charleston and Salt Lake City, are thriving and growing. Others, like Chicago, Portland, Minneapolis, and–soon, anyway–New York, are caught in a downward spiral. It all depends on governance, at the local level but also on the state level, as it is much easier to thrive in Tennessee, for example, than in Oregon. Minneapolis is
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March 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The widespread fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs, centered in the Somali community, has been a local story for a long time. Last December, it hit the national news in a big way. The story is significant in itself, but also because it suggests that fraud in federal/state welfare programs is probably common around the country. True, it is no doubt worse in Minnesota because of the gross incompetence (or complicity,
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
That didn’t take long. Judge Bryan has denied United States Attorney Dan Rosen’s motion that he recuse himself in the habeas case of Tong Xiong’s. In his seven-page order, Judge Bryan holds that the motion is procdurally improper and substantively deficient. Alpha News has posted the order online here. Judge Bryan suggests that the case brought against the Trump administration defendants in Minnesota v. Noem is nothing more than background
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I reported on the contempt hearing called by Minnesota federal judge Jeffrey Bryan in “For want of a shoelace.” Judge Bryan ordered United States Attorney Daniel Rosen to attend and answer to the Department of Lost and Found that Judge Bryan was running for ICE in some 28 cases. Judge Bryan’s order scheduling the contempt hearing is posted online here. The absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco had nothing on Judge Bryan.
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you go looking on the home page of the Star Tribune for a story on the wild anti-Semitic attack at Michigan’s Temple Israel yesterday, you won’t find it. Ditto re the terrorist attack and murder at Old Dominion University. It’s not for want of space on the home page. The Star Tribune home page lists more than 40 stories, columns, and features. Yesterday’s terrorist stories just aren’t deemed that
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March 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
When Minnesota Democrats took control over the political branches following the 2022 elections, they all but adopted Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” as their theme song. One verse would have addressed the special fervor with which they promoted the sacramental view of abortion. Chuck Chalberg explained it for us here on Power Line. Minnesota Democrats look forward to another “Let’s Go Crazy” session following the upcoming elections. State senator Mary Kunesh
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March 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I am sorry to report that state senator Matt Klein represents my district in the Minnesota legislature and now seeks a promotion to fill Rep. Angie Craig’s congressional seat, where he would represent my congressional district. It’s not the Peter Principle in action. It’s Minnesota’s Only the Wrong Survive varation on it. With Klein sponsoring a home-invasion bill to infringe Minnesotans’ Second Amendment rights, I feel like the kind of
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March 8, 2026 — John Hinderaker
If you think America’s public schools are terrible, you are right. If you think they lean to the left in their instruction, you are also right. But the truth is much worse. Guided in large part by radically left-wing teachers’ unions, our schools are in some cases openly rejecting the teaching of “content”–the word used in my state, Minnesota–in favor of requiring activism. Check out this American Experiment video on
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March 7, 2026 — Bill Glahn
If you can get past the headline in this Minneapolis Star Tribune article, there is a fascinating story underneath, As Operation Metro Surge recedes, concern grows over tactics of Twin Cities bounty hunters. The ICE angle has nothing at all to do with the story, which is about bounty hunters, which do not require a license to operate in the state of Minnesota, as it turns out. I frequently research
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March 7, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In “For want of a shoelace” I tried to convey what I thought was the essence of the contempt hearing called by Judge Jeffrey Bryan in 28 habeas cases earlier this week. The courtrooom in St. Paul’s Warren Burger Federal Building was packed with lawyers and members of the press. Julie Kelly combed through the hearing transcript. She adds some details and comments that I let ride. However, the song
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Our friend Mark Perry notes that car thefts in Minneapolis this year over the months of January and February per 100,000 residents are almost 9 times the rate in Chicago: 246.3 vs. 28.5. That’s based on 776 motor vehicle thefts in Chicago with a population of 2.72 million vs. 1,054 auto thefts in Minneapolis, with a population of 428,000. Mark thinks this is news and asks where the local press
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Senior Minnesota federal district Judge John Tunheim held the second contempt hearing this week on the personal property that has gone lost or missing by ICE in the detention and removal of illegal aliens from Minnesota. I reported on Wednesday’s hearing before Judge Jeffrey Bryan in “For want of a shoelace,” now republished by Alpha News under the more straightforward headline “US attorney interrogated at contempt hearing over illegal aliens’
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March 5, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Serial-Tesla-vandal/MN-government-employee Dylan Adams was given a one-day suspension from work as “punishment.” One day. I wrote a column for the New York Post back in April about the incident, under the headline, Minnesota DA’s woke two-tier justice prizes Tesla violence above all My angle was the soft-on-crime local prosecutor Mary Moriarty declined to charge Adams criminally for his vandalism spree, but did charge another hapless young gal for a lesser
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March 5, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Last month I wrote about Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s nonfeasance and lying in the Feeding Our Future case in connection with the last congressional circus featuring Ellison. I called the circus “Another wasted opportunity.” The thought continues to apply. In “Keith Ellison exposed,” Bill Glahn writes about Ellison’s civil cases resulting in the dissolution of a few of the nonprofits that featured prominently in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
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