Minnesota
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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March 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Tim Walz and Keith Ellison are testifying this morning before the House Oversight Committee on fraud in Minnesota’s federally funded welfare programs. This will, to some degree, put Minnesota fraud back in the news. I am on vacation and don’t plan to watch the testimony, but Bill Glahn likely is doing so. [Bill: Yes, I am watching the hearing live here. Democrats will only talk about Operation Metro Surge and
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March 4, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The old proverb about causation begins “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost…” For want of a shoelace, United States Attorney Daniel Rosen (my long-time friend — don’t look to me for objectivity) was called to show cause why respondents should not be held in contempt of court by Judge Jeffrey Bryan of the federal district court here yesterday. Judge Bryan’s show cause order is posted online here.
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March 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
This past week a federal Minnesota grand jury handed up a 19-page superseding indictment naming 30 additional defendants in the Cities Church riot of January 18. I have uploaded a PDF of the superseding indictment to Scribd and embededded it below. The full roster of defendants now numbers 39, including ringleader Nekima Levy Armstrong and reporter/promoter Don Renaldo Lemon. The superseding indictment charges the same two counts as the original
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February 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
President Trump is carrying out the immigration policies on which he ran successfully for the presidency, but Democrats assure us that Americans oppose his efforts to roll back the outrageous illegal immigration of the Biden years. In particular, Democrats tell us that Americans hate ICE. Is that true? If there is any state where ICE is unpopular, it should be Minnesota. Minnesota was home to a massive resistance to federal
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February 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Trump administration is looking at the issues implicated in Ilhan Omar’s naturalization. That is what is to be inferred from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s comments in the video clip below: “It’s a truism of immigration law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining your citizenship…if you lie about your marriage status on which your citizenship depends or you’re familial status or what have you, if
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February 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It was big news on X and has made the New York Post, but I can find no trace of the story in the Star Tribune: “Somali trucker busted driving wrong way down highway failed English test and couldn’t read road signs.” Following the Star Tribune stylebook, we should probably make that “Somali trucker” a “Minnesota man.” The “Somali trucker” is reportedly “Minnesota man” Abdiasis Ibrahim Ali. 🚨🚨 DISTURBING: We
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February 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
St. Paul Academy is my high school alma mater and it hurts to see what has become of it. When the school conveyed the message that students need protection from ICE at the Winter Dance, a parent forwarded the message to Alpha News. Alpha reporter Liz Collin posted it on X. It has drawn more than 140,000 views and widespread criticism. I asked school officials what it was all about.
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February 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We learn via X that Dr. Oz has deferred $259.5 million of quarterly federal Medicaid funding in Minnesota to prevent payment of questionable claims while further investigation is completed. The related press release explains: CMS’ review of Minnesota’s Medicaid spending for the fourth quarter in FY 2025 resulted in a deferral of $259,505,491 in federal matching funds. This includes state expenditures of $243.8 million for unsupported or potentially fraudulent Medicaid
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February 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It appears that the U.S. Department of Justice will be appealing that baseless contempt of court citation imposed by Minnesota-based federal district Judge Laura Provinzino (Biden appointee) last week. I covered the incident here, which involves a habeas corpus case captioned Rigoberto Soto-Jiminez v. Bondi, et. al (File No. 26-cv-957). The facts are pretty straightforward: Mr. Soto is an illegal alien, picked up by ICE. His private lawyer filed a habeas petition for his release. Contrary
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February 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We went to see the current touring production of Les Misérables at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Minneapolis last night. The tickets were a birthday gift to my wife — it was her third time seeing various productions of the show. She wanted to see it again. Last night it played to a packed house of 2,600 in the conclusion of its six-day run in town. I identified with the
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February 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
On issue after issue, the Democrats are staking out bizarrely radical positions. Everything relating to gender is in this category. Here in Minnesota, the DFL Party is perhaps the nation’s most left-wing. Thus, on all issues relating to gender, state policy is dictated by Leigh Finke, a man (XY chromosomes) who wears dresses. Here, Finke explains why he opposes a proposed law that would require age verification for pornographic web
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February 21, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the Associated Press (AP), How a defendant in Minnesota went free because of Justice Department turmoil. The AP wants you to be angry at Donald Trump for enforcing immigration laws. AP reports, As far as I can piece together, Mr. McKay’s dozen previous felony convictions all were acquired in state courts. Yet, not a single state prosecutor, not a single state judge thought to put Mr. McKay behind bars.
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February 21, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The latest weapon in the Democrats’ war against ICE and the enforcement of immigration laws is judicial contempt of court filings, including cash fines and threats of imprisonment for government employees as they inevitably fall short of the impossible and contradictory demands of federal judges and the “immigration bar.” I’ve documented the practice before in conjunction with the overuse of the habeas corpus petitions. Private lawyers file such petition to
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