Update-A-Sode 2/26/2026 exposes Minnesota’s immigration crackdown, where masked ICE agents (600+ in metro) detain people with rotten meals and no blankets, sparking a March 1st rent strike led by Mia Wong. Governor Walz and Mayor Her face distrust over alleged ICE cooperation, while Amy Klobuchar’s election is framed as a reaction to perceived extremism—her "lack of spine" deemed worse than Walz. The episode ties this to Trump’s Medicaid block, Kansas’ trans ID ban, and broader fascist threats, urging resistance through mutual aid and political vigilance before pivoting to the delayed HIB vaccine discussion. [Automatically generated summary]
Anyway, yeah, so I wanted to discuss just the state of things.
Those of you who live outside of Minnesota, or at least outside of the immediate Twin Cities metro area, you may have seen reports or headlines that, you know, Tom Homan came here.
They replaced Greg Bovino.
He came here from, you know, Homeland Security and Border Patrol.
And he did a press conference where he said that working in conjunction with our mayors, you know, Mayor Fry and Mayor Hur over in St. Paul and our governor, Tim Walz, he said that everybody, you know, agreed to a program to work with ICE to, you know, make it unnecessary for there to be so many agents here.
That's a fucking lie.
There was never any real cooperation between our mayor or our governor, and certainly not Mayor Her.
You know, one can wonder what could have happened had Omar Fattea been elected, you know, before all of this, but it is what it is.
We got Mayor Jacob Fry still.
So, you know, they just have to deal with it.
Other Minnesota politics, Amy Klobuchar is pushing real hard to be the Democratic nominee for the governor's race.
Tim Wall stepped down from that race and said he doesn't want to run for any political office ever again.
So we'll see how that goes.
Amy Klobuchar is currently a senator, a United States Senator from Minnesota.
She is basically the most milquetoast wimp of a fucking senator that she could possibly be.
The only reason she keeps getting voted in is because the opposition is flagrant Nazis.
That's it.
She's the, I'm not a Nazi option in fucking Minnesota politics.
I fucking despise her.
And anybody who follows me on Blue Sky will see that.
I fucking despise Amy Klobuchar.
All of that said, if she gets fucking elected to the fucking primary and she's the only fucking option against another goddamn Nazi like Mike fucking Lindell, yes, the MyPillow guy wants to be the Republican nominee still last I checked.
And he had the support of Trump last I checked.
So yeah, anybody up against the fucking MyPillow guy, okay, fine, fuck it, you know?
But I want to make it clear that I do not want to vote for this bitch.
Most of us do not want to vote for this bitch into the highest seat in the state.
We don't want her.
She is what we will wind up with if no one else runs against her.
Stupid, sorry, pathetic, lying, milquetoast, fucking basic bitch ass.
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We will wind up with her.
Now, is she going to be better or worse than Walls?
Probably a little worse because she's got no fucking spine.
And Walls at least showed some spine here and there.
So that is what it is.
Moving on from that, though, back to the whole ICE immigration thing.
There are still over 600 ICE agents that we know of from the various groups that watch them in the metro.
There are still over 600 ICE agents here.
They are still very much wearing masks.
They are still very much not wearing any identification.
They are still very much taking people.
One of the things that they did that was fucked up was they made Ilhan Omar is our congressional representative from my area.
I live in Ilhan's district.
Ilhan's awesome.
Anyway, I wish she would fucking run for governor.
But anyway, you know, we've got Ilhan Omar and another one.
And I do not remember the other lady's name, but she's a fighter too.
But anyway, they made them do a seven-day wait before they would let them tour the Whipple Correctional Facility, which is where every ICE detainee gets taken.
They all get taken to Whipple and they get processed there.
But part of the processing is, of course, torturous conditions that you have all heard about, I'm sure.
You know, people going either without food or being given rotten food is their only single daily meal.
Standing room only in a lot of the group cells where guys have to take sleep in shifts with, you know, no blanket or pillow or anything.
Like, we treat these people worse on suspicion.
On suspicion of being here illegally.
And most of them aren't.
Most of them are just nabbed because Icekits paid the bounty for bringing people in.
They do not.
Sorry, I got to change lanes here.
I'm on the highway.
They do not have to keep them.
It's a terror campaign.
They're being paid to do a fucking terror campaign.
You know, so they snag somebody, bring them in, and then they figure out whether or not they belong there.
Doesn't matter if the person had papers showing their citizenship.
A lot of that shit doesn't matter.
They are.
Fuck Tom Home and they are absolutely doing this to people with accents and darker skin than white.
So yeah, they are still very much doing this.
It is still happening.
The locals are still pushing back.
We do still have groups seeking rent for people.
There is a planned rent strike that I hope goes off without a hitch coming up March 1st, so in a couple of days.
There was a really good episode that happened here recently about that rent strike that's being handled.
And I encourage anybody interested to go listen to it because according to the presenter, I believe it was Mia Wong on that episode, Mia Wong and the Minneapolis woman that she was speaking with that is helping lead this whole thing.
This is an unprecedented move.
Rent strikes have happened in the past, of course, but this one has a lot of support.
So I'm hoping that it goes off the way it's supposed to, which is to hurt landlords enough that they scream at the governor to do something.
Because a lot of people, a lot of people are not going to be able to make rent, even with all of the help that's out there.
We've got a lot of people on Blue Sky.
I follow a lot of accounts that are helping collect rent for people.
One of them is known as Norm Charlatan.
He's been doing rent drives.
He's in league with a lot of other people that are doing rent drives to help people have rent funds.
And, you know, people like him have been ordering groceries for people.
You know, there's a lot of that going on still.
There's a lot of mutual aid and support going on.
But if you're interested in helping out a good cause, a good charity, a good effort, period, go to Blue Sky.
You know, look at my account.
I follow some nonsense accounts like the International Space Station Piss Tracker, just because it makes me laugh.
But I do follow a lot of local accounts that are doing actual on-the-ground work.
Like I said, Norm Charlatan is one.
Another one is Indigenous Hummingbird.
And there are several others.
But, you know, look for any Minneapolis accounts or just, you know, do a blue sky search for Minneapolis accounts.
And you can figure out pretty quickly who's doing work and who isn't.
The people out there doing the work are making a ton of posts every week and they're keeping people up to date.
It's not just help fund this.
Most of these people, most of the ones that I've looked at anyway, are like, help fund this.
And this is where your money is going.
You know, so it's not a blind effort.
I would say it's the least fraudulent thing I've seen in a long time.
And it makes me proud to be part of this fucking community, you know, where we've got people that can and will help.
We've got people that, you know, are out there doing the citizen journalism still, that are still operating Ice Watch, that are doing the hard work, you know, to keep people informed and keep people safe.
You know, and they're still getting it up and ice as shit.
You know, this is a concerted community effort that certainly didn't happen overnight, but it's just how things are here.
Yeah.
So we are, we're holding it out.
You know, we're keeping it together.
Give me just a second.
Okay, and I'm back.
I had to pause there and plug in my car.
I'm at one of my favorite little charging spots right now.
Anyway, yeah, so I also took a little break there to get onto our local NPR and tell them about Ted Lasso.
So if you're in the area or, you know, you want to pull up MPR, as in Minnesota Public Radio, you could probably hear me in there, you know, going off about how great of a show Ted Lasso is.
I just, I had to do something, you know, and Under all of this heavy stuff.
Anyway, so yeah, you know, like I was saying, the ice surge is still happening.
Well, not the surge, but the ice actions are still happening here.
There are a lot of great accounts to follow on Blue Sky about it.
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A lot of great areas you could throw small donations to to help families out.
But yeah, in regards to our next episode, it's going to be on the HIB vaccine, HIB.
That is a vaccine that keeps meningitis away.
Yeah, the work on that has been slow going because I've had to break off in 30-second segments, 30 seconds and one-minute segments and stuff to address a lot of the crap that Candace talks about.
So, you know, I will be working more on that, of course, over time as I can, as I do.
But yeah, otherwise, you know, life here is as normal as it can be.
I think the Trump administration voted yesterday, or not voted yesterday, decided to block Medicaid funding coming to our state.
This hurts the most vulnerable people.
It is unconscionably immoral.
And, you know, we keep getting the public stick.
It's like if they don't harm us one way, they will do it another.
It is entirely about retribution.
It has fuck all to do with any actual fraud happening.
And, you know, it is distressing because in our family, we have somebody that we've known for a couple of years that is on public assistance for various reasons.
And they really can't live without it.
They're not a leech.
They have worked in the past.
Their life kind of went away that they can't really work right now.
And, you know, it sucks to, I mean, it sucks to see people suffer, period, but more so when you know someone.
You know, now in this person's case, the partner that they're with makes a lot of money, has a good job, but, you know, how you can't, you can't rely on anything when the safety nets start disappearing.
And the Trump administration, I read a headline last night, I read a story last night that they are pushing to find other ways to defund the Affordable Care Act, period.
So, you know, this is all going on, and it's not just going on here.
The Medicaid thing right now is going on here.
Excuse me, dry cough.
The Medicaid thing is going on here.
But they are finding ways to fuck everybody else.
You know, so as important as things are that are going on here in Minnesota, I would say pay attention to what's going on here.
We seem to be the canary in the coal mine, but keep an eye on your people.
If you live outside of Minnesota, keep an eye on your people.
Keep an eye on what is going on.
As an example, Kansas, just yesterday, I believe, or over the last couple of days, the state of Kansas is, they're not making it illegal to be transsexual because that would be a step too far right now.
But if you're a transsexual citizen of Kansas and you have a state and government-issued ID, you know, a driver's license or whatever, your deal is now invalid if it doesn't reflect your assigned birth sex.
So people are going to have to get everything, they're going to have, this could upend a lot of people's lives because without that correct ID, those people won't be able to vote.
You get where this is going?
You have a license, but it's no longer valid.
You have a state ID, but it's no longer valid.
And now in order to be able to vote, you have to go to a government office and get that changed up.
You know, or to apply for any kind of, you know, official state programs or what have you.
Everything that you do with an ID in Kansas is now suspect if you're a trans person.
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That's the kind of thing that happened because everyone's attention is everywhere else.
You know, and I get it.
Hell, you know, we focus on one person in our podcast.
We focus on the work of Candace Owens.
And she is constantly out there doing something, doing everything, doing all the everything that she can to be the worst possible version of herself.
You know, and it's that it's hard to keep up with even that, let alone everything else that's going on.
But, you know, if I had to take any inspiration from our local groups here, our local people that are doing the good work, it would be stay abreast of everything, but have something that matters to you, that you keep up with, that you speak out about when you can.
Do it safely.
You know, I can't stress that enough.
Do it safely.
Take the steps to set up an alter ego online if you need to, which is what we did from the start of this show.
You know, whether or not you go as deep on that as I did, that's up to you.
But be safe.
Take the steps.
Make a difference where you can, because this is going to take a concerted effort of all of us over the next several years.
You know, we can't just trust that, you know, Vance is going to pull the 25th Amendment.
We can't trust that there will just be an impeachment process that we don't have a hand in.
You know, if nothing else, just look at what has already happened.
Look at the shit they've gotten away with.
Look at the things they want to keep getting away with.
You know, use that to inspire yourself to even help out.
Even helping out a little can help out a lot if enough people do it.
It goes beyond voting.
Find a way to matter.
That is what I'm saying here.
Find a way to fucking matter.
You know?
So, with that all said, I want to leave y'all with the knowledge that I am working on the next episode.
It is taking the time that it takes, but I am doing it.
And we will be back, you know, on the air as soon as we can.
If it's not in the next week, then I will pop up another update episode and we will keep going.
Business as usual.
That's it for now, everybody.
I wish you all the best.
Stay safe.
Do not make it easy for these fucking fascists to find you and do things to you.