Minnesota’s spending doubled across 14 Medicaid programs at 'high risk' of fraud in past 5 years • Minnesota Reformer Minnesota’s spending across 14 Medicaid programs more than doubled in the five years before the Walz administration deemed them “high risk” for fraud, waste and abuse — and began taking drastic measur...

Minnesota’s spending doubled across 14 Medicaid programs at ‘high risk’ of fraud in past 5 years minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/21/m...

MN Blue Cross paid its CEO $4.9M amid red ink, cost-cutting Eagan-based health insurer says pay reflected performance in earlier years but did not disclose specifics. Enrollment set a record in 2025.

MN Blue Cross paid its CEO $4.9M amid red ink, cost-cutting www.startribune.com/mn-blue-cros...

Minneapolis Public Schools paid $5.3 million in tax penalties in past four years • Minnesota Reformer That's enough to pay about 40 teachers, given current district labor costs.

Another bombshell scoop from @mwhitler.bsky.social: Minneapolis Public Schools paid $5.3 million in tax penalties in past four years minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/17/m...

Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly focusing on blue states • Minnesota Reformer The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, it has handed ammunition to critics who s...

Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly focusing on blue states minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/17/r...

First ICE officer charged with assault for threatening people with a gun in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Thursday filed criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer for allegedly brandishing his service weapon at two people during Opera...

Gregory Donnell Morgan, Jr. faces two felony counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly pointing a gun at two unnamed victims in a car while he was driving an unmarked SUV minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/16/f...

First ICE officer charged with assault for threatening people with a gun in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Thursday filed criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer for allegedly brandishing his service weapon at two people during Opera...

First ICE officer charged with assault for threatening people with a gun in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/16/f...

"deepfake"

While federal agents were arresting roofers and house cleaners without criminal records based on their skin color ... they were not arresting a man with a federal warrant and a history of gun crimes who would go on to allegedly murder someone www.startribune.com/as-operation...

US Senate again rejects attempt to limit Trump action in Iran WASHINGTON — An effort to force President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for further war actions in Iran failed in the U.S. Senate for the fourth time Wednesday, with all but one Republic...

TAKE FOUR: U.S. Senate again rejects attempt to limit Trump action in Iran. Story by @ashleymurray.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com:

Investigators were unable to determine why Minneapolis School District withheld nearly $3 million owed to an employee health care trust account beginning in 2024, or whether the withheld funds were moved outside of district accounts.

Teach what you know, I guess

Jeff Hancock, the Stanford professor who used AI to draft a court document that contained fake citations, is teaching a masterclass for Harvard Business Review's Leadership Summit called "The Rise of AI 'Workslop'—and How to Combat It" minnesotareformer.com/2024/12/02/m... cc: @cingraham.bsky.social

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig calls for release of woman in ICE detention with large ovarian cyst • Minnesota Reformer U.S. Rep. Angie Craig called on the Trump administration on Monday to release a woman in ICE detention who is suffering from a tennis ball-sized ovarian cyst at risk of rupture and needing urgent medi...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig calls for release of woman in ICE detention with large ovarian cyst minnesotareformer.com/briefs/u-s-r...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig calls for release of woman in ICE detention with large ovarian cyst • Minnesota Reformer U.S. Rep. Angie Craig called on the Trump administration on Monday to release a woman in ICE detention who is suffering from a tennis ball-sized ovarian cyst at risk of rupture and needing urgent medi...

"This is a life-or-death situation,” Rep. Angie Craig said. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/u-s-r...

Can the Minnesota Legislature's most prolific poster quit posting? • Minnesota Reformer Minnesota Rep. Walter Hudson traveled to Washington in January to appear before the U.S. House Oversight Committee, where he alerted the members about fraud in Minnesota’s public programs. The Albertv...

Rep. Walter Hudson, through sheer force of constant and provocative posting, has become one of Minnesota's best known lawmakers. Online, he’s a bombastic pugilist. Offline, Hudson is non-confrontational, awkward, shy even.

Man who hit wolf with snowmobile, took it to a bar and killed it gets probation Cody Roberts avoided as much as two years in prison and a $5,000 fine by pleading guilty.

Man who hit wolf with snowmobile, took it to a bar and killed it, gets probation www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The effects of higher speed limits on traffic fatalities in the United States, 1993-2017 Farmer, Charles M. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety April 2019 Abstract Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the effects of increased speed limits on U.S. traffic fatality rates during the period 1993-2017. Methods: State-by-state annual traffic fatality rates per mile of travel were modeled as a function of time, the unemployment rate, the percentage of the driving age population that was younger than 25, the safety belt use rate, and the maximum posted speed limit. Separate analyses were conducted for interstates/freeways and all other roads. Results: A 5-mph increase in the maximum state speed limit was associated with an 8.5% increase in fatality rates on interstates/freeways and a 2.8% increase on other roads. In total during the 25-year study period, there were an estimated 36,760 more traffic fatalities than would have been expected if maximum speed limits had not increased—13,638 on interstates/freeways and 23,122 on other roads.

Sanity check: other research has found that every 5 mph increase in speed limits raise highway fatality rates by 8.5%. This study would have us believe that a big album drop is equivalent to jacking highway speed limits up by 10 mph *nationwide.* Is that plausible? www.iihs.org/research-are...

Nathan Hansen, the newest immigration judge at Fort Snelling, has a long history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories online.

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig makes unannounced visit to Whipple building, hub of ICE activity • Minnesota Reformer U.S. Rep. Angie Craig made an unannounced visit on Thursday to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the hub of the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minnesota. Thousands of immigr...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig makes unannounced visit to Whipple building minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/u...

As we move on, let’s not forget the people still locked away minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/a...

The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.

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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

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Almost all US refugees are now from South Africa, as Trump focuses on Afrikaners Virtually all of the refugees let into the U.S. over the past six months are from South Africa. President Trump prioritized white South Africans after dramatically cutting the program’s annual cap.

All but three of the 4,499 refugees let into the United States this fiscal year so far have come from South Africa. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

Texas judge denies petition to release woman detained in Minnesota with medical condition • Minnesota Reformer A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ...

Andrea Pedro-Francisco was detained in Burnsville, Minn. without a warrant on her way to work cleaning houses on Feb. 5 — a week before she was scheduled for surgery to remove the cyst, which if left untreated could result in the loss of her ovary.
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Texas judge denies petition to release woman detained in Minnesota with medical condition • Minnesota Reformer A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ...

A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst at risk of rupture, a federal judge ruled. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...

Texas judge denies petition to release woman detained in Minnesota with medical condition • Minnesota Reformer A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ...

Texas judge denies petition to release woman detained in Minnesota with medical condition minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...

GOP Reps. Engen, Hudson to be stripped of committee assignments following DWI incident • Minnesota Reformer Republican Reps. Elliott Engen of White Bear Township and Walter Hudson of Albertville will be stripped of their committee assignments following a March 27 DWI incident during which Engen was arrested...

GOP Reps. Elliott Engen and Walter Hudson will be stripped of their committee assignments following a March 27 DWI incident during which Engen was arrested, according to legislative sources.

Newly released surveillance footage of Jan. 14 ICE shooting contradicts agent's account • Minnesota Reformer The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis in January told the FBI that by the time he opened fire, he had been “fighting an...

Footage from the Jan. 14 ICE shooting in Minneapolis show a scuffle between an ICE agent and two Venezuelan men lasting less than 12 seconds, contradicting the agent's account. Prosecutors watched the footage 3 weeks after charging the men for assaulting the agent and then dropped all charges.

Bounty hunters seen in viral videos brandishing weapons in Minneapolis charged with felonies The two were filmed pointing weapons at protestors and firing less-lethal munitions during two incidents in Minneapolis.

Garrett C. Willis, 28, and James R. Willis, 54, both of Ardmore, Okla., were charged Tuesday with two felony counts each of threats of violence: