MPR News: “The Department of Homeland Security has posted a proposed contract for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use a private prison facility in western Minnesota to hold up to 1,600 immigrant detainees.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

ICE releases Andrea Pedro-Francisco, woman with large ovarian cyst, from Texas detention center minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/04/i...

Amid tanking financials and plans for liquidation, the nonprofit health insurer UCare paid its CEO $1.28 million in total compensation last year, including a bonus of $100,000.

Beyond grateful that we were able to secure Andrea’s release. Her ovarian cyst could have lifesaving complications if left untreated, and she was in incredible pain. Now she’ll be able to get the lifesaving medical care she should have been able to receive back in February.

ICE releases Andrea Pedro-Francisco, woman with large ovarian cyst, from Texas detention center minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/04/i...

My first Minnesota Republican Convention: Lots of spectacle, little substance minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/04/m...

This work has now been covered by @maxnesterak.bsky.social in @minnesotareformer.com. Be sure to give it a read. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/study... #econsky

Scott Pelley has been fired by new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.

SLUSH FUND ICED: U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday the Trump administration has rescinded its plan to use a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people who believe they were wrongly prosecuted by the Justice Department www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

JUST IN: DOJ's Board of Immigration Appeals rules that detention is mandatory for minors who entered the country illegally, even if they have Special Immigrant Juvenile status. Doc: www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1... Most courts disagree: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Study: Operation Metro Surge cost Minnesota an estimated 4,600 hospitality jobs in 3 months minnesotareformer.com/briefs/study...

Trump's National Guard deployment to DC last year led to a 24% decline in "opportunistic" property crimes like auto theft but made no appreciable difference in the violent crime he said he was targeting, study concludes. @cuneytdil.bsky.social www.axios.com/local/washin...

Here was DHS’s statement at the time.

Inside MAGA’s Fake Gay Motorcycle War open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

NEW: The village of Millstadt, Illinois is ordering a resident to tear down a flourishing garden of vegetables, flowers and native plants, because officials can't tell the difference between a cultivated plant and a "weed." ij.org/press-releas...

Sources: Sen. Amy Klobuchar threatened to leave DFL convention during challenge from left.

Minnesota GOP Party Chair Alex Plechash defends MNGOP's moment of silence for Chauvin at their convention: "There are a lot of people I think that believe Derek Chauvin was improperly convicted & not treated well & those people wanted to have a moment of silence in recognition bc they felt that way"

Klobuchar fights off challenge from left, wins DFL convention nod in bid for governor minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/30/k...

ICE agent charged in nonfatal north Minneapolis shooting arrested in Texas minnesotareformer.com/briefs/ice-a...

One in five of those most commonly listed employers on SNAP income verification forms in Oregon last year was a major grocer and retailer, with Safeway and its parent company Albertsons the most listed, followed by Walmart and online retail giant Amazon.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

Angie Craig abandons Democratic party endorsement in Senate bid, looks straight to primary minnesotareformer.com/briefs/angie...

Many are calling it the Shirt of the Summer... PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!

Climate change’s worst-case scenario is officially canceled www.vox.com/future-perfe...

bracing story from my colleague @madisonmcvan.bsky.social

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

Feds announce 15 indictments in ‘unprecedented’ Medicaid fraud scheme in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/21/f...

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

Back on the market... 👀

In December, ICE agents fired shots at a St. Paul man, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero, as he was fleeing arrest. The agency claims the shots were in self-defense, and that Rodriguez Romero hit officers with his car. But the agents’ stories contain major discrepancies.

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

ICE denies humanitarian parole request for Minnesota woman in detention with ovarian cyst minnesotareformer.com/briefs/ice-d...

It's here! @statesnewsroom.com's new a.m. newsletter, Daybreak, is a 50-state snapshot to start your day off informed. @maddyfitz.bsky.social will bring bite-size news to perk you up at 8 a.m. Eastern each weekday. Subscribe (and read the first edition): www.newsfromthestates.com/newsletter/d...

the DOJ sued Minnesota — again — this time trying to end AG Keith Ellison's lawsuit against Exxon Mobil and other petroleum companies:

The Minnesota Star Tribune has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Annunciation school shooting

Charges against two Minnesota women who sprang into action to help save an ICE agent having a siezure have been dismissed.

Photos: The 51st Mayday parade, always a cathartic welcome for spring, was especially poignant this year after our particularly brutal winter. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/03/m...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar seeks clean break from Walz, releases anti-fraud plan.

Roberto Hernández Vargas, de 62 años, no tiene antecedentes penales y permanece detenido en Nuevo México desde hace casi cuatro meses. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/04/p...

Rep. Elliott Engen, R-White Bear Township, on Friday said that he doesn’t like to listen to “nonsensical ideas” brought forward by lefty activists. That’s why he ditched a committee hearing in March to grab lunch at a local bar and have a beer.

New York Governor Hochul: “Renée Good was murdered by a federal agent. Reassigning Jonathan Ross is not accountability. If he’s in New York, he must be removed immediately.”

Father of Minneapolis police detective faces deportation after arrest during Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/01/f...

After the recent attack at the WHCD, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said “We all have to do a better job of watching the rhetoric.” Who is we? An analysis of X posts by the entire MN congressional delegation shows Emmer is by far the most uncivil poster minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/01/u...

IRS penalties, a mysterious deficit in the district’s healthcare trust account, a blistering outside audit that referred to the department’s “pervasive fear and uncertainty,” two reprimands and a performance improvement plan. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/01/a...

62-year-old Roberto Hernandez, who has no criminal record, has been held in a New Mexico detention center for nearly 4 months minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/01/f...

"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"

Stumbled across an old story of mine I had forgotten about. RIP Wonkblog! www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...

In today's Flyover news roundup... racketmn.com/chaotic-whit...

With three weeks left, long to-do list for Minnesota lawmakers becomes more elusive minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/28/w...