Twin Cities Metro

• Two men have been sentenced for their roles in a deadly mass shooting at a downtown Minneapolis bar earlier this year.

• Officials say the proposed Metro Blue Line Extension still faces a funding gap of approximately $224 million, despite new commitments from Hennepin County and proposed cost-saving measures.

• The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced that construction on Hiawatha Avenue (Highway 55) in south Minneapolis will begin September 8, bringing lane reductions through December while pedestrian safety improvements are installed.

• A South St. Paul daycare employee has been charged with malicious punishment of a child after prosecutors allege a young child suffered visible injuries.

Fargo–Moorhead

• Fargo police are investigating a Tuesday night crash in which a 67-year-old Dilworth motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck from behind by a van.

• Moorhead police are searching for a suspect following a Tuesday evening shooting that seriously injured one person. Authorities say the suspect and victim are believed to know one another.

• Sanford Health and North Memorial Health have finalized a partnership that includes a commitment to invest more than $600 million in healthcare services across Minnesota and the region.

Detroit Lakes

• The Becker County Food Pantry is organizing its first-ever Walk for Hunger, with the event aimed at raising awareness and support for local hunger relief efforts.

• Pride stickers displayed on classroom doors at Detroit Lakes High School continue to generate community debate, drawing statewide attention and opinion commentary.

• The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 15–2, scoring 10 runs in the sixth inning to win their second straight game of the series.

Duluth–Superior

• Construction of the long-awaited Blatnik Bridge replacement between Duluth and Superior is underway following a $1.05 billion federal investment.

• Duluth Workforce Development is hosting a regional hiring event today featuring employers including Essentia Health, Cirrus Aircraft, and Sofidel.

• Authorities are investigating the apparent drowning of a 43-year-old paddleboarder on Ely Lake near Eveleth after rescue efforts Tuesday evening were unsuccessful.

• The City of Superior’s proposed landfill gas-to-data-center project has officially been terminated after the agreement with the developer ended.

Willmar

• Two drivers suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a Tuesday morning crash at the intersection of Highway 12 and County Road 9 west of Willmar.

• While based in St. Cloud, the Central Minnesota Community Foundation announced new grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations serving the broader central Minnesota region, including programs focused on individuals with special needs and initiatives benefiting boys and men.

• Local high school volleyball teams from central Minnesota opened September competition with several straight-set victories as the fall sports season gets underway.

Northwest Minnesota

• Crops across the Red River Valley continue to benefit from warm, dry conditions as sugar beet and potato harvest preparations begin.

• Local law enforcement agencies are reminding motorists to watch for increased farm equipment traffic during harvest season.

• North Dakota’s new SNAP food-purchase restrictions continue to generate discussion among residents in communities near the Minnesota border.

Northeast Minnesota

• Construction continues on the replacement of the Blatnik Bridge connecting Duluth and Superior, one of the region’s largest transportation projects.

• A regional hiring event in Duluth attracted employers from healthcare, manufacturing, and aviation.

• Authorities continue investigating the fatal paddleboarding accident on Ely Lake earlier this week.

West Central Minnesota

• Becker County officials are promoting the inaugural Walk for Hunger fundraiser benefiting local food shelves.

• Highway construction projects remain active throughout the Alexandria and Fergus Falls areas, with drivers urged to expect delays.

• Harvest preparations are accelerating as favorable weather continues.

East Central Minnesota

• MnDOT is preparing for several late-summer road improvement projects throughout east-central Minnesota.

• Schools across the region report strong attendance during the opening days of the academic year.

• Fire officials continue encouraging residents to use caution as dry vegetation increases wildfire risk.

Southwest Minnesota

• Corn and soybean crops remain ahead of average maturity thanks to continued warm weather.

• County fairs and fall festivals begin this weekend across several southwest Minnesota communities.

• Farmers are monitoring soil moisture as the dry stretch continues.

Southeast Minnesota

• Rochester-area healthcare providers continue seasonal vaccination outreach ahead of flu season.

• Road construction continues on several state highways with intermittent lane closures.

• Tourism remains steady along the Mississippi River communities during the Labor Day travel period.

Minnesota Sports

Minnesota Vikings (NFL)

• The Vikings continue preparations for their September 13 regular-season opener against the Green Bay Packersat U.S. Bank Stadium.

• Head coach Kevin O’Connell says the club is finalizing its 53-man roster while quarterback J.J. McCarthycontinues taking first-team practice reps.

Minnesota Twins (MLB)

• The Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 15-2 Tuesday night, highlighted by a 10-run sixth inning.

• Royce Lewis and Ryan Jeffers each homered, while Minnesota has outscored Detroit 26-3 over the first two games of the series.

• The Twins remain 3½ games out of the final American League Wild Card entering tonight’s finale.

Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA)

• The NBA offseason continues with training camp less than a month away.

• Team executives continue evaluating the roster and preparing for media day later this month.

Minnesota Wild (NHL)

• The Wild continue preparations for training camp.

• Fans received details today on expanded streaming options for Wild games ahead of the upcoming NHL season.

Minnesota Statewide Weather

Tonight

• Mostly clear to partly cloudy statewide.

• Warm and humid.

• Patchy fog possible overnight in river valleys.

• Low temperatures:

  • Northwest: 56–62°

  • Northeast: 50–58°

  • Central: 58–63°

  • Southern Minnesota: 60–66°

Thursday

• Mostly sunny and warm.

• Afternoon highs:

  • Northwest: 79–84°

  • Northeast: 72–78°

  • Central: 82–86°

  • South: 84–88°

• Southwest winds 5–15 mph.

• An isolated late-day thunderstorm is possible in western Minnesota.

72-Hour Extended Forecast (Beginning 6:00 PM Wednesday)

Thursday Night

• Partly cloudy.

• Scattered thunderstorms possible across western Minnesota after sunset.

• Lows 58–66°.

Friday

• Warm, humid, and partly sunny.

• Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms, especially western and northern Minnesota.

• Highs 78–87°.

Saturday

• Partly sunny with lower humidity.

• A slight chance of an isolated afternoon shower.

• Highs 74–83°.

Sunday Outlook

• Pleasant late-summer weather.

• Mostly sunny.

• Highs in the mid-70s to lower 80s, with comfortable humidity.

“Agenda 2030 means the federal government is essentially replaced by a global governance model of technocracy,” she said, saying the agenda seeks to “force behavior upon the populations of nations.”

“At the end of the day, it is about liberty and freedom and free choice and all the things that make life worth living being kind of taken away from us. And we can’t allow it,” she added.

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A child hands a dollar bill to a sexually deviant grown man in a wig, padding, and lingerie at a state fair. Lawmakers call it what it is: degenerate filth. They’re right.

State fairs used to mean, and still do in the other 49 states, livestock, funnel cakes, and rides that don’t require a content warning. Now in Minnesota, it’s become a venue for mentally sick, perverted men who perform exaggerated female sexuality in front of families, then accept tips from kids like strippers on a slow Tuesday. The ritual is the same as the bar version: cash stuffed toward the crotch, applause for the display, unfit parents filming instead of intervening. Calling it “family-friendly” is delusional psychosis. The optics are pure grooming theater, and that’s exactly what it is.

It’s not cabaret for consenting adults in a nightclub. It’s public space, taxpayer-adjacent or not, where minors are present by design. The performers know the difference between a private stage and a fairground. They do it anyway. The organizers schedule it anyway. The parents who drag their kids there treat it like enrichment, it’s child sexual abuse and should be prosecuted as such. The result is the same every time a video surfaces: a child participating in the tip economy of adult sexually deviant performance.

Lawmakers who blast it are stating the obvious. You don’t need a sociology degree to see the pattern. Sexualized cross-dressing acts marketed to kids, dollar bills changing hands, neon innuendo in the background of past versions of the same show. The defenders pivot to “expression” and “joy” while ignoring that no other form of adult entertainment gets this pass when children are in the audience. Strip clubs have age limits for a reason. Drag at the fair suddenly becomes sacred.

The people pushing this aren’t confused. They’re committed to the idea that any boundary around childhood is bigotry. So they insert the act into the most traditional family gathering they can find, dare anyone to object, then scream intolerance when the objection arrives. It’s a sick, twisted, sexual ideology designed to groom children, wearing a cheap dress and demanding applause.

It’s not culture. It’s not art. It’s degenerate filth, performed in daylight, and the only shocking part is how many sick, vile, subhuman adults still pretend otherwise.

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When a crop-art entry at the Minnesota State Fair spelled out “8647” in yellow beans with red ones dripping like blood, the reaction from local media was as predictable as it was dishonest. The piece was not subtle. “86” has long meant to get rid of or cancel; 47 is the number of the current president. The same code landed former FBI Director James Comey under federal indictment for allegedly threatening the president. Yet Minnesota’s legacy outlets treated the artwork as a mild “veiled critique,” then pivoted hard to portray its creator as the real casualty.

The Star Tribune called it a “veiled critique of President Donald Trump” and focused on the artist’s fake doxxing and death threats that supposedly forced her to leave the state. MPR News framed the removal as a response to “harassment and doxxing.” Other local coverage followed the same script: the story was not the public display of a coded call to kill the president at a state-sponsored fair; it was the mean people online who noticed. Alpha News, which first published the photo of the piece complete with the artist’s name and city already printed underneath by fair organizers, was dismissed as a “conservative website.”

Hard to imagine the media cabal of Minnesota being so dismissive and trying to change the narrative had Harris and Walz won the election. We know exactly what the never ending headlines and narrative would be.

It’s not remotely close to journalism. It’s narrative management and straight up propaganda. The fair itself hung the artist’s full name and hometown under the entry for thousands of visitors to see. Public display is not doxxing. Outrage over a political statement that tracks with language the Justice Department has treated as potentially criminal isn’t “harassment” in any serious sense. Yet the local press soft-pedaled the content, elevated the outright lies of threats, and centered the creator’s feelings while barely acknowledging why ordinary fairgoers might object to seeing “8647” rendered in beans with a blood motif.

Speaking of doxxing. They sure don’t have any problem at all with it when it comes to someone that doesn’t fall in line with their way of thinking. Even if that person did nothing other than post the words or video’s of what other people have said, and published on the internet. A recent example is Chaya Raichik (Libs of Tik Tok). So if this Tamara Sawyer really was doxxed (I strongly doubt that, because there is no proof), fuck off and shut up you hypocritical assholes. What goes around comes around.

And speaking of the fair, which has become an ideological shit show that I personally will never attend again, what do you think the odds are that an “8647” so-called piece of “art” would ever be allowed had the Harris-Walz ticket won? We know that answer.

Political expression that aligns with the local media cabal’s preferences is protected speech and cultural commentary. Expression that cuts the other way is framed as the source of danger, with any backlash converted into proof of the speaker’s victimhood. In this case, the media’s choice was to downplay a coded political threat while amplifying the artist’s subsequent discomfort. The result is coverage that protects one side’s provocations and pathologizes the other side’s response. It’s really sick and dishonest what the media has done.

Minnesota’s media cabal didn’t simply report the removal of a crop-art piece. They rewrote it so that the person who submitted a public “8647” display became the sympathetic figure, and the people who found it objectionable became the problem. You just can’t hate Twin Cities media enough. It’s institutional bias with a hard dose of pure propaganda dressed up as concern for free expression.

Hey look! It appears that the “artist,” Tamara Sawyer works for the State of Minnesota! ⬇️

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• Minnesota schools with large immigrant populations have reportedly lost at least 1,700 students following recent federal immigration enforcement actions, according to a Sahan Journal analysis.

• The partnership between Sanford Health and North Memorial Health has officially been completed, with plans to maintain key services at Robbinsdale Hospital while expanding coordinated care across Minnesota.

• The Twin Cities are beginning meteorological fall with unusually warm and humid weather, following one of the warmest summers on record.

• The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 11–1 Monday night behind two home runs from Ryan Jeffers and Walker Jenkins’ first major league homer.

• Barrel Theory Brewing announced plans to take over the former Lake Monster Brewing facility in St. Paul while relocating from its current Lowertown location.

Fargo–Moorhead (September 1, 2026)

• Moorhead Public Schools have opened the 2026–27 school year with stable enrollment and completed improvements to the high school campus.

• Several residents were displaced after an apartment fire in Moorhead on Monday. No additional details on injuries were immediately available.

• North Dakota law enforcement agencies have begun statewide “Put the Phone Away or Pay” distracted-driving enforcement efforts throughout September.

• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced more than $667,000 in funding for North Dakota programs.

• Fargo is preparing for another Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks home game Tuesday evening as the club hosts Winnipeg.

Detroit Lakes (September 1, 2026)

• Two people were hospitalized after a tornado struck near the Detroit Lakes area Monday evening, causing localized damage.

• September marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, with Otter Tail County and surrounding lakes-area communities promoting rural mental health resources through the “Every Season Matters” campaign.

• Area sports fans continue to follow the Minnesota Twins after the club’s recent return to the win column and Monday night’s decisive victory over Detroit.

Duluth–Superior (September 1, 2026)

• The warm weather affecting the Twin Cities extends across much of Minnesota, with above-normal temperatures continuing into northeastern Minnesota at the start of meteorological fall.

• Minnesota health officials continue urging residents to protect themselves from ticks after reports and tick-related emergency visits increased significantly across the state this year.

Willmar (September 1, 2026)

• A two-vehicle crash at U.S. Highway 12 and Kandiyohi County Road 9 east of Willmar Tuesday morning sent two people to the hospital. Authorities continue investigating the collision.

• Central Minnesota entered meteorological fall under hot and dry conditions after one of its driest summers on record, with above-normal temperatures expected to continue.

Northwest Minnesota

• Cleanup continues following Monday evening’s severe thunderstorms, with localized wind damage reported in portions of the Red River Valley and nearby lakes country. Utility crews continue restoring scattered outages.

• Harvest preparations are underway across the region as producers monitor warm temperatures and generally favorable crop conditions heading into September.

Northeast Minnesota

• Warm temperatures continue across the Arrowhead, although cooler air from Lake Superior is keeping shoreline communities more comfortable than inland areas.

• Outdoor recreation remains busy ahead of the Labor Day weekend, with fire officials reminding campers to monitor changing weather conditions later this week.

West Central Minnesota

• Residents continue assessing isolated storm damage from Monday evening’s severe weather, including reports near the Detroit Lakes area.

• Highway construction projects remain active around Alexandria, Fergus Falls, and surrounding communities with motorists advised to expect delays.

East Central Minnesota

• School districts throughout the region welcomed students back for the new academic year.

• Local emergency managers are monitoring the potential for scattered thunderstorms overnight, although the greatest severe weather threat remains farther south.

Southwest Minnesota

• The National Weather Service continues to highlight southwest and southern Minnesota as the area with the greatest chance for strong to severe thunderstorms tonight. Damaging wind gusts are the primary concern, with isolated hail also possible.

Southeast Minnesota

• Rochester and surrounding communities are expected to see increasing clouds tonight with thunderstorms possible after sunset.

• Heavy rainfall and gusty winds may accompany the strongest storms moving through southern Minnesota overnight.

Minnesota Sports

Minnesota Vikings

• The Vikings have finalized their initial 53-man roster and continue making practice squad additions ahead of next week’s regular-season opener. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy remains on the roster as the team monitors his recovery.

Minnesota Twins

• The Twins open the second game of their series against Detroit tonight at Target Field following Monday night’s 11-1 victory. Ryan Jeffers hit two home runs, Walker Jenkins connected for his first major league homer, and Taj Bradley earned his 10th win. First pitch tonight is scheduled for 6:40 PM CDT.

Minnesota Timberwolves

• The Timberwolves continue preparations for training camp following an active offseason featuring several major roster changes that have generated excitement among fans.

Minnesota Wild

• The Wild continue offseason preparations as training camp approaches later this month. Team discussions remain focused on roster competition and broadcast plans for the upcoming NHL season.

Minnesota Statewide Weather

Tonight

• Partly to mostly cloudy statewide.

• Thunderstorms developing this evening and overnight, especially across southern Minnesota.

• A few storms may become severe with damaging winds, isolated hail, and locally heavy rainfall.

• Overnight lows ranging from the upper 50s in the northwest to the upper 60s in the southeast.

Wednesday

• Morning clouds and lingering showers in the south, then becoming mostly sunny.

• Highs:

  • Northwest: 76–80°

  • Northeast: 72–78°

  • Central: 80–84°

  • Southern Minnesota: 82–86°

• Light east to northeast winds.

72-Hour Extended Forecast

Thursday

• Partly sunny, warm and humid.

• Scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms.

• Highs in the low to upper 80s.

Friday

• Warm with a mix of sun and clouds.

• Isolated afternoon thunderstorms.

• Highs generally 82–88°.

Saturday

• Summer-like conditions continue.

• Partly sunny with scattered showers and thunderstorms possible.

• Highs in the lower to middle 80s, with continued humidity.

Flock Safety’s OS Investigate (once called Nightshift) is the quiet unveiling of a system that inverts the entire premise of “investigative” policing. An officer no longer starts with a suspect, a crime, or a plate. He starts with a place, a time window, and a pattern of movement, “vehicles most seen in this neighborhood over 14 days,” “cars that hit three or more retail locations in three days,” “vehicles that visited multiple banks in a week,” or simply vehicles that keep appearing near the same cameras within two-minute windows. The AI returns candidates. Then it stitches those candidates to commercial identity databases, arrest records, 911 logs, and case files until a nameless car becomes a named person with an address, relatives, phone numbers, and a web of “associates.” Fourteen of the preloaded prompts require no plate, no name, and no physical description at all. The machine decides who looks suspicious by how they move through public space.

This isn’t crime-fighting technology. It’s pre-crime infrastructure dressed in the language of, you guessed it, “public safety.” Flock spent years claiming its cameras “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” That claim is now operationally dead. The system builds dossiers from co-occurrence graphs, how often your car and another car appear at the same poles at roughly the same times. Ordinary life (commuting, shopping, picking up kids, visiting a sick relative) becomes searchable behavioral data. The predicate for scrutiny is no longer probable cause; it’s statistical pattern. Once the pattern flags you, the rest of the apparatus, identity brokers, police records, network analysis, fills in the rest. You become a node.

Every expansion of this architecture will be corrupted, because every expansion of this architecture is corruption of the relationship between citizen and state. The tools will be used exactly as such tools have always been used: against political opponents, ex-partners, journalists, activists, and anyone who becomes inconvenient. Officers have already abused ALPR databases for personal stalking. Now the same networks can generate “associates” lists and movement profiles without even needing a plate as a starting point. Mission creep is not a risk; it is the design. Today the prompts hunt for “witnesses” or “suspicious shopping patterns.” Tomorrow they will hunt for protest attendees, abortion-clinic visitors, gun-show customers, or anyone whose movements fail some new risk score. The data doesn’t forget. The cameras don’t sleep. The commercial databases don’t ask permission.

The surveillance state does not arrive with jackboots and declarations. It arrives with vendor contracts, “public safety” press releases, and AI prompts that turn ordinary travel into evidence of suspicion. Flock’s network already spans tens of thousands of cameras across thousands of communities. OS Investigate simply removes the last remaining friction: the need for a name or a plate before the machine can begin hunting you. Once that friction is gone, the only remaining question is how thoroughly the system will be turned against people who have done nothing except exist in public. History answers that question with grim consistency. Power this granular does not stay limited to “bad guys.” It never has. It never will.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This entire system, and any other that remotely resembles it, must be destroyed at all cost.

Flock needs to be stopped, right now, dead in its tracks. All of it with no exceptions.

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Bill Glahn, a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, has warned that Minnesota’s large-scale fraud in taxpayer-funded social programs has not been contained. In a recent Fox News interview, he stated bluntly: “We have not slowed down, there is no sense in which the fraud has been stopped in Minnesota.” His assessment underscores a pattern in which schemes adapt and expand even as high-profile cases result in convictions and national attention.

The most visible recent indicator is the rapid growth of provisional assisted-living facility licenses. State data reviewed by Glahn showed roughly 364 new facilities licensed in the past year, about 20 percent of the state’s approximately 2,500 total at a pace exceeding one per day. Many of these small operations have been linked to Medicaid billing irregularities. Glahn has called for a temporary moratorium on new licenses to allow meaningful oversight, arguing that the surge outpaces any clear demographic demand and coincides with ongoing fraud investigations.

A concrete example is the August 2026 criminal complaint against Salman Ahmed Elmi, charged by the Minnesota Attorney General’s office with multiple felony theft counts tied to alleged Medicaid fraud. Glahn has described related schemes as combining commercial sex operations with facilities later licensed under Medicaid programs, illustrating how fraud can intertwine with other criminal activity. This follows years of scandals, including the Feeding Our Future nutrition fraud case (with dozens of convictions and estimates of losses in the hundreds of millions) and earlier problems in child-care subsidies and housing stabilization services.

Fraud persists, Glahn argues, because it migrates across programs, from child care to food assistance to Medicaid, exploiting gaps in verification and monitoring. Federal prosecutors have secured numerous convictions, and congressional reports have examined whether state officials under Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison acted with sufficient urgency after early warnings. Estimates of total losses vary widely depending on methodology and scope, but the underlying issue remains: money continues to flow outward faster than effective controls can stop it.

Minnesota’s experience demonstrates that prosecutions alone do not automatically end systemic vulnerability. Without stronger front-end safeguards, independent oversight, and the political will to prioritize program integrity over expansion, and a voting bloc with special protections, the cycle of fraud and loss will continue.

Get the DFL out of power or this will continue. It’s that simple.

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The University of Minnesota’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health has spent years developing “MyGender Dolls”—flat paper figures for children ages 4 to 10 that come with interchangeable internal reproductive organs and external genitalia. Kids can swap penises, vaginas, and other bits like trading cards so they can “visualize their anatomy and genders.” The project is now launching commercially under the banner of “gender-affirming clinical practices” and “therapeutic play.” Three separate federal probes have already landed on it, the latest from House Education Committee Chairman Tim Walberg demanding the full paper trail on funding, school outreach, and parental consent.

This is intellectual bullshit. It’s sexually deviant adults, some probably pedophiles, handing pre-pubescent children modular sex organs and telling them biological reality is optional. Four-year-olds don’t have a concept of permanent identity, let alone the cognitive tools to weigh irreversible medicalization. What they do have is suggestibility. Presenting genitalia as a mix-and-match accessory is not neutral play; it is ideological instruction dressed up as care. The same institutions that spent decades warning against “anatomically correct” dolls in abuse investigations because of suggestibility risks now celebrate them when the goal is affirming confusion.

The university claims the project runs on “private donations.” Total and complete bullshit. Public universities don’t operate in hermetically sealed funding silos. The institute receives state and federal money for its broader work. Walberg, Cassidy, and the Department of Education are right to demand the receipts. Parents aren’t optional stakeholders when public resources and clinical authority are used to normalize genital detachment for kindergarteners.

Call it what it is: institutional grooming by a fucked up ideology that treats childhood as a blank canvas for sick adult sexual deviancy. Normal child development doesn’t require professional-grade genital modular kits. The people, no they’re not people, they’re subhumans pushing this are sick, twisted freaks that should all be beaten to within an inch of their pathetic and perverted lives.

This whole fucking thing has absolutely no place in education, period.

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• The Camden Community News, a neighborhood newspaper that served north Minneapolis for 50 years, published its final edition, marking the end of one of the city’s longest-running community publications.

• Minneapolis police are investigating a fatal stabbing after a man was found with an apparent stab wound in a south Minneapolis yard Sunday morning.

• Police are also investigating the deaths of three people discovered during a welfare check at a home in Inver Grove Heights.

• Monday’s weather is expected to be hot and humid, with highs in the upper 80s before humidity gradually decreases later in the day.

Fargo–Moorhead

• The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Project reached several major construction milestones this month as work continues on long-term flood protection for the region.

• Fargo and West Fargo spent a combined $232,500 on Flock Safety automated license-plate reader services during 2025, according to newly reported figures.

• State Rep. Jim Kasper plans to participate remotely in the upcoming North Dakota special legislative session while recovering from a stroke.

• Moorhead students returned to classrooms for the start of the 2026–27 school year, while police continue investigating a series of apartment break-ins that led to multiple charges against one suspect.

Detroit Lakes

• Area high school sports were active over the weekend, highlighted by Detroit Lakes’ 8–0 boys soccer victory over Heritage Christian Academy.

• The Minnesota Twins snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5–1 victory over the Chicago White Sox, a game featured prominently in area sports coverage.

• Cleanup efforts continue in areas affected by the July EF-2 tornado northwest of Detroit Lakes, with volunteer teams still assisting damaged properties.

Duluth–Superior

• Great Lakes researchers announced preparations to send a robotic vehicle to Lake Superior’s deepest point, more than 1,300 feet below the surface, continuing scientific exploration of the lake.

• Regional weather remains warm for late August, with pleasant boating conditions expected across much of western Lake Superior.

Willmar

• No major breaking news specific to the Willmar area was reported today in statewide news coverage.

• Regional attention remains focused on the Minnesota State Fair, the beginning of the high school fall sports season, and continued late-summer harvest preparations across west-central Minnesota.

Minnesota Early Evening News

Monday, August 31, 2026 – 6:00 PM CDT

Northwest Minnesota

• Warm, dry weather continued across the Red River Valley and northwest counties, allowing harvest preparations to remain ahead of schedule.

• Transportation officials report continued progress on major road and infrastructure projects serving the Fargo-Moorhead region.

Northeast Minnesota

• Tourism remained strong along the North Shore as visitors enjoyed another warm late-summer day.

• Researchers are continuing preparations for a scientific mission to explore the deepest waters of Lake Superior with a robotic vehicle later this season.

West Central Minnesota

• Harvest preparations continue throughout the Alexandria, Morris, Willmar, and Detroit Lakes areas following several days of favorable weather.

• High school football and fall sports are underway across the region as schools begin the 2026–27 academic year.

East Central Minnesota

• Traffic volumes increased as students returned to school throughout the region.

• Local law enforcement agencies continue emphasizing back-to-school traffic safety in school zones.

Southwest Minnesota

• Farmers continue monitoring crops as warm temperatures persist ahead of a cold front expected to bring scattered showers and thunderstorms during the next couple of days.

Southeast Minnesota

• Rochester-area businesses continue preparing for increased Labor Day travel.

• Forecasters are watching the greatest chance for midweek thunderstorms over southern Minnesota as a frontal system approaches.

Minnesota Sports

Minnesota Vikings

• The Vikings continue final roster preparations following preseason play as the regular season opener approaches next week. Coaches are evaluating the final 53-man roster and practice squad decisions.

Minnesota Twins

• The Twins ended a four-game losing streak Sunday with a 5–1 victory over the Chicago White Sox and begin a new series tonight looking to continue the momentum.

Minnesota Timberwolves

• The Timberwolves remain in their offseason, with training camp now just weeks away. Front office and coaching staff continue preparations for the 2026–27 NBA season.

Minnesota Wild

• The Wild are also nearing training camp, with players expected to report in the coming weeks as preparations begin for the NHL preseason.

Minnesota Statewide Weather

Tonight

• Mostly clear statewide.

• Lows ranging from the upper 40s in the Arrowhead to the mid-60s across southern Minnesota.

• Light northwest winds becoming nearly calm overnight.

Tuesday

• Partly sunny to mostly sunny.

• Highs:

  • Northwest: 79–84°

  • Northeast: 70–78°

  • Central: 82–87°

  • South: 86–90°

• Humidity increases during the afternoon.

• A few showers and thunderstorms may develop Tuesday night, mainly across western and southern Minnesota.

72-Hour Extended Forecast (Beginning 6:00 PM Monday)

Tuesday Night

• Increasing clouds.

• Showers and thunderstorms developing west, spreading east overnight.

• Some storms may produce heavy rainfall.

Wednesday

• Morning showers ending east.

• Becoming partly sunny during the afternoon.

• Cooler with highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s north and low to mid-80s south.

Thursday

• Warm and somewhat humid.

• Partly sunny.

• Isolated to scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms possible.

• Highs generally 82–88°.

An internal memo from Basem Boshra, the CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, instructed staff: “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.” Instead, the hijackings that deliberately flew passenger jets into buildings full of civilians, killing nearly 3,000 people, including two dozen Canadians, should be described as events that “led to passenger jet crashes.” The World Trade Center “was destroyed.” As if gravity and bad luck were the primary agents. As if al-Qaeda’s coordinated, ideologically driven slaughter of innocents was some unfortunate aviation mishap.

This is journalistic cowardice. The same organization that will lecture Canadians endlessly about “hate” and “disinformation” suddenly discovers that the word “terrorist” is too “loaded,” too “political,” too emotionally charged to apply to the most documented act of mass-casualty terrorism in modern Western history. They will quote others using the word, of course. They just refuse to say it themselves. The truth must always arrive with an asterisk and a disclaimer.

The memo was not an isolated brain fart. It was a reminder of a longstanding policy, the same policy that left the CBC squirming after October 7, 2023, when it treated the deliberate slaughter, rape, and kidnapping of civilians by Hamas as something that required the same delicate linguistic fencing. When the most unambiguous atrocities of our time can’t be labeled without nervous attribution, the problem isn’t the language. The problem is the institution.

The overwhelming majority from not only Canada, but the entire western world were right to call it an insult to the dead, their families, the first responders who died trying to save them, and the survivors who still carry the physical and psychological scars. It’s also an insult to every Canadian who pays for this shit rag of so-called media. Public money funds a broadcaster that prefers the language of traffic accidents over the accurate language of ideological murder. That’s not even close to being journalism. It’s woke, progressive pathology: the desperate need to avoid naming certain evils because naming them might inconvenience preferred narratives about root causes, colonialism, or the supposed excesses of the West. And last but not least, they wouldn’t want to “offend.”

After the predictable backlash including from American officials who noticed that a neighboring country’s state media was rewriting history, the CBC partially reversed course. Suddenly, for 9/11 at least, direct attribution would no longer be required. How generous. The principle remains intact for everything else; only the most radioactive example forced a tactical retreat. The underlying disease is unchanged: a newsroom so captured by ideological anxiety and cowardice that it treats clear moral facts as landmines.

If an organization can’t look at planes flown into skyscrapers by jihadists and say the word “terrorist” without institutional panic, it has forfeited any claim to public trust. The CBC did not merely face backlash. It earned contempt, and should never be taken seriously ever again.

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In the grand tradition of American political clown shows, Mike Lindell has once again proven that if at first you don’t succeed at winning an election, sue the process, redefine the rules, and demand a nationwide search for the invisible hand of the Deep State that somehow stuffed 45,000 extra votes into Lisa Demuth’s column while you were busy selling pillows.

The Minnesota Supreme Court, in a dazzling display of something called “following the law,” denied Lindell’s latest petition for a full-blown forensic autopsy of every single ballot in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Chief Justice Natalie Hudson’s order was the judicial equivalent of a polite but firm “no, Mike, you can’t turn a recount into a conspiracy convention.” Lindell had missed the deadline to actually pay the estimated $825,000 required for his discretionary recount, instead offering dramatic documentation of wire-transfer “readiness” and a lawsuit insisting the state’s perfectly ordinary plan was somehow unlawful.

This is, of course, vintage Lindell. The man who simply cannot accept that Minnesota Republicans preferred the House Speaker over the MyPillow guy by a margin large enough to swallow several mid-sized towns. His solution? Demand that every one of the 1.1 million ballots be hand-examined for “anomalies,” including those cast in the Democrat primary, because nothing says “I accept democracy” like requiring the entire state to re-litigate an election you lost by double digits.

First he vows to pay. Then he withholds the money because the recount won’t also audit Amy Klobuchar’s primary for good measure. Then he races to court claiming the rules he previously accepted are suddenly illegal. Then, when the state’s highest court tells him the law is the law, he announces he will take it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Somewhere in Minnesota, election clerks are breathing a sigh of relief that they will not be forced to re-sort every ballot under the watchful eye of a man who once claimed to have “absolute proof” of widespread fraud that somehow never quite materialized in a courtroom. And somewhere else, Lisa Demuth is preparing for a general election against Amy Klobuchar without the distraction of a pillow-scented recount circus, starring Bozo the clown selling pillows.

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Last week, federal judges (note federal, not state) in Minnesota handed prison time to Abdihakim Ali Ahmed (54 months), Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi (65 months), and Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim (36 months). That’s 155 months total for three more Somali defendants who helped loot a program designed to feed hungry American children during the COVID emergency. They are defendants 24, 25, and 26 sentenced in this $250 million fraud. Dozens more have already been convicted. The overwhelming majority share the same background. Somali.

They submitted fake meal counts, claiming thousands of children fed daily at sites that barely saw a handful of people. They took money meant for kids and turned it into cars, property, and personal enrichment. Prosecutors called it “wanton greed.” The FBI called the numbers “outlandish and impossible.” Taxpayers got robbed. Actual hungry children got nothing.

It’s time to deport every single Somali not only in Minnesota, but the country as a whole. They’ve been nothing but a pain in the ass since they just showed up at our doorstep, uninvited, 30 plus years ago.

This is what happens when soft-on-crime, open-borders Democrats run the show for years. Minnesota’s DFL political class looked the other way while a network of mostly Somali operators treated federal child nutrition funds like an ATM. Somali refugee communities were imported with no vetting or cultural assimilation, then handed access to massive entitlement programs with weak to no oversight. The result: the largest COVID-era fraud in the country, centered in one state with one particular immigrant population, Somali. Billions in social-service schemes have followed the same pattern.

Unlimited low-skill, low IQ, third world immigration plus expansive welfare equals fraud magnets. Democrats and their media allies preferred to cry “racism” rather than enforce the law or protect the public purse. Now the sentences are rolling in, and the White House is finally treating Minnesota fraud like the national scandal it is. And Democrats are trying to claim credit, while they enabled the fraud.

Accountability isn’t optional. Restitution isn’t optional. Deportation isn’t optional. Ending the policies that made this possible, lax enforcement, sanctuary attitudes, and the refusal to demand assimilation, is mandatory. America doesn’t exist to bankroll international grift rings. Feed American kids. Jail the thieves. Deport the undesirables. Secure the border. Anything less is surrender.

In Minnesota, and the status quo and vote Republican. Make sure to elect Lisa Demuth for Minnesota governor.

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• Minnesota State Fair opens with record attendance. The Great Minnesota Get-Together got off to a historic start, with 155,185 visitors on opening day—the highest opening-day attendance in State Fair history. Fair officials credited favorable weather and strong interest in new attractions and food offerings.

• State Fair art reflects current events. This year’s Fine Arts and Crop Art exhibits feature numerous works inspired by immigration enforcement, civic activism, and contemporary social issues. Organizers say the exhibits continue the fair’s tradition of showcasing artists’ perspectives on current events.

• Large industrial real estate deal completed in Minneapolis. Endeavor Development and Keystone National Group purchased two Minneapolis industrial properties for approximately $39.35 million, highlighting continued investment in the region’s industrial market.

• Twin Cities governments consider property tax increases. Several metro cities and counties are evaluating significant property tax levy increases as officials prepare 2027 budgets amid rising costs for public safety, infrastructure, and municipal services.

• Weather: Expect a warm, dry afternoon across the metro with increasing clouds later today. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop late tonight and continue into Saturday morning, bringing beneficial rainfall to parts of the region.

Weekend events

The Twin Cities has a full calendar of activities this weekend, including:

• Minnesota State Fair

• Opening weekend of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival

• Outdoor concerts and theater performances

• Community festivals throughout Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and surrounding suburbs

• Car shows, farmers markets, and family events

Here are the top news stories from the Fargo–Moorhead area for Friday, August 28, 2026:

• Fatal crash in south Fargo. A woman was killed and a 26-year-old Moorhead man suffered life-threatening injuries after their car left University Drive South near 13th Avenue South around 3:15 a.m., struck a building, and caught fire. Authorities say speed appears to have been a factor, and the crash remains under investigation.

• Fargo Municipal Court temporarily relocating. Beginning Monday, August 31, Fargo Municipal Court will operate from the second floor of the Fargo Civic Center after structural concerns were discovered in the parking garage beneath the current courthouse. Court hearings and services are expected to continue without interruption.

• Gateway Fiber expanding into West Fargo. Gateway Fiber announced it will extend its fiber-optic internet network into West Fargo. Construction is scheduled to begin this year, with the first customers expected to receive service by the end of 2026.

• Buckaroo Festival begins in West Fargo. The annual Buckaroo Festival is underway, with temporary street closures in effect Friday and Saturday around 5th Street West and 32nd Avenue West. Drivers are encouraged to follow posted detours.

Detroit Lakes Area News — Friday, August 28, 2026

Here are the top headlines from Detroit Lakes and the surrounding Becker County area:

• High school fall sports season gets underway. Detroit Lakes teams opened the fall season Thursday. The Lakers boys’ soccer team fell to Little Falls 3-0, while the girls’ soccer team lost 6-2 to Little Falls. Area teams from Fergus Falls and Pelican Rapids were also in action.

• School board’s rainbow symbol policy remains in effect. Following an emotional public meeting earlier this week, the Detroit Lakes School Board voted 3-3 on a motion to delay implementation of its directive restricting non-school-sponsored materials, including rainbow symbols. Because the motion failed, the policy remains in place as students prepare to return to school.

• Essentia Health adds new family medicine provider. Essentia Health St. Mary’s–Detroit Lakes recently welcomed nurse practitioner Brooke Bryant, expanding family medicine services for patients of all ages in the community.

• Minnesota DNR reminds hunters of permit deadline. Hunters planning to harvest antlerless deer in lottery permit areas during the firearm or muzzleloader seasons must apply for an either-sex permit by September 10.

• Weekend sports. The Minnesota Twins begin a six-game homestand Friday night against the first-place Chicago White Sox at Target Field, while the Minnesota Vikings wrap up their preseason Friday evening against the Denver Broncos.

Here are the top news stories from the Duluth–Superior (Twin Ports) area for Friday, August 28, 2026:

• St. Louis County ends its Flock camera contract. County officials announced they are discontinuing the automated license plate reader program, citing community concerns, the cost of replacing vandalized cameras, and limited effectiveness in rural areas.

• Downtown Duluth revitalization plan advances. City leaders provided an update on the “Imagine Downtown” initiative, which is focusing on public safety, housing, and economic development after community surveys identified quality of life and safety as top priorities.

• Line 5 pipeline response continues in northern Wisconsin. Approximately 150 emergency responders remain at the site of the Line 5 pipeline valve rupture near Saxon, Wisconsin, working on cleanup and environmental protection efforts.

• Hermantown opens volleyball season with a win. Hermantown swept Duluth Marshall in a season-opening high school volleyball match as fall sports get underway across the Northland.

• Movies in the Park wraps up tonight. Duluth’s free Movies in the Park summer series concludes this evening at Leif Erikson Park with a screening of How to Train Your Dragon (2025). Superior’s “Movies on the Island” series has also drawn strong attendance this summer.

Willmar Area News — Friday, August 28, 2026

Here are some of the top stories from Willmar and west-central Minnesota:

• School districts prepare for the new academic year. Schools across Kandiyohi County are completing teacher workshops, orientation events, and final campus preparations ahead of students returning to class next week. Local districts continue emphasizing student safety and updated transportation plans.

• Fall sports season begins. High school football, volleyball, soccer, and cross-country teams throughout the Willmar area are opening their seasons this weekend, with Willmar High School and neighboring schools beginning conference competition.

• Drought concerns continue across west-central Minnesota. Dry conditions persist across much of the region, with farmers monitoring crop stress and fire danger. Forecasters expect a chance of showers and thunderstorms late Friday night into Saturday, which could provide some much-needed rainfall.

• Minnesota Attorney General approves North Memorial–Sanford merger agreement. The agreement includes oversight provisions intended to protect healthcare services throughout Minnesota, including many patients in greater Minnesota who rely on Sanford’s regional healthcare network.

• State Fair makes statewide headlines. While not a local event, the Minnesota State Fair opened with record-breaking attendance on Thursday, drawing many visitors from west-central Minnesota for the opening weekend.

Minnesota Early Evening News

Friday, August 28, 2026 – 6:00 PM CDT

Northwest Minnesota

• Farmers continue monitoring drought conditions as much of the region awaits much-needed rainfall expected late tonight into Saturday.

• High school football and other fall sports officially kick off across the region.

• Minnesota DNR officials are reminding deer hunters that the application deadline for antlerless lottery permits is September 10.

Northeast Minnesota

• Cleanup and environmental monitoring continue following the Line 5 pipeline valve incident in northern Wisconsin.

• Duluth officials continue work on downtown redevelopment and public safety initiatives.

• Northland residents can expect increasing clouds this evening with showers arriving overnight into Saturday.

West Central Minnesota

• School districts across the region are making final preparations for students returning next week.

• Dry conditions continue to impact crops, though rain arriving overnight may provide some relief.

• Weekend community festivals and high school sports highlight the region.

East Central Minnesota

• Preparations continue for another busy weekend at the Minnesota State Fair following a record-setting opening day.

• Local governments continue preliminary work on 2027 budget proposals.

• Residents should monitor for scattered thunderstorms late tonight.

Southwest Minnesota

• Drought remains a major concern across agricultural communities.

• Stronger thunderstorms are possible late tonight into early Saturday, with damaging wind the primary threat if storms intensify.

Southeast Minnesota

• Pleasant weather continues through this evening before showers move into portions of the region overnight.

• Local schools and colleges are preparing for the start of the fall semester.

• Weekend travel conditions should generally remain good outside of any overnight thunderstorms.

Minnesota Sports

Minnesota Vikings

• The Vikings conclude their 2026 preseason tonight against the Denver Broncos. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:00 PM CDT, with many starters expected to see limited action before roster decisions are finalized.

Minnesota Twins

• Minnesota opens a six-game homestand this evening against the first-place Chicago White Sox at Target Field, looking to gain ground in the American League playoff race.

Minnesota Timberwolves

• The Timberwolves remain in the offseason following last season’s playoff run. Training camp preparations continue ahead of the start of preseason activities next month.

Minnesota Wild

• The Wild continue offseason preparations with rookie development activities winding down. Veterans are expected to report for training camp in September.

Minnesota Weather

Tonight

• Partly cloudy this evening.

• Clouds increasing overnight.

• Showers and thunderstorms developing first across western Minnesota after midnight, spreading east toward central Minnesota by early Saturday morning.

• Overnight lows: 58–66°F.

• A few storms could become strong, especially in western and southwestern Minnesota, with gusty winds the primary hazard.

Saturday

• Morning showers and thunderstorms, mainly across central and southern Minnesota.

• Gradual clearing from west to east during the afternoon.

• Breezy and more humid.

• Highs: 78–85°F.

72-Hour Extended Forecast (Beginning 6:00 PM Friday)

Saturday Night

• Partly cloudy and mild.

• Slight chance of an isolated shower.

• Lows: 60–68°F.

Sunday

• Warm and humid.

• Partly sunny with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms, especially across northern Minnesota.

• Highs: 84–89°F.

Monday

• Warm with a mix of sun and clouds.

• Isolated showers or thunderstorms possible.

• Highs: 82–87°F.

Overall, Minnesota’s stretch of quiet weather ends tonight as a more active pattern develops, bringing several opportunities for rain through the weekend and into next week while temperatures remain above normal.

For many years, cougars, also known as mountain lions or pumas, were thought to be absent from Minnesota. These powerful predators once roamed throughout the state, but by the early 1900s they had disappeared because of habitat loss and unregulated hunting. Today, however, cougars are making a gradual return, making them one of Minnesota’s most fascinating wildlife species.

Most cougars seen in Minnesota are believed to be young males that have traveled hundreds of miles from established populations in the western United States. Although sightings remain rare, trail cameras, photographs, and tracks have confirmed that cougars occasionally pass through forests, farmland, and even rural communities. Their excellent ability to travel long distances allows them to explore new territories in search of food and mates.

A major milestone occurred in 2026 when wildlife researchers documented a female cougar with kittens in northeastern Minnesota. This was the first confirmed evidence of wild cougar reproduction in the state in more than a century. The discovery suggests that cougars may be slowly re-establishing a breeding population, although they remain uncommon.

Cougars are solitary animals that primarily hunt white-tailed deer, but they may also prey on smaller mammals. They usually avoid people and are most active during dawn, dusk, and nighttime. Because they are secretive and inhabit large territories, seeing one in the wild is an extraordinary event.

The return of cougars presents both opportunities and challenges. They help maintain healthy deer populations and contribute to balanced ecosystems. At the same time, wildlife officials encourage residents to report confirmed sightings and to take precautions, such as supervising pets and avoiding feeding deer near homes.

The story of cougars in Minnesota is one of resilience and recovery. Although they remain rare, their gradual return demonstrates nature’s ability to reclaim suitable habitat when given the chance. Continued research and responsible wildlife management will help ensure that people and cougars can safely coexist in the years ahead.

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Nick Shirley, an independent videographer who has documented waste and fraud in taxpayer-funded immigrant-service and related programs (Minnesota daycare cases, California hospice claims), became the convenient villain. Democrats and Newsom insist it’s merely an expansion of the long-standing Safe at Home program, address confidentiality for domestic-violence survivors, certain healthcare workers, etc., now extended to “immigration support services providers.” Effective October 2027, the law criminalizes or heavily penalizes posting personal information or images when done with intent to harass or incite violence. Officials claim the language does not target journalism. Critics note the practical effect is a new layer of friction, demand letters, and potential fines for anyone filming or identifying people in these organizations.

That is the textbook banana-republic move. In classic banana republics, the ruling clique does not ban criticism outright when the cameras are rolling; it simply makes the cost of scrutiny high enough that most people stop. Protect the connected NGOs and service providers with special legal armor, redefine unwanted attention as “harassment,” and let the formal machinery of the state do the rest. The public is told it’s about safety, what have I said their MO is? “Public Safety.” That is always the excuse. The real priority is insulating a politically useful sector from accountability. Newsom’s California already runs one of the most expensive, least transparent immigrant-service ecosystems in the country. When an outsider starts showing empty facilities, questionable billing, or operational opacity, the response isn’t rigorous audits or transparency mandates, it’s a privacy shield and speech restrictions dressed up as “public safety.”

The Soviet parallel is equally obvious. Soviet authorities rarely needed crude bans on “anti-Soviet agitation” for every case. They preferred administrative tools: restricted information, protected cadres, and the quiet criminalization of “hostile” publicity that might “incite” trouble. Investigative reporting that embarrassed the Party’s preferred institutions was reframed as provocation. Here the Party line is that any sustained attention to immigration-service providers risks “doxxing” and violence, therefore the state will manage the information environment. Independent journalists become the problem; the protected class becomes the victim. The bill’s timing, after Shirley’s videos drew national attention makes the political intent hard to miss, whatever the carefully drafted intent language claims.

This isn’t lawmaking in a confident liberal democracy. It’s the behavior of a one-party machine that treats taxpayer-funded opacity as a feature and citizen scrutiny as a threat. Newsom didn’t invent the Safe at Home framework, but expanding it in this direction, under these circumstances, signals that California’s Politburo prefers managed silence over open books. Banana republics and Soviet systems both perfected the art of calling protection of the regime’s clients “public safety.” California is simply updating it.

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How refreshing. Nothing says “enriching young minds” like ensuring the first independent reading choice an 11-year-old encounters is a catalog of grievances dressed up as literature.

Hennepin County’s official response, naturally, was the usual bureaucratic shrug wrapped in the sacred vestments of the Library Bill of Rights and the Freedom to Read. Everything on the shelves, they assure us, is merely “shaped by the library’s collection development policy” and reflects “resident interests.” One assumes the residents in question are the same ones who staff the selection committees and the DEI-obsessed publishing houses that supply them. The rest of us—the ones still under the quaint impression that public libraries exist to serve the public rather than re-educate it, are invited to submit title requests. Five per month. How generous. Perhaps next we can request a shelf that doesn’t treat traditional family life as a cracked canister of mustard gas.

The sarcasm writes itself. These institutions once claimed neutrality. Now they stock the children’s section like a seminar on everything wrong with the West, then clutch their pearls when a mother notices the pattern and says so out loud.

Trooien’s sin was noticing. Her child’s observation, “Mom, all these books are about the same thing” is the kind of plain speech that sends the professional class into conniptions. Heaven forbid an 11-year-old encounter a story in which parents are competent, families are intact, and the central conflict isn’t an identity checklist. Better the child absorb the message that trauma is destiny and the nuclear family is the original sin.

Public libraries are not private ideological clubs. They are taxpayer-supported institutions. When they systematically prioritize one narrow, activist worldview in materials aimed at children, parents have every right and duty to object. The people running Hennepin County’s system appear to have decided otherwise. They prefer the soft tyranny of the curated shelf: endless diversity of identity, zero diversity of values.

If this is the “freedom to read,” it is a freedom carefully engineered to leave certain ideas out of reach for the next generation.

This state, at least the metro counties is so fucked up, it will never return to normalcy. It’s just too far gone, and can’t be saved. That’s reality.

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Thursday, August 27, 2026

Public safety

• An ICE agent charged in connection with the January Minneapolis shooting during Operation Metro Surge was released from a Texas jail after a federal judge declined Minnesota’s request to block his release while extradition proceedings continue. Minnesota officials say they will continue pursuing the case.

• The Minnesota Truth Council continued hearing testimony from people alleging abuse and civil-rights violations during Operation Metro Surge. The council is collecting public testimony as part of its review of the federal immigration enforcement operation.

St. Paul

• St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and Police Chief Axel Henry announced the city will remove its two city-owned Flock automated license plate reader cameras following concerns about outside agencies accessing locally collected data. The decision follows a unanimous City Council resolution urging the city to end its contract with the company.

Housing & development

• Housing construction accelerated across the Twin Cities during August. Metro cities issued permits for 1,279 housing units, a 41% increase over the same month last year. Most of the growth came from apartment and condominium projects, while single-family home construction remained relatively flat.

Local government

• Cities and counties throughout the metro are considering significant preliminary property tax levy increases for next year as officials grapple with higher operating costs and reduced outside funding. Proposed increases vary widely by community and remain subject to public hearings and council approval later this year.

Minneapolis

• Minneapolis continued community listening sessions as city leaders seek public input on the qualities residents want in the city’s next police chief. Additional meetings are scheduled over the coming weeks.

• The city also marked Annunciation Remembrance Day with volunteer projects including tree planting, flower planting, and assembling care kits to honor victims and support the community.

Sports

• High school football season is about to begin across the Twin Cities, with teams completing preseason preparations ahead of opening-week games.

Looking ahead

• The Minnesota State Fair is underway, with organizers expecting approximately two million visitors through Labor Day. Heavy traffic is expected around the fairgrounds throughout the weekend.

Fargo–Moorhead News Roundup

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Education

• West Fargo Public Schools opened the 2026–27 school year with 13,707 students, exceeding enrollment projections by 214 students and posting an increase over last year’s first-day total. District officials called the turnout a strong start to the school year.

• Fargo Public Schools reported 11,061 students enrolled on the first day of classes. While kindergarten enrollment increased slightly, the district’s overall enrollment declined about 1.8% from last year.

Retail & Business

• Outdoor and active lifestyle retailer Sierra announced it will open its first Fargo store on September 12 in the former Joann Fabrics space on 13th Avenue South. The store will offer apparel, footwear, camping, hiking, and fitness gear at discount prices.

Community

• The Fargo-area sports community is mourning the death of Hall of Fame coach Dale Hertel, who died Tuesday at age 76. Hertel led Fargo South High School to eight North Dakota state football championships and later served as an assistant football coach at Concordia College.

Business

• Titan Machinery, headquartered in West Fargo, reported a fiscal second-quarter loss as the agricultural and construction equipment dealer continues to navigate a challenging market environment.

Public Safety

• Fargo police and emergency responders handled a typical overnight workload that included traffic crashes, reckless driving complaints, disturbances, domestic calls, medical emergencies, and welfare checks.

Sports

• The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks continue their home series Thursday evening against the Sioux Falls Canariesat Newman Outdoor Field as the American Association playoff race enters its final weeks.

Detroit Lakes Area News

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Public Safety

• A two-vehicle crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and Becker County Road 131 Wednesday morning sent a 71-year-old Bovey man to Essentia Health St. Mary’s–Detroit Lakes with non-life-threatening injuries. A 20-year-old Detroit Lakes woman involved in the crash was not injured.

Education

• Detroit Lakes Public Schools held Back-to-School Open Houses and teacher in-service activities today as the district prepares to welcome students for the first day of classes on September 1.

• The Detroit Lakes School Board’s recently adopted directive limiting non-school-sponsored materials, including rainbow symbols in classrooms, remains in effect after a motion to postpone implementation failed on a 3-3 vote earlier this week. The issue drew a large crowd and extensive public comment and is expected to remain a topic of community discussion.

Health Care

• Essentia Health St. Mary’s–Detroit Lakes Clinic recently welcomed Brooke Bryant, APRN, CNP, to its family medicine practice, expanding primary care services in the community.

Environment

• Volunteers continue cleanup efforts on Floyd Lake following the July EF-2 tornado. Crews are removing storm debris from the lake each week as restoration work continues.

Outdoors

• The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding hunters that September 10 is the deadline to apply for antlerless deer lottery permits in applicable permit areas for the upcoming firearm and muzzleloader seasons.

Duluth–Superior News Roundup

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Here are the leading Twin Ports stories and developments I found for today:

🚌 More frequent bus service coming to Superior

The Duluth Transit Authority will restore Route 210 service to South Superior beginning Sunday, August 30. The new route will give riders in the area more frequent service and create more connections with other Superior routes. DTA officials say the route is being restored after service was previously eliminated because of ridership and competing service needs.

🐙 Fitzgerald, Great Lakes Aquarium’s famous octopus, dies

Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes Aquarium’s much-loved Giant Pacific octopus, has died in Duluth. She was approximately 2 years old and had entered the final stage of her natural life cycle after laying thousands of eggs. Fitzgerald became especially popular with visitors and online followers and was notable for having a split arm, giving her nine arms.

🌉 Blatnik Bridge replacement moves toward construction

Preparations continue for construction of the new Blatnik Bridge, with major construction scheduled to begin in September. The bridge is one of the two major crossings connecting Duluth and Superior and is a critical piece of the Twin Ports transportation network.

📷 Duluth rethinking Flock license-plate cameras

Duluth is among Minnesota communities reconsidering or abandoning Flock automated license-plate reader technology amid concerns about how collected data can be accessed and shared. The issue has become a broader debate over public safety, surveillance and privacy.

🏈 Superior football ends a long losing streak

In a major local sports story, Superior High School football snapped a 29-game losing streak, with Luzaich having a huge performance in the victory. Northern News Now highlighted the game among its top Twin Ports stories for August 27.

🌕 Lake Superior skies: lunar eclipse tonight

A deep partial lunar eclipse will be visible over the Lake Superior region tonight. About 96% of the full Sturgeon Moon will be covered, with maximum eclipse occurring at approximately 11:13 p.m. CDT. The event is expected to give the moon a striking copper-red appearance.

🎣 Salmon and steelhead season approaching

Anglers around Duluth are gearing up for the fall Lake Superior salmon and steelhead run. As the lake cools in September, fish begin staging near river mouths along the Duluth shoreline, making the coming weeks an important period for shore anglers.

Willmar Area News

Thursday, August 27, 2026

I found relatively little Willmar-specific breaking news published today, but these are the most relevant developments available as of this afternoon.

📰 Local news

The West Central Tribune remains the primary newspaper covering Willmar and Kandiyohi County, with continuing digital coverage and local breaking-news updates. West Central Tribune Media

🕊️ Community

A Willmar resident, Susan Diane Draheim, 79, died Tuesday, August 25, at Bethesda Grand in Willmar. Her obituary was published August 27. Funeral services are scheduled for September 12 at Vinje Lutheran Church, with visitation September 11.

🚓 Public safety

Kandiyohi County authorities continue to investigate and report traffic incidents across the county. Earlier this month, a 17-year-old Belgrade boy was seriously injured in a collision with a semi near Burbank Township and was airlifted to Children’s Hospital. The semi driver, a 41-year-old Willmar man, was not injured.

🏭 Business & economic development

Willmar’s manufacturing sector continues to be an important part of the local economy. Nova-Tech Engineering, based in Willmar, received the 2025 Governor’s International Trade Award in the medium-sized-company category earlier this year, highlighting the area’s expanding international manufacturing presence.

🎡 Community events

The Kandiyohi County Fairgrounds remain an important community venue following the annual county fair earlier this month, with the grounds continuing to host events and gatherings through the rest of the year.

Minnesota Early Evening News Brief

Thursday, August 27, 2026 — approximately 6:00 PM CDT

Here is an early-evening roundup covering the major regions of Minnesota, followed by the Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves and Wild, and a 72-hour weather outlook beginning at 6 PM tonight.

Statewide headlines

• Minnesota State Fair opened today in Falcon Heights, beginning its 12-day run. The fair opened at 7 a.m. and is expected to draw large crowds through Labor Day.

• Drought is becoming an increasingly serious statewide concern. The latest drought report shows more than 75% of Minnesota experiencing some degree of drought, with extreme drought expanding.

• A federal judge has refused Minnesota’s request to force Texas to extradite an ICE agent facing Minnesota assault charges stemming from last winter’s immigration-enforcement operation.

Northwest Minnesota

Fire recovery and outdoor conditions remain important stories. The region is enjoying a relatively cool, dry stretch tonight, but the broader statewide drought is becoming an increasing concern.

In the Bemidji area, tonight will be clear with temperatures falling into the upper 40s. Friday should reach the upper 70s, with clouds increasing and shower/thunderstorm chances arriving Friday night.

Northeast Minnesota

Wildfire recovery continues in the Boundary Waters and Superior National Forest. Additional BWCAW entry points along the Echo Trail have reopened as firefighters make progress. Fire restrictions have also been lifted across the Superior National Forest. More than 76,000 acres have burned in the northeastern Minnesota fires.

Duluth is headed into a cool, quiet night, with Friday remaining mostly sunny before shower and thunderstorm chances increase Friday night into Saturday.

West-central Minnesota

The proposed Appleton immigration detention center remains a major regional issue. The former Prairie Correctional Facility is being converted into a federal immigration detention center with a planned capacity of about 1,600 detainees. Local officials and residents have raised concerns about economic and community impacts.

Weather-wise, the west-central region should remain generally dry tonight, followed by increasing shower/thunderstorm chances Friday.

East-central Minnesota

The St. Cloud–Brainerd–central Minnesota corridor is enjoying a quiet Thursday evening after a sunny day. Friday starts dry, but shower and thunderstorm chances increase Friday night. The National Weather Service is projecting Friday highs around 80–82°, followed by a warmer weekend.

The opening of the State Fair is also drawing visitors from throughout east-central Minnesota.

Southwest Minnesota

In southwest Minnesota, drought and agriculture remain key concerns. The state drought expansion is particularly important to farmers and livestock producers as the growing season moves toward its final weeks.

The Southwest Minnesota Christian soccer program is preparing for a special soccer day Saturday, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Southeast Minnesota

Several local public-safety stories are developing:

• Austin High School briefly went into lockdown Thursday morning after a student experiencing a mental-health crisis brought a knife to school. A school resource officer responded and successfully de-escalated the situation.

• A Rochester-area woman was arrested following a high-speed pursuit in Byron on suspicion of impaired driving and fleeing police.

• A semi driver was injured after his truck left Highway 16 east of Lanesboro early Thursday morning.

Minnesota Sports

🏈 Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are preparing for Friday night’s preseason finale against the Denver Broncos.

The biggest question surrounding Minnesota is J.J. McCarthy’s health and readiness entering the final preseason game. The Vikings are also making their final evaluations before the NFL’s 53-man roster deadline.

Friday: Vikings at Broncos, 9 p.m. CDT.

⚾ Twins

The Twins lost 7–4 to Oakland Wednesday, giving the Athletics a two-games-to-one series victory. Lawrence Butler homered and Alika Williams delivered a two-run triple for Oakland.

Minnesota has now dropped five of its last six games and is trying to stay in the American League postseason race. The club’s recent slide has made the Wild Card picture considerably more difficult.

The Twins return home Friday.

🏀 Timberwolves

The biggest Timberwolves story is the addition of Jonathan Kuminga.

Minnesota has agreed to a two-year, $12.4 million deal with the former Golden State forward, filling what had been one of the team’s biggest roster holes after Julius Randle’s departure.

Kuminga’s athleticism and ability to play both forward positions give the Wolves considerably more versatility heading into the 2026–27 season.

🏒 Wild

The Minnesota Wild announced that 17 of their 2026–27 games will receive national television coverage, although their national-TV debut won’t come until late December.

Meanwhile, attention remains on Quinn Hughes and his contract situation. The unresolved extension discussions could have significant implications for the Wild’s roster and salary-cap planning.

Minnesota Weather

72-hour outlook beginning 6:00 PM Thursday

Thursday evening: A beautiful, quiet end to the day statewide. Clear to mostly clear skies dominate, with temperatures falling quickly after sunset. Northern Minnesota will become quite cool, with some 40s overnight.

Friday: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy for much of the state, with temperatures generally in the mid-70s to mid-80s. The major change comes Friday night, when moisture increases and showers and thunderstorms become increasingly likely, particularly across southern Minnesota.

Saturday: This is the unsettled portion of the 72-hour period. Showers and thunderstorms are possible, especially from central into southern Minnesota. Northern Minnesota should generally be cooler, with highs in the 70s.

Sunday through 6 PM: The state begins warming again. Temperatures reach the lower to upper 80s, with the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota potentially approaching the upper 80s. Scattered showers or thunderstorms remain possible, but Sunday should be considerably warmer than Saturday.

The National Weather Service’s statewide forecast shows the sharpest weather change occurring Friday night into Saturday, while the longer-range trend turns warmer again Sunday.

Bottom line for tonight: Minnesota gets a remarkably pleasant late-August evening — clear, comfortable and cool — but Friday night into Saturday is the period to watch for showers and thunderstorms, especially in southern Minnesota.

Jacob Rosenbacher, a 32-year-old Minnesotan, discovered that thieves had used his name and personal information to enroll at Normandale Community College. The phantom student then walked away with roughly $9,000 in federal student loans. Rosenbacher’s credit score cratered 168 points overnight. His response was pure American ingenuity: he bought look-alike domains and built a satirical site for the fictional “Meridian Lakes State College System.” Its pitch? “No fee, no essay, no interview, and no you required.” He built it in ten hours to show how easy the scam still is,and how basic identity checks would stop it cold.

Normandale’s own administrators now admit the scale of the problem: nearly one-third of applications are potentially fraudulent. At one point it was closer to 42 percent. Statewide, Minnesota’s public colleges have flagged thousands of these ghost applications year after year. Federal officials under the Trump-era Department of Education identified 1,834 ghost students in Minnesota who collectively sucked up about $12.5 million in grants and loans. Most of the fraud targets open-enrollment community and technical colleges, exactly the institutions Democrats have treated as sacred cows while expanding online access and federal aid with minimal verification.

This isn’t a victimless glitch. Real taxpayers fund the aid that vanishes. Real students lose class seats to bots and foreign fraud rings. Real people like Rosenbacher see their credit ruined and spend months cleaning up identity theft that colleges failed to prevent with even the most basic Google search. Instructors report spending more time playing detective than teaching because a chunk of their “students” are organized crime using stolen identities. The pattern is classic: expand government benefits, loosen safeguards in the name of “access,” then act shocked when the system is looted.

Minnesota’s DFL-DSA leadership under Tim Walz has been slow and defensive. Federal letters have called out the state’s failures. Meanwhile, the same political class that lectures about equity and funding for higher education has left the barn door open for years. Simple, common-sense steps, identity verification software, tighter application controls, actual consequences for institutions that keep disbursing money to phantoms get framed as barriers rather than basic stewardship of public money. Republicans have pushed federal bills to cut off aid to ghost students and force better verification. That approach prioritizes taxpayers and legitimate students over bureaucratic virtue-signaling.

Rosenbacher’s fake website is a brilliant, low-cost indictment. It proves the problem is solvable with ordinary diligence instead of more bureaucracy or more spending. Until Minnesota’s colleges and the political elitist class that runs them treat taxpayer dollars and citizens’ identities with the seriousness they deserve, the ghosts will keep collecting the checks, and real Americans will keep paying the price.

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House Speaker and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth has delivered exactly what hardworking Minnesotans have been demanding: a clear, common-sense plan to make life more affordable. Her newly unveiled “affordability agenda” puts families first by capping car tab fees at $99 and cutting individual income taxes, proving once again that Republicans deliver results while Democrats keep raising costs.

For too long, Minnesotans have watched their hard-earned dollars disappear into higher fees and taxes. Democrats tied vehicle registration fees to a vehicle’s value, sending tab costs soaring to $700 or more for many drivers. Demuth’s solution is simple and fair: a hard $99 cap on car tabs for initial registration and every renewal, no matter the car’s price. If you’re already paying less, you keep that lower rate. No complicated formulas, no surprises—just predictable relief that puts money back in the pockets of everyday drivers. This echoes the successful approach of past Republican-aligned reforms and rejects the DFL policy that treated car ownership like a luxury tax.

At the same time, Demuth is targeting the income tax burden that hits working families hardest. She will cut rates for residents in the lowest two tax brackets, eliminate the state tax on Social Security benefits for seniors, and end taxes on tips and overtime pay. These are practical steps that reward work, protect retirement, and give service workers and overtime earners a break. Minnesota’s second-highest corporate tax rate in the nation has driven away jobs and opportunity; Demuth will bring it more in line with the national average so businesses can grow and hire here instead of leaving.

Demuth will deliver $150 million in property tax cuts, allow local governments and school districts to opt out of costly unfunded state mandates, return future surpluses to taxpayers as rebates, and direct state agencies to find $1 billion in savings. She rightly identifies rampant fraud under previous DFL leadership as a driver of higher costs and higher taxes, and she is committed to rooting it out so tax dollars serve citizens, not criminals, and certainly not illegal aliens.

Republicans and other normal people that does not include Democrats understand that government doesn’t create prosperity, people do. By lowering taxes, capping fees, and demanding efficiency, Lisa Demuth is offering Minnesota a path back to affordability, opportunity, and growth. This is conservative leadership in action: less government interference, more money in family budgets, and a state that once again works for the people who live and work here.

I can’t stress this enough. Vote Lisa Demuth for Governor, and all Republican for everything else. The DFL has fucked up our lives and this state for far too long. It’s time to vanquish them.

Website: Lisa Demuth for Governor

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In a decisive and correct ruling, a federal judge in Texas denied Minnesota’s frantic attempt to force the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro. U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. rejected the Democrat state’s demand that Governor Greg Abbott immediately sign a rendition warrant or keep Castro locked up beyond Texas’s 90-day limit. The decision upholds the law, protects due process, and exposes the selective outrage of Minnesota’s progressive leadership and judiciary.

Castro is wrongly charged in Hennepin County with assault and falsely reporting a crime stemming from a January shooting during Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s enforcement effort against illegal aliens in Minneapolis. Prosecutors claim he fired through a door and wounded a Venezuelan man (Tren de Aragua?). Castro has maintained he acted in the line of duty. Whether those charges hold up is a matter for a courtroom, not a political circus orchestrated by Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison with a potential trial already fixed like they did with Derek Chauvin.

Abbott has neither granted nor denied the extradition request. He is conducting an investigation, as governors are entitled to do. The Constitution’s Extradition Clause and federal statutes impose no artificial deadline forcing a governor to rubber-stamp every demand from a hostile state. Minnesota’s lawsuit was premature, speculative, and rooted in politics rather than law. Judge Rodriguez properly recognized that Minnesota could not invent a violation that had not yet occurred.

This episode reveals the real priority of Minnesota’s Democrat leadership: undermining federal immigration enforcement. They have spent years resisting ICE, shielding sanctuary policies, and treating agents who enforce the law as the problem. When an agent becomes inconvenient, they suddenly discover a passion for “accountability.” The same officials who downplay illegal immigration and the costs it imposes on communities now demand Texas abandon its own processes to deliver a political trophy.

Texas has every right to scrutinize the request carefully, especially when the agent’s relocation was tied to his federal employment and when the demanding state has shown open hostility to the mission he was carrying out. Releasing Castro after 90 days under Texas law is not an escape from justice—it is the application of clear statutory limits. If Minnesota wants him, it must follow the proper process, not seek judicial shortcuts to score points against the Trump administration’s border agenda.

Judge Rodriguez’s ruling is a welcome reminder that federalism still matters. Governors are not subordinates of other states’ attorneys general. Law enforcement officers doing a difficult job in hostile jurisdictions deserve process, not show trials. Minnesota’s attempt to strong-arm Texas failed because it was legally weak and politically transparent. That’s exactly how the system is supposed to work.

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