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WhiskeyGrinder

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2. There are several things going on here.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 03:28 PM
Saturday

* This issue is being flogged as an immigration scandal, and specifically a "Minneapolis is Somalia" lie, when it's much more about privatization efforts pushing government services to be outsourced to nonprofits without oversight.

* This makes Walz super weak as a candidate in his effort to get a third term as governor next fall, which weakens the entire ticket (includes a senate seat, AG, secretary of state and auditor).

* If the media covered things like wage theft as thoroughly and as sensationally as they do these kinds of things, this would be a much different world.

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