Legalectric

The Trump administration has announced its intention to invade Minnesota this week.

Report: ICE headed to Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants

Trump targets Minnesota’s Somali community with harsh words and policies

Claims that Somali immigrants “contribute nothing,” “have caused a lot of trouble,” and repeatedly calling Somalis “garbage,” including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Abandoning all subtlety, Trump calls Somalis ‘garbage’ as part of a racist rant

Trump calls Ilhan Omar ‘garbage’ and says Somalis should ‘go back to where they came from’

From that article:

And about Rep. Ilhan Omar:

And planning an operation here in Minnesota this week:

How to deal with this ugliness? Obscene isn’t a strong enough word — and this guy is “President?”

Missed all the “open houses” for “Power On Midwest?” I did… sigh… It’s a big project, to put it mildly:

Info from the “POWER ON MIDWEST” website.

Keep an eye on it for additional info. There were a LOT of open houses announced in October, way too many to cover. I wasn’t here in October, and by happenstance learned of the last one on the 14th of November when in Cannon Falls… arrrrrgh, I could have shown up at that one.

They’ve divided it up into segments consistent with the initial filings with the Public Utilities Commission:

• Big Stone South-Brookings County-SD/MN Border (South Dakota)
• SD/MN Border-Lakefield Junction
• Lakefield Junction-MN/IA border
• Lakefield Junction-Pleasant Valley-North Rochester
• Pleasant Valley-North Rochester-Hampton

Do note that all the Commission dockets are now consolidated under CN-25-117 (adding CN-25-118, CN-25-119, and CN-25-120).

FYI, aren’t these 765kV structures decorative?

I must admit that I appreciate their mention of “Buy the Farm” at this stage of the process, and hope they continue. From their boards at the open houses:

Here’s their link to all those boards.

Keep an eye on that CN-25-117 docket. To do that, go to eDockets HERE at the PUC, click on eDockets again, and enter the docket number as below, click “search” and there ya are:

Onward…

This last week, I’ve been seeing official governmental fb pages with utterly false, skewed, irresponsible fb postings. I’m reporting, reporting, posts and pages, not that it’ll do any good… It started with Dept. of Labor, and spread like a virus.

You get the point. Check it out for yourself.

Contact, and remember, after leaving a message pres # and then 1 to deliver, otherwise it’s lost forever:

• Brad Finstad 202-225-2472
• Angie Craig 202-225-2271
• Kelly Morrison 202-225-2871
• Tom Emmer 202-225-2331
• Michelle Fischbach 202-225-2165
• Pete Stauber 202-225-6211

Really, you need to read this, House Concurrent Resolution 58, the language is stunning, inflammatory, and yes, ignorant and just plain wrong.

How is it that someone gets into the U.S. House of Representatives and does not know the difference between Social Democrats, Socialism, and Communism? Is this not basic political information that anyone who got through 9th grade Civics should know? Oh, well, did they even get through 9th grade civics, or any other civics class? They sure need some edumaction… and EJECTION FROM OFFICE!

House Concurrent Resolution 58

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. CON. RES. 58

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships;

Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide;

Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolás Maduro;

Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine;

Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China;

Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered;

Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea, dividing a land of freedom from a land of destitution;

Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their backs;

Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of inflation in the world;

Whereas President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote, To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it;

Whereas President James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, wrote that it is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest; and

Whereas the United States was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it

That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.

Passed the House of Representatives November 21, 2025.

AAACK, I forgot to post that Dr. Jane Lorentzen was chosen for Red Wing’s Amos Owen Award. This snipped above is from Red Wing’s City Beat newsletter.

Human Rights Commission picked the best of the best — Jane’s work has enriched our community beyond measure, seeing the need and ACTING! Her acceptance speech was inspirational, acknowledging all the work there is to do and that each of us can act, must act, that we can have an impact and help make this world a better place.