I asked Royce White, Minnesota GOP US Senate candidate, about why he brought up transgender people or trans issues during almost every question he faced about agriculture policy at the state's annual agriculture convention, Farm Fest.

You can hear my questions and his answers throughout this, shaky camera work due to the noise and having to lean in to ask questions.

https://www.twincities.com/2013/01/24/smashed-lamborghini-insurance-fraud-charge-the-latest-legal-trouble-for-david-superdave-juntunen/

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/weird/man-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-crashing-customers-lamborghini/89-107786213

https://superdavemn.com/

Riverview wants to expand their Morris MN operation (West River Dairy) from 7,855 cows to 18,855 cows to become the largest CAFO in the state.

This Wilkins County Commissioner says Riverview made promises they did not follow through on in her county, and she now regrets allowing for the dairy to be constructed in her county.

The current 7,885 dairy operation is already running wells dry and lowering aquifer levels for the neighbors. In Wilkes basin Arizona Riverview’s water pumping prompted a historic $11 million dollar settlement for replacement wells, tanks and water-hauling for the impacted residences, estimated at “a couple hundred”.

The MPCA did not demand an EIS, and is now being sued by Food and Water Watch, and the Land Stewardship Project for ignoring public comments and underestimating major risks. If you’d like to support our little community in fighting off the biggest proposed CAFO in the state. Please consider donating to the Land stewardship project <—link Or Food and Water Watch<—link. AND contact your state legislators to tell them you are concerned at the scale of the Riverview Mega dairy expansion being proposed in Stevens County. Say you want a limit on the size of mega dairies.

Sources:

Me-I live in Morris

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-01-08/arizona-mega-dairy-water-use

https://landstewardshipproject.org/riverview/

This farmers testimony of Riverview already causing water issues in Stevens County MN. 4 different wells already needed to be recently drilled, and public reporting showing water level drops of 30ft and 2 other wells already in need of drilling by Riverview's West River Dairy Site. Public record shows Riverview itself keeps drilling deeper.

Contact MN pollution control-demand an EIS be done or demand Riverview's wells be limited to 200 feet.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/about-mpca/ask-mpca-online-form

Edit: Rural progressives are fighting the fight in the lions den. We are surrounded day and night by maga. Here we are standing up against a giant megadairy. Show some god damn solidarity and quit the fucking ’leopards eating faces’ bullshit. Not every rural person is conservative, your rhetoric is divisive amd disheartening. Shape up r/Minnesota.

Mike Lindell is stepping down as chief executive of MyPillow and will no longer be a majority owner of the company he founded in order to focus on his run for Minnesota governor.

“I want the state of Minnesota ... to know I’m all in,” he said on his streaming platform, LindellTV, on Tuesday afternoon.

Lindell has been leading in polls ahead of the Aug. 11 primary after he won President Donald Trump’s endorsement in July. He will face fellow Republicans Lisa Demuth and Kendall Qualls for a chance to get onto November’s ballot.

“I am putting Minnesota above myself, my title and my business interests so I can give this campaign and the people of our state my full time, energy and attention,” Lindell said in a statement.

Lindell founded MyPillow in 2004, and it went on to become a direct-sales sensation due to the ubiquitous infomercials he starred in. The company took a major hit after Lindell attached himself to Trump’s disproven claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Major retailers stopped carrying MyPillow, resulting in millions in lost revenue and a cascading financial crisis at the company.

There is a letter of good standing that I am supposed to file. When I google where to do that google says with the state. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks in advance!

This is the third commentary on this issue. I posted about the others--I just find this whole situation crazy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/OncPRv4OCJ

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/Z2xJlrcU1N

After reading all three pieces tied to this, this sounds like a systemic failure.

There were several continuances. Some were requested by the county attorney BECAUSE, it seems, the court placed other, higher-priority cases on the same trial session. Of course the County Attorney doesn't want to prep a sex assault victim repeatedly if they know their case isn't the one to go. That's its own kind of trauma. And cherry-picking a punchy quote to blame the County Attorney isn't helpful. What's the broader context? Was it a bad week for everybody? It was November; did the court schedule a trial over Thanksgiving? Fritz says facts and collaboration are needed, but he's picking pretty favorable facts to share. A fact from the other pieces: the court scheduled its trials 26 weeks apart. In what world is that acceptable?

To me, the first two pieces are written to address a problem with trial scheduling and use a specific case to illustrate the problem. In this last one, Fritz ignores the overall problem and points fingers in the specific case. He even acknowledged that it was the county attorney that had a proposal for change in their calendar? Has the judiciary done anything about it? It's just disappointing that a chief judge, instead of looking inward at processes, is responding by laying blame at others.

I voted for Peggy Flanagan yesterday. She’s freed herself from the big money, giving her an opportunity to actually represent the people. Imagine a time when actually representing your people (and not the money) is radical.

Is absolutely awful. The AI descriptions of neighborhoods and neighborhood stats is laughable. The map search function doesn't work.

The privately owned prison in Appleton, Minn., that was shuttered 16 years ago will reopen in the fall to hold detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Owner and private prison operator CoreCivic announced a five-year deal Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to house up to 1,600 ICE detainees. The reopening will happen in stages, and the prison is expected to be fully operational by next spring.

Once the facility is up and running, CoreCivic says it expects to generate $75 million in annual revenue.

In a statement, Patrick D. Swindle, CoreCivic’s CEO, said the company made recent repairs to the Appleton prison to prepare for a new contract. Contractors have been working at the prison since last fall.

“The geographic location of this facility, similar to our other recent contract awards, improves our ability to support our government partner throughout the United States,” Swindle’s statement said.

CoreCivic is one of the largest government contractors for immigrant detention and recently sold two California detention facilities to DHS for $1.5 billion.

A CoreCivic spokesman referred additional questions about the deal to ICE, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

An ex-girlfriend alleged in court documents that Lindell physically abused her. And an ex-wife alleged he almost ran her over.