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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Two things. First a hat tip to Gary Gross for finding the thing. Then the thing. Hate on Somalis, something MN Repubs are experienced at. Pablam if you'd been expecting content..
Gary's post, embedding the video tweet. https://x.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/2110138240028098861
Minnesota families are tired of excuses about violence in our communities. That’s why I’m releasing a five-point plan to stop gang violence and make our state safe again. 1. Name the problem. 2. Disrupt gangs online. 3. Hold Big Tech accountable. 4. Speed up federal prosecutions. 5. Support our law enforcement. We can’t keep electing the same career politicians who created this mess.
She names the problem as Somalis.
She'd impinge on First Amendment speech, per her points 2 and 3.
She does not know better? No need for the Constitution on the sideline?. That is worrisome. Censorship is nobody's good answer to tons of guns loose in the community because Trump and the NRA kiss back and forth and sideways.
Speeding up federal prosecutions is flipped off by the good lady as her say, they obey.
They're busy doing Trump retribution and she knows it, but, nevermind. 10 noncitizen voting prosecutions going in MN, federal courts, DOJ, with parallel show boating BS in other federal DOJ offices. That's reality. Two million or more voters, no fraud to speak of, ten fish caught somehow, costing what, but she is on the war path. Her priorities, not DOJ's to govern, flippintly presented. Who does she think she is, Melania? She does not call Trump's shots, Trump does. Big insight for the lady.
And who's the geek standing with her? Mr. Ameriprise? The portfolio guru?
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10 noncitizen voting prosecutions going down in MN, with parallel show boating in other federal DOJ offices. That's reality. She's blowing that other 5 point stuff out her shorts. Probably where her $9 billion fraud number's coming from as well. Actually, a GOP prosecutor invented that number, not Tafoya.
The cops don't endorse the best and brightest. Remember, they endorsed Doug Wardlow.
Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and AOC back Flanagan. The guy next to Tafoya backs her. With her in denial mode about Trump being her leader. It is weird. Surreal. Non-MAGA.
She does not buy gas or groceries on a tight paycheck, and acts as if she's never heard of Renee Good or Alex.
Somali Fever, for a while, but she'll get over it. If she'd just leave it to the law enforcement officials who know what they are doing except when endorsing in politics where any nonsense goes.
Sorry for being a bit snotty. But it steamed me, no substantial policy - dump a load on Somalis as if there's not a good soul in the community. Not paradigms of virtue like her pro football players. But say nothing real.
Steps one, two, three and four of taking the guns away, Susie, tell me those details. Run a dragnet, via racial profiling? The way ICE handled that so well? Figure it out, readers. An empty glass.
AJ reports of inflation and Albanian unrest arising out of the "Flamingo Revolution."
Respectively, here and here. Musk and Iran.
United States federal agents have arrested a Saudi national and charged him with planting a hidden audio recording device in a conference room at the California offices of OpenAI, where he was working as an engineer.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, had been working at the AI company since July 2025, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Tuesday.
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OpenAI discovered the device plugged into a USB port behind a television in an executive conference room at one of its San Francisco buildings on September 30, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Following the discovery, the company placed a camera in the room, which captured Alfozan entering last week and checking behind the television where the listening device had been installed, the FBI alleges.
The case highlights growing security concerns around sensitive AI research as companies and governments compete for the best talent and technology with the potential to alter regional economic and strategic dynamics.
Education is how civilized societies aim to prevent savages from savaging government out of ignorance or indifference to others.
MinnesotaReformer: Klobuchar, Demuth have school plans, but neither addresses funding challenges
After largely dissecting overlapping areas of agreement -
Demuth includes several other policies in her education plan, including expanding funding for student safety to include private schools; opting Minnesota into a federal quasi-voucher scheme; allowing districts to opt-out of state mandates; and removing “woke standards” adopted during Walz’s tenure, though she hasn’t offered specifics other than anything that is “pushing our kids away from the basics of reading, math and science.”
This "woke" business, would a compare and contrast lesson of the early culthood hate suffered by the Latter Day Saints with their Prophet Joseeph Smith shot point blank dead by a mob, with the Janet Reno burning alive of a Waco cult of her time - one by a mob the other the government - be woke if there were also teaching of the Mountain Meadows Massacre? But not "woke" otherwise? I have trouble with boundaries and evenness, Jefferson and Hemmings and a Virginia law of their time that freed Negros had to leave the Commonwealth, where those not in bondage were at the time unwanted. Hemmings was kept in bondage, stuff like that, is it what "woke" means?
Hemmings was an octoroon as was Plessy in Plessy v. Ferguson. Not to distract from memorization of multiplication tables, or doing square roots.
And when we teach of the Turing Test and WW II code breaking, is Alan's death "woke?" Or but at a time and place evidence of then current, but changing, public value systems? As in I "woke" from a sleep a changed man? And 7 x 8 = 56.
Tafoya candidacy seems weak. Trending weaker. Lacking any substantial stated anchor. As if empty and adrift. With no wind in the sails. Hiding now from a Trump endorsement/shoutout? Unrealistic statement instead of policy commitment? Polling?
There are signs that Tafoya is trending down. Polls. Local MN reporting -
Michele Tafoya just got what most Republican candidates crave more than anything: President Donald Trump’s endorsement.She demurred.
“I heard about that,” Tafoya said when asked about it Tuesday. “Look, this campaign is about bringing all Minnesotans together, whether they voted for President Trump or whether they voted for Kamala Harris.”
This is significant, Trump is toxic in Minnesota, but she dismisses the Trump base, and then says going to the US Senate is not about federal politics but about "bringing all Minnesotans together." That is pure crap. She states no Iran or tariff opinions, as if a school board candidate. That is fantasy. She cannot be taken seriously for a senior federal office, except as a straddle/waffle who'll put a finger to the wind.
Why run if not on your beliefs? Or, what? She's stated none. Speculation is fair, on an illl-stated nothingburger policy stance, and a tactic of downplaying Trump's perception of closeness. So - What's up?
Before the MN primary, MinnPost reported:
Tafoya, who is married to Mark Vandersall, a private wealth advisor, reported that she and her husband’s assets were valued at between about $17 million and a little more than $33 million.
The couple’s assets, which do not include the value of a personal residence, included mutual funds — many of them invested in aggressive growth stocks — exchange traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency and individual stocks that favored the tech sector, including Nvidia, Alphabet (Google), Apple and Tesla.
Tafoya’s financial disclosure report also shows that her husband invested between $5,000 and $50,000 in the U.S. Oil Fund, a mutual fund based on West Texas crude futures that has boomed since the start of the war in Iran and the subsequent disruption of global petroleum shipments.
Candidates for the U.S. Senate are required to report income, assets and liabilities, but they do so in wide ranges so only a broad view of their financial disclosures are made public.
Tafoya’s report only listed one liability: a 4% interest loan from RiverSource Life Insurance Company valued at between $250,000 and $500,000.
(highlighting added) Portfolio directing Vandersall is not running. Tafoya is. He's got a business set to benefit if the name recognition w/o substance moves anyone's needle, so why not do the wife's dilettante-looking low out-of-pocket gamble? As an investment move.
That's how Crabgrass weighs the circumstances.
Access would be very likely to insider information if somehow Susie ends up making it into the seat. Pecuniary upside potential. Low cost run. Cost-benefit decision making says, "Why not?"
Come on. There has to be substance somewhere or bury the candicacy because a sound idea-oriented progressive is running on the other party's ticket. And leading the polls. What's to vote for with Tafoya besides a name and a portfolio?
SPECIFICALLY - When she games over Trump recognition, not for it, not against it, wtf?
Where's the sense in things?
Crabgrass has earlier kind of posted of this run for the roses before, but time has shown no substance, and now hiding from Trump, while solid issue-oriented opposition is in the DFL.
Policy commitments are there with Flanagan. Tafoya is an empty glass. And you can fairly speculate why.
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In the Governor's race there is Klobuchar. Big-Stage Track Record, like it or not, it's there. Repeatedly reelected. Demuth, aside from the State House Party Caucus lead, what? Vouchers against full public education priority funding? Bleeding funds away that have been raised by taxes paid by those who have been childless and by those with adults who've left the nest, as well as paid by parents still in the system. Everyone having paid on an equal taxing basis for a Constitutionally mandated public good and not for anyone's faith-based or private whims or indoctrinations.
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"Bringing Minnesotans together" for politically connected investment advice rings the Crabgrass bell less than the thought of Medicare for All, the end of endless wars, tariff sanity, getting along with Canada, and ICE behavior constraints. Just me, I guess, but how it is.
Monday, October 12, 2026
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