Outstate Press

Promoting news and journalism from outstate Minnesota.

[Alpha News @AlphaNews]

$229 billion in fraud found by Vance’s anti-fraud task force, White House says

"President Trump and Vice President Vance are waging an all-out war on fraud, shutting down billions of dollars in taxpayer theft," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said.

[News Talk 830 WCCO @wccoradio]

A Minnesota judge has found probable cause to believe that Republican candidate for governor Mike Lindell violated campaign laws by giving away pillows promoting his candidacy at a July Fourth parade.

https://t.co/cTNSTu9Rqw

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Major scandal in Sweden after it turns out that MPs from the Left Party (used to have “The Communists”’in their party name until 1989) have been writing letters of encouragement to Palestinian terrorists who mass-murdered Israeli civilians.

Expressen reveals that several Members of Parliament have written letters to terrorists.

The Left Party MP Ilona Szatmári Waldau sent a letter to the Palestinian prisoner Ahmad al-Moghrabi who is serving 18 life sentences for having sent a suicide bomber to a bar mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem in 2002, murdering 12 civilians, including 7 children:

• Ya’akov Eliyahu, 7 months old
• Oriah Ilan, 18 months old
• Liran Nehmad, 3 years old
• Shiraz Nehmad, 7 years old
• Lidor Ilan, 12 years old
• Shaul Nehmad, 15 years old
• Avraham Nehmad, 17 years old

The other victims were Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit Nehmad (32), Tzofia Ya’arit Eliyahu (23) and Avi Hazan (37)

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

For the first time ever in his life, Fauci doesn't like cameras.

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

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You pay taxes so they don't have to.

Minnesota State University diversity official Cortez Hollis convicted in $1 million tax fraud scheme

https://t.co/mwaQOjg14r

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

🚨 BREAKING: Former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh will be traveling to Wisconsin over the weekend to help turn out the vote for DSA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong.

The DSA is taking over the Democratic Party.

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

🚨 BREAKING: A judge finds probable cause that Mike Lindell violated Minnesota campaign law handing out pillows during the Delano 4th of July parade.

I’m told at least one other complaint has been filed as well.

[FOX 9 @FOX9]

Lisa Demuth blamed Minnesota’s political leadership for widespread fraud and called for stronger controls on publicly funded child care programs.

READ MORE: https://t.co/5MQTDtqCd9

#MinnesotaPolitics #Election2026

[InForum @inforum]

Stephanie St. Clair was last seen in Moorhead on June 6. https://t.co/k6JuqoUgLT

[KNSI News @KNSI]

The DFL Party Chair for Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District has been sentenced in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 19-year-old man. https://t.co/WPOwinHXDV

[WCCO | CBS News Minnesota @WCCO]

JUST IN: The ground stop at MSP Airport has been lifted late Thursday afternoon after "a regional FAA equipment outage," according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission. https://t.co/Y6PXAgOylw

[Liz Collin @lizcollin]

🚨NEW: Multiple sources confirm a male inmate has received bottom surgery while serving a life sentence for murder at Minnesota’s women’s prison in Shakopee, and taxpayers likely covered the cost.

Bradley Sirvio is a convicted murderer who beat a man with a hammer and set the victim’s house on fire.

Sirvio is one of several men allowed at the women’s prison under Governor Tim Walz’s Department of Corrections transgender policy put in place in 2023.

@AlphaNews asked a DOC spokesperson about the recent surgery and how it was paid for:

“The Department of Corrections cannot confirm, disclose, or discuss the private medical information for any individual in our custody. It is important to understand that the agency is constitutionally and legally obligated to provide healthcare to people in state custody. Decisions about medical care and treatment are made by qualified healthcare professionals based on established standards and an individual patient’s clinical requirements.

Healthcare provided to those committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections is funded through the Department’s appropriated healthcare budget. Because the DOC is constitutionally obligated to provide medically necessary healthcare, and regardless of the diagnosis or treatment needed, associated costs are borne by the department,” the statement reads.

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

Everything is fine in Minneapolis. Don't worry about it.

[Diane Krenz for Hennepin County @DianeKrenzMN]

More gloss on the law change. It may be a small percentage of offenders who carjack, shoot at people or hurt people, but there is no plan for what to do with those who do. It isn't always complex mental health or emotional issue. Sometimes it's worse.

Saying that this gives the opportunity to put more resources there is nice but WHAT IS THE PLAN? They don't have one and public safety will diminish.

Vote on August 11th for an experienced Hennepin County Attorney.
https://t.co/Oohrqy3FfF

[The Free Press @TheFP]

In 2008, Obama had to renounce his association with an anti-American preacher to win his party’s nomination. In 2026, El-Sayed embraced an anti-American streaming star—and the Democrats didn’t care.

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

El_Sayed chose Hsan Piker. Hasan Piker is an extremist and El Sayed is the most radical major party candidate for Senate since the Senate got started in 1789, Watch Democrats for Mike Rogers take off.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

A counterterrorism expert testified today that Abdul El-Sayed’s candidacy for Senate concerns him.

He cited El-Sayed’s ties to Emgage, its close ties to CAIR, and his father-in-law’s leadership roles in Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations.

Then he confirmed the Muslim Brotherhood partners with the Democratic Socialists of America.

Michigan voters deserve answers about who is behind Abdul El-Sayed.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Here are the last 4 four polls released by the El-Sayed SuperPACs:
El-Sayed +19 Zenith
El-Sayed +16 Tulchin
El-Sayed +13 Data for Progress
El-Sayed +16 Tulchin

Here's my piece on why the MI Senate race was likely to much closer than expected 👇
https://t.co/SL6hQMqH9D

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

THIS is where we are in Michigan: the Democratic Attorney General, @dananessel, does not feel she can participate in her own party’s convention because she is Jewish.

[Michael LaRosa @MichaelLaRosaDC]

Tonight also proves that the left is still a paper tiger. Even if El-Sayed pulls this out, this wasn't a good night for the progressive movement. In a very purple state, roughly half of Democratic primary voters rejected his message.

That's a reminder that normal voters just aren't as obsessed or fixated by a conflict 7 time zones away as he is. Voter priorities are much closer to home.

(FYI --The U.S. spends 0.0543% of its budget on Military assistance to Israel. Only 8% of Israel's defense budget comes from the U.S.)