The “Great American State Fair”; Operation Cluster; people accepting less tham they deserve for Republican benefit; Ken Paxton wins Texas GOP primary; Matt makes pie; Friends of the Boundary Waters; MPD Chief Brian O’Hara is out; Minnesota creates guardrails for younger social media users; farm bankuptcies.

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Dog fires shotgun; Operation Cluster continues; Trump’s annual checkup; Wyoming’s hell of its own making; common sense in Ortonville; Brett’s visit with the Minnesota Reformer; GOP continues their attack on the Boundary Waters.

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Brett was joined by Max Nesterak, deputy editor of the Minnesota Reformer, to talk about some of the stories the Reformer has covered over the past week. Today they talked about: https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/21/feds-announce-15-indictments-in-unprecedented-medicaid-fraud-scheme-in-minnesota/ https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/26/tracking-some-of-the-junk-that-ice-left-behind/ https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/26/minnesota-led-the-nation-in-farm-bankruptcies-in-the-first-quarter-and-farmers-are-anxious/

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Matt is back today! On the show: Recapping Matt’s trip to western US and national parks; a summary of trump’s corruption over the last 10 days; updates on Operation Cluster; how Republicans have turned rural America into a wasteland; the ever increasing cost of groceries; Lisa Demuth’s stance on guns; the Feeding Our Future ringleader…

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Bruce Klopfleisch fills in for Matt today and talks about Trump’s slush fund, the corrupt SCOTUS, food stamp cuts, bad polling numbers for Republicans and more!

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Bruce Klopfleisch fills in for Matt today. On the show: Ian Millhiser of VOX on Virginia redistricting; how not voting empowers fascists; Democrats fighting back against Republican gerrymandering; Patrick Coolican joins; Amy Klobuchar’s “moderate” streak; Trump’s collapsing poll numbers; Hawaii attempts to overturn Citizens United

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Brett has our weekly conversation with Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer, as they recap the end of the legislative session. Read more about what they talked about at: Takeaways from the 2026 Minnesota legislative session

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Bruce was joined by Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent for VOX. They talk about the Virginia Supreme Court overturning a vote to allow Democratic redistricting. Read more about what they talked about at: https://www.vox.com/politics/488176/virginia-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision-republicans-win

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