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How Questionable Claims Led Trump to Attack Somali Minnesotans

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We follow the right-wing pipeline that led to Donald Trump’s attacks on Somali Minnesotans, including trying to revoke protected status for some residents. Minnesota Reformer’s Editor-in-Chief Patrick Coolican joins the show to debunk the City Journal article “Minnesota Welfare Fraud: Some Funds Went to Al-Shabaab.” What should we expect from our political leaders, and what can we as Twin Citizens do? Plus, contributor PaviElle French shares some great events, like an elder-led jazz show at the Capri Theater.

Read more about the stories we discussed:

  • Kaveh Akbar at Hopkins Center for the Arts
  • Mary Lucia (book release) in conversation with Lizz Winstead at Granada Theater
  • Mark O’Connor’s Appalachian Christmas at Dakota Jazz Club
  • Little Explorers Thursday at the Como Zoo and Conservatory 
  • Chastity Brown at Landmark Center
  • Fashion MSP’s The Experiment at The Whim 
  • Capri Big Band's Music of the Season at The Capri
  • Right-wing reporting on Somali money going to al-Shabaab is not new, still misses the mark (Minnesota Reformer)
  • Minnesota Welfare Fraud: Some Funds Went to Al-Shabaab (City Journal)


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