It has been disconcerting to watch Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey go out of their way to defend not only the violent actions of illegal aliens residing in their state but also the criminal behavior of citizens who endanger the lives of law enforcement officers and everyone around them by obstructing necessary arrests.
The Department of Homeland Security has been spectacularly transparent about the targets of its operations in the North Star State. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are going after vile human beings who should not be walking freely on American streets. Men accused or convicted of murder, child rape, and other horrific violence have fled their home countries and now call Minnesota (and other “sanctuary” jurisdictions) home.
If they were white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants — or could otherwise be quickly dismissed by prominent news personalities as just “privileged white boys” — nobody would be defending these scumbags. Because Walz, Frey, and the propaganda press describe them as part of the “immigrant community,” middle-aged Minnesota women are willing to risk their lives to keep men who rape and murder women and children from being detained. The whole scene is sad, disturbing, and discouraging.
To be sure, what’s unfolding in Minnesota and other Democrat-controlled cities and states in response to President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s immigration enforcement operations has many moving parts. Information warfare is a permanent component of the modern battlespace. When almost every person on the planet has a pocket computer that also makes phone calls and social media sites are constantly pinging those pockets with targeted news stories, bits of information behave like bullets directed to shape or destroy the minds of those in the crosshairs.
Foreign and domestic billionaires, multinational investment firms, and local Chamber of Commerce chapters have real financial interests in influencing American mindsets regarding the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. Among other economic and cultural motivations of the Big Business community, endless supplies of cheap labor help to drive profits while simultaneously preventing the American middle class from ever prospering robustly enough to compete on its own terms. While business firms economically benefit from downward pressure on employee wages, they also economically benefit from the growing supply of illegal alien customers.
When millions of people enter the United States illegally, the increased demand they create for food, fuel, housing, and other commercial goods drives up prices. Because illegal aliens disproportionately depend upon local, state, and federal welfare programs to survive, all levels of the American government directly subsidize these price increases. American taxpayers, in other words, pay for welfare that contributes to inflation which, in turn, decreases Americans’ disposable income (income that is kept artificially lower due to competition from illegal immigrant employees).
Public schools, hospitals, and other social welfare institutions are also forced to spend substantial percentages of their allotted taxpayer funds on services for people illegally residing in the United States. The end result is this: Big Business profits from illegal aliens while offloading the financial and social costs onto Americans already struggling.
Foreign militaries and espionage agencies have real strategic interests in causing deadly mayhem in American cities and enough social upheaval to weaken the influence of federal authorities. Just as the U.S. military and America’s Intelligence Community have been justifiably accused of fomenting “color revolutions” abroad, foreign powers habitually work to undermine the social stability, legitimacy, and peace of the United States. It is no surprise that so many anti-ICE groups operating in Minnesota today receive operational funds from non-governmental organizations and “charities” whose funding appears to originate with foreign financiers with direct links to adversarial governments such as China.
The Democrat Party — as the political party technically out of power in Congress and the White House (although realistically still exercising vast power through its agents operating within the permanent bureaucracy) — has real political interests in undermining both President Trump and a MAGA agenda that threatens Democrats’ priorities.
Among those priorities, Democrat politicians benefit from intentional disregard for federal immigration laws and the importation of new “voters” who often come from third-world countries whose leftist and even communist policies align much more closely with the Democrat Party in the United States. As we have begun to see with the multi-billion-dollar Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota (just the tip of a much larger fraud-iceberg that has steadily grown in Democrat jurisdictions across the country), when criminal illegal aliens and criminal politicians conspire together to launder taxpayer money into their own pockets, politicians, illegal aliens, and other fraudsters have much to gain both politically (in terms of ill-gotten votes) and financially (in terms of ill-gotten dollars).
So there are many external players quietly operating behind the scenes of chaos in Minnesota. While the propaganda press pushes hysterical narratives meant to portray ICE agents as “Trump’s Gestapo,” leftist activist-obstructionists as just “caring moms,” and despicable, murderous pedophiles from faraway foreign nations as just ordinary “Minnesota men,” the true story involves a range of economic, geopolitical, subversive, and criminal interests that all benefit from open borders and endless illegal immigration.
One part of this story that has gotten little attention is how Minnesota’s intentional disregard for federal immigration law is the mirror opposite of former Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s attempt to enforce immigration laws in her state during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Sixteen years ago, Arizona’s Republican governor was earnestly working to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into her state. She signed into law a statute that authorized state and local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws. The Obama administration joined sides with “open borders” special interests to challenge Arizona’s sovereign authority to enforce the federal government’s immigration laws.
Eventually, the case made it to the Supreme Court, and Justices Kennedy and Roberts joined their politically left-leaning colleagues in holding that federal immigration authority preempted Arizona from establishing any immigration rules of its own. President Obama’s solicitor general, Don Verrilli, argued that “states are trying to supplant the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy, and we can’t have fifty different immigration policies.”
Governor Brewer tried to defend her state and the country from drug cartels, sex slavers, and other criminal organizations that use America’s open borders to import harm and misery. President Obama and the Democrat Party (and many Establishment Republicans, as well) had vested interests in keeping America’s borders open and went to great lengths to make sure that Arizona authorities could not enforce federal immigration law when the federal government was actively subverting those laws.
Now we have Governor Walz and Mayor Frey actively subverting federal immigration law, and a loud contingent of activist judges, obstructionist politicians, and intentionally misleading members of the propaganda press pretend that Minnesota can do what Arizona could not: establish its own immigration rules. Fifteen years ago, the Obama team argued that “we can’t have fifty different immigration policies.” Today, Obama’s friends act as if Minnesota can do whatever it wants — the consequences to federal authority and national sovereignty be damned.
Either the federal government exercises authority over immigration enforcement or the state of Minnesota does. We either have a country, or we don’t.
Hat tip to Old Gyrene. Oorah!
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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