1001 - The Midwest Bank feat. Maryam Mohamad (1/12/26)

38:36 onwards, I mean that pretty much is in line with the views of The Founding Fathers when it comes to how they feel about "the mob"

Great ep. Everytime Felix says "Somalian" it makes me want to kms. https://somalista.com/is-it-somali-or-somalian-find-out-the-correct-term/ Greetings from Minneapolis, bitches.

I recently lost my job. I feel depressed and unemployable. Maybe I can change ICE from the inside?

Any one looking into that MN labor history mentioned look up the 1916-17 lumber strike, the 1917 iron range strike, the 1934 teamsters strike, and the 1939 WPA/general strike.

The whole ICE adventurism is a dual ritual to (in their eyes to be clear), first, purge the original sin of importing blackness into this country by removing a black immigrant group and, second, re-establish a racial heirarchy they feel entitled to by blasting videos of white "socially maladroit cretins" in masks brutalizing black people everywhere. The more cretinous, the more brutal, the better. Also, because they chose ICE as the group to expand to form their secret police, they can't go after the average black community. Somalians are doubly convenient for being black and Muslim, making them the ultimate other. As noted it's just an inconvenience that they largely are citizens already, which isn't known by the average cretin watching at home on Fox or X. Lastly, it's the culmination of the culture war exiting social media and metastisizing into literal war. Not sure how it gets better from here because the Ds are still acting like bipartisanship and a return to normalcy is possible while their voters get chemical weapons used against them.

hell yeah love to hear some mid-episode 808s

Maryam did amazing, and also just loving the concept of a citizens reporting bureau from those trapped in the midst of our war torn midwestern cities

Somalis are good neighbors and valued members of the community. Being vocally anti-somali is just the way people signal their racism in a place where Confederate flags are completely socially unacceptable.

Just want you guys to know that my mom loves you and listens every week. She is very employed and very much a woman.

Having the guest on with her full name might actually put her at risk. The 🐷s are rabid af

I’m sure I’m not the first commenter to say it’s Somali, not Somalian…

25:04 oooooof one of the worst cringes in chapo history!! Somalis HATE that comparison/mention of “im the captain now” it’s demeaning/insensitive/out of touch.. can’t believe they left that in!!

My sister lives in the twin cities and saw someone get kidnapped by 🧊 right by her house yesterday. Great interview, thanks for sharing yall 🩷

Mormon promised land is in Missouri. Utah is the Mormon silver medal

The most well-adjusted, socially acceptable Chapo listener.

Speaking on the confusion part, when I witnessed a brutal kidnapping from ICE in Chicago outside my apartment, they were driving the most generic SUVs and minivans that I’m constantly feeling paranoid anytime one drives on my street. I’ve never considered that to be deployment of fear. Great interview here.

Great guest. Employed female chapo listener pride!

Courage is grace under pressure. What an extraordinary example from Maryam 🙌

Ingrid Bergman was such a bitch. Charles Boyer got her such a nice brooch and she straightaway lost it.

Great guest usually the activist guests are kinda duds

this was a great interview! maryam, you have made your people (employed female chapo listeners) proud

If y'all are having fans on for state by state commentary let me know if you need a regular alaskan to talk about mary peltola that all the libs are falling all over themselves about for some reason. I have an sm58 and a focusrite, ready to podcast at any time

Congratulations listener you earned it

No joke let the fucking Somalians run the god damn state. They whip us up in shape god damn it.

Haven’t finished the episode but it seems a strange coincidence that the Somali population are being targeted and Israel recently was the first state to recognize Somaliland as a state…

'Imagine what you are Nazi-ing,' indeed.

kamla cop harris wouldve tripled ice’s funding

In college I wrote a little bit about the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and what led up to it. The Vichy French were absolutely brutal to the Vietnamese. They even dug up the dead. And when the Viet Minh finally had the means and the numbers to defeat the French, it brought down their empire. In my essay, I wondered when another moment like that would happen. I never thought that it would happen to America, inside of America, by the hands of Americans. I don't say that with excitement or enthusiasm. I never would've imagined we would be where we are. But I'm certain that someday, somehow, there will be a reckoning for all this, and it will be the end of this terrible place and the people who run it. You can't pick a fight with hundreds of millions of people in a country with a heavily armed population in an area that spans a continent. The United States government simply cannot pull it off. I just wanted a good job, a house, and a nice quiet life... Fuckin hell.

Being in MN, it’s a breath of fresh air to have Maryam speak on what’s happening/what we are experiencing.

B9

Great guest. Also shoutout to Will Stancil for chasing ICE around in his Honda Fit

A democratic targeting of the somali community would def look different: it would start bc there was a large rallying behind an 'anti israel' statement from Ilhan Omar. And it would have articles in the NY times and the atlantic: female genital mutilation in america? learn about the terrible practise of these east african immigrants. Also hear from our israeli, white ashkenazi expert who now works in Somaliland. She does great work only made possible by Israels brave humanist policy and showing an interest in Africa. And the ice murderer would be charged but right away the funding of ice would be doubled.

Great episode, and great guest! Thank you Maryam!

"All lives matter" freaks are very quiet

Does anybody have a link to the human shields news report Will was talking about

Fantastic episode

very impressed with u guys continuing to feature on the ground organizers.

Maryam Mohamad was a great guest and seems like a smart person. What she said about the administration's confusion strategy and the need for people to record this history themselves really resonated.

On the ground from south side mpls, we’re standing strong. It’s been so incredible to see the community organizing and fighting back in massive numbers. Everyone else take heed: it’s coming to your city eventually. Talk to your neighbors, coworkers, loved ones and get prepared.

Tapping in from Southside come fuck with us

Great episode, great guest

Not a single word about how Kamala would have been worse? Wow

They don't care about for 4th or 3rd amendment, and that's where the 2nd amendment comes in

Jonathan Ross is your typical cop, too busy playing with his phone so he had to kill someone to make it look like he was doing his job.

Can we get a neo black panther leader on the show?

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as someone who lives in south Minneapolis, it was a little jarring to hear her experience in downtown. i figured it’s been stratified, but to that extreme. in my neighborhood at least, it does feels like blacked out SUVs are everywhere, swarming our streets

You guys didn't even talk about Bovino. That little special forces larper is having the time of his life. He is politically retarded and really believes that he has a supra legal mandate from Trump. His soldiers are poorly trained, incapable of handling stress without acting out, and roided out. It is only a matter of time before they begin to act with such utter violence that it is truly indefensible. There are limits. Bovino believes he has the tenured legal backing of Trump which he does not. Once Trump gets a whiff that this is truly unfavorable or that there's something more shiny in his purview he's going to bail and Bovino is going to be left holding a massive legal shitbag. DHS can release as many clips of border patrol agents hugging protesters as they want: murder is murder

I was at an ICE abduction in my neighborhood (Elliott Park in Minneapolis) when I stood in front of the ICE vehicle, an officer got out and shoved me into oncoming traffic in full view of the bus coming toward me. I didn't realize how fast the bus was coming nor how hard he had to slam on the brakes until I saw it on CNN.

Dude they aren't on the air. They don't have radio. They had to call 911 and left before EMS arrived

There was a guy I went to high school with, in college he started going to this Pentecostal Church and dropped out to marry this woman from it and moved to Missouri. I hadn't thought about him in years, but he posted just the other day about how he was running for Alderman and welcomed questions from those who would be his constituents. The majority of the questions were asking what he would do or how he would respond to ICE killing one of his constituents like in Minneapolis and he just kept answering "um as an Alderman thats not my purview and I dont need to respond" like well obviously its a big deal to the people you wanna represent dumbass

I think someone must have done some polling that found that white people don't find Mexicans as scary so they switched to something scarier and more exotic

Will absolutely cooked at 1:06:50. I fucking love you guys

It has been 0 days since will has not interrupted the guest now

I really felt this idea that MAGA and law enforcement hate immigrants because they dare to actually live the "American Dream" and just be happy and community-minded in 2026. White people, by and large, are miserable right now. I work with MAGA idiots. These people don't leave their houses except to go to work and maybe the occasional chain restaurant. They live in featureless, hellish cul de sacs and have their groceries delivered directly to their homes (likely by immigrants). They don't enjoy local art, food, music or gathering spaces of any kind. They are void of any culture and couch rot with Fox News, Facebook slop and basic cable television. And because they're miserable, they assume it's the fault of immigrants, the woke left and "blue hair" types who dare to actually have a fuckin' life or have a life that's worth fighting for. LEO are the worst of these people. I've lived by several LEO over the years. You can always tell where they live. They're usually divorced dads, fly a Blue Lives Matter flag, never come out of their houses and their house/yard looks like shit.

There is only one way to defeat fascism and it is going on strike and forming a vanguard party.

you guys called it right away. mariam adelson gave trump $100 million and turned this country into the West Bank.

Husker Du pull at the end was excellent. Chris knows his shit!

holy shit. what a find by Will on that 2014 article

Anyone have the link to that 2014 LA times article?

This sort of shallow, directionless, panicked "why wont they do something!?" baby talk politics that is found at every Indivisible rally is below you guys. Lock the fuck in.

best start believing in constitutional crises, mr. frey…yer in one!

when maryam mentioned the jovial and humorous nature of Somali americans, it reminded me that there is a restaurant in Kansas City called "KC Burgers". it is a Somali food restaurant that they called that for (i assume) SEO. maybe even to trick amerifats that search "kansas city burgers" on Google. hilarious.

I just heard : we need to document everything, so the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions later. I'm sorry, maybe I'm a hopeless cynic. But I think, that simply waiting for salvation is a fool's errand. Whatever institution you believe will eventually put an end to the madness or at least bring some justice: if it's not happening right now, it's never gonna happen. The Democrats are not doing shit right now and they're not gonna do shit when they're back in control, because they have no incentive to do so. As long as they can sell themselves as the lesser evil - which shouldn't be that hard after THIS - they don't have to move a finger. Personally, I think the best thing to do to fight back is a massive strike of historical proportions. Make the economy bleed until the ruling class is forced to do whatever it takes to put pressure on those, who unleashed these mongrels on the civilized world. But maybe you think, a general strike is too extreme & things are still not bad enough. If you think that - fair enough, but then I have to wonder: how bad do you need things to get, if brown shirts disappearing people & murdering folks in broad daylight is not enough for you?

☝️🤓 actually the Simon Says Shooter was in Mesa, AZ. Only the mormons could breed a mix of autism and fear that makes a cop shoot a guy for fixing his shirt and pulling up his pants.

I think an important to recognize about the Midwest is that its broadly speaking "libertarian", in the sense they dont care what you do unless it affects them. Midwest nice is a surface level facade for dont talk about the bad stuff. They dont want to see or hear it. So youll see protests without genuine pushback or political fallout to this kind of shit.

Gonna be hard for people to forget that Tim Walz got up there in the VP debate and said “we tried to build the wall but Trump wouldn’t let us”. Him and everyone else involved in the go further right than the Republicans on immigration strategy is complicit in all of this.

As a life-long Minnesota resident, we've always dreamed of national recognition. Ideally that would have been through finally having a successful sports team but the monkeys paw and all that

Regarding DHS coming out with a story within hours of the murder, Kristi Noem cleared all that up over the weekend on CNN. She had been in Minneapolis THE DAY BEFORE, so she already knew all the facts.

You guys should interview Aziz Rana. Some perspective on how this constitution is central to these crises and is no solution either.

All this cause some retard Mormon convert who can’t even form full words, let alone full sentences, wanted to be like Andrew Callahan without understanding what made AGNB/Channel 5 so great in the first place

Seems like a great time to make Machete (Danny Trejo) an anti CBP mascot

Thank you guys for being the only real news outlet in the entire western world. Maryam was phenomenal ❤️

“Everything is Casino” yup

"Islam is anticapitalist" but also "somali americans love to start businesses"? Cmon now

Fuck yeah Husker Du

Make ICE permafrost.

Love the passion from Will at the end

I really hope you guys talk about the newest citizen journalist of the right Nick Shirley. He makes essay girl look like she’s in mensa.

Why would you interview this fucking liberal afraid of real protesting. Like c'mon man Islam is not anti-capitalist. It's all love and respect but let's please be serious -- and bad mouthing the 1934 teamsters strike, are you kidding me ??? This is sad.

Is there any historical example of a fading empire developing some antibodies to successfully rejecting its worst managers, landlords and enforcers coming home? Be they awful South Africans, Israelis, Rhodesians, ex Cubans/similar & other flavors of Nazis? Seems like in the UK there are a lot of them that returned to the imperial core / Beomley and home counties Hiterlite suburbs after their buyout from us w/ an elite so cosseted and walls so high that any reform is impossible in that beknighted nation? Carnation revolution, maybe, but Salazar & Franco were in power forever (w/plenty of Franco statues remaining for a decade or 2 after his death, no less?), lots of shitty British Florida criminals in Marbella & some of the bloodiest colonial retrenchment are ex Portuguese & Belgian in the admin vacuum / highly under-rated in the periphery around Indonesia, Timor & Congo to this day etc? Critical support to MN, despite their feckless higher leadership.,,they still got their captured confederate flag & were 5:1 absolute psychos in the civil war. In climate proof deluth, I feel like we gotta have a ‘no backsies’ policy for the worst TX suburbanites after their McMansion foundations crack as the aquifer is depleted and that whole shithole state turns into a scorched oil and agribusiness wasteland in ~20 years … Lots of internal empire to exploit for us still unlike the British…

Empire comes back home to the gringo. Best wishes to all. Stay safe.

ICE agents need to be charged in a trial by jury

Wallahi bro, Somalis also famous for their contributions to the New Toronto Accent!!

i'm straight up not having a good time

She is hilarious on twitter

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But seriously, do not apologize for disruption. Do not apologize for being disrespectful. Do not apologize for impeding. Those things should be your goal. Those are the things that really get their attention. I'm sorry it has to be everyday people putting their bodies on the line, but it's actually heartening to see how many people are fighting back. Just like it was heartening, in similar dark circumstances, seeing all the people who tried to intervene when George Floyd was killed too. Ice is an occupying army. Stay safe.

Minneapolis produced Husker Du, The Replacements, and... (checks for angry parapolitical guys) Bob Dylan.

the democrats decided letting israel keep doing the holocaust was more important than stopping this. they had 10 fucking years to come up with an answer to him and couldn’t produce a single viable candidate. Zohran is the one fucking guy capable and they used all their remaining energy to prevent him from getting elected. it may have just been nominal but at least they offered some resistance the first time. now we get what? hakeem jeffries telling trump he’s gonna stand on business? i hope this is the end of that rotted out party. poor Renee Good deserved so much better 💔

What's the closing song?

People cant work under these condotions, I hope the unions open their eyes to this, there needs to be strikes.

Great guest, thank you. 🙏

I think it perfectly embodies Trump II that they sent in the fat illiterate Dirlewanger Brigade of new ICE recruits to do battle against the dark Somali hordes, and just ended up doing George Floyd for nervous white women. Then immediately follow that up in Kristin Noams stupid fucking hat with "look you might think this happened because it was one of our new poorly trained retards. But you're wrong! This was actually one of our BEST officers with ten years of experience, lives in Minnesota, has a Filipino wife, and has getting-dragged-by-a-car-like-a-moron-related PTSD! And don't even try to identify him based on that information! Boom! We just owned you!"

speaking of Jesse Ventura, his video on the ICE raid at Minneapolis Roosevelt high school same day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WachTNSYcc

Please make this a free episode on YouTube so I can share with my hog family on Facebook

they want to manufacture a reason to declare martial law before midterms

That subliterate moron Nick Shirley needs to be held criminally liable for his role in this. Permanent war on YouTube fashslop.

Legit bullshit and fraud to combat phantom fraud

As a Minnesotan I wish the episode about us was about something better. I will add that the "Walz as a teacher in Bevis and Butthead" bit had me in tears for real. It's so true and it's so goddamn funny.

No ICE officer has ever been killed by an immigrant, in the history of the program. Why tf do they need guns?

hey guys, thanks for the update. love ya'll

no more DHS!

I listened to the drama club episode for this

I’ve had a job for roughly half the time I’ve been a chapo listener… when do I get a guest spot?

I have been waiting all day.

Love and hugs to you guys

Sending love to you guys as a long time listener and twin cities observer, thank you

SODA!!!

Thank god

This dropped right as I finished a double shift in the grocery mines. Hooray

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