Billionaires Party While Minneapolis Burns

[RECORDED LIVE JANUARY 26, 2026] 

The republic is being dismantled in real time. On The Mayday Morning Show, Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky confront the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and the escalation of federal force that followed.

As ICE agents killed a U.S. citizen in broad daylight and officials rushed to rewrite the story, those in power carried on as if nothing had happened. That same night, billionaire elites gathered for a lavish donor party hosted by Melania Trump — while her glossy documentary, funded and distributed by Jeff Bezos, continues to recast proximity to authoritarian power as glamour, not complicity and bribes.

From the streets of Minneapolis to red carpets and closed-door fundraisers, this episode examines how authoritarianism advances: not just through violence, but through normalization — when brutality happens off-camera and power rebrands itself as culture.

This isn’t chaos. It’s design. ⸻

 

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