Everybody, hello, hello, hello, welcome to the Joy Read Show. It is Wednesday. The chat is already cooking. I love the comment here that says, I tried to go a day without news, but I couldn't do it.

I just couldn't do it. Somebody else saying there are more criminals in ICE and they're actually

kidnapping and torturing. I mean, facts on facts on facts. Good evening, everybody. Thank you all for

tuning in. If you have not hit like and subscribe, I mean, those of you who are in the chat, you're already liked and subscribed, like clearly. But you know what you could do? You could hit share so you can share it with a friend, maybe share it with a foe. I got some hate mail today that was pretty funny. The person called me the N-word in all caps with a hard R and then felt they needed to point out in the hate mail

that they voted for Obama twice. They needed me to know that and said that I'm the racist.

It was funny. And I just let them know that, you know, if you send an email that's disparaging

like that with your name and all that in it, It's not, you know, I do have the right

to publish it. Um, so I don't really know what we're going to do with that as of yet. But yeah, that was my hate mail on today. It was very funny. But he really wanted to make, let me know that he voted for Obama twice, but on the NWASTA. Okay. Yeah, gotcha. Um, also want to remind you guys that we are nominated for the NAACP Image Awards,

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And thank you so much to the nominated committee for that. You got a lot of housekeeping announcements at the end of the show. So we will get to those at the end of the show, our last block, including yes, people are asking and texting me, am I going to have more to say about Stephen A. Smith? Because he came back and clapped back last night at me, Don, and Jasmine Crockett. I have a wee bit to say, but that's going to be at the end of the show. You have to wait for that. He's not important enough to put at the top. We're going to do that at the end of the show. We'll push that back. But we begin tonight with the state of Minnesota under occupation. Minnesota, of course, is our latest state to be inundated by the Trump regime's armed secret police.

And I want you guys. under occupation, Minnesota, of course, is our latest state to be inundated by the Trump regime's armed secret police.

And I want you guys to understand, I use that language very intentionally.

Because if these scenes were playing out in any other country, particularly in a global South country, if they were in the Middle East somewhere or in Africa somewhere,

we in the media would absolutely describe what you're about to see as the invasion of a city by regime secret police or by armed regime paramilitaries.

It's worth. Hey, we got to work. regime paramilitaries. Go ahead. Who's great? Who's pretend?

Garrett's in Gipton Brown.

He has some shark and

they had to put him in a mobile.

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