A sobering conversation with former FBI Asst. Dir. Frank Figliuzzi led by @sjdemas.bsky.social about the moment we find ourselves in.

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve been pondering how we at the Advance will handle coverage of an ICE surge into Michigan. But I need look no further than the @minnesotareformer.com. This is journalism at its finest.

TFW the times call for Rod Stewart to speak out.

Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Republican opponents of U.S. Rep. John James have spent much of the 2026 election cycle questioning his competitiveness in the GOP side of the gubernatorial race, but a new ad hits on a potential vulnerability for James: his loyalty to President Donald Trump. Story from @bensolis1.bsky.social

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.

Intriguing story here from Michigan Advance Senior Reporter @bensolis1.bsky.social as he looks at U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers making almost $100K while advising a company that helped the Maduro regime spy on its citizens. michiganadvance.com/2026/01/20/m...

Can’t improve things by perpetuating the lie that immigrants are a threat. Have to take on that lie directly, siding with the pro-immigration American majority. “But if we get rid of ICE, who will stop the rampaging hordes of scary foreigners?” isn’t good politics. It’s ceding the issue to liars.

Well, on the bright side, he is uniting Europe.

If you’re thinking we’re just one election away from fixing this mess… …you’re wrong.

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but if you think that CBS News losing ratings or prestige matters to David Ellison, you're mistaken. Murdoch ran the NY Post for 45 years without turning a profit. They want these media companies to pump propaganda, not to get ratings or make money.

A great commentary from @minnesotareformer.com Editor J. Patrick Coolican with a point that can’t be emphasized enough: “…here’s the thing: The people with power and influence in Minnesota are mostly going to be useless to us.”

Great story here from @kdavidsonjrn.bsky.social looking at the investigation launched last month by Michigan AG @dananessel.bsky.social seeking accountability for past harms at Michigan’s Native boarding schools.

Nothing says pathetic fragile crook quite like orange felon accepting someone else’s Nobel Peace Prize and nothing says disgraceful fraud quite like Machado gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to a murderous tyrant like him for power. I hope the Nobel Committee strips it from her.

It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.

Obama actually won his Nobel Peace Prize.

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

My latest commentary for @michiganadvance.com “For three seconds on the floor of a Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn, a solitary autoworker did what the political establishment has largely failed to do for three months: remind the country exactly who its president is.”

And yet again, my only regret in canceling WaPo subscription is that I can only do it once

Gotta say - Homeland hits a lot different watching it now.

My latest for @michiganadvance.com

A union worker at Ford was caught on video heckling President Trump as a “pedophile protector” when he visited a Dearborn factory on Tuesday. After the video went viral showing Trump responding in kind, the union says the worker has been suspended by Ford. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Trump in Detroit claims America is seeing the fastest strongest economic turnaround, ever. Meanwhile, Democrats today noted that average people are still struggling to pay for basic needs, goods and services. He also said an "anti-tariff person" was a "pro-Chinese person" (whatever that means).

A reminder that tear gas is nasty and an abortifacient. Blanketing entire neighborhoods is pretty evil.

Hate speech—regardless of what the Trump administration thinks that means—is protected by the First Amendment. Bondi can’t prosecute people for expressing views she dislikes. And ICE can’t deport US citizens like Good.

Brighton vigil honors Renee Good, killed by ICE agent, as protests spread statewide michiganadvance.com/2026/01/12/b...

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

I went a different route

Can we at least come together as Americans and agree with this?

So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?

My spirit animal

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

A Michigan court has ruled that the state’s plan to overhaul its mental health service delivery system violates state law, citing conflicts with the Michigan Mental Health Code. Story from @jonkingnews.bsky.social michiganadvance.com/2026/01/09/m...

The FBI has ousted the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the investigation into the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, a maneuver that has already drawn sharp criticism from local officials.

As @bensolis1.bsky.social reports, 17 GOP members of Congress helped push through an ACA subsidy extension on Thursday and none of them were from Michigan. michiganadvance.com/2026/01/09/u...

I feel safer with immigrants than ICE.

Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

An ICE officer shot a woman driving an SUV through her car window in Minneapolis on Wednesday, killing her. Video of the incident shows the driver slowly backing away, when an officer fired three shots. An eyewitness said agents wouldn’t allow a man who said he is a physician to examine the driver.

I talked with EGLE Director Phil Roos yesterday about the department's environmental protection efforts in 2025, and EGLE's main priorities for 2026. @michiganadvance.com michiganadvance.com/2026/01/07/y...

The drastic work project cuts made by Michigan House Republicans were done through an unconstitutional process that violated the separation of powers clause and other requirements in the Michigan Constitution, Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday. Story from @bensolis1.bsky.social

Putin may be the best investment advisor on the planet, because his are consistently showing major dividends.

INBOX: @miattygen.bsky.social concludes the House GOP's $645M work project cuts violated both the Separation of Powers and Bicameralism and Presentment requirements in the Michigan Constitution. More later in @michiganadvance.com

“Under current market conditions, investing in Venezuelan crude is not merely risky—it is, in purely economic terms, close to irrational.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has frozen access to federal child care and family assistance funds for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.