Andrew Roth

Scenes from former Vice President Kamala Harris' 107 Days book tour stop in Detroit last night for @michiganadvance.com:

On book tour in Detroit, Harris blasts Trump’s ‘incompetence’ and ‘cowardice’ • Michigan Advance Former Vice President Kamala Harris says President Donald Trump’s directive that U.S. agencies release government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life is meant to distract from the “corruption, c...

Former VP Kamala Harris says President Donald Trump’s directive that U.S. agencies release government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life is meant to distract from the “corruption, cowardice, and incompetence coming out of this administration.” Story and photos for @michiganadvance.com:

“Why won’t you be governor,” Jemele Hill asks Kamala Harris.

“Because she’s going to be president,” someone in the audience yells out.

“That’s right,” another shouts.

Former VP @KamalaHarris says Trump’s agenda is “purely grounded in corruption and grift.”

“We are witnessing, in vivid detail, something that has been happening over a period of time, which is the concentration of wealth and power in the few at the expense of the many,” she says.

Harris says voters should start being more transactional.

“Expect something from your vote. Demand something from your vote,” Harris says. “Do not let anybody take your vote for granted.”

Former VP Kamala Harris says she’s surprised by the “capitulation” of “transactional” leaders to President Donald Trump.

“They're not pretending to be grounded in what is morally right, what is principled, what is value based,” Harris says. “They're just in it for whatever they can get out of it.”

Moderator Jemele Hill says former VP Kamala Harris sounds like a presidential candidate.

“I haven’t made any decisions about that,” Harris says.

Former VP Kamala Harris warns of diminished pride among Americans.

“This is our country,” Harris says. “We’re not going to let those people in Washington, DC, define for us what and who we are as Americans.”

More than an hour after the scheduled start time for former Vice President Kamala Harris’ book tour stop in Detroit, an announcer says the start of tonight’s event is delayed due to long lines to get through security at the venue’s entrance. Some audience members booed.

Lt. Gov. @garlingilchrist.bsky.social and U.S. Rep. @shrithanedar.bsky.social are mingling with audience members at former Vice President Kamala Harris’ book tour stop in Detroit this evening.

There are a handful of pro-Palestine protesters outside former Vice President Kamala Harris’ book tour stop in Detroit this evening.

"Big Gretch out," Michigan. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed off her eighth and final State of the State tonight. Some of my photos from her last address for @michiganadvance.com:

From another angle, this seems like a useful tool to help find Nancy Guthrie. Under what circumstances would the FBI and Google attempt to recover footage from "residual data located in backend systems" in future missing person investigations? Is it only for high profile cases?

The Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety says it will strengthen safeguards to ensure test messages are not sent through live channels and implement additional authentication and confirmation steps before any campus-wide alert can be issued.

The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety says it will strengthen test environment safeguards to ensure test messages are not sent through live channels and implement additional authentication and confirmation steps before any campus-wide alert can be issued.

Michigan State University erroneously sent an emergency alert for an active violence drill three days before the anniversary of a deadly campus shooting.

Blanchard, a Democrat, said Obama deported a record number of people: “There were no cheap theatrics, people weren't being thrown down … on the pavement.”

“Things don't have to be the way they are. They can change. That would be my message to dealing with ICE. They have no business wearing masks.”

Snyder, a Republican, on ICE in Minneapolis: “It’s good that people have now recognized the pendulum went too far, and now it's being pulled back.”

“I was always very pro-immigration for legal people to grow our country. That’s what America is.”

Michigan's four living former governors — two Republicans and two Democrats — are participating in a forum on civility.

"Fighting had a role on the beaches of Normandy, not the beaches of Lake Michigan," Snyder says.

"That's a good one," Blanchard leans over and says.

“Approaching this issue with a sledgehammer and not a scalpel can lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters,” Benson said. “Reckless accusations without careful investigations put American citizens under the threat of arrest and criminal inquiry.”

Benson says flawed review risks disenfranchising eligible Michigan voters • Michigan Advance Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says some Michigan voters may be at risk of criminal investigation or having voter registration cancelled after a Republican county clerk made claims that he found pr...

Secretary of State @jocelynbenson.bsky.social says some legal Michigan voters may be at risk of criminal investigation or having voter registration cancelled after a Republican county clerk made claims that he found proof of non-citizens voting in Michigan.

More in @michiganadvance.com:

Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga says Congress “can conduct oversight and lead a facts based discussion” after federal agents killed two American citizens.

“While emotions are no doubt high, a congressional hearing is a place where federal, state, and local community leaders can be heard,” he said.

Update: Peters will also vote no on DHS funding.

“DHS’ current immigration enforcement operations are not protecting our homeland security or making American communities safer,” he said. “They are causing chaos and fear. They are violating Americans’ constitutional rights.”

Photo by Jeff Kowalsky

Photo by Seth Herald

Noem says a protest is a “violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons.”

Patel says “you cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest.”

Trump supporters protesting COVID orders at the Michigan Capitol in 2020 were armed.

📸 Jeff Kowalsky, Seth Herald

Most of the Republican candidates for Michigan governor have, so far, stayed quiet after yesterday’s shooting by federal agents. No public statements on ICE from John James, Tom Leonard or Mike Cox as of Sunday afternoon.

Republican Michigan gubernatorial candidate Aric Nesbitt doubles down on ICE after agents killed a citizen who was a lawful gun owner, bucking the NRA who says “responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens.”

Michigan’s @slotkin.senate.gov says she will vote against DHS funding.

Retiring @peters.senate.gov is calling for a “full and impartial investigation by local police” of federal agents fatally shooting two citizens, but hasn’t said if he supports a possible government shutdown.

Less than a month into 2026, there have so far been at least two instances of federal officials rushing to spread narratives that are not backed up by video evidence to defend federal agents who killed unarmed citizens while the federal government handles investigations itself.

The Star Tribune also reports that several witnesses were detained by federal agents and have been transported to the Whipple building.

Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."