Jim Malewitz

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Managing editor of @wisconsinwatch.org and amateur old man baseball player. Alum: Bridge Michigan, Texas Tribune, Stateline, Iowa Watch. Following Vanilla Ice's call to collaborate and listen.

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Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· 20d

This is such a powerful photo from Angela Major of WPR. Caption: Protesters approach attendees of a Concerts on the Square event Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Madison, Wis, after a Madison man was shot and killed by a police officer earlier that day.

People stand behind a table where several people sit with food and drinks, raising blue cups, fists and phones outside a stone building.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· 20d

Awkward time for Madison police to be running this style of ad campaign. www.instagram.com/reel/Da3ppje...

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· 25d

Important reporting from AP. apnews.com/article/ice-...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.

David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly the Department of Homeland Security has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jul 6

I enjoyed finding this gem while rounding up art for the piece below.

Article headlined: "MANITOWOC SAYS MILWAUKEE CLAIMS TO SPUTNIK 'FOOLISH'

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jul 1

Hutch has little respect for my profession.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· May 27

Politics Mad Lib www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

A sex therapist denounced by fellow Democrats over antisemitic remarks list a runoff in a redrawn district.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 29

Fact check in the wild.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 18

What a World www.wired.com/story/gazing...

SAM ALTMAN’S IRIS-SCANNING, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they’re a real human, provided they’ve already stared into one of World’s glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned. The announcement follows a pilot project for Tinder verification that World previously conducted in Japan.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 14

Crazy force!

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 14

Crazy hail in Madison.

A piece of golf ball-sized hail in a hand.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 14

Pope’s next album title. 🎸 🤘

News clips: Leo said Saturday during an evening prayer service that a “delusion of omnipotence” was fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran. Delusion of omnipotence is underlined.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 7

Bring back this hat. #GoBlue

Michigan basketball player in hat that says “just did it #1”

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 3

Oh. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Headline: FEMA official says he teleported to Waffle House. Experts are dubious.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Apr 3

The Trump administration’s nationwide immigration crackdown is holding momentum in Wisconsin, but its targets are changing. Explore latest data on ICE activity across Wisconsin (via @wisconsinwatch.org) wisconsinwatch.org/2026/04/wisc...

Line chart labeled "ARRESTS PER MONTH (WISCONSIN)" shows monthly counts from Jan 2024 to Jan 2026 rising from about 80 to around 170, with text noting "1,700" total and "at least 100" monthly since May 2025

Map of Wisconsin and nearby states with circles marking arrest locations; larger circles cluster near Milwaukee and Chicago, with additional points across central and western Wisconsin

Line chart titled "Field arrests in western Wisconsin outpaced field arrests in greater Milwaukee this winter as enforcement activity spilled over from Minnesota" compares two lines from Jan 2025 to Feb 2026, with Milwaukee area in light blue and Minneapolis–St. Paul area in orange

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Feb 21

Branding solutions.

What if instead of Wisconsin it was wisprosin and instead of the badgers we were the goodgers?

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Feb 19

But why did Iowa play UW-Platteville??

Screenshot of two Iowa baseball players and boxscore showing a 34-5 Iowa victory over UW-Platteville. Text says "Hawkeyes plate school record 34 runs."

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Feb 8

Gonna start using this during Wisconsin winters. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...

The Faroese see themselves as survivors in a tough land. Many trace their lineage back to Vikings who waded ashore more than 1,000 years ago. Their homeland is one of Europe’s rainiest places, and winds there routinely reach 30 to 40 miles per hour.

But the Faroese do not cower. As they say: “There’s no bad weather. Just bad clothes.”

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Feb 5

Sounds like an above-standard poodle to me! www.wpr.org/animals/pets...

Gerard, a standard poodle from Wisconsin, always leaves his dog shows with a ribbon.

“Everyone has their different goals for agility and dog training in their dog sports,” said Gerard’s breeder, owner and trainer John Pittman. “I always want my dogs to win.”

Pittman and his agile pup just won their biggest competition yet on Saturday at the 150th Westminster Dog Show in New York City.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 31

“The young Muslim woman detained in a locked Whipple bathroom with three men said she never thought this could happen to her. She saw America as a land of opportunity after a childhood in a refugee camp.” www.startribune.com/no-humanity-... (via @startribune.com - gift link)

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 25

Here's Steven Nekhaila, Libertarian National Committee Chair: "Abolish ICE. Reform the broken immigration system. Do not give the police state an inch."

ICE is a division of the Department of Homeland Security. Much like DHS itself, it was spawned as a response to 9/11 and the Global War on Terror. ICE was created in a national security context, blending immigration enforcement with counterterrorism culture, equipment, and mindset.
What we are seeing in the United States is the rise of the warrior cop. Masked federal agents donning multicam and plate carriers, injected into civilian life with a GWOT mentality. This is no routine law enforcement. This is occupation-style policing.
Up until recently, immigration enforcement was overwhelmingly a civil matter. Visa overstays, border crossings, and asylum claims were processed administratively, not treated as battlefield threats. Under the current administration, immigration is increasingly framed as criminality itself. So when the President says they are “going after criminals,” that definition quietly expands to include visa overstays, people in green card or asylum processing, and peaceful individuals caught in bureaucratic limbo. This framing becomes the justification for the police state.
The Department of Homeland Security has now taken the position, via internal guidance, that entering homes without a judicial warrant using administrative authority is lawful. This is an assertion by fiat, not a principle recognized by the Constitution, statute, or the courts. The Fourth Amendment does not bend to agency memos.
The militarization of domestic enforcement did not happen overnight. The surplus weapons, vehicles, and equipment from foreign wars were gradually brought home and distributed to federal agencies and police departments through long-standing programs that accelerated after 9/11. The tools of war have been normalized in civilian governance.
Now those weapons, systems, and intelligence apparatuses are being used against immigrants and citizens alike....Abolish ICE. Reform the broken immigration system. Do not give the police state an inch.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 25

Checking in with the Libertarians... Here's the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin calling for ICE's abolition.

The Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) unanimously issued the following resolution condemning the Trump administration's unconstitutional and violent immigration enforcement actions and calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 25

Alex Pretti, shown performing in a Preble High School play — Green Bay Press-Gazette, May 12, 2006.

Five smiling actors clustered on a theatrical set of a home interior.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 20

We get the same on Canadian subreddits. We know it's not Americans -as individuals- but we have no choice but to see them as an entity, just as they see Canada as one.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 20

International dialogue on reddit.

We're getting at least 10 posts a day from Americans apologising, and saying things like they didn't vote for Trump or don't support his policies. To be blunt, none of that actually matters. You can say you're different from the rest of Americans, but to the rest of the world, that distinction doesn't exist.

To us, your country is a single entity on the world stage, and it's threatening its allies. Think about how you view other countries. For example, Russian opposition doesn't change what Russia does, because that's their domestic politics. The same thing applies to the US too, except you had the power to choose your president, and you may still have it.

So instead of coming here nonstop to apologise on behalf of your country for your constant need for sympathy, focus on actually changing something while you still can.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Jan 17

Been getting lots of these ads lately.

Canadian immigration advertisement says “Canada is looking for you.”

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Dec 12

Miranda's like (probably):

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Dec 6

Good name for a Wisconsin-specific dating app.

A sign over line of a grocery store refrigerators says “Cheese Singles”

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Nov 19

A Midwest Standoff and Midwest Paradox: A politeness forcefield surrounds the last uneaten snack. But if everyone leaves it for someone else, it’s essentially left to no one. 🤔

A small piece of uneaten donut close up.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Nov 10

50 years later, the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts the children of its lost crew. www.startribune.com/50-years-lat... (via @startribune.com)

They’ve had to fend off dark thoughts about his last moments and have absorbed scores of theories on why the ship went down.
Their mother, who died of cancer in 1993, would grow ill around the anniversary and during storms that whipped through the lake.
A headstone for Nolan Church rests next to his wife’s in a local cemetery. But his surviving children consider Lake Superior his gravesite. And the tragedy has made their relationships to the lake complicated. All three live near it in the Two Harbors area. But Gage, now 73, has for 50 years been too frightened to be on it or in it.
It’s beautiful, she said, “but you never know with that lake.”
Brabon, who lives in Kalamazoo, Mich., is drawn to the water. She visits Whitefish Point and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum there often. She likes to stand on the beach among the driftwood and memorials to the Fitzgerald crew, knowing that 17 miles out her father, Blaine Wilhelm, rests.
“It brings me peace somehow,” she said.

Jim Malewitz@jmalewitz· Nov 6

"The increases depend on where you live. For example, the new benchmark plan in Milwaukee County will be 44% more expensive than the 2025 benchmark." wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/how-...