The Matt McNeil Show

Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer joins to talk about some of the latest reporting from the Reformer. This week Brett and Patrick talk about the DOJ launching investigations into Minnesota politicians, a court ruling against ICE tactics vs. protestors, corporate responses (or lack thereof) and more. Find more about what they talked about at:

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/federal-judge-tells-ice-to-cool-it/

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/with-a-whistle-and-roar-or-quiet-resistance-now-is-the-time-to-resist-the-federal-beast-minnesota/

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/20/reports-us-department-of-justice-delivers-subpoenas-to-walz-frey-her-ellison-moriarty/

Trump admits his Greenland assault is revenge for not getting a Nobel Prize; far-right racist run out of downtown Minneapolis; Dr. Robert Adams of the Penn Center joins the show today; protests at a church service with an ICE supervisor pastor; arrest of a US citizen taken from his home in his underwear; farm workers not showing up; Trump administration acrively courting influencers to cause chaos.

Dr. Robert Adams is the Executive Director of the Penn Center on St. Helena Island near Beaufort, South Carolina.

Dr. Adams was born in Bangor, Maine, and raised in military institutions across the South (Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas). He earned an M.A. in sociology from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Robert has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

Previously, Dr. Adams served as the Senior Vice President of Programs at the NEA Foundation in Washington, DC, overseeing the Foundation’s grantmaking programs. Dr. Adams has also worked as an Executive-on-Loan/Interim Chief Operating Officer at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, a Program Officer at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Associate Director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Dr. Adams recently served as Co-Founder and Principal for Sargent Adams Consulting LLC. in Boston, MA. He provided strategic guidance on change management and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for Fortune 500, government, labor, and nonprofit clients.

Nick Paro of Sick of This Shit on Substack joins; Trump’s BO problem; a right wing protest in MN on Saturday; how ICE raids are hurting small towns; a terrible ICE arrest in Willmar; Michael Brodkorb talks ICE and previews NFL playoff games.

Matt is joined by Michael Brodkorb. The first part of the conversation features thoughts on ICE in Minnesota. Then in the second part they preview this weekend’s NFL playoff games.

Matt was joined by Nick Paro. Nick is an Army veteran, a dad, an unabashed progressive living in Arkansas, and the founder of Sick of This Shit on Substack (https://sickofthis.substack.com/).

Ellie Leonard of Blue Amp joins Matt to discuss the Epstein files; ICE shoots man in North Minneapolis; updated vidoe evidence is even more damning of Ross; trolls; right-wing content creators flood in; agents spreading out to rural Minnesota; inflation lies from Trump.

Contributing Editor @ Blue Amp Media, child-wrangler, sometimes-filmmaker, Missoulian dropped on my head in NYC. Wandering Agent-lessly Signal:

Statement released by Good’s family; a complete breakdown of all of the available angles of the Good shooting; the lack of screening of ICE officer applications; Jeff Stein joins the show for his Wednesday visit; Trump suspends visa applications for over 70 countries; Native American detained by ICE; lawsuit against ICE declined for now; gubernatorial candidate representing the killer.

Jeff Stein of KXEL/Waterloo and the Iowa Politics Report joins Matt every Wednesday at 3:30.