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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹MDP Chair Lavora Barnes on the new GOP Campaign Tactic: “Cheap Fakes” that amount to video lies about Joe Biden.
✹This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage The U.S. Supreme Court’s six-month delay in deciding whether Trump had presidential immunity, i.e., the right to ignore the law whenever he felt like it.
✹Michigan Democrats versus “Deep Fake” A.I. generated X-rated videos.
We’re joined by the chief sponsor of legislation reigning in A.I. deep fakes, East Lansing Representative Penelope Tsernoglou. Her bill requiring identification of political deep fakes is now law; her bill attacking X-rated A.I. generated images and videos has just passed in the House.
In the News This Week
The Ten Commandments as Practice by the GOP
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Michigan Politics
- ‘The Interview’: Gretchen Whitmer Wants a Gen X President — in 2028 – The New York Times
- Neil Friske arrest: Michigan state representative held after chasing adult dancer with a gun. – Slate
- Freep endorsements in Dem primary: Scholten, Dingell, Stevens, Tlaib – Detroit Free Press
- Black voters say Trump’s indictments don’t rally their support – Detroit Free Press
Michigan Policy
- ‘Deepfake’ sexual content targeted by bills passed by Michigan House – Detroit Free Press
- Federal appeal court returns Enbridge Line 5 case to Michigan – Michigan Public Radio
- Supreme Court upholds gun law intended to protect domestic violence victims – AP News
Trump/GOP Outrages
- ‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead – The Washington Post
- Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden’s mental fitness – Judd Legum/Popular Information
- Trump challenges Biden to a cognitive test but misstates the name of doctor who tested him – Los Angeles Times
- Trump’s black voter outreach at a Suddenly White Church – via X
- Trump cranks up false, inflammatory messages to rake in campaign cash – The Washington Post
- Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside – The New York Times
- Middle class Americans would suffer under Trump’s import tax plan – MSNBC
- Lara Trump: ‘Doesn’t Matter’ if Trump’s in Prison for RNC – Daily Beast
- Republicans Gag Mentions of Trump’s Conviction on the House Floor – The New York Times
- Trump World Reportedly Flirts With a Return to Mandatory Military Service – Mother Jones
- On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes ‘bonkers’ theory about CIA’s ‘takeover of the American press’ – ABC News
- First They Tried to “Cure” Gayness. Now They’re Fixated on “Healing” Trans People. – Mother Jones
- DeSantis Vetoes All Arts Grants in Florida – The New York Times
National
- Biden’s Title IX rule, expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students, blocked by judge in 6 additional states | AP News
- Biden settles on a message to take out Trump: He’s even worse than before – The Washington Post
- New Polling Shows the Real Fallout From the Trump Conviction – POLITICO
- Biden’s Secret Weapon Against Trump: Older Voters – Wall Street Journal
- Two Years Since Dobbs, Voters Are Concerned About New Abortion Restrictions and Support Expanding Access
- Former Governor Mitch Daniels (R-Indiana): The GOP has a lock on some states, Democrats others. It’s not healthy. – The Washington Post
- Where Trump and Biden stand on key LGBTQ+ issues – Politifact
- Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Public-School Classrooms – Wall Street Journal
- Opinion: GOP Pushes Ten Commandments but Ignores Jesus’ Actual Teachings – Matt Lewis/Daily Beast
- On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes ‘bonkers’ theory about CIA’s ‘takeover of the American press’ – ABC News
Climate Change
