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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹MDP Chair Lavora Barnes on a return, after 248 years, of having a King preside over America
✹This week’s Trump/GOP Outrages The double-standard of Republicans and the media for judging Joe Biden and Donald Trump
✹Michigan political legend Mark Grebner on the quiet-but-critical role of county commissions, strategies for GOTV and the amazing career of Debbie Stabenow
This Week in the News
Michigan Politics
- Whitmer Disavows ‘Draft Gretch’ Movement — and Delivers A Warning to Biden – POLITICO
- Whitmer Slams Rival’s Leak That She Said Biden will Lose Michigan – The Daily Beast
- Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers connected to Saudi companies, including one with nuclear ambitions – Heartland Signal
- Republican rivals attack Rogers as Senate favorite and allies counter criticism – Detroit News
Michigan Policy
- Michigan lawmakers want to outlaw deepfake sexual content: What it is – Detroit Free Press
- Macomb Prosecutor Peter Lucido sues county’s top attorney, ethics board
- Michigan HOAs can’t ban solar panels under newly passed bill – Bridge Michigan
GOP/Trump Outrages
- Jobs report June 2024 – CNBC
- (From January 2021) Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history – The Washington Post
- Sotomayor’s scathing Trump immunity dissent makes November’s stakes clear – Neal Katyal/MSNBC
- The Supreme Court Just Put Trump Above the Law – Mother Jones
- The Supreme Court Just Gave ‘King’ Trump License to Really Run Riot – The Daily Beast
- Opinion | There Is Apparently No Accountability — Ever — for Donald Trump – Frank Bruni/The New York Times
- Supreme power grab – Judd Legum/Popular Information
- SCOTUS completes the biggest power grab in modern US history – Public Notice
- Varying Treatment of Biden and Trump Puts Their Parties in Stark Relief – The New York Times
- Trump Amplifies Calls To Jail Biden, Harris, Pence, McConnell – The New York Times
- Florida: School library books governments disagree with can be banned
- Rudolph Giuliani disbarred as court finds he lied about Trump’s election loss – AP News
- Republicans Are Already Running Against Kamala Harris – Mother Jones
National
- Job growth, while still brisk, is moderating to 206,000 new jobs in June – The Washington Post
- Biden administration tells doctors they must provide emergency abortions – AP News
- Organizers Say Abortion Access Is Headed to the Ballot in 3 More States – The New York Times
- Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballot | AP News
- Who pays tariffs? And how do we know? – Paul Krugman via The New York Times
Climate Change
- Hurricane Beryl: Earliest Ever Cat 5 Hurricane Now Threatening U.S. Landfall – Daily Beast
- The major wildfires impacting Northern California – FOX40 Sacramento
- Dengue fever is surging worldwide. The epidemic has reached the U.S. – The Washington Post
