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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹President Joe Biden: Patriot
✹Senator Dayna Pokehanki: the GOP’s war on women
✹This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage:
Running away from Project 2025
Kamala Harris’s life, career and firsts from AG to the vice presidency – The Washington Post
Gretchen Whitmer endorses Kamala Harris for president – Detroit Free Press
Kamala Harris Gets a Potentially Game-Changing Youth Vote Endorsement – Daily Beast
This Week in the (Other) News
Michigan Politics
- Trump, Fain trade barbs over UAW, state of auto industry – Detroit Free Press
- Lansing Mayor Andy Schor responds to Tom Barrett viewpoint on crime – Lansing State Journal
- Public Policy Poll: Michigan & Pennsylvania
- Donald Trump sues Gretchen Whitmer over Michigan voter registration efforts – Bridge Michigan
- Jeff Timmer: Republicans threaten the ‘Chimes of Freedom’ • Michigan Advance
The Republican National Convention
- Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 RNC – The Washington Post
- Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC – The Washington Post
- Fact-checking Day 3 of the 2024 RNC – The Washington Post
- Fact-checking Trump on RNC’s Day 4 – The Washington Post
- The Republican National Convention Was a “Man’s World” – Mother Jones
- A Party of Precarious Manhood, Led by a Blithering Idiot – The American Prospect
- Opinion | RNC celebration in Milwaukee belies unpopular abortion, gun policies – Eugene Robinson/The Washington Post
- In Vance, Trump finds a kindred spirit on election denial and Jan. 6 – The Washington Post
- Hillary Clinton Slams Donald Trump for Picking Election Denier J.D. Vance as VP – Daily Beast
National Politics
- Take this hillbilly’s word for it: JD Vance doesn’t speak for us. Willie Carver via MSNBC
- It’s a Workers’ Party Now? – Mother Jones
- This <GOP> Crew Is Totally Beatable – David Frum/The Atlantic
- Senate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections – NBC News
- Majority of Voters Think Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito Should Be Impeached, Support Gift Bans and Term Limits – Data for Progress
- Blue Labs Polling of Alternative nominees – Kelly, Moore, Shapiro, Whitmer
- Trump’s Proposed Tax Cuts and Increased Tariffs Could Hurt Poorer Households – The New York Times
- How a Republican election sweep could hobble U.S. climate efforts – The Washington Post
- Dow Clinches Best Day in More Than a Year, S&P 500 Hits New Record – Wall Street Journal
