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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: Harris Shines, Trump Whines
✹ Representative Reggie Miller: Stop the dumping of Nuclear Waste into southeast Michigan
✹ This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage: Pandering with tax cut proposals that are DOA
In the News
Michigan Politics
- Walz highlights student debt, climate change in pitch to MSU students – Detroit News
- Michigan Dems blast Mike Rogers over opioid stance in Congress – Bridge Michigan
- Mike Rogers résumé includes consulting for businesses with shady foreign interests-
- Trump’s abortion answers complicate GOP’s push to neutralize attacks – Detroit News $$
- Kennedy, West stay on the ballot, Michigan Supreme Court decides – Detroit News
- CBS News poll for 2024 Senate races shows Democrats lead in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – CBS News
Michigan Policy
- Attorney General’s Final Report: MSU/Larry Nassar Investigation
- Top States for Doing Business in 2024: A Continued Legacy of Excellence – Area Development
- Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash – Bridge Michigan
Trump/GOP Outrages
- Democrats press oil executives on Trump’s $1B ask – POLITICO
- Springfield Upended by Bomb Threats, School Evacuations Over False Pet-Eating Claims – Wall Street Journal
- Ohio governor reaffirms Haitian immigrants are not eating animals – BBC
- The Trump Plan to Prosecute Election Officials and Suppress the Vote – Mother Jones
- Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of debate – AP News
- Trump Calls for Government Shutdown if Voting Laws Aren’t Changed – Wall Street Journal
- Next Up in Trump’s No-Tax Zone: Overtime Pay – Wall Street Journal
- ‘Doesn’t help the cause’: Trump’s time with Loomer upsets his GOP allies – Detroit News
- Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism – Greg Sargent/The New Republic
- Opinion | Three radical Trump policies Americans can’t ignore – Eugene Robinson/The Washington Post
- White Stripes sue Donald Trump, campaign over ‘Seven Nation Army’ use – Detroit Free Press
- Police are questioning Florida voters about signing an abortion rights ballot petition – AP News
- DeSantis’ Government Is Doing Everything It Can to Defeat an Abortion Rights Measure – Mother Jones
- Heritage Foundation Spreads Deceptive Videos About Noncitizen Voters – The New York Times
National Politics and Policy
- US inflation reaches 3-year low as Fed prepares to cut interest rates – AP News
- US gasoline prices set to fall under $3/gallon as election nears – Reuters
- The mirage of $2 gas – Paul Krugman/New York Times ($)
- UAW Wins Again In The South – Crooks and Liars
- Opinion | Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Will Support Kamala Harris – POLITICO
- Martha Stewart Just Quietly Endorsed Kamala Harris for President – The Daily Beast
- Utah court strikes down GOP proposal to gut ballot initiatives – The Downballot
- Trump sells himself as a ‘leader’ on IVF, angering some Republicans – POLITICO
- Elena Kagan keeps pressing for ethics code enforcement at Supreme Court – POLITICO
