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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: Trump is a criminal who should face trial – Special Counsel Jack Smith
✹ Representative Joey Andrews on climate change and reopening the Palisades Nuclear Plant
✹ This week’s Trump Outrage: The massive grift
In the News
Michigan Politics
- Trump campaign employee on Detroit ballot center: ‘Make them riot’ – Detroit News
- Vance won’t commit to $500M grant for building EVs at Michigan auto plant – Detroit News
- Questions raised over where Senate candidate Mike Rogers really lives – Detroit Free Press
- Rogers says Medicare negotiating drug price reductions is ‘sugar high politics’ • Michigan Advance
- Mike Rogers’ support for ‘fetal personhood’ could threaten access to IVF and contraception – The Michigan Independent
- Obama endorses Slotkin – via X
- Slotkin reports $18M fundraising haul for U.S. Senate bid – Detroit News
- Mid-Michigan congressional race attracts big spending, high hopes – Detroit News
Michigan Policy
- St. Clair Shores voters, election workers face fraud charges – Detroit Free Press
- Michigan teachers to pay less into retirement fund in future – Detroit Free Press
Trump/GOP Outrages
- VIDEO – Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show – YouTube
- 24 hours of MAGA misinformation – The Washington Post
- Democrats push for Justice Department probe into Trump and Egypt – Maddow Blog
- Trump mixes up words, swerves among subjects in off-topic speech – The Washington Post
- Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump’s Outrage – The New Republic
- Oklahoma buying schools 55,000 bibles. Specs match the $60 Trump bible – The Washington Post
- Trump Rally in Michigan Dominated by More False Statements – The New York Times
- Donald Trump claims he ‘won’ Michigan in 2020 — and will again – Bridge Michigan
- Trump’s false claim of ‘EV mandate’ gains traction in Michigan – POLITICO
- Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It. – The New York Times
- Five Issues Where Donald Trump Flip-Flopped From Abortion to TikTok – Wall Street Journal
Climate Change
- Forecasters predict another hurricane will strike Florida by midweek – The Washington Post
- Floridians hit 3 times by hurricanes grapple with rebuilding – AP News
- The Midwest is Winning Some Climate Migrants – TIME
- Trump initially refused to give California wildfire aid because it’s a blue state, ex-aide says – E&E News by POLITICO
- Trump and GOP Make BS Migrant Claim Amid FEMA Hurricane Shortfall – The Daily Beast
National Politics and Policy
- Jack Smith filing lays out new evidence against Trump Jan. 6 immunity – The Washington Post
- The Murder Rate Fell at the Fastest-Ever Pace Last Year—and It’s Still Falling – Mother Jones
- Election 2024: Cybersecurity head says there’s no chance a foreign adversary can change results – AP News
- The Boss endorses @KamalaHarris – via X
- Obama to campaign for Harris in month leading up to election – The Washington Post
- U.S. Hiring Accelerated in September, Blowing Past Expectations – Wall Street Journal
- Kuttner on TAP: Biden’s Amazing Win Settling the Dock Strike – The American Prospect
- Supreme Court clears way for Biden limits on methane and mercury emissions – The Washington Post
- 500 Gs to deregulate 5G – POLITICO
- Ports Rush to Reopen After Dockworker Strike Is Suspended – The New York Times
- Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud recovery – AP News
