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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes:
Republican government = Chaos
✹ Governor Jim Blanchard:
The legacy of the “Mother of the ERA”, Congresswoman and Lt. Governor Martha Griffiths
✹ Trump’s Bogus Revenge Lawsuits
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Trump Threatens to Shut Down Government and Rip Away Michiganders’ Disaster Relief Funding – Michigan Democratic Party
- Michigan Senate passes dozens of bills in 29-hour-long marathon session – Detroit News $$
- New Medicaid benefit for some Michigan patients: Better food – Bridge Michigan
- Consumers Energy seeking a nearly 11% increase in residential gas bills – Bridge Michigan
- Nessel to Review, Contest Consumers Energy’s Latest Rate Hike Request – Attorney General
- Michigan Senate OKs hate crime, birth control access bills in marathon final push – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan lawmakers OK $247M in spending for 3 economic projects – Detroit News
Trump Grifting
- Trump sues Des Moines Register, Gannett over Iowa election poll – Des Moines Register
- Des Moines Register Responds to Trump’s Deranged Lawsuit – The New Republic
- Trump’s Billionaire Cabinet Is Unprecedented – Mother Jones
- Opinion | What if Trump Doesn’t Need to Keep Any of His Promises? – Frank Bruni/The New York Times $$
- Pretending he has an electoral mandate, Trump keeps making stuff up – Maddow Blog
- DA Fani Willis Disqualified From Georgia Trump Prosecution – Mother Jones
- Judge Declines to Toss Trump’s New York Hush-Money Conviction – Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Band of Billionaires, Felons, Cronies and Buffoons
- Trump’s Billionaire Cabinet Is Unprecedented – Mother Jones
- Trump Roasted for Letting “President Musk” Call Spending Bill Shots – The New Republic
- Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules – The New York Times
- Trump taps Herschel Walker for ambassador to the Bahamas – CBS News
- The Wrath of Trump: House Republicans Map a Case Against Liz Cheney – The New York Times
Across the Nation
- Bidenomics Was Wildly Successful – The New Republic
- Joint DHS/FBI Statement on Reports of Drones in New Jersey — FBI
- Majority of Americans oppose Trump’s proposals to test democracy’s limits – The Washington Post
- MAGA Rep. Baffles Everyone by Dropping All Responsibilities But One – The New Republic
- President Biden Secures Confirmation of 235th Federal Judge
- Immigration agency deports highest numbers since 2014 – AP News
- Senate Democrats render a verdict on Supreme Court ethics – POLITICO
- Trump’s debt ceiling loss foreshadows challenges he faces with Congress – The Washington Post
- Donald Trump jokes Canada becoming 51st state is ‘great idea’ – The Hill
- Archivist says Equal Rights Amendment can’t be certified – AP News
