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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Hertel
Trump’s one-person Economic Meltdown
The non-citizens-are-voting myth
Reaching out to rural Michigan
✹ Senator Mallory McMorrow
Candidate for United States Senate
In the News
We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now – The New York Times
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Non-citizens voting in Michigan: 0.00028% of the total vote – Michigan Secretary of State
- Peters blasts ‘crazy’ daily cost of detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay – Detroit News
- Michigan’s top court says police can’t search cars solely because of marijuana odor – AP News
- Two laws in 90 days: Michigan’s new divided Legislature off to slow start – Bridge Michigan
- ‘Slap in the face’: Black legislators condemn University of Michigan’s DEI cuts – mlive.com
- Michigan Democrats vow to focus on ‘results’ in bid to bounce back – Detroit News
- Democrat Mallory McMorrow jumps into Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race – Detroit News
Trump’s Economic Meltdown
- Trump Stomps Workers – The American Prospect
- U.S. Stocks Post Worst Quarter Since 2022 on Threat of Trade War – Wall Street Journal
- Stellantis idling some plants in Canada, Mexico; impact on US, too – Detroit Free Press
- Trump’s pitch on tariffs was built on a foundation of strange lies – Maddow Blog
- Trump’s tariff hikes raise fears of impact on schools, economy: Whitmer – Detroit News
- Trump administration ramps up farm aid discussions amid tariff fallout – POLITICO
- Trump Left a Key Country Out of His Extreme Tariffs – The New Republic
- Stable Genius Trump Just Put Tariffs on a U.S. Military Base – The New Republic
- Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins – WIRED
- Trump Picks Golf Dinner Over Dignified Transfer of U.S. Troops’ Bodies – The Daily Beast
Trump/Musk Administration’s Assault on Government and the Constitution
- Trump claims a Michael Jordan tattoo is evidence of Venezuelan gang membership – Popular Information Substack
- Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ – The New York Times
- RFK Jr.’s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick — And Medical Experts Have Thoughts – HuffPost Life
- The CDC Has Been Gutted – WIRED
- Tuberculosis is the world’s top infectious killer. Aid groups say Trump’s funding freezes will cause more deaths – CNN
- With his choice for drug czar, Trump adds to his team of Fox-affiliated amateurs – Maddow Blog
- SSA acting chief faces calls to resign over decision to cut Maine contracts – AP News
- Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut – NBC News
- Trump touted their ICE arrests. Half of these immigrants were already in prison. – Washington Post
- Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes – WIRED
- Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor – The New Republic
- Princeton Says Trump Administration Is Halting Research Grant Funding – Wall Street Journal
- Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say – The Washington Post
- Trump administration fires 50 attorneys and deputies in Justice Department – AP News
- ‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status – The New York Times
Trump/Musk/GOP Lawlessness and Corruption
- States sue to block Trump’s election order, saying it violates the Constitution – AP News
- As Musk buys votes, it’s time to answer which shall rule: Wealth or the people? – WI Dem Chair Ben Wikler via Daily Kos
- Trump Family Starts Bitcoin Mining Venture in Further Push Into Crypto – The New York Times
- Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law – AP News
The Nation
- VIDEO – Amber Ruffin Defends Both Sides After Her Cancelled White House Correspondents’ Gig
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America – The Daily Show
- How North Korea Cheated Its Way to Crypto Billions – Wall Street Journal
- Indiana transgender collegiate sports ban sent to Mike Braun’s desk – IndyStar
- Indiana Sen. Jim Banks won’t apologize for comments to federal employee – IndyStar
