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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Hertel
Working to get results for Michigan
✹ State Senator Sarah Anthony
Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee
In the News
VIDEO New concern over Trump’s rambling speeches, posts – Chris Hayes via MSNBC
Cognitive Decline? Trump Repeatedly Fumbles in Multiple Weird Rants – The New Republic
VIDEO: Trump gives DISASTER Speech leaving ARMY STUNNED – MeidasTouch
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Brinks: No Genuine Conversation Between House, Senate On Road Funding – MIRS Blog
- Michigan allots $5.4 million for worker housing, down payment help – Bridge Michigan
- Slotkin is testing a ‘war plan’ to beat Trump. She wants Dems to ditch wokeness and muscle up – POLITICO
- Whitmer Slams Trump for Plan to Pardon Kidnap Plotters Who Wanted to ‘Hog-tie’ Her
- Impact poll – Whitmer favorability at all-time high
- Whitmer Gets ‘Trump Bump’ for Cozying Up to President -Daily Beast
- Glengariff Group Poll – May 2025 ( U.S. Senate, Governor)
- Trump to Michigan: Comply with immigration, DEI orders or lose road funding – Bridge Michigan
- Nessel: Trump admin’s order to keep coal plant open ‘unprecedented’ – Detroit News
- Chinese Students Thriving At The University Of Michigan – ShunStudent
- International Students at MSU – MSU Office of International Students and Scholars
- Judge tosses wrongful prosecution lawsuit against Nessel’s Flint team – Detroit News
Trump Corruption
- Trump Has Dropped the Pretense of Ethics – Mother Jones
- Trump Profits Like No Other President, as Outrage Is Muted – The New York Times
- Trump’s Air Force One deal with Qatar not final despite U.S. claims – The Washington Post
- Rep. Jamie Raskin opens investigation into Trump’s crypto dinner – The Washington Post
- Trump’s New Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, Is Eager to Target Biden-Era Cases – Wall Street Journal
- Trump Accused of ‘Unforced Error’ Over Latest Pardons – Daily Beast
- Trump set to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley – AP News
- Ex-Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, who resigned amid a corruption scandal, pardoned by Trump – AP News
- Trump to pardon Virginia sheriff convicted on bribery charges – AP News
- Trump’s border czar consulted for immigrant detention firm GEO Group – The Washington Post
- Trump wants an investigation of Democrats’ fundraising. His own campaign has issues – AP News
- Three Coin Monte – The American Prospect
- The Golden Age of Scams – The American Prospect
- NPR sues Trump over executive order to cut funding to public media – AP NewsΩ
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” a.k.a. “Goodies for Billionaires”
- Trump’s tax cuts will be cripplingly expensive for most Americans – MSNBC
- How Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Are Increasing Costs on Americans – The New York Times
- NPR sues Trump over executive order to cut funding to public media – AP News
Trump’s Cabinet of Incompetents
- CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr. – The New York Times
- The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist – NOTUS
- Leaked audio suggests Trump’s new Social Security chief had to Google his own job – Maddow Blog
Attacks on the Constitution
- Trump Administration Knew Most Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Had No U.S. Crime Convictions — ProPublica
- Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Interview – WIRED
- The Trump Administration Is Already Ignoring the Supreme Court – Mother Jones
- The Trump administration’s big week of gaslighting and censorship – MSNBC
- Trump’s clemency spree extends to ex-gangster, artist, former congressmen – Washington Post
- Trump administration moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard – AP News
The Nation
- Missouri Supreme Court Defies Voters, Halts Abortions in the State – Mother Jones
- A Bipartisan Majority of Voters Do Not Want Congress to Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act – Data for Progress
- Voters Support Progressive Policy Alternatives to Trump’s Immigration Agenda – Data for Progress
- Earth will breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal by 2027, scientists say – The Washington Post
- The world could break another annual temperature record in the next five years – AP News
- Trump presented ‘evidence’ of ‘white genocide’ to South African president. The facts say otherwise – Snopes.com
