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AG Nessel Announces Victory on SNAP Case
This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”:
Chairperson Curtis Hertel
SNAP: Trump Tells 1.4 Michiganders
to Go Hungry
State Reprsentative Kara Hope
Stopping SLAPPs
In the News

“Release the Files”
Lincoln Project
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Michigan court: House GOP must send blocked bills to Whitmer | Bridge Michigan
- $500-Billion OpenAI Data Center Announced In Washtenaw County | MIRS News
- Related to Build More-Than-$7 Billion Data Center for Oracle, OpenAI’s Stargate in Saline Michigan | Wall Street Journal
- Whitmer and 20 other governors appeal to White House for SNAP program funds – CBS Detroit
- 3 health insurers dropping coverage for 200,000 in Michigan | Detroit News
- Should Rogers, Republicans Et Al Be Blamed For Exploding Health Insurance Premiums? | MIRS News
- Water Affordability Bills Make Another Splash In Senate Housing – MIRS Blog
- Slotkin slams Trump’s ‘secret war’ at sea | Detroit News
- Ford urges U.S. ambassador Hoekstra to ‘bury the hatchet,’ apologize after profane tirade | CBC News
- Duggan could enable a Trump-backed GOP governor | Bankile Thompson/Detroit News
- Nesbitt, Cox Take On James For Passing On Debate – MIRS News
- Michigan Secretary of State candidate fundraising – VoteBeat Michigan
- GOP hopeful pumps millions of own money into Michigan governor’s race | Bridge Michigan
- Nesbitt staffer’s firm works for James campaign, raising ethics flags in GOP governor race | Michigan Advance
Weaponizing the Federal Government
- DHS shares misleading footage to promote immigration agenda – The Washington Post
- Free Speech? British commentator Sami Hamdi detained by ICE | AP News
- The White House’s campaign against elections takes a radical turn with midterms on horizon | Maddow Blog
Trump-World Grift, Lies and Corruption
- Poll: Americans oppose Trump’s demolition of the East Wing | The Washington Post
- Trump fires federal arts board in charge of reviewing White House ballroom and ‘Arc de Trump’ | The Guardian
- Trump Has Abandoned Global Climate Efforts, so US Groups Are Stepping Up | Mother Jones
- It Sure Looks Like Kash Patel Used the FBI’s Jet to Go on a Date | The New Republic
- Trump’s ‘real numbers’ on private sector job growth are neither real nor numbers | Maddow Blog
- The $230 Million Theft in Broad Daylight | Harry Litman/Talking Feds Substack
- Inside the Trump family’s global billion dollar crypto cash machine | Reuters
- The Good News: Scummy George Santos Isn’t Out of the Woods Just Yet | The New Republic
- 3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency | Judd Legum/Popular Information substack
- Stephen Miller Scores Free Military House in ‘Trump Green Zone’ – Daily Beast
The Federal Budget Mess
- ACA Insurers Are Raising Premiums by an Estimated 26%, but Most Enrollees Could See Sharper Increases in What They Pay | KFF Quick Takes
- Obamacare Prices Become Public, Highlighting Big Increases – The New York Times
- GOP needs Trump OK to negotiate shutdown: Senator Elissa Slotkin | Detroit Free Press Opinion
- Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds | The Washington Post
- Why Democrats must end the era of no consequences – Michael Steele/MSNBC
The Battle to Defend the Constitution
- Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way | The Atlantic
- The DOJ’s “election monitoring” is really voter suppression | Public Notice substack
- Trump DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE | The New Republic
- Former senior DHS official Miles Taylor launches new web tool to plan protests against Trump administration | CBS News
- From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | The Guardian
- Federal judge says Trump can’t require proof of citizenship for voting | AP News
Right-Wing Media Takeover
- CBS Evening News Says Nothing About Trump Pardon Of Crypto CEO | Deadline.com
- Another Big Reason to Worry About Bari Weiss’ Tenure at CBS News | David Corn/Mother Jones
- John Dickerson, Anchor and Correspondent, Will Leave CBS News | The New York Times
- Trump family and Fox News are friends again – Daily Kos
- Larry and David Ellison Are Building a Pro-Trump Media Behemoth | The New Republic
- CNN chief Mark Thompson’s D.C. Drop-In – Status.news
Across the Nation
- UN human rights chief calls US strikes on alleged drug boats ‘unacceptable’ | AP News
- Trump sets 7,500 limit for number of refugees entering US per year – mostly white South Africans | AP News
- The Narco War No One Believes | Michael Cohen/Meidas+
- Report: Anti-Abortion Leaders Helped Tank Trump’s Promise of Free IVF – Mother Jones
- Indiana and Kansas Republicans resist Trump’s push to redistrict | AP News
- Why Do People Need an MRI Scan, Doctors Tell Why Trump Secretly Got One | Daily Beast
- It’s Time to Get Trump, 79, a Companion—or a Stairlift | Daily Beast
- Newsom Flags Telltale Sign Trump’s Doctors Are ‘Worried’ | Daily Beast
- Republicans think they’ve uncovered a story that’s ‘bigger than Watergate’ (again) | Maddow Blog)

