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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Trump’s Reckless, Incompetent and Craven Cabinet
✹ Representative Rachel Hood:
Updating Sex Education Curriculum
✹ Chairperson Barnes:
It is time to begin a new chapter
In the News
Letter from Chair Barnes on Not Seeking Re-election – Michigan Democratic Party
Michigan Politics and Policy
- House Democrats Elect Minority Leader, Floor Leader – housedems.com
- In Michigan House, time for Democrats is running out. What to expect – Bridge Michigan
- With McDonald Rivet heading to Congress, who will fill her open Michigan Senate seat? • Michigan Advance
- Michigan local governments getting $87 million from marijuana sales – Bridge Michigan
- Ohio helps make Michigan No. 1 in weed sales — but perhaps not for long – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan House lawmakers introduce minimum wage, paid sick leave bills – Detroit Free Press
- New legislation would update Michigan’s public school sex education curriculum • Michigan Advance
- Man testifying against gun ban drops racist slur in Michigan Senate testimony – WLNS News
- Mike Rogers in consideration for FBI chief after meeting in Mar-a-Lago with Trump transition team, sources say – Fox News
- Arab Americans in Dearborn who met Trump ask for ceasefire in letter – Detroit News
- Who will run to replace Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan? ‘The floodgates have opened’ – Detroit News
- Morning Digest: It’s game on for one of the biggest races of 2026 – The Downballot
- Has Michigan governor race begun? Duggan spurs speculation. Here’s who might run – Bridge Michigan
Trump’s Incomprehensible Band of Incompetents
- VIDEO: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on RFK Jr. – CNN
- VIDEO – ‘Terrifying’: Ex-HHS Secretary calls RFK Jr. pick ‘life or death situation’ – MSNBC
- 10 RFK Jr. conspiracy theories and false claims, in his own words – The Washington Post
- Vaccines, Fluoride and More: RFK Jr.’s Wildest Public Health Ideas – The Daily Beast
- Is Matt Gaetz ‘an accomplished attorney’? Digging into Trump AG pick’s record as a Florida lawyer – Politifact
- “She Was a High School Student and There Were Witnesses.” – The New Republic
- Tulsi Gabbard Questioned U.S. Intelligence. Now She Is Trump’s Pick for Top Intelligence Role. – Wall Street Journal
- Tulsi Gabbard Is a Uniquely Bad Choice for Director of National Intelligence – Mother Jones
- ‘Who the f–k is this guy?’: Defense world reacts to Trump’s surprise Pentagon pick – POLITICO
- Trump’s New Defense Secretary Is a Total Nightmare – The New Republic
- Trump’s New Border Czar Championed Family-Separation Policy in First Term – Wall Street Journal
- White Nationalist and Ex-Trump Aide Stephen Miller to Make White House Return – The Daily Beast
The New Administration is All About Trump
- MAGA Launches Deranged Campaign to Replace Marco Rubio With Nepo Baby Lara Trump – The New Republic
- Jared Kushner’s $3 billion conflict of interest – Popular Information
- How Trump Will Profit From the Presidency (Again) – The New Republic
- In Trump’s second term, evidence suggests corruption will be worse, not better – Maddow Blog
Across the Nation
- Opinion: Trump can ‘fix’ the economy by doing nothing – Catherine Rampell/The Washington Post
- Can Trump avoid screwing up what he’s inheriting from Biden? – Maddow Blog
- Trump is about to take credit for Biden’s accomplishments as president – MSNBC
- Trump’s call for mass deportation could affect grocery prices – Detroit Free Press
- Instant Regret: Trump Voters Already Feeling Pain of Trump’s Tariff Plan – Meidas+
- It wasn’t a landslide, media reports notwithstanding – by Andy Borowitz
- The 3-year Anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – The White House
- The Biden economy’s best salesman: Donald Trump – POLITICO
- Trump repeated 2016 promises in 2024 that he failed to fulfill the first time – The Michigan Independent
- Musk’s PAC spent an estimated $200M to help elect Trump, AP source says – AP News
- Democratic Governors Form a Group to Oppose the Trump Administration – The New York Times
- How a right-coded media environment helped Trump win – Public Notice
Climate Change
- The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable – Mother Jones
- Trump’s Win Threatens U.S. Clean-Energy Boom – Wall Street Journal
- Trump Chooses Lee Zeldin to Run E.P.A. as He Plans to Gut Climate Rules – The New York Times
- Donald Trump’s energy czar, Interior Department pick Doug Burgum: What to know – The Hill
