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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Trump Betrays the Voters
✹ Representative Betsy Coffia:
Surviving in a Swing District
✹ Chairperson Barnes:
Government By and For the Billionaires
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Local governments take aim at Michigan’s wind, solar law in new lawsuit – Bridge Michigan
- AG wants to shut down charity connected to thefts from retired priests – Lansing State Journal
- Proposal would expand Michigan’s bottle deposit law. Some want to put a cork in it – Detroit News $$
- American Agriculture Can’t Afford Another Trade War with China – MSU Professor David Ortega via Newsweek
- Canada and U.S. Prosperity at Risk in the Shadow of New Tariffs, Says Canadian Chamber Report – Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- How Trump Could Upend Electric Car Sales – The New York Times
- Experts: Under Trump, GM faces volatile future with more job cuts – Detroit Free Press $$
- Whooping cough cases surge in Michigan. Health officials point finger at what’s fueling them – Detroit News $$
- Michigan AG’s prosecution of false electors continues after Trump win – Detroit News $$
- Blue States Are Bracing for Legal Clashes With Trump – Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Incomprehensible Band of Incompetents
- Multiple Trump picks for Cabinet have faced sexual misconduct allegations – The Washington Post
- Trump’s Fans Suddenly Realize How He Picks Nominees—and They’re Pissed – The New Republic
- Several Trump White House picks have ties to Project 2025 – MSNBC
- Meet the billionaires working with Trump on his second term – Yahoo! News
- Some Arab Americans who voted for Trump say they are concerned about his picks for key positions – PBS News
- Who is John Phelan? Financier With No Military Experience Tapped to Run the Navy – The Daily Beast
- Trump taps Jay Bhattacharya, critic of Covid lockdowns, to lead NIH – Maddow Blog
- Trump A.G. Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Signed Up For – The New Republic
- Trump aide sought payments from job seekers, internal legal review found – The Washington Post
The New Administration is All About Trump
- Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During the Campaign. Not Anymore. – The New York Times
- Devoted Aide Who Keeps Good News Flowing Will Follow Trump to the White House – The New York Times
- Trump hoodwinked voters about his worst policy commitments – Public Notice
- Trump vows tariffs over immigration. What the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime – AP News
- Trump’s tariffs could mean higher inflation on groceries, gas and cars – The Washington Post
- Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico preview the corruption to come – Paul Waldman via MSNBC
- Canada examining tariffs on certain US items following Trump’s tariff threat – AP News
- Special counsel moves to dismiss election interference and classified documents cases against Trump – AP News
- Steve Bannon Reveals New List of Trump’s Targets in Grim Rant – The New Republic
- Trump’s ‘mandate’ stretch may snap back hard – MSNBC
Across the Nation
- Opinion | Democrats need ‘shortcuts’ to reach low-information voters – Jennifer Rubin/The Washington Post
- A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned – The New Republic
- Ohio Governor Signs Bathroom Restrictions for Transgender Students – The New York Times
- Porsha Ngumezi Died After Not Getting a D&C in a Texas Hospital — ProPublica
- Donald Trump to kick transgender troops out of US military – The Times
- Get Ready for Total Chaos as House GOP Wins Historically Puny Majority – The New Republic
- EV Project to Get $6 Billion in Federal Loan – The New York Times
Climate Change
- Trump Vowed to Kill Biden’s Climate Law. Republicans Say Not So Fast. – Wall Street Journal
- Atlantic hurricane season, a stream of damage in its wake, comes to an end – AP News
- As Earth passes 1.5C warming goal, the Paris Agreement is at a plateau – The Washington Post
- Musk Says He Wants to Save the Planet. Tesla’s Factories Are Making It Dirtier. – Wall Street Journal
- Donald Trump’s call for ‘energy dominance’ is likely to run into real-world limits – AP News
- Utilities build flow batteries big enough to oust coal, gas power plants – Washington Post
- A Climate Change – The New York Times