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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Curtis Hertel
GOP Candidates Agree: No Healthcare Choice for Women
✹ Dr. Farhan Bhatti
The human cost of the GOP war on healthcare
VIDEO
Slotkin pitches ‘economic war plan’ for
Democrats to play ‘offense’ – Bridge Michigan
VIDEO
Representative Hillary Scholten
‘Lowering Costs Caucus’ Launched
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Republican proposed K-12 budget creates uncertainty among Michigan school leaders – mlive.com
- Michigan hospitals warn of reduced care if Senate enacts Medicaid cuts – Detroit News
- The future of same-sex marriage in Michigan: 9 key questions, answers – Detroit Free Press
- Editorial: Slashing funds for UM, MSU, would hurt Michigan – Detroit News
- Michigan hospitals warn of reduced care if Senate enacts Medicaid cuts – Detroit News
- Michigan poll: Voters more confident in elections system, need more education on existing security protections – Democracy Defense Project
- We Are Still Underreacting on AI – Pete Buttigieg Substack
- Leonard Joins James in Support of Gutting Medicaid. Do Nesbitt & Cox Also Support? – Michigan Democratic Party
- Bump stocks, ghost gun bans passed by Michigan Senate – Detroit Free Press
- GOP leader: Bump stock, ghost gun bans ‘dead on arrival’ in Michigan House – Bridge Michigan
- Ford to ‘stick behind’ Marshall plant amid threat to battery tax credit – Detroit News
- Michigan nears ticket bot ban as House OKs plan inspired by Taylor Swift – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan recoups $166K after transparency website problems, Benson says – Detroit News
- Rep. Stevens: Limit presidents’ power to send troops to protests – Detroit News
- Aerospace Leader Not Returning To Michigan; Believes He’s Being Targeted By AG – MIRS Blog
- Iconic whitefish on edge of collapse as Great Lakes biodiversity crisis deepens – Bridge Michigan
- MIRS – Karen McDonald Announces A.G. candidacy
- Virgil C. Smith, trailblazing Detroit lawmaker and judge, dies at 77 – Detroit Free Press
The War on Democracy
- Why I Finally Went to my First Protest – Jeff Timmer, former Michigan Republican Executive Director
- Don’t Get Distracted. That’s Exactly What Trump Wants. – Lincoln Square
- Whistleblower says top DOJ official suggested ignoring court orders on deportations – NBC News
Trump-World Grift, Lies and Corruption
- Trump Golf Track
- Trump Just Expanded His Tawdry Empire of Scams – The New Republic
- Trump attacks Watergate laws in massive shift to ethics system – The Washington Post
- Suck-ups: GOP lawmakers push ‘unprecedented’ legislation paying homage to Trump – The Washington Post
- A new war based on manipulated intelligence – Judd Legum/Popular Information Substack
- Damning Report Exposes Stephen Miller’s Shady Ties to Palantir -The New Republic
- HBO’s ‘Surviving Ohio State’ has Jim Jordan again denying he knew about awful scandal – MSNBC
- Trump’s Military Birthday Parade ‘Illegally’ Used Hit Song: Lawyer – Rolling Stone
- Justice Department fires 3 lawyers involved in Jan. 6 cases – AP News
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” a.k.a. “Goodies for Billionaires”
- Fact-checking falsehoods about Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and taxes, deficit, Medicaid – PolitiFact
- Senate GOP’s tax cuts projected to cost $4.2T — with costly SALT deal pending – Live Updates – POLITICO
- How the national debt affects the U.S. — and you — in 10 charts – The Washington Post
- The Big Beautiful Bust: Trump’s Economic Slide and the GOP’s 2026 Suicide Pact – Rick Wilson/Lincoln Square
- The Health Care Cuts in Trump’s Budget Bill Are Even Worse than You Think – Charles Gaba/Lincoln Square
- The Republican Budget Bill Includes Several Anti-Abortion Provisions — and They’re Unpopular With Persuadable Voters -Dara for Progress
- Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ unlikely to reverse Biden EV rules – Detroit Free Press
- Trump administration’s new rule will limit Obamacare enrollments – Detroit News
- The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts – The American Prospect
- Medicaid Work Requirements — Results from the First Year in Arkansas – New England Journal of Medicine
- Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That’s a risky bet.- MSNBC
- Democrats slam McConnell over ‘they’ll get over it’ quip on Medicaid cuts – Maddow Blog
- A lab in Maryland holds the keys to bee conservation. It might disappear under Trump budget cuts. – The Washington Post
- Trump and GOP’s tax bill would sell off USPS’s brand-new EVs – The Washington Post
- GOP tax bill would ease regulations on gun silencers – AP News
- GOP’s food stamp plan in Trump’s big bill is found to violate Senate rules – AP News
- Senate parliamentarian deals blow to GOP plan to gut consumer bureau in tax bill – AP News
- Judge blocks the Trump administration’s National Science Foundation research funding cuts – AP News
- The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America – The New Republic
- Group of 21 States Sues Trump Administration Over Federal Funding Cuts – Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Cabinet of Incompetents
- Fact check: Kristi Noem, Trump allies warn of ‘northern border crisis’ at Michigan event – Bridge Michigan
- Whistleblower says top DOJ official suggested ignoring court orders on deportations – NBC News
- RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines – The New York Times
- Hiltzik: Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC says the COVID vaccine protects pregnant women, babies, and children – Los Angeles Times
- Families share their stories of damage done by vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and rubella – AP News
The Nation
- VIDEO: What Did SCOTUS Do Now? | U..M. Law Professor Sam Bagenstos talks to Susan J. Demas
- The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long – WIRED
- World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says – The Washington Post
- A majority of Americans disapproves of Trump’s Iran airstrikes, CNN poll finds – CNN Politics
- Democrats in Congress Decry Trump’s Iran Strikes as Unconstitutional – Mother Jones
- Immigration fuels population growth as Americans age, census shows – The Washington Post
- Ohio abortion bill would ban all abortions, declare it homicide – Columbus Dispatch
- Ohio to swiftly appeal private school voucher decision – AP News
- New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom – AP News
- Murkowski leaves door open to scenario of caucusing with Democrats – Axios
- Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests – The Washington Post
- GOP plan to sell 3,200 square miles of federal lands violates Senate rules – AP News
