Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:54 — 24.2MB)

Trump Finally Reveals His Health Care Plan—and It’s Bad
The New Republic
This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”:
Chairperson Curtis Hertel
Trump’s Budget Disaster
Bernie Porn
EPIC MRA Polling
Michigan: It’s Purple
In the News
VIDEO: “I.C.E. Job Interview Guide”
Lincoln Project
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Michigan’s U.S. senators reject deal to end shutdown | Detroit Free Press
- Slotkin Statement on Government Funding Vote
- Peters Statement on Vote on Continuing Resolution That Fails to Address Rising Health Care Costs
- VIDEO – Michigan Veterans Call Out Barrett, James for SNAP, Medicaid cuts – Michigan Families for Fair Care
- Veterans criticize GOP Reps. Barrett and James for cuts to SNAP, Medicaid on Veterans’ Day call | Michigan Advance
- 4 Michigan insurers drop Obamacare as costs for some double, triple | Detroit Free Press
- Michigan Dems push back as Republicans request DOJ to oversee state’s election | WILX TV
- GOP Leader Nesbitt Letter to DOJ – Election Monitoring
- Slotkin Leads Colleagues to Introduce Bill to Rein in Abuse of National Guard in Domestic Deployments – Senator Elissa Slotkin
- Ex-Michigan GOP co-chair files to challenge Rogers with U.S. Senate bid | Detroit News
- Michigan Democrats rebuff Rogers’ evidence-free claim that the 2024 election was also stolen | Michigan Advance
- Michigan Dems Slam Speaker Hall for Holding Veterans’ Affairs Bills Hostage in State House Ahead of Veterans Day – Michigan Democratic Party
- Michigan adopts updated sex education standards after contentious meeting | Bridge Michigan
- Lansing Republicans Pay Chatfield Aides that Plead Guilty to Embezzlement – Michigan Democratic Party
- Michigan lawmakers OK ‘pork’ reform after scandals, investigations | Bridge Michigan
- Consumers, Blue Cross fight Michigan proposal to keep ‘money out of politics’ | Bridge Michigan
Weaponizing the Federal Government
- Naturalized citizens wary of Trump’s immigration policies | AP News
- Retired journalists raise the alarm about state sponsored terror in Chicago | Jennifer Schulze substack
- Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison | The New York Times
Trump-World Grift, Lies and Corruption
- Business News: Confirmed: President Trump’s Mystery Desk Clock Came From Rolex – Hodinkee
- The Gold Bar Diplomacy That Won Switzerland a Trade Deal With Trump | Wall Street Journal
- Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal | The New York Times
- Trump give second pardon to Jan. 6 participant and pardons two others – The Washington Post
- Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’ | MSNBC
- Senators distance themselves from controversial payout provision | POLITICO
- House Republicans Claim They Were Blindsided by MAGA Senators’ Cash Grab | Daily Beast
- Trump says Bill Clinton was at Epstein’s island. Emails say otherwise. | USA Today
- Trump pardons Michigan false electors, allies who challenged his 2020 loss | Bridge Michigan
- How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy | The New York Times
- Trump Now Selling His Wine On Military Bases Because Nothing Matters Anymore | Crooks and Liars
- Trump’s Sinister Attempt to Whitewash History | Harry Litman/Talking Feds Substack
- Trump’s pardons aim to make his 2020 “fake elector scheme” legal – Hayes Brown/MSNBC
- Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats | Wall Street Journal
- Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign | ProPublica
- Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Screening for Dan Bongino, Senior Staff | ProPublica
The Federal Budget Mess

- VIDEO: Jon Stewart “Can’t F**king Believe” Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show
- The Shutdown’s End as a Republican Victory? No Way. | The American Prospect
- The shutdown standoff over ACA subsidies was more than just another budget fight – Dr. Uché Blackstock/MS NOW
- Opinion: End of federal shutdown, it’s up to us to save health care | John Lindstrom/Detroit Free Press
- The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care | Paul Krugman Substack
- Trump’s $2,000 tariff rebate check idea sounds simple — it isn’t | MS NOW
- Why does a good economy sometimes feel bad? | Paul Krugman substack
- Feeling Great About the Economy? You Must Own Stocks | Wall Street Journal
The Battle to Defend the Constitution
- Representative Sharon MacDonell: Naturalized citizens deserve protection, not persecution | Detroit News
- Supreme Court rejects appeal to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling | AP News
- Same-sex marriage still on shaky ground in Michigan, Nessel says | Detroit Free Press
- Fox News and the Misleading Story of Portland’s ICE Protests | ProPublica
- Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds | NBC News
- Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over law enforcement raid on newspaper | AP News
- With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global | The Guardian
- Indiana U. professor take off class over white supremacy graphic listing MAGA – Indianapolis Star
Across the Nation
- The Luxury Electric Vehicle Is in Trouble | The New York Times
- Trump’s Hatred of EVs Is Making Gas Cars More Expensive | WIRED
- Trump says cutting climate rules will save you money. It’s actually costing you more. | Vox


