Ben Franklin, Esq.
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Dad. Pop culture lover. I have a history degree that I'm not USING, per se. I enjoy Dr. Pepper.
"Too Early to Call" switching to "Too Close to Call" in the El-Sayed vs Stevens race according to NBC
Detroit ballots coming in! 62-34 margin for Stevens in Detroit. 55-42 margin for Stevens for Wayne County.
Oh, I absolutely am too old for that and also a parent, don't worry lol
I can’t stay up that late! I’m an old 😭
Kornaki just predicted 5 am as the time we'll know El-Sayed vs. Stevens lol
Do we think the 27,000 people that have voted for McMorrow were unaware she dropped out or was it some form of protest vote
We need more Muppets on baseball broadcasts. In general.
Cookie Monster had Boog DYING when he answered who is favorite Cub is (PCA)
If Stevens wins, I'll vote for her in November, by the way. I'm not that militant.
Has anyone here ever been to a election night party? They're endlessly fascinating to me.
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
We travel to new channels to find Kornacki. We are legion
I've fallen to the siren call of the Kornacki Cam again
(the most bullshit Michigan accent you've ever heard) what the frick
Happy anniversary of the entire nation learning each election cycle that 4 of Michigan's 83 counties are in the Central Time Zone
So, we're going to trade away all of our pitchers, huh?
Part of MLB writer Craig Calcaterra's take on why the Skubal trade sucks:
I feel like we're in a weird place here.
When I first moved back to Michigan in ‘97 I was just *blasted* with High Nasal everywhere. I didn’t hated it, but I was overwhelmed now I don’t even hear it. Anyhoo #giftlinks www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
I'm about to eat my first ever Indiana pork tenderloin sandwich.
What do we think of the Tigers' alternate hats today with the different 'D'? It's my first time seeing them. They're... something!
I'm thinking I got out of Michigan on vacation at exactly the right time 😬
Just had to admit that we were from Michigan and it was our first time at Waffle House because we were thrown by the menu, in case you're wondering just how off the charts we are on levels of Tourist here in Oklahoma