Washtenaw Dems
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The WCDP is an all-volunteer county Democratic party. Real change starts locally. Real change starts with you. We create the Voter Guide and mivoter.org.
You're voting in the primaries in 8 days, right? RIGHT? www.mivoter.org
Join us tonight, July 8th from 7pm - 8pm for a conversation about public power. We're asking the critical questions - is municipalization right for Ann Arbor? Join to watch and submit your questions: program@washtenawdems.org Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
MICivics Episode 1: Aidan Sova, President of the Ann Arbor District Library Board of Trustees, talks about serving as an elected official in Ann Arbor, Michigan. #micivics #mivoter.org youtu.be/8mLPtsIZxBc
MICivics with Aidan Sova, President of Ann Arbor District Library Board of Trustees #mivoter.org
YouTube video by mivoter_org
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That sheet of papers purporting to show WHITE GENOCIDE in South Africa was 1) a printed out blog post 2) from…The American Thinker 3) about a country that is NOT South Africa.
Bill McCarthy@billmccarthy.bsky.social · last yr.“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...
Indiana state leg just crushed IU, ending faculty governance, trashing tenure, promising to close sm humanities majors, taking over the IU board, & gutting the budget. Surprise legislation. Passed late night of last legislative day. The MAGA GOP will not stop. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
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International student visas being restored! The Trump regime reversed course b/c: 1) Judges ruled against him all over the country, and 2) Americans oppose Trump's immigration and deportation nightmare Resistance works! Stay loud and stay in the streets! www.bridgemi.com/talent-educa...
Donald Trump restores student visas after revoking 70-plus in Michigan | Bridge Michigan
Government lawyers said the federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after lawsuits across the country, including in Michigan.
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Putting an alcoholic Fox News bingo caller in charge of the Pentagon seemed like a great idea on paper, but... apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.
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Ya think? The Trump regime and all the MAGA GOP supporting it are destroying this country. www.bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...
Travel from Canada to Michigan plummets amid tariffs, border scrutiny | Bridge Michigan
Border crossings from Canada to Michigan have dropped significantly, especially by car, amid heightened security and a Canadian travel boycott sparked by US tariffs.
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Regular people, your friends and neighbors, who made a wrong turn off of I 75. This is not the country we used to live in. outliermedia.org/rashida-tlai...
Rashida Tlaib says 213 immigrants detained at Ambassador Bridge
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she learned more than 200 immigrants were detained in about three months at the Ambassador Bridge.
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Can’t figure out what the hell is going on with tariffs, because the Mad King keeps changing them every damn day? Well, some people are trying to keep track. God help us all.  www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tru...
Tracking Every Trump Tariff and Its Economic Effect
Keeping up with what goods are being targeted by US tariffs and what the economic impacts are
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Trump and his billionaire cronies want to steal your Social Security so they can rent it back to you at a steep markup. It’s what they do. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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The Trump regime really hates Michigan and Michigan farmers. www.bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...
Michigan farmers facing ‘uncertain future’ amid funding freezes, tariff tensions | Bridge Michigan
Escalating trade tensions, federal funding freezes for agricultural grant programs and other uncertainties have Michigan farmers tightening their belts and shoring up for a turbulent year.
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It is absolutely fucking bonkers that Trump won more of the vote than he ever had less than half a year ago and now he is less popular than he’s ever been, all on the strength of shit he was promising loudly to do when people elected him.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.
"Musk has been so prone to error that he has sought to turn it into a virtue—a manager with the capacity to admit flaws!"
The Art of the F*ckup
So much for the “more professional” team in Trump 2.0.
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So the MAGA GOP is Maoist now? Jfc.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Lutnick to Trump: "All those factories that you're bringing in because of your trade policy -- we're gonna train people in tradecraft. Bring back tradecraft to America so that people can work in these factories with great paying jobs ... we're gonna remake the American dream."
Axios is reporting that Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a shouting match in the White House last week about who would lead the IRS: “Two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of the West Wing." This administration is a D-list reality show.
"Ukraine must withdraw troops from four regions to end the war." - Peskov. Seems like he’s got it all mixed up — it’s actually the Russians who need to leave Ukraine, from all the territories they’ve occupied.
Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."
small but scary story and of a piece with the whole ICE MO open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
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