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There’s been quite a bit of good analysis in the wake of the Republican implosion on health care, and the pant-shittingly hysterical psychotic meltdown that accompanied it. I particularly liked what...
View ArticleThe 2010 census and what it means to Michigan
The results of the 2010 Census were made public today. Among other things, it was revealed that the U.S. population grew 9.7% over the course of the past decade, which is the slowest rate of growth...
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Anonymous Lansing insider speaks out on the disappointment of Snyder
A few days ago, I received the following note from an individual who identified himself as working ‘inside the belly of the beast,’ in Lansing. I followed up with the questions below, and, given his...
View ArticleRachel Maddow on the dismal track record of Michigan’s Emergency Managers and...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy[note:I don't know if it happened for everyone, but, when I watched this, it was preceded by an ad for Goldman Sachs, which I...
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How gerrymandering is killing American Democracy, and why we need to fight...
Every ten years, the Michigan legislature has an opportunity, after assessing the results of the federal census, to redraw congressional districts to reflect shifts in population. The most recent...
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Gutting the Voting Rights Act… Can poll taxes be too far away?
In a 5-4 decision earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, stating that the provision, which, for almost 50 years, has required that certain areas...
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Dischord’s Ian MacKaye on touring as a family, building community, making the...
I had the occasion this evening to speak with Ian MacKaye, the former frontman of Minor Threat and Fugazi, who will be visiting Ypsilanti this Friday evening to play an all-ages show at the Dreamland...
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And this is what happens when you gut the Voting Rights Act
In late June of 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, stating that the provision, which, for almost 50 years, had required that...
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Could this impending battle over the Supreme Court tear our nation apart?
I was thinking today about the little events that influence global politics, and all of our lives. Had Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car not taken a wrong turn at the junction of Appel quay and...
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Trump calls into question the legitimacy of the election, claiming that...
Yesterday, Donald Trump, our President-elect, took to Twitter and said the following. “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide,” he said, “I won the popular vote, if you deduct the...
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The post-Trump assault on voting rights has already begun in Michigan… Here’s...
A few days ago, after Trump made the unsubstantiated claim that “millions” of people had voted illegally for his opponent during the recent presidential election, we discussed the possibility that...
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Demand the Voter Bill of Rights over voter suppression
According to State Rep Jeff Irwin, whom I just traded emails with, it looks as though the controversial Voter ID law being pushed through the Michigan House this lame duck session by Republican...
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Voter suppression law passes Michigan House, fight moves to Senate
Remember how I was telling you last week that you really needed to call your State Reps because Republicans were trying to push aggressive, new voter suppression laws through the Michigan House? Well,...
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The North Carolina Coup: This is what happens when voter suppression stops...
I don’t know how well it’s being covered by the television news, but, at this very moment, there’s a coup underway in North Carolina, as the Republican legislature, which was ostensibly called back to...
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What the fuck is happening in Florida?
Claiming that ballots (ostensibly cast by Democrats) had been “forged,” the President of the United States declared this morning that the counting of votes in Florida should stop immediately, and that...
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On a campaign stop in Michigan today, Elizabeth Warren calls for a...
We know for a certainty that the tide is turning against the Republican Party demographically speaking. And, as a result, we know that the Republican Party, in an effort to retain power, has been...
View ArticleHow is it that we allow this to happen in America?
Georgia held both its Republican and Democratic primaries today, and things did not go smoothly in many of the state’s bluer districts. [This was, of course, by design.] As it’s late, I’d just like to...
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On the eve of unveiling his plan for the “holistic revitalization and...
Three days ago, word came out through various channels that our embattled president, facing intense criticism for his handling of the Black Lives Matter protests which swept our nation this past week,...
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It’s time to vote, Michigan! Let me know if I can help.
I read something yesterday that struck me. The Atlantic’s David Frum, commenting about how difficult it is for some people in the United States to vote, said, “It’s not easy to design a voting system...
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