I don't believe in a Biblical hell, but I hope Michigan's penal system serves as an adequate replacement.

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Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Sixteen people forged documents and claimed to be "duly elected and qualified electors," Attorney General Dana Nessel says

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838

#gop #republicans #maga #magaMorons #Trump #LockHimUp #mipol #Jan6 #fraud #elections #fascism #FalseElectors #ElectionFraud

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/whitmer-establishes-new-michigan-education-department/

I love Whitmer. So proud to call her my governor. Moving forward with educational opportunities for the residents of Michigan is so very important. Glad to see us moving forward, not backward.

#MIPol #michigan #politics #whitmer

From getting blasted in the testicles to bravado about taking off your glasses, this Michigan Republican Party infighting story has everything

#mipol #uspol #nuts

https://archive.is/2023.07.08-221643/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/07/08/scuffle-breaks-out-at-michigan-gop-state-committee-meeting/70394689007/

The #DeVos family has turned off the money spigot. They're no longer donating to the absolute clown show that is the state GOP, and the party committee is flailing towards bankruptcy. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of cranks, fascists, and losers!

#michigan #USpol #MIpol

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/swing-state-republicans-bleed-donors-cash-over-trumps-false-election-claims-2023-07-05/

Dearest, Fondest whites of Michigan:

Eating in a restaurant is not a right delineated in any Constitution anywhere. Suck it up, snowflakes.

I hope that the State of Michigan takes that anti-quarantine lawsuit to the State Supreme Court.

#MIpol
#Michigan
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense
#Covid19
#Covid
#lockdown
#quarantine
#epidemiology

This post from US Rep Lisa Mcclain on 30 March 2023.

"New activity by Representative Lisa C. McClain. Legislation cosponsored:

"H.R. 427 - SAVE Moms and Babies Act of 2023

"H.R. 1388 - To require the Secretary of the Treasury mint coins to honor and memorialize the tragedy of the Sultana steamboat explosion of 1865."

McClain is asking us to spend our tax dollars praising the slave-era cotton industry. You see, the Sultana was constructed in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard in Cincinnati, Ohio and was intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade.

#slavery
#confederacy
#MIpol
#LisaMcclain
#UScongress
#congress
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense

Nasser Beydoun was on the MIRS Monday podcast on 27 March 2023. As he contrasted himself with US Rep Elissa Slotkin, he stated that Rep Slotkin "has a lot of support from PACs. She knows all this game [and] how to raise dark money [and] regular money. She has the Jewish community behind her, so she's going to raise all this money."

Nasser Beydoun doubled and redoubled on the trope that Jewish People have access to significant amounts of money.

Elissa Slotkin is a Jewish Person.

This kind of anti-Semitism is sickening.

Recently, the chair of the Michigan GOP posted a tweet comparing gun safety laws to the Holocaust. This is widely recognised as an anti-Semitic trope: it cheapens the Holocaust and minimises the experience of the victims of the Holocaust; it relies on exaggerations and falsifications; and it contains elements of victim-blaming. In the wake of that tweet, Jewish officeholders and university administrative staff throughout Michigan were targeted in a steep increase in hate messages and threats.

This is the environment in which Nasser Beydoun raised his anti-Semitic claims that Rep Elissa Slotkin had access to significant amounts of money because she is Jewish and has the support of the Jewish community.

Whoever Nasser Beydoun is primarying against, vote for the other person. The last thing that we need is yet another bigot in a position of power in the state of Michigan.

#Michigan
#MIpol
#NasserBeydoun
#Election2024
#ElissaSlotkin
#AntiSemitism
#hate
#bigotry
#KristinaKaramo
#MIGOP
#twitter
#MIRS

@michigandemocrats

I forgot to mention the best part: the amendment applies across the board. A proposed exception that would've allowed discrimination against LGBTQ Michiganders on religious grounds was rejected. Everyone has to follow the law, even weird bigoted fundamentalists. (They probably won't. But a guy can dream.)
#MIpol #GayRights #TransRights #ElliottLarsenAct

Michigan passed an amendement to the Elliott-Larson act protecting LGBTQ civil rights & the neighborhood transphobes are Big Mad on Facebook. It's delicious.

In related news, it is now illegal for my very religious landlord to evict me once he finds out I have more facial hair than previously. A win for society, and a win for me!
#MIpol #GayRights #TransRights

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's attempts to invest a revenue surplus in the people is being defeated by Republicans in the State Legislature who prefer tax cuts.

I sent my own this message:

"I strongly oppose tax cuts. Revenue in excess of state appending should be invested in people, either through funding of public services or through investment in the rainy day fund.

"Cutting taxes only hurts people by disinvesting in programmes that serve the public."

#Michigan
#MIpol
#GretchenWhitmer
#Republicans
#MIGOP
#budget
#politics
@michigandemocrats

I thought that this was Haaretz. However, since the article is about an important story, I am posting anyway.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/fbi-arrests-michigan-man-who-plotted-to-kill-jewish-elected-officials-in-state/amp/

#AntiSemitism
#hate
#Michigan
#MIpol
#ViolentExtremism
#WhitePeople
#terrorism
#Covid19
#vaccine
#ConspiracyTheories

"'the defendant does not believe he is subject to the jurisdiction of this court,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Hank Moon told a judge."

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/man-charged-with-threatening-jewish-michigan-17815669.php

#AntiSemitism
#hate
#Michigan
#MIpol
#ViolentExtremism
#WhitePeople
#terrorism
#Covid19
#vaccine
#ConspiracyTheories
#SovereignCitizensMovement

Currently livid and experiencing much psychosomatic pain, so posting this without comment.

"The suspect claimed last month that he was 'fired' from the University of Michigan 'after going through all the appeal processes for refusing to take experimental medication.'"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna73048

#AntiSemitism
#hate
#Michigan
#MIpol
#ViolentExtremism
#WhitePeople
#terrorism
#Covid19
#vaccine
#ConspiracyTheories

#MiPol Watching Moss' #MiSB4 (2023). The bill passed the senate, is headed to the house, and would codify last year's SCoMi opinion - gender identity and sexual orientation are protected by #ElliottLarsen

Dems were able to secure a narrow majority in the legislature, and it may pass the house. This is worlds apart from the last session's iteration of the same bill - the fascist majority prevented it from ever seeing the floor

Redistricting has given us a chance

http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2023-SB-0004

Dana Nessel, as quoted from the Detroit News:

“Despite asking for record (rate) increases time and time again, our utilities have failed to adequately invest in their own infrastructure or prepare for these storm events, choosing instead to leave ratepayers in the dark," Nessel said in a statement. "Our current service quality standards are not sufficient, and it is incumbent on the utilities to right this wrong.”

Nothing binding, but fine messaging.

#mipol #dte

"'We were not given a heads up on this reported action. Our priority is to always keep the people we represent safe,' U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell said. "We are making inquiries of EPA, DOT, Norfolk Southern, U.S. Ecology, the state of Ohio, and all others involved to understand what is being shipped, whether these are approved storage facilities, the implications of this decision, and how we ensure the safety of all Michigan residents.'

"Wayne County Executive Warren Evans said he and other officials should've been consulted before the delivery of toxic waste to Michigan."

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2023/02/25/ohio-train-derailment-toxic-waste-shipments-michigan/69944101007

#OhioDerailment
#NorfolkSouthern
#FossilFuels
#environment
#Michigan
#EGLE
#MIpol
#pollution
#EPA
#transportation

lol, lmao these clowns #mipol

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/02/18/michigan-republican-party-chair-convention-karamo-deperno-greenlee/69900553007/

It's such a national tragedy that Republicans have decided gun lobby money is more important than the lives of American children. The GOP is not a pro-life party, no matter how loudly they shout it.
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RT @NSmithReports
Freshman at MSU, former Oxford High School student speaking about having to go through another shooting & demanding action.
Went on to question how many lives from gun violence are enough #mipol #mileg
https://twitter.com/NSmithReports/status/1625897989490323469

RT @NSmithReports
Freshman at MSU, former Oxford High School student speaking about having to go through another shooting & demanding action.
Went on to question how many lives from gun violence are enough #mipol #mileg

I wrote a blog post on four states which start with the letter M, have Democratic trifectas, and have bans on gay sex still on the books. https://worldofvalues.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/will-these-four-blue-trifectas-repeal-their-sodomy-laws-in-2023/ #lgbt #p2 #maryland #Minnesota #Massachusetts #Michigan #mileg #mnleg #maleg #mdleg #mdpolitics #MAPoli #MNpolitics #mnpol #mipol #mipolitics