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Utility lawyers’ donations to Michigan AG candidate raise conflict-of-interest concerns • Michigan Advance Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan attorney general candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to i...

Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan AG candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to influence a prosecutor who may handle their legal and regulatory cases.

From Tom Perkins for @michiganadvance.com

Consumer Confidence Falls Sharply In November—Hitting Lowest Level Since April Only 1% of consumers said business conditions were good in the U.S., according to the Conference Board’s report.

Only 1% of consumers said business conditions were good in the U.S., according to the Conference Board’s report.

The EPA just greenlit pesticides laced with PFAS “forever chemicals” for use on kids’ fruits and veggies. Instead of protecting families, the Trump-run agency is letting chemical companies spray cancer-linked toxins on everything from lettuce to potatoes.

Rural Michigan fights back: How riled up residents are challenging Big Tech data centers From ballot petitions to moratoriums, southeast Michigan townships develop different approaches to address hyperscale data center proposals from companies like Meta and OpenAI.

From ballot petitions to moratoriums, southeast Michigan townships develop different approaches to address hyperscale data center proposals from companies like Meta and OpenAI.

Robert Reich Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why

Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.

This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.

I hate Meta so, so, SO much.

I hate other things too I contain multitudes but WTF is this apparently unasked for shit.

Tensions mount as data centers eye 'sleepy' Michigan farm towns - Bridge Michigan In a scenario likely to repeat statewide, a $7 billion data center planned for a rural Saline Township is prompting debate about jobs versus environmental impacts and noise.

The same script is playing out across rural towns everywhere: data center land grabs, noise and light pollution, water depletion, air pollution, spiking utility bills.

These communities aren’t sleepy. They are undercapitalized, under-lawyered, and lack news coverage.

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Trump has a 38% approval ratings & Americans hate every single thing he’s doing. He know it, his minders know it, we all know it.

Politicians target grocery tariffs because we see those prices every week and they show up in polls. But rent, furniture, appliances, daycare—those costs matter just as much and many remain tariffed or high. Watch the whole household budget, not just the shopping cart.

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

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Trump finally admits his tariffs raise prices With grocery costs spiking, Trump drops import taxes on more than one hundred products.

The Trump administration announced that it would exempt a broad array of groceries—including staples like beef, coffee, and bananas—from the tariffs the president proudly implemented in April.

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

The incredible BS of needing a "Joe Rogan of the left" was that we needed to win over young men, when it's the Gen X men—like Rogan himself—who largely gave us Trump.

Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.

The Epstein scandal has always been a scandal about the ruling class as a whole, not one individual or political party.

Epstein trafficked not just in the bodies of the children he abused but also in social connections that could bring elites together.

I’m almost finished rereading The Grapes of Wrath and I’m feeling as militant now as I did when I first read it as a teenager.

No one in this video believes what Blanche is saying including Blanche himself. The performance art day after day in service to Donald Trump is truly stunning.

Apparently, rich people like to live in places that don’t suck, even if it costs them a little extra scratch.

I’d just like to reiterate that if you put on a mask, and go out without a warrant and kidnap people because they aren’t white enough, you’re a huge piece of shit…

Oh hey — you know that big Chicago raid where Stephen Miller said the building was “FILLED” with gang members?

@propublica found 0 evidence of Tren De Aragua, the men weren’t charged with any crimes. 🤔 (sound familiar Tennessee?)

All for show. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Livingston County Progressive Kasey Helton On Data Centers, Rank MI Vote, and Caving Democrats #podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Michigan #DirtRoadDems #MAGA #Republican #Trump #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovermentCorruption #LivingtonCounty #DataCenters #BigTech #MikeRogers...

New Episode! Livingston County progressive Kasey Helton is back to talk about data center opposition, caving Democrats, the need for #Medicare4All, and volunteering w/ @rankmivote.bsky.social. I talk about the failing Trump Economy, and Mike Rogers going full MAGA. audioboom.com/posts/880583...

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.

He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.

Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

It was always going to be so.

I thought we all knew this. No?

Monday Musing: Tired Yet of Constant Democratic Party Capitulating? #podcast #politics #Progressives #populism #WorkingClass #GovernmentShutdown #ChuckSchumer #ElissaSlotkin #Democrats #CorporateDemocrats #ACA #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption...

Monday Musing time. Are we tired of constant Democratic Party capitulating? audioboom.com/posts/880449...

except for rooftop solar, which Newsom has been a foe of and which will come back to bite CA on the ass especially with data center expansion.

Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics This is something we do, or it is done to us.

Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics

In an era of rapid authoritarianism consolidation, what Mamdani has built isn’t just inspiration; it’s essential for preserving our freedoms.

Check-out my takes on why Populism and anti-fascism won the week in Detroit, New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, and elsewhere across the country. And I have some honest words for the late Dick Cheney. audioboom.com/posts/880280...

NYT is having a meltdown this morning over their losses in yesterday’s election: two women and Muslim winning key races, they are not happy!

Dick Cheney is why we have The Trump Regime. The reason he and Liz fought against Trump was because he grabbed complete power away from them inside the Republican Party. Cheney championed for more power the Executive Branch after 9/11. Now, we have authoritarianism. Thanks, Dick.

Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown - The American Prospect On a political level, Democrats have succeeded in painting Republicans as mean and unfeeling stewards of American decline. But Trump may win on policy nonetheless, as a gang of Democrats prepares to squander their leverage based on a vague assurance.

As the shutdown paints Donald Trump in a worse and worse light, some Democrats may be willing to fold over possibly empty promises from senate Republicans. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
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After Mamadani wins tomorrow it'd be cool if some of his people made a successor political vehicle to Teen Vogue, for which there's clearly a market.