Robert Widigan

Wrapped up week one as Finance Director for the City of Pontiac—excited to work with Mayor @mikemcguinness.bsky.social

Honored to advance fiscal responsibility, transparency, and results. Focused on strengthening the City’s financial foundation and delivering value for residents.

Onward.
#LocalGov

Public sector strategy requires understanding the tools. 🏛️

Just finished a 14-course deep dive on how strategic leaders can leverage generative Al tools:

• Vanderbilt Generative AI Strategic Leader
• Google Cloud Generative AI Leader
• Google AI Essentials

#GenerativeAI #AIStrategy #PublicSector

The 2025 Indy 500 averaged 7.05 million viewers on Fox, per Nielsen’s Fast National ratings.

It was the most to watch this race in 17 years (7.2 million in 2008).

Read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/638...

ALEX PALOU WINS THE INDY 500 🏆

He becomes the first Spaniard to do so 🇪🇸

Sunday, Indianapolis becomes the center of the sports world.

The Indy 500. Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Circle City is going to be hopping.

http://dlvr.it/TKzCl7

What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout

"A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free to the exclusive streaming platform for the Ye song 'Heil Hitler.'"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/

A leader who exits at a moment like this is a leader we wouldn't want. #GoBlue

We are currently on track for tariffs to (roughly) land at 10% on most countries, and 60% on China -- pretty much what Trump said during the campaign.

If so, the upheaval and paralyzing uncertainty of the past 4 months will have been nothing but pointlessly destructive theater.

I'm here to apologize for my poor forecast.

I predicted that Trump's trade deal would be just "a single piece of paper with a few bullet points on it."

It's actually a page and half, and it has three headings, each with about half a dozen bullet points.

From what appears to be JD Vance's account: "I have confirmation from my counterpart it's turned off. He is going to be here..." (interrupted by Waltz's thumb)

Also featured: accounts with Witkoff, Rubio and Gabbard named

I know how to deliver results.

As Health Director for Wayne County, I made sure that kids had glasses and erased Michiganders' medical debt.

We need that kind of leadership in the U.S. Senate.

A two year old. A f*cking two year old U.S. CITIZEN.

I have a two year old — there is nothing dangerous, nothing scary about a two year old. And there is nothing legal about deporting a U.S. citizen.

This is what Trump’s brown shirts are doing with our tax dollars and in our name. It has to END.

It's time for us to organize. These are not normal times.

People are getting disappeared by the state.

I'm running for U.S. Senate to build an economy that works for working people, guarantee health insurance for everybody, and secure clean air and clean water for all Americans.

I'm grateful to have Senator Bernie Sanders' support, because he champions these common-sense priorities.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

Tariffs are not our only (self-inflicted) economic problem right now.

Tariffs + chaos + uncertainty is a pretty volatile mixture.

(And it doesn't have to be this way.)

I'm not afraid to show you what I believe in - or what I'm fighting for.

I'm running for U.S. Senate.

Because in the state that built the American Dream, it shouldn't be this hard to get by.

Join me: abdulforsenate.com/go

We used to talk around the @marketplace.org office about what the first question would be if we got got an interview with him.

I think we landed on asking him to tell us how tariffs actually work.

Opinion | There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.

Great piece by Ben Rhodes
“Something is stirring. To succeed, the opposition must become a movement out in the country rather than a party trying to discover a formula in Washington.” | via @nytimes.com

Why “Constitutional Crisis” Fails to Capture Trump’s Attack on the Rule of Law The Administration’s defiance of Congress and the judiciary has both flouted and made use of the country’s legal system.

“We have a president who has made very clear that he believes he has the prerogative to pick and choose what laws passed by Congress he has to follow.”

-Professor @sbagen.bsky.social in the @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop How The Atlantic’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen

“A Mack-truck-size breach”: @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social discusses being accidentally added to a Trump administration group chat planning military strikes.

Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans | via @theatlantic.com

The Michigan Wolverines are headed to the Sweet Sixteen!

This is really good

They don’t get it. None of the nominally powerful institutions in this country get it.

A completely serious question.

When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country.

cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others

MICHIGAN HAS WON THE BIG TEN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

FINAL: Michigan 59, Wisconsin 53.

The Michigan Wolverines are Big Ten men's basketball tournament champions! 〽️