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Out of work this week (and missed the campaign finance deadline) because I’ve been in DC donating bone marrow to a child with leukemia.

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Father of man killed in Kalamazoo tries to jump court barrier at murder charge hearing The man charged with murder is now headed to trial.

Court was paused this afternoon after the father of a man shot and killed lunged toward the alleged shooter. He was tackled by deputies.

The man charged with murder in the shooting that occurred April 12, at Green Door Distilling Co., heads to trial.
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Kazoo 48: What happens when three film grads and a graphic designer make a short film? I guess we’ll see.

So much punching down today. The highest tariffs imposed today were on Lesotho, a tiny mountainous African country whose primary wage industry is making clothes for Levi, Gap, Walmart and other brands. I’ve spent a lot of time in those factories, and let me tell you…

Some of what the public can no longer see:
- How much a candidate or PAC raised/spent during a filing period.
- The clients of any lobbyist (MDOS said fix is coming for this)
- Bulk downloads of campaign finance and lobbying data
- Links to any specific filing or registration

Historic graves, farmland damaged as storm ravages Southwest Michigan village
📷Aya Miller @ayathetigerrr.bsky.social #weather #storm #damage #michigan

I think we all want flip phones deep down

“Gaza is my life.”

Shaaban said he plans to return to Gaza after his son finishes school because it’s his home and he lived there for thirty years before the war.

There’s a packed house at WMU listening to WMU alumni AbdelAziz Abu Shaaban share how he escaped from Gaza after his daughter was killed in an Israeli air strike.

She wished to go to a university herself, he said.

The event is being hosted by Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War.

A 4-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola in Uganda as U.S. Pulls Back on Help The Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five contracts with organizations that helped manage the outbreak in Uganda.

A 4-year-old boy died from Ebola in Uganda on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by The New York Times. His death comes as the Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five contracts with organizations that helped manage the outbreak in the country.

One woman told me she’s worried that benefits that help her son who has Down syndrome could get cut.

That concern was heightened when Elon Musk shared a meme calling people who use federal programs part of the “parasite class”.

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At my childhood home in Maryland there are remnants of a slave cabin in the neighborhood.

The bodies of enslaved men, women and children are buried in the neighborhood we moved to later.

The legacy of slavery is unavoidable in Maryland and this idea should be celebrated. It’s long overdue.

New owner of Jackson Coney Island will keep same recipe while reviving nostalgic charm “I hate to see mom and pops close that are old icons and decided to see what they were offering and how I could help them,” Scott Pienta said. He took over the iconic restaurant in January.

Two historic coney islands, located on the same block in Jackson, have new owners. I think I’m coney’d out for the week ✌️

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Will need to expand my bead storage capacity to prepare for the Joann liquidation sale

Real ones remember the Joann employee arc

(two jobs as a full time student was not conducive to great mental health)

Journalist pants

Thigh pocket for easy pen and notebook storage

Nooooo this is like the only bar I know in Jackson

But in a society where being anything but straight is stigmatized so heavily when are you actually going to get truly accurate data

I feel like I never see people acknowledge it statistically just makes sense for many people to be LGBTQ+.

Like 5 identities plus> one identity. It’s just math.

Why did Trump have to mess up aviation the one year I actually managed to schedule an international trip

Many of these homes were off private drives so we couldn’t get pictures but there’s Redfin links in there.

Last year there were 32 homes sold over $1 million.

“The Free Press” markets themselves as a reliable New York Times esque news source but they’re really just rebranded conservative propaganda

A migrant worker died after picking Michigan asparagus. His death fell through the cracks. Five years after Emilio Lopez came to work in the United States, the question lingers: Why did he suddenly get deathly ill?

Read this if you're looking for important & original local journalism (this story is in W Michigan):

A migrant worker died after picking Michigan asparagus. His death fell through the cracks.

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I speak in bubblegum lollipop TikTok brain rot

Issa Rae, Shonda Rhimes withdraw from Kennedy Center amid Trump takeover The “Scandal” creator has resigned from the Kennedy Center board, while the “Insecure” creator canceled her sold-out event.

Issa Rae just canceled her sold-out event and Shonda Rhimes resigned from the board amid Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center