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Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall was met with cries of “shame” after he ripped back $645 million in already-approved funding for programs that support pregnant women, babies, kids with cancer, veterans, education, and local community projects. These weren’t bloated budgets or wasteful spending. Hall’s cuts hit a nonprofit that provides wigs to children undergoing cancer treatment and an organization that supports child survivors of sexual assault. House Speaker Matt Hall is calling this responsibility. It’s cruelty dressed up as governance. And even inside the GOP, the move is raising alarms. Rep. Jon Bumstead (R-Muskegon) said the state should stand by the promises it already made in the budget. When people yelled “shame,” they weren’t heckling — they were calling out a betrayal.

Bernie Sanders just put Michigan’s Eboni Taylor on the national map. As part of a major downballot endorsement rollout, Sanders named Taylor in the race for State Senate District 3, joining 60 other state and local candidates across the country who are running to bring working-class politics back to government.

If Democratic leadership attempts to impose Haley Stevens on the electorate, they should be prepared for a serious enthusiasm problem that could depress turnout well beyond one election cycle. The issue is not merely messaging. It is credibility and a lack of meaningful policy. No amount of outside spending can manufacture trust or convince voters that a candidate offers them any political vision when the base already feels ignored.

Look at that: even the moderate think tank crowd is now discovering that “people should be able to see a doctor without going broke” is good politics. Progressives called it Medicare for All for years, but apparently it only counts as a “new idea” once the consultants feel the heat and rename one piece of it.

Benson lands influential Detroit endorsement in battle for Black voters metrotimes.com/news/benson-la…

Spotted in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him out👇🏽 (H/T @YourAnonNews)

If you see a helicopter towing one of these over your neighborhood, bad news: your town is getting a data center. They’re running airborne electromagnetic surveys to map groundwater in the area. TRANSLATION: figuring out how much water they can divert before people notice.

A Michigan judge decided Thursday morning that Republican candidate for governor John James will have to stop, at least for now, using a campaign logo that might indicate to voters that he's the incumbent. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

@sawemdo Go to his website.

@DistillSocial But that billboard says nothing about corporate money or campaign finance reform.

New billboards are going up in the race for Helena Scott’s state House seat, a sign that progressive challengers are turning corporate money into a front-and-center campaign issue. Chris Gilmer-Hill is running on affordability and getting corporate cash out of Lansing, and his campaign is now taking that message directly into the district. It’s part of a bigger trend in Michigan politics: incumbents who took money from DTE and other corporate interests are starting to face challengers who are making that record impossible to ignore.

BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just endorsed William Lawrence @WeWill2026 in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. That’s a big deal. Khanna is the second sitting member of Congress to back Lawrence, who now has 44 endorsements and leads the MI-07 primary in congressional and local elected support. ICY didn't know, Lawrence is one of the co- founders of the Sunrise movement and a local affordable housing activist.

Hobby Lobby is funding the latest push to end marriage equality. Stop shopping there. lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/hobby-…

New - Governor poll - Michigan 🔵 Benson 42% 🔴 James 30% 🟡 Duggan 18% 🔵 Benson 42% 🔴 Johnson 32% 🟡 Duggan 13% Mitchell R #B - LV - 5/7

Apparently @MikeRogersForMI has ads playing on You Tube that appear at the end of some of our pod content. Mike... really money well spent. We shit all over you on our last episode and then your ad popped up. Great placement! And thanks! Sorry guys, nothing we can do about it. We don't get to pick the ads.

BREAKING: $20 MILLION in TV ads are coming this fall targeting Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race. And that’s just TV. This does not include the digital or mail spending still to come, which we’re told will be massive. Michigan is about to be one of the most expensive and closely watched Senate battlegrounds in the country, and Rogers is already in the crosshairs.

MICHIGAN Mitchell polls Dem Primary (published Tuesday): El-Sayed 28%, Stevens 18%, McMorrow 17% GE polls posted overnight: 🔴 Mike Rogers 42% 🔵 Abdul El Sayed 41% 🔴 Mike Rogers 43% 🔵 Mallory McMorrow 41% 🔴 Mike Rogers 42% 🔵 Haley Stevens 39%

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

MAGAs, it’s always MAGAs and the Epstein class covering for them. 👇

Shri’s team can’t even spell Detroit? Or Abbott St.

This is class war with a power bill. Regular people are being told there is not enough electricity for their homes and are being kicked out by force, but somehow there is plenty for billion dollar data centers. Funny how scarcity only ever applies to working families. The rich get infrastructure. The rest of us get excuses.