@JustChattingEh @llrmiller @Craig_A_Spencer @AbdulElSayed FYI this person apparently lives in Australia? Like why he care about Michigan politics
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Trevor Leaderbrand
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Trevor Leaderbrand
@TrevLeaderbrand
Animator. Interested in urban design, bike lanes, and craft beer. Thoughts are my own.
Detroit, MI Katılım Mart 2020
407 Takip Edilen84 Takipçiler
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I can tell you that my family in Michigan doesn't give a damn about this faux 'scandal'. I can also tell you a fixation and fetishization of 'title's and degrees is exactly why many of them hate the Democratic party.
@AbdulElSayed is a MD PhD Rhodes Scholar that successful ran Detroit's health department for years.
Plus, this isn't new news at all, it was reported years ago. But it conveniently became a big deal today when a new poll showed him in the lead.
Y'all, we need to get over ourselves. If he comes at you trying to do brain surgery, yeah, maybe its a thing. But if he's putting forward policy about the absolutely embarrassing mess that is health care is in this country, its hard to imagine anything that matters less.
Adam Wren@adamwren
NEW: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for years has publicly said that he’s a physician — but there’s overwhelming evidence that he’s had no experience as a licensed medical doctor. W/ @dlippman politico.com/news/2026/05/1…
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Trevor Leaderbrand retweetledi
this is disgusting from @MalloryMcMorrow’s comms director
Mallory if you’re still an oomf—cut this shit out
for those who don’t know: he’s a literal MD PhD Rhodes Scholar and is super open about how seeing for-profit healthcare up close made him leave his clinical training
Hannah Lindow@hannahlindow
Abdul El-Sayed has made his supposed medical credentials a centerpiece of his campaign, but the truth is he never held a medical license, never did his residency, never passed the boards, and never practiced medicine independently. If Michigan voters can't trust El-Sayed to be honest about something that is so central to his entire rationale for running, how can they trust him to be honest about what he'd do as a United States Senator?
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@2024dion I'm not sure why you keep showing up on my TL - but this is Kansas City, MO.
The Lions Playoff game brought nearly 40million dollars to the city, and it blends so well into the city (keep it extremely walkable).
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Is that really something to be proud of? The Lions stadium is a giant dead zone 320 days out of the year and included in that image is the biggest parking lot dead zone in any American downtown
The D Zone@TheD_Zone
Detroit is the only city in the USA where all 4 professional teams play in venues that are located within a downtown core.
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@_jacobmjones I mean, is this really correct? Buffalo, St Louis, Cleveland don’t have similar relationships with abandoned mansions buttressed next to new development?
My friend lived in a condo near Prairie District in Chicago that felt very similar to what is becoming of Brush Park.
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There's something fascinating about Detroit being one of the few cities in the nation that didn't tear down their gilded age mansions en masse only to have those same gilded aged mansions, once abandoned, used as a symbol that it doesn't care about its history.
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Brush Park is interesting because it's invoked as a symbol of Detroit's postwar decline, but its destruction began in the city's heyday. It's the result of Detroit's inability to plan for and sustain urbanism, and a total disinterest in saving the places where Black people lived.
Aaron Foley@aaronkfoley
Some people only remember Brush Park as vacant lots. Those same people — I’m guessing — don’t remember the dilapidated 1800s Victorian mansions beyond repair, looking like some Scooby-Doo shit, that were cleared off those lots. No one is alive to remember Brush Park at its peak
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@willjohnsonbf1 God I really hate the “is SNL funny” bait.
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Has anyone ever found SNL funny or is it a big circle jerk for celebs and your weirdly obsessed political friend?
Pop Base@PopBase
Kam Patterson jokes about Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson’s breakup on SNL: “Who even is this guy? Wait a minute, there’s a WNBA for men? What would you even call that? The MNBA? To me, he’s not Klay, he’s dirt.”
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@TrevLeaderbrand @2024dion All the brus park developments damn near empty. They’re offering an extra month free if you sign a lease at some rn.
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Spent some time walking around downtown Detroit this afternoon. Most of the 2010s projects that were ongoing when I left in 2022 are complete (Hudson’s Site, Book Tower, a few smaller buildings) but it doesn’t seem that there’s much that’s new, which is a crazy contrast to my first time here in 2019 whew every block seemed to have something going on.
The UM building and the convention center hotel are the only new construction going up, it seems, and all the buildings that were vacant when I left are still vacant. My old office tower, the Michigan Building, looks like it might be totally empty now too. Retail vacancies are about the same, maybe slightly down at best. The qline hasn’t upgraded its ROW and the cars are already aging fast.
It’s a bit of whiplash for me after spending last week in Austin where the 2020s have had explosive physical growth downtown & everything was both new and packed.
I don’t know if the pandemic just crushed office occupancy and made downtown less desirable to live in, or if the low hanging fruit has been plucked and now Gilbert has pulled back, or what, but the vibrancy and promise of the 2010s seems to have slacked off.
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@detroitdevdoc The only real problem I see with this is the Detroit station is in New Center. For this to be a success it would have to drop you off closer to the stadiums. Does the rail line head closer to downtown?
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SE MI has a turnkey regional rail line, with minimal investment required, and we just refuse to take advantage of it.
Steve - Vote YES: Wayne County Transit - Aug 4th@steve78333
I'm surprised that metro Detroit doesn't have hourly regional rail service serving the Detroit-Ann Arbor-Dearborn-Pontiac-Troy-Royal Oak corridor. The tracks are there. The stations are there. And we have a Regional Transit Authority.
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Trevor Leaderbrand retweetledi
When hockey was invented this is what they envisioned
IcyVert@IcyVert
That was exceptional team hockey
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@dsfence64 @BeshearStan Come to an Adbul event and you'll understand why many want to vote for Abdul.
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@BeshearStan Why do leftists want to vote for the candidate least likely to win the general?
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Looks like AIPAC Stevens is close to last in the primary. Great news.
El-Sayed still has a lot of ground to cover, but I’d much rather have a McMorrow v El-Sayed race then one with Stevens
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
📊 Michigan Senate Democratic Primary • Mallory McMorrow — 22% • Haley Stevens — 17% • Abdul El-Sayed — 16% Not sure: 38% —— Fav-unfav (Dems) McMorrow: 41-7 (+34) El-Sayed: 38-7 (+31) Stevens: 34-11 (+23) —— @EmersonPolling (A) | 1/24-25 | 491 LV emersoncollegepolling.com/michigan-2026-…
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Not to be annoying but I think Geese is good and I enjoyed their SNL performance.
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It takes me 4 weeks to get a 15 second video edit approved at work. Mamdani produces cinema every other day I don't get it I love this man.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
We’re getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.
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We can call it already: this is the most exciting moment of television in 2026
Chicago Bears@ChicagoBears
CALEB WILLIAMS YOU ARE RIDICULOUS 📺: NBC
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Trevor Leaderbrand retweetledi
Going to the cinema alone is actually one of life’s greatest joys
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@vocalcry Wasn't the trend to make fun of 2012 millennials last year? I can't keep up
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a quick study of @ordinaryfolkco between work assignments last week. I learned a lot in 5 seconds - but I'll do anything to stare at their animations all day long.
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