on days like today I often think about this piece from the Spin Class Substack about the proliferation of pink slime journalism - particularly in Michigan.
spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class-c…
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Luke Londo
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Luke Londo
@llondo
Dad. @MICivilRights Commission Chair. @cityofhazelpark Councilmember. Affirmations 🏳️🌈 Board Secretary. Communicator. Yooper. Bi. 18/63 NPS 🏕️. he/him
Hazel Park, MI Katılım Haziran 2010
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I remember when the Mackinac Center at least pretended to support local control over state policies that treated every community with a short-sighted, one-size-fits-all-approach.
Crain's Detroit Business@crainsdetroit
Opinion: Michigan should embrace zoning reform, reject housing subsidies #Echobox=1773414192" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">crainsdetroit.com/opinion/opinio…
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great read on how a vibes-based approach versus a science-based approach by a county medical director is, among other things, tanking vaccine rates against potentially deadly diseases and depriving schoolchildren of critical access to care.
Eli Newman@other_eli
A Michigan county medical director has called the state health department "full of degenerates" with an "evil" agenda — and local officials keep agreeing with him. My story for @BridgeMichigan on how St. Clair County's public health is being taken over: bridgemi.com/michigan-healt…
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appreciate this thoughtful reporting from @carolthompson_ that includes not only the process that led us here, but the varied priorities of multiple stakeholders on land that butts against a portion of the longest trail system in the country and critical habitat.
Kelley Root@kelleyroot
Large-scale logging project in western UP alarms environmental groups detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews @carolthompson_
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Gov. Whitmer doing one of the things she does best: just absolutely dogwalking Trump today.
Between this, Selfridge, Asian Carp, etc., an absolute coup for Michiganders.
Melissa Nann Burke@nannburke
New: Whitmer met with Trump at White House today and says he committed to provide disaster aid for ice storms that hit northern MI last year, a reversal detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @detroitnews
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have had this muted since last night but heartened to know that publicly shaming people is as effective as it was intended to be 💜
hope everyone has the day you deserve!
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also, normalize calling that behavior out because they shut down immediately and I’m sure they’re going to have a wildly uncomfortable drive to whatever rock they crawled out from under.
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dating a girl from Livingston County is interesting because Ann Arbor is a short drive away - but so is Zukey’s Tavern where people like this use casually use super racist language to describe Reps Omar and Tlaib at 5pm on a Monday.
anyway, someone come get your grandparents.
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@DanaVanEffen906 @MaddocksChair grew up in the UP (Marquette and Norway), wear it proudly. You’re Delta iirc?
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@llondo Aren't you a Yooper? When my twitter friend @MaddocksChair retweets you, I feel like I need to meet you IRL 😊
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@rubydeuxdetroit Zukey’s is a literal five minute drive from her place. She actually grew up in Washtenaw (but bought a house in Livingston), and the culture difference is pretty wild. Not much phases me (grew up in the UP), but wild that people feel comfortable using slurs in public?!
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@llondo This is my life-born/raised in Detroit,but live not far from Zukey & not far from A2. 2worlds collide. I’m more fascinated by my friend grp that feels comfortable in a place like Zukey bcuz they’re certainly not going for the cuisine. Keep calling it out,make them hide in shame.
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lol y’all gotta stop sending me this.
all i can say is Tucich v Dearborn Indoor Racquet Club was pre-ELCRA.
The Detroit News@detroitnews
Michigan resort cancels free ski for women, beads contest at Mardi Gras detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
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shorter @gcaw:
“they walk into Cherry Depot where the cherries are piled from floor to ceiling. the ravenous tourists transfer them to paper bags with their dirty hands, pay with red-stained cash, then exit onto Main Street, covered in cherry and with murder in their hearts.”
David Shepardson@davidshepardson
.@TheAtlantic on northern Michigan
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anyway, please don’t come to northern
michigan. it’s exactly as uncultured and disconcerting as legitimate experts like @gcaw portray it to be. i don’t know how i made it out alive while possessing the knowledge of how to operate a phone or drive anything other than a sled.
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can’t wait for the coverage of Yoopers where we live on the lakes all winter in search of whitefish whose blubber feeds our candles and sustains us, with tiny outhouses to relieve ourselves in as we’re still too primitive to discover plumbing.
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just an absolute walking advertisement of the necessity of term limits
Craig Mauger@CraigDMauger
“The minute I say, 'Would you answer the question?' She starts raining the gavel down," Michigan GOP Chairman Jim Runestad told fellow Republicans. "They're just scum. They're absolute scum." detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
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someone said the US state with the most athletes in the Olympics and I said well I’ve got a Canva pro account. THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WISH THEY HAD THE ATHLETIC PROWESS OF THE BEST AND MOST DISTINGUISHED STATE IN THE UNION, MICHIGAN
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