Category Archives: Detroit

Count the votes! Stop the count!

By Mark | November 5, 2020

Supporters of Donald Trump, with his encouragement, have been protesting across the nation since the election. In some states, like Michigan, they’ve been demanding that the counting of votes be stopped. And, in others, like Arizona, they’ve been demanding that the counting of votes be continued. I don’t want to get into how stupid it […]

Also posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, 2020 election, Arizona, conspiracy theories, disinformation, Donie O'Sullivan, election interference, FOX News, Joe Biden, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Matt Schlapp, Nevada, Ric Grenell, social media, Stop the Steal, TCF Center, WXYZ | 65 Comments

Robocalls in Detroit are telling people that, if they vote by mail in the presidential election, they’ll be giving their information to “the man,” who will use the that information to track them, arrest them, and put them on a list for “mandatory vaccines”

By Mark | August 27, 2020

Remember Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the two far right, pro-Trump “ratfuckers” who tried to convince the people of America that former FBI director Robert Mueller was a rapist and that Elizabeth Warren liked rough sex with male prostitutes? Well they seem to be at it again. This time, it looks as though they’re behind […]

Also posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, 2020 election, allegations of rape, cougar, Dana Nessel, dirty tricks, Donald Trump, election interference, Elizabeth Warren, fact check, Hatch Act, Jack Burkman, Jacob Wohl, male prostitute, Project 1599, rape, rat fucking, Republican National Convention, RNC, Robert Mueller, robocalls, vaccines, vote by mail, voter suppression | 13 Comments

Today in Fascism: With DHS officers having been deployed to Portland, Chicago prepares for the inevitable, and we wonder if Detroit might be next

By Mark | July 20, 2020

The cool, military-looking guy above is former lobbyist Chad Wolf. [Insert Donald Trump “Drain the swamp!” soundbite.] As I understand it, Wolf has never served a day in the military. He did, however, attend Southern Methodist University on a tennis scholarship, and earn an undergraduate degree in history. And, now, because he was in the […]

Also posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged border patrol, call to action, Carrie Cordero, Center for a New American Security, Chad Wolf, Chicago, Cory Booker, Customs and Border Patrol, Dana Nessel, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Detroit, DHS, drain the swamp, family separation, fascism, FBI, Gretchen Whitmer, HEROES Act, Kirstjen Nielsen, law and order, lobbyists, martial law, moms against fascism, police state, politicization, Portland, racism, threats to Democracy, unconstitutional, William Barr | 80 Comments

We keep hearing that COVID doesn’t discriminate, but the data shows that, here in Washtenaw County, it’s disproportionately the black residents of Ypsilanti who are suffering

By Mark | April 5, 2020

As of yesterday at 3:00 PM, 14,225 residents of Michigan were known to have contracted COVID-19, with 540 of those cases being in Washtenaw County. [At the same time, there had been 540 deaths in Michigan from COVID-19, with 8 of those having been in Wasthenaw County.] Of those currently hospitalized in Washtenaw County, the […]

Also posted in Health, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged asthma, coronavirus, COVID-19, density, diabetes, environmental racism, food access, health care reform, health disparities, heart disease, Hyborian Warlord, pandemic, racism, service industry, social distancing, structural racism, universal health care, Washtenaw County Health Department, work from home | 188 Comments

On a campaign stop in Michigan today, Elizabeth Warren calls for a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering, get corporate money out of politics, and protect voting rights

By Mark | June 4, 2019

We know for a certainty that the tide is turning against the Republican Party demographically speaking. And, as a result, we know that the Republican Party, in an effort to retain power, has been devoting more time, effort and resources to gerrymandering, voter suppression and other activities intended to prevent non-Republicans from voting, like continuing […]