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Trump supporters protest against public health in Lansing

By Mark | April 15, 2020

There was a protest against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in Lansing today… I get it. People want to put this behind them and get back to business-as-usual. They want to go back to work. They want a return of some kind of normalcy. And, apparently, they think that’ll happen if Governor Whitmer just lifts her […]

Posted in Free Speech, Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918 flu, anti-science, Betsy DeVos, Confederate flag, coronavirus, Corporate Crime, corporate speech, COVID-19, DeVos, Donald Trump, double-peaked curve, flatten the curve, Gretchen Whitmer, guns, hair dye, Howard Markel, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, Lansing, MAGA, Michigan Conservative Coalition, Monica, Monica Echeverri Casarez, motor boat, Ohio, pandemic, protest, public health, shelter in place, social distancing, zombies | 261 Comments

Donald Trump, claiming to have “total authority,” says the American economy will reopen when he decides

By Mark | April 13, 2020

Today was fucked up. I found out that a friend of mine, a nurse in Detroit, died from COVID-19. We hadn’t seen each other in quite a long time, but I thought about her often. About a week ago, I found myself logging into Facebook, just to see if she was OK. Knowing that she […]

Posted in Health, Mark's Life, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, anti-science, authoritarianism, California, Constitution, coronavirus, COVID-19, Detroit, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Joe Biden, Justin Amash, Lansing, Monica, NFL, nurses, personal protective equipment, Phil Murphy, PPE, protests, public health, serology tests, social distancing, states rights, those anti-science Republicans | 109 Comments

Republicans bend truth in petition drive to repeal Michigan’s popular prevailing wage law

By Mark | August 25, 2015

Linette, upon arriving home after a trip to Heritage Fest with the kids this past weekend, mentioned to me that a man had approached her, asking her to sign a petition. The petition, he told her, would put legislation on the ballot that would somehow help rebuild Michigan’s roads. As she didn’t have time to […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amway, Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, bait and switch, buying elections, Dick DeVos, elections, electoral-industrial complex, ethics, Heritage Fest, ilver Bullet LLC, petitions, prevailing wage, Protecting Michigan Taxpayers, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, threats to the middle class, unions, veto | 8 Comments

How Dick DeVos made Michigan a right-to-work state

By Mark | January 26, 2014

If you haven’t read it yet, Andy Kroll has a great piece on the DeVos family in the most recent issue of Mother Jones. Of particular interest to me was the section detailing how Dick DeVos pretty much single-handedly orchestrated the passage of so-called “right-to-work” legislation last year. Here’s a clip. …For Dick DeVos, the […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ALEC, Amway, Andy Kroll, anti-union, Bill McInturff, collective bargaining, corporate money, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Dick DeVos, Frank Keating, Greg McNeilly, Harold Simmons, Jennifer Granholm, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Proposition 2, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, Sheldon Adelson, union busting, unions | 25 Comments

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