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Finally: It’s Ending! When Donald Trump isn’t having a hissy fit over the Cheesecake Factory joke, pretty much the entire closing argument for MAGA World in Michigan has been: “Fear the Muslims”! The Islamophobic message is dominant in their rhetoric, repeated across the state by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Robert Kennedy Jr. and wannabe Senate … Continue reading The “Cheesecake Factory” War →

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On Our Political Radar This Week… We are now less than a Scaramucci away from the last day of voting in the mid-term. While Democrats focus their final campaign messaging on the many failures and corruption of Trump Republicans, Trump and some of his desperate candidates are resorting to gutter politics of Islamophobia, threatening federal … Continue reading MAGA Bingo (Guest: Tom Bonier) →

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On Our Political Radar This Week… Brand spanking new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia didn’t even last the week before Trump kicked her to the curb. Just more incompetence and chaos from the Trump Administration, proving yet again that they can occasionally take a break from the astounding financial corruption and their unrelenting assault … Continue reading Scaramucci’s Record Was Made To Be Broken (Guest: Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar) →

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On Our Political Radar This Week… This is our 300th episode, dating back to March of 2021. We thank you for making the last 5+ years possible! When we launched, the two state parties had just wrapped up their winter conventions one month after that January 6 Trump-led riot at the U.S. Capitol. State Democrats … Continue reading S.I. (Guest: “The Bulwark” writer Jonathan Cohn) →

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On Our Political Radar This Week… “Stupid on Stilts”. That’s how Republican Senator Thom Tillis characterized Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to let a Putin Pal pay for his Gatsby-style wedding reception … but it could serve as the theme for the entire Trump 2nd term. Even ultra-conservative billionaire and Trump acolyte Peter Thiel is conceding that … Continue reading Stupid on Stilts (Guest: UM Election Law Expert Sam Bagenstos) →

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On our radar this week… “Degenerates and Losers” – That’s Trump’s description of MS NOW after the network reported the administration is considering adding Trump’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the theatre where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The latest overnight online rant comes hours after a federal court overturned Trump’s ban on MS NOW, CNN and … Continue reading Degenerates and Losers (Guest: Miles Coleman/Sabato Crystal Ball) →

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On our radar this week… The battlelines are drawn in Michigan and across the nation over the tandem futures of data centers and artificial intelligence. Unlike the decades-long warnings over climate change threatening the future of the planet, the lighting speed of A-I development has catapulted the tech issue to the top tier of political … Continue reading Apocalypse Soon →

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On our radar this week… For the first time in our nearly six years and 295 episodes we’re on the road, delighted to be in Grand Haven with good people of Progressive Lakeshore, a nonpartisan, women-led initiative working to connect, inform & grow the progressive community. Absentee ballots go into the mail in just 16 … Continue reading Small Potatoes (Live – on tape – at Lakeshore Progressives) →

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On our radar this week… Yes, the Donald Trump one-dollar coin is now in circulation. It’s just a matter of time until the faux gold coin is available in a special gold case exclusively on the website More Trump Crap for Sale Dot Com. The fall campaign is underway in Michigan, with ballots going in … Continue reading Heads We Lose, Tails We Still Lose (Guest: Mike Madrid) →

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On our radar this week… Jeff takes a week off and just like that, Trump starts another war! This time with him smack-ass in the middle of it. Jeff and his bride were in Canada’s Maritimes and was attacked with Canadian kindness, poutine, real beef and not diseased Argentinian horse meat, the best lobsters and … Continue reading Canadian Bacon Might Fry Republicans →