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On the podcast this week…
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Turns out slavery wasnโt all that bad – at least, according to renowned civil rights advocate Donald Trump, who took a break from his continued cover-up of the Epstein Files and restoring Confederate traitor names to current U.S. military bases, to demand the Smithsonian alter their displays to adhere to his whitewashed view of history.
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Trump genuflected, fan-girled, and failed to deliver his long-promised “end to the war in Ukraine in 24-hrs” as he was yet again outfoxed and manipulated by Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The leaders of the free world were so alarmed with Trump’s disastrous display that they high-tailed it to Washington to provide protection and backup to Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House Monday and to prevent Donald Trump from surrendering Ukraine and NATO power to the New Soviet Order.
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California Governor Gavin Newsomโs press office is the newest social media sensation with posts trolling and mimicking Trump and all things MAGA. The ridiculing of the Supreme Leader has led to non-stop whining on Fox News and elevated their constant hypocrisy to new heights.
- Republican Aric Nesbitt, the minority leader in the state senate, was discovered to have funneled nearly half a million dark money dollars into his campaign for governor in what looks to be a clear and deliberate effort to circumvent Michigan’s law limiting the amount a person or group can contribute to campaigns and to make those names public.
- Michigan is facing a government shutdown deliberately and unilaterally engineered by Republican House Speaker MAGA Matt Hall. Hall and the House GOP are defunding the police and schools.
- Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan endorsed Mary Sheffield to succeed him as Detroit mayor, while his campaign is combining some very public endorsements and some very large cash contributions from Republicans.
- The latest target of Trumpโs Department of Retaliation (formerly the Justice Department) is a former MSU Economics Professor: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
Joining the conversation is a journalist with a keen eye for whatโs really important. Nancy Kaffer is national award-winning columnist who writes about politics, policy and the complicated relationship between the two, from Detroitโs historic municipal bankruptcy to the backlog of untested sexual assault kits in Detroit to the Flint water crisis. She oversees publication of commentary and letters to the editor, pens columns and contributes to unsigned editorials.
Nancy is a native of Mobile, Ala. Before joining the Free Press in 2012, she was a staff writer for Crainโs Detroit Business, where she covered the city of Detroit. She has also worked at publications including the Dearborn Press & Guide and the Hattiesburg (Mississippi) American, where she covered K-12 education and post-Katrina recovery in Mississippiโs Pine Belt. Nancy lives in southwest Detroit with her husband and son.

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