We can only hope

 

Assuming we're going to make it to mid-terms.

Speaking of Venezuela

Jessica Plichta helped Grand Rapids Opponents of War organize the turnout Saturday, which inspired dozens of locals to march through snowy city streets. But in a bizarre turn of events, Plichta’s decision to exercise her First Amendment rights ended when local authorities handcuffed her on the sidewalk while she was live on air.

[...]

She was reportedly arrested for obstructing a roadway and failure to obey a lawful command from an officer.

  New Republic

Or maybe, it was this...

Plichta had visited Venezuela just three weeks before the Trump administration kidnapped the Latin American nation’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. While there, she attended an international summit, the People’s Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty of Our America, during which she said she saw Maduro “in person.”

“People loved him,” Plichta told the ABC News affiliate before her arrest. “Maduro was elected by the people. He is for the people, and the people want to see his return. Free Maduro.”

UPDATE 01/08/2026: 

Has anybody considered what Venezuela's acting president and legislative body have to say about this?

Have they turned over their oil to Trump?  No?  

Another day, another American mass killing

 

Musk's AI Grok is on it.

You know, the US government uses Grok.

Michigan makes voting easier, despite GOP efforts

Michiganders overwhelmingly passed a 2018 ballot measure that made voting easier by establishing automatic voter registration, no-reason absentee voting and straight-party voting. By a wide margin, voters approved additional changes in 2022: nine days of early voting, prepaid ballot postage, access to absentee-ballot drop boxes and more.

Eleven GOP state lawmakers filed suit to nullify the amendments. Using the radical independent state legislature theory, they argued that only state legislatures – not citizens – have the authority to set rules for federal elections.

A federal district court judge dismissed the case in April last year. Then, in December, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling.

[...]

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Republicans’ request to hear their challenge to pro-voter amendments to the Michigan Constitution.

  Democracy Docket

On Fox News, bad news for Michigan

 

Lawless GOP

Constitutions and laws mean nothing to the modern GOP.

Regarding Trump's firing of 17 Inspectors General...

Meanwhile in Michigan

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

They can't win if they don't cheat

The New York Times reports that Tom Schierkolk, the clerk of Rock River Township in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and his deputy, David LaMere, were relieved of their duties because they wanted to conduct a hand count of ballots before sending them off to the county canvass.

Jonathan Brater, Michigan’s elections director, informed Schierkolk and LaMere that doing an initial hand count of ballots is against state law and he accused the two men of blowing off requests from the Michigan Secretary of State's office to follow proper procedures.

[...]

"Schierkolk is tied to a network of activists who have pushed several baseless theories about corruption in elections and, at times, advocated the hand-counting of ballots, apparently believing that electronic voting machines are insecure," writes the Times. "Donald J. Trump and his allies spread the idea widely after his defeat in 2020, claiming, falsely, that the machines had changed the votes to Joseph R. Biden Jr."

  Raw Story

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Polls catching up to reality?

And Pennsylvania must be bad for him, because he's screaming about fraud there already.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Sad!

UPDATE 10/19/2024:

UPDATE 10/20/2024:

Stop electing Republicans

The Political Crime Party.

Trump in Michigan

"A vicious, violent overthrow."  "Camrade Kamala." 

"Always an honor to be with brave men and women in blue..."  It looks pretty brown behind him there.

His heart's just not in it, is it?

Oh, if you didn't know, HE'S the one who tried to violently overthrow a president.  January 6, 2021.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Bracing the base

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Michigan moving in the right direction - away from Republicans

There will be appeals

In the meantime, parents better start paying attention.

Completely expected since she was recently convicted.

Up with unions!

Let 'em roll across the country.

WTF, WSJ

Dearborn [Michigan] Mayor Abdullah Hammoud on Friday tweeted that city police increased security at places of worship and major infrastructure points as a “direct result” of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.”

[...]

Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, who authored the opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, said in an interview with The Associated Press that he wanted to draw attention to protests in Michigan and elsewhere across the U.S. in which people have expressed support for Hamas since the start of the war with Israel.

  Politico

Well, it IS a Murdoch publication.

...and hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Remember this one?

We always suspected this is how that happened. Now we know.

When Joe Biden became the first president to join a picket line this past September for the UAW, the Trump campaign scrambled to do something to counter the move. Michigan is a critical state for both campaigns, and when auto workers went on strike last fall, Biden made it clear that he was on the side of the workers, and for that he was recently rewarded with the UAW endorsement.

[...]

We saw this same [Trump] production with the train derailment in East Palestine, OH, where Trump flew in for a photo op, passed out expired waters from one of his resorts, and had a few pallets of Goya beans from his friend flown in. Now we learn from recent FEC filings from his PAC that he did the same thing during the autoworkers strike.

The Trump campaign paid Drake Enterprises, a non-union auto parts shop in Clinton Township, $20,000 to stage a fake event with people holding up "Union Members for Trump" signs behind him to make it look like he was holding a rally with union auto workers on strike. During the rally, he rambled nonsense that if he wasn't elected the entire American auto industry was going to move to China.

  MeidasTouch

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Keep it going

More incriminating emails

And Trump was completely innocent, I'm sure.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 06:11 pm: