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Capitol reporter w/ @BridgeMichigan . I like my coffee black just like my metal. (Past: @Mlive , @GongwerMichigan , @Politico )
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POV: You’re a reporter covering state government
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My Meijer rolled Sandy the penny pony out of storage so that’s how you know folks really consider the pandemic to be over
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Fox News, which is playing loudly at Dixon's watch party in Grand Rapids, just called the race for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The news is immediately met with loud boos.
Dixon, who was supposed to issue remarks at 11:15 p.m., is currently nowhere to be seen.
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Former MI gubernatorial candidate John Lauve came up to reporters almost in tears to say this convention has been one of the most disorganizing and embarrassing events for the party he's ever scene. Says he threw out his credentials and that the party has no idea what it's doing.
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House Speaker Joe Tate, D-Detroit, says effective immediately Rep. Josh Schriver, R-Oxford, is losing his office, staff and committee assignments for his promotion of the racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory earlier this month on social media.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is planning to recommend an estimated $160 million in the coming fiscal year budget to feed every Michigan school child breakfast and lunch,
@MLive
has learned.
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Fun facts about the last time Michigan Democrats had full control of state government:
- Madonna made her DEBUT
- "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was in theatres
- M*A*S*H was still airing
- The top song of that year according to Billboard 100 was Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"
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He ended up stopping talking to us because he did eventually start crying out of frustration.
"I'm an aerospace engineer. I know how to organize things," Lauve said. "This is a joke ... it's an insult to people's time we put into coming here to do this."
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Detroit News columnist calls a female elected official a cunt when she criticizes his column, and we have people out here explaining how that’s a good thing actually and totally normal for someone to do.
Your daughters, sisters, wives and mothers see you. Everyone sees you.
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It is so wild to me that we're at a point where the MI Board of State Canvassers, who sometimes literally only have reporters at their meetings, is being met with such volatility from people who fundamentally do not understand what the purpose of it is and what the members do.
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BREAKING: The Michigan’s Court of Claims has declared the 1931 law banning abortion in the state except in rare instances unconstitutional.
I deleted an earlier version of this tweet that erroneously said it was handed down by the state Supreme Court.
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U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer calls out members of his own party downplaying yesterday's insurrection or stating Antifa, not pro-Trump individuals, lead the charge.
"We got to this point because a number ... of my fellow Republicans told things they knew were lies."
Yesterday’s assault on the Capitol didn’t have to happen. Politicians who spread the lies that incited this violence bear responsibility. Politicians who continue to lie in order to shift blame and falsely claim this was Antifa or BLM, are contemptible. More thoughts:
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every time someone tries to revive the Michigander/Michiganian debate
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A little late to the "wow every journalist in Lansing is playing career musical chairs right now" party but I'm excited to announce that next month I will be joining
@MLive
as a political reporter covering the MI Legislature!
Stoked to be joining a great team of journalists.
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My husband and I binge watched “The Bear” and “The Menu” in very close proximity to each other and now he won’t stop yelling “YES CHEF” in response to any menial task I ask him to do please send help
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Gongwer is calling MI-08 for U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin. With nearly every precinct reporting in the district, Slotkin leads Republican challenger Paul Junge by just more than 17,400 votes.
Slotkin is set to address the public between 12 and 12:30 on her website, via livestream.
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It’s official: Today was my last day with the
@Mlive
crew. Very appreciative for all the amazing stories I’ve been able to tell with them.
Starting Monday, I’ll be joining
@BridgeMichigan
as their newest Capitol reporter! 💫
As always, my inbox is open: jhermani
@bridgemi
.com.
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I need to know what happened at the Lansing Horrocks to make them have to write this sign.
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Hello from the
@MIGOP
state nominating convention where there are no tables, only 11 seats (
@bensolis1
got one, but I didn’t), no outlets and we have to pay for the WiFi as members of the media.
So, updates may be sporadic but we’re here! So feel free to stop by and say hi 😇❤️
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In Troy tonight for the first of two Michigan events for Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, ahead of Michigan’s Feb. 27 primary election.
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I’m at Grand Traverse Pie Co. in East Lansing for
@ElissaSlotkin
’s coffee hour and there are already anti-Slotkin protesters outside decrying her recent calls to open an impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s conduct with Ukraine.
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*banging pots and pans, indicating it's time for me to share a completely useless fact* Unironic and totally true statement: Without Joe Biden, there would not be Fall Out Boy.
Pete Wentz's parents met working for Biden during his Senate race in the 70s.
Late to this but ... Fall Out Boy is playing the Biden inaugural concert?
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Judge Timothy Kenny, in a scathing opinion, denies relief sought by GOP SOS candidate Kristina Karamo to discount Detroit's AV ballots. He called the suit, among other things "a false flag of election law violations and corruption"
The initial story here:
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MSU needs to be studied in a lab because how is it that this happens, we say never again… and then keeps happening.
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Apparently a hot debate about whether Michigan is actually "Midwestern" or not erupted on Twitter during the debates last night and I really gotta ask: If we're not Midwestern, what are we? South Canadians?
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I'm just a girl
Standing in front of a baseball team
Asking Chris Illitch to sell the Tigers to someone who actually wants them if he's not committed to raising the salary cap so Detroit can enjoy some actually good baseball again
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NEW: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will announce today that, with some safeguards, Michigan will allow contact sports to resume.
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Man, when the
#MILeg
moves, it really moves.
In 24 hours, the state:
- passed a pension tax repeal
- boosted its EITC fivefold (6% to 30%)
- is weighing adding LGBT protections to the state’s civil rights law
- eyeing a repeal of a 1931 ban on abortion
And it’s only Wednesday!
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What Trump is alleging is absolute fiction and there is no reports, on the ground or otherwise, to back this up. Michigan is reporting NO reports of voter intimidation or attempts to prohibit voting throughout the state.
Trump is now on TruthSocial telling people to "Protest! Protest! Protest!" in Detroit based on some nebulous "absentee ballot situation."
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IF YOU HAVE TRIED EMAILING ME IN THE LAST 24 HOURS: I’m sorry I’ve not responded and probably won’t until next week because
@AaronLeonard_1
and I were busy closing on our first home today! 🔥🎉
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Email from Detroit's Department of Elections says it "has counted roughly 162,000 absentee ballots as of 2 p.m. today" and anticipates it will complete counting AV ballots by 6 p.m. this evening.
"The Department mailed out 190,000 absentee ballots and 178,000 were returned."
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As we work our way through exit speeches in the Michigan House, GOP Rep. Gary Howell is one of the first to acknowledge Trump's effect on Republicans in the 2022 midterms: "There will be no path forward for my party unless we reject the demagoguery of the last few years."
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Congrats to Mitch E. Gander (pictured front, feathered) for being what’s believed to be the first turkey in Michigan history to have been ceremoniously pardoned by a sitting governor.
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Today’s my first day! Give me a shout: jhermani
@bridgemi
.com.
Bridge Michigan expands again, hires two editors, Capitol reporter
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Excited to take on the new role with Gongwer, and thank you for all the kind words and well wishes!
As part of our staff expansion,
@JordynHermani
is Gongwer's new Michigan House of Representatives reporter. Jordyn had covered the departments/agencies for us since spring 2019.
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Ok now that the GOP county nominating conventions have been put to bed, I feel secure in saying: I wish we could have just published this in lieu of a story last night
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How to tell if you're a true Midwesterner: Did you or did you not go "we really needed this rain" upon looking outside this morning and seeing it was downpouring?
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Rep. Ann Bollin just confirmed to reporters that the legislature and Whitmer admin have reached an agreement on bills to pre-process absentee ballots and update voter rolls/drop box security.
All of these are expected to take effect BEFORE the November midterms.
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My husband, who is not a reporter: “There’s a special election tonight, right? Does this mean we get election night pizza?”
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Decided to watch the latest Resident Evil movie for kicks and am now totally derailed trying to figure out which Michigan cities are being just absolutely ransacked by a zombie invasion in this universe.
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Joe Schwarz, who was in the House from 05-07, is a signatory of this letter. His successor? Tim Walberg, who was one of three Michigan Congressional Republicans to vote against Electoral College certification.
24 Former GOP Lawmakers: Put Country over Party and Impeach President Trump.
#ImpeachTrumpNow
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Those convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor in the state of Michigan may lose the right to own a gun for eight years under a pair of bills which came before the state Senate Thursday.
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Today marks the first day of a week long vacation that’s going to end with me getting married to my best friend — see y’all in a week!
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Down off Lake Lansing and Larch right now and there’s a very heavy police presence. The road is completely blocked off down Lake Lansing.
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Something I meant to tweet earlier: Both
@SaraMurray
and I tried asking GOP AG nom Matt DePerno - after he stressed party unity in a post convention speech - how he planned to unite after smearing various GOPs as being RINOs.
His response? To ask if we wanted his autograph.
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Another successful trip to Bronner’s in the books
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When you get married on Friday the 13th, you gotta acknowledge the risks! Thank you to all who came out yesterday and made the wedding so special for
@AaronLeonard_1
and I ❤️
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Biggby coffee is gross and more than half of their menu should not exist.
A 16oz coffee that's almost 400 calories and nearly 50g of sugar isn't a drink: That's a meal. (And don't even get me started on their whole Red Bull line...)
We're cancelling each other over Lansing area coffee takes today. Post your cancellable Lansing area coffee take.
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I was today years old when I found out that you can change the colors on the Michigan Legislature's website to correspond with color combinations from the state's public universities. Pretty neat!
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Traverse City's attorney is looking into whether or not Studio 8 Hair Salon violated the city's non-discrimination ordinance after its owner posted to Facebook that not only would it not serve trans clients but recommended they use a "local pet groomer."
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This is a huge accusation against Rep. Daire Rendon (R-Lake City) if proven true.
She's also the same lawmaker who made waves for wearing a Q Anon pin around the Michigan Capitol -- as recently as yesterday (I know because when I spoke with her, she was wearing it.)
EXCLUSIVE: GOP lawmaker attempted to access Michigan vote tablulators; this may be the first attempt involving a sitting legislator.
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Less than a decade ago, Michigan moved to put a ban on banning plastic bags. Now, it could reverse course on that, with the bill sponsor citing metric tons of plastic that end up in the Great Lakes and landfills each year.
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Wildly, Andrews (D-Saint Joseph) actually MADE the roughly two hour drive from the hospital to Lansing tonight to vote through SB 7.
Upon him stepping on the House floor, looking admittedly pretty rumpled and clad in an AFL-CIO hoodie and jeans, House Dems erupted in applause.
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Part of the email pretty clearly insinuates that Sen. McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) grooms children? Which is wild considering I'm pretty sure Theis was on the House Judiciary Committee in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar scandal and has seen the aftermath of actual grooming firsthand.
Had a fundraising email from campaign of
@SenLTheis
roll in my inbox, pushing back on an invocation she delivered in Senate last week prompting multiple Democratic members to walk out.
Entitled "Groomers outraged by my invocation" she also refers to one Democrat as a "snowflake"
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Considering other posts Regan has made regarding his belief that women desire to be “dominated” and that Jews were responsible for the Kennedy assassination (and 9/11?) its not hard to see why no one interpreted this as sarcasm.
Also: A male editor could have stopped this too.
MIRS could really use a female editor to stop them from publishing tidbits from the stolen journal of an alleged rape victim and interpreting a House Republican nominee's disturbing comments about his own daughters getting raped as "clearly wasn't serious" — all in the same day.
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I'm just a reporter
Sitting on the floor of the Lansing Center
Thinking about the fact that the itinerary we got for the day said voting in its entirety would conclude at 12 p.m. but it's 12:21 and delegates haven't even been seated yet 🫠💔
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I know that “science” says the first day of summer is June 20 but I think it started yesterday when my neighbors began lighting off fireworks for two hours last night for no reason
Nature is HEALING, Lanstronauts.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
new little dude alert in the Leonard/Hermani household
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Regardless of your personal political leanings: If you're from Michigan, you have to admit the idea of a "Grosse Pointe Antifa" is at least a LITTLE BIT funny
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Screams and applause for Gov. Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Gilchrist, SML Brinks and Leader Tate who are expected to unveil a Democratic tax plan this afternoon, on the back of announcing intents to repeal Michigan’s “right to work” law.
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Update from
@Simon_Schuster
: Whitmer has it. She's also walking into a second term with a Democratic House and Senate - something not seen in decades.
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Gongwer fanned out across the state last night to attend several GOP county nominating conventions. Our assessment? That Matt DePerno may not be in for the slam dunk AG nod his team thought.
Well, we reached out to his team for a response on that and...
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Note: the +800 dead people who "voted" in the election was actually the number of people who cast their ballots when living, died prior to the election and subsequently had their ballots removed from tabulation as a result.
Or, in short hand: not fraud. Just the system at work.
Democrats: Those are amateur numbers guys. You need to get the dead vote numbers way higher.
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Lansing may just be the worst city on earth for letting people know what streets and exits are closed for construction… before you hit those streets/roads.
Plus, how are you going to open an exit only to not just close it the next day but also the exit after it as well?
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Mad respect to Subway for cornering the Midwest market like this
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It typically irks me journalists can't FOIA the Michigan legislature, but it ESPECIALLY irks me that we can't today, when I am desperately curious to see if a certain Senate Majority Leader really did email Capitol facilities to ask if the toilet water in Binsfeld was heated.
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Excited to announce that I'll be joining the staff of
@politico
starting mid-January as a spring editorial intern! Very excited to be covering politics in D.C. That being said — anyone in the area looking for a roommate?
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Mitch McConnell's freeze at the podium and Dianne Feinstein reading off prepared remarks while not realizing a vote (on Defense appropriations) was occurring happened within 24 hours of each other.
It's long past time to have a serious conversation about an age cap in Congress.
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The Michigan House has passed both SB 6 (restoring the practice of paying union wages on all state projects) and SB 34 (repealing "right-to-work" for private sector employees) in 56-52 votes.
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ICYMI: Here's what we know so far of potential charges in a probe that involves GOP AG candidate Matt DePerno, Barry Co. Sheriff Dar Leaf and Rep. Daire Rendon (among several others) illegally seizing and analyzing voting machines in 2020.
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@HongKongKumquat
@SenPolehanki
tfw you find out that up and until 2021 you and your husband were passively committing crimes
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Not sure if it's already being done but colleges/universities should be required to start teaching media literacy courses for all tracks, like they do for math/science (ie. How to identify a real news source versus an opinion blog, how to fact check a post on social media, etc.)
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Rep. Kyra Bolden (D-Southfield) is giving a harsh speech regarding her grandfather, who was lynched by a white store owner and thrown in a river, which she says “was not an uncommon occurrence at that time.”
“When we don’t understand our history we are doomed to repeat it.”
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Just a friendly Sunday reminder: It’s completely free to be kind to people. Also, the term “people” includes journalists who spent roughly 14 hours covering a political rally the day before.
Just because you may disagree with the coverage doesn’t give you a pass to be rude…
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Trial by fire presidential primary in Michigan where the one with the least amount of CTE after this ends up getting our votes
Could you imagine each presidential candidate lining up to go down this slide?
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gonna be honest, while our workload is about to be insane in Michigan should the primary move I'm also very excited for the boost it's about to give our meme economy
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Wisconsin you have 24 hours to give us back our beloved Yoopers and their peninsula or else
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WE!!! 📣WANT!!! 📣 THE WHALES!!! 📣
WE!!! 📣WANT!!! 📣 THE WHALES!!! 📣
Everyone got so mad about the smiles by a local artist as part of a Rocket ad — and then there was the whole “free the whales” thing on the Broderick in Downtown Detroit. And now they just put up a regular ad for Dunkables 🤣
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So, one TSA smashed laptop later... I'm back online! And back in Michigan, excited to say that tomorrow I'm starting at
@GongwerMichigan
covering the AG's Office, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Corrections & more. Very excited for my first day tomorrow covering the news back home!
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Sad to leave my
@GongwerMichigan
family, but excited to see what
@Mlive
brings! I’m off all this week but starting Monday I’ll be back bringing you House coverage 💪😇
Today we bid happy trails to
@JordynHermani
who gave us three great years at Gongwer. Here's her final story for us. Jordyn is off to MLive and now officially eligible for the unofficial Gongwerian Alumni Association.
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continuing to tell myself there's only a week left in the 2022 midterm season knowing full well I'm wrong
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if god didn't want me to hug one of nature's most aggressive predators, why were they made friend shaped then
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MIGOP Chair Ron Weiser takes the stage, again to urge order, saying that delegates can't hear over guests.
“This is the delegate’s convention, not the guests’,” he said, the sentiment of which was immediately met with booing and at least one emphatic "fuck you" from the back.
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If I’m at a bar reading a book, I don’t want you to like me. I want you to leave me alone so I can drink and read in peace!
Please know, if you’re someone who brings a book to the bar… nobody likes you
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The SOS just released a list of candidates disqualified from pursuing whichever office they were running for due to issues with their affidavit of identity.
Those include Sen. Betty Alexander and Melissa Carone, infamous for her 2020 testimony at the House Oversight panel.
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My husband got a ticket to tonight’s game as part of his birthday present. Glad to see it was worth it.
#GoLions
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🎶kitty shark, doot do doot doot do do🎶
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Opinions on abortion aside, it's SO important to realize that women take BC for reasons other than not wanting to be pregnant. I started taking it to manage acne/skin problems. Others take it to manage heavy or painful periods.
No one reason for using is more right than another.
Trump-endorsed state rep. candidate Jacky Eubanks says that if it came to a vote in the MI legislature, she would vote to make birth control illegal. “Sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage…and open to life. Absolutely.”
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I picked the wrong week to take a staycation. Coincidentally, I also picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
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walking into the cloak room area of the House floor to see several staffers and a lawmaker playing euchre an hour and a half into what’s anticipated to be an all day session
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SHE GAVE BIRTH TO TWINS 😭😭
decided to work from home on this gorgeous Monday morning on the same day a deer has decided to give birth in our back yard
#lovelansing
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Lions: WON
Red Wings: WON
Pistons:
perfect night for sports fans in Detroit tonight
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Fun fact: I took an internship at the Town Crier, their lil weekly paper, and ended up meeting the guy who became my husband. Also ended up being best friends with the other woman I worked with, who ended up being a bridesmaid at our wedding.
So… life changing decision folks!
Want a summer job on Mackinac Island? Here’s how to apply
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