Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising’s website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @SeanMcBreartyMI Clean Water Action Michigan on Twitter: @CleanWaterMI Water and Oil Don’t Mix on Twitter: @OilWaterDntMix Clean Water Action’s website: CleanWater.org/states/michigan Water and Oil Don’t Mix’s website: OilAndWaterDontMix.org Enbridge, the company responsible for the worst oil spill in Michigan history, runs a […]

Kim Knackstedt on Twitter: @kiknack The Century Foundation on Twitter: @TCFdotorg The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative on Twitter: @DEJCollab The Century Foundation’s website is at TCF.org The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative’s website is at DEJC.org Kim Knackstedt’s bio can be found HERE. Kim Knackstedt and Rebeccas Vallas discuss the DEJC’s disability economic justice policy framework at The Century Foundation: How […]

I won’t lie: I’ve gotten pretty numb to the endless headlines about gun violence, mass shootings, gun deaths, and gun EVERYTHING. The shooting on campus at my alma mater Michigan State University tore the scab off this week and after the depression and sadness subsided, I’m left with outrage and white hot anger at those who would gaslight us that […]

Ghida Dagher on Twitter: @GhidaDagher New American Leadership on Twitter: @NewAmericanLd New American Leadership Action Fund on Twitter: @NALActionFund New American Leadership’s website: NewAmericanLeaders.org New American Leadership Fund’s website: NALAF.org Learn more about New American Leadership’s training program HERE. Paul Egan at the Detroit Free Press: State budget director defends spending plan that drains $9.2B surplus Beth LeBlanc and Craig […]

The following guest post was written by Liam Reidy, a student at Eastern Michigan University. University Leadership Should Adhere to the Same Rules as Students Eastern Michigan University’s mission statement proclaims five core values that govern how students, staff, faculty, and leadership live our daily lives on campus. We should expect that these core values inform every action of the […]

Natalie Price on Twitter: @VoteNPrice Natalie Price at the Michigan House Democrats’ website: HouseDems.com/Natalie-Price Erika Geiss on Twitter: @SenErikaGeiss Erika Geiss at the Michigan Senate Democrats’ website: SenateDems.com/Geiss Follow the Michigan Democrats and their legislative agenda at Legislature.MI.gov Anna Gustafson at Michigan Advance: After years of misogyny, racism and threats in Lansing, progressive women are in charge Ken Coleman at […]

Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald Listen to the Climavores podcast HERE. Buy Michael Grunwald’s book The New New Deal in paperback HERE and for Kindle HERE. Buy Michael Grunwald’s book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise HERE. Mike Grunwald at Politico: My Life In the Elusive Green Economy Mike Grunwald at Canary Media: This Super-Tree Could […]

Ken Coleman on Twitter: @HistoryLivesDet Ken Coleman is on Facebook HERE. Ken Coleman’s work at Michigan Advance can be found HERE. BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THE POD: The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas Sugrue The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson Chris Savage can be […]

“Two North” is a story about one Christmas when my mom was spending time on the psychiatric ward of our town’s hospital after trying to commit suicide to escape a physically-abusive husband. I was thirteen. It was a cataclysmic event in our lives but it brought us together into a two-person tribe like no other event ever has in my […]

Lavora Barnes on Twitter: @LavoraBarnes Lavora’s bio is HERE. Michigan Democratic Party on Twitter: @MichiganDems Michigan Democratic Party’s website: MichiganDems.com Meet the MDP staff including all of the Project 83 organizers HERE. Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog. MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man. Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE! […]

Earlier this week, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump teased a “big announcement” on Truth Social: This screenshot doesn’t show the video that plays in its entirety where he declares that “America needs a superhero”. (One thing that’s glaring obvious is that he is still burning with the heat of a thousand suns with jealousy of Joe Biden’s “Dark Brandon” memes […]