The Thečhíȟila Collective hoped to buy lots from the Land Bank for its listed price of $7,000. But months after the group expressed interest the Land Bank raised the price of the parcel by nearly 2,000% to $136,500. www.bridgedetroit.com/thechi%c8%9f...

Good advice……

Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity." w/ the wonderful @holpuch.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

Detroit is a union city. It is not talked about enough how unions that overwhelmingly voted for Obama a decade ago have since shifted right, towards Trump. Republicans fuck over the working class yet win the hearts and minds of those they’re actively screwing.

Another media fail. Bribes are factored into the cost of doing business in many parts of the world. In the United States it is illegal and unconstitutional. Article II, Section 4, makes this an impeachable offense, but since we don’t have a legitimate third branch of government, it’ll just ✈️ by.

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism, has died at age 89, according to his family. cnn.it/43R9Mw7

Since taking office Trump has launched an all-out war on kids, from slashing funding for research into childhood cancers, to proposing cuts that would take school lunches, SNAP support, healthcare, education and more away from children in every community.

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

China, Japan, and South Korea agree to “closely cooperate” in response to U.S. tariffs

Right now @booker.senate.gov is filibustering on the senate floor “for as long as [he is] physically able.” Grateful to see Dems with some fight in them! This part about John Lewis is particularly meaningful. Check it out and then go find Senator Booker live on every platform!!

Senate Democrats will launch a war room Tuesday dedicated to fighting back against the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to Social Security.

NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”

One reason they won’t bring any of these people back is they don’t want them around to testify to what’s happening

Treating American democracy like Publishers Clearinghouse

Household income needed to be considered middle class in the US ranges from $36k (Mississippi) to $200k (Massachusetts), depending on your state Middle class in this graph is defined as earning between two-thirds and double the median household income. (February 2025)

Why fear death Be scared of living [Ophelia Hawke]

Where do you park 12,500 bikes? In Utrecht, the answer is: underground, right beneath the train station. The Netherlands leads the world in bike parking infrastructure, treating it as an essential part of the cycling journey.

Trump: ‘I couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of tariffs www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump and Musk have cancelled more than $4.2 million in food assistance for Michigan families—more than 2 million meals. And our weak and fearful GOP congressmen have just let them, instead of standing up for families in their districts. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.

This is not the Republican Party of Reagan or Romney. This is the MAGA party. We need Democratic leadership who understand that, and who are ready to fight back.

USDA cancels $4.3M in poultry, cheese, eggs to Michigan food banks The government's decision to cancel the food shipments has caught food banks off guard, and could lead to shortages.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's ok to be scared and anxious and angry about what's happening right now. But we'll get out of this. The way we do it is by showing up in our communities, using our voices, every single day.

We said what we said. And let us add, under MAGA Matt Hall and his extremist minions, the MI House is being run by 🤡🤡🤡

University of Michigan abruptly closes DEI offices and ends strategic plan to promote diversity michiganadvance.com/2025/03/28/u...

Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty michiganadvance.com/2025/03/28/t...

When I asked Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti how many students could be affected by cuts to the Department of Education, he replied: "All of them." #Detroit schools have a high concentration of poverty and rely on federal funding more than other districts. 1/2

i profiled the first major american environmental disaster of the trump era i would appreciate it if you shared, as the communities impacted feel deeply ignored by the mainstream media

Obeying in advance.

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

Please consider making a donation to the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center here so they can continue providing legal services to unaccompanied children: michiganimmigrant.org

Did you know that every single Michigan Republican in Congress voted to steal healthcare from thousands of Michigan kids so that they can give Elon Musk and Trump's billionaire buddies a $4.5 TRILLION tax cut? Disgusting.

Reminder: In 2023, the SEC charged Coinbase with violating federal securities law. Coinbase gave Trump over $76M, and listed and promoted his meme coin on their platform, and Trump’s SEC dismissed the lawsuit. That’s not a coincidence, it’s corruption. popular.info/p/trump-and-...

An important post from @dandrezner.bsky.social . Something’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The people who provide healthcare are being squeezed - just like the public. From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.

So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.

I have to say the worst possible narrative to come out of the Trump era is that every attack on the humanity and survival of every oppressed group is actually a diversion to distract from every other attack on another oppressed group simultaneously. Grade A divide & conquering ourselves in advance

A $25 million Federal grant for MDOT's Michigan Ave project is under review since it includes climate-friendly infrastructure, in this case, bike lanes. This grant was awarded in 2022. ($)

MANDY IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen at Evergreen and Greene Avenues she's chipped: 985113009562581 and six pounds. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT MANDY!

Bloom – a touching animated short film about depression and what it takes to recover the light of being

This administration has defended “both sides” of: *Putin v. Ukraine *Neo-Nazis v. those they killed/injured in Charlottesville *European fascist political parties v. the non-fascist mainstream The normalization of extremism is the entire point.

They weren’t “deported”? They were sent to be slaves in a South American prison. They were imprisoned forever in a concentration camp despite never having been convicted of any crime. That’s not “deportation.” #ThisIsHumanTrafficking #ThisIsWhiteNationalism #ThisIsNaziShit