190: Monday Musing: Don't Forget Who Blocked Voting Rights In Michigan!
Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 28, 2024! Nearly 2-million Michiganders have already voted (https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/10/28/michigan-early-voting-turnout-kamala-harris-donald-trump/75836198007/) . As predicted, making it easier for people to vote is not only getting more people involved in our democracy or making it easier for county clerks acr...
4m Oct 28, 2024
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189: Friday Short: Gen Z Men Are Getting Played By Trump/MAGA
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 25, 2024. As some polls suggest that Trump and MAGA Republicans are making some inroads with Generation Z men, Pat wonders what can be done to dissuade these young men from going down the White Christian Nationalist Dude-bro MAGA Republican path. Maybe it's what Paul Waldman writes this week (https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trumps-empty...
6m Oct 25, 2024
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188: Voting To Save Michigan's and America's Future w/ Sam Inglot of Progress Michigan
Here's Episode 108 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! Visit MichiganVoting.org (https://www.michiganvoting.org/) for voting information. 00:00-19:07: Trump's Fascism/Rick Snyder's Sad Pat Johnston begins the episode talking about how Dear Leader Trump's former Chief Of Staff, John Kelly, called his former boss a fascist. And even though Trump has praised Hitler, the MAGA Republican P...
45m Oct 24, 2024
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187: Monday Musing: Don't Be Fooled By Michigan MAGA's Silence On Abortion Bans
Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 21, 2024! Michigan MAGA Republican candidates are real quiet this year when it comes to abortion rights, or in their case, banning abortion rights. Despite spending years fighting to ban abortion care altogether, these same people are suddenly telling voters that abortion bans are not on their radar this year. Of course, the Michigan Rig...
6m Oct 21, 2024
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186: Friday Short: Trump's Trashing of Detroit Is Working...For Kamala Harris
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 18, 2024! Dear Leader Trump doubled-down on trashing the City of Detroit (https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/donald-trump-again-takes-aim-detroit-its-never-come-back) this week, saying if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, the entire country will look like Detroit. And then there's former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christi...
5m Oct 18, 2024
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185: How Climate Crisis Is Changing Michigan's Culture w/ Peter Sinclair
Here's Episode 107 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Ottawa Impact/Close Election Expected Ottawa County, Michigan, provides the perfect and poignant case study on how the MAGA ideology is not only destructive, but it's expensive! Thanks to the outstanding reporting by Sarah Leach, the MAGA Ottawa Impact majority on the county board has spent over $3 million in lawsuits,...
46m Oct 17, 2024
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184: Monday Musing: Harris Offers Elder Care Plan; Media Yawns
Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" on October 14, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new plan where Medicare would cover the costs for in-home elder care, and also for people with disabilities (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-medicare-home-care-attention_n_67094dc3e4b0f3da6456d7f1) . Nine in 10 Americans say they're unable to cover the costs to care for a senior...
5m Oct 14, 2024
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183: Friday Short: Jill Stein Wants More Trump, More MAGA
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 11, 2024. The "Abandon Harris" campaign this week officially endorsed Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein (https://michiganadvance.com/2024/10/08/abandon-harris-endorses-green-party-nominee-jill-stein/) , in Dearborn, MI. But one of the co-founder's of the campaign clearly explained the point of the movement: to hand the state of ...
6m Oct 11, 2024
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182: Harris Leads Trump In Michigan; EV Cars; Slotkin-Rogers Debate; And Why Dirt Road Dems Are Vital
Here's Episode 106 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast. 00:00-30:45: Harris Leads Trump in MI/Slotkin-Rogers Senate Debate Pat's got lots to say this week about the presidential race in Michigan, and why Harris is now leading Trump in the Michigan polls (https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/10/07/kamala-harris-donald-trump-michigan-poll-slight-lead-presidential-race-whit...
38m Oct 10, 2024
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181: Monday Musing: Kamala Harris's Smart non-Traditional Media Strategy Is Brilliant
Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 7, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has been playing a bit prevent defense for my taste of late, but she seems to be getting back on the offense in a smart and calculated way. Along with making appearances on CBS's "60 Minutes" this week, Harris is also appearing on Alexandra Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast, as well as on H...
5m Oct 07, 2024
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180: Friday Short: Democrats AGAIN Clean-Up Republican Economic Mess
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 4, 2024. Yet another solid jobs report for the American people, and it's due in-part to smart economic policies put in motion by a Democratic administration in The White House. After Dear Leader left the country in economic ruin, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris passed strong and sensible job and economic growth bills, such as The Chips Act, th...
6m Oct 04, 2024
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179: VEEP Debate Recap; Abortion Rights w/ Amanda Mazur; Mike Rogers Opposes Lower Drug Prices
Here's Episode 105 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast. 00:00-18:17: VEEP Recap/MAGA Attacks Immigrants & Abortion Rights The first segment features Pat Johnston giving his review of the Vice Presidential Debate between Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and MAGA Republican Dude-Bro J.D. Vance. Pat highlights where Walz scored some major points, and where he fell short, in his debate ag...
48m Oct 03, 2024
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178: Monday Musing: MAGA Michigan Leader Spews Democrats Will "Steal Votes" Lie
Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 30, 2024. MAGA Michigan GOP Chair Pete Hoekstra is telling Republican voters that Democrats "will steal some votes" this election. Of course, like Dear Leader Trump, and several other of his failed cult member, there's absolutely ZERO evidence that Democrats are stealing votes. It's just the MAGA way of letting their people know that v...
4m Sep 30, 2024
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177: Friday Short: It's Easy To Understand Why Women Back Harris
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 27, 2024. A new NBC Poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris enjoying a whopping 21% lead over Dear Leader Trump with women. Why? Because women aren't backing the weird and warped Christian Nationalist philosophy that believes men are the bosses of women. Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review...
5m Sep 27, 2024
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176: Episode 104: MAGA "Policies" Will Hurt Michigan's Economy, and The Smearing Of Rashida Tlaib
Here's Episode 104 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:15: MAGA Plans To Destroy Economy & Women's Freedoms The award-winning Pat Johnston highlights Project 2025's goals to destroy unions (https://michiganadvance.com/2024/09/25/ten-ways-project-2025-could-undermine-workers-rights/) if Dear Leader Trump gets back into office. He also stresses the importance of the Michigan Sup...
38m Sep 26, 2024
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175: Monday Musing: Old Republicans Can't Run Away From MAGA Republicans
Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 23, 2024. Former New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie levied some harsh words (https://x.com/atrupar/status/1837843506703770057) for his former boss, and the extreme MAGA Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Christie blasted Dear Leader Trump for supporting and endorsing Robinson, who's own extreme p...
5m Sep 23, 2024
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174: Friday Short: Teamsters Damage Own Brand By Not Backing Harris
Here's the Left of Lansing Friday Short for September 20, 2024. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is in danger of damaging itself into perpetuity because of its fear of the possibility of either another Dear Leader Trump administration, or that the next President of the United States will be a black woman. Or both. The Teamsters leadership is hurting its cause. --Pat Please, subsc...
4m Sep 20, 2024
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173: Episode 103: The Billionaire School Voucher Scheme w/ Dr. Josh Cowen
Here's Episode 103 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:28: Huckabee-Sanders Weirdness/Abortion & IVF/Yard Signs We begin this week criticizing Arkansas MAGA Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders's attack on Vice President Kamala Harris for not having biological kids while attending a Dear Leader Trump rally in Flint, MI. Pat then exposes the hypocrisy of the White Christi...
47m Sep 19, 2024
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172: Monday Musing: Weird MAGA Will Run Republicans Even After Trump
Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for September 16, 2024! There's a belief that the weird, warped, right-wing MAGA will disappear after Dear Leader is defeated and gone. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just look at the absurd lengths many in MAGA World will go to protect Dear Leader Trump now. That kind of absurdity will not end After Trump for them. Why? Because MAGA has a...
4m Sep 16, 2024
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171: Friday Short: Another Example Of Why Florida Mike Rogers Is The Worst
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 13, 2024! There's an important U.S. Senate race in Lansing between Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (https://elissaslotkin.org/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwxY-3BhAuEiwAu7Y6s2UlEiwSAZ-xe4sshq1Fz5bcjK53xAjMb2dfvoxdYVEepMtucz1pMRoC7VYQAvD_BwE) and MAGA Republican "Florida" Mike Rogers. The winner of the race takes the seat of retiring...
5m Sep 13, 2024
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170: Episode 102: Harris Destroys and Embarrasses Dear Leader In Debate
Here's Episode 102 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-23:27: Harris-Trump Debate Reaction In the first segment, Pat begs the Elissa Slotkin campaign to help push her candidacy for the U.S. Senate by sending-out yard signs to rural Democrats across the state. It's a crucial race, and we progressives want to help her defeat "Florida" Mike Rogers. Then, Pat gives his reactions to t...
35m Sep 12, 2024
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169: Monday Musing: Media Makes A Harris Debate Win Over Trump Near Impossible
Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for September 9th, 2024! The much-anticipated Kamala Harris debate against Dear Leader Trump happens this week. But the corporate media are busy helping set the terms of who'll win, and who'll lose this debate. And as usual, the media are placing heavy expectations for Harris to meet while giving Trump virtually a free-ride. Let me know what you think...
5m Sep 09, 2024
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168: Friday Short: AOC Is Right About Political Predator Jill Stein
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 6, 2024. This week, New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to the woodshed for Stein's predatory political maneuvering every four years. AOC rightly notes how Stein is only out there for her own brand and exposure, while never doing anything to help her party grow on ...
5m Sep 06, 2024
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167: Episode 101: Michigan Sheriff Learns How Trump Is Nothing But Trouble!
Here's Episode 101 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:15: Another School Shooting/More Media Election Failures Pat Johnston begins this week's show by talking about another school shooting in the United States in America. This time, four students were killed in a Georgia high school. Pat illustrates how Michigan Democrats are at least trying to curb the gun violence epidemic ...
42m Sep 05, 2024
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166: Friday Short: How Harris Can Put Trump On Defense On Immigration
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 30, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has done a stellar job at keeping Dear Leader Trump and the Republicans on the defensive since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. One area where Harris and her campaign could improve, and really put Dear Leader on the defensive, is on the issue of immigration. And Harris could do...
5m Aug 30, 2024
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165: Episode 100: Building A Better Way w/ Democrat Clint St. Mosley for Michigan's 9th!
Here's Episode 100 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! And what a show we have in-store for your on this monumental episode! 00:00-9:35: Michigan Reading Scores/Corp. Price-Gouging The episode opens-up by sharing the news that third-grade reading efficiency is at a 10-year low in Michigan (https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/08/28/reading-scores-at-10-year-low-f...
52m Aug 29, 2024
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164: Monday Musing: "Florida" MAGA Mike Rogers Doesn't Get Michigan
Here's this week's Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 26, 2024. "Florida" Mike Rogers is hoping to become Michigan's next U.S. Senator after leaving our state for years to rake-in loads of cash in defense contractor lobbying. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin who worked in military intelligence and then joined Congress to help improve the lives of Michigand...
5m Aug 26, 2024
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163: Friday Short: Kamala Harris Reclaims Patriotism And The Future For Democrats
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 23, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris gave her acceptance speech as the Democratic Party's nominee for President last night at her party's convention in Chicago, Illinois. On the whole, Harris delivered and memorable and effective speech. Most importantly, Harris has Trump and MAGA on the run because her campaign is playing Offense, somet...
7m Aug 23, 2024
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162: Episode 99: Dedicated to Fight For The Next Yooper Generation w/ Christiana Reynolds
Here's Episode 99 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:24: Trump Visits Howell Pat opens the show talking about the first couple of days of the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. He also shows how beloved Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is within the party. Then, he covers Dear Leader Trump's sham of a "non-political event" this week in Howell, MI. Why did Trump visit t...
51m Aug 22, 2024
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161: Monday Musing: It's Pro-Worker Harris Vs. Corporate Stooge Trump
Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Short" for August 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a rather solid populist, progressive, common sense, and popular economic agenda last week. Tax breaks to build three-million homes, $25k to help first-time homeowners with a down payment, $6k if a low-income and middle class family has a baby, an a $36-hundred child tax credit extension. Ha...
5m Aug 19, 2024
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160: Friday Short: No Daylight Between "Old" Republicans & MAGA
Here's the Friday Short for August 16, 2024. Left of Lansing is tired of hearing "old" Republicans complain about MAGA since their actions of the last 50 years led to the MAGA takeover of their political party. However, it's not because they despise the MAGA's policies since there's no daylight between either faction's policies. They despise how upfront and open MAGA is about their policies a...
4m Aug 16, 2024
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159: Episode 98: MAGA Promises Gutting of Min Wage; Austin Marsman On Bringing Gen Z Change To Lansing
Here's Episode 98 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast with Pat Johnston! 00:00-7:38: Weird MAGAS JV Vance/Matt Hall Pat talks about J.D. Vance (or J.V., as Pat calls him) visited Michigan again to unload another uninspired, dark, and untrue version of America that he and Dear Leader Trump envision. Pat then highlights weird MAGA Michigan Republican State Rep. Matt Hall, and how he's spe...
54m Aug 15, 2024
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158: Monday Musing: Protest Entire Israeli War Machine, Not Just Democrats
Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 12, 2024. Gaza Protesters have been appearing at Harris/Walz rallies, just as they protested President Biden many times during his term. While Left of Lansing agrees with the protesters, and has called for a ceasefire while also voting "uncommitted" in Michigan's presidential primary, LOL also says it's time for Gaza protesters to hold MAG...
6m Aug 12, 2024
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157: Episode 97: Distill Social's Gina Keller On Building A Progressive Coalition in Michigan
Here's episode 97 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:36: Harris Picks Tim Walz/MI Primary Results Pat discusses why VP Kamala Harris made a brilliant pick to make Minnesota Governor Tim Walz her running mate atop the Democratic presidential ticket. Populism is taking over the country. Rather than shunning that move, Harris embraced it by choosing the common sense progressive ...
45m Aug 08, 2024
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156: Monday Musing: Musk & His Fascist Billionaires Mess With Michigan
Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for August 5, 2024. CNBC is reporting how Tesla and "X" owner Elon Musk's Pro-Trump Super Pac, called America PAC, is deceiving potential voters by claiming to help them to register to vote, only to keep their personal information while never helping them register (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html?__source=share...
5m Aug 05, 2024
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155: Friday Short: Another Week of MAGA's Fake Populism On Display!
Here's the Left of Lansing Friday Short for August 2, 2024. It's another week where MAGA Republicans' fake populism stance stood exposed once again. Michigan MAGA Republicans are outraged over a State Supreme Court ruling that Republicans acted unconstitutionally (http://Minimum%20wage%20to%20increase%20after%20the%20Michigan%20Supreme%20Court%20strikes%20down%20legislative%20maneuver) in blo...
5m Aug 02, 2024
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154: Episode 96: Michigan in VP Buzz News, And Tech Oligarchs Line-Up w/ Trump-Vance
Here's Episode 96 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:56: Why Not Whitmer for Vice President? While she has steadfastly refused to be Vice President Kamala Harris' own pick for VP, some of us wonder, "Why Not Whitmer (https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/28/why-not-whitmer/) ?" Michigan Advance's Editor-in-Chief, Susan Demas, joins the first segment to discuss how and why Michi...
49m Aug 01, 2024
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153: Monday Musing: Michiganders Aren't Buying MAGA Immigration Hate
Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for July 29th, 2024. A recent WDIV-TV/Detroit News poll (https://www.clickondetroit.com/decision-2024/2024/07/26/new-polling-shows-where-michigan-voters-stand-on-senate-race-project-2025-immigration/) reveals that Michigan voters are split on Dear Leader Trump's plans to deport 11-million immigrants. However, when asked if voters support a secure borde...
5m Jul 29, 2024
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152: Episode 95: Sarah May-Seward's Run To Unseat MAGA Extremist Matt Maddock
Here's Episode 95 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:21: Rally Against Project 2025/Biden Steps Down//Matt Maddock Extremism Pat opens the show this week by talking about the Rally Against Project 2025 event (https://distillsocial.com/events/) happening across the state of Michigan on Saturday, July 27th. It's put-together by our good, progressive fans from Distill Social! P...
51m Jul 25, 2024
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151: Monday Musing: With Biden's Decision, We Can Focus On Taking The Battle To MAGA!
Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for July 22, 2024. President Joe Biden made his decision to drop-out of the race, and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee. And as I suspected, with Biden doing the honorable thing, a new jolt of energy is reverberating across the Democratic Party voting base. It also allows us to stop the infighting, and turn our focus on ...
4m Jul 22, 2024
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150: Friday Short: Democrats CANNOT Be Afraid of '68 Convention Specter
Here's the Friday Short for July 19, 2024! Many Biden supporters argue that Democrats can't ask him to step aside, and they risk replaying the 1968 Democratic Convention, in which the eventual nominee, Hubert Humphrey, lost to Republican Richard Nixon. But I feel like we're forgetting the events leading to the '68 convention, and other reasons why it didn't help Democrats that year. However, ...
6m Jul 19, 2024
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149: Episode 94: Never Backing Down w/ Democratic State House Candidate Jodi Decker
Here's Episode 94 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:36: Trump Shooting/MAGA Violence/Neil Friske Pat opens the show talking about the assassination attempt on former President Trump, and how MAGA Republicans (with the help from corporate media) are trying to blame the Left for the shooting. It's an absurd attack considering how MAGA extremists have been using violent and thr...
48m Jul 18, 2024
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148: Monday Musing: MAGA Want Trump Shooting To Squash Dissent
Here's the Monday Musing for July 15, 2024. In the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the MAGA movement is hoping it can be used to squash any kinds of dissent against the MAGA movement. And it's hoping the corporate media will play a key role in making sure Democrats stay in line, and shut-up. Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give...
5m Jul 15, 2024
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147: Friday Short: Media Protects Trump For Profits!
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for July 12, 2024. Yes, I've said my piece when it comes to what I believe President Biden should do this election. I think he should step aside to help the Democrats win. If I'm wrong, and Biden and the Democrats win big this November, then I'll be the first one to admit I was wrong. And, I'll celebrate being wrong! That being said, while the corpora...
5m Jul 12, 2024
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146: Episode 93: Democratic Rep. Carrie Rheingans On Keeping Michigan Trifecta Blue
Here's Episode 93 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-17:10: Pat's talks about the debate within Michigan's Democratic Party on whether or not President Joe Biden should step aside in the 2024 campaign. He repeats his take that Biden should step aside for the good of democracy. If he doesn't, he hopes Joe proves him wrong! But what Pat really wants the most is for Democrats to go ...
50m Jul 11, 2024
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145: Monday Musing: Lisa McClain's UAW Support Hypocrisy
Here's the Monday Musing for July 8, 2024 During the July 4th holiday weekend, right-wing MAGA Michigan Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain tweeted a horrible video (https://x.com/LisaForCongress/status/1808871717239967880) where she blasted local Democrats for driving a Subaru during a parade in Clarkston. She exclaimed how this proves that unlike Dear Leader Trump, Joe Biden and Kamala Ha...
5m Jul 08, 2024
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144: Monday Musing: MAGA SCOTUS Says Presidents Are Kings
Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for July 1, 2024. Just days before we celebrate our independence from monarchy, the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are kings! In a 6-3 ruling, the MAGA majority wrote that presidents are immune from laws if they are "official" acts, whereas they are not immune from "unofficial" acts. They believe any actions Dear Leader Trump...
5m Jul 01, 2024
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143: Friday Short: Good Abortion Rights News From Michigan This Week!
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 28, 2024 In what has been a rather bleak news for progressives and Democrats this week, there's been some good news on abortion rights in Michigan this week. Proving, once again, that Michigan believes in the economic and health care freedoms of women. After a Court of Claims ruling that Michigan's 24-hour waiting period for abortion care wa...
4m Jun 28, 2024
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142: Episode 92: Slate's Nitish Pahwa On Lansing's Political Power
Here's Episode 92 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! Nitish Pahwa (https://slate.com/author/nitish-pahwa) is Slate's associate writer for business and tech, and he's a native Michigander. He grew-up around Lansing, and remembered what the political scene was like just a decade ago when MAGA Republicans had complete control of state government. That's why he's surprised to see how fast ...
51m Jun 27, 2024
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141: Monday Musing: If Gun Safety Laws Stop One Shooting, Then Michigan Democrats Did Right Thing
A recent Bridge Michigan article (https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-splash-pad-shooter-was-known-risk-red-flag-law-didnt-stop-him) highlighted where red flag laws, which Michigan Democrats passed into law last year, didn't stop the horrific mass shooting at a Rochester Hills splash pad in Oakland County, MI. However, the law's already been used over 100 times since its pass...
4m Jun 24, 2024
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