11/10/25
TRUMP PARDONS ELECTION FRAUDSTERS
President Donald Trump, in a document dated 11/7/25, has pardoned more than 70 people suspected of working to overturn the 2020 election. Many of those pardoned still face state charges.
Among those pardoned are Rudy Giuliani (who has been disbarred in New York and Washington DC over his efforts to overturn the election), John Eastman (also disbarred), Mark Meadows (Trump’s former chief of staff), and attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis.
Typically, a person receiving a pardon must accept responsibility for the underlying offense. This is nothing less than an admission by Trump that he did, in fact, try to overturn the 2020 election. Can a president of the US commit a greater crime than attempting to defraud an election?
11/9/25
TRUMP WANTS STADIUM NAMED AFTER HIM
The Washington Commanders are getting a new stadium in DC, and Donald Trump wants them to name it after him.
“That would surely be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible," said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Republican president.” This is, of course, a bald face lie from the press secretary, as it was President Joe Biden who made the stadium possible. The only thing Trump did was threaten to kill the deal if the Commanders did not revert to their old racist name, the Redskins.
“"The Washington "Whatever's" should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this," Mr. Trump wrote in a July 20 social media post.”
11/7/25
PELOSI TO RETIRE
The woman who was the 1st, 2nd, and so far only woman to serve as Speaker of the House, has announced her retirement. 85 year old Nancy Pelosi will not run for reelection in 2026.
She will be remembered as one of the most effective Speakers to ever hold the position.
11/6/25
AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD DEBT SKYROCKETS
In another sign of how poorly the economy is doing for average folks, household debt in America has hit an astonishing 18.59 trillion dollars, according to data provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
It’s another sign of Trump’s “K shaped” economy, where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class get squeezed right out.
11/5/25
BLUE WAVE 2025
In what many pundits and voters themselves are calling a stunning rebuke of Donald Trump’s rapacious presidency, Democratic politicians and initiatives pretty much ran the table in yesterday’s elections. And, despite polls showing races tightening in the days leading up to the election, none of the results were even close.
In New York city, 34 year old Zohran Mamdani won with 50.4% of the vote, over disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo’s 41.6%.
In New Jersey, in a governor’s race that was predicted to be tight, Democrat Mikie Sherrill defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 13 points, 56.2% to 43.2%.
In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger defeated Winsome Earle Sears by an ever bigger margin, 57.5% to 42.3%. A Democrat won the Attorney General election over an incumbent Republican, surviving a violent text scandal that threatened to derail his campaign. And, Democrats may have even picked up a super majority in the Virginia legislature.
In California, Proposition 50, also known as the “Election Rigging Response Act”, passed with 63.8% of the vote, a majority that was even higher than the vote that created the California Independent Redistricting Commission. California is now free to counter the shameless mid cycle redistricting Texas did at the behest of President Trump.
Here in Michigan, Mary Sheffield became the first woman ever elected Mayor of Detroit.
11/4/25
ELECTION DAY 2025
Not much is happening in Michigan, other than local issues, but there are some important elections going on in other states.
Residents of New York city will decide on a new mayor.
New Jersey will elect a new governor.
Virginia will elect a new governor.
Pennsylvanians will decide if they wish to extend the terms of 3 Democratic leaning justices of the Supreme Court.
Californians will decide if they wish to temporarily set aside their independent redistricting commission and redraw their congressional districts. This is in response to Texas doing a controversial gerrymander mid decade at the behest of President Trump.
11/3/25
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR TARIFF ARGUMENTS WEDNESDAY
Having lost 3 times in lower courts, the Trump Administration is taking their case to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
At issue is Trump’s use of the 1977 law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). By declaring America’s trade deficit as an “emergency”, the law allows Trump to bypass congressional approval. Because the Constitution is pretty clear - tariffs are the domain of Congress, not the president.
Trump has forecast economic disaster if SCOTUS rules against him.
11/1/25
2 FEDERAL COURTS RULE SNAP MUST BE FUNDED
Federal courts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have ruled that the Trump administration must fund SNAP during the government shutdown.
Trump has said he will comply, but claims the rulings conflict and has asked the courts to clarify their orders. One could be forgiven for viewing this as a delaying tactic, since Trump has a long history of doing just that.
And, if you want to know why the President of the United States decided to use the food security of 1 in every 8 Americans as a bargaining chip, this quote should help: “But when you’re talking about SNAP, if you look it’s largely Democrats.”
10/30/25
TRUMP ORDERS RESUMPTION OF NUCLEAR TESTING
The US has not tested a nuclear warhead since 1992. In fact, the only country to detonate a nuclear weapon since 1998 is North Korea.
It is unclear whether Trump was referring to testing nuclear delivery systems (which are already tested regularly) or the warheads themselves.
9/18/25
DOJ REMOVES STUDY ON FAR RIGHT VIOLENCE
The US Department of Justice has quietly removed from it’s web site a study that concludes the far right is responsible for the lion’s share of domestic terrorism.
The study found that, since 1990, the far right has committed 87% of the murders ascribed to an ideological motive. The study was conducted by the National Institute of Justice.
8/19/25
RIGGING THE 2026 ELECTION
President Donald Trump vowed Monday to end all mail in voting and get rid of voting machines.
Mail in voting is used by 1/3 of all Americans and vote tabulators are in use in nearly every voting precinct.
The US constitution gives no authority to the president to regulate voting. Those functions are left to individual states.
To justify his dictatorial comments, Trump claimed states “are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes” and must do what the federal government “as represented by the President of the United States” tells them to do.
8/8/25
TRUMPSTEIN - THE MONSTER THAT WILL NOT DIE
Like the antagonist in Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the Epstein Affair created by MAGA seems destined to pursue Republicans and Donald Trump to the ends of the earth. As of July 29, a whopping 79% of Americans want all of the Epstein files released.
It would be difficult, these days, to find a topic on which more Americans agree. The reason is simple - Epstein was the worst child sex trafficker of this era. His services, however, were not cheap. Many very wealthy people paid him to have sex with children, a crime as great as those of Epstein himself. Everyone wants to know who those people were.
Epstein’s assistant in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted and is serving a 20 year sentence. She was recently interviewed by the Deputy Attorney General himself, an unprecedented event despite the President’s assertion that it was “not unusual and totally above board”. Maxwell must have told the Deputy AG what he wanted to hear, because she was transferred to a minimum security facility days later, in another highly unusual move. Trump, meanwhile, denied any knowledge of Maxwell’s transfer, a laughable claim for a control freak who has made the DOJ his private law firm.
Every attempt at deflection, and they are coming in bunches every day, only adds fuel to the fire. It’s so bad that a strategy meeting was scheduled at VP Vance’s house to discuss how to make Epstein go away. This meeting was cancelled when the press got wind of it, and Vance denied it was happening, but not really - it was moved to the White House itself.
It’s not going away. Perhaps it’s because of all those photos of Trump and Epstein, or perhaps it’s because of all the nice things Trump said about him.
8/1/25
RCSO SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH ICE
On June 5, 2025, the Roscommon County Sheriffs Office became only the 5th law enforcement agency in Michigan to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The RCSO entered this agreement under the “Task Force Model”.
Among the things detailed in this agreement is the idea that citizens can be questioned and detained for the mere suspicion that they are “illegal aliens”. It also makes clear that, except for training and some IT services, Roscommon County is on the hook for ANY expenses associated with this agreement.
As of this article, there are now 6 Michigan LEAs (out of hundreds) that have signed these agreements with ICE.
Roscommon County’s economy is based on tourism. We have no agriculture to speak of. We have not, in the past, had a large “Illegal alien” problem. What is the point of this agreement? We have been provided with no evidence that the benefits outweigh the cost.