@DE_Gifford Just checked on Google earth, Jackson’s grandstand actually looks like it’s still standing, contrary to reports it was torn down in 2018, but about half the track is now a pickleball court lol. Shame, the only racing is now ‘Northville downs at Barry Expo Center’
@DE_Gifford Hazel park is gone, Mount pleasant is gone, Northville (obvs) is gone, sports creek still exists but is being used to store GM trucks, and I’m not sure about Jackson.
Hasan Piker: “Every dollar spent on a bomb that Israel drops on a school is a dollar stolen from you because that’s a dollar that could’ve been used to build a school in your neighborhood. That’s your productive output used for the death machine to kill other people’s kids”
The President is now deploying red state military to blue states over the objective of people's elected representatives in those states.
He's ordering U.S. troops to patrol cities in places that - at worst - have a couple blocks that could use a few more police, or even some federal law enforcement. A judge that Trump appointed just ruled that Trump's deployment isn't legal, saying there's no evidence that the protests were "significantly violent or disruptive."
But Trump is sending U.S. troops in anyway, from a red state, right after he told a room full of generals that the country is at war with an enemy from within, and after the President just told the Navy that the country has to "take care of" the Democrats.
The President is sending our military in to protect an army of masked federal agents who - while they may have begun by focusing on violent criminals - are now arresting legal residents and American citizens so they can hit Stephen Miller's quota or lose their jobs.
They are filming themselves using force against people who have not yet been found guilty of a crime. They are violating the basic 4th and 5th Amendment rights of Americans - every day. The person they report to - the most powerful White House official - calls the opposition party a domestic extremist organization, and accuses judges who rule against him of being legal insurrectionists.
I honestly don't know how Democrats can have any part of funding a government that will use the money to continue this. I don't know how this is not the focus right now.
So a significant portion of Gen Z are:
- Paying social security into a fund that will go bankrupt before it pays them a dime.
- Paying student debt for a degree in a job market that is rapidly declining
- Paying rent in a housing market that has shut them out of ownership
- Paying taxes to a government that's fiscally irresponsible and shipping billions of $ overseas while telling them that they can't afford to cover healthcare
- Paying an increasing amount for groceries, energy and necessities as AI does more harm than good to their generation
So what's the plan here?
AI led universal income? Everyone's supposed to become a content creator?
So in the past year MDOT paused/scrapped the New Center transit hub, the Michigan Ave bus lanes, and now the I-375 removal.
All while I-75 and I-96 were being widened in the suburbs.
They just actually hate Detroit.
????
Ferguson, 2014, Obama Admin
Baltimore, 2015, Obama Admin
Minneapolis, 2020, Trump Admin
UCLA, 2024, Biden Admin
Folks… the problem is the entire US government & its capitalist ruling class. This never changes year after year, election after election, decade after decade
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about cruel people having unprecedented wealth and power over all of us.
This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :
“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”
— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)