Charlie Kirk was murdered for his beliefs and conservative values. Senator Slotkin wants that to be a message of deterrence for young people.
Tell me again who the fascists are...
🇺🇸Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Roadster which flies in the air using a propulsion system and performs back flips.
🇫🇷 Meanwhile in France, Macron shows off the latest ‘futuristic’ Citroen concept car that has light bulbs. 💡
How Duggan's Former Mistress Created Abdul El-Sayed
Sonia Hassan helped bring him into Detroit government, and an anti-Israel publisher helped him get a job in Wayne County
By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff
The Democrat Big Three—Jocelyn Benson, Abdul El-Sayed, and Eli Savit—present themselves as something new in the world of Michigan politics.
What they really are is the newest generation of the old, corrupt Wayne County Machine. A ship skippered by Mike Duggan, the former mayor of Detroit who had a grand jury follow him wherever he went.
It was Duggan, in fact, who set the three Democratic nominees’ political careers in motion. It began in 2015 when Duggan and his then mistress, Dr. Sonia Hassan, had a lunch interview with the little-known El-Sayed, according to a former El-Sayed aide. The mistress was impressed with the young man. He talked smoothly, had an Ivy League education, and they were both of Egyptian heritage. With no real-world experience and no medical license, El-Sayed, then only 30, was made Detroit’s health director.
To return the favor, El-Sayed’s department funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars of the bankrupt city’s money into Hassan’s nonprofit.
After just 16 months, El-Sayed resigned. Soon after, the mistress scandal exploded. That’s when Duggan’s chief development officer, Ryan Friedrichs, ordered City Hall staff to destroy evidence.
Friedrichs came to Duggan by way of billionaire developer Stephen Ross, as the two negotiated a massive real-estate deal in the city. Ross was the power behind little-known Jocelyn Benson, who was made dean of the Wayne State Law School. In return, Duggan hired Benson’s husband—Ryan Friedrichs—to negotiate with Ross.
Friedrichs went on to work for Ross as a lobbyist for the monster AI data center in Saline Township that nobody there seems to want. Benson went on to become secretary of state, and now candidate for governor. Benson claims she will not make a dime on the data-center debacle—an untruth.
Duggan’s senior legal counsel at the time of the mistress scandal was Eli Savit, who tried to get the Detroit Inspector General to bury her conclusions in the investigation, writing: “The draft findings threaten to impose severe, unwarranted damage to the reputation of several public servants—and further threaten to stymie effective governance in the City of Detroit.”
The inspector general refused to alter her findings.
Not to worry, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel—another Duggan sycophant from their days in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office—made the scandal disappear.
Savit now hopes to replace her as attorney general.
El-Sayed also disappeared for a few years and resurfaced in 2023 as the new director of the Wayne County Health Department—again with no medical license and little real-world experience.
He was appointed by County CEO Warren Evans, another longtime Duggan protege. El-Sayed was introduced by his patron Osama Siblani, a Dearborn-based political rainmaker who raises obscene amounts of money for Evans.
For his part, the Lebanese-born Siblani considers Hezbollah and Hamas, known terror groups, to be freedom fighters. Despite withering criticism this election season, Siblani stands by his words.
“I mean what I say,” Siblani told me by telephone. “And I won’t back away from that.”
That’s more than you can say about El-Sayed. He deleted years of crazy social media posts in the run-up to his campaign announcement. For instance, El-Sayed used to advocate for defunding the police. Now he says the opposite.
Are we getting something new with this new generation of Michigan Democrats? Hardly. What we’re getting is something old, something borrowed, something tired, but nothing new.
@dgsommersmkts@RevivedDrip What are you defining as suitable for a faimly? My 30yo nephew has a home married with 2 kids. Its small, but its not renting.
@RevivedDrip@dgsommersmkts@spectatorindex It was 120k. And over the weekend I learned that one of her friends growing up also bought a house last month. She us also 24yo.
Meet Parastoo Ahmadi, the Iranian singer just sentenced to 74 lashes for not wearing a hijab in a music video. And I have yet to see a single Western popstar, actor, or woke social justice warrior speechifying about her.
Almost like standing up for truly oppressed people isn’t actually the point.
In an undercover video obtained exclusively by The Midwesterner, Abdul El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi, confirms he's not a capitalist.
"All we care about is the policies at this point," she said in the video, agreeing the focus is "getting him in."
Back in 2008 oil damn near hit $148 a barrel and gas was around 4 bucks.
Now oil is way lower and somehow we’re still paying more at the pump.
You can throw out all the excuses you want, but regular people know when something smells fishy.
Something ain’t right.
THE FASTEST PRICE TURNAROUND IN YEARS
Will Cain just dropped the receipts.
Same window. Year two. Jan–July.
Biden vs Trump 2.0 on prices:
Overall inflation: 12.3% vs 4.3%
Groceries: 15.8% vs 3.3%
Gas: 69% vs 12%
Rent: 7.7% vs 4.5%
Electricity: 19.1% vs 8.4%
Cars: +23.9% vs -1.2%
Median household income: record high.
Official poverty rate: record low.
Policy change. Immediate effect. Not magic.
#AmericaFirst #Inflation #Trump2026 #Economy #MakeAmericaAffordableAgain #FoxNews #WillCain #PricesMatter #CensusData #Midterms2026
🚨 WE ARE WATCHING AN EXTRAORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL BATTLE OVER PERCEPTION.
Turn on the media and you'd think EVERYTHING is dramatically worse under President Trump.
Then look at the numbers.
Compared with the same stage of Biden's presidency, the figures being circulated show:
INFLATION
🟦 Biden: +12.3%
🟥 Trump: +4.3%
GROCERIES
🟦 Biden: +15.8%
🟥 Trump: +3.3%
GAS
🟦 Biden: +69%
🟥 Trump: +12%
RENT
🟦 Biden: +7.7%
🟥 Trump: +4.5%
ELECTRICITY
🟦 Biden: +19.1%
🟥 Trump: +8.4%
NEW & USED CARS
🟦 Biden: +23.9%
🟥 Trump: −1.2%
That doesn't mean Americans aren't feeling real affordability pressure. They ARE.
But during Biden's term, I REMEMBER the media making it feel like everything was fine but the opposite was felt by Americans in the real world.
Today, it seems to be the opposite. People's conditions are improving but the perception is that life is worse.
That's exactly why you have to separate how people feel, what they're being told, and what the underlying data actually show.
We're heading toward the 2026 midterms.
QUESTION EVERYTHING. CHECK THE NUMBERS YOURSELF. 🇺🇸
Globalists are decimating the oil market by destroying refineries, pipelines, wells, & pumping stations using their Ukrainian & Islamic proxies - all over the world.
“But Trump”
Politicians forced mandates to impose renewable energy, biofuels & carbon neutrality while ignoring the warnings from the oil industry of catastrophic consequences for 3 decades
“But Trump”
Renewable, clean, and neutral mandates have shut down refineries and made them a non profitable business while ignoring the 30 years of warnings that those mandates & closures would lead to exactly what we’re seeing today
“But Trump”
Oil companies are making record profits, of $160 million every single day, but refuse to give Americans a break at the pump
“But Trump”
Mostly democrats ran states & cities have insane fuel taxes that add 20-100% of baseline fuel prices on top of costs
“But Trump”
Politicians have attacked domestic drilling, pumping, and fracking under guise of clean energy for decades
“But Trump”