LeftOfLansing

Pat Johnston's Progressive Podcast covering Michigan politics and pop culture!

[LeftOfLansing @LeftOfLansing]

Left of Lansing Weekly Poll: What grade would you give Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's second term?

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

GOP & corporate Dems criticizing socialism are refusing to detail which of America's socialist programs they want repealed.

Do they want to end Medicare & Social Security? Public parks? Subways?

It's time for these clout-chasers to start explaining what exactly they want.

[That Gay Guy Candle Co. 🇺🇸 @gayguycandleco]

Mamdani Derangement Syndrome is real.

[Bae Guevara @Kaimandante]

They know this isn’t true, but they’ve gotta pretend to chase right wing voters because that’s how they justify pushing the billionaire donor class’s agenda.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Future Congresswoman Chevalier represents actual voters. A district filled with black and brown people. And what James Carville is saying is a “statement on how he feels about black and brown people, and the fact that they are useful to him when they vote the way that he agrees with. When they don’t, kick them out of the party. They don’t deserve representation.”

Coates said the Democratic Party “owes its very present existence to the Black freedom struggle.” “Is it actually honoring the core morality and principles of that struggle?” he asked.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🔥 @RoKhanna campaigning for @AbdulElSayed:

“The last people who have any right to lecture us about electability are the establishment who lost to Donald Trump twice. I don’t want to hear it. If you had anything to do with those campaigns, please sit down or exit stage left.”

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨NEW: @AbdulElSayed responds to Dem powerbrokers saying it’s too dangerous for him to be Dems’ Senate nominee:

“If you’re Chuck Schumer, I’m dangerous. If you’re AIPAC, I’m dangerous. If you’re a corporate PAC, I’m dangerous. If you’re Blue Cross Blue Shield’s CEO, I’m pretty damn dangerous.”

[Kasey Helton @KaseyHelton05]

She obviously hasn’t scrolled the Michigan Women for Democracy Facebook group which has over 102k members and has become a virtual stan site for @AbdulElSayed

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

They’re pretending rent increases have any relationship to maintenance or repairs.

LOL. Sure, Jan. Just like corporations are gonna reinvest their profits into their workers. 🤡

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 Marc Maron eviscerates Joe Rogan and his unfunny Trump-supporting crew to @karaswisher: “They were sucking up to fascists and promoting the end of liberal democracy and beginning of authoritarianism… bootlickers, pawns, suckers, grifters… it was never about free speech.”

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

I love you, Grand Rapids!

[Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes]

Aisha Farooqi, an attorney, immigrant, and Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 11th District, writes that what she saw outside an immigration detention center forced her to confront a painful question about what America is becoming. https://t.co/u545EOcxaY

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

I’m crying 🤣🤣🤣

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Pretty revealing that what galvanized “centrist” Dems was losing to a couple DSA candidates not for example, losing to a bunch of corrupt fascists who want to end Democracy.

[The Nation @thenation]

AOC has never addressed or apologized for her decision to cover for the pro-genocide wing of her party at the DNC in 2024. For her sake, and for the sake of the left’s political future, she needs to do both.
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[Acyn @Acyn]

Doss: My point is this if you don't want people to be curious about socialism, capitalism has to work a lot better.

Aidala: I don't think Trump would disagree with you.

Doss: Well, guess what? Today he was out here talking about America will never be a socialist country, America never will be a communist country. He just asked for $11 billion in subsidies for farmers because capitalism is killing American agriculture, his capitalistic war is not allowing fertilizer to get to the to American agriculture.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Kirsten Gillibrand, who accused Zohran Mamdani of promoting "global jihad" and has never publicly apologized for doing that, is having fun hanging out with Ted Cruz, who constantly makes anti-Muslim, bigoted remarks.

The worst side of the Democratic Party establishment, folks!

[Beth LeBlanc @DNBethLeBlanc]

Inbox: Community organizer William Lawrence of Lansing has been endorsed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC in his bid to win the Democratic primary in Michigan's 7th Congressional District.

[Kyle Blomquist for U.S. Congress @BlomquistForMI]

We had a great night at our townhall in Escanaba on Wednesday.

The energy and enthusiasm was infectious. Thank you for all that shared their stories and asked their questions. This is what the work should look like.

[LeftOfLansing @LeftOfLansing]

Remember, these are the Blue No Matter Who people.