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Saturday the Harambee Neighborhood Improvement District blatantly disregarded requirements outlined in its own bylaws to avoid dissolution and re-elect five incumbent board members without opposition. Only 12 voting residents were present.

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Dispatches from the Heartland.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

Who’s running the country?
We in Michigan would really like to know.
Because we’re dying out here.

I saw an African family on the corner of Eight Mile Road and Van Dyke selling used shoes from plastic bags and clothes from roller bags.

The Warren cops ran them off and they crossed over 8 Mile to Detroit.
A white junky on a bicycle took a pair of boots the family left behind.

The VFW hall was torn down after it was purchased by the UAW, who built a union hall in its place.
I like the old VFW HALL.
It had Merle Haggard and Snoop Dog in the jukebox.

Not a soul was at the new UAW hall the Thursday before Labor Day, despite the fact that 2,500 auto workers at the Ram plant will be out on their asses next month.

Add that to the 700 software designers up at the GM Tech Center who were shown the door yesterday.
White collar, blue-collar, pretty soon… No collar.
Warren’s screwed.
The Alibi bar near the plant was doing a brisk business at two o'clock in the afternoon.
It won't be like that come Thanksgiving.

An autoworker told me his teeth were bad cause he’d rather put his copays towards his kids medical deductible.
His mouth looked like a ruined fence.

The latest contract was good. But not that good.
It’s not preventing layoffs, even after we’ve given the company billions.

There’s old cinder block housing built for the southern war time workers.
People are still living in them.
The row houses look remarkably similar to the sharecroppers shacks from whence there people came.
But these people aren’t leaving.
Can’t. To where? By what means?

The trailer park that the rapper Eminem allegedly grew up in is on 8 Mile Road on the other side of the plant.
He didn’t. It’s a fairy tale.
What’s real is that even though the park is condemned a few pale ghosts live among the blown out windows and open sewer pipes.

Along Eight Mile someone tried to outrun a cop, hit a curb and sheared a tire and linkage off.
The car landed on its remaining three tires and the driver was immediately arrested.
I should expect the driver to be released in no time.
No room at the inn.
The wheels are literally falling off.
That’s the truth in America, east of Broadway.
What acknowledgement do they get from the political class?

Now that they want something, now that it’s clear what they’ve done to you, they pretend to be you.
Because that’s the mood of the country.
Apparently Kamala Harris worked at McDonald's somewhere in Mississippi judging by the accent.

JD Vance is from Appalachia, which is apparently a suburb of Cincinnati .

And apparently Gretchen Whitmer the poor little rich girl is from Eight Mile.

Stop with the bullshit.

The expert class is desperate.
They’re devoid of answers in the time of populism.
We don't need you to be like us.
We need you to do right by us.
So why won't you?

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Struggling to post about anything right now but my work is up at the Wustum museum via the @RacineArtMuseum , I’ll likely make a dedicated post about this next week. Thanks for the love.

[Matt Wild @ByMattWild]

“Who decided how many days are in a week, how many months are in a year, all that stuff?” - Bob Uecker, afternoon game in late August, Brewers up 6-0 in the 7th

[Dives of Wisconsin @DivesOfWI]

How did a small bar from Wisconsin become world famous—and why are the bar's bumper stickers spotted gracing mountain tops, sail boats, and famous landmarks around the world?

This is the story of Wolski's Tavern, and the famous "I Closed Wolski's" bumper sticker.

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[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Reminder: this is what the average American wants:

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Isn’t anyone else sick of @MilwaukeePolice?

[Diana Gutiérrez @DGutierreztv]

NEW: Police video of a dangerous chase on a Milwaukee freeway ending with an officer shooting the driver and a pregnant passenger. The unborn baby did not survive.

A warning, some of this video is difficult to watch.

@WISN12News

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@Peter_Bukowski Maybe it says more about Romeo than Jaire 🤔

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@IsaacRowlett Wish they were as good at *keeping* people in homes as they are at repossessing them 😉

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@yount1130 @newstalk1130 The idea that people without children (*currently*, might I add) aren’t invested in the success of the country *they’re in* is asinine.

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@IsaacRowlett Harris can’t win progressives, not with her horrible record as AG.

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@Iamablur @PabstTheaterGRP Apparently they thought it was pretty shitty. But … Whatta they know?!?

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How about: “Next time, please don’t kill anyone”?

[Gary Witt @Iamablur]

Our 3rd and final message to GOP Convention attendees

@PabstTheaterGRP
♥️ Repost if you love Milwaukee!♥️

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@DougRussell Common sense isn’t so common anymore, Doug … but what you’re saying is spot-on.

[Doug Russell @DougRussell]

I’ve stopped being political because I’m just exhausted by it. But can we agree that the other side - whatever side you are on - doesn’t HATE America…they just have a different view of it. We are a country born of diversity of thought. We can disagree without being enemies. ✌️

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[UNITY by Jabril @unitybyjabril]

Are you #fear_less?

#purposedrivenlife #courageous #counterculture #gamechanger

[Peter Bukowski @Peter_Bukowski]

If the 49ers had traded up for Jordan Love in 2020 instead of Brandon Aiyuk they’d have at least one Super Bowl by now.

Maybe more.

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@wisgaug @BertWeather @JaredLeto Yeah, it’s really wild how many of them there are.

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@emrichards @journalsentinel @john_diedrich Fix your headline, Erin.

[wild bill @billienotjeane]

Out of state police officer executes homeless man multiple miles away from the RNC perimeter*