Mawla

Dearborn Heights City Council Member. Filmmaker at heart. Proud Heights dad.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

Grateful to my colleagues on the Dearborn Heights City Council for the trust they placed in me Tuesday night. I'll come prepared, review every proposal and expense carefully, and listen to residents first. My door is open. Let's get to work.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

The math on this one: $3.5M from Michigan unlocks $34M from the Space Force's SpaceWERX program, plus an estimated 60 more jobs in Marquette.

It's one of nine projects in today's $23M state match package, which pulls in up to nearly $118M in federal money.

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

In Marquette, KMI Space is developing a spacecraft that can meet up with satellites in orbit and move them where they’re needed, extending their life and cutting the cost of replacing them. Michigan is a leader in the industries of the future, and that includes space.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@GongwerMichigan Smart first ad for that office. Secretary of State already holds driver's license and voter records for nearly every adult in Michigan, so who guards that data from big tech is the actual job.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@igorbobic The second snapshot is the one to watch. A 30-year Rogers friend in Grand Rapids calling the anti-Muslim rhetoric "ridiculous" and crossing over is exactly the vote those ads were built to hold.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@PolitiFact Nobody's asking a senator to write prescriptions. Columbia MD, Oxford public health doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar, ran Detroit's health department, then Wayne County's. That's the résumé Rogers keeps trying to shrink to one word.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@AbdulElSayed Gas, groceries, rent, a doctor. That's the whole Wayne County kitchen table in four lines, and none of it has anything to do with a name.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@313Hockey Detroit News had Edvinsson leaving Sweden for the U.S. this morning, still no deal. One candidate named that exact problem. The other sent a paragraph that could've come off the back of a media guide.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@Cat_Zakrzewski Voters "freaking out about AI" is the cleanest read on why this lands in Michigan three weeks out. The whistleblower protections and breach audits are the governance part people will skip past.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@MLive The plan's specifics: a Cabinet-level AI watchdog, criminal penalties for malicious AI abuse, whistleblower protections, mandatory breach audits. That's the bar for anyone else calling for a "slowdown."

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@BernieSanders Battleground Senate candidate, three weeks out, running on an AI pause instead of hiding from it. In Michigan, with a 1.6 million square-foot data center planned in Saline, that's not abstract.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

El-Sayed put an AI plan in writing: pause frontier development until guardrails exist, back a kill switch bill, create a Cabinet-level AI watchdog, and ban superintelligence.

Bernie Sanders says he'll help pass it.

Michigan's Senate race just got a tech platform.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

Warren Tech Center's new battery lab wraps construction in December.

GM's battery chief is now floating the next move: let startups inside to learn on the same floor.

Michigan's EV bet isn't only plants. It's who gets the lab keys.

[Crain's Detroit Business @crainsdetroit]

GM considers opening Warren tech center’s new battery lab to startups https://t.co/AM33DNCpqb

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@ChadLivengood @AbdulElSayed @nannburke @detroitnews Detroit in the ad. Detroit on Oct. 24 for the rally. Early in-person voting starts that same day.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@MalloryMcMorrow A retired UAW worker running for Lansing is the kind of resume Michigan still recognizes without a translation.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@CraigDMauger Press, social, and word of mouth three weeks out is what a campaign sounds like when the TV buy shrinks. Different race than Labor Day.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@CraigDMauger @wjrradio Obama on the 24th, Trump possibly on the 25th. That's day one and day two of early in-person voting. Hard to schedule it tighter.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@CraigDMauger Those Whitmer counties are the midterm map. Higher early returns in Macomb and Saginaw than the statewide average matters more than stacking them against 2024.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@wxyzdetroit Three weeks to Nov. 3, but Michigan starts voting sooner. Early in-person voting opens statewide Oct. 24, and online registration closes Oct. 19.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@samueljrob Dates that decide Detroit turnout: Oct. 19 is the last day to register online or by mail. Early in-person voting runs Oct. 24 to Nov. 1. In-person registration at your clerk stays open through Election Day.

[Mawla @MawlaMI]

@AbdulElSayed @BarackObama Obama in Detroit on Oct. 24 lands on day one of early in-person voting in Michigan. Hard to schedule that better.