Outrage in Lansing: 41 former Michigan lawmakers are pocketing six-figure “Cadillac” pensions decades after leaving office, topped by ex-Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema at nearly $190,000 a year, all juiced by a guaranteed 4% annual raise that nearly DOUBLED John Engler’s pension. That dwarfs the 2.6% seniors average from Social Security. Engler started collecting at age 50 while he was still GOVERNOR.
These are the same politicians who pushed state workers and teachers into 401(k)s, yet their own fund sits at just 40.6% funded with a $206 million hole the Michigan Constitution forces taxpayers to cover. 85 retirees collect more than a sitting legislator’s $71,685 salary. Even David Jaye, expelled from the Senate after criminal convictions, pockets almost $105,000 a year. Kwame Kilpatrick was collecting too, until federal prosecutors seized it for restitution.
This “bipartisan” self-dealing has to stop. We need leaders who serve the Michigan families, not insiders who write themselves lifetime paydays while taxpayers, teachers, and troopers play by different rules.
Time to stop it. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
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A black man recorded video of himself riding up to a random white man on the street and assaulting him as revenge for the Karmelo Anthony conviction. He accuses him of being part of the jury process in the trial. https://t.co/JIJxR6pDZC
A black man recorded video of himself riding up to a random white man on the street and assaulting him as revenge for the Karmelo Anthony conviction. He accuses him of being part of the jury process in the trial.
Anthony was convicted by a mixed-race jury of m—rdering a white teen. The conviction has prompted rage from BLM activists and many blacks.
cc: @collincountyda
I hope your ready to be shocked…the appellate court will grant anthony a new trial, he will get a democrat judge, opt for no jury, democrat judge will set him free
“Free Karmelo…You’re Gonna Die” – Florida ‘Digital Creator’ ASSAULTS Innocent White Man Following Karmelo Anthony Verdict, Accuses Him of Being on The Jury (VIDEO)
READ: https://t.co/5n1liWzNCT
We have already passed the time where good people should have stood up and done something. But they have chosen to do nothing. They get assaulted every day and refuse to fight back. By the time “they” decide to stand up it will be too late
I have a question. If Karmelo Anthony’s parents solicited donations for their son‘s defense and then blew all that money on cars and a new house so that he had to get a public defender, how is that not fraud? Why aren’t they facing charges right now?
SCOTUS JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF RIGHTS PARENTS NOW HAVE IF A SCHOOL TRIES TO BLOCK THEM OUT
Not vague victories. Not "parents win somehow." NAMED PROTECTIONS. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. School by school.
🇺🇸 Advance notice — schools must tell parents BEFORE exposing children to the challenged books
🇺🇸 Opt-out right — parents can excuse their children from that specific instruction
🇺🇸 Free Exercise protection — forcing children into lessons that "pose a very real threat of undermining" religious beliefs is unconstitutional
🇺🇸 Preliminary injunction — this is ACTIVE NOW, not pending a future ruling
🇺🇸 Montgomery County, MD — the specific district that started this must comply immediately
🇺🇸 4th Circuit overruled — the lower court that sided with the school board was reversed
🇺🇸 Elementary grades targeted — the ruling applies to the LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks in elementary English classes
🇺🇸 Nationwide signal — any district with a no-opt-out policy on religious-conflict content now faces the same legal exposure
🇺🇸 Administrative burden — schools must build notification and opt-out systems before the 2025-2026 year begins
🇺🇸 Case continues — the injunction holds while the full lawsuit plays out in lower courts
💀 6-3 vote
💀 Majority: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
💀 ZERO deference to the school board's "no opt-out" policy
💀 100% parental religious exercise — that is what the court protected
Every protection on this list belongs to parents. Not administrators. PARENTS.
Justice Sotomayor warned this "will be chaos for this Nation's public schools." These are the rights that caused that chaos.
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“This guy should never play football again for anybody… except maybe a senior league flag football institution.”
@ChrisDorworth reacts after a judge cleared quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play for Texas Tech despite NCAA gambling violations: “He bet 40 times on his own team… I don’t know how anyone could ever possibly think a football game with this guy in it is going to ever be credible again.”
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