🧵 incoming: Our pals at @DistillSocial recently released their IRS form 990, a mandatory tax filing for non-profits. The form provides a wealth of info on this annoying organization.
Michigan taxpayers just learned the @gretchenwhitmer administration sent more than $4 million in food stamp benefits to out-of-state addresses since 2024.
Not because the rules are unclear. Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because the state apparently couldn’t be bothered to verify whether recipients were still eligible.
MDHHS wouldn’t even respond to multiple requests for comment. Meanwhile, investigations have uncovered a 400% increase in SNAP fraud between 2023 and 2024.
Now republican state lawmakers are stepping in with a simple fix: verify residency when benefits are being used outside Michigan for extended periods.
Taxpayers deserve accountability. Instead, they got $4 million in waste and a state government that wasn’t paying attention.
@JocelynBenson isn’t running as the outsider. She’s running as the heir to the Whitmer administration. Why would anyone expect different results from the people who created the problem?
Reminder: Ellen Page railed against former VP Pence for believing in gay conversation therapy but shortly after she went through conversion therapy & surgeries, believing she is a heterosexual man. She & the liberal media promote that conversion therapy.
Michigan just dropped to 34th in the nation for child well-being — dead last in the Midwest. Let that sink in.
Under Gretchen Whitmer’s leadership:
📉 75% of Michigan 4th graders are NOT proficient in reading.
📉 76% of Michigan 8th graders are NOT proficient in math.
📉 Reading and math scores remain 10% WORSE than before COVID.
📉 56% of Michigan children ages 3 and 4 aren’t even enrolled in school.
📉 Michigan ranks 42nd nationally in education. (MLPP)
To put this in plain English:
➡️ 3 out of every 4 Michigan kids can’t read or do math at grade level.
➡️ More than half of our youngest children aren’t in school.
➡️ Our state’s education system is falling behind virtually every other Midwestern state.
These aren’t just statistics. They’re children whose futures are being stolen by failed leadership.
And now Jocelyn Benson wants a promotion to Governor.
What’s her plan to reverse these numbers? What’s her plan to get Michigan kids reading again? What’s her plan to fix a system that’s producing some of the worst educational outcomes in the Midwest?
Michigan families deserve answers because “more of the same” is not a plan.
If Whitmer’s Michigan is producing these results, why would anyone believe Benson’s Michigan would be any different?
And now Jocelyn Benson wants a promotion to Governor.
As Secretary of State, Benson has spent years telling Michigan voters that everything is working exactly as intended. Yet under the same administration, our schools are collapsing in the rankings, student achievement is stagnating, and families are watching opportunities disappear.
Where is her plan to fix any of this?
How does Michigan go from 42nd in education to the Top 10?
How do we get three out of four kids reading and doing math at grade level?
How do we stop losing ground to every neighboring state?
Michigan voters shouldn’t be asked to believe that the people who helped create these results are suddenly going to reverse them.
Whitmer’s record is the blueprint.
Benson’s record suggests more of the same.
And Michigan’s kids cannot afford another four years of destructive policies.
West Michigan Marxist, half-Latino activist Joe Spaulding talks about how “Brown” he is. This is laughable, as he is the palest of the pale. He also can’t speak Spanish.
#BREAKING: A group of eight people linked to the University of Michigan orchestrated a terror campaign to sever Israel ties from the university, according to federal prosecutors. Read more: https://t.co/X6K39M9N9A
What you’re watching is a video clip of Michigan Governor @gretchenwhitmer standing beside Oracle executive Clay Magouyrk at the Saline data center groundbreaking.
Listen closely when she says:
“We’re used to people saying f*ck no and doing it anyway”.
And honestly? That tells you everything you need to know about how Lansing views the public.
Your concerns?
Obstacle.
Your opposition?
Inconvenience.
Your vote?
Just something they need every few years before going right back to doing whatever the donors, lobbyists, and party bosses want.
These politicians will smile for the cameras, shake your hand, kiss babies, talk about “listening to the people” — and then bulldoze right over you the second powerful interests apply pressure.
That’s the game.
And if Michigan voters don’t wake up in 2026, @JocelynBenson will be Gretchen Whitmer 2.0 with a fresh coat of paint and the exact same arrogance underneath it.
If you’re tired of corruption, career politicians, fake authenticity, and being constantly lied to, then stop voting based on branding and start voting based on track record.
And before the usual partisan activists start screaming:
No, this is not “Republicans good, Democrats bad”.
Michigan has plenty of useless Republicans too.
The point is simple:
Stop electing polished frauds who treat voters like props and Michigan like their personal political playground.