Tag: Working Families

How Climate Crisis Is Changing Michigan’s Culture w/ Peter Sinclair

Here’s Episode 107 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Ottawa Impact/Close Election Expected Ottawa County, Michigan, provides the perfect and poignant case study on how the MAGA ideology is not only destructive, but it’s expensive! Thanks to the outstanding reporting by Sarah Leach, the MAGA Ottawa Impact majority on the county board has spent over…

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Friday Short: Teamsters Damage Own Brand By Not Backing Harris

Here’s the Left of Lansing Friday Short for September 20, 2024. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is in danger of damaging itself into perpetuity because of its fear of the possibility of either another Dear Leader Trump administration, or that the next President of the United States will be a black woman. Or both. The…

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Episode 101: Michigan Sheriff Learns How Trump Is Nothing But Trouble!

Here’s Episode 101 of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:15: Another School Shooting/More Media Election Failures Pat Johnston begins this week’s show by talking about another school shooting in the United States in America. This time, four students were killed in a Georgia high school. Pat illustrates how Michigan Democrats are at least trying to curb…

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Friday Short: Another Week of MAGA’s Fake Populism On Display!

Here’s the Left of Lansing Friday Short for August 2, 2024. It’s another week where MAGA Republicans’ fake populism stance stood exposed once again. Michigan MAGA Republicans are outraged over a State Supreme Court ruling that Republicans acted unconstitutionally in blocking and watering-down minimum wage increase and earned paid sick leave ballot proposals in 2018….

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Episode 96: Michigan in VP Buzz News, And Tech Oligarchs Line-Up w/ Trump-Vance

Here’s Episode 96 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:56: Why Not Whitmer for Vice President? While she has steadfastly refused to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ own pick for VP, some of us wonder, “Why Not Whitmer?” Michigan Advance’s Editor-in-Chief, Susan Demas, joins the first segment to discuss how and why Michigan Governor Whitmer would…

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Episode 94: Never Backing Down w/ Democratic State House Candidate Jodi Decker

Here’s Episode 94 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:36: Trump Shooting/MAGA Violence/Neil Friske Pat opens the show talking about the assassination attempt on former President Trump, and how MAGA Republicans (with the help from corporate media) are trying to blame the Left for the shooting. It’s an absurd attack considering how MAGA extremists have been…

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