LANSING, Mich - A Grosse Pointe Schools trustee is defiant after receiving an apparent death threat during a March 31 school board meeting.
“Fortunate for you, I’m no Luigi,” local activist Ian Seaman said in a video clip posted to a local Facebook group. “But to some disgruntled teen with his or her father’s pistol or rifle, any of the other things you prefer in school other than rainbow flags, you might be a Brian Thompson.”
The comment was a reference to Luigi Mangione, who allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City in December. Video shows Seaman wearing a backpack, as Mangione did during the shooting of Thompson. The audience applauded after Seaman's comments, the video shows.
Seaman's comments were directed at Trustee Sean Cotton, whose family previously owned hospitals in the region.
Seaman claimed to be upset over school policy on hanging gay pride flags in classrooms. Cotton noted that the Grosse Point Public School System's Policies & Guidelines document does not contain policies related to flags. He told Michigan Capitol Confidential he believes Seaman has been radicalized by political opposition whose "months of reckless demagoguery that used me as a boogeyman contributed directly to his actions and the threat he made against my life."
Cotton and other board members expressed shock after Seaman's statement.
“You don’t always have your life threatened right here, and that guy Ian Seaman, he absolutely just did threaten my life,” Cotton told the assembled crowd. “From my exercising representative government and democracy and the First Amendment, that’s pretty disconcerting.”
After ensuring that Seaman had left the location, Cotton filed a report with the Grosse Pointe Farms police department, he told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email. Click here to read story.
A high school-aged transgender-identifying track athlete reportedly came in last place against junior varsity boys two years before switching to compete against varsity girls and taking home first place.
Zachary Rose, who now identifies as Lia Rose, formerly competed against boys at Ida B. Wells High School in Portland, Oregon, according to a New York Post report. But after switching to girls’ varsity, Rose recently won the high jump at the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity Relays with a height of 4 feet, 8 inches. The athlete bested the girls in the competition by at least two inches.
Citing athletic.net, the Post noted that Rose, while competing on boys JV track in 2023, finished dead last with a jump of 4 feet, 6 inches.
Rose competed against males in 2024, too, before apparently switching to compete against girls.
Despite proponents of boys in girls’ sports suggesting it’s exceedingly rare that trans-identifying athletes are taking opportunities and trophies from girls, these events are becoming more and more common. And in turn, females are refusing to compete in protest, citing safety and fairness. Click here to read more.
Elon Musk appeared to split from the Trump administration on tariffs overnight — as he lashed out at trade adviser Peter Navarro and said he hoped for a “zero tariff situation” between the US and Europe.
The world’s richest man made the comments after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs against virtually every U.S. trading parner last week.
The resulting stock market crash saw $11 billion wiped off his net worth.
The Tesla and SpaceX guru made very public swipes Saturday against Navarro, who is widely seen as one of the top architects of Trump’s tariff regime.
“A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem,” Musk vented on X Saturday in response to a user touting the trade adviser’s explanations of tariffs.
Another user chimed in, saying that Navarro was “correct” in his assessment of tariffs, prompting Musk to retort, “He ain’t built sh—.” Click here to read more.
DETROIT, Mich - A teen and her family are counting their blessings after the 14-year-old survived a terrifying situation last month.
On March 12, Alyssa Atkinson was doing a normal warm-up during track practice at Allen Park High School when things took a quick turn for the worst.
“I just remember doing two warm-up laps and then doing our regular program in lines, but that’s all I remember from that day,” she said.
Alyssa’s next memory was waking up in a hospital with family by her side.
The 14-year-old later learned she went into sudden cardiac arrest.
“I was very grateful to be even awake, but it was also scary to know that happened to me,” she said.
It was a surreal moment, especially for Alyssa, as she had never shown any signs of a heart problem previously.
“She does her sports physical every year for sports activities in high school and middle school. So, this was sprung upon us and we had no idea,” her mother, Kelly Dolan, said. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump this week called on Congress to swipe all public dollars from public media outlets PBS and NPR.
“NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms (Networks!), should be DEFUNDED by Congress, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said. “Republicans, don’t miss this opportunity to rid our Country of this giant SCAM, both being arms of the Radical Left Democrat Party. JUST SAY NO AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump also told reporters this week he’d “love” to defund NPR and PBS.
“I think it’s very unfair – it’s been very biased, the whole group,” Trump said. “The kind of money that’s being wasted – it’s a very biased view… I’d be honored to see it end.”
“We’re well-covered,” he said. “We don’t need it. It’s a waste of money.”
Florida’s Voice Founder Brendon Leslie penned an op-ed this week calling for Florida lawmakers to make a similar move.
“Florida’s 2024-2025 budget includes millions of dollars for public media,” Leslie wrote. “Florida needs to, once again, lead on a national issue: defund NPR and PBS.” Click here to reads more.
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