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Tax Dollars going to Pickle Ball Courts in Michigan.

Pickleball has been the fastest-growing sport in the country for three years running, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. In Michigan, the entity responsible for handing out subsidies to select corporations thinks that building more pickleball courts with the help of taxpayer funds will foster economic development.

Over the last few years, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation has issued various press releases announcing it will give $50,000 grants to various municipalities so they may build pickleball facilities. Local governments chosen for the grants include those in Alpena, East Lansing, Eaton Rapids, Fowler, Frankenmuth, Gladstone, Mackinac Island and Traverse City. Grants are contingent on the governments collecting donations through the crowdsourcing website Patrionicity.

The pickleball grants from the economic development organization, which also distributes state taxpayer funds to a variety of businesses, are part of its “Public Spaces Public Places” initiative, according to a press release posted online by the Michigan Municipal League. Click here to read more.

 

Bad Bunny addresses Super Bowl backlash on SNL, tells critics to learn Spanish in 4 months

Everyone is online these days, but new data suggests that a growing number of social media users are starting to log off.

Teens and young adults say they are spending less time scrolling through various social media sites or not using it at all anymore. According to polling from the Pew Research Center, younger people are spending 10% less time on social media sites compared to 2022, when social media use reached its peak.

Around 50% of all people surveyed said they have taken a break from social media in the past year.

Despite the drop, YouTube and TikTok remain the top two apps for daily engagement, with 90% of teens and young adults saying they are on YouTube every day and 63% who use TikTok every day. 61% say they use Instagram daily. Click here to read more.

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Nigerian Man Faces Death Penalty for a WhatsApp Message?

Music is a major way in which people express themselves and their views about life. Just flip through the radio for a few minutes, and you will likely hear songs about loving money, loving a partner, loving Jesus, and everything in between.

But imagine if expressing yourself and the things you love had the potential to get you sentenced to death. What would it be like to live in that world? Nigerian musician and Sufi Muslim Yahaya Sharif-Aminu doesn’t have to imagine, because he’s living in it right now.

When Yahaya shared lyrics to a song he had written, he was quickly accused of violating a blasphemy law in northern Nigeria. A violent mob assembled, burned down his house, and he was quickly sentenced to death by Sharia Court—all because he peacefully expressed his views.

Blasphemy laws punish individuals for speech that others find offensive towards their own beliefs or sacred symbols. While most of the Western world eliminated these harmful laws decades ago, many countries that live under Islamic Sharia law still enforce them today. Click here to read more.

 

Dog leads deputy to injured elderly woman in late-night Destin rescue

DESTIN, Fla. -- An elderly woman in the Destin-area was on a nightly walk with her son’s dog when she fell and injured herself.

That’s when the dog went looking for help and found an Okaloosa County deputy. This happened on Sep. 25 around 10:30 p.m.

Body camera footage shows a man in distress after his wife went missing.

The husband of the 86-year-old woman called 911 concerned as she had not come back after taking her son’s dog, Eeyore, on nightly stroll. Click here to read more.

 

More Money, More Rules: Whitmer’s New College Budget Comes with Homework

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s two largest universities may have dodged deep budget cuts, but they’ll still have to tighten their belts under a new state spending cap.

In a $2.3 billion higher-education budget approved on October 3, lawmakers spared the University of Michigan and Michigan State University from reductions, instead granting each a 2.7% funding increase—about $7.8 million for U-M and $6.9 million for MSU.

In fact, all 15 of Michigan’s public universities will see increases ranging from 1.9% to 4.8%, along with a one-time 3% bonus if they hold tuition hikes below 4.5%. MSU hit that ceiling exactly, while U-M kept its in-state tuition rise to 3.4%. Click here to read more.

Notably, the new budget adds $12.6 million overall—about a half-percent more than last year—and largely reflects Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s priorities. It does, however, impose a new cap limiting administrative costs to 10% of total salaries, a nod to Republican concerns about university bureaucracy. Click here to read more.

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ACLU sues ICE to demand release hearings for illegal immigrant ‘Michigan residents’

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is suing President Donald Trump’s administration on behalf of eight detained “Michigan residents” in the country illegally.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Sept. 29, challenges a directive from the Trump administration in July that the ACLU claims “reverses decades of government policy and practice and could result in millions of people being unlawfully detained despite immigration laws and constitutional due process protections that entitle them to a bond hearing.”

“On July 8th, in defiance of the Constitution, in defiance of immigration law, and in defiance of decades of agency practice, ICE adopted a new directive to categorically deny bond hearings to anyone who allegedly entered the country without documents,” ACLU MI senior staff attorney Miriam Ackerman said in a half hour press conference. Click here to read more.

 

Bad Bunny addresses Super Bowl backlash on SNL, tells critics to learn Spanish in 4 months

Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny responded to the backlash surrounding the NFL’s decision for him to perform at the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime show during a segment on Saturday Night Live.

The 31-year-old whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, said he was “excited” to be named the headlining act for the February game at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The rapper continued jokingly telling critics that they have “four months to learn” Spanish.

“I’m really excited to be doing the Super Bowl, I know that people all around the world who love my music are also happy,” Bad Bunny said during his opening monologue. Click here to read more.

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‘Not Funny’: Trump Trashes Jay Jones Over ‘Sick And Demented’ Texts Advocating Political Violence

President Donald Trump called out Virginia Democrat Jay Jones over nasty text messages he sent in 2022 — in which he suggested that then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert should be shot — and said that Jones should do the right thing and resign his campaign.

Trump made the statement on Sunday via his Truth Social platform, and in addition to calling on Jones to resign from the campaign, he declared that current Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA) had his full support in the race.

“It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK and DEMENTED jokes, if they were jokes at all, which were not funny, and that he wrote down and sent around to people, concerning the murdering of a Republican Legislator, his wife, and their children,” Trump posted. Click here to read more.

 

Three people accused of beating 57-year-old man to death for his food stamp card, police say

AMARILLO, Texas. - Three people in Texas are accused of beating a 57-year-old man to death for his EBT card, according to authorities.

Amarillo Police were called out to a residence around 2 p.m. on September 25.

They discovered a man inside the home, who died from apparent head and facial injuries.

The victim was later identified as 57-year-old Paluku Valantin.

On the day of the attack, 30-year-old Alline Ndayishimiye demanded Valantin’s food stamp card; however, he refused to give it to her.

According to footage obtained, Ndayishimiye can be seen talking with the victim and then signaling 33-year-old Thomas Seldon Rendon and 18-year-old Dashaun Timothy Jackson in a black BMW. Click here to read more.

 

European Country Taking Conservative Approach to Immigration, Security

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Though a fraction of the size, Sweden has faced issues similar to America’s in recent years, including mass immigration and a wave of violent crime.

“In some parts of Sweden, there are routine bombings. There are gang attacks and assassinations on rival groups,” said Wilson Beaver, a senior policy adviser for defense budgeting and NATO policy at The Heritage Foundation.

While both Sweden and the U.S. place significant focus on preparing for threats from outside their respective borders, Sweden, like the U.S., has taken measures to improve domestic safety, including further restricting immigration. Click here to read more.

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Enraged Father of Slain Woman Makes the Case for Keeping Repeat Criminals Behind Bars

“I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocents, and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us, please.”

Those were the words of Stephen Federico, the father of a 22-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by a man who had faced 40 criminal charges in the years before her murder. He gave his impassioned testimony about the need for keeping more criminals behind bars at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday.

Federico’s heartbreaking testimony vividly highlighted one of the clearest reasons America’s Democrat-run cities face a serious crime problem: repeat offenders end up back out on the streets after being given countless chances by authorities.

It’s hard to listen to Federico speak about his daughter’s slaying and not be enraged. Click here to read more.

 

Ann Arbor’s Clean Energy Plan Cost Taxpayers Millions

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The city of Ann Arbor is spending millions of dollars to subsidize what it calls the “nation’s most aggressive climate plan.”

Ann Arbor wants its residents’ homes and businesses to be at “carbon neutrality” by the year 2030. So the city is subsidizing “pathways to decarbonize their homes and businesses.”

The city spent $2.3 million over the last 3 1/2 years helping 700 homes pay for the upfront cost of implementing solar energy.

Ann Arbor voters approved in November 2024 a “Sustainable Energy Utility.” The city described it as “an opt-in, supplemental, community-owned energy utility that provides 100% renewable energy from local solar and battery storage systems installed at participating homes and businesses in the city.”

The state of Michigan gave the city a $5 million grant to implement the Sustainable Energy Utility. Click here to read more.

 

Mormons Raise More Than $265K For Family Of Gunman Who Attacked Michigan Church

In the days following the attack in which four people were killed and eight more were wounded at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, Mormons who were grieving the tragedy did the unthinkable: They began raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the family of the man who shot and killed Latter-day Saints.

A Give SendGo fundraiser set up for the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford has raised more than $265,000, with many of the donations coming from members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Washington Post reported. On Sunday, Sanford drove his truck into the building of a Latter-day Saints church in Grand Blanc Township before stepping out of the vehicle and opening fire with a semiautomatic rifle, according to authorities. Sanford was also suspected of setting a fire to the church building before responding police officers killed him. Click here to read more.

 

FDA approves new generic abortion pill, promoting backlash from conservatives

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Another generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Drugmaker Evita Solutions said the FDA signed off on its low-cost form of the pill, which is approved to end pregnancies through 10 weeks.

The company also noted that medical abortion “is 97% effective when Mifepristone Tablets, 200 mg is taken in combination with misoprostol.” It added that mifepristone blocks the hormone needed for pregnancy to continue, while misoprostol causes contractions to expel the pregnancy from a woman’s body.

The announcement prompted backlash from conservative politicians and groups on Thursday. Click here to read more.

 

Supreme Court urged to restore Fourth Amendment protections for digital data

The Supreme Court begins a new term next week. In the coming months, the justices will consider cases touching nearly every corner of American life. Among the cases the Court is being asked to take up is one presenting an important question about digital privacy: can the government demand access to your location data from companies like Google without a warrant based on probable cause?

That question is at the heart of Chatrie v. United States. The case arises from a “geofence warrant” which let law enforcement sweep up information about everyone near the scene of a robbery—including many innocent bystanders. Pacific Legal Foundation filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of an amicus client urging the Court to hear the case and restore crucial Fourth Amendment protections for the digital age. Click here to read more.