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Michigan faces $890M bill looming for food stamp program

President Donald Trump signed a spending bill into law on July 4 that will shift responsibility for about $890 million of food stamps to Michigan. The state can’t pay the bill, according to Michigan’s top executive.

A change Congress could make to the program that feeds about 1.5 million Michiganders would be “unacceptable,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a June 4 post.

"In Michigan, we will fight to make sure our kids and families are fed, but we need Republicans in our congressional delegation to step up for their own constituents who need SNAP and Medicaid to survive," Whitmer said in a statement made public June 4. “If these cuts are signed into law, more Michiganders will go to bed with a pit in their stomach. That’s unacceptable.”

The federal government funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which the state administers. Click here to read more.

 

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem

These days, everyone seems to have an opinion about A.I. companions. Last year, I found myself joining the debate, publishing a paper—co-written with two fellow psychology professors and a philosopher—called “In Praise of Empathic A.I.” Our argument was that, in certain ways, the latest crop of A.I.s might make for better company than many real people do, and that, rather than recoiling in horror, we ought to consider what A.I. companions could offer to those who are lonely.

This, perhaps unsurprisingly, did not go over especially well in my corner of academia. In the social sciences and the humanities, A.I. tends to be greeted less as a technological advance than as a harbinger of decline. There are the familiar worries about jobs—ours and our students’—and about the ease with which A.I. can be used for cheating. The technology is widely seen as the soulless project of Silicon Valley billionaires whose creativity consists mostly of appropriating other people’s. But what really rankles is the idea that these digital interlocutors are a plausible substitute for real friends or family. You have to be either credulous or coldhearted, many people believe, to think so. Click here to read more.

 

First US Rare Earth Minerals Mine in 70 Years Will Lessen Dependence on China

Last week on the Senate floor, I hailed the opening in Sheridan, Wyoming, of the Brook Mine—the first rare earth elements mine to break ground in the U.S. in 70 years.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright recently joined me in Sheridan for its opening and deemed it a “landmark moment” for America’s energy independence.

Here’s what I said on the Senate floor about it:

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Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed into law a historic economic plan. This new law unleashes American energy—and with it, American prosperity. It makes it easier to produce oil, natural gas, and coal here at home. It opens up energy production onshore, offshore, and in Alaska. It means lower prices and more savings for the American people. Click here to read more.

 

Publicly owned grocery stores are a bad idea

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently made headlines by proposing five government-owned grocery stores — one in each borough — as a kind of “public option” for food. His pitch echoes familiar progressive talking points: the stores wouldn’t pay rent or taxes, they wouldn’t aim for profit, and their mission would be to offer lower prices in a market supposedly dominated by greed.

But the idea of publicly owned grocery stores isn’t just flawed for New York City. It’s flawed everywhere. While Mamdani’s plan might be the most high-profile example, experiments with government-run food retail have taken place in rural towns and small cities across the country. They’ve all failed. The results are overwhelmingly clear: public grocery stores are inefficient, unsustainable, and ultimately counterproductive especially when the private sector is already doing the job.

Take Baldwin, Florida. When the town’s only grocery store shut down, the city stepped in to fill the gap with a government run-store. It was hailed as a bold solution to a food desert. But less than five years later, the store closed. The store was unable to break even despite being owned outright by the city and subsidized with public dollars. Click here to read more.

 

Troy Likely Violating First Amendment with City Council Commentary Rules

TROY, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The city of Troy is violating the First Amendment with its restrictive policies it has in place for commentary during city council meetings, according to a free speech watchdog group.

Troy’s commentary rules state: “Please direct your comments to the City Council as a whole rather than to any individual. Please do not use expletives or make derogatory or disparaging comments about any individual or group. If you do, there may be immediate consequences, including being muted and having your comments omitted from any re-broadcast of the meeting. Please abide by these rules in order to minimize the possibility of disrupting the meeting.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a free speech watchdog, said Troy’s rules have Constitutional issues.

“Bans on derogatory/disparaging comments violate the First Amendment because they discriminate based on viewpoint, allowing praise but not criticism,” said Stephanie Jablonsky, a senior program counsel with FIRE. “As for Troy’s requirement that comments be directed to the council ‘as a whole rather than to any individual,’ a similar policy was invalidated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Ison v. Madison Local School District Board of Education, which banned ‘antagonistic,’ ‘abusive,’ and ‘personally directed’ comments at public meetings.” Click here to read more.

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Jocelyn Benson’s proposed election rule changes make it easier to cheat, harder to challenge illegal votes

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wants to make it easier to cheat and more difficult to challenge illegal votes and registrations through a dozen proposed rule changes that will be presented at a public hearing on Friday.

The administrative hearing, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. at the Binsfeld Office Building in Lansing, marks a departure from Benson’s tactic of unilaterally imposing changes repeatedly rules unlawful by courts for circumventing the state’s Administrative Procedures Act.

State law requires Benson to provide public notice of rule changes and opportunities for Michiganders to weigh in before adoption.

The proposed changes for Friday involve voter registration cancellations, challenges, corrections, and overseas voting privileges, which Patrice Johnson, founder of the Michigan Fair Elections Institute, argues “will be devastating to citizen and clerk input to clean the voter rolls.” Click here to read more.

 

Michigan Rep. Blows the Lid Off American Medical Association’s Gender “Care” Narrative

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan Representative Brad Paquette (R-Niles), a former teacher, has been on a mission to protect children from gender care medical experimentation and has introduced bills to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors. According to a May press release, Paquette’s three-bill package would “prohibit health care providers from conducting hormone treatments, surgeries for sterilization, and surgeries that alter genital appearance on minors, with an exception for minors with medically verifiable disorders of sex development or those facing imminent danger from physical condition.”

Paquette said, “It is time for the experimentation on children in the name of care to come to an end. Children are not born in the wrong body. No one has the right to maim a healthy child’s body to try to achieve the unachievable.” Click here to read more.

 

A Comedian Was Jailed In The UK For Jokes. Is Britain Now North Korea?

A member of Parliament warned U.S. legislators Wednesday that Americans could face arrest in the United Kingdom for what they post on social media, under a new British law that has received wide attention this week.

Comments in Washington by Nigel Farage, leader of the conservative Reform UK party, come amid fresh scrutiny of Britain’s Online Safety Act, which, among other things, makes it illegal to incite violence through internet posts.

Even some supporters of the measure seem to be questioning the enforcement side after Irish comedian Graham Linehan was arrested Monday at Heathrow Airport for social media posts about transgender people. Click here to read more.

 

Senator Says It’s ‘Extremely Troubling’ to Believe Rights Come From the Creator

The U.S. Senate has wasted no time getting back to serving the American people after its six-week summer recess. With issues like the Sept. 30 deadline to have either a budget or a continuing resolution or risk a partial government shutdown on the agenda, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia reminded us of the twisted view the Left has of our civil rights and how much control it wants government to have over them.

During a nominations hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, the former Democrat vice presidential candidate said, “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator … that’s what the Iranian government believes. … So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.” Click here to read more.

 

A Health Care Tax Hike Poses the Greatest Midterm Threat to the GOP

As a pollster, I know numbers. And right now, our poll numbers are issuing a stark warning about the future of our party’s majorities in Washington. If Congress fails to act on a critical issue this year – to preserve key health care tax credits for millions of working, middle-class Americans in the individual health insurance marketplace – these Americans will get hit with an unexpected tax increase. After four years of Biden-Harris inflation, it’s a tax they can’t afford.

Our recent national survey reveals a clear mandate that every Republican lawmaker should be working to preserve these health care tax credits that help make health insurance more affordable for working Americans, or risk significant political consequences. Click here to read more.

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Michigan taxpayers fund 31,388 repairs on employee vehicles in 2024

When a Michigan government employee hits a pothole and blows a tire, the taxpayer might foot the bill.

The state of Michigan owns or leases more than $14,000 vehicles that state employees use to drive millions of miles.

In fiscal year 2024, the state’s leased fleet used 6.9 million gallons of fuel and traveled more than 116 million miles.

State employees service their vehicles at the taxpayer-funded Vehicle and Travel Services Garage. The garage recorded more than 31,300 repairs in fiscal year 2024, according to the state’s 2025 fleet plan..

Taxpayers paid for vehicle wear-and-tear caused by Michigan’s rough roads. The garage recorded nearly 4,000 tire jobs, over 1,700 brake repairs, 1,600 body and glass repairs, 5,000 miscellaneous repairs and 275 towing services. Click here to read more.

 

Detroit Uses Pandemic Relief Money To Provide Medical Aid To Homeless

DETROIT, Mich. – The city of Detroit has given $562,868 to an organization that will conduct medical outreach for the homeless in what is known as “street medicine.”

The Detroit city council approved extending the contract through the end of 2025 at its Sept. 2 meeting. Click here to read more.

 

Parents say middle schooler was attacked by another student in cafeteria, had to have parts of skull removed

KILGORE, Texas – A middle school student in Texas is recovering from serious injuries after his family says he was attacked by another student at school and had his head slammed into a metal pole.

Lukas Hardeman, 14, was injured by another student in the cafeteria on Aug. 21 after Lukas’ parents said their son made a joke.

Michael Hardeman, Lukas’ father, said the other student slammed his son’s head against a metal pole attached to a stool.

Lukas suffered from brain injuries that required two parts of his skull to be removed, and according to his dad, he has over 60 staples holding his head together now. Click here to read more.

 

ChatGPT's safety fixes come amid scrutiny over teen use of AI chatbot companions

OpenAI announced steps it's taking over the coming months to address safety concerns for people, especially teenagers, who use the company's chatbots while experiencing mental and emotional distress.

The actions come on the heels of a lawsuit filed against the ChatGPT maker on behalf of a family who lost their 16-year-old son to suicide after the company’s chatbot allegedly encouraged his suicidal ideation.

OpenAI’s post on Tuesday announcing the new safety actions didn’t mention the teen, Adam Raine.

OpenAI said it’s enlisting the help of youth development and mental health experts in designing future safeguards for its chatbots.

The company said it will begin routing “sensitive conversations” to more advanced “reasoning models” that are capable of following safety guidelines more consistently.

And it’s giving parents the ability to link accounts with their teens, disable features and get notifications when ChatGPT detects acute distress in the interaction with the young user. Click here to read more.

 

First In The Nation: Florida To End All Vaccine Mandates

Florida’s surgeon general, alongside GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, announced on Wednesday that the Sunshine State will end all vaccination mandates, including requirements for schools.

“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the government, is working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law — all of them,” Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo told a room of supporters. “Every last one of them.”

Ladapo went on to say that the government has no right to tell parents what to put in their children’s bodies, or their own bodies, sparking loud applause.

“Every last [mandate] is wrong and drips with disdain — and slavery,” he argued. “Who am I, or anyone else … to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?” Click here to read more.

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Gov. Whitmer donor gets $10M while hungry Michiganders get food benefits stolen

Two Michigan women each received money from state taxpayers. But their similarities ended there.

While Michigan resident Kaiysha Warner slept, a criminal stole $762 of her food stamp benefits, from more than 680 miles away in Massachusetts. She found out through a notice that appeared on her phone, which revealed a transaction she had no part of.

Michigan won’t reimburse those stolen benefits, offered through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, leaving her and her family hungry.

About 1.4 million Michiganders with low incomes spend public money using Bridge Cards at grocery stores, farmers markets and gas stations. The card-swipe technology on a standard Bridge card is vulnerable to data theft by criminals who can install skimmers on the card readers that process electronic payment cards. The dollar amount of reported food stamp fraud increased from fiscal year 2023 to 2024 by 387%, according to documents Michigan Capitol Confidential obtained through a records request. Click here to read more.

 

Selling every NBA team wouldn’t be enough to fill Illinois’ pension hole

Illinois’ public pension crisis is the worst in the nation and shows no sign of improving anytime soon.

A new report from the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability confirms that despite better than expected investment returns, the state’s unfunded pension liabilities rose another $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 to $143 Billion. This marks the third consecutive year of rising pension debt, but is part of a much longer trend that threatens taxpayers, retirees and state services.

The funding ratio – the measure of assets on hand to pay future obligations – ticked up slightly from 44.6% to 46.1%. However, until structural reform is enacted to lower the unfunded liabilities, this minor improvement in the funding ratio won’t offer real relief to the taxpayers trying to keep these pensions afloat. These remain some of the worst-funded pension systems in the nation. Click here to read more.

 

New animated movie aims to bring story of Jesus to life through eyes of John the disciple

A new 2D-animated movie, told through the eyes of Jesus’ beloved disciple John, will be released in theaters on Sept. 5, taking viewers from the beginning of Jesus’ ministry to his passion, death, and resurrection. “Light of the World” is the first movie from the Salvation Poem Project, a nonprofit ministry and independent studio that crafts stories to share Jesus Christ with the world.

Brennan McPherson, producer of the film, told CNA in an interview that his team chose to tell the story from John’s perspective because he was likely the youngest disciple so they believe his perspective is the most relatable.

“Telling it from the perspective of a young teenager — young kids want to age up and they see themselves in that. Teenagers are going through those formative years, so they relate with it. And then adults know what that formative time in their life was like. So it made it more appealing to a full family,” he explained.

He added that the filmmakers “wanted to show how the Gospel changed a young boy’s life and how it can still change our lives today.” Click here to read more.

 

Feds Threaten to Pull Millions Unless Michigan Strips “Gender Ideology” from Sex Ed

WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration is putting Michigan on notice: remove all references to “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education or risk losing millions in federal grants.

In an August 26 letter to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ordered the state to rewrite its Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) curriculum within 60 days. Michigan receives roughly $3.4 million annually in federal funding for the program, which serves students ages 12 to 18.

The letter flagged lessons that define gender as separate from biological sex, encourage students to share pronouns, and promote inclusivity for transgender and nonbinary youth. Federal officials said this content violates PREP’s statutory mission, which is to teach abstinence, contraception, and life skills – not gender identity concepts. Click here to read more.

 

President Trump demands COVID vaccine data following chaos at CDC

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump is now re-litigating the record and response to one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

\On one hand, he praises his own effort to help create vaccines at a rapid rate, known as Operation Warp Speed, but also questions the outcome.

In a post on Truth Social, he called on drug companies to justify the success of their COVID-19 drugs, the debate over which, he says, is causing the CDC to be torn apart. Adding that he wants the answer and he wants it now, as his Secretary vows more changes.

During a news conference in Texas on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.

The CDC is an agency that is very troubled for a very long time. And anybody who lived through the Covid pandemic and saw all of these bizarre recommendations that were not science-based, all the misinformation...understands that.

Secretary Kennedy also defended the firing of the CDC Director over vaccine policy, prompting the resignation of several others. Click here to read more.

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