Ballot proposal would restrict free speech, opponents say
Michigan voters on Nov. 3 will decide a ballot proposal marketed as limiting the political influence of utilities and government contractors by amending the state’s campaign finance laws.
Proposal 2026-2, also known as Mop Up Michigan, would prohibit most regulated utilities, government contractors, and people closely connected to them from making some political contributions. It would also regulate certain forms of political communications.
Voters might likely support the measure in an attempt to stop utilities such as DTE Energy and Consumers Energy from asking for endless energy rate hikes, but the measure, if enacted, would gag the free speech of nonprofits, news sites, and job providers, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce argues. Click here to read more.
Scientists are finding AI may make us remember things that never happened
The experiment began with 24 ordinary photographs: a wedding, a city street, a race. Pattie Maes, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, and her colleagues showed them to 200 people.
After a break, some saw the same photos again. Others saw AI-altered versions — with facial expressions changed, military personnel inserted or signs of climate change added.
Then came a memory test.
Maes winced at the results. Those viewing the AI-altered images had a large increase in false recollections. Even worse, she said, their confidence in the false memories was higher.
“I think of all this as very dangerous, basically,” Maes said. Click here to read more.
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Unearthed 2021 Abdul El-Sayed Substack post exposes another link to Muslim Brotherhood
An unearthed blog post is exposing another direct tie between U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a designated terrorist organization.
In a 2021 post to El-Sayed’s now defunct Substack page The Incision, the former Wayne County health official linked “the hypocrisy of police rejecting vaccine requirements” to the situation with his “friend Mohamed Soltan.”
In the post unearthed by The Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed bemoaned policing as the “bluntest form of government power,” noting it gives the government “a monopoly on the legitimate use of power.”
“It can shut down our businesses (public health orders), move us out of our communities (eminent domain), force us to give it money (taxes or penalties), arrest our bodies (incarceration), and even put us to death (the death penalty),” he wrote. “As noxious as our government can be today … imagine living long ago under a monarch whose caprice could have you arbitrarily taxed … or jailed or hanged. Click here to read more.
Detroit football coach shot 7-year-old, woman after forcing his way into home, prosecutor says
(FOX 2) - An assistant football coach for a Detroit high school has been charged in connection with two non-fatal shootings that wounded a woman and her 7-year-old daughter.
Aaron Wright, 32, of Detroit, shot both victims after getting into an argument with the 33-year-old woman earlier this week.
He was named in a 17-count filing in Wayne County District Court after being charged by prosecutor Kym Worthy.
Football coach accused of shooting two
What we know:
Wright had gotten in a fight with the victim on the front porch of her home when she attempted to close the front door, the Wayne County prosecutor said in a statement. Click here to read more.
Families suing over alleged organ harvesting of Alabama inmates await 2027 trial
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge said a trial is expected in December 2027 in a lawsuit accusing the Alabama prison system of illegally harvesting organs from people who died while incarcerated.
The plaintiffs are families who allege that the state’s prisons illegally harvest their loved ones’ organs.
“No justice has been done, and I am just tired, I’m sick and I am - my whole family is just tired,” said Agolia Moore, the mother of Kelvin Moore, who died in 2023 at the Limestone Correctional Facility. “It’s time for something to be done.” Click here to read more.
