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Hey Michiganders: tell Peters to hold the line on ACA subsidies being restored until after the midterms
www.peters.senate.gov/contact/emai...
www.peters.senate.gov/contact/emai...
Email Gary | U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
www.peters.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey Michiganders: tell Peters to hold the line on ACA subsidies being restored until after the midterms
www.peters.senate.gov/contact/emai...
www.peters.senate.gov/contact/emai...
Emailed Slotkin and Peters #PrimarySchumer
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Emailed Slotkin and Peters #PrimarySchumer
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34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
Well now we have more time to think strategically about off-season improvements - #detroittigers #tigers #ilitchwontspend #baseball
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Well now we have more time to think strategically about off-season improvements - #detroittigers #tigers #ilitchwontspend #baseball
First frost coming in tonight 🥶
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
First frost coming in tonight 🥶
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On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.
www.sanfordberman.org
www.sanfordberman.org
Welcome to the Sanford Berman website devoted to the work of librarian Sanford Berman who created an innovative, radical and inclusive catalog which used terms we use when looking for information instead of the 19th century language of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Berman worked for the Hennepin County library from 1973 until 1999. Sandy continues to create subject headings and works for political and social justice.
www.sanfordberman.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.
www.sanfordberman.org
www.sanfordberman.org
B&T news out of libraryland has me kinda shocked - knew they had been in rough waters since 2020 but didn’t expect this.
October 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
B&T news out of libraryland has me kinda shocked - knew they had been in rough waters since 2020 but didn’t expect this.
Miss you mom. Every day.
October 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Miss you mom. Every day.
#Unemployment New to this. Gonna be the first time I’ve given myself rest in a while. #NoAlarmsNoSurprises #goodnight
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
#Unemployment New to this. Gonna be the first time I’ve given myself rest in a while. #NoAlarmsNoSurprises #goodnight
Not sure how long I can keep working through the world doing *gestures broadly* this - therapist already told me to start making an exit plan - but I am at such a low level of self-confidence these days - not even sure where to place my next foot.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Not sure how long I can keep working through the world doing *gestures broadly* this - therapist already told me to start making an exit plan - but I am at such a low level of self-confidence these days - not even sure where to place my next foot.
Chipped a tooth pretty bad two days before a colonoscopy. I’ll call the dentist tomorrow who I have an appointment with next Wednesday already but this is definitely heightening anxiety levels.
June 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Chipped a tooth pretty bad two days before a colonoscopy. I’ll call the dentist tomorrow who I have an appointment with next Wednesday already but this is definitely heightening anxiety levels.
Just saw this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail in Downtown Detroit - first butterfly of the season for me
May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just saw this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail in Downtown Detroit - first butterfly of the season for me
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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What is at stake if IMLS is defunded and dismantled from a Michigan perspective? 1/xx
March 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What is at stake if IMLS is defunded and dismantled from a Michigan perspective? 1/xx
Already reached my rage quota for the day.
This is the email just received by IMLS staffers placing them on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days.
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
April 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Already reached my rage quota for the day.
You strike out Ohtani looking and then feed Betts middle middle. Can’t do that.
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
You strike out Ohtani looking and then feed Betts middle middle. Can’t do that.
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What is at stake if IMLS is defunded and dismantled from a Michigan perspective? 1/xx
March 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Pretty impressive pitching line for Jack Flaherty through 2 innings - quite the impossible feat on those K’s - mlb app
March 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Pretty impressive pitching line for Jack Flaherty through 2 innings - quite the impossible feat on those K’s - mlb app
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Gonna need more non-disabled people to see stuff like this and understand that ableism is also one of the integral -isms the right is devoted to, so it should be jettisoned whenever and in whomever you encounter it
Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Airlines sue to overturn rule against breaking wheelchairs
Major carriers are trying to overturn a Biden-era policy that ended decades of mistreatment.
www.motherjones.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Gonna need more non-disabled people to see stuff like this and understand that ableism is also one of the integral -isms the right is devoted to, so it should be jettisoned whenever and in whomever you encounter it
Got the peppers started today #gardening #Zone6b
February 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Got the peppers started today #gardening #Zone6b
Why are you calling it a plan @apnews.com? It’s not - it’s the unhinged ranting of a mad man
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
Trump's Gaza plan has stunned the region. Here's a look at the serious obstacles it faces
President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop faces some major obstacle.
apnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Why are you calling it a plan @apnews.com? It’s not - it’s the unhinged ranting of a mad man
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...