Media Cyphers Kalamazoo

We begin our show talking about a ballot initiative that would curtail dark money spending in Michigan then discuss how the Big BS Bill is going to put Michigan's budget into a multi-billion dollar shortfall.

 

We look at the Trump administration's recent executive order targeting the houseless and its aim to eschew housing first approaches for the revival of institutionalization. 

 

The people of Gaza are starving at the hands of the Israeli government- one of Michigan's senators voted to continue the carnage while the other skipped town to go on a talk show instead. We look at how Elissa Slotkin is representative of the centrist pivot on Gaza- verbal condemnations but no concrete action.

 

We talk about the normalization of fascism through corporate pandering to the far-right, their platforming on Jubilee, and Nazi dog-whistles coming from the White House.

 

We close the show talking about some celebrity deaths and their legacies.

 

01:10- 17:50 Dark Money Ballot Initiative in Michigan

 

18:40- 26:40 How the Big BS Bill Will Bankrupt Michigan By the Billions

 

26:50- 40:40 Insane in the Trumpbrain- How New EO is Trying to Revive Institutionalization and Weaponize the State Against the Houseless

 

41:00- 59:00 Children in Gaza Starve While Michigan Politicians Pander

 

59:20- 1:09:00 Normalization of Fascism- Jubilee, Jeans, and Nazi Trolling from Steak and Shake to the White House

 

1:09:00- 1:12:30 CUNY and Capitulating to Trump

 

1:14:00- 1:20:00 Don't Meet Your Heroes Brother: Hulk Hogan, Ozzy Osbourne, and the Importance of Avoiding Parasocial Relationships

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Michigan ballot initiative aims to reveal ‘dark money’ donors behind political ads 
https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-ballot-initiative-aims-reveal-dark-money-donors-behind-political-ads/

 

Report: ‘Big, beautiful bill’ will blow $1.1 billion hole in Michigan budget 
https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/report-big-beautiful-bill-will-blow-11-billion-hole-michigan-budget

 

Trump’s Executive Order Criminalizing Houselessness Reveals a Familiar Dystopia
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-executive-order-criminalizing-houselessness-reveals-a-familiar-dystopia

 

A Policy of Starvation in Gaza
https://www.leftvoice.org/a-policy-of-starvation-in-gaza/

 

Amazon Labor Union Leader Chris Smalls Released From Israeli Prison
https://truthout.org/articles/us-activist-chris-smalls-released-from-israeli-prison-after-beating-by-officers

 

Krystal And Saagar GRILL Dem Senator On Epstein, Zohran, Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFrEJTFbSTc

 

We open with some good news for folks in Kalamazoo experiencing medical debt. A report from NowKalamazoo recounts an area resident's experience attempting to deliver aid to Gaza and an article from Bridge MI lays out how the Trump administration's cuts will impact our state's climate resiliency hub projects.

 

Norah joins us to talk about cuts to the transit system in Chicago, the transphobia of centrist Democrat Gavin Newsome, and we spend some time focusing on Gaza updates- the mass starvation taking place and how AOC has landed in hot water over her vote on an amendment that would have curtailed funding of Israel's 'Iron Dome.'

 

We talk about the right-wing media meltdown over Epstein, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and close with some thoughts about a recent Jubilee episode featuring progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan.

 

02:00- 09:00 Medical Debt Relief in Kzoo

 

09:30- 22:00 Kalamazoo Man's Experience on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

 

22:00- 27:15 Kzoo's Climate Resiliency Hubs Hit by Trump Cuts

 

28:45- 36:00 Austerity Hits the CTA in Chi-town

 

36:00- 47:00 Gavin Newsome Throwing Trans Folks Under the Bus

 

47:15- 1:04:40 Gaza Updates- Mass Starvation, AOC & the Iron Dome, and More

 

1:04:50- 1:11:00 Quick Hits from Lawrence- Hip Hop Instant Classics, WNBA and Sports Media

 

1:11:00- 1:31:00 Epstein and the MAGA Media Civil War

 

1:32:00- 1:47:15 A Colbert Report

 

1:47:30- 1:58:45 Mehdi Hasan Decimates Right-Wingers on YouTube Debate Channel

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Kalamazoo County erases $2.5M in medical debt for 7,000 residents
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/07/kalamazoo-county-erases-25m-in-medical-debt-for-7000-residents.html

 

‘It was a very precise, clean attack’
https://nowkalamazoo.org/2025/07/it-was-a-very-precise-clean-attack/

 

Future of climate ‘resilience hubs’ uncertain after Trump cuts
www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/future-climate-resilience-hubs-uncertain-after-trump-cuts

 

Activists Call On State To Fill Nearly $1 Billion Transit Funding Gap 
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/13/protesters-call-on-state-to-fill-nearly-1-billion-transit-funding-gap-i-dont-know-how-im-going-to-get-around/

 

Newsom’s Bizarre Interview with MAGA Podcaster Platforms Anti-Trans Conspiracies
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/newsoms-bizarre-interview-with-maga

 

Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System 
https://jewishcurrents.org/iron-dome-is-not-a-defensive-system

 

Epstein's Island and Frankenstein's Monster
https://www.jphilll.com/p/epsteins-island-and-frankensteins

 

“Stunning Reversal”: Trump Stonewalls on Epstein Files After Campaigning on Full Transparency
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/18/epstein_files_trump_asawin_suebsaeng

 

How CBS Decided It Couldn’t Afford to Let Stephen Colbert Speak His Mind
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/stephen-colbert-cbs-paramount-trump/

 

1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-WJN3L5eo

 

"Billionaires gathered in their masses..."

 

NowKalamazoo pens an open letter asking some Michigan press institutions to fact-check their coverage of "alternative facts" coming from the Trump administration.

 

We look at ICE activity in Michigan, the dynamics here in Kalamazoo, and ICE's funding turbocharge via the BBB.

 

We spent some time breaking down the class warfare in the "Big Bulls--t Bill" and the reaction of the establishment to Zohran Mamdani's ascendance in NYC.

 

DTE has been exposed for dropping dark money on some anti-lockdown groups back in 2020 and we close with updates on Gaza.

 

1:45- 4:30 Abdul El-Sayed Town Hall in Kzoo

 

4:35- 12:10 NowKalamazoo Calls Out Some BS in Michigan Journalism

 

12:20- 19:00 No Detention Centers Protest in Baldwin

 

19:20- 26:40 ICE in Detroit

 

29:00- 40:40 Thoughts on ICE, Policing, and the Kzoo Context

 

40:40- 44:00 The Big Bulls--t Bill pt.1

 

44:10- 47:30 You Don't Mess With the Zohran

 

47:50- 55:30 Quick Hits from Lawrence

 

55:30- 1:24:30 The Big Bulls--t Bill pt.2

 

1:25:15- 1:32:30 DTE Outed For Dumping Dark $ Into COVID Anti-Lockdown Group

 

1:32:30- 1:37:40 Gaza Updates- Ceasefire??? IDF Gets Hit Back and More

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Join Abdul El-Sayed this Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00 pm at Shakespeare's Pub for a Town Hall. 
https://abdulforsenate.com/events/kalamazoo-town-hall-july-9-2025/

 

An open letter to John Hiner, Nicole Avery Nichols, and Gary Miles
https://nowkalamazoo.org/2025/06/an-open-letter-to-john-hiner-nichole-avery-nichols-and-gary-miles/

 

No Detention Centers in Michigan holds protest at the GEO Group ICE Detention facility in Baldwin on the 4th of July
https://griid.org/2025/07/05/no-detention-centers-in-michigan-holds-protest-at-the-geo-group-ice-detention-facility-in-baldwin-on-the-4th-of-july

 

ICE Agents Raid Detroit Home with Help From Detroit Police and Other Agencies
https://www.leftvoice.org/ice-agents-raid-detroit-home-with-help-from-detroit-police-and-other-agencies

 

Trump gets his 'big, beautiful bill.' What it means for Michigan
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/trump-gets-his-big-beautiful-bill-what-it-means-michigan

 

Michigan utility aided sabotage of Covid lockdown policies, documents reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/michigan-covid-lockdown-dte-energy

 

Gaza Resistance Ambushes Israeli Forces in Beit Hanoun: This Is What We Know So Far 
https://qudsnen.co/gaza-resistance-ambushes-israeli-forces-in-beit-hanoun-this-is-what-we-know-so-far

 

In this sprawling episode Lawrence joins in to talk about the Lyoya civil trial being moved to Kalamazoo and a sad post-script to an attempt by local organizations to create a houseless pod community in the city.

 

We talk about recent instances of "MAGA terrorism" and how an attempt to hold road funding hostage by the Trump administration was blocked by a judge.

 

We look at insurgent DSA candidate Zohran Mamdani in NYC, was the mainstream media coverage says about his candidacy, and the moral bankruptcy of a centrism pushing a figure like Andrew Cuomo.

 

We talk about the recent U.S. bombing in Iran, US complicity in the food massacres taking place in Gaza, and an update on Mahmoud Khalil.

 

02:10- 26:00 Patrick Lyoya Civil Case to be in Kzoo

 

26:10- 34:38 Kzoo Housing Pods Go Up for Auction

 

34:45- 49:25 MAGA Terrorism

 

49:25- 57:25 Judge Block Trump Admin from Holding Road Funding Hostage

 

57:30- 1:06:50 NYC Mayoral Race

 

1:06:55- 1:30:10 Iran

 

1:30:10- 1:38:40 Food Aid Massacres in Gaza and US Complicity

 

1:38:45- 1:47:00 Mahmoud Khalil is Free

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Civil trial against former GRPD officer Christopher Schurr to take place in Kalamazoo
https://wwmt.com/news/local/civil-trial-grand-rapids-officer-christopher-schurr-take-place-kalamazoo-patrick-lyoya-shooting-death

 

Study Finds Racial Profiling By Kalamazoo Police
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/study-finds-racial-profiling-by-kalamazoo-police/

 

Kalamazoo's housing pods up for auction months after housing project is scrapped
https://wwmt.com/news/local/kalamazoo-housing-pods-auction-project-scrapped-west-michigan-homeless-buy-sale

 

Judge blocks Trump admin from withholding road funding over immigration
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/06/judge-blocks-trump-admin-from-withholding-road-funding-over-immigration.html

 

US War on Iran Is Not About Nuclear Threats. It’s About US Power and Domination.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-war-on-iran-is-not-about-nuclear-threats-its-about-us-power-and-domination/

 

U.S. Mercenaries Are Helping the IDF Murder Starving People in Gaza
https://www.leftvoice.org/u-s-mercenaries-are-helping-the-idf-murder-starving-people-in-gaza/

 

Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/23/mahmoud_khalil_free

 

We begin with a big story about employees at a local Biggby asserting their rights and walking out from being overworked and harassed. 

 

We look at how a new bill in Lansing could help the lives of renters and present contrasting narratives from two different media sources and examine bias.

 

We discuss an article from BridgeMI about how Kalamazoo is preparing for the climate crisis, the political assassinations in Minnesota, and an analysis from LeftVoice on the recent "No Kings" protests.

 

We close the show discussing some critical context around Israel's bombing of Iran as well as how they recently targeted an Iranian television station while it was on air.

 

NOTE: There was an additional segment about resistance to ICE in Kalamazoo and Detroit but due to an error the audio was not captured. Links to the sources for that piece are below.

 

1:20- 5:00 Correction/ Update on Israel's Flotilla Kidnappings

 

05:15- 15:15 Biggby Employees Walk Out in Kzoo

 

16:05- 31:20 Tenant Empowerment Bill and Local Media Bias

 

32:05- 50:00 The Climate Crisis in Kzoo

 

50:40- 57:45 Political Assassinations in Minnesota

 

57:45- 1:04:35 A Left Take on the "No Kings" Protests

 

1:05:10- 1:16:35 Israel Attacks Iran- A Brief Summary and Targeting Iranian Journalists

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Mass exodus at Kalamazoo Biggby: Ex-employees allege toxic workplace
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/06/mass-exodus-at-kalamazoo-biggby-ex-employees-allege-toxic-workplace.html

 

Stadium District Biggby labeled a hostile work environment after majority of staff quit
https://www.fox47news.com/neighborhoods/downtown-old-town-reo-town/stadium-district-biggby-labeled-a-hostile-work-environment-after-majority-of-staff-quit#google_vignette

 

Michigan Lawmakers Push Tenant Empowerment Bills to Address Unsafe Rental Conditions
https://michiganchronicle.com/michigan-lawmakers-push-tenant-empowerment-bills-to-address-unsafe-rental-conditions/

 

QOTD: Do landlords need firmer regulations for timely repairs and increased rent notices?
https://wwmt.com/question/landlords-firmer-regulations-timely-maintenance-repairs-pests-dangerous-living-conditions-senate-bills-property-ownership-rights-accountability-michigan-housing-question-qotd

 

Michigan cities fight effects of climate change
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/michigan-cities-fight-effects-climate-change

 

Kzoo police shut down immigration-related use of license plate readers 
https://www.woodtv.com/news/kalamazoo-county/kzoo-police-shut-down-immigration-related-use-of-license-plate-readers/

 

After community outcry, Detroit district board calls for release of student detained by ICE 
https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025/06/11/detroit-school-board-calls-for-release-of-maykol-bogoya-duarte-held-by-ice-after-outcry/

 

“We Loved Her”: MN AG Keith Ellison Mourns His Friend Melissa Hortman, Slams Republican Rhetoric
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/17/minnesota_vance_boelter_charges

 

Israel Bombs Iranian State TV, Devastating Building During Live Broadcast
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-iranian-state-tv-devastating-building-during-live-broadcast/

 

We look at a labor dispute at Bronson Pediatrics that speaks to our political moment of austerity and the squeeze put on both workers and patients in our healthcare system.

 

An article from GRIID looks at the double standards practiced by a local news outlet when reporting on a story involving the kidnapping of immigrants.

 

The University of Michigan is in hot water after a Guardian article exposes the exorbitant sum the university spent sending hired goons to surveil on anti-genocide student protestors, and we look at how Santa Ono's centrist flailing between progressive and "anti-woke" warrior has earned him a old pile of nothing.

 

We spend the rest of the show discussing the uprising to ICE kidnappings in Los Angeles.

 

2:55- 14:00 Local Pediatrician Claims They Were Fired For Organizing Against Bronson Policy Changes

 

15:25- 25:00 Local News Station Defers to Power While Doubting Movimiento Cosecha GR

 

25:35- 39:30 U of M Hired Cartoonish Goons to Stalk and Surveil Anti-Genocide Protesters 

 

39:40- 48:00  Former U of M President Santa Ono Used Pander- It's Not Very Effective...

 

52:15- 1:18:00 LA Melts the ICE

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

Fired Kalamazoo pediatrician files defamation lawsuit against Bronson Healthcare
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/06/fired-kalamazoo-pediatrician-files-defamation-lawsuit-against-bronson-healthcare.html

 

Community shows up to defend immigrants from ICE arrests in Grand Rapids, while GRPD cooperates with ICE
https://griid.org/2025/06/05/community-shows-up-to-defend-immigrants-from-ice-arrests-in-grand-rapids-while-grpd-cooperates-with-ice/

 

Action Alert: Contact WZZM 13 for their unwillingness to believe what Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE had to say about what happened at the ISAP office
https://griid.org/2025/06/08/action-alert-contact-wzzm-13-for-their-unwillingness-to-believe-what-movimiento-cosecha-and-gr-rapid-response-to-ice-had-to-say-about-what-happened-at-the-isap-office/

 

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

 

The Ruination of Santa Ono
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ruination-of-santa-ono

 

ICE Raids in Los Angeles: State Brutality, Popular Resistance, and Class Struggle
https://www.leftvoice.org/ice-raids-in-los-angeles-state-brutality-popular-resistance-and-class-struggle/

 

This week, the Empire Strikes Back at Michigan and Kalamazoo for respecting the humanity of immigrants and not ceding ground to critical racist theory (i.e., eliminating DEI) by attempting to blackmail those respective governments with funding freezes.

 

The President muses about pardoning the men who planned to kidnap Governor Whitmer and RFK Jr's health department turns in some sloppy (and dangerous) homework.

 

Michigan's chapter of 50501 is standing up for a free Palestine and we give you updates on Gaza as well as the recent violence in Boulder, Colorado.

 

We close with some important stories about Queer rights on this first episode of Pride month 2025- a beloved voice actor is murdered for being gay and the media omits key details and trans athletes will continue to be protected in the state of Michigan.

 

02:30- 09:00 A Brief Commentary on Media Coverage of Commissioner Tami Rey's Arrest

 

09:10- 19:20 Trump Admin Calls Kzoo a Sanctuary County, Threatens Funding

 

19:35- 31:00 Trump Threatens MI Road Funding Over Immigration & DEI

 

31:55- 47:40 Trump Muses About Pardoning Gov. Whitmer's Attempted Kidnappers

 

48:00- 53:50 Burnin' Down the House: Plantations Go Ablaze and Some Historical Context

 

54:00- 1:03:30 RFK Jr's Health Department Report Full of Bunk Science and AI Supplied Misinformation

 

1:06:40- 1:31:13 Gaza Updates: 50501MI Stands With Palestine, Violence in Boulder, Aid Ambushes in Gaza

 

1:31:14- 1:40:00 A Hate Crime and Media Complacency, Trans Rights in Michigan

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Trump agency labels Kalamazoo County a ‘sanctuary county,’ officials say that’s ‘false’
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/05/trump-agency-labels-kalamazoo-county-a-sanctuary-county-officials-say-thats-false.html

 

Trump to Michigan: Comply with immigration, DEI orders or lose road funding
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/trump-michigan-comply-immigration-dei-orders-or-lose-road-funding

 

Whitmer opposes potential Trump pardons for men who plotted to kidnap her
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/05/whitmer-opposes-potential-trump-pardons-for-men-who-plotted-to-kidnap-her.html

 

RFK Jr.’s health report shows how AI slips fake studies into research
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/rfk-jr-fake-citations-medical-journals/

 

For Palestinians, Seeking Food at a US-Israeli Aid Site Means Risking Your Life
https://truthout.org/articles/for-palestinians-seeking-food-at-a-us-israeli-aid-site-means-risking-your-life

 

50501 Michigan Stands for a Free Palestine
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AQTYPh5Et/

 

Michigan Senate Vows To Not Take On Sports Ban After It Passes House
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/michigan-senate-vows-to-not-take

 

From the local to the national our first half focuses on austerity- in Kalamazoo Public Schools, in the federal response to recent storm activity in the area, to how the "big beautiful bill" is going to rob from Michigan's working class and give to the rich.

 

The second half of our show focuses on Palestinian solidarity and the genocide in Gaza. Students around the country are still standing against the massacre while our government lays out a McCarthyist strategy to clamp down on dissent. While the carnage continues in the Gaza strip we saw two Israeli embassy workers assassinated in DC. We talk about the "Imperial boomerang" and the rise of 'social despair' shootings.

 

2:04- 11:50 Local Schools Lose Librarians

 

12:05- 20:55 Kzoo County Sues Trump Administration

 

21:15- 31:20 Big Beautiful BS- How it Will Effect Michigan

 

31:40- 1:06:40 Free Palestine: Commencement Speeches, Government Oppression, and the Imperial Boomerang Hits Embassy Workers

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Parents petition to save school librarian after position gets axed in budget cuts
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/05/parents-petition-to-save-school-librarian-after-position-gets-axed-in-budget-cuts.html

 

AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board suing Trump White House over EPA funding
https://wkzo.com/2025/05/21/797645/

 

From taxes to Medicaid, what Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ would mean for Michigan
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/taxes-medicaid-what-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-would-mean-michigan

 

U.S. Students Protest Israel’s Genocide — and Universities’ Complicity — in Commencement Speeches
https://www.leftvoice.org/u-s-students-protest-israels-genocide-and-universities-complicity-in-commencement-speeches

 

Project Esther Is a McCarthy-Era Blueprint for Crushing the American Left
https://truthout.org/articles/project-esther-is-a-mccarthy-era-blueprint-for-crushing-the-american-left

 

The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

 

Video Shows Girl Trying to Escape Inferno as Gaza Family 'Burned Alive' in Israeli Massacre 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ward-al-sheikh-khalil

 

The Police State Hits Home: Media Cyphers Report from 2020 George Floyd Uprisings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCs1q0EQVLg&t=946s

 

We start our show by reading Mahmoud Kahlil's letter to his newborn son written from an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Columbia University, where Mahmoud had been organizing, is seeing a resurgence in anti-genocide student resistance.

 

We talk about the arrest of Newark mayor Ras Baraka outside an ICE detention center and how popular online left commentator Hasan Piker was questioned recently by Customs and Border Patrol.

 

We look at the dynamics of the new pope, and spend the rest of our show discussing police brutality and violence- from the Patrick Lyoya mistrial in Grand Rapids, the situation with Rodney Hinton, to the 40th anniversary of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia.

 

2:00- 12:00 A Letter from ICE Detention By Mahmoud Kahlil

 

13:00- 19:30 Anti-Genocide Protests at Columbia Continue

 

20:20- 31:51 New Jersey Mayor Arrested Outside ICE Detention Center & Hasan Piker Gets Questioned

 

33:00- 44:30 Ope, a New Pope: The Progressive and Regressive Politics of Leo and the Status Quo

 

45:30- 57:00 Patrick Lyoya Mistrial

 

57:00- 1:03:15 Rodney Hinton and Their Response to the Police Killing of His Son

 

1:03:30- 1:10:30 40th Anniversary of MOVE Bombing

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/mahmoud-kahlil-letter-to-newborn-son

 

NYPD and Campus Security Attack Pro-Palestine Protesters Inside Columbia University’s Library As Students Rally Outside
https://www.leftvoice.org/nypd-and-campus-security-attack-pro-palestine-protesters-inside-columbia-universitys-library/

 

Why the Left Needs to Denounce Ras Baraka’s Arrest
https://www.leftvoice.org/why-the-left-needs-to-denounce-ras-barakas-arrest/

 

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested for Visiting ICE Jail, Slams Trump Admin’s “Insane” Abuse of Power
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/12/ras_baraka

 

Hasan Piker: I was detained by customs and border patrol...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI5FH2vZanQ

 

The politics behind the selection of the American-Peruvian Pope
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/13/emju-m13.html

 

Responses to the mistrial of ex-cop Schurr who killed Patrick Lyoya – Part I & II
https://griid.org/2025/05/11/responses-to-the-mistrial-of-ex-cop-schurr-who-killed-patrick-lyoya-part-i/

 

I’m Not Sad a Cop Died
https://loloverruled.substack.com/p/im-not-sad-a-cop-died

 

‘Timestamp on our minds’: Philadelphia marks 1985 Move bombing that killed 11
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/philadelphia-1985-move-bombing

 

We start our show paying tribute to a dedicated housing organizer from Traverse City who passed over the weekend.

 

In Kalamazoo, we discuss local screenings of some critical documentaries on Palestine and student resistance- "No Other Land" and "The Encampments."

 

Lawrence joins us and we talk about Dana Nessel dropping felony charges against anti-genocide protestors and do some media critique on the intersection of arts, sports, and commerce.

 

A measure in Lansing that would have made it more difficult to vote in Michigan has failed and we look at an article from LeftVoice parsing out how May Day was celebrated around the world.

 

01:20- 7:00 Rest in Power Laura, Traverse City Housing Organizer

 

7:00- 24:30 Palestine at the Movies: "No Other Land" and "The Encampments" Screenings in Kzoo

 

26:15- 40:40 Dana Nessel Backs Off- Charges Dropped Against Anti-Genocide Protestors

 

40:50- 44:00 Fear of Flying- FAA Officials Warn They are Understaffed 

 

45:30- 53:00  "Sinners," NFL Draft, and Media Framing

 

54:25- 1:02:00 Michigan proof-of-citizenship question fails to gain House support

 

1:02:15- 1:09:15 May Day Around the World

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Stop the displacement of the residents at the Pines
https://secure.everyaction.com/vS8aqwmW5kCJZ-HkFr0vnQ2

 

Nessel drops charges against group arrested in UM pro-Palestinian camps
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/05/05/nessel-drops-charges-against-group-arrested-in-um-pro-palestinian-camps/83450454007/

 

Michigan Raids on pro-Palestine Students
https://pod.link/1097417804/episode/17b671520056c0af560e340518757aab

 

Michigan proof-of-citizenship question fails to gain House support
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-proof-citizenship-question-fails-gain-house-support

 

May Day Protests Show That Working Class Resistance to the Right Is Growing
https://www.leftvoice.org/may-day-protests-show-that-working-class-resistance-to-the-right-is-growing/