UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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‘South Park’ is changing its name to ‘South America’ for Season 29 to mock Trump. Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced the supposed name change on Tuesday. New episodes begin Sept 16. This should be a funny season!
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The two firefighters who pulled Trump from the rubble are speaking out!
Elliott Richardson
2͏h͏ ·The two firefighters who pulled Trump from the rubble are speaking out!
Juanda Hillis Tripp
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What a disgusting ass he is. He always ruins everything. This was a horrific event with many losses. As a Canadian I will never forget this day. I watch every year the shows that are on about it. As a family member or a co-worker having to have this ugly man saying what he did is such a dishonour to the lives lost and are still dieing today.
Debbie Hilsinger
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Juanda Hillis Tripp I have so much love and respect for my Canadian neighbors and I’m so ashamed for the lard ass POS in the White House who is responsible for trying to ruin everything. Never in my life have I seen a more reprehensible pile than Donald Trump. His days are numbered. We are mobilizing.
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What a disgusting ass he is. He always ruins everything. This was a horrific event with many losses. As a Canadian I will never forget this day. I watch every year the shows that are on about it. As a family member or a co-worker having to have this ugly man saying what he did is such a dishonour to the lives lost and are still dieing today.
Debbie Hilsinger
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Juanda Hillis Tripp I have so much love and respect for my Canadian neighbors and I’m so ashamed for the lard ass POS in the White House who is responsible for trying to ruin everything. Never in my life have I seen a more reprehensible pile than Donald Trump. His days are numbered. We are mobilizing.
Tom Adelsbach
1͏h͏ ·BREAKING: another photo has been released, proving that President Trump was telling the truth when he told an audience of supporters that he was at 'ground zero' on 9/11.
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Yeah, no, I appreciate you bringing it up and look, I, you know, it's, it's not just in this community. There has never been somebody who looks like me from my background in the US Senate at all. So I carry that question of, uh, what does it mean, um, for us to elect somebody like you. Often, and on the one hand, you know, the one question I always say is, well, have I personally been on the right side or the wrong side of a lot of these questions, and I've tried always to be on the right side of these questions. The other question is, where do we go from here, right? It can be a race to the bottom or a race to the top, and What I'm trying to do is to bring communities together. All of my public services, and this is just stepping back, right? I remember I, I grew up in a, in a community that was not Dearborn, so not predominantly Arab in Oakland County, Bluefield Hills, right? So I wasn't very common, and I remember after 9/11 I had one of the few black teachers in my high school pull me aside and say it's time for you to read your history, not the history that that we teach in the classroom, like the history history. And literally like went to the, we went to the library together and he's like, here's what you've got to start reading Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass and Alex Haley and James Baldwin and Dr. Martin Luther King's writings, not what they say about him, right, and Malcolm X and A lot of my understanding of my responsibilities come from an understanding of the debt of gratitude I owe to black communities who advocated for the right of my dad to even immigrate here in the first place, right? We know about the Voting Rights Act, right? We know about the Civil Rights Act. We don't talk about the Immigration Act of 1965. That's the one that opens up the quotas so that people from North Africa even get to come. Right? And that's because of organizing in the black community around addressing anti-racism. So I understand my history and I also understand that I'm uncommon even in the Arab community, right? The predominant Arab communities are not Egyptian. Egyptians are a very, very small community. And I also take my heritage, the full complexity of my heritage, very seriously. I spent a lot of my childhood summers on the northeast corner corner of Africa with family, understanding the long history of even Egyptian advocacy, right? Abdel Nasser advocates both pan-Arabism and pan-Africanism, right? A lot of the organizing around pan-Africanism comes out of Egypt. So in some respects I've always kind of walked between a bunch of different worlds, and you all know this better than I do. Politics is about understanding how you're perceived, and WEEB Du Bois talks about a double consciousness, right? You've got to walk around thinking about how you see the world and then think about how the world sees you, and I've got to do that in a lot of different ways. Um, and so I want to address like just specifically, I think there is a lot that can be done in a moment right now when communities see themselves as having backs against the wall, because when your back's against the wall, then the question is who's got your back against the wall with you and how do you lock arms to be stronger against the folks putting your back to the wall and the hard part is too often it's, well, I can only trust the folks who are just like me and I hope that moving forward we can be like, well, actually we've got to learn to trust one another because whether they're coming at you for this reason or you for this reason or you for this other reason, we can't be coming at each other in a way that takes us to a race to the bottom. I'm not going to be able to solve a lot of this question in 63 days, you know, I can't, but I hope in 6 years that I can create the space as a statewide elected official in Michigan. To start building a conversation that starts with a kind of accountability, and I should be honest with you, the accountability is on the side of folks who come in, make a whole bunch of money in the community, take the money out and treat the local community as if it's just a cash system, doing things that they would never tolerate anybody else doing in their own communities. And no, no, it's OK. I mean, it's, I mean, it's urgency. It's an urgent conversation. Um, whoever, if somebody really wants to get a hold, make sure I get that, uh-huh, so I. So I, I, I, my commitment is a I have been and have always tried to be on the right side of these conversations. I left the, you know, just think about my background. I left the tenure track job at Columbia University. Most people don't do that, to come and rebuild the health department in the city of Detroit. And My commitment has always been to work with the community to try and do whatever I could to address challenges systematically and directly facing black communities. So I hope that my story can be told as my story, not, you know, you as Arab American, right? And then my hope is that as a statewide elected official, as the US senator in the state, I can build a set of conversations that start with accountability that a lot of folks need to hear and build to think how do communities come together to invest together to build something that's greater than the sum of its parts, and I know there are a lot of folks on the In the Arab American community that have been wanting to have this conversation and have not had the capacity to do it, have not seen the right partners, right, have not had the trust, right, to be taken in good faith, and there are so many people in the black community who've been waiting for this conversation for a very long time and needed it. And my hope is if I'm somebody who both represents, right, the places that I served, the communities that I served, and the community from, you know, an ethnic and faith community. That I am part of can bring folks together in good faith to start talking about how this works, and that is going to be my commitment and some of these conversations will be real tough, right? Some of them will be easier, but it doesn't really make as much of a difference if there's not a real understanding of where do we invest resources now. So that we are addressing some of the ways that communities have been harmed, and I'm looking forward to sharing in that conversation and I'm looking forward to being able to bring partners to that conversation to hopefully engage it because at the end of the day, look, communities are growing, right, and gone are the days where the Arab and Muslim community could assume it was a small community being ignored. I mean, take a look at the race they're running against me, you know what I mean, you think, you know, small children aren't hearing all that stuff. I think they're starting, like the Arab American community is starting to see, look, you know, we need our partners who've been in this fight against racism for a very long time, and that means we've got to address the ways that we might have been on the wrong side of that in the past, and I'm looking forward to helping that conversation move forward. So what I'm asking you is don't leave me to it myself, right? Let's let's usher and build that conversation together and it's a conversation I've been wanting to have and hopefully under the auspices of the office that it'll be a conversation I can help to lead.
Country Music Used To Be Based. Bring Back Outlaw Country?
Parkrose Permaculture
September 8, 2026
“There's always been a lot wrong with the country, but it's our obligation and our duty to straighten those things out." - Johnny Cash
Remember when country music was REAL "outlaw" music? Remember when Americans rebelled against oppression and for freedom and the rights of our hardworking people?
Parkrose Permaculture
September 8, 2026
“There's always been a lot wrong with the country, but it's our obligation and our duty to straighten those things out." - Johnny Cash
Remember when country music was REAL "outlaw" music? Remember when Americans rebelled against oppression and for freedom and the rights of our hardworking people?
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