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		<title>It&#8217;s time for the gaslighting on gun violence to end</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Gun Control]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t lie: I&#8217;ve gotten pretty numb to the endless headlines about gun violence, mass shootings, gun deaths, and gun EVERYTHING. The shooting on campus at my alma mater Michigan State University tore the scab off this week and after the depression and sadness subsided, I&#8217;m left with outrage and white hot anger at those who would gaslight us that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Student op-ed: Eastern Michigan University lied about construction agreements on FOIA request</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following guest post was written by Liam Reidy, a student at Eastern Michigan University. University Leadership Should Adhere to the Same Rules as Students Eastern Michigan University’s mission statement proclaims five core values that govern how students, staff, faculty, and leadership live our daily lives on campus. We should expect that these core values inform every action of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Two North&#8221; – A true Christmas Story</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eclectablog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Two North&#8221; is a story about one Christmas when my mom was spending time on the psychiatric ward of our town&#8217;s hospital after trying to commit suicide to escape a physically-abusive husband. I was thirteen. It was a cataclysmic event in our lives but it brought us together into a two-person tribe like no other event ever has in my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump WANTS liberals to mock his NFT cards. And they are falling for it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump teased a &#8220;big announcement&#8221; on Truth Social: This screenshot doesn&#8217;t show the video that plays in its entirety where he declares that &#8220;America needs a superhero&#8221;. (One thing that&#8217;s glaring obvious is that he is still burning with the heat of a thousand suns with jealousy of Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Dark Brandon&#8221; memes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Contaminated Army Bases Contribute to Michigan&#8217;s Environmental and Social Inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following post was written by Jonathan Sharp. Jonathan is the CFO of the Birmingham, Alabama-based, Environmental Litigation Group, PC, a law firm specializing in toxic exposure cases that helps individuals injured by hazardous chemicals on US army installations. Over the past hundred years, the US army has dealt with the lasting consequences of its negligent handling and disposal of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Election deniers, extremists are ramping up attacks on democracy. Here’s how.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eclectablog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following essay was written by Dianne Byrum. Dianne is a former state Representative and state Senator and is currently a Michigan State University trustee and the Michigan Director for Defend Democracy Project. Over the summer, the January 6th Committee presented overwhelming evidence proving that Donald Trump and his extremist supporters in the Republican Party planned, promoted, and paid for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Want to #RestoreRoe in Michigan? Here&#8217;s what to do and what NOT to do to support Prop 3!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eclectablog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forty-nine years ago, after being exposed as a criminal, then President Richard Nixon uttered the phrase &#8220;I am not a crook!&#8221; during a press conference in Orlando, Florida. This statement had literally the opposite effect from what Nixon intended. Nobody who heard it believed it because the evidence was so strong that he was, indeed a crook. In fact, all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Republicans introduce bill to put the parents of transgender kids in prison for life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eclectablog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 13:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigotry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following post was written by Jessica Beasley (she/they), a Senior Manager of User Experience Design at a tech company and longtime resident of Michigan. She lives in Ypsilanti Township with her spouse and an inadvisable number of cats, and mostly uses Twitter to tweet about trans stuff at @JessicleCats. The topic of Jessica&#8217;s essay is personal for me. My [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tudor Dixon&#8217;s &#8220;small business&#8221; is driving US refractory manufacturers out of business</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Robinson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gretchen Whitmer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[During last night&#8217;s gubernatorial debate, GOP nominee Tudor Dixon asserted that a difference between her and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was that Dixon was a small business owner, whose company had been &#8220;crushed during the pandemic by Whitmer&#8217;s Covid policies.&#8221; Curious, I decided to look into Dixon&#8217;s &#8220;small business.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what I learned&#8230; Dixon&#8217;s business, Cornerstone Foundry Supply (CFS), manufactures nothing&#8211;it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Michiganders reject attacks on our votes, threats of violence. Dixon, extremists aren’t listening.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eclectablog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Democrats]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post from Michigan House Democratic Leader Donna Lasinski. Michigan is entering the home stretch of an election season unlike anything we have seen before. On the one hand, Democrats offer candidates many voters will recognize: From Gov. Gretchen Whitmer down the ballot, Democratic candidates are talking about record-setting funding for our schools, growing good paying jobs, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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