Part 2 on Lansing's Cadillac pensions, because it gets worse: Michigan members of Congress are double dipping. Sitting Sen. Gary Peters pockets $68,712 a year from his old state legislative pension and sitting Rep. Tim Walberg collects $102,084, stacked on top of their $174,000 federal salaries. Debbie Stabenow drew $107,145 this year after collecting for years while in the U.S. Senate. Yes, both parties. That's the point. And the bailout has already started. Taxpayers quietly injected $8 million in 2019 and another $900,000 in 2024, plus $4 to $5 million EVERY year for these retirees' health benefits, while the pension fund itself sits at just 40.6% funded. The Michigan Constitution guarantees every dime of the $206 million liability, so the bill lands on Michigan families. Lansing found taxpayer money over the last decade to shore up the pension funds for teachers, troopers, state workers, and judges. The one fund they never fixed? The politicians' own. Now working families get to cover guaranteed 4% annual raises that no teacher or trooper ever got. This double dipping has to stop. We need leaders who retire like the rest of us, not insiders cashing two government checks while the fund they built goes broke on your dime. Time to stop it. Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @downi75

Outrage in Lansing: 41 former Michigan lawmakers are pocketing six-figure “Cadillac” pensions decades after leaving office, topped by ex-Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema at nearly $190,000 a year, all juiced by a guaranteed 4% annual raise that nearly DOUBLED John Engler’s pension. That dwarfs the 2.6% seniors average from Social Security. Engler started collecting at age 50 while he was still GOVERNOR. These are the same politicians who pushed state workers and teachers into 401(k)s, yet their own fund sits at just 40.6% funded with a $206 million hole the Michigan Constitution forces taxpayers to cover. 85 retirees collect more than a sitting legislator’s $71,685 salary. Even David Jaye, expelled from the Senate after criminal convictions, pockets almost $105,000 a year. Kwame Kilpatrick was collecting too, until federal prosecutors seized it for restitution. This “bipartisan” self-dealing has to stop. We need leaders who serve the Michigan families, not insiders who write themselves lifetime paydays while taxpayers, teachers, and troopers play by different rules. Time to stop it. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @downi75

Outrage in Detroit: A 33-year veteran Detroit Police lieutenant blows the whistle on a $3 million overtime scam in the 3rd Precinct’s Special Operations Unit (officers racking up 13,000 hours of OT in one year with 16-to-19-hour days that violated every policy) and command staff suspends her 30 days without pay, ships her to midnight shift, and bars her from her own precinct without an escort. All for putting the numbers in a spreadsheet and reporting the fraud. Her whistleblower lawsuit exposes a toxic culture of rampant time theft, zero oversight, cronyism, and vicious retaliation against cops who actually follow the Duty to Report policy. Internal affairs couldn’t even pull gym records or question bogus claims, yet supervisors admitted under oath there was no valid reason to punish her. Taxpayers are stuck with a $49 million OT tab this year while good officers get screwed doing the right thing. This kind of corruption has to stop. We need real accountability in our police departments so the men and women who protect us can do their jobs without watching their backs from their own bosses. Time to stop it. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @downi75

Hollywood turned Erin Brockovich’s fight against corporate polluters into a blockbuster. Now she’s back, demanding transparency on the AI data center explosion choking communities nationwide. Her new reporting site has logged over 4,300 of these facilities guzzling enough power for millions of homes, draining millions of gallons of water daily, dumping toxic e-waste, and blasting 24/7 noise that’s ruining lives. Here in Michigan we’ve seen the exact playbook in Van Buren Township, where Google’s Project Cannoli got the red carpet and a concerned mom got dragged out by police for speaking at a public meeting. Seventy percent of Americans want nothing to do with them in their backyards. We can grow technology without selling out our neighborhoods or forcing Michiganders to subsidize Silicon Valley. Time for real accountability and leaders who listen instead of silencing the people. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19

INSANE. Our university is requiring leadership of all student organizations to agree to terms that require board members to enforce DEI within their organization. WE ARE REFUSING TO SIGN THIS AGREEMENT. Michigan State MUST end this ideological brainwashing and allow freedom of thought on this campus.

Only at MSU would the Board of Trustees finally deliver real bipartisanship: by punishing both a Republican and a Democrat trustee for refusing to sign their unconstitutional new loyalty oath. Trustees Mike Balow and Rema Vassar were blocked from the Mackinac Policy Conference after standing firm against the “duty of loyalty” rule that demands they rubber-stamp majority decisions even when they disagree. Vassar is dead right: this extra pledge violates the Michigan Constitution’s clear ban on additional oaths for elected officials. Trustees answer to the voters of Michigan, not to a board majority obsessed with silencing dissent. Time to restore independence and accountability at our state’s flagship university that educates students from Michigan (unlike that other place). Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @MichStateYAF @MSUCR @JulieMaday4MSU @SenRogerVictory @downi75

Google Gag Order: Van Buren Township trustees sicced the cops on a concerned local mom at a public meeting simply for calling out their grift - handing Google massive tax breaks for the Project Cannoli AI data center while families foot the bill for crushing electric grid strain and crashing property values. She stood up and exercised her First Amendment rights to hold elected officials accountable, yet they dragged her out like a criminal for questioning the sweetheart corporate deal. Public comment periods exist to keep taxpayer funded boards honest, not to let Big Tech cronies ram through backroom incentives while silencing dissent. As an attorney fighting for constitutional rights in Michigan courts, this blatant gag order on free speech is unacceptable and un-American. Van Buren trustees work for the people, not Silicon Valley. Time to demand real transparency, accountability, and leaders who listen instead of calling the cops on their own constituents. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19

From persecution to compensation: As I told CNN in a recent interview, the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion fund for victims of government weaponization is long overdue. As attorney for Michigan’s 2020 alternate electors in their criminal and civil cases, I’ve seen good Americans like my client Cliff Frost suffer massive legal fees, lasting damage to their businesses, and destroyed relationships. Another client of mine, John Haggard, lost his life. This commission is a necessary step toward real justice and accountability. You can read the article at cnn.com/2026/05/20/politics/…. Michigan families deserve better than political persecution. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @MarshallCohen @CNN

As a proud Michigan State University law grad, I’m outraged by the MSU Board of Trustees’ blatant attempt to muzzle statewide elected officials with this illegal “loyalty” gag order. These trustees answer to Michigan voters, not some board majority hell-bent on suppressing dissent. Forcing them to stay silent on disagreements while threatening censure, lost reimbursements, event access, and even university-funded legal representation is a direct violation of the First Amendment and an abuse of power no court should tolerate. This rushed Sunday night meeting with minimal notice proves their disdain for transparency and the rule of law. Michigan families deserve real leadership that upholds free speech and accountability, not authoritarian tactics. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @MichStateYAF @MSUCR

Weekend at Bradley’s, a classic Michigan dead voter scandal from the 2020 election. More fascinating than a weekend at Bernie’s! William Bradley, born in March 1902, was still registered to vote in zip code 48207 years after he passed. Ballot application received September 11, mailed the 19th, returned October 2, and counted anyway. The guy was more active dead than some folks are alive! Whitmer and Benson keep swearing everything’s fine while refusing to clean the voter rolls and attacking anyone who notices. This is exactly why trust in our elections is six feet under. Michigan families deserve real election integrity so only living, legal votes count. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19

Dumb and Even Dumber in Grand Rapids: Spending $262,985 on an all-gender locker room for police in the name of “equity” is a stupid idea that shows just how out of touch city leaders really are. Hard-working Michigan taxpayers expect their money to go toward actual public safety and keeping criminals off the streets, not radical and unlawful DEI virtue signaling that wastes cash and creates privacy nightmares. Michigan families deserve better. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @TruckerRandy​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @HarmeetKDhillon @DonnieDetroit19 @downi75 @CivilRights

Trust, But Don’t Verify: Michigan’s Democrat Governor Whitmer claims Michigan’s elections are safe, secure, and fair. Her latest press release is political spin that dodges the real legal questions critics are raising. Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor while overseeing the August primary and November general elections she certifies. That’s a blatant conflict of interest that destroys public trust. Instead of fixing the problem, they attack President Trump and anyone asking tough questions while one-party Democrat rule in Lansing offers the same tired reassurances. Michigan families deserve real election integrity where every legal vote counts without doubt. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @katie_heid

Free Speech Includes the Right to Be Wrong: A shocking new poll shows roughly 1 in 3 Democrats really believe the April assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged, despite a federal grand jury indictment and zero evidence. The same dangerous delusions grip the 2024 Butler rally and golf club incidents, especially among younger voters and the left. While we must always defend freedom of speech and thought, this isn’t healthy skepticism - it’s partisan poison fueled by media bias, institutional distrust, and blind hatred. We need to stand with the facts: these were real threats, not Hollywood stunts. Michigan families deserve truth over toxic rhetoric. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @downi75 @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk

Follow the money… straight into Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s campaign account. While Fay Beydoun lobbied for a $25 million taxpayer grant in 2021, they funneled multiple $50,000 donations to Whitmer’s reelection that shattered Michigan’s individual contribution limit of $7,150. These oversized checks flowed as they pressed for the very multimillion state grant Whitmer’s team later approved, meaning big campaign donors were rewarded with taxpayer funds. Now Beydoun faces 16 felony charges for misusing that grant money. This cronyism thrives under one-party Democrat rule in Lansing. Michigan families deserve better. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @TruckerRandy @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk

Shall not be infringed: Democrats don’t understand this simple phrase from the Second Amendment, no matter how many times the Supreme Court explains it. MI AG Dana Nessel is at it again, filing an amicus brief supporting California’s ban on open carry, even though it’s perfectly legal for law-abiding Michiganders right here at home. This is textbook hypocrisy from our Attorney General. She’s happy to help California criminalize a constitutional right affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bruen, while Michigan families exercise that same right every day without issue. As an attorney who believes in our Constitution and the Second Amendment, Nessel’s national anti-Second Amendment agenda is wasteful and shameful. Let’s keep pushing to make Michigan safe, normal, and great again! 🇺🇸 @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Greg_Manz @MeshawnMaddock @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @DaveBondyTV @CliffFrost1 @Th_Midwesterner @MichiganCRs @RapidResponse47 @bennyjohnson @seanhannity @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @migunowners @FenixAmmunition @GLGunRights

The Michigan Democrats’ “glass slipper grant” just shattered into 16 felony charges for Governor Whitmer appointee and longtime Democrat donor Fay Beydoun. She allegedly embezzled taxpayer dollars through the shady $20 million “glass slipper grant,” spending it on luxury apartments, handmade Tunisian rugs, first-class travel, and catering for political allies, while delivering nothing for Michigan families. This cronyism thrives under one-party Democrat rule in Lansing. Michigan families deserve better. Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and affordable again! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk