I thought that Arab Christians were the first Arabs to settle in the Detroit area and Arab Muslims came later?
2
LaCabraLoca retweeted
Hamtramck (an enclave within Detroit) in Michigan used to be one of the most iconic Polish-American communities in the U.S.
It’s now the only Muslim-majority city in the U.S.
The opening of the Dodge Brothers auto plant in 1914 drew thousands of Polish immigrants.
The population exploded from 3000 in 1910 to 57 000 by 1930, of which 83% were Polish-Americans.
Their share increased to 90% by the 1970s.
Every mayor was of Polish descent between 1922 and 2021.
Today, the Polish share of the population has dropped to 10% as many moved to the
suburbs while waves of new immigrants arrived from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen and other Muslim-majority cities, turning it into U.S.’s first Muslim-majority city in 2013 and which now has a fully Muslim city council and mayor.
This is how the city council operates now. x.com/EndWokeness/status/206…
End Wokeness
64
152
599
91,946
Young buck retweeted
12h
Kenneth Bullock, a 44-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, walked free after spending over a decade behind bars for a carjacking he did NOT commit.
In 2011, a woman reported her Dodge Charger stolen at gunpoint. Bullock was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 30-70 years in prison. He maintained his innocence the entire time.
This year, another man already in prison for murder confessed to the crime. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Conviction Integrity Unit reviewed the case, and on May 28, 2025, all charges were dismissed. Kenneth is finally home with his family.
204
828
2,367
55,942
Nando 🪄 retweeted
The Detroit Lions have the BEST WR duo in the NFL right now 🍿
AMON-RA ST. BROWN x JAMESON WILLIAMS
7
29
271
8,000
Bryan Wilke retweeted
For decades, the 14th floor of GM's Detroit headquarters was its own separate world. Executives arrived through a private basement elevator. Meals were catered in a private dining room. No one else was invited. A 1993 Seattle Times investigation called it "the ultimate symbol of power at the world's largest company."
Tesla didn't just build a different culture. It built one inside GM's old factory. In 2010, Tesla bought the Fremont plant where GM and Toyota had jointly operated a car factory for 26 years, then ran it completely differently.
While every major automaker gave line workers wages and maybe a pension, Tesla gave them stock, shares that vest over time, across every level of the company, including people on the floor running assembly equipment. Electrek noted in 2020 that stock grants for all workers, factory staff included, were rare enough in auto that it was worth calling out.
The math starts in 2012. Tesla's stock sat at around $2.26 per share then, once you account for two stock splits since. Four years earlier, the company had nearly run out of money, and Musk funded it personally to keep it alive. Workers who took those early grants and held them saw the stock hit $410 at the 2021 peak. A dollar of Tesla stock from 2012 grew 181 times over in nine years. CNN confirmed Musk's account: some Fremont production workers became millionaires from those grants.
Musk wasn't running any of this from a separate floor. During Model 3 production hell in 2018, Tesla was fighting to hit 5,000 cars a week while barely managing 2,000. He moved to the factory and slept there for days. "I was wearing the same clothes for five days," he told Bloomberg Businessweek. "My credibility, the credibility of the whole team, was at stake."
Tesla paid out $2 billion in stock grants to its employees in 2024, from engineering to the factory floor, at every level. The 14th floor at GM was a monument to who owned the company. A Tesla stock grant in Fremont in 2012 was a monument to who built it.
Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.
“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.
There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.
At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.
And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”
New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023
6
27
201
32,218
Enoughgal retweeted
🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!
An ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE "teen takeover" in downtown Detroit forced businesses to close early last night.
Teens were seen BREAKING INTO CARS, PUNCHING and KICKING each other, shoving kids into the STREET, and JUMPING ON CARS...
WHERE. ARE. THE. PARENTS?!!!!!
112
162
197
6,922
z - shell 🪶 retweeted
MISSING... Detroit, we need your help‼️
Our beloved Friendly was stolen from a member of our staff’s car during a break-in last night!
Most important to us is that our teammate is safe. They’re dealing with the stress and disappointment of the break-in but this isn’t on them. We take care of our people, and we’re asking our community to help take care of Friendly by keeping an eye out and sharing this post.
Last seen last night in the New Center Area near E Grand and St. Antione. Let’s bring Friendly home⚜️
29
162
635
71,519
José Ramírez se fracturó el hueso ganchoso de la mano izquierda en la 5.ª entrada. Los Guardianes ganaron 3-1 a Detroit, pero perdieron a tres jugadores por lesión en la misma noche. #Guardianes #MLB #JoséRamírez tabladeportiva.com/beisbol/m…
18
Chindogg @ dead for a few weeks retweeted
On this day in 1989, the Pistons won their first NBA championship, sweeping the Lakers in four games.
Photo: Detroit Pistons
2
37
340
5,783