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Brad LaPlante

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Covering national and state politics for @WLNS.bsky.social. Prev: @statenews.com, B1G+, SB Nation. Email: [email protected]. Signal: bradlaplante.10

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 1d

This week on #TheMoment, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social says Democrats are "too weak" to stand up to Trump because of corporate interests.

"The only thing worse than sheer evil is weakness in the face of it," he said.

Watch: youtu.be/r2eCqQ7zRX4?...
Listen: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 2h

Some Sunday content for you.

This week: Abdul El-Sayed says most Democrats are “too weak” to stand up to Trump because they are burdened by corporate interests.

Watch: youtu.be/r2eCqQ7zRX4?...
Listen: pod.link/1847062082?v...

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 15h

this is better

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 15h

Probably never watching baseball again.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 15h

Varsho needs to lock in. Every time I watch him bat I want to tear my skin off. All he needs to do is hit the ball in the air and he grounds out.

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amy m. @amymedeiros.bsky.social · 17h

i can hear my upstairs neighbor rn and first i thought he was having sex but i think he is actually watching the world series

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 1d

Baseball is losing an audience because the rules of the sport were made for 1855.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 1d

New: Tom Barrett called the police after protesters wrote things like "Don't let kids starve" and "show your face" on the walls and steps of his Lansing office. www.wlns.com/capital-rund...

Barrett calls police after protesters ‘deface’ Lansing office with chalk

Protesters wrote messages in chalk on the exterior walls of U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett’s office in Lansing, calling for him to listen to the people and not let kids starve, while also criticizing …

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 1d

I long for the day when I can upload a video larger than 100 MB.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 4d

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is endorsing Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist for governor.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 4d

Blues coach is about to fire his whole team.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 12d

McMorrow told NBC News she is focused on an “all-of-the-above” solution rather than an either/or approach.

Full piece from NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Hive mind: Why a Michigan Senate candidate keeps talking about beekeeping on the campaign trail

Mallory McMorrow's pitch for a more diversified economy is running up against tradition in auto-focused Michigan.

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 12d

Major tension in the Dem Senate race.

Haley Stevens says Michigan should “double down” on manufacturing jobs. McMorrow says Michigan’s economy is “too reliant” on auto manufacturing.

“When the auto industry does well, we do well,” McMorrow told NBC News.

Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 13d

We won’t unlock Michigan's future without growing manufacturing *and* creating new jobs in medical research, clean energy, ag, and other industries.

Doing the same thing we did in the past without growing lacks a real vision for Michigan’s economy.

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 14d

This week on #TheMoment, @rephaleystevens.bsky.social says Republicans are putting tax breaks ahead of families.

"It's not acceptable," Stevens said. ""It's going to get even worse if we don't address these rising costs on health care."

Watch: youtu.be/nrXMwF1D1v0

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 15d

Thinking of this because I have not seen a postseason performance like Ohtani’s since Game 6 of the 1994 ECQF when Hašek made 70 saves to force a Game 7.

The Sabres did not deserve him.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 15d

Biggest red flag in men is thinking Patrick Roy was a better goalie than Dominik Hašek.

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 16d

Haley Stevens did not call Gaza a genocide in my interview with her this week. Both her opponents for MI Senate, Abdul El-Sayed and Mallory McMorrow, have. Watch: www.wlns.com/wlnsplus/mom...

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 17d

If the Red Wings played like this every night, they’d make the playoffs.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 20d

This week’s #CapitalRundown: Michigan’s election tampering case begins, a cannabis group is challenging the marijuana tax and how lawmakers are responding to last month’s shooting in Grand Blanc. www.wlns.com/capital-rund...

Matthew DePerno listens to Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. An attorney charged in connection with an effort to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan after the 2020 election says Thursday that he’s running for the state’s high court. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 20d

It’s insane that the Lions didn’t check to see if their fourth down trick play was legal.

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 22d

Michigan State cannot lose to this UCLA team and have a head coach tomorrow.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 22d

"Extremely good" is also generous. I'm being hyperbolic, of course. He's, at best, an above average Big Ten QB.

Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 22d

Aidan Chiles is either extremely good or extremely bad. Nothing in the middle.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 24d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Brad LaPlante @bradlaplante.me · 24d

New: A prominent cannabis group is suing to block the new marijuana tax from taking effect. www.wlns.com/capital-rund...