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Found this over at one of our regular sites, Michigan Advance, but honestly, it reads like a (not-very) covert ad for author Dave Liske's new book The Flint Coney. Flint Coney?!

That said I'm linking to the updated PBS video from which this comes from which plays less like one big book plug.

Moar Coney! BONUS:

• the original 2015 Made In Detroit broadcast about Detroit's coneys

Tell me you're not craving a couple of dogs now. What's that? You say you're vegetarian? Vegan? Well then…

• Velvet Peanut Butter!, with one of the greatest logos in the modern world ever! "Fresh! Pure! Delicious!"

Attention: SE-Michigan-specific content: I'll still respect you in the morning.

Reporter Susan Smiley at The Macomb Daily tells of the many firsts in steps toward recognition and acceptance in suburban(ish) Macomb County…

Warren activist Monica Papasian has wanted to see a Pride celebration in Warren for a long time. When a friend asked her to help plan something earlier this year, Papasian created a Facebook page and asked for volunteers. “Within a couple of days, I had 50 people wanting to help,” she said. “We have a core group of about 15 people who have really put in a lot of time, but I’m so excited about the response and we still have people reaching out to be part of the event.”

The first-ever Warren City Pride event will be Saturday, June 29 from 11:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. The day kicks off with a parade that will feature floats, marchers and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is also scheduled to speak. Staging is at Cousino High School and the parade route will travel west on Common Road to City Hall.

Well, well. I guess every now and then we can have nice things. The cities of Mt. Clemens, Eastpointe and Sterling Heights are also hosting events in recognition of Pride. 100% snark-free: however difficult that road at times may seem, love is always the answer.

Totally off-topic: why is the sky always flat and cloudy along M-97? I mean, always? ☁☁☁

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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…or is the new web interface huge? I'm using Firefox 126 and I've reduced the page size to a bearable 90%.

More importantly though, please try this test in your browser of choice (I haven't tested from a dedicated app):

1. create a post (for the sake of this test all you have to do is press the "Create a post" button in the sidebar) in any community
2. Fill the body text field so you have enough text to for at least one press of 'PgDn'. I've supplied three paragraphs of dummy text you can copy for your convenience at the end of this post. Make sure the focus is still in the body text area (you should see the area highlighted with an outline.)
3. switch to any other tab you have open.
4. switch back to your post tab

You should see that the page has jumped back to the top. This also happens when you press 'Preview' with focus in the text area: the page jumps to the top and doesn't preview the post! In fact, any time the text box loses focus, the page jumps to the top. Merely clicking outside the text area will make the page jump to the top.

I hope I've clearly explained the situation.

Is this displayed in any browser or just Firefox? Any OS or just Linux. Is this a bug or am I the only one experiencing these glitches? Any help/corroboration would be appreciated. Lemmy: the Tupolev Tu-144 of social media!® Thanks.

“When it comes to Nestlé, I don’t believe that they should be taking the water out of our ground and selling it, and I want to stop that,” [Gov Gretchen] Whitmer said in a gubernatorial debate. […] And her campaign water plan emphasized the disparities that set off the controversy in the first place, noting that some Michiganders struggled to pay bills for water of questionable quality. The state should be preserving freshwater, the plan said, “not selling it at a nominal price.”

But six years later, well into her second term and with a Legislature controlled by fellow Democrats, little has changed.

Since Whitmer was elected, at least nine bills proposing changes — from new groundwater protections to closing oversight gaps — were left to languish in the Legislature. Bottled water faded as a talking point. The administration and lawmakers turned to other priorities: reproductive rights, economic development, education, infrastructure.

Americans spent about $49 billion last year on bottled water, even though most can access water safely in their homes. The Beverage Marketing Corporation, a research and consulting firm, called it the largest beverage category by volume in the United States. The group has said that water bottlers’ revenues are growing “largely due to higher prices.”

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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Regular readers of !michigan@midwest.social will remember last week's post about defendant Corey Harris driving with a suspended license…while Zoom-calling the judge. There's still more to the story and I hate to call it the punchline…

A segment of a Washtenaw County Trial Court livestream on May 15 was spread widely after Corey Harris called into the hearing while driving. He was charged in April after reportedly driving with a suspended license in Pittsfield Township.

A USA Today report claimed it was a misunderstanding and that Harris’ license was supposed to be reinstated in January 2022 but wasn’t due to a clerical error. During a follow-up hearing on Wednesday, June 5, Simpson said the reinstatement applied to Harris’ privilege to drive in the state and that he didn’t have a license to begin with [emphasis mine -- r^2^ ]

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
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All that's missing from MichiganAdvance's Jon King's reportage on the ongoing Michigan 2020 fake electors trial is air-conditioned Cobo Arena, sports fans!

On the stand for a fifth day, [MI AG special agent investigator Howard] Shock spent nearly seven hours under a withering fire of defense questions, as well as criticism from the bench, about his competency and how he carried out the investigation. More importantly, the defense questioning sought to cast doubt that their clients, who are charged with a variety of felonies including conspiracy to commit election law forgery, knowingly broke the law when they signed the documents, which is a required element for conviction under that charge.

“The attorney general of the state of Michigan, Dana Nessel, that’s your boss, fair to say?” Freeman asked Shock. […] “This is a politically driven department that you work for, isn’t it?” pressed Freeman, who asked Shock when was the last time he briefed Nessel, a Democrat, on the case.

…and in a move reminscent of The Sheik vs Pampero Firpo…

While Assistant Attorney General LaDonna Logan objected, arguing that the question lacked relevance to the case, Judge Kristen Simmons overruled the objection and expressed what appeared to be frustration with Shock’s inability to answer defense questions.

“I think it’s glaring that we have a concern in this courtroom about the investigation and his ability to put forth information from that investigation. I took the bench after 9 o’clock and twice within that hour, I’ve had to break for him to refresh his recollection on his investigation,” said Simmons. “We’re not getting a great presentation. And so I can understand why the questions are now starting to [ask] how this investigation went about. Because if you’re not presenting your investigation well, we now need to understand what happened during this investigation.”

Emphasis mine -- r^2^

HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China’s history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for those who cannot.

~China~ ~1989,~ ~Student~ ~protest~ ~at~ ~Tienanmen~ ~Square.~
~Photo:~ ~Jiri~ ~Tondl,~ ~CC~ ~BY-SA~ ~4.0~

The 1989 crackdown, in which government troops opened fire on student-led pro-democracy protesters, resulting in hundreds, if not thousands, dead, remains a taboo subject in mainland China. In Hong Kong, once a beacon of commemorative freedom, the massive June 4 annual vigil that mourned the victims for decades has vanished, a casualty of the city’s clampdown on dissidents following huge anti-government protests in 2019.

Last week, under a new, home-grown security law, Hong Kong police arrested seven people on suspicion of alleged sedition over their posting of social media content about commemorating the Tiananmen crackdown. A Christian newspaper, which typically publishes content related to the event ahead of its anniversary, left its front page mostly blank. It said it could only turn words into blank squares and white space to respond to the current situation.

What We Want Now
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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/12955233

Dr Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian died June 3, 2011 in Royal Oak, MI at the age of 83.

From the AP article…

On a video recorded by Kevorkian in 1993, Poenisch steadies Frederick’s Lou Gehrig’s disease-ravaged body as she signs a form requesting help to die “in the most humane, rapid and painless manner” possible. Then, [Carol] Poenisch reads words just penned by her mother [Kevorkian patient, Merian Frederick] that convey her final, fervent, wish: “My tears should not be taken as an indication that I am in doubt.”

The videotaped interview, clinically labeled “Medicide: File 8,” is one of many in a new archive at Kevorkian’s alma mater, The University of Michigan. It’s been digitized and included in one of nine boxes stored in the stacks of the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor — available for the first time as legislation supporting physician-assisted deaths makes gains in the U.S.

Kevorkian, a graduate of Michigan’s Medical School, died in 2011 in suburban Detroit at 83. He sparked the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end about 130 ailing people’s lives, using the term “medicide” to describe physician-assisted suicide. Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 for assisting in the 1998 death of a Michigan man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was released from prison in 2007.

While rooted in the past, the archive has been unveiled at a time when the movement gains ground. In October, California became the fifth state — following Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana — where physician-assisted deaths are legal, and that’s made proponents of right-to-die legislation optimistic about possible successes elsewhere. Other bills are pending.

Where does the outspoken, unapologetic and now archived Kevorkian fit in the current debate? Some see him and his efforts at the center. Others, like Poenisch, praise his trailblazing but believe his approach — wearing costumes and plugging his ears in court, once talking to reporters with his head and wrists restrained in a medieval-style stock — was detrimental to him and the cause.

Others say the outlandishness was necessary. Mayer Morganroth, Kevorkian’s attorney and friend, said people who have said he had the right message but was the wrong messenger are missing the point. […] “The only way to get out there was to be out there himself, go over the top.”

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Dr Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian died June 3, 2011 in Royal Oak, MI at the age of 83.

From the AP article…

On a video recorded by Kevorkian in 1993, Poenisch steadies Frederick’s Lou Gehrig’s disease-ravaged body as she signs a form requesting help to die “in the most humane, rapid and painless manner” possible. Then, [Carol] Poenisch reads words just penned by her mother [Kevorkian patient, Merian Frederick] that convey her final, fervent, wish: “My tears should not be taken as an indication that I am in doubt.”

The videotaped interview, clinically labeled “Medicide: File 8,” is one of many in a new archive at Kevorkian’s alma mater, The University of Michigan. It’s been digitized and included in one of nine boxes stored in the stacks of the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor — available for the first time as legislation supporting physician-assisted deaths makes gains in the U.S.

Kevorkian, a graduate of Michigan’s Medical School, died in 2011 in suburban Detroit at 83. He sparked the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end about 130 ailing people’s lives, using the term “medicide” to describe physician-assisted suicide. Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 for assisting in the 1998 death of a Michigan man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was released from prison in 2007.

While rooted in the past, the archive has been unveiled at a time when the movement gains ground. In October, California became the fifth state — following Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana — where physician-assisted deaths are legal, and that’s made proponents of right-to-die legislation optimistic about possible successes elsewhere. Other bills are pending.

Where does the outspoken, unapologetic and now archived Kevorkian fit in the current debate? Some see him and his efforts at the center. Others, like Poenisch, praise his trailblazing but believe his approach — wearing costumes and plugging his ears in court, once talking to reporters with his head and wrists restrained in a medieval-style stock — was detrimental to him and the cause.

Others say the outlandishness was necessary. Mayer Morganroth, Kevorkian’s attorney and friend, said people who have said he had the right message but was the wrong messenger are missing the point. […] “The only way to get out there was to be out there himself, go over the top.”

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From our friends over at BridgeMichigan, reporter Jordyn Hermani covers the question of Michigan restraining orders: do Personal Protection Orders (PPO) only protect the victims half way?…

Michigan is one of 12 states without a relinquishment law to further protect victims of domestic abuse, according to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a national nonprofit advocating for gun control legislation. […] That’s a glaring hole in the eyes of gun violence researchers and prevention advocates, who argue the possession component of protection orders are extremely difficult to enforce until after a tragedy might occur, such as the recent murder of a Saline woman by her ex-boyfriend.

Some law enforcement officials are questioning whether any change is needed, however, because Michigan already has a way of removing guns from at-risk individuals: extreme risk protection orders. The state’s new “red flag” law allows police, mental health therapists or close relations to petition a court to allow for gun confiscation from someone deemed a threat.

That makes adding a relinquishment component to protective orders redundant, said Bob Stevenson, executive director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, as “you’ve got a law right now that will address those concerns.” […] “A PPO is basically an order to keep somebody away from somebody,” he added, “and an extreme risk protection order is the order that requires someone to relinquish their firearms.”

But if a person wants to harm someone, they’ll just find another way, countered Avi Rachlin, a regional director of Michigan Open Carry. His group advocates for the lawful open carry of a holstered handgun in Michigan. […] Rachlin called it a “fool’s errand” to believe that a police sweep of someone’s home for firearms would ultimately deter them from committing a crime, as “the reality is, the ways to get a firearm in this country are absolutely limitless.”

“You have somebody in this emotional rage that wants to do you harm,” he told Bridge. “This three-page piece of paper followed up with a quick sweep of your house is not going to be the solution to that problem.”

…and the punchline…

Rachlin suggested that if domestic violence survivors fear for their personal safety, they should look into buying a gun: “You want to prevent domestic violence? Allow women to protect themselves.”

:facepalm: That, indeed, is the solution. Arm everybody. As long as we're taking the apagogic route, just like a Social Security number, you are issued upon request (or parental request) a single-usage .STL or .OBJ file of the patent-expired Glock 17, complete with serial number and one (1) box of 9×19mm Parabellum ammunition. Printing costs and additional ammunition are, of course, tax-deductible.

It's forever High Noon in this nation of cowboys.

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From Kalamazoo's WRKR Radio…

This will be the 11th annual Mustang show Tapper Ford has held and it’s going down Saturday, June 1 from 8 AM until 1 PM. There will be live music and those with classic cars can even get theirs sketched up by professional sketch artist Lou Hoekstra. The event is being held at their dealership located at 816 S. Kalamazoo St.

What follows is a pretty sweet collection of photos from a past show, giving us all a taste of what's to be seen this year.

And it's in Paw Paw, home of A.W. Underwood, purported telekinetic firestarter…!

Remember to always wash your hands after touching infected bovines. 🐮

Another human case of bird flu linked to sick dairy cows has been detected in Michigan, marking the third farmworker diagnosed with the illness in the United States since March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. None of the cases are connected.

This is the second farmworker in Michigan in a week to be diagnosed with the illness. And a dairy worker in Texas was diagnosed in March. In those cases, the patients' only sign of illness was a pink eye.

This latest case is different, however, because the patient also had a cough that accompanied eye symptoms. The person was given Tamiflu and was reportedly recovering.

Where's that box of N95s I had stashed?…

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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