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Democrats are reportedly panicking over plans by former President Donald Trump, the front-runner of the GOP presidential primary, to visit auto workers striking against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis in Detroit, Michigan. Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are currently on strike against the Big Three, pushing to secure a new labor contract that includes wage increases to keep up with inflation and commitments that their jobs will not be eliminated by Biden’s Electric Vehicles (EVs) agenda. This week, sources confirmed to Breitbart News that Trump will skip the second GOP primary debate and instead visit striking auto...

A smart and strategic move by President Trump, the MAGA warrior of the middle and working-class.On the night of the second GOPe ‘first loser’ debate, President Donald Trump will be in Detroit giving remarks to striking union workers, pipefitters and various trade workers.The core of the MAGA coalition is the working and forgotten men and women who keep this nation functioning; a constituency that extends far beyond all races, colors, creeds and affiliations.(New York Times) – Former President Donald J. Trump is planning to travel to Detroit on the day of the next Republican primary debate, according to two Trump...

The United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three' Detroit carmakers entered its second day on Saturday, and some union members are questioning whether President Joe Biden has done enough to back their cause. The strike involves 13,000 workers so far, less than a tenth of the union's total membership, but UAW's strike fund has enough cash to support a full 150,000-member walkout for up to three months. The union representing workers at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis is seeking a 40 percent raise for its workers. The walkout is limited for now to three assembly plants: a GM factory...

DETROIT (AP) — A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions.The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis and Ford — demands that even the UAW’s own president calls “audacious” — are edging it closer to a strike when its contract ends Sept. 14.

New (updated) Conservative talk radio Superstation, 910-AM, based in Metro Detroit, will begin broadcasting its 24/7 Conservative talk shows and news, Tuesday, September 5. WJR had been Conservative with Rush Limbaugh as part if their line up. They have since gone to local talk programming only. From their website: "WFDF (910am) which brands itself as 910am Superstation is a talk radio-formatted radio station licensed to Farmington Hills, Michigan. WFDF (910 AM), which brands itself as 910 AM Superstation, is a News Talk radio formatted station licensed to Farmington Hills, Michigan, serving Metro Detroit."

President Biden on Monday called on both sides to strike a fair agreement amid the contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the top U.S. automakers, known as the Big Three. “As the Big Three auto companies and the United Auto Workers come together — one month before the expiration of their contract — to negotiate a new agreement, I want to be clear about where I stand. I’m asking all sides to work together to forge a fair agreement,” Biden said in a statement.

The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners came out blasting facial recognition systems for being racist Thursday night. It is the latest fallout for the false arrest of a pregnant woman for a carjacking she had nothing to do with, leading to a current lawsuit. A vote to ban facial recognition for the Detroit police failed tonight, which would have kept the department from using it for a year. "This technology appears to be 'techno-racism,' it’s the new Jim Crow that’s falsely arresting innocent people here in Detroit," said Commissioner Willie Burton."This is the third incident here in the city of...

Tens of thousands of illegal ballots have been found in Detroit, Michigan during an explosive criminal forensic study into the 2020 election results. Specklin Forensics, a national expert in criminal forensics, completed an investigation into the 2020 election in Michigan and published a report on its findings. The organization found further evidence of chronic, systemic voter fraud, according to the report. The fraud exposed was especially among absentee ballots in the controversial 2020 election. The firm has wide national experience testifying in criminal trials. During its investigation, Specklin Forensics was allowed limited access to the 2020 ballots in Wayne County,...

San Francisco-based companies leaving The Golden City because of drop in revenue ... San Francisco, California-based tech CEO Mark Benioff says the city will never go back to the way it was ... ... Golden City is struggling to keep businesses intact, leaving many buildings vacant.. office vacancy rates in San Francisco were 24.8% in the first quarter, more than five times higher than pre-pandemic levels and well above the average rate of 18.5% for the nation’s top cities, ... For San Francisco, the three-year exile resulted in empty storefronts with large "going out of business" signs hanging from windows....

A member of the Detroit Police Board of Commissioners has resigned in disgrace after he was caught in the act with a prostitute in his car — then asked officers if they could “help him out.” Bryan Ferguson, who represented District 1 for the DPBC and served as the former chair of Detroit’s police oversight board, announced his resignation on Thursday after news broke that he had been found with the sex worker on Wednesday morning. “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the residents of Detroit in police oversight,” Ferguson told the Detroit Free Press in...

On Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took Bank of America to task for a list of illegal actions that undermine customer trust. [Snip] Bank of America agreed to pay a total of $150 million in fines and reimburse customers $100 million. [Snip] “Bank of America is a repeat offender. [Snip] Double-dipping: The bank had a previous policy of charging a $35 fee once — and then repeatedly for the same transaction — when a customer didn't have enough money in the account to cover the bill. If the company or person who was owed the money tried to resubmit...

Parents in Detroit have reacted furiously to DailyMail.com's revelations about a school records system that helps students change gender at class and keep it secret from their families. The grandmother of one student called teachers 'incredibly deceptive' and other parents went online to sound alarm at how Royal Oak Schools kept them in the dark about gender changes in class. DailyMail.com earlier this month revealed how the schools' DEI coordinator, Dr Kimberly Martin, privately discussed a 'record-keeping system' used for 'trying to hide' a trans students' nickname from their parents. 'It sounds incredibly deceptive,' Patrice Rink, the grandmother and legal...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — New polling results are in … … the polling data in the U.S. Senate race with Elissa Slotkin, the Democratic frontrunner, shows she is tied with somebody who has not even formally announced their candidacy. James Craig, former Republican candidate for governor and former Detroit Police Chief, has not spent a dime in this race, but yet he’s at 39% and she’s at 40%. And in mid-Michigan, where Slotkin is a Congresswoman, she is actually losing to Craig: 37% for her, 44% for Craig. But in an equally interesting twist for Slotkin, she is leading Craig...

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has urged climate activists to be 'much more aggressive' as they plan a campaign of blocking highways and chaotic protests later this summer, DailyMail.com can reveal. DailyMail.com gained access to private talks in which Tlaib, a member of Congress's leftist 'Squad,' gave a pep talk to some 125 hardliners from Climate Defiance, Declare Emergency and other environmental groups. The activists have already blocked US highways, vandalized an artwork in Washington, and heckled politicians at speaking engagements. They're understood to be plotting much larger European-style climate protests later this summer. 'We have to be much more aggressive in...

A Michigan city with an all-Muslim government has banned LGBTQ+ flags from public areas after a bizarre hourslong meeting that saw displays of passion from both sides. A woman wearing a clown nose made a speech at the meeting - which was so well attended people were listening from the hallways - mocking the council and its majority-Muslim population during the public comment portion of the Hamtramck City Council before kissing a woman standing next to her Tuesday night. 'Sure, many Hamtramck residents have fled countries where being gay is a death sentence, but nothing says we have to make...

A Delta flight heading to Detroit, Michigan was forced to make an emergency landing on a remote Canadian island after an unruly passenger broke free of his restraints. The 34-year-old traveler was allegedly being 'violent' on the flight and 'wouldn't calm down' on the trip from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. He was restrained by airline staff but managed to break free before five to six passengers jumped in to restrain him again. The captain took an emergency diversion six hours into the flight and landed at Stephenville Dymond Airport on the Canadian island of Newfoundland at around...

Consumers already contending with a squeeze on their bank accounts due to inflation are now facing more pressure as businesses introduce new tipping features at self-checkout machines. Companies, including airports, bakeries, coffee shops and sports stadiums, have now introduced the self-serve tipping option, where customers can leave tips including the typical 20%, despite facing minimal to no interaction with any employee, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal. Customers report feeling obligated to leave a tip as they question where and to whom the extra money is actually going, but businesses are increasingly embracing the option to...

One man died, and two others were hospitalized after a shooting at a Detroit gas station over a $4 purchase being declined, officials said. Gregory Kelly, 37, of Detroit, was fatally shot around 3 a.m. Saturday, May 6, at a gas station in the 12800 block of West McNichols, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release. Samuel Anthony McCray, 27, of Detroit, is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes related to the incident. A 60-year-old man and 37-year-old man were also injured in the shooting, the release said. It is alleged that, shortly after 3 a.m....

While the eyes of the nation are on San Francisco’s proposal to pay every black person $5 million in reparations for an estimated total cost of $175 billion, Motor City won’t be left behind. Last year, 80% of Detroit voters in a 78% black city cast their ballots in support of a reparations commission. That was much higher than 63% poll numbers but local election results tend to outperform the polls due to the civic work of the Wayne County Cemetery Voters Association. Chairwoman Lauren Hood of the Detroit City Planning Commission said that she didn’t know who the 20%...

A pizza delivered to the wrong Detroit house led to a shootout Thursday night. Sources say a pizza was ordered to a home on Penrod near Schoolcraft and the Southfield Freeway. However, that pizza was delivered to the wrong house, and the people who got the errant delivery ate the food. When the people who ordered the pizza confronted the neighbors who ate the pizza, yelling turned to gunfire. As many as 30 rounds were fired during the fight, and five people, including two 14-year-old boys, were shot.