The tweet by More Perfect Union:

> A Michigan town board and its planning commission both rejected the largest data center in the state. Now it's being built anyway.

> In Saline Township, Michigan, a giant $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center was deeply unpopular, but that ultimately didn't matter.

> After the commission and board voted down the data center, the developer sued and the town settled. Then, construction began.

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The article they referenced (“A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began.”)

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Larry Ellison owns Oracle and various other assets (including the Hawaiian island of Lanai).

With Larry's help, his son David Ellison has purchased a lot of other businesses, particularly media properties (many of which have been openly transformed into Zionist mouthpieces, like CBS).

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a civil rights law with her gay daughter standing beside her. She banned conversion therapy. She showed up at Pride when it mattered most. And now, as her time as governor comes to an end, she has a message for Michigan's LGBTQ+ community: she's not going anywhere.

She's also the mom who buys all the rainbow stuff — and whose daughter responds with "Gretchen, you're ridiculous."

Pride Source Executive Editor Chris Azzopardi sat down with Governor Gretchen Whitmer — in her home — for an intimate, wide-ranging conversation about her eight-year LGBTQ+ legacy, what her daughter Sherry has taught her about allyship and the fights still ahead.

See the full interview here: https://youtu.be/ijdeBWuqO2Q.

Imagine getting pulled over on your way to work. You're sober. You haven't touched cannabis in days. Maybe you split a gummy with your spouse last Saturday after the kids went to bed. You're driving fine, signaling properly, going the speed limit but you get pulled over in a check point or maybe your blinker light died. You get pulled over and thanks to Brian Begole, the officer can stuff a swab in your mouth...

A cop swabs your mouth, runs a spit test, and arrests you on the spot. Why? Because Brian BeGole (R-Antrim Township) and Rep. Julie Rogers (D-Kalamazoo) think this is a reasonable policy.

The Bill That Forgot How Bodies Work

House Bills 4390 and 4391 would let any Michigan police officer use roadside saliva tests to screen drivers for THC—the active ingredient in cannabis—and use the results to justify an arrest. Currently, only specially trained Drug Recognition Experts can use these tests, and only as part of limited pilot programs. The new bills would crack the door wide open.

The pitch sounds reasonable enough. BeGole says officers need better tools to catch impaired drivers, and that "embracing this technology" will save lives and make Michigan "a leader in public safety."

There's just one tiny, microscopic, easily-overlooked problem: the tests don't measure impairment.

A Quick Lesson in How Weed Actually Works

THC isn't alcohol. It doesn't politely exit your system in a few hours and leave you sober and trace-free. THC is fat-soluble, which means it lingers in your body for days—sometimes a week or more—long after any actual impairment has worn off.

This isn't a stoner conspiracy theory. It's basic pharmacology. And it's exactly why a state-convened commission concluded in 2019 that there is "no scientifically supported threshold of THC bodily content that would be indicative of impaired driving," finding a "poor correlation" between THC levels and actual impairment.

In plain English: a positive THC test tells you someone used cannabis at some point. It does not tell you they're high right now. It can't tell you that. The chemistry doesn't work that way.

So either BeGole doesn't understand how weed works, or he doesn't understand how driving works—because the bill he's championing would arrest perfectly sober drivers for the crime of having a functioning endocannabinoid system.

Michigan Already Tried This. It Didn't Go Well.

Between 2018 and 2020, Michigan State Police ran two pilot programs testing these exact saliva analyzers. The results: false positives or false negatives in nearly one in four cases. That's a 25% failure rate.

If your weather app was wrong 25% of the time, you'd delete it. If your doctor was wrong 25% of the time, you'd sue. But if a roadside drug test is wrong 25% of the time? BeGole calls it a "success" and wants to roll it out statewide.

What Happens If You Refuse?

Refuse the test and you get a civil infraction—same as refusing a breathalyzer. Defense attorney Michael Komorn told MLive that taking the infraction might be the smarter move: "Don't spit. Because the spit tests are junk science."

When defense attorneys are openly advising people to accept a fine rather than trust the test, that's not a vote of confidence in the technology.

The ACLU Is Not Impressed

Civil liberties groups have already lined up against the bills. The ACLU called the tests "invasive, ineffective, and unreliable," noting that "drivers should not have to sacrifice their constitutional and civil rights for a roadside saliva test."

They also pointed out, correctly, that it's gross. Which it is.

The Bottom Line

Driving impaired is dangerous. Nobody is arguing otherwise. If you're actually high behind the wheel, you deserve to be pulled over and dealt with accordingly. That's not the issue.

The issue is that BeGole's bill doesn't catch impaired drivers. It catches anyone who has used cannabis recently, whether that was an hour ago or last weekend, and treats them all the same. It hands police a faulty tool, calls it science, and asks Michiganders to trust the results with their freedom.

If lawmakers actually want to keep impaired drivers off the road, they should fund research into tests that measure actual impairment—not double down on a technology that flags sober people 25% of the time and calls it good policing.

Until then, every Michigan resident who has ever used cannabis legally—a substance, by the way, that voters in this state legalized in 2018—has a target on their back. Or, more accurately, in their mouth.

Open wide.

I remember! And yes it was in the school gym:)

That sugar cube was the smallest thing and the biggest thing at exactly the same time.

You stood in that gymnasium line in your good clothes because your mother had dressed you carefully that morning, the way she dressed you for church or for something that mattered. And this mattered. You didn't fully understand why yet — you were seven, you were focused on the sugar cube — but you could feel it in the way the adults around you were acting. Quieter than usual. Straighter than usual. Grateful in a way that had some weight to it.

Your parents remembered the summers before. The public pools closed without warning. The movie theaters shuttered. Parents kept children inside and away from crowds and watched the news and prayed with a specific and desperate focus. They knew kids who had been taken by it. They knew families who had come home from the hospital different than they left. They knew what an iron lung looked like and they never wanted to see one again.

And then came the sugar cube. One small, ordinary, sweet little cube handed to you by a nurse in a white cap in a school gymnasium — and just like that, the thing that had haunted an entire generation of parents simply stopped being something they had to fear for their children.

Your mother watched you swallow it and she didn't make a fuss. She just put her hand on your shoulder and steered you back toward the door. But if you were paying attention, you saw her face.

Do you remember that line?

"Lyme disease infects over 476,000 Americans annually — and that's just the documented cases. A previous Lyme vaccine was withdrawn from the market in 2002 amid controversy, leaving patients in endemic regions with no preventive option for over two decades.

Now researchers at Yale University have developed a next-generation vaccine that doesn't just target one Lyme strain but neutralizes all major Borrelia burgdorferi variants simultaneously, through a mechanism so cleverly designed it could make Lyme disease as preventable as measles within the decade.

Rather than targeting the Borrelia bacteria directly — which presents the problem of strain variation — the Yale vaccine targets a protein that the tick injects along with the bacteria: OspA and, crucially, a tick salivary protein called Salp15 that suppresses the human immune response at the bite site.

By vaccinating against both the bacterial surface protein and the immune-suppressing tick salivary protein simultaneously, the vaccine not only blocks the bacteria but removes the immune evasion advantage the tick has evolved over millions of years. Early animal trials showed 100% protection across six major Borrelia strains over a full tick season.

For the estimated 14 million Europeans and North Americans living in high-risk tick regions in 2026, the arrival of an effective, broadly protective Lyme vaccine would be genuinely life-changing. Chronic Lyme disease — with its constellation of debilitating neurological, musculoskeletal, and fatigue symptoms — affects hundreds of thousands of people whose quality of life is profoundly diminished for years after infection.

Twenty years after medicine abandoned this problem, Yale has returned with a solution that may finally close the chapter on one of North America's most underestimated infectious diseases.

Source: Yale University, Science Translational Medicine, 2025 #LymeVaccine #LymeDisease #TickBorneIllness #InfectiousDisease #VaccineDevelopment #PublicHealth"

THE FLINT & PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD, 1889

We have shared maps of the Pere Marquette Railroad on this page before, but we recently received this edition of a June 16, 1889 F&PM timetable which even includes the listing for “The Meredith Division”. The route extended from Harrison and was shut down just four years after this timetable was published. It would be another 11 years before the Pere Marquette Railroad was formed in 1900.

On a side note, we hope to have the Clare Union Depot open to the public again soon, perhaps as early as this week. As soon as we find out anything, we will pass on the details.

Visited again today. He's such a cutey.