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“It Is What It Is”: With Omicron Rampant, Will Trump Country Notice?

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 5g chips, anti-vax, anti-vaxxers, baby-eating democrats, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, Donald Trump, friedman unit, greg gianforte, is there lizard DNA in the vaccine, lizard DNA, macomb county, omicron, omicron variant, pandemic, qanon, rural, rural healthcare, rural hospitals, rural icu beds, sean hannity, trump, trump voters, tucker carlson

The novel coronavirus hit cities hard at the beginning of the pandemic. But in 2021, it is disproportionately killing rural Americans– closely along party lines. Will the rapid spread of the novel omicron variant make this trend even worse?

Art & Design Culture & Language Lifestyle

Womxn House Envisions Future for Artists, Gender on Detroit’s West Side

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments art galleries, art gallery, art installation, art installations, artist residencies, artist residency, artwork, asia hamilton, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, creative, Detroit, detroit artists, detroit west side, erin gold, erin gold artist, fenkell, gender, gender pay disparity, glass ceiling, grand river, judy chicago, laura earle, miriam schapiro, norwest gallery of art, pandemic, west side, womanhouse, women, womxn house

Erin Gold gives a talk on her stained glass installation work at a new artist residency and gallery space at Womxn House, a home on the west side of Detroit.

Politics Movements & Organizing

Michigan’s Election Plunges Headfirst Down A Weird Rabbit Hole

November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ballots, biden, black mirror, bob dutko, chris wallace, cobo, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, darryl wood, democracy, dennis prager, Detroit, detroit police, Donald Trump, joe biden, laura ingraham, pandemic, polls, protest, protest movements, protesters, rush limbaugh, sean hannity, shaffwan ahmed, tcf center, tea party, trump, tucker carlson, voting

A crowd of pro-Trump protesters, partially incited by a Tea Party Super PAC, came down to the TCF Center in downtown Detroit to demand that the ballot count be stopped as the tally of mail-in ballots indicated that Joe Biden was pulling ahead by a larger margin.

Politics Policy

2020 Election: Why I Voted How I Did

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automotive industry, biden, billionaire class, billionaires, corporate debt, corporate subsidies, corporate welfare, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, democracy, Donald Trump, economy, federal deficit, federal reserve, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, joe biden, millionaires, mobility, obama, obama administration, pandemic, pluralism, policy, politics, taxes, transit, transportation, trump administration, xenophobia

Unsurprisingly, rhetoric usually becomes increasingly political as we approach the 2020 presidential election. To paraphrase a staffer on Aaron Sorkin’s

Public Health

Sure, the Federal Government is Failing. What if That’s The Point?

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coronavirus, deficit, disaster relief, Donald Trump, federal deficit, federal reserve, FEMA, fox news, healthcare, jerome powell, media, mike pence, mike pompeo, national debt, pandemic, public health

Critiques of Donald Trump’s presidency have focused on his use of the executive office for personal gain. Less discussed is the intentionality of the executive’s efforts to undermine the effectiveness of the federal government at large.