Canada isn’t Canadian anymore. It’s been replaced. Most Americans aren’t aware of how bad things have gotten for our northern neighbors. When did Canada stop being Canadian? 🧵
Some changes are controversial to even notice or discuss, especially for Canadians. A simple observation—Canada has changed racially, ethnically, and culturally to a massive degree in the last decade due to immigration.
Dec 24, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Copper Country May Have a Mine Once Again 🧵
The last surviving copper mine in the Upper Peninsula closed in 1995, but a new one may be opening up soon.
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The snow is two-feet deep near the tall brick doorway arch. It's all that is left of the Italian Hall. Here, on Christmas Eve 1913, 73 people lost their lives when someone yelled, “Fire!” during a Christmas party for striking miners and their children. 2/7
Dec 23, 2024 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
How Whitmer & Co. Spent Our Money in Spain 🧵
Five-star hotels and gastronomic delights—and for what?
Michigan Enjoyer recently got her itinerary and discovered that Big Gretch might just be the new Anthony Bourdain!
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Gretchen Whitmer and a coterie of bureaucrats took a lovely five-day trip to Spain totalling $69,203.03. Supposedly this trip was meant to strengthen economic ties with Spain. However, it looks more like a vacation worth more than what most Michiganders make in a year.
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Dec 13, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
No One Needs a Heated Steering Wheel 🧵
You most certainly do not need a heated steering wheel. In fact, this decadent luxury is probably making you pointlessly weaker in the lamest way possible. 1/5
If you have deluded yourself into thinking you need a heated steering wheel, you have fallen victim to a kind of comfort worship that erodes the base level of strength and resilience necessary for life in Michigan. 2/5
Dec 11, 2024 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
One Nosy Neighbor Got Wood-Burning Saunas Banned in East Grand Rapids🧵
A wood-burning sauna is one of life’s simplest pleasures. The crackling wood, the relief from sweating out toxins, the primordial power of fire.
Last year one squeaky-wheel got them banned. 1/8
David Stoffer visited Finland and experienced their saunas for the first time. It was there he learned to build them. His barrel sauna at home was no longer enough. The bench was too low, the shape not ideal. He came back and started designing and building proper saunas. 2/8
Nov 4, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
When a Cottage Becomes a Cabin🧵
In the fall it’s all about reflection. Quiet solitude. Still and almost mournful. Something like a sigh. 1/14
Photo essay by O.W. Root (@NecktieSalvage)
The cabin is not the cottage. They may be similar, but they are not the same. The cottage is for warm weather. The cabin is for cold weather. The cottage is exuberant summer sun. The cabin is unmoving solitude. 2/14
Sep 24, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The Grand Rapids Art Museum's latest exhibitions are all about wokescolding. Let’s take a closer look 🧵
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GRAM's summer lineup features Mario Moore’s Revolutionary Times, The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, and Jess T. Dugan’s Look at me like you love me. Once again, the museum's intent is to lecture in narrow, pandering ways. 2/9
Aug 17, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Michigan Media Refuses to Tell Real Story of Man Accused of Murdering Father in Broad Daylight for No Reason 🧵
Good thing we’re also Michigan media. 1/14
On Saturday, August 10, Metro Detroit news outlets reported the terrible and tragic death of Nathan Morris, who was shot by his neighbor while walking his young daughter around the block in his suburban Canton neighborhood. 2/14