Don’t forget your local elections this year.

Did you say the same thing about interracial marriage?

Come to Detroit for Memorial Day weekend, you’re guaranteed to have a good time - and it will be a lot different than Wisconsin that I can promise you!

Road construction takes awhile.

I'm convinced U.P. mosquitos make up for the shorter season by going way harder than their southern cousins.

Still waiting on the major roads near my house to stop being under construction for 3 years.

How many more socially progressive bills will Whitmer pass as she ignores poor Detroiters.

r/CampAndHikeMichigan

I'll just leave this here.

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Should be.

Same here, planning a couple small visits from Ohio. I'm hoping Michigan keeps up this momentum and doesn't backslide into the red, because it's looking like an appealing and safe place to move after I finish grad school.

This is why the massive krill die off followed by the bird flu has me very nervous.

I always feel like you hear about so many medical breakthroughs in animal models and then it never goes anywhere from there. Like UCSF is working on an artificial kidney that would do away with the need for transplants and dialysis. Apparently animal models prove it works and it’s been ready for human trials a few years now… but nothing is happening. Makes you wonder 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reasons to go to Michigan:

• Legalized weed

• Abortion protection

• No gerrymandering

One of the few times I’m happy I live in Michigan.

“Super rights”, like giving a fetus the right to use a different person’s body for 9 months against their will? The Republican base is so brain dead.

That’s the whole reason Puritans came to America in the first place. They thought there was too much religious freedom in England and they weren’t allowed to persecute Catholics as much as they wanted to.

We welcome all sane people.

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

Just in the summer. Upper peninsula mosquitoes can give Florida mosquitoes run for their money, but if you're staying in the lower peninsula, you should be safe from the kind that carry away children.

That is a great idea!

Edit: So got off work and am now home. I love that idea. RenFest sounds extra fun so that will be a great fall trip, and I will do Michigan this spring! I am not sure what I will do in Michigan but everyone has tossed out so many GREAT ideas I will have to look them up and decide. Thank you everyone! And if you do have suggestions, please keep tossing them on here, I love it

What a good lad

All year!?

The place apparently has been going for two decades

“Opponents tried to get a religious liberty clause attached to the bill because they felt like otherwise this would give LGBT people “super rights”

Christians literally cannot help but make everything about them and their own perceived victimization. (Because yknow, people they don’t like having rights is an attack on them specifically)

Good on the Michigan senate for saying no to that additional bullshit

I was born and raised near Rochester, New York, and every Spring/Summer they had a Lilac Festival, and it was awesome!!

It was a fun, hippie-ish music festival (I remember seeing Jack Johnson perform there before he got mildly successful!), all in the middle of high trees, and walls of gorgeous, pink/purple lilacs. And the smell throughout the whole area was so incredibly amazing, it's hard to describe.

Ha, TL:DR - If you ever get a chance to go to a 'Festival' named after a flower or tree, definitely go!