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Dem Senate hopeful ripped for trashing Middle America in unearthed social media posts: ‘Ticks me off’
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A Democratic Senate hopeful in Michigan reportedly deleted thousands of social media posts, including one disparaging the middle-American communities she is asking voters to elect her to represent.
Mallory McMorrow, who indicates in her 2025 autobiography that she «relocated permanently» from the Los Angeles-area to Michigan in 2014, shared in the deleted posts about dreaming that the elite coasts would annex themselves from middle America. In the now-archived posts, McMorrow also mused about how she wished she «never left California» and said there were days since moving to Michigan «that make me miss California even more.»
Meanwhile, McMorrow described herself in 2016, after she claimed to have relocated to Michigan, as a constituent of Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu, repeatedly referenced voting in California’s June 2016 Democratic Primary and urged other voters to do the same. McMorrow referenced voting in person in November 2014 in the Los Angeles area as well, even though in 2024 she chided someone on social media who said they voted in a state they no longer lived in.
In total, McMorrow deleted roughly 6,000 social media posts, according to CNN’s K-File investigative unit, which reported that the posts appeared to have been deleted in 2025 following New York Post reporting on several of McMorrow’s social media comments, including the one about dreaming that fly-over country would annex itself from the coasts.
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Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to formally accept the party’s nomination for president during the convention running from Aug. 19-22 in Chicago. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
In addition to appearing to bash the part of the country she seeks to represent, McMorrow’s deleted tweets covered a variety of other topics, including Trump, whose governing style she compared to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, according to a review of the now-archived posts.
A spokesperson for McMorrow’s campaign, Hannah Lindow, suggested the social media posts exposed in K-File’s Wednesday report were light-hearted and often jokes. One post included McMorrow complaining about the cold Michigan weather, while another quipped that she was «pushing for a future without cars» in response to a thread about Uber drivers.
«These are normal tweets by a normal person,» Lindow told Fox News Digital. «Normal people complain about the weather. The Michigan sky does in fact sometimes ‘s— ice.’ She stands by that.»
Meanwhile, Lindow pointed to a Democratic strategist who argued «every adult decision Mallory has made» says that she loves Michigan.
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«As Michigan’s Senate Majority Whip, Mallory has spent the past eight years fighting and delivering to make people’s lives better: higher wages, universal pre-K, no kid going hungry in schools, comprehensive gun violence prevention laws, and more,» Lindow said. «And she’s tweeted about that too.»
Both Michigan and California were states that experienced a lot of outbound moves in 2023. (Left: (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Earl Gibson III/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images))
The CNN reporting ignited backlash against McMorrow from conservatives online and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., who is also running for the Michigan Senate seat. In response to McMorrow’s now-deleted social media posts, she posted a long X thread explaining why she is proud to be a native Michigander, taking a few thinly-veiled shots at McMorrow.
«I’m a born and raised Michigander and damn proud of it. I love everything that makes us Michiganders, from our manufacturing heritage to our lakes and yep, even our accent. That’s why I have pretty thick skin about people making fun of the way I talk or the clothes I wear—because this campaign isn’t about me,» Stevens said.
«It’s about the amazing people who live in this state. About them having a real champion in the Senate. So what actually ticks me off,» she continued. «Someone who wants that job— representing Michiganders—talking crap about us and our state.»
In a social media post appearing to reference the deleted social media posts, McMorrow’s Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, posted a photo of himself pointing to someone off-screen and laughing. The post also included the following caption: «Born in Michigan, hallelujah. Raised in Michigan, hallelujah. Believe cars should exist, hallelujah.»
«The death of a campaign, brought to you by, the campaign,» Chris Gustafson, the Senate Leadership Fund and One Nation spokesperson, posted on X.
«How can McMorrow represent the people that she hates?» the research arm of the Republican National Committee posted on X.
«One of my greatest fears for my home state is the Travese-City-ification of the great Up North,» Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, posted on X. «Costal libs like Buttigieg and McMorrow have realized how beautiful it is here, and they’ve decided they can tolerate out «backwards» midwestern ways if they balkanize the state.»
«As I’ve told you the ‘elites’ hate your guts if you are culturally in the space between West of the George Washington Bridge and East of the Golden Gate Bridge,» Conservative radio host Andrew Wilkow posted on X
Fox News Digital clarified that McMorrow and her husband made the decision to move from California to Michigan in 2014, but did not vacate their California apartment until 2016. Public records also show McMorrow registered to vote in Michigan in August 2016. In California, the law prohibits non-residents from voting in its elections.
«I had a dream that the U.S. amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts + Can + Mex + parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America,» one of her now-deleted posts from December 2016 stated, according to archived versions reviewed by Fox News Digital. «Oh and The Ring nominated Obama as Prime Minister and everyone was given $1,000 and six months to pick a side.»
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In another Jan. 2017 post, after she was already permanently living in Michigan, McMorrow responded to a social media user that there are days she has in her new home «that make me miss California even more,» according to an archived version reviewed by Fox News Digital.
«California should have its own diplomats» to «make sure we don’t get nuked because of morons from the other side of the country,» the user said, before McMorrow responded: «There are days like these that make me miss California even more.»
In another one of the now-deleted tweets, from November 2016, McMorrow wrote: «I wish I never left California,» in response to another user’s comments about diversity in Detroit.
State Senator Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat from Michigan, holds up a Project 2025 book during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The race for the White House will reach a fever pitch this week, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump battling for momentum, and attention, around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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McMorrow, besides appearing to bash the part of the country she seeks to represent, also deleted other tweets on a variety of topics that could potentially pose a liability for her candidacy.
For example, some of the deleted posts from McMorrow included comparisons between the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership and Nazi Germany.
«Dr. Seuss, 1941. We’ve been here before, America. #AmericaFirst #NoMuslimBan,» McMorrow posted shortly after Trump began his first term in 2017, alongside a Dr. Seuss cartoon referring to Nazi Germany. In a separate post a few months later, McMorrow responded to someone lamenting they had no faith that the minds of Trump supporters could be changed.
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Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow enters a Democratic convention on Sunday accompanied by a marching band amid a tight primary race (Team McMarrow via X)
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«Agreed. But how do we fight back? Hitler had supporters. Stalin had supporters. Putin has supporters. No one will change their minds,» McMorrow replied, according to archived versions of the post.
In an Oct. 2020 post, McMorrow also pleaded with her followers to watch a video «that a dear friend created,» which featured a Holocaust survivor drawing parallels between Nazi Germany and Trump’s «authoritarian aspirations.»
The posts from McMorrow, exposed by K-File and the New York Post, stand in stark contrast to remarks on her campaign’s website that indicate «choosing to put roots down» in Michigan «is the best decision I’ve ever made.»
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Cómo el nuevo libro de JD Vance ayudó a que una activista feminista volviera a la lista de los más vendidos
Esta primavera del hemisferio norte, cuando el vicepresidente JD Vance anunció la publicación de sus memorias, Communion, se desató una fuerte reacción en las redes sociales. Las críticas no se centraban en el contenido del libro, que narra la conversión de Vance al catolicismo y cómo su fe ha influido en su política. En cambio, la gente se aferró al título, concretamente a su similitud con la obra de otro famoso escritor.
En 2002, la escritora y académica feminista negra bell hooks publicó un libro titulado Communion, en el que argumenta que las mujeres han sido condicionadas a buscar el amor fuera de sí mismas y que deberían centrarse en cultivar el amor propio en todas las etapas de sus vidas. Los seguidores de hooks vieron un patrón: el título de las memorias de Vance de 2016, Hillbilly Elegy —que se convirtió en un gran éxito de ventas y lo catapultó a la fama— también guardaba similitud con otro libro de hooks, Appalachian Elegy.
Whitney Alese, creadora de contenido en Filadelfia que lee a bell hooks desde la universidad, dijo que vio una oportunidad para aprovechar la atención que rodeaba las memorias de Vance como una forma de lograr que más personas leyeran y hablaran sobre bell hooks.
“Hice lo que siempre hago: empecé a hablar sin parar del tema”, dijo Alese. A principios de abril, comenzó a publicar sobre hooks en Instagram, donde tiene cerca de 150.000 seguidores. Sus videos animando a la gente a leer hooks se hicieron virales, algunos con más de 800.000 visualizaciones. Generaron tanto debate que Alese creó un club de lectura online gratuito sobre Communion, de hooks, que se reúne cada dos semanas en la plataforma de financiación colectiva Patreon. Hasta el momento, más de 5.000 personas se han inscrito.
“Mi objetivo era decir: ‘Oye, en lugar de dedicar toda nuestra energía a oponernos al trabajo de JD, ¿por qué no ensalzamos el trabajo de bell hooks?’”, dijo. “Su obra se centraba mucho en el amor, y este libro en particular trataba precisamente de amarse a uno mismo”.
Una iniciativa popular para impulsar novelas de hooks a la lista de los más vendidos se extendió por las redes sociales. Las librerías aceptaron el reto, entre ellas Possible Futures en New Haven, Foxing Books en Louisville, Kentucky, All She Wrote Books en Somerville, Massachusetts, Fiction en Wiscasset, Maine, y Loyalty Bookstore en Washington, DC. Just Book-ish en Boston vendió 50 ejemplares y encargó 100 más, según Porsha Olayiwola, cofundadora de la tienda, quien los ha colocado en la parte delantera del establecimiento.
La librería The Word Is Change, ubicada en Brooklyn, lanzó una indirecta a Vance en una publicación de Instagram sin mencionarlo directamente: “Esta semana queremos asegurarnos de que si algún libro llamado Communion llega a la lista de los más vendidos, sea de bell hooks“. Decenas de personas respondieron en los comentarios, muchas de ellas afirmando haber comprado ejemplares en su librería local.
En junio, Communion de hooks se posicionó en el puesto número 12 de la lista de los libros de bolsillo más vendidos del The New York Times. Alcanzó el puesto número 1 en la lista de los más vendidos de Indie, que registra las ventas en librerías independientes, y también llegó al número 1 en Bookshop.org durante la semana que finalizó el 17 de junio.
Un representante de HarperCollins, editorial que publica tanto a hooks como a Vance, afirmó que las ventas de Communion de hooks han aumentado un 1000 % desde finales de marzo en comparación con el mismo periodo del año anterior. El libro de Vance ocupa actualmente el primer puesto en la lista de los más vendidos del The New York Times y ha vendido unos 70.000 ejemplares desde su lanzamiento el 16 de junio.
“Me emociono al pensar en todas las comunidades, librerías independientes y lectores que se están uniendo en torno a este libro”, dijo E. Gale Greenlee, estudiosa de la literatura y coeditora, junto con la artista y curadora de los Apalaches, Shauna Caldwell, de un próximo libro sobre hooks, Belonging to Place (Pertenecer a un lugar).
«Bell temía, al fallecer, ser olvidada», continuó Greenlee. «Esto demuestra que no será olvidada, que no lo permitiremos y que su obra sigue siendo muy significativa y necesaria para todos nosotros».
Escritores también se han sumado a la iniciativa, entre ellos Caro Claire Burke, cuya exitosa novela, Yesteryear, critica la cultura tradicional de las amas de casa. “Si compran un libro esta semana, no debería ser el mío”, dijo Burke en un video publicado en Instagram. “Debería ser Communion de bell hooks“.
Cuando se le preguntó a Vance si era consciente de la similitud entre los títulos de sus libros y los de bell hooks, se negó a hacer comentarios a través de su editorial. Un representante de Vance no respondió a la solicitud de comentarios. Un portavoz de HarperCollins que ha trabajado con Vance afirmó que la similitud entre los títulos era pura coincidencia y señaló que el contenido del libro más reciente de Vance, que describe su conversión al catolicismo y el papel que desempeña su fe en su labor política, no guarda ninguna semejanza con la obra de hooks.
“HarperCollins siempre ha publicado libros sobre una amplia gama de temas, géneros y puntos de vista, y estamos comprometidos a brindar a los lectores acceso a una gran variedad de ideas y perspectivas”, dijo Liate Stehlik, directora ejecutiva y editora de la división de libros comerciales de Estados Unidos en HarperCollins.
bell hooks, cuyo nombre de nacimiento era Gloria Jean Watkins y que nació en 1952, fue una destacada e influyente intelectual feminista negra. Eligió el seudónimo en honor a su bisabuela materna, Bell Blair Hooks, y utilizó minúsculas para enfatizar, como solía decir, «la esencia de los libros, no quién soy». Antes de su fallecimiento en 2021, publicó más de 40 libros y sentó las bases para futuras académicas y activistas con obras como Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (¿Acaso no soy mujer?: Mujeres negras y feminismo).
Linda Strong-Leek, directora ejecutiva del Instituto bell hooks en el Berea College de Kentucky, dijo que creía que hooks se habría alarmado por la animosidad política que divide al país, pero que le entusiasmaba que su obra siguiera teniendo repercusión.
“Era una persona bastante malhablada, así que estaría diciendo palabrotas”, dijo Strong-Leek, “pero estaría orgullosa de que la gente comprenda la importancia de su trabajo en la actualidad”.
Fuente: The New York Times
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Top Democratic governors, including Minnesota’s Tim Walz, California’s Gavin Newsom and Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker are urging Congress to reject legislation that would shield oil and gas companies from climate-related lawsuits, arguing taxpayers should not bear the costs of pollution.
«Communities all across our nation, in red states and blue states, have suffered and face staggering costs from fires, floods, storms, and heat waves that, according to scientists, are becoming more destructive as a result of the burning of fossil fuels,» reads a letter penned by 10 Democrat governors.
The top state leaders, along with Democrat attorneys general, are pushing Congress to reject the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026, arguing it would protect oil and gas industries by granting immunity from lawsuits at the expense of taxpayers. Republicans argue the bill protects American energy from lawsuits that could bankrupt the industry, lead to job loss and drive up the cost of electricity and gasoline.
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«Such a guide is sorely needed as litigation involving climate science only grows in prevalence and urgency in our courts. Furthermore, the chapter’s removal does not change the scientific reality of climate change,» wrote more than 20 attorneys general in their letter to Congress.
Jason Isaac, American Energy Institute CEO, told Fox News Digital that this is a «coordinated legal campaign to bankrupt lawful American energy producers through junk litigation.»
«These companies legally produced the energy that heats and cools homes, powers hospitals, and fuels the American economy — and now a coalition of activist attorneys general and climate advocacy groups want to make them pay retroactively for doing exactly that,» said Isaac.
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The act was first introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., in April. If passed, the act would clear over a dozen lawsuits filed against oil and gas industries brought by local and state governments.
«After many failed attempts to enact EU-style climate measures, activists have turned to suing energy companies in a thinly-veiled effort to impose a global carbon tax through the courts,» Civitas Institute research director Michael Toth told Fox News Digital.
«This climate lawfare threatens to hijack the federal government’s authority over matters that bear directly on our national security.»
California sued several major oil companies in 2023 as part of a broader Democratic effort to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate change. The lawsuit, which remains tied up in litigation, reflects Gov. Gavin Newsom’s longstanding opposition to the fossil fuel industry despite California being one of the nation’s largest oil-producing states.
«These companies knew about the catastrophic consequences of fossil fuels. They covered it up. Suppressed scientific data. Spent millions to cast doubts on climate science. Time for them to pay,» Newsom wrote on X at the time.
The letters from Democratic members and attorneys general come as the Supreme Court will hear a case in their fall term on ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy brought on by officials in Boulder, Colorado.
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More than 70 House Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to reject the bid to hold major oil companies liable for climate change damages, calling the lawsuit a costly «war on American energy,» Fox News Digital previously reported.
The case would decide whether federal law preempts localities from seeking relief for alleged climate damages in state courts. Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor in 2018, alleging they contributed to climate change and misled the public about its risks.
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Alliance for Consumers Executive Director O.H. Skinner told Fox News that elected officials need to «push back against climate lawfare, stopping left-wing activists from using their woke lawfare playbook to push unpopular political beliefs through the courts.»
«These activists push a woke agenda that hurts consumers by driving up costs and limiting what is on store shelves for consumers. This is the Biden playbook all over again,» said Skinner.
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