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Let’s get one thing sorted right way: Pregnant women carry a FETUS. A fetus is a fertilized egg that has reached 8 weeks of development. There are lots of other terms that describe the stages of pregnancy such as zygote, embryo, fetus, neonate, and so on. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNBORN CHILD. […]

What happens when you’re a two-bit sleazy grifting career politician ranked number two most conservative in the state house but you need fresh money meat to dupe into voting for you, and you fail? Blame everybody but yourself of course! Career political homophobe Gary Glenn (R-No More Foxhole For You!) lost his August 7 primary […]

On January 28, 2015, Up North Progressive published an article about Hillsdale College’s very own project to inject Hillsdale style far-right authoritarian agenda into education and get taxpayer money to foot the bill. The article came about after Brighton local residents asked this blog to expose the degenerate savage trying to drill up support for […]

About 500 years ago in the days before the 2016 election, Trumpians and Bernie Bros alike poured over emails Wikileaks received from Russian hackers at the behest of the Trump campaign searching for any dirt on Hillary Clinton that could be used to fuel even more vitriolic misogynist bile against her and her campaign. An […]

On November 2, 2017, the Wexford County Board of Commissioners voted 8 to 1 to draft a resolution opposing a permit for a deep injection wastewater well scheduled to be located in the Manton area. A tentative permit has been granted to Wexford Water Technologies LLC by the EPA, but the public has until November […]

Alright everyone, play some relaxing meditative music, maybe light a few candles to set the mood. Find a comfy chair to relax in and close your eyes as you begin to visualize what it’s like to be a billionaire who bought her way into a cabinet seat in the United States Federal Government. You’re sitting […]

Drive along any main road in Wexford and Missaukee Counties and you will see wooden billboards covered with rosy-cheeked, Caucasian infants and toddlers looking out to the road accompanied with slogans like “Had an abortion? There is forgiveness in Jesus” or, “Abortion – the ultimate child abuse.” The images and messages are designed to intimidate […]

Ignorant, insulting, and underhanded are words that best describe Betsy DeVos’s press release about historically black colleges and universities on February 27, 2017. You really have to read the whole thing to get the full impact: “It sure was nice black folks had the option of attending schools for black people because schools for white […]

Apparently the malignant tumor known as Grand Traverse Academy isn’t enough. Northwestern Michigan College and Traverse Bay Area ISD are being asked to authorize a new for-profit charter school in the Grand Traverse area based on the Hillsdale “classical” education model according to the Traverse City Record Eagle. Traverse Classical Academy is the fever dream […]

Yesterday Up North Progressive shared an audio recording of Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick answering questions at The Gathering in 2001. The Gathering is a right wing religious organization that rakes in about a billion dollars a year to fund Dominion Christian causes, such as infiltrating government and turning the United States into a […]