Lucas Leverett

05/31/2026

Why, indeed…

Great question.

05/31/2026

Seeing the Millers get owned this hard by a young, non-white woman is just wonderful balance, that has been very absent. More Democrats with guts, please. More of this.

BREAKING: GOT HER! Democratic Party creative director Paulina Mangubat issues DEVASTATING response to Steven Miller’s wife after Katie Miller tries to mock her for being unmarried!

Level 10 tantrum incoming...

After the Democrats’ official account called White House racism czar and Gollum impersonator Steven Miller an “ugly f*ck,” Katie Miller did what every butthurt Republican does after getting called out by a Democrat – mock them for being unmarried and accuse them of having a mental disorder.

“Paulina Mangubat is who runs account. She’s 30, unmarried with no kids. Put your name on it next time,” wrote Katie on Twitter. “This is what a sad, unhappy, female Liberal looks like. It’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition.”

Mangubat flipped the script on Miller, quoting the post and writing “Well, now seems like a good time to share that I’m getting married! We just put down the deposit on the venue and bought my dress lol!”

Mangubat would further double down on her comments about Miller, telling the MeidasTouch network that:

“I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly f**k. um Stephen Miller is one of the most powerful men in the country right now. He is a White House official who is taking to Twitter to make these absolutely false and transphobic attacks against an amazing candidate in Texas, James Talarico.”

“We simply called him ugly, and I think that what he has been doing is ugly. He is celebrating when ICE shoots down Americans in the street. He thinks that it's cool when families are separated and it's just absolutely disgusting. And so, yeah, I stand by calling him an ugly f*ck.”

There is no f*ck uglier than Steven Miller in an adminstration filled with f*ckers, save perhaps the president himself. It’s so telling that the right-wing must immediately resort to personal attacks – she’s unmarried! He’s trans and vegan! – because they have nothing else to cling to. No policies that help anyone except wealthy pedos. No vision of a better future, only hatred and conspiracy. No happiness or empathy for their fellow human beings, only spite and bitterness.

That is why we will win. Kudos to Paulina for standing up to wannabe bully Katie Miller and Nosferatu.

05/31/2026

Wow. You hate to see this happen to anyone, and to musicians traveling it has a special sting of destruction in addition to the injuries. I booked these guys many times over the years some time ago, and I am sad to see this. A fantastic group of performers with a fan family who’ll be pulling for them so sure.

Go hit up the GoFundMe if you can.

A GoFundMe fundraiser for Peelander-Z later confirmed that all three members of the band — who go by the names Peelander Yellow, Peelander Pink, and Peelander Tiger — were hospitalized with "traumatic injuries."

05/31/2026

I've been cynical about what I was pretty sure were people exaggerating and overreacting to the echoes around town from the Acrisure Amphitheater, and I've been open about it. Mountains from molehills.

But just to be fair, and do my due dilligence as a neighborhood leader, I drove around the other night during the Kid Cudi show, and parked—engine off, windows open—in many of the places people claimed to be located who had asserted this was some dire and drastic disturbance. What I found here on the WestSide, was a confirmation of my suspicions. This is all a bunch of hysterics over something new, more than anything.

I stopped over on Webster, where the bugs in the trees and bushes and an airplane overhead are louder than the sound of the amphitheater. (Like the guy in this news clip said... the crickets were louder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85EqWEkRzQo)

At the top of the hill on Valley, assorted people’s HVAC systems were louder than the music I could hear from the amphitheater.

The literal breeze in the trees was louder than anything from the amphitheater in many locations.

In the cemetery, the sounds of the breeze and the highway were louder than anything I could make out from the amphitheater.

At Valley Field the sounds of passing cars far outweighed anything I could make out from the amphitheater, but this was a location where I could hear more that was clearly coming from the venue, BUT it was still incredibly quiet and mild.

From the front of Mount Mercy Apartments, the sounds of neighbors talking heard through their windows, and the sounds of the highway were equal to anything echoing from the amphitheater.

From John Ball Park I could hear faint echoes of the show that were certainly quieter than the average loud TV you might hear from a neighbor.

I sat near Blue Dog Tavern because of someone’s specific online complaint. They claimed they lived nearby and could hear the opening night show. Once again, the crickets and traffic on the highways were easily the same as anything I could hear echoing from the venue.

This will always be a variable-laden topic, with an array of weather and sound factors changing it nearly every time. But I will keep paying attention and being curious, even if it does nothing more than confirm my suspicion that people are blowing this way out of proportion.

I'm even putting my money where my mouth is, and bought a decibel meter. If I don't hear something above 70-80db at your house, I'm going to roll my eyes and suggest you get out of the city life.

Not everyone in Grand Rapids is celebrating the new Acrisure Amphitheater. Some people are not happy they can hear what’s going on from more than a mile away.

05/30/2026

We need MORE of this COAST TO COAST. This is one way we can make progress to get policing fixed in America. Leaders like Mamdani, making choices like this. We hear it all the time "there are plenty of good cops, too!" Well, then putting them in positions of power and control and standing behind them is how to make that matter. (As opposed to the constant droning of "but-but" and "what about" excuses for why they're supposedly never able to act against the bad cops.)

The City of Grand Rapids should take note here. Stop with the insiders, the brotherhood, the coddling of flag-desecrating "thin blue line" brainwashing, and bending over to the "unions." Lead with change. Change who leads.

"Edwin Raymond represents the kind of public servant New Yorkers deserve: principled, courageous and deeply committed to justice," the mayor said in a statement. "Throughout his career, he has fought to build a public safety system rooted in effectiveness, accountability and public trust. Edwin understands that true safety comes when government earns the confidence of the people it serves, and I am proud to welcome him to our administration as Sheriff of the City of New York."

Well put, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani. And well done. Thank you for the good example.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed retired NYPD lieutenant Edwin Raymond as the new New York City sheriff.

05/30/2026

Assuming the police account is true, this sounds like Grand Rapids Police Department quite simply doing the job we pay them for.

Do I have heaps of questions, like why he was allowed to escape the standoff in the first place, and was not tased? Or other non-lethal weapons like bean bag rounds or a BolaWrap were not used? YES.

Do I have even more concerns about the current K9 policy, given this was clearly a case where plenty of cops should have been able to take action that would not make the dog a target delivering itself to the perp? YES.

Do I still expect big burly professionally-trained men in body armor to at least attempt hand-to-hand combat to disarm someone like this without having to shoot them? YES.

Do I want to know why Walker or Wyoming PD (both also at this scene) have any business there when we already had plenty of GRPD and KCSD on-scene? YUP.

Do taxpayers/residents deserve a police department that we can have at least a moderate amount of trust in, so that so many questions don't have to accompany a situation that does seem to have had so few options for a positive outcome? YES, STILL.
.. but it's forever a work in progress until they actually try to come toward compromise. Which they've refused.

There is a ton more regarding mental health, healthcare in general, housing, and economics that figures into this and would be highly likely to be the roots of this whole incident, but we will have to continue that already-far-too-belabored conversation later, as we always do, in this broken society we are struggling to fix.

A man was shot and killed by the Grand Rapids Police Department Saturday afternoon after authorities say he threw a Molotov cocktail, attempted an armed carjacking and stabbed a K-9 in a short poli…

05/30/2026

We at West Grand Neighborhood Organization are so excited to be involved in bringing this vision to life if all the parties involved do right by the community and join in this effort. A proud community resource will continue to serve!

05/30/2026

YES!!! What a perfect birthday president for John! 👏 🇺🇸

05/30/2026

In case you were wondering, I am also not planning to perform at the Freedom 250 concert. 🤣

05/29/2026

A major problem we have in The City of Grand Rapids is the lack of control and oversight of assorted contractors. It doesn't matter where—neighborhoods, business districts—the people getting paid handsomely on our tax dime tend to skirt the official rules for closures of things like parking or sidewalks, generally take over with zero consideration for the community they're a guest in, and tend to leave things sloppy in their wake.

It was nice to see Ed at City Built take a stance on this, and great that it's finally getting the media heat it deserves from MLive.com.

I recently took on a personal fight about contractors playing fast and loose and giving a bad look in our community to T-Mobile Fiber. The company was dismayed at what I exposed to them and corrected course with great people who care. It ended up costing the contractor involved, which was appropriate.

But it should not be my job, any neighbor's job, or any business owner's job to ride herd on this—the city should be doing it on our behalf.

My confidence in that is, sadly, very low. We already struggle to get the city to adequately support businesses when construction impacts access to them, without the abusive contractor factor. GR has a LONG way to go in this area of concern, at least with current leadership. It could and should be a problem that's fixed nearly overnight with a simple crackdown, but the guts to do that just don't seem to exist yet.