The Mackinac Center, a right-wing think tank in Michigan which has been in the press recently for, among other things, filing a Freedom of Information request to gain access to the emails of any labor professors at three public universities in Michigan who have used the word “Maddow” in an email.

Regular readers of this website know how much I like Rachel and her show. Heck, I have stated several times that I would love to work for her show.

Watching Rachel’s report on the Mackinac Center is chilling for public employees. I know several employees of the federal government, and you better believe I will be changing how communicate with them.

And while it did get a little colder in here, I own a really warm sweater (one made by indigenous people of South America), and refuse to be scared by Big Corpo-Government Conservatives.

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