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Posts by Jeff Smith (GRIID)

1December 10, 2025Some historical context on Kent County’s stance cooperating with ICE based on FOIA documents from the campaign to End the Contract

0December 9, 2025Mayor LaGrand said that the Flock cameras being used in Grand Rapids have an off switch that doesn’t allow ICE agents to access the images from the cameras

4December 9, 2025With persistence Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE got Mayor LaGrand to agree to work towards prohibiting a 287g policy

2December 8, 2025Interview with Residents United Lowell on the proposed data center project

0December 7, 2025Monitoring the Rich and Powerful in Grand Rapids – Segment #8: Corporate Welfare, AI apologists, false housing solutions and another really bad video promoting riverfront developments

1December 4, 2025Minister, socialist and Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 1965

2December 3, 2025Accompanying an immigrant to court: Fear and loathing in West MI

0December 2, 2025Crain’s Grand Rapids Business story on AmplifyGR omits critical information on the organization’s early years as a creation of the DeVos family

0December 1, 2025Making sense of the idea to defend the Constitution and refusing orders through a historical lens

3December 1, 2025GRIID Class: History of US foreign policy since WWII