In Michigan's Trump country, a local Democratic Party returns to life.
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In Michigan's Trump country, a local Democratic Party returns to life.
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Microsoft has terminated its data center confidentiality agreements with four west Michigan communities two weeks after the @detroitnews.com reported on the NDAs.
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Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements with public officials in west Michigan
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Michigan won’t release a $1M report on Native boarding schools. Tribal leaders say it’s flawed.
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The Michigan governor's race is a toss-up. These three things could decide the outcome.
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Lawyer explains why Owosso man targeted LGBTQ community in thwarted mass-shooting plan.
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Mat Ishbia's United Wholesale Mortgage gave $6 million to Donald Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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The Michigan governor's race remains a toss-up.
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"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."
Den Kindern ein Vorbild.
Dozens of Michigan Public Service Commission staff members signed a nondisclosure agreement with DTE Energy Co. that allowed them to see unredacted copies of DTE's electricity contracts with the tech giants behind a massive data center in Saline Township.
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Mario Vargas Llosa got in line behind me on the tarmac at the Cluj-Napoca airport. By chance, I'd brought one of his books to read on the flight. Told him I was enjoying it. He told me it was an edition from the '80s. That was that.
pretty stunning chart
How anyone who attended an Ivy League school could maintain a notion of the inherent superiority of students in the Ivy League is kind of beyond me.
Duggan once told Ed McNamara, who was undecided on running for Wayne County executive after a previous loss, that he needed to know whether to focus on the dog's career or McNamara's.
On where things sit with Mike Duggan's independent run for governor, and the fact that he once trained a black Lab named Smokey to open the refrigerator and fetch cans of beer.
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sigh
Post a banger that's not in English.
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Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Part of an interesting series on the experience of being in Minneapolis right now.
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Working people pay taxes on every paycheck.
The ultrarich don’t.
The top 0.1% now hold $1 in every $6 of US wealth, protected by loopholes that let fortunes grow, untaxed, across generations.
Extreme wealth becomes political and economic power. 🧵⬇️
Michigan folks: Ypsilanti Community Schools confirm several parents taken into custody by ICE.
Not in my fuckin town.
The man federal officers shot and killed this morning has been identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to the Star Tribune
They say White Noise helps babies sleep, but The Names works every bit as well.
Theron Duncan may have been killed over a joke about a dog.
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The company seeking to build a data center in downtown Lansing says it would be the first in the U.S. to use the heat it generates to power a district heating system.
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Coinbase sues, arguing Michigan sports betting laws don’t apply to ‘prediction markets’
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We spent months trying to answer an enduring mystery: how did a college drop out ascend to the heights of American finance, society and politics? The answers might surprise you.
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Amid polarization, opposition to Michigan data centers cuts across political lines
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