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Matt Miller

@mattmillermlive.bsky.social
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Investigative reporter with MLive. Lansing separatist.

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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Muskegon Heights once boomed. Now it’s fighting for its future. www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Muskegon Heights once boomed. Now it’s fighting for its future.
The late July raid on Muskegon Heights City Hall by federal agents wasn’t the first sign of a crisis.
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Carol Thompson @carol-thompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My family is in a worse financial position since @usatoday.com bought @detroitnews.com because of drastically increased health insurance costs. We are back at the bargaining table today. Time for USAT to show they value journalism - not just shareholders - by agreeing to a fair contract.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
4 men died violently on Lansing River Trail in 11 months. Families want answers www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...
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4 men died violently on Lansing River Trail in 11 months. Families want answers
At least four people who were homeless have died from apparent violence along the Lansing River Trail. Family members are pushing for answers.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I don’t think this mailer is saying what Mike Rogers wants it to say.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ex-Muskegon Heights city manager says she was fired after flagging overtime abuse, potential fraud by city officials www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Ex-Muskegon Heights city manager says she was fired after flagging potential fraud
Former Muskegon Heights City Manager Pearlette Merriweather says she was fired after months of raising concerns about what appeared to be fraudulent activities and incompetence on the part of city le...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Muskegon Heights agrees to pay $150,000 to settle lawsuit over $40,000 staffing agency bill www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Muskegon Heights agrees to pay $150,000 to settle lawsuit over $40,000 staffing agency bill
The city of Muskegon Heights has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit over an unpaid $40,328 bill from a staffing agency run by former local radio and television personality Sid Simone.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
AG report defends failures of Flint water crisis prosecutions. One activist calls it ‘useless’ www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...
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AG report defends failures of Flint water crisis prosecutions. One activist calls it ‘useless’
Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office released a report Tuesday meant to explain why a seven-year, $16 million effort to prosecute crimes linked to the Flint water crisis ended without a single case r...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed is trying to frame Mike Rogers as a "Trump sock puppet." Rogers wants voters to believe El-Sayed is a "fringe extremist." www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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In Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, it’s ‘Trump sock puppet’ versus ‘fringe extremist’
Will Michigan voters support a progressive Muslim candidate who is the son of Egyptian immigrants or a former congressman who is backing an unpopular president
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
love love love this essay by David Hollingshead. So smart, so funny, and winningly earnest
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
3 men charged in Muskegon Heights drug operation, including city manager’s business partner www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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3 men charged in Muskegon Heights drug operation, including city manager’s business partner
A federal Grand Jury has charged three men in connection with a Muskegon Heights drug dealing operation, among them the business partner of Muskegon Heights’ city manager.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Muskegon Heights city manager charged in drug investigation www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Muskegon Heights city manager charged in drug investigation
Muskegon Heights City Manager Shawn Roberson has been charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and two counts of income tax evasion.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Federal agents found a kilo of fentanyl in Muskegon Heights home on day of City Hall raid www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Federal agents found a kilo of fentanyl in Muskegon Heights home on day of City Hall raid
Federal agents found roughly a kilogram of fentanyl, three machines used to press powdered drugs into kilo-sized bricks, $21,000 in cash and a money-counting machine in a home in Muskegon Heights.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some perspective on the decision by the University of Michigan's College of Literature Science and the Arts to go to pass-fail grades in the first semester. www.mlive.com/public-inter...
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Most grades at Michigan universities are A’s but some programs give out more than others
In the fall of 2023, there was only one college at a public university in Michigan where the most common grade was something less than an A.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ex-Saginaw Valley State football coach sues, saying he was fired for refusing to hire athletic director’s son www.mlive.com/sports/sagin...
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Ex-SVSU football coach sues, saying he was fired for refusing to hire athletic director’s son
Ryan Brady led Saginaw Valley State University’s football team through five consecutive winning seasons. Then he was fired. Now he's suing.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
After bruising primary, Abdul El-Sayed clinches Democratic nomination in Senate race www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Penn Professor Emily Wilson is likely the world‘s first Odyssey translation millionaire. www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1,000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it. Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...
Re: DoorDash Support for H.R. 9720, the "D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act"
Dear Chairman Comer and members of the committee:
On behalf of DoorDash, I write to express our support for H.R. 9720, the "D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act," which would require congressional approval before the District of Columbia can impose or increase a tax or fee. We believe this is a reasonable check against the hastily enacted local taxes and fees that fall hardest on small businesses and the residents who depend on them.
DoorDash's marketplace in the District is built overwhelmingly on small, independent merchants: Roughly 80% of DC merchants that were active on our platform as of December 2025 had 3 or fewer storefronts on the platform. These are the businesses least able to absorb new taxes and fees or the administrative burden of complying with them, from costly point-of-sale upgrades to added compliance overhead.
The District's recently passed delivery tax illustrates the risk: a tax on virtually every delivery, with proceeds designated for a myriad of projects and the District's general fund, passed without a single public hearing and, consequently, without input from the residents and small businesses it will most heavily impact. Based on our internal data, a tax like this would mean millions of dollars a year in added costs for D.C. residents and lost revenue for local merchants, and that burden grows quickly as the rate is increased, as authorized by the Budget Support Act. Research on comparable taxes bears this out: an economic analysis of Colorado's retail delivery fee found it raised takeout prices by nearly 1%; cut delivery orders by more than 400,000 a year; cost the restaurant sector over $12 million in revenue; and resulted in a loss of roughly 234 jobs across restaurant and delivery workers.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Feds, state police raid Muskegon Heights City Hall in ‘financial and drug crime’ investigation www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Feds, state police raid Muskegon Heights City Hall in ‘financial and drug crime’ investigation
Muskegon Heights City Hall was shut down Thursday morning as state police and multiple federal agencies pursued “an active financial and drug crime investigation.”
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On the state of the Democratic primary in Michigan's U.S. Senate race. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Michigan’s Democratic Senate race is down to two — and too close to call
With three weeks until Michigan's competitive U.S. Senate primary, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are pitching very different visions of Democratic politics.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Read this, if only for the phrase "a savvy After-Adorno suspicion of the saccharine earnestness of stadium rock." frequencies.ssrc.org/2011/09/14/n...
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Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | frequencies
“But,” I wanted to say, “Don’t you see? The album is about…everything!”
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A year ago, Detroit Metro journalist, Steve Neavling, wrote about the decades-long search for September Jones. Her relatives saw the story, and now the long-lost soul singer from Detroit has been found and is collecting royalties. She had no idea how popular her music still was in the U.K.
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A Detroit soul mystery is solved after nearly 60 years - Detroit Metro Times
For decades, September Jones’s voice traveled farther than she knew.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A major 1995 legal settlement over fish kills at the Ludington Pump Storage Plant required DTE to build and maintain four fishing access sites aroudn the state. When the deal was renegotiated in 2017, that provision was dropped. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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State, DTE negotiate future of neglected Detroit River fishing spot
Delray boat launch, park is great fishing, but needs "TLC," fisherman said.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Michigan third parties sue to bring back a voting practice banned 131 years ago www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Michigan third parties sue to bring back a voting practice banned 131 years ago
Michigan's Republican-dominated legislature banned fusion voting in 1895. Two small political parties are suing to bring it back.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
When a university president doesn’t make it past the two-and-a-half-year mark, higher ed expert Judith Wilde calls it a “failed presidency." “Which does not mean that the president is bad,” she said, “just that they failed to be there long enough to really make a difference.”
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz departing for Clemson University, despite $1 million raise www.mlive.com/education/20...
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MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz departing for Clemson University, despite $1 million raise
MSU President Kevin Guskiewiecz has been hired as the 16th president of Clemson University in South Carolina.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ex-Muskegon Heights admin says she was called ‘ghetto’ by consultant, fired for speaking up www.mlive.com/news/muskego...
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Ex-Muskegon Heights admin says she was called ‘ghetto’ by consultant, fired for speaking up
A former Muskegon Heights school administrator is suing the city’s charter school system and the company that operates it.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"It turns out that would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments...They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
MSU Board approves $1 million raise for President Kevin Guskiewicz, doubling his pay www.mlive.com/education/20...
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MSU Board approves $1 million raise for President Kevin Guskiewicz, doubling his pay
MSU’s Board of Trustees voted Sunday to raise President Kevin Guskiewicz’s salary by more than $1 million.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
An ex-court clerk is suing an Oscoda County judge (and candidate for Michigan Supreme Court), alleging she was fired for reporting the judge texting a juror in a sex assault case. The juror in question was also the judge's cousin. www.mlive.com/news/saginaw...
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Ex-clerk claims she was fired for reporting judge’s texts with a juror
A former court clerk has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Oscoda County judge and Michigan Supreme Court candidate Casandra Morse-Bills. Morse-Bills says it's based on a fabrication.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A group of folks who work in progressive politics are buying up weekly newspapers in Michigan to run them as...ordinary community news operations. www.mlive.com/business/202...
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Can progressive investors save Michigan’s small-town newspapers?
The Michigan Independent Media Group is trying to save the state's small-town papers.
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boo-randon 🎃 @dimcheff.wtf · 18/04/2026
> When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.” are certainly words your lawyer could write…
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Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students
Jordan Acker, who pushed legal action against protesters, is running for re-election in race reflecting tensions on Israel
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Michigan man who plotted mass shooting sentenced to 7 years, judge cites ‘significant remorse’ www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...
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Michigan man who plotted mass shooting sentenced to 7 years, judge cites ‘significant remorse’
A federal court judge has sentenced a man who plotted a mass shooting in Owosso but was arrested before he could carry it out to seven years in prison.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Juvenile sentencing in Michigan: Is a 50-year term a de facto life sentence? www.mlive.com/crime/2026/0...
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Juvenile sentencing in Michigan: Is a 50-year term a de facto life sentence?
James Eads was 16-years old when he shot and killed Eric Kincaid on a Detroit street in the spring of 1992.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And, here, the clear frustration of Lansing Mayor Andy Schor that a data center project got scuttled. “As this property will remain empty parking lots, I ask all those who suggested housing on these parcels to provide their proposals for development into housing." www.mlive.com/news/2026/04...
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British company pulls the plug on Lansing data center proposal
The British company Deep Green has withdrawn its proposal to build a $120 million data center in downtown Lansing just ahead of a City Council vote.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In Michigan's Trump country, a local Democratic Party returns to life. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Carol Thompson @carol-thompson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Microsoft has terminated its data center confidentiality agreements with four west Michigan communities two weeks after the @detroitnews.com reported on the NDAs. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements in west Michigan
The NDA terminations came two weeks after The Detroit News reported the existence of the confidentiality agreements.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements with public officials in west Michigan www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements in west Michigan
The NDA terminations came two weeks after The Detroit News reported the existence of the confidentiality agreements.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Michigan won’t release a $1M report on Native boarding schools. Tribal leaders say it’s flawed. www.mlive.com/native-ameri...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Michigan governor's race is a toss-up. These three things could decide the outcome. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Lawyer explains why Owosso man targeted LGBTQ community in thwarted mass-shooting plan. www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Mat Ishbia's United Wholesale Mortgage gave $6 million to Donald Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Michigan governor's race remains a toss-up. www.mlive.com/politics/2026/02/michigan-governors-race-now-a-three-way-tie-detroit-chamber-poll-says.html
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"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."
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This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage.
Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Details of DTE Energy's deal with Saline data center developer shrouded by NDA
"This is very accommodating to DTE," one environmental attorney said about the nondisclosure agreements allowing DTE Energy to bypass normal scrutiny.
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
pretty stunning chart
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Matt Miller @mattmillermlive.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Mike Duggan is promising a Michigan turnaround. It starts with an end to us-vs-them politics.
Before Mike Duggan, Michigan hadn’t had a viable gubernatorial candidate who wasn’t a Democrat or Republican since L. Whitney Watkins ran on the Bull Moose Party ticket in 1912.
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 11/02/2026
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Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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