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Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out

Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out

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“Our subcontractors never should have driven their canvassers in a U-Haul van and those involved were immediately reprimanded,” Tim Pollard of Blitz Canvassing tells WIRED. On Wednesday, October 30, Muldrow and her fellow door knockers were fired hours after the publication of the WIRED story. At first, some people had trouble logging into Campaign Sidekick, the glitchy app used by America PAC for canvassing. There was confusion before they were finally told it was over: “Everyone is fired,” said Jones, who served as the door knockers’ manager, in a GroupMe chat, according to screenshots obtained by WIRED. Jones did not reply to a request for comment. Muldrow thought Jones might be joking about everyone getting fired, but some of the door knockers noticed they had been locked out of Campaign Sidekick, according to the group chat. “I called my mom immediately,” Muldrow says. “My mom told me I was overreacting because, it’s [my] cousin, so she was like, ‘Oh, maybe she’s playing a joke on you guys. Don’t take it literal.’ And my mom was …

Adam Scott Joins Kamala Harris Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour in Michigan

Adam Scott Joins Kamala Harris Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour in Michigan

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Adam Scott has a busy Monday planned in a battleground state. The Severance star has booked back-to-back events in Michigan in support the Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the campaign confirmed. Per intel, he will appear in Ann Arbor as part of the Fighting for Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour during an event with the state’s Lieutenant Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II to address supporters and volunteers on the University of Michigan campus. Scott will then segue to headlining a student organizing event off-campus. The bus tour, which kicked off in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 3, has been cruising through key states like Michigan, where stops include Madison Heights, Flint, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids and Marquette. According to the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign, each stop will “emphasize the stark contrast between Vice President Harris and Gov.Walz, who will restore the protections of Roe v. Wade when Congress passes a bill to do so, and Donald Trump and JD Vance, who will enact their dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion nationwide, restrict …

Michigan Plotting to Re-Open Shuttered 1970s Nuclear Plant

Michigan Plotting to Re-Open Shuttered 1970s Nuclear Plant

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Calling Homer Simpson! Power Hour After shutting it down in 2022, Michigan is making an abrupt u-turn and is now planning to reopen an old 1970s nuclear power, according to The Wall Street Journal. When it starts operating again in about a year, the Palisades plant would become the first decommissioned nuclear power plant in the world that would go back online, the WSJ reports, a feat that bucks the trend in old nuclear power plants going permanently dark, such as in Germany. And there’s serious money behind this: the federal government and the state are pouring $2 billion into the plant’s refurbishment and reopening, a move that seeks to address AI data centers’ hunger for ever more electricity, according to the WSJ‘s reporting. Coupled with this is the federal government’s push for nuclear power as a green, sustainable energy source, which goes against lingering public distrust and fear of nuclear power due to the Chernobyl disaster, the Three Mile Island accident in New York, and most recently the meltdown of the Japanese Fukushima nuclear …

How to Watch the Fresno State vs. Michigan College Football Week 1 Game Today: Start Time and Live Stream

How to Watch the Fresno State vs. Michigan College Football Week 1 Game Today: Start Time and Live Stream

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Week 1 of the 2024 college football season is finally here. Michigan, the defending National Champions and three-time defending Big Ten champ, will open the season against Fresno State in primetime tonight. Not only does this matchup mark the first-ever meeting between the two teams, but it will also kick off the second season of NBC Sports’ Big Ten College Countdown. Watch Today’s Game on Peacock Today’s Week 1 bout in Ann Arbor will be Michigan’s first matchup in the post-Jim Harbaugh era. Former offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore will now be leading the way and the Wolverines will also be fielding a new QB under center as J.J. McCarthy was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings. Meanwhile, Fresno State is coming off a 9-4 season and a New Mexico Bowl win in 2023. Get ready for the season opener. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the Fresno State vs. Michigan NCAA college football game live at home, including all the best livestream options. How to Watch the Fresno State vs. Michigan Football Game Without Cable The Fresno State vs. Michigan football game will be …

Homeless Woman Was Living Inside Michigan Rooftop Store Sign With Computer and Coffee Maker

Homeless Woman Was Living Inside Michigan Rooftop Store Sign With Computer and Coffee Maker

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Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said. “She was homeless,” Officer Brennon Warren of the Midland Police Department said Thursday. “It’s a story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a sign.” The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for roughly a year, Warren said. She was found April 23. Midland, best known as the global home of Dow Inc., is 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of Detroit. The Family Fare store is in a retail strip with a triangle-shaped sign at the top of the building. The sign structure, probably 5 feet (1.5 meter) wide and 8 feet (2.4 meters) high, has a door and is accessible from the roof, Warren said. “There was some flooring that was laid down. A mini …

Michigan man accused of making explosives to target Satanic Temple in Massachusetts

Michigan man accused of making explosives to target Satanic Temple in Massachusetts

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man carrying explosives traveled to Massachusetts in 2023 and later said he wanted to blow up a building in Salem known as the Satanic Temple, according to a federal indictment. Luke Terpstra was charged in western Michigan with two felonies: transportation of an explosive and possession of an unregistered explosive. “Building explosive devices and transporting them with the intent to injure civilians and damage property puts us all at risk,” U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said Wednesday. The indictment was filed Tuesday. Terpstra, 30, of Grant, Michigan, is being held in the Newaygo County jail on related state charges. He faces a hearing in federal court next Monday. The court file doesn’t list an attorney yet who could speak for Terpstra. The Satanic Temple in Salem says it doesn’t believe in Satan but describes itself as a “non-theistic religious organization” that supports secularism. There is an art gallery at the site. Terpstra had an explosive device, multiple firearms and ammunition when he traveled to Salem in September, the indictment …

Former township clerk and lawyer in Michigan face charges over voter data breach

Former township clerk and lawyer in Michigan face charges over voter data breach

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A former township clerk and her attorney will face charges in Michigan over allegations of a voter data breach related to the 2020 election, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Wednesday. Former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her private attorney, Stefanie Lambert, allowed “an unauthorized computer examiner access to voter data, including non-public voter information, concerning the 2020 General Election,” Nessel’s office alleged in a news release. Scott faces six charges — five felonies and a misdemeanor — including concealing or withholding a voting machine and using a computer to commit a crime. Lambert faces three felony charges, including using a computer to commit a crime. It is unclear how they pleaded. Scott, 52, and Lambert, 42, have touted conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. “Ensuring election security and integrity stands as the cornerstone of our democracy,” Nessel said in the statement. “When elected officials and their proxies use their positions to promote baseless conspiracies, show blatant disregard for voter privacy, and break the law in the process, it …

Michigan Former Clerk and Attorney Charged After Alleged Unauthorized Access to 2020 Voter Data

Michigan Former Clerk and Attorney Charged After Alleged Unauthorized Access to 2020 Voter Data

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general announced charges Wednesday against a former township clerk and a lawyer who had supported attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, alleging they accessed voting systems without authorization in a search of fraud. Former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her attorney, Stefanie Lambert, were charged with multiple felonies, including unauthorized access to a computer and using a computer to commit a crime. “When elected officials and their proxies use their positions to promote baseless conspiracies, show blatant disregard for voter privacy, and break the law in the process, it undermines the very essence of the democratic process,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement. “Those who engage in such reckless conduct must be held accountable for their actions.” The charges are the latest to be brought against people in multiple states who had been entrusted to ensure the security of election systems but instead allowed others to breach them in a futile search for evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. …

Michigan tornadoes trap workers in building, wipe out mobile home park

Michigan tornadoes trap workers in building, wipe out mobile home park

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Severe weather that has been uprooting Plains states for weeks turned its attention to Michigan on Tuesday, trapping workers and wiping out a mobile home park, officials said. Portage Mayor Patricia M. Randall said in a statement that her city was struck by two tornadoes Tuesday, with no reports of injuries or death so far. One of the vortexes ripped off the side of a massive FedEx facility, trapping about 50 workers as first responders hoped to clear live electrical wires blocking their safe exit, Kalamazoo County spokesperson Taylor Koopman said by email. “The FedEx building in Portage sustained significant damage and is still an active scene,” she said. People look at a damaged FedEx facility in Portage, Mich., on Tuesday.Courtesy Jim Morrison A tornado destroyed entire residences at Pavilion Estates Mobile Home Park in Kalamazoo County, Koopman said. Rescue crews were on-site searching for survivors and those in need of temporary shelter, which was set up at Portage Senior Center, she said. Residents were urged to stay put as first responders sort out the …

Scientists discover 9000-year-old ‘Stonehenge-like’ structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan

Scientists discover 9000-year-old ‘Stonehenge-like’ structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan

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Situated approximately 40 feet beneath Lake Michigan’s glistening waters, within the heart of Grand Traverse Bay, this enigmatic discovery was to forever rewrite our understanding of the region’s ancient past. (CREDIT: Creative Commons) The picturesque waters of Grand Traverse Bay have long harbored stories of maritime history, with dozens of known shipwrecks bearing witness to its bustling 19th and 20th-century maritime trade routes. Beneath its serene surface, secrets of a different kind have emerged, captivating the minds of archaeologists and historians alike. Recently, the bay unveiled a remarkable surprise to the world—a prehistoric structure, reminiscent of England’s iconic Stonehenge, was uncovered by Dr. Mark Holley, a distinguished professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University. Situated approximately 40 feet beneath Lake Michigan’s glistening waters, within the heart of Grand Traverse Bay, this amazing discovery was to forever rewrite our understanding of the region’s ancient past. The assemblage of stones, although smaller in scale compared to the towering boulders of Stonehenge, appeared to be carefully arranged, igniting intrigue among researchers. The stones, ranging from sizes akin …