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On its face, the expansion was a big, ambitious project, and exactly the kind of thing Michigan — and the U.S. economy — needed. The facility would bring an estimated 2,350 jobs and $2.3 billion of investment to a small college town called Big Rapids. Gotion would pay future workers in this semi-rural community some $62,000 a year, more than 50% higher than the local median household income. And a new plant would be aligned with the revival of U.S. manufacturing — a goal espoused by both Democrat and Republican politicians.

But that’s not how some locals saw it. In fact, they were furious. Hundreds of residents protested the factory: putting up yard signs, creating Facebook groups, and organizing rallies. Broadly calling themselves the “No Gos,” they claimed the chemicals produced from the plant would be toxic, and said the electric-vehicle revolution was a scam. They called Gotion’s Chinese ownership suspicious, and painted the battery plant as a Communist Trojan horse. Thelen became the face of the project. The No Gos called him “China Chuck.”

Facebook and TikTok had been given access to read what medication I'm on by the development team responsible for the Pharmacy2U web site.

While the president’s approval rating has slipped since he took office, it remained narrowly positive ahead of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, according to the latest 538 poll of polls, and higher than at practically any point in his first term.
Some supporters expressed qualms over Trump’s courting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the persistence of the high prices that he promised to curb by unleashing US oil production. But most were satisfied that in both cases, the president knew what he was doing.
“Putin’s evil, there’s no doubt about it. But sometimes you have to deal with evil if you want to save people,” said Tim Davenport, 58, who works in construction. “Trump just wants to end the war.”
He applauded the president’s sacking of “woke” generals and his crackdown on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. “Government’s too big and the liberals are goofy,” said Davenport, who has voted for Trump three times. “Common sense, there’s just not enough of it.”

I had left Iraq nearly two decades prior, but my family was still there and I had intimate knowledge and updates, and witnessed some of the players from the 1960s while I was still there. My family, like many others, was the recipient of that cruelty, having two close family members executed by Saddam’s regime in the early 1980s.

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The arts and the media are one of the primary targeted institutions attacked by dictators. We are not living in a potential dictatorship. We are witnessing the early stages of dictatorship on a daily basis, in a broad swath of areas from the most private to the more public, from the social to the educational and economic and other aspects of our lives. The speed of this demolition of institutions, the Constitution, and legal norms is breathtaking.