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Opinion | Disillusionomics: the US economy isn’t serving gen Z - The Guardian

Fantastic quick read and insight into a generation struggling, much as we Gen X did only perhaps even more, how to adapt to an economic world that seems to care about us less & less.

North Korean hackers ran a ‘laptop farm’ out of Arizona woman’s home — PCWorld The FBI investigated a US woman who helped hackers pose as remote workers, sending secrets and millions of dollars to North Korean agents. Staff Writer, PCWorld | Jul 28, 2025 7:41 am PDT In 1925, an ...

Terrible article title. A woman TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO PAY FOR CARING FOR HER MOTHER WITH CANCER helped NK hackers to give them a US presence. She even THANKED THE FBI FOR GETTING HER OUT. Wealth inequality/high medical costs are bad for everything and everyone.

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This construction project was on time and on budget. Then came ICE. — Reuters Under a broiling Alabama sky a frustrated Robby Robertson, a construction site superintendent, surveys an 84,000 square foot, mostly built recreation center close to the Gulf coast port city of Mobile...

“the Trump administration believes workers in the country illegally can be replaced with lower-income Americans who are now required to work to access health insurance benefits, under the recently signed Republican spending bill.”

This was the fools’ plan all along. 🤦‍♂️

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Heritage founder Edwin Feulner’s death reminds us, every time hell mourns, a devil gets their horns — Advocate Opinion: Death does not redeem the irredeemable, as Feulner leaves a legacy of hate, oppression, exclusion, and silence, writes John Casey.

Wonderfully written.

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The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals — Mother Jones Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

Destructive capitalism is destructive, no matter the industry. Ban the practice.

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Trade deals are the new insfrastructure week.

Appeals court weighs Trump's use of wartime law to deport Venezuelans — Reuters A federal appeals court heard oral arguments on Monday in what is likely to be a decisive lawsuit over whether President Donald Trump's administration can use an 18th-century law to speed up deportati...

“SCOTUS ruled in April that challenges to removal under the law must be brought in the federal judicial districts where detainees are being held.” 🤦‍♂️

Nothing like giving fascists an oppo to stack the deck. Sue wherever they move you. Not home of detainee, where dmg is.

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Opinion | Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans — Guardian US Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents

This is a very dangerous advancement. Remember the outcry at making a registry of gun owners? Now they are making one (WITH A TON OF GOVT DATA - SSN, taxes, political donations, social media, etc) akin to China’s surveillance state.

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America’s Prison Population Is in Serious Decline — The Atlantic Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Crazy just how much of our current problems can be traced to awful decisions made/opinions formed/generational harm from the late 70s/80s. I’d ask what was in the water back then but… 🤦‍♂️

This current dip in prison pop is fantastic, as the sociological discussions 🤯

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We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces.

We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses.

Hello?

'A big mess': With prior authorizations and insurance denials, some patients run out of time — NBC News Health insurers issue millions of denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead.

“It’s almost like they don’t care if you live or die” 🚫

It’s like they don’t care if you live or die. ✅

Fixed it. 😡🤬

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I know there’s serious news, but this? Too good not to share.

Gavin Newsom’s office just posted a clip of EMPEROR PALPATINE reading Trump’s unhinged Truth Social rant about the L.A. protests.

It’s trolling at its finest.

The Force is strong with this one. 💀👑
#NoKings
#FreedomToDissent

ICE went to raid a place and stopped traffic to do it.

When ICE saw that the people stuck in their cars were recording them, they blasted everyone with tear gas.

A young girl is in the hospital from it, and the man who is being interviewed his gf was taken even though she was born here.

Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season — Reuters President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start

Money coming from WH vs FEMA = ability to corruptly politically leverage aid

“govs being encouraged to work together to respond to disasters… mutual aid agreements among states ... so that they can stand on their own two feet” = we’re not gonna help, fix it yourself

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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel — STAT This is a breaking story. It will be updated

Oh look, worm-for-brains is doing anti-vax shit like he said he wouldn’t at his confirmation. Who could have seen this coming… 😡🤬😡

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So much this…

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream — Vanity Fair In her new book, Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

Leveraged buyouts = destructive capitalism.

No leveraged buyout with more than a minority of the money (like 10–20%) coming from loans should be legal.

Would severely damage M&A activity, but would prevent these worst of abuses.

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Oh, Joni…

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion — 404 Media The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

This tech needs a Lucius Fox around to destroy it. It will only enable authoritarian actions.

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That would be awful. Don’t share this.

Opinion | A letter to sad Elon Musk, from America: 'Hey pal, sorry everybody was mean.' | Opinion — USA TODAY Dear Elon: Hey, buddy. We hear you’re going through a bit of a rough patch lately.

Well said.

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface — The Washington Post Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface

Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.

This #LauraK #Toryshill