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The job market is getting worse. So why are stocks booming? The paradox at the heart of today’s economy.

It’s getting harder to find a job and easier to lose one. 💼

And yet, even as corporate America rains pink slips on its workforces, stocks keep hitting record highs.

The United States Is Missing in Action on Free Speech Once a beacon of democratic ideals, America now struggles to live up to them. From Nepal to Indonesia, a new generation is looking elsewhere for inspiration.

Once a beacon for democracy and free speech, the US now struggles to live up to its own ideals. From Nepal to Indonesia, a new generation is looking elsewhere for inspiration.

I think it's appropriate that wealthy Medicare recipients like Club For Growth President David McIntosh should pay a WHOLE lot more for their socialist, HEAVILY taxpayer-subsidized Medicare that pays out FAR more than recipients ever paid in.

Why is the Mississippi Free Press quoting Club For Growth President David McIntosh, who is on HEAVILY taxpayer-subsidized Medicare, which pays out in 3-5 years every penny paid in by recipients and their employers?

I think you mean Club For Growth President David McIntosh, who is on HEAVILY taxpayer-subsidized Medicare, which pays out in 3-5 years every penny paid in by recipients and their employers.

Bill Gates and Trump are now on the same side

As Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
And Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies in 2023
These billionaires have blood on their hands
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others now live on military bases. Read The Atlantic’s reporting on how Generals’ Row became MAGA Avenue: https://theatln.tc/vj8DMBoz

What are the states' National Guard going to do when it's their own who are rioting?

Cuts to (often-absurdly generous) VA Disability and Concurrent Retirement & Disability Pay are a given.

Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.

In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.

A massive percentage came from foreigners.

It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.

But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“We believe in the private sector and the free market and individual providers.”

Has he told the 66 million senior citizens on HEAVILY taxpayer-subsidized Medicare, the 750,000 seniors in Medicaid-paid nursing homes & 17 million vets getting VA healthcare and/or Tricare?

A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal—It Would be Dangerous You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea.

“You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why having wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

Unexploded bombs threaten lives in Gaza; search for dead captives continue Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

British commentator detained by ICE after 'Israel criticism' on US book tour British commentator Sami Hamdi has been detained by US immigration, who have revoked his visa and banned him from completing his speaking tour, a Homeland Security official said.

British commentator detained by ICE after 'Israel criticism' on US book tour

2 U.S. Navy Aircraft Go Down in South China Sea A helicopter and a fighter jet went down in separate incidents while operating from a U.S. aircraft carrier on Sunday, the Navy said. The crews were rescued.

Two U.S. Navy aircraft went down in separate incidents while conducting routine operations from an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea on Sunday. The crew members of both aircraft were in stable condition after being rescued and the causes of both crashes were under investigation.

'In Guns We Trust' challenges white evangelicals to rethink their alliance with firearms (RNS) — Veteran reporter William J. Kole said those who are ‘pro-life’ should take gun reforms seriously.

“If you’re part of a faith community that claims to respect the sanctity of life, then why would you argue for more guns, which people are using to take their own lives?” asked journalist William J. Kole.
religionnews.com/2025/10/16/i...

This needs to be a lesson for everyone around the world: the United States is not to be trusted.

Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days

Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible

A New Car vs. Health Insurance? Average Family Job-Based Coverage Hits $27K - KFF Health News KFF data shows that 2025 marked the first time in two decades that the annual cost of covering a family of four rose by 6% or more for three consecutive years.

For $27K, you could buy a new car — or insure a family of four for a year. New survey shows cost of job-based coverage jumps again. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/workplace-health-insurance-premiums-family-plans-kff-survey/

Hakeem Jeffries, who works hard to stop any substantive progress and is doing more than anyone else to destroy the Democratic Party, has endorsed Zohran Mamdani, who's already retreated from his progressive stances. Change won't come from within the system.

Adderall *and* Diet Coke.

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

No there isn't.

Republicans SHOULD be passing a budget, instead of throwing a shitfit about a CR, but they can't even manage that.

I don't see the problem. Senate Republicans used the 'nuclear option' last month, when they confirmed 48 Trump nominees as a bloc. The world didn't end.

Pete Hegseth leaves military personnel enraged over his 'show pony' antics

One high-ranking officer and two veteran civilian military officials have criticized Pete Hegseth "as a lightweight and grandstander," in a new interview with the Daily Mail,

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless "You're just a number to them."

“They basically told me you can keep doing your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or you can go on unpaid leave.”

Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth

Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns

'They’re losing': Insider details how Trump’s unpopularity makes him lash out even more President Donald Trump continues to claim that he won the 2024 election by a "landslide" when, in fact, he won the popular vote by roughly 1.5 percent. And Trump is claiming that the No Kings Day prot...

As Trump’s approval numbers sink, insiders say the former president is spiraling — lashing out at allies, demanding loyalty tests, and raging over what he sees as growing betrayals inside his own campaign.

White House’s East Wing Partially Demolished to Build Trump’s Ballroom The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.

Construction workers ripped the face off the East Wing to begin building President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social