Bob Lucore

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

The Next Terrorist Attack
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Hope everyone has a great day

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The U.S. Economy: A House of Cards Built on Vaporware Trillions in market value now float on promises, not profits. Seven companies hold up the illusion—and one tremor in belief could send America’s paper prosperity collapsing into air.

The U.S. Economy: A House of Cards Built on Vaporware
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Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.

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How Democrats Can Win Again By Scott Anderson, Stephanie Schriock, Marc Solomon, Michael Frias, and Joe Hill

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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Bad news for libraries. Baker & Taylor, the 200 year old major distributor of books to libraries, is an apparent victim of private equity. Amazon seems poised to swoop in, with their monopolistic power.

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Tens of thousands of layoffs are being blamed on AI. What are companies actually getting? Amazon announced a reorganization that will result in the elimination of 14,000 jobs — and said AI is a leading cause.

It’s much easier for a company to say, ‘We are laying workers off because we’re realizing AI-related efficiencies’ than to say ‘We’re laying people off because we’re not that profitable or bloated, or facing a slowing economic environment, etc,’
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Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Ronald Reagan's Speech Gets Tariffs Wrong Tariffs didn't cause the Depression as Reagan claims. The economic policies he recommended did: as the Black Tuesday crash later that year showed.

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How to Fight Lies Without Losing People When lies keep coming, fact-checking isn’t enough. The real battle isn’t over facts — it’s over belonging, identity, and who people trust.

How to Fight Lies Without Losing People
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Michael Wolff (@michaelwolffnyc) Michael Wolff vs. Melania Trump: See you (and your husband) in court.

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Trump Engineering Federal Takeover of Elections to Consolidate Power Trump is reshaping election control by installing loyalists and stripping state power, a sweeping federal grab that could let the White House decide how America votes and who counts the ballots.

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The forgotten story of the US soldiers who integrated baseball before Jackie Robinson Alongside a Jewish, anti-racist pitcher from Brooklyn, Leon Day and Willard Brown played in a remarkable team during a historic wartime tournament

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No, the Boomers Did Not Take It All - The American Prospect The more that young people focus on supposed generational injustices rather than the real injustices of class and power, the less likely they are to embrace a politics that might make a real differenc...

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My Generation: Blame the Rich, not the Boomers Blaming a generational grouping is a coverup, not serious reporting

My Generation: Blame the Rich, not the Boomers
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The Coming Clash of Civilizations From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat

Expertise should inform democratic choice, not replace it.
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Trump Is Taking Aim at the Midterms Richard K. Sherwin concludes that the US president has no intention of permitting free and fair congressional elections in 2026.

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Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It's ready for a repeat in 2026 The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.

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Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...

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Please make this insanity stop!

The Needle Is Moving: Tracking America’s Drift Toward Authoritarian Rule Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once—it creeps in through emergencies, exceptions, and silence.

Authoritarianism is accumulating.
Sound the alarm.
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The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

I read this book a few weeks ago. It was time and money well spent.

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The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money We all should be rooting for the collapse of the bubble

Hoping for the AI bubble to burst…

The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money
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An Effective Tax Strike by Blue States How to Counter Trump's Defunding of Blue States - and Use Federal Income Tax Withholding Funds to Do It

Executing an Effective Tax Strike by Blue States
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Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs

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anxiety over the effects of AI on labor market is widespread, our data suggests it remains largely speculative. AI’s impact on the labor market that emerges from our data is one that largely reflects stability, not major disruption at an economy-wide level.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.