Do you ever wonder why it seems like billionaires have suddenly become outrageously powerful, while the rights and needs of average Americans are, at best, ignored, and at worst eviscerated?
Hi, I’m Robert Reich, here to talk about one of the most destructive events in our recent political history: a Supreme Court rul...
2022-09-13 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: billionaires are a crime against humanity and should be mathematically ...
2022-07-25 22:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Minimum wage is actually $27 an hour, and the only reason you don’t make $27 an hour is because the people who owe you that money spent it on propaganda and political lobbying to make you think that the extinction wages you’re being offered are an acceptable alternative to the living wage you’re actually owed.
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With just a stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden could secure a landslide win for Democrats in the 2022 midterms, and coast to a second victory against Trump in 2024 - and it wouldn’t rely on cooperating with far-right conservatives like Joe Manchin.
Right now, Biden is facing garbage approval ratings for Demo...
2022-06-25 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to college might be the worst investment you can make in your future. Now, we’re not saying that you shouldn’t go to college or that it’s not worth it, but the idea that our parents and teachers have been telling us since the 90s - that a college education is the key to lifelong career success is, unfortunately, b...
2022-06-13 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Supreme Court just effectively ruled that federal law enforcement agents have total immunity from being sued for violating the Constitution - particularly when it comes to your f...
2022-06-11 19:30:28 +0000 UTC View Post
the poverty line is fake! In 2022, in the United States, the poverty threshold for a single person under 65 was an annual income of $13,590, or $1,132 a month.2022-06-01 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The first reported case of Monkeypox has been discovered in the United States after an outbreak in the United Kingdom and Spain. 2022-05-20 15:28:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Supreme Court has voted to end abortion rights in the United States after overturning Roe v. Wade by a conservative supermajority, according to a confirmed leak from Justice Samuel Alito. The consequen...
2022-05-04 20:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Being homeless is a choice. Not THEIR choice, of course. But people who have the power, money, and resources to end homelessness — TODAY — are choosing not to. The fact is, we don’t know how many homeless people there are in the United States - and it’s not because we can’t find out, or that it’s too expensi...
2022-04-22 23:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’re a young person today – GenZ or Millennial – I'm sorry to say you've been shut out of economic opportunities that existed for many of us older geezers. No matter what “influencers” or financial gurus on TikTok tell you, no amount of “hustling” or gig work can replace a system that was once designed to h...
2022-04-12 20:57:25 +0000 UTC View Post
After two years of record economic recovery fueled by shoving free money at the richest people in the world, this blatant house of cards is finally collapsing, and you and I are stuck holding the bill.
2022-04-08 17:05:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Facebook is paying the largest Republican media firm in the country to launch a coordinated attack against TikTok by planting misleading stories and negative op-eds claiming that TikTok is dangerous, and promoting made up TikTok trends like “slap a teacher challenge” that don’t actually exist.
In other words...
2022-04-02 21:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, good news! Russia is failing in their war on Ukraine despite being better equipped, having more soldiers, and spending $25 billion dollars a day on this unprovoked invasion. According ...
2022-03-23 12:28:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We are NOT prepared for the new COVID-19 variant, and it’s already here! In fact, it’s a hybrid of the two worst variants we’ve seen so far: delta and omicron, and it’s unofficially being cal...
2022-03-18 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Russian President Vladimir Putin might be the richest man in the world, running the biggest criminal organization and mafia state in history.
Over the last 22 years he has officially and unofficially ruled over Russia as a dictator, through open threats and assassinations against his opponents a...
2022-03-09 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Would the US ever reinstate the draft, and how would that even work? It’s an interesting question: technically, yes they can. In the US, if you’re a male between the ages of 18 and 25 you’re legally required to register with the Selective Service System which is a “draft list” that has been continually updated since...
2022-02-28 15:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post
As you know by now Ukraine is in the middle of a full-scale invasion by Russia - so here’s what’s happened in the last 48 hours, and what we expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to do next in this deadly and unprovoked assault. 2022-02-25 15:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Russia is unexpectedly testing its strategic nuclear reserve, by practice launching intercontinental ballistic and cruise missiles within striking distance of the Ukrainian border. Simultaneously, Russian-backed separatists are firing explosive artillery shells into eastern Ukraine and they just hit a kindergarten, wounding t...
2022-02-20 18:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Avocados are about to get a lot more expensive and a lot harder to find as the US just banned Mexican avocado imports because safety inspectors are receiving death threats from the violent cartels that contro...
2022-02-16 17:23:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent according to President Joe Biden, and is now predicted to happen as early as this week. Biden and his advisors are now urging all Americans living in Ukraine <...
2022-02-12 14:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A few days ago, police in Minneapolis, Minnesota broke into a apartment with a no-knock warrant and within nine seconds, shot and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, who was asleep on the couch in the living room. This happened in the same city by the same police force that murdered George Floyd in 2020, and under the...
2022-02-07 16:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Richest Man in the World and the President of the United States hate each other. Over the last year, President Joe Biden has explicitly snubbed Elon Musk at every possible turn, ...
2022-02-04 16:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You should quit your shitty job today! Or at least, start looking for a new one. Right now is historically the best time ever to find a new job that will pay you more money, with better benefits, and better working conditions.<...
2022-02-02 17:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know that you only need to work 15 hours a week for a full-time salary? Companies in the US and UK are trying out a 4-day, 32-hour work week to combat pandemic burnout, 2022-02-01 00:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Capitalism is dead. Now, to many of you that might sound like good news, until you find out that it’s been replaced by a much worse, more exploitative, and aggressively unsustainable economic system that we can best describe as “2022-01-28 17:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post
You might have super immunity from COVID-19, and could help end the pandemic this year! A study just published yesterday by the journal “Science Immunology”, 2022-01-26 16:30:51 +0000 UTC View Post
During the pandemic, for the first time since the Great Depression, a majority of adults under the age of 30 lived with their parents. 2022-01-24 16:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We might literally be on the verge of World War 3 right now, if Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And the White House is reporting that a Russian invasion of Ukrai...
2022-01-20 17:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is unexpectedly... disappearing. The second most contagious disease in the world is starting to vanish just as fast as it appeared.
No, not everywhere and not all at once, but in regions like t...
2022-01-17 16:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post
