Incredibly bleak, given how much they’ve historically invested in demographic, scientific, and economic data analysis.

This just begs the question of who “Newsguard” is and why anyone should trust them.

There’s dozens of conservative sites that do these ratings for right wing crap and give them high scores, too.

Israeli tier foreign policy

the number of deaths that will be directly attributed to the cutting of USAid internationally and the loss of healthcare, jobs and environmental regulations in the US

Hey now, we didn’t cut USAID. We just sent $40B to our good friends in Argentina. And now Milei’s party has won the midterms, which means he can continue his War On Leftism inside the state and along the borders.

We’re also helping to arm and secure Guyana, in a Kuwait-like project to drill into neighboring Venezuelan oil fields. That’s not happening for free. Lots of Latin Americans and US government contractors are absolutely getting their palms greased. It’s been a bonanza for NATO aligned mercenaries since the Bush Era, thanks to all the money we’re spending on freelance military.

We’re saving lives, man. All that money is putting food on the tables of any number of cocaine snorting, whore house frequenting, tacti-cool sunglass wearing Afghanistan washouts and their Guasano peers.

Are you just going to ignore that?

If they claim they know that these boats have drugs on them, they could just apprehend them when they made port

That would require due process, instead of a spectacle of Shock and Awe.

Also, let’s say, hypothetically that these aren’t drug boats. Let’s say they are boats moving medical supplies or fuel or building materials between Venezuela and Cuba. Let’s say they’re actually military units working on behalf of the Venezuelan Coast Guard or just fisherman who got caught in an international crossfire.

It’s just easier to say “Drug Gang. Killed them.” knowing no major American media source is going to publish a rebuttal. Nobody in the US has access to the details of the attack. Nobody is going to interview the families or investigate the wreckage. Nobody is going to contradict this regime when it comes to butchering citizens of the Global South.

So why not call them a drug gang? Call them human traffickers. Call them roving nautical pedophiles. Call them Islamic Jihad.

American audiences won’t hear anything different.

Pierce Brosnan has been infiltrating American media for over 30 years.

I would guess the unpatched system is some DOGE bullshit. And the hacker is a DOGE employee. And the data is sitting with some Trump goons who think they can use it as leverage against Congressmen negotiating the shutdown agreement.

The statement follows a report from The Washington Post that officials suspected a foreign actor was behind the attack, risking insight into lawmakers’ communications with nonpartisan staff.

Threatening to leak sensitive government documents and then blame Chi-ran is a pro gamer move, gotta admit

The same creep who whines and cries and complains about how the HR department is a conspiracy to oppress white men will be cornering the fucking CTO in the break room at the first opportunity.

Only way to deal with these assholes is to shove them in a concrete box until they sober up and learn manners.

What a fucking medieval society. Do we need economic regulations? Social welfare reforms? Democratic ownership of the insanely lucrative port system? Naturalization for migrations? Rights for indigenous peoples? Nah, bro.

If you catch anyone working a call center that provides the only miserable jobs available in this godforsaken hellhole of a country, just hit them a few times with a makeshift bat. That’ll solve the problem.

Aim for the neck.

Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints

Research by Round and her colleagues found that TWC ordered $99 million in wages ordered due across over 57,000 cases between 2010 and 2020, but 80 percent of those wages had yet to be recovered as of 2024. The TWC told the Dallas Morning News in 2023 that it could not verify Rutgers’ findings since it lacked access to the methodology.

“Collections is a difficult problem. It’s like collecting against any debt. If the money’s not there, the money’s not there,” Round said. TWC’s current enforcement and deterrent tools vary. Penalties of up to $1,000 can be imposed on bad-faith employers, the agency can order the employer’s bank to freeze funds and turn them over, or it can file a lawsuit against the employer. A lien is also attached to an employer’s property after a final determination of owed wages, which could force employers to pay back owed wages if they try to sell the property. There are currently more than 11,000 active liens totaling over $127 million, according to state data.

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The number of investigators, however, is dwindling. As of earlier this year, there were just 611, the lowest point in decades nationwide, according to Rutgers University researchers. As of May 2025, there were only 68 federal investigators assigned in Texas—one for every 232,000 workers. A review of federal data shows that the total wages federal investigators ordered to be paid back in Texas is the lowest it’s been in 21 years at $7.5 million in the 2025 fiscal year, compared to tens of millions in prior years.

The collapse is inevitable.

The Vanderbilts and Rockerfellers and JP Morgans weren’t the ones bankrupted by the Great Depression. Elon Musk will not be the protagonist of the next Steinbeck novel. The “collapse” will just be further economic consolidation, until the people being squeezed are willing to resist their own exploitation as a collective unit.

If the stock market loses 90% of its value tomorrow, all that changes is valuation. The physical capital remains in the hands of the plutocrats as does the command over the bulk of human labor. And the pain we feel will be the consequence of policies they impose, not any real shortfall of goods or dearth of professional services.

“Hey, we’re just driving technicals into Nambia. Its not like we’re driving tanks into France or Russia, where the important people live.”

:-/

The Second Congo War killed 5.4M people over four years. That’s half again as many deaths Japan suffered during WW2. It was a bit more than a guerrilla campaign.

South Africa, under apartheid, was pivotal in waging war across the Sub-Sahara. You just don’t read about African politics in schools, so you’re fully unaware of the Boer Wars or SA’s support for Israel following the Nakba or Angola and the various associated border wars going on from the mid 60s to early 90s. Nevermind the Congo Wars, which were fueled by fleeing Afrikaner mercenary units.

Similarly, Chile was a front in the Latin American theater of the Cold War. Pinochet was pivotal during the US involvement in Honduras and Columbia via Operation Condor.

American invented most of the techniques of oppression and tyranny that we exported abroad

So easy to forget that The International Jew was distributed by Ford Motor Company.

Americans haven’t read a single history book if they can help it

We’ve got stacks on stacks of history books. Airports and coffee shops are full of them. But when you’re getting your histories from Sean Hannity and Anne Coulter, of course you’re going to view the world through a kaleidoscope of fascist hysteria.

it happened in 1930s Germany, too.

I really wish Americans had more than one data-point for fascism. Preferably something more recent than a century ago.

Apartheid South Africa. Pinochet’s Chile. Hinduvista India. You can even flog the Russians again. But please. I’m begging you. Read literally any other history book. Fascism is not simply When Hitler Happens.

We’re getting the same reporting on South African refugees to the states. A lot of it is local propaganda, playing up how horrible it is in foreign countries by comparison

I wish they would all leave. Make Russia Atheist Again.

The ICE gestapo is going to terrorize NYC no matter who’s mayor.

Part of the indignity of the Adams administration has been the NYPD doing a lot of the dirty work. In a city with a $5.8B budget (by comparison, the entire North Korean military apparatus runs on $4B/year adjusted) that’s an enormous force multiplier. Mamdani’s pledged to pull the plug on this relationship in his first 100 days. And that’s going to provoke an ugly backlash without a doubt, both inside the NYPD and from DC.

The struggle doesn’t end on election day!

Hard truths. Far better to have a guy like Mamdani at the wheel than a Kapo like Cuomo or Adams.