With low-income households also buckling under the weight of tariff-induced inflation and rising unemployment, the current halt in monthly benefits has the potential to worsen the strain.

Even before the cutoff, the Republican tax-and-spend bill pushed through Congress this summer effectively slashed food aid availability for millions of poor and disabled Americans. #trillionaire

The amount of space between running a presidential campaign based on opposition to gay marriage (2004), and running a campaign based on opposition to trans girls playing high school sports (2024) is very small, indeed.

..a way forward for the country, a rejection of the privatized excess and loony sociobiology offered by Trump and his ilk. But they should, and if they do, perhaps in time the national situation might become less bleak than it is today.’

“That doesn’t prove that the worst-case scenario is playing out, but it matters. The Fed is cutting rates because of broad labor market weakness, and one of the most obvious benefits of AI for companies is that it allows them to shed workers.”

Floods will spread, communities will be destroyed, but there will always be a group of rich people and rich companies that will be able to protect themselves as the planet is being progressively destroyed.”

Free for all means that there will be a small privileged elite, people and companies that will be able to always protect themselves, even if disasters will spread.

Meanwhile big tech AI investors are pouring a trillion dollars into creating complex models and algorithms to capture consumer attention, predict our behaviour and sell us more stuff. The US banned Nvidia from sellling its top chips to China, but robotics idiesnt need them. #ArtificialIntelligence