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Chris Hedges The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public with unimaginable stories of the pedophilia, exploitation of women and brash depravity of the ruling class. While these stories have been the major source of public outrage, a deeper dive into the Epstein Files reveals the inside world of how the billionaire class operates to control information and collude with each other – hide their crimes and gain massive wealth at the expense of the working class. In this episode, Chris Hedges speaks with Maureen Tkacik, an investigative journalist who has studied and written about the Epstein…

The U.S. added 172,000 non-farm jobs in the month of May according to a Friday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with an additional cumulative upward revision of March and April’s job numbers by 93,000. Unemployment did not move from April’s 4.3 percent, prompting markets to solidify their belief that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by the end of the year.  The majority of employment gains were found in leisure and hospitality, local government, and health care, with employment in financial services seeing a decline.Full-time employment, seasonally adjusted, is down 600,000 jobs year-over-year (YOY) and 79,000 month-over-month…

A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from congressional representation; a lost tribe. Audit: Something bad that happens to other people. “Beautiful:” an adjective, best used to modify “missile strikes”. Ceasefire: arabic; when less than a thousand children in Gaza are killed in a week. Climate change: archaic; often thought to be used in connection with car air conditioning in the 1950s that provided separate air flows to the front and back seats. Civil rights: in physics, a state of being that disappears when surrounded by…

Trump altered the party from one that surrenders cordially to one that treats Dems and weak Republicans with the contempt they deserve. Source link

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s sudden signing of an executive order on artificial intelligence, analysts and developers alike are scratching their heads trying to figure out what precisely it means. And while both the accelerationists and the safety hawks claim a victory, the nation’s intelligence communities seem to be benefitting the most from Trump’s executive order. “If there’s any such thing as a Mythos Moment, the intelligence agency has taken the upper hand and they’re driving this process, it seems, more than anything else,” American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Will Rinehart told RealClearPolitics. In May, Anthropic made the…

Jonathan Cook Substack Here are two things that can be true at the same time: First, the actions of police officers in Southampton in handcuffing 18-year-old student Henry Nowak and reading him his rights as he lay on the ground taking his last gasps of air, his lungs filling with blood from a stab wound, are barely comprehensible. Vickrum Digwa, the Sikh man who stabbed Nowak, had lied to police, claiming that Nowak had initiated a racist attack against him. Police officers attending the scene ignored all the visual evidence in front of them – clues the rest of us…

The Founders built a system on the consent of the governed. For a century, a competing tradition argued that consent was a fiction best left unexamined. A twenty-dollar AI subscription has now made the specialized class optional.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

I am quite skeptical of the lawfulness of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of the endangerment finding upon which EPA regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is based. It is an aggressive move that stretches administrative law norms and challenges  Supreme Court precedent. While I am not convinced the endangerment rescission is lawful, I would hardly argue it is unconstitutional or impinges upon religious liberty. The folks at Our Children’s Trust–the group behind the various kids climate suits–feels otherwise. They (along with Public Justice) have filed a challenge to the endangerment finding repeal making such claims. Last…

 Sam E. Anderson, Black Agenda Report. Beyond the Algorithm. A critical analysis of the U.S. backed social media “influencer” war propaganda campaign against Cuba as it struggles against a criminal siege. A new front has opened in the long-running information war against Cuba. It is not being fought with overt political tracts or state-sponsored media, but with sleekly edited Instagram Reels and TikTok carousels. The antagonists are not the traditional counterrevolutionaries of Miami, but a cohort of young, predominantly Black, self-styled influencers operating under the diffuse banner of the pseudo “Black left”—a space where anarchist critiques of the state and…

A 50 MW photovoltaic solar power station built in Shanxi Province in 2017. Photograph Source: Planet Labs – CC BY-SA 4.0 Early adopters pay a premium for their embrace of innovation. If you bought one of the first electric cars in the United States, you had limited range, long charging times, and very little infrastructure to support you on anything but the shortest journeys. If you’d held out just a little bit longer, you could have spent a lot less money and gotten a lot more vehicle. Foot-draggers, in other words, can reap a lot of benefits, whether as a…