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The Last Places In America That Might Survive The Collapse

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This article was originally inspired by a simple question that has quietly found its way into countless conversations over the last few years. What would actually happen if the systems we take for granted suddenly stopped working? While nobody can predict the future, geography, history, climate, and demographics often tell stories that politicians and headlines prefer to ignore. This is not a prediction, nor is it meant to encourage fear. It is simply an attempt to examine a possibility that, until recently, most people dismissed as impossible. Throughout history, civilizations have rarely collapsed in a single day. More…

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Growing Partnership Between Surveillance Tech And ICE

Independent Journalism

[ad_1] Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. DHS doesn’t just buy surveillance tech, but also helps create it through a billion-dollar research incubator. A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts with surveillance and technology companies. DHS runs both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “A key sector of tech…

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I tried to biohack my pregnancy

Political Spin

[ad_1] My six-pack began to disappear in the fourth month of my pregnancy, with the final pack officially vanishing in week 15. My disappearing abs were just one of many demoralizing trade-offs my career as a biohacker took when I got pregnant. Since adolescence, I have been genetically blessed with visible abs. While I would like to credit my hard work, six-packs are mostly just the product of weight distribution and low body fat. You cannot control where your body adds fat, even subcutaneous fat. But optimizing my body’s performance has been a delightful hobby since the lockdown, when I…

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Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant)

Propaganda & Narrative

[ad_1] Chris Hedges In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with Kshama Sawant, a revolutionary socialist based in Seattle, Washington, who is challenging long-time incumbent Democrat Adam Smith for Congress. Sawant served in the Seattle City Council for more than a decade during which she and her supporters won unprecedented victories for higher wages, affordable housing, taxing Amazon, LGBTQ rights and more. She then went on to organize a national working-class movement, Workers Strike Back. Sawant is building on that work by running a courageous and unabashed anti-capitalist campaign for the working class. Her platform…

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L.A. Delays Its $30 Hotel ‘Olympic Wage’ Until After the Olympics

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] In May of last year, the Los Angeles City Council voted to raise the minimum wage for hotel workers in the city to $30 an hour by 2028. This represented the culmination of over a decade of hotel-specific minimum wage rises in the city, which have hampered the hotel industry and reduced employment. But last month, at the last minute, the city council voted to delay the enactment of the $30 wage by two years to 2030, buying a temporary reprieve for the hotel sector. While a delay is better than nothing, the City of Angels—and progressive politicians across the country—should use the experience…

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