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AZ Mirror: Republicans cut healthcare spending. Now Arizonans are paying the price.
After three decades practicing in Arizona, I’ve never seen patients this afraid to seek care
#healthcare #publichealth #publicpolicy #insurance #economy #uspol
Raised gardens maximize small spaces by improving soil quality, drainage, and water efficiency. They increase crop yields, reduce weeds and erosion, and support year-round food production. This strengthens household food security while promoting sustainable farming through efficient use of land and resources.
#garden #gardening #solarpunk #Climate #sustainability #food #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #agriculture #environment #Plants #ecofarming #Economy #worldnews
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194
This sounds bad. 😬
"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...
More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.
They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.
Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."
boostedSo VERY reminiscent of “if you don’t test so much the number COVID cases won’t be so high!” #Trump “logic”.
If the #Fed meets less often, reports of higher #inflation & a struggling #economy won’t be so abundant.
#KevinWarsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings
The #FederalReserve has met at least 8 times a year for DECADES. Reducing the number of meetings would represent the biggest change by Kevin M. Warsh since Trump appointed him chairman.
boostedOh no! The economy!
The Guardian: ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
"...A senior policymaker at the European Central Bank has said the climate emergency and the breakdown of nature poses a dramatically growing risk to the global economy...."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/01/ecb-climate-wildfires-global-economy-stability
The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983.
source: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/how-the-u-s-strategic-petroleum-reserve-works/
"roughly $13 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue is held in frozen U.S. Treasury accounts as a black box with minimal public accounting."
"#DHS🚨is giving $600M in cash to illegal #immigrants, & the right loves it bc it's🚨no principled opposition to handing out cash to foreigners as long as it's in furtherance of its agenda to avoid having to see anyone foreign in America. Americans Last Program!"
-D Bier
Trump & his cult in Cong are racist & moronic.🚨They're USING TAXPAYER💰TO PAY ESSENTIAL WORKERS TO LEAVE THE US & to lock up IMMs in costly #ICE #Detention #DeathCamps, before: #deportation‼️
#Economy #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/trump-self-deportation-ice
boostedThe #Pentagon now reports over 600 #casualties in Trump’s #IranWar. Officials quietly added over 140 wounded & restored 4 killed to database.
#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/politics/iran-war-casualties?cid=ios_app
#Lula to #Trump∶ ‘No one will defeat us through #lies’
Opinion by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of #Brazil.
#US #geopolitics #law #InternationalLaw #sovereignty #trade #economy #tariffs #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #BigLie #JairBolsonaro
https://wapo.st/3Tl6JZQ
A year ago, I was taken aback by the publication, on a digital platform, of a letter from President Donald #Trump imposing a 50% #tariff on Brazilian goods. Its very first paragraph referred to former president #JairBolsonaro — who was #convicted last year for attempting a #coup d’état in #Brazil & is now under house arrest — making the political motivation behind the measure explicit.
#Lula #Brazil #law #InternationalLaw #trade #economy #sovereignty #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #BigLie
Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout
#Canada #Tech #AI #Economy #SurveillancePricing #Data #DataPrivacy #FoodInflation #RetailTech #Competition #GroceryPrices #CostOfLiving #AIRegulation #DigitalRights #ConsumerRights
https://the-14.com/canada-can-stop-surveillance-pricing-before-it-reaches-the-checkout/
@elsua54 On identity and #passport:
Sure, it might work for you
(you prob had a good start in life right?).
Iincreasingly the demand is to use paperwork, ID, SIM card (say mid-level) to buy. #Passports sometimes to verify yourself.
Even without some, the other people are using those middle-men so you have much less people to work / create with (what Mastodon needs to answer).
People get "more options" provided by bad people in a bad #circular #economy that's #growing a #negative #alliance.
Is AI coming for our jobs?
200 economists and AI leaders have warned that AI may bring forth "an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution." Founder and editor of Platformer @caseynewton goes through the facts and provides context to help us better understand what affect AI is having on jobs right now.
"“trickle-down” economics — a concept pushed by Republican to justify slashing taxes on the wealthy — have only benefited the rich and worsened economic inequality while failing to decrease unemployment or grow the economy."
"A paper from the London School of Economics and Kings College’s London, looked at the effect of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy in 18 developed countries: the concept has always been flawed."
Link to the original research studying 50 years of tax cut in 18 countries.
"The Economic Consequences of Major
Tax Cuts for the Rich"
"We find that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income.
The effect remains stable in the medium term.
In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth and unemployment."
It's called FACTS.
boostedDiabolical #sabotage, the #TrumpRegime is hiding the #truth:🚨"The #NWS has reportedly been sending up fewer balloons than it once did, eroding meteorologists’ confid in their own predictions.
Partly as a result of staffing cuts & funding reductions, govt-sourced info: slowly disappearing. Some orgs have halted surveys & tracking projects; others:🚨deleted archives & databases. Taken tgt➡️risks clouding our understanding of the #economy, #PublicHealth & #environment.
#USPol
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/07/trump-administration-public-record-data-holes/687867/?gift=FxT8sVgA8-XqMZWluh6fHBiCuHpPDrqKTcEbvZMsOY0
There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financialsecurity #freedom #frugality #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry
@stux
My account was terminated and the administrative window says it was due to spam,
I don't knowingly post spam.
Because I can't access the account, I can't see what post was considered spam.
Screen name: Tuckers Nuts Resist
Instance name: @JStatePost
Here's the offending post that was emailed to me as evidence of spam:
<Quote follows>
@ChrisMayLA6
Prof May, those of us on this side of the pond can just replace "UK" with "US," and every word in your post remains accurate.
It's as if, left to their own devices, the morbidly wealthy will behave the same wherever they're found.
#UKPolitics #USPolitics #ExcessiveWealth #Economy #TuckersBalls
Nov 13, 2025, 20:56 UTC
<end quote>
PS: Sorry to have taken so long to have gotten back to you, but it took me forever to gather this information from a suspended account.
boosted"Since the start of 2025,🚨US jobs numbers have now been revised down in 14 out of 17 months by a total of🚨-710K # jobs.
May & April jobs#s🚨were revised down by a total of -74K *largest 2-mo downward revision since Dec.
April jobs were revised down by -31K, to +148K, while May jobs were revised down by -43K, to +129K.🚨Aver on prev data➡️ -41,765 jobs.
If we apply this aver to the +57K June nonfarm payrolls, it'd🚨🚨imply just ~15K jobs were added last mo."
-Kobeissi L
#Economy #Recession #USPol
"#Immigrants⚡helped to revive the Rust Belt town of Springfield, as part of a strategy by loc elected ofcls to rev pop decline & revitalize local bus'. Now🚨the fed govt will be forcing most of those ppl to leave; potentially at gunpoint."
-A R-Melnick
#DHS Sec confirms🚨#ICE #deportation Fs coming to Springf, in a co Trump won by 30 pts. Will Trump/Miller really turn Springf into the next MPLS? If so, GOPers *likely oppose it. #Trump's that toxic."
#Racism #Economy #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/212415/springfield-ohio-maga-town-ice-raids
The Circle: The Scariest Part Isn't Big Tech. It's Us.
When The Circle hit theaters in 2017, many people saw it as another tech thriller. Today, it feels less like science fiction and more like tomorrow's news feed.
The movie is based on Dave Eggers' bestselling novel, often called the 1984 of the digital age. Ironically, the film improves on the book in one important way. Instead of explaining every idea through endless dialogue, it lets us see them. The result is faster, smoother and much easier to watch. But it still feels more like an essay than a real story.
Mae Holland lands her dream job at The Circle, a giant tech company that looks like a mix of Google, Apple, Meta and TikTok. The campus is bright, colorful and full of smiling people. Everyone talks about changing the world. That is the first warning sign.
Modern tech companies rarely say they just want to build products or make money. They promise to make humanity better. The Circle sells exactly that dream. Soon Mae believes privacy is outdated. If you have nothing to hide, why keep secrets? She starts wearing a tiny camera that livestreams her entire life. Every second. Every conversation. Every emotion. Imagine if your entire life became one endless Twitch stream.
This world feels like a strange combination of George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Control no longer comes through fear alone. It comes through convenience, entertainment and the promise of a better future. Looking at today's AI boom, smart homes and endless social media feeds, the movie suddenly feels much less fictional than it did a few years ago.
One scene stands out. The Circle suggests that voting should happen through its own platform. If everyone already has an account, why not connect democracy directly to the app? It sounds efficient. Maybe even practical. The movie briefly asks whether democracy itself could become a product owned by a private company. That is one of its most interesting ideas.
Sadly, it never explores that question.
Instead, the ending takes the easy Hollywood route. Rather than challenging the system, it blames a few powerful executives. Once their private emails are exposed, the audience is expected to believe justice has been served. As if replacing a CEO could solve everything.
But that misses the real problem.
Systems survive because people are replaceable. Remove one tech billionaire and another one will take the job. The real issue is a business model built on collecting more data, measuring human behavior and turning attention into profit. It doesn't matter whether the CEO is friendly or arrogant. If the machine stays the same, the result stays the same.
That idea feels even more relevant today. We often argue about individual tech leaders. But should we? The real question is why any company should have that much power in the first place. Whether it is Meta, Google, Apple or the next AI giant, the structure remains the same.
The movie also lets us off the hook too easily. It is comforting to blame powerful corporations. Harder to admit that we help build this world ourselves. We accept the cookies. We install the apps. We trade privacy for convenience. We buy smart speakers, connect everything to the cloud and tell ourselves it is worth it because life becomes easier.
That may be The Circle's biggest weakness. It criticizes Silicon Valley's worldview but forgets to criticize ours. Most people are not driven by ideology. They simply choose what is new, useful and comfortable. That is how surveillance becomes normal—not because anyone forces us, but because we quietly invite it into our homes.
The movie offers only one alternative: rejecting technology completely and escaping into nature. But that feels just as unrealistic as total digital transparency. It presents two extremes while ignoring everything in between.
Despite its flaws, The Circle remains a fascinating warning. Not because it predicts the future perfectly, but because so much of its future has already become our present.
Why am I writing about such an old movie? Shouldn't we have much smarter, deeper movies about AI, surveillance and Big Tech by now? Or have we simply become so used to these technologies that we no longer notice what is happening? Has Silicon Valley slowly won us over with its own propaganda? If you know any newer movies or series that tackle these questions in a more thoughtful way, let me know in the comments. I'm always looking for the next great warning before it becomes reality.
#TheCircle #movie #film #entertainment #cinema #Hollywood #criticism #filmcritic #siliconvalley #bigtech #bigdata #bigbrother #orwell #surveillance #privacy #warning #danger #today #future #ai #technology #software #algorithm #freedom #democracy #economy #power #billionaires #finance #money #company #humanity #ethics #world #life #control
Location: Matrix
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116812731781109665
The blame falls right on the greedy CEOs, investors, etc. Glad they are being warned. If people have to fret about where they are going to get $30 for a donut, fast food coffee and a couple gallons of gas to get to their extremely low return paying job(s) that day, at least its nice to know that the CEOs have to worry they are being hunted like prey. #USpol #Inflation #Economy
Cops Warn CEO Bodyguards That #LuigiMangione Fever Could Spark #ClassWar
Cops warned corporate bodyguards that “challenges faced by the middle and lower classes” might spur attacks on wealthy #CEOS.
By Glen Stellmacher, Noah Hurowitz
June 25 2026, 1:38 p.m. ET"A law enforcement intelligence hub in New Jersey fretted that the growing class divide in the U.S. could drive a wave of lone-wolf attacks on high-flying corporate executives, according to a report obtained by The Intercept.
"The New Jersey Regional Operations and Intelligence Center, one of the so-called #FusionCenters that serve as intelligence clearinghouses for cops, warned in a bulletin earlier this year that disaffected Americans were increasingly blaming society’s ills on #RichPeople and #CorporateBigwigs.
"The report specifically cited the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024 — allegedly by Luigi Mangione — as an expression of #AntiFatCat rhetoric. To the analysts at the New Jersey fusion center, Thompson’s killing hinted at a larger trend.
" 'Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy #corporateexecutives,' the fusion center memo says.
"By warning corporate security outfits of the danger posed by average Americans who blame their problems on the actions of corporate executives, the report effectively dedicates public resources to securing a private system that has made the few extremely wealthy at the expense of the many."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/25/police-luigi-mangione-wealthy-ceos-threat/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/WFji6#TaxTheRich #PayYourFairShare #Oligarchy #Corporatocracy #Oligarchs #CorporateFascism #Austerity #CEOHuntingSeason #LetThemEatCake
boostedSCJ Kagan⚡put Trump’s🚨most racist & inflammatory remarks about Haitians into perm record -blasting her conserv colleagues to “put them in print.”
Haitians🚨“probably have AIDS" & "are “poisoning the blood” of Am. Haiti🚨is a “shithole” C. Haitian IMM🚨is “like a death wish for our C.”
Kagan cited Trump’s baseless claims: Haitians & Somalians in OH were abducting & eating pets💔-led to phys threats & disrupted daily life for 1000s of #immigrants.
#Racism #TPS #Economy #USPol
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kagan-dissent-supreme-court-haitians_n_6a3d3e97e4b0bbe315016634?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
boosted"For US taxpayers & consumers,🚨the cost of the war is at least $132B, acc to Moody's Analytics. That factors in🚨#military spending , rising energy & commodity prices & interest rates."
And: lives & livelihoods, US assets, Iranians' freedom, whatever is left of America's standing in the world, many #alliances...: gone.
#Deaths #NationalSecurity #DOD #TrumpRegime #Trump #Hegseth #MarcoRubio #Vance #IranWar #Betrayal #Corruption #IllegalWar #Inflation #Debt #Economy #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/iran-war-costs-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rVA.aTuv.O6muo-yaBP52&smid=nytcore-android-share
boosted#US - #Iran deal redraws the #MiddleEast∶
Iran gains, rivals alarmed
Across the Middle East — from #Israel to #GulfStates & factions in #Lebanon — it looks more like the curse of the century: an accord that could leave Iran more secure, more legitimate & ultimately more influential.
#geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #TrumpsWar #IranWar #NationalSecurity #economy #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-iran-deal-redraws-middle-east-iran-gains-rivals-alarmed-2026-06-18/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
I’ll believe it when I see it
#Pakistan's prime minister says #Iran, #US have reached peace deal; accord to cover #Lebanon
Tomorrow will bring some other excuse for #Trump to carpet bomb Iranian #civilians or their essential #infrastructure
Until Trump is gone, nothing means anything. Words are falsehoods. Government is a scam.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Israel #war #ForeverWars #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-ceasefire-deal-e0a9e4e1152ea8da10ea066ad174a23a
So I was out today in public (ran into an estate sale on the way back from a routine doctor's appt) and fascinating to hear the chatter among the people waiting in line to get in. A bunch of people complaining about healthcare costs, the greed of CEOs... *multiple* people who had to drive their kids to another hospital because our local hospital was taken over by HCA and wouldn't accept them as patients; complaints about how the hospital only cares about profits, and how different it is (with no blame to doctors and nurses, only the company and its executives). It was a lot of people nodding and agreeing, and (as far as I could tell) a very mixed political demographic and socioeconomic factors. Healthcare and hospital system CEOs may be one of the most hated groups of people in the world. #random #healthcare #economy
#Mozilla, why are you playing along with Google's devious game and #betraying the #principles of #free #software?
source: omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/mozill…
Nonetheless, the appearance of ‘device attestation’ in Firefox’s mobile codebase has raised eyebrows in the #FOSS #community, including from #mobile projects based on the #Android Open Source Project (AOSP) codebase, like #LineageOS and #GrapheneOS, which omit Play services.Given that Firefox’s entire USP on Android is that it’s an open-source, privacy-respecting alternative for those avoiding #Google (and open-source, privacy-conscious users often run non-stock Android) it’s a move that, short of further explanation, rubs some the wrong way.
#news #software #security #ai #technology #cybersecurity #Firefox #browser #future #smartphone #api #evil #economy #bigtech #fail #floss #opensource #principle #opensource #ethics #surfing #web #www #freedom #alphabet surveillance #tracking #power #privacy #root #rooted #question #aosp
Location: Matrix
‘BusPatrol’ Put #AI #Cameras in Tens of Thousands of #School #Buses. Now They Want to Give #Cops #Access
source: 404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-c…
without paywall: archive.is/20260526155324/404m…
#BusPatrol is aware of the #controversy around #ALPR cameras, and particularly of the concern that #ICE may gain access to the data, according to the BusPatrol documents ...
The danger here, aside from the misuse of data, is above all that children grow up with this and come to see it as normal to be constantly monitored by cameras. A society under constant surveillance develops differently. It is more conformist, less critical, and very keen on blending into the crowd unnoticed and not standing out. This is exactly what the ruling elite wants: a society that silently endures everything because it fears #repression through the cameras.
#news #technology #children #security #cctv #surveillance #privacy #education #camera #society #future #politics #police #control #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #fear #kids #system #matrix #politics #economy #monitoring #tracking #abuse #video #danger #warning #humanity
Location: Matrix
World leaders and corporate bosses are slowly cobbling together a digital 'singularity' system to monitor and control all human activity via AI-controlled systems. The plan is to extend the reach of this AI into every app, operating system, and device of every citizen, maintaining 24/7/365 real time monitoring of everything you do.
Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.
#AgeVerification in your operating system is a building block of the #SingularitySurveillanceSystem (#SSS). This system has been long in the planning and now the hidden hand is acting through its corporate and government storefronts to begin #Panopticon construction one building block at a time.
#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid
The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy.
The money spent on military conquest could have built 80 million houses and provided millions of good, temporary jobs in construction.
In fact the money spent on the conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan could have made a quarter of Americans home owners.
The so-called government of this country HATES the people. And it shows. They are thieving, murdering liars and thugs full of active and chronic hatred and malice toward the people. We live in another Catholic-styled dark age, where the tax collectors and creditors rob the people and use the money to sniff out heretics.
I realize it is too much to ask. I realize you will all waste your energy whining about crap that doesn't matter, like entitlement programs and imaginary racism, instead of doing the things that actually build people up, like giving them a roof over their head free of the encumbrance of debt.
The government forces a fragmentation economy on the people that forces millions to move away from their families and home towns just to find work and housing, then calls it 'socialism' to build houses for the people they have intentionally uprooted. Sick. Just sick and evil.