Why Mass Deportations Would Cripple California’s Economy
Mark Kreidler,    -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: When you combine Trump’s tariffs and his deportation schemes, what you get is that you and I are, by Robert Reich’s estimate, going to face about $6,000 in additional annual expenses. It is going to particularly impact Trump working and middle-class voters in Red states. And that doesn’t even address the massive social disruption that will arise from ripping im … ⌘ Read more

NASA Satellites Show Major Drop in Global Freshwater Since 2014
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of climate change I have not seen previously. It is going to have a significant impact on countries all over the world, particularly developing nations with poor infrastructure. It will though impact large parts of the United States. Humanity is simply not doing what needs to be done, and Trump doesn’t even seem to think c … ⌘ Read more

The future of customer service is here, and it’s making customers miserable
Emily Stewart,  Senior Correspondent  -  msn | Business Insider

Stephan: Another AI problem. I have personally experienced this problem, have you? Not with insurance, but with medical group practices, setting up appointments. I think this trend is going to get much worse.

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Regular nut consumption after this age wards off dementia and disease
Michael Franco,  Contributing Writer  -  New Atlas

Stephan: Yet another good news story about nuts, particularly if you are older. Eating nuts. Simple. Tasty. Good for you.

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_Nuts notch up another win a new study showing their power to keep people healthy after the age of 70

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Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: If you look at the news coming out of the Red states what you see is the healthcare available to women is becoming more and more precarious. Here is the latest from Georgia. But what I am particularly seeing are four trends: First, OB/GYNs are leaving Republican-controlled Red states, practicing pr … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump ‘to expel all transgender people from military’
,    -  The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: If Trump, the first felonious, rapist, criminal ever elected President actually does this, the effect on the military will devastating.  Few Americans, I think realize that military as part of American society is a much smaller percentage than it was. In 1970, when I became Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations the number of active-duty service members w … ⌘ Read more

‘Mind-Blowing’: Study Shows Fungal Networks Can Solve Problems and Make Decisions
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: There are so many negative trends that I just don’t want to do any more tonight. So here are two stories that don’t deal with the destruction of American democracy by Trump and the Republican Party he controls. The research I have been doing for the last 60 years has convinced me that Max Planck, … ⌘ Read more

Window coating reflects heat to cool buildings by 40 degrees
Michael Irving,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: If you live in an area that has increasingly high temperatures you might look into this new development as a way to improve you quality of life, and reduce you budget. Here is where you can read the actual paper upon which this report is based: [Neutral-Colored Transparent Radiative Cooler by Tailoring Solar Absorption with Punctured Bragg Reflectors.](https://on … ⌘ Read more

The Rise of Trump and the Fall of American Empire
Alfred McCoy,  Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This geopolitical analysis of what is likely to happen during the upcoming Trump administration, in my opinion, is accurate. I think Alfred McCoy describes the American future with brutal insight.  Trump and his gang of MAGAt mafioso, I believe are going to leave office with China the leading nation in the … ⌘ Read more

When Technology and Society Clash
Lydialyle Gibson,  Associate Editor  -  Harvard Magazine

Stephan: This profile of Harvard Professor Latanya Sweeney, who has been analyzing internet information and its effects on politics and society as a whole confirms my own studies (see SR archive, and search on Consciousness and the Weaponization of Lies). Sweeney though is a bit more optimistic than I am.

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COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku
,    -  Carbon Brief

_Stephan: This is by far the best analysis of what happened at the just closed COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. IT is kind of semi-good news. Rich countries, as the article describes are going to underwrite $300 billion in aid to help developing countries deal with climate change. A not insignificant sum, but a fraction of what is actually needed. Two things stand out for me from COP29: … ⌘ Read more

Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees; Beyonce in the OR? Diagnosing Shiny Legs
Gillian Booth and Katie Smith,  Social Media Editor | Social Media Assistant  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: It is clear from reading the social posts of physicians and nurses that they are seriously alarmed by what the Trump administration and the MAGAt Republicans in Congress have in mind for health care. I have selected this story because it offers links you can click … ⌘ Read more

China looks to step into global vacuum as Trump vows to pull U.S. back
Christian Shepherd and Katrina Northrop,  Reporters  -  msn | The Washington Post

_Stephan: While America is lost in the nightmare of our culture wars, and we are about to put into office an administration based on the mafia, China is becoming the world leader. What is worse neither our politicians of either party, our media, or the American people seems capable of telling ourselves t … ⌘ Read more

Despite Biden’s Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
April Ehrlich, , McKenzie Funk, and Tony Schick,  Staff Writers - Oregon Public Broadcasting | ProPublica | Oregon Public Broadcasting  -  ProPublica | Oregon Public Broadcasting

_Stephan: I have hiked and backpacked in the wonderful old forests described in this report, and consider the devastation being done to t … ⌘ Read more

Texas Board of Education votes to approve Bible curriculum in elementary schools
Antonio Planas and The Associated Press,  Staff Writer and AP Staff  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Texas is once again leading the Red states into christofascism and ignorance, transforming their public school system into religious indoctrination rather than education. We are already the least literate and numerate country amongst the world’s developed democracies. And I p … ⌘ Read more

MAGA’s ‘virility’ and ‘alpha male’ fixation tied to sex scandal-plagued nominees: reporter
Matthew Chapman,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: One of the central problems American society faces is that an increasing number of men, particularly White men, and definitely including Trump himself, are so unclear and insecure about what honorable manhood is. Male insecurity is the hallmark of the MAGAt world. There has never been a time in the … ⌘ Read more

U.S. gets poor grade for maternal, infant health care outcomes
Marina E. Franco,  Contributing Writer  -  https://www.axios.com/2024/11/21/march-of-dimes-pregnancy-maternal-health-infant-mortality

_Stephan: Yet another report about how inferior United States’ healthcare is, and how many women die and children are born what is called “preterm” as this article describes. And, of course, all these problems are worst in the states Republicans govern because the voters … ⌘ Read more

‘There Is No Climate Crisis’ Says Fracking CEO Chris Wright, Trump’s Pick to Head Department of Energy
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Of the sex molesters, hucksters, and sickos Trump has picked for his administration Chris Wright, who would take over the Department of Energy, is hardly getting mentioned. And yet if he is confirmed he could literally damage Earth itself, and the matrix of … ⌘ Read more

U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion, including in every major racial and ethnic group
KILEY HURST,  Research Analyst  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: One of the reasons so many men today feel threatened and diminished by women is that the United States has become a nation in which the women are much better educated than the men. In my opinion, this is why that horrible story I published yesterday, the one sent … ⌘ Read more

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
Annie Waldman,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

Stephan: This is yet another chapter in the ongoing story of the inferiority of the American illness profit system. As always, it is always about corporate greed and profit.

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GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups
,    -  The Lever

_Stephan: I have already covered the first failure of The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which failed but still earned, to the astonishment of many including myself, 15 Democratic votes. But it will be back. This is about taking away the nonprofit status of organizations Trump and the MAGAts in Congress do not like. It was because I saw this coming that I did not make SR a … ⌘ Read more

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Greg Sargent,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: If you are an hourly worker and you voted for Trump, you just got screwed out of overtime pay, although you may not know it yet since after I found it on an academic legal site I only found this report in The New Republic in the general audience press. The media as the article describes either didn’t understand the judge’s decision … ⌘ Read more

ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu and ex-defense minister Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza
Chantal Da Silva,  Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: I totally support the ICC. Killing by bombs and starving to death tens of thousands of women and children as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Gallant have done is despicable and evil. It doesn’t end terrorism it actually … ⌘ Read more

The Silence of the Wives
TALIA LAVIN,  Staff Writer  -  The Nation

Stephan: The wife of a non-evangelical Protestant minister who reads SR sent me this saying, “You say you ‘cover trends that are shaping the future.’ Well, here is a trend you ought to be covering. It has affected my husband’s congregation, and it is affecting all of Protestantism.” I read the article and understood why she had sent it. I suggest you read it as well.

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