On Corruption – America’s Choice
John B. Alexander, Contributing writer - Daily Kos
Stephan: I think John Alexander gives an accurate assessment of what is going on in the United States, and I will say again the only thing that is going to stop this is millions of Americans out in the streets in nonviolent demonstrations every day. Are you willing to make this commitment?
**Is there any … ⌘ Read more
Tom Homan is costing American taxpayers $1 million a month: reporter
Sarah K. Burris, Senior Digital Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Did you know that you and I are spending one million dollars a month protecting the thug Tom Homan, whom aspiring dictator Trump has appointed “Border Czar”? No, neither did I, but we are. As I read this report, all I could think about was how many children would get school lunches for $1,000,000 a month if Trump and the MAGAt … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
Mozilla has announced
that it is shutting down Pocket, a bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla
in 2017, this coming July. “Pocket has helped millions save articles
and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has
evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match
their browsing habits and online needs.” ⌘ Read more
FEMA Shifts Disaster Burden to States in Wake of Deadly Tornadoes
Ellyn Lapointe, Contributing Writer - Gizmodo
_Stephan: I feel very sorry for the individuals and families, particularly in Red states, who are already suffering from climate events like tornadoes, but I am particularly concerned about those living in hurricane regions. The dismantlement of FEMA by the Trump coup is going to leave hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Americans, without t … ⌘ Read more
$1 Million Tax Payer Grant for “Gender Inclusive Open Source”
A cancelled grant, worth a million bucks, for Oregon State University to create “best practices for fixing gender-bias bugs”. ⌘ Read more
Google Releases NotebookLM App for iOS and Android
Google has launched iOS and Android apps for NotebookLM, the company’s advanced AI-powered research and note-taking tool.
Commenting on the launch in a blog post, Google said:
We’ve received a lot of great feedback from the millions of people using NotebookLM, our tool … ⌘ Read more
Introducing Docker Hardened Images: Secure, Minimal, and Ready for Production
From the start, Docker has focused on enabling developers to build, share, and run software efficiently and securely. Today, Docker Hub powers software delivery at a global scale, with over 14 million images and more than 11 billion pulls each month. That scale gives us a unique vantage point into how modern software is built… ⌘ Read more
The US buried millions of gallons of wartime nuclear waste – Doge cuts could wreck the cleanup
Andrew Buncombe, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Remember the disaster of Chernobyl and Fukushima, how many years it has taken, and is still taking, to clear up the lethal nuclear debris left by the accident. Now triple that, or maybe more, and think about what could happen at Hanford, Washington, as this article describes. Thi … ⌘ Read more
Millions of Records Exposed via SQL Injection in a Tamil Nadu Government Portal ⌘ Read more
Coinbase Hacker Demands $20 Million Dollar Ransom
In filing, Coinbase says damages may be upward of $400 Million. ⌘ Read more
CBO: 7.6 million would go uninsured under GOP Medicaid bill
Ben Leonard, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: I understand that a lack of integrity is the hallmark of the MAGAt Republican Party. The MAGAt members of Congress make it clear everyday that they are on their knees kissing the ass of their monarch. What I don’t get is how these men and women imagine they are going to stay in office in the 2026 election. The easy answer is that they think Americans in thei … ⌘ Read more
Trump says he’s fighting antisemitism — and accepting a $400 million gift from a government that funded Hamas
Anthony L. Fisher, Senior Editor and Writer - MSNBC
_Stephan: The corruption of multi-felon, convicted sex abuser Donald Trump and his family is unlike anything ever seen before in the United States 250-year history. Do you remember when Hillary Clinton could not accept a necklace valued at something like $42 … ⌘ Read more
The Human Firewall: Why Your Employees Are Both Your Greatest Vulnerability and Asset
In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, organizations invest millions in sophisticated technologic … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Shipments Crash 50% in China as Local Brands Dominate
Foreign-branded smartphone shipments in China, dominated by Apple’s iPhone, dropped dramatically in March 2025, plunging 49.6% year-over-year according to data released by The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).
The steep decline saw shipments fall to just 1.89 million units, down from 3.75 million during the … ⌘ Read more
Rockstar Games share fresh trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI
Rockstar Games has shared a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, just days after delaying the game until May 2026. This latest video has been watched online 475 million times across platforms. ⌘ Read more
Home Assistant 2025.5 released
Version\
2025.5 of the Home Assistant home automation system has been released.
With this release, the project is celebrating two million active
installations. Changes include improvements to the backup system, Z-Wave
Long Range support, a number of new integrations, and more. ⌘ Read more
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
Anna Clark, Staff Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: I have been telling you since the Trump Republican Party coup began that one of its most notable features is the rise of American neo-medievalism, in which the wellbeing of the peasants is of little interest. Do you get your water from the Great Lakes? If you do I would do some rese … ⌘ Read more
Trump when pressed on if he needs to uphold the Constitution: ‘I don’t know’
Gregory Svirnovskiy, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: We have reached the stage in Trump’s fascist coup where he feels secure enough in his power that he is now openly saying he is not compelled to follow the Constitution, or listen to the courts, or Congress. I tell you again, the only thing that is going to stop this is if you and a million other people are out in the st … ⌘ Read more
Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
Tom Perkins, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Just as hurricane season and flooding events are poised to begin, despot psychopath Trump and his administration of lackeys have just destroyed the science centers that predict oncoming weather events and warn of flooding. And yet still it is not clear to millions of American voters that Trump cares nothing for their wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more
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‘You will be hunted’: Voting machine company reveals new death threats from Fox viewers
Carl Gibson, Staff Writer - Raw Story / Alter Net
_Stephan: The longer this fascist coup goes on the more it impresses on me that this could only be happening to the United States because there are millions of Americans who are supporting aspiring dictator Trump, the Republicans and their coup. The problem we face as a country is ourselves. Surely you … ⌘ Read more
This Simple Domain Hack Is Fooling Millions: Don’t Be Next!
Cybercriminals are using lookalike URLs powered by Punycode to mimic trusted sites and steal your data.
[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infosecwriteups.com/t … ⌘ Read more
New Mideast Project Is Latest Trump Company Deal Tied to a Foreign Government
Vivian Nereim and Eric Lipton, Lead Reporter | Investigative Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: How much talk do you hear or read about how Trump and his family are using the office of the Presidency to enrich themselves? Nowhere near enough in my opinion. The truth is they are making hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars, from deals they are working … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Shipments Up 13% Amid Global Smartphone Market Slowdown
Apple achieved impressive 13% year-over-year growth in Q1 2025, shipping 55 million iPhones worldwide and increasing its global market share to 19%, up from 16% a year ago, according to the latest Canalys research.
Apple’s performance is in stark contrast to the broa … ⌘ Read more
Gaza blockade depletes World Food Programme stocks + 1 more story
North Korea confirms sending troops to Russia as a defense pact; Gaza blockade leaves World Food Programme out of supplies, risking starvation for millions. ⌘ Read more
Taxes on super rich and tech giants stall under Trump
Editorial Staff Agence France-Presse, https://www.rawstory.com/trump-super-rich/ - Agence France-Presse | Raw Story
_Stephan: Despot Trump has proven repeatedly that he doesn’t give a damn for the health, wellbeing, longevity, or education of you and your family. But he sure cares for the oligarchs and uber-rich who bought him his office with their hundreds of millions of dollars of donations and gifts. The United … ⌘ Read more
Judge orders halt to mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Alexander Mallin and Peter Charalambous, Reporters - abc News
_Stephan: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created by President Obama, has saved Americans over $20 billion from grifts. So is it surprising that Dictator Trump, who has been convicted multiple times of millions of dollars of grifts and scams, is trying to destroy the CFPB by firing 1,474 who work a … ⌘ Read more
White House proposes eliminating Head Start funding as part of sweeping budget cuts
JOCELYN GECKER, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: Since its inception in 1965, the Head Start program has served nearly 40 million children and their families. If you have a preschool child, are they benefiting from a Head Start program? Well, Dictator Trump doesn’t give a damn about the wellbeing of little children, and he is working hard to eliminate … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla Accuses Trump of Political Interference with Their “Movement”
The makers of Firefox, which recently re-branded as a “Global Crew of Activists” focused on Marxism & “LGBT Climate Change using Al”, confirms loss of $3.55 Million of Tax Payer funding. ⌘ Read more
Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup
Schuyler Mitchell, - The Intercept
_Stephan: A reader who said she had contracted and is being treated for cancer from using Roundup in her gardening sent me this. It is yet another nasty horrifying report about Dictator Trump’s MAGAt coup. I find it quite notable that so much of the evil of this coup and its corruption is how badly it harms the wellbeing a million … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China’s Q1 Smartphone Boom
Apple’s iPhone shipments in China declined by 9 percent in the first quarter compared to the year earlier, and it was the only major smartphone vendor to see a decline, according to data from research firm IDC.
Shipments of iPhones fell to 9.8 million units, giving Apple a market share of 13.7 percent, do … ⌘ Read more
[$] Taking BPF programs beyond one-million instructions
The BPF verifier is not magic; it cannot solve the
halting problem. Therefore,
it has to err on the side of assuming that a program will run too long if it
cannot prove that the program will not.
The ultimate check on the size of a BPF program is the
one-million-instruction limit — the verifier will refuse to process more than
one-million instructions, no matter what a BPF program does. Alexei Starovoitov gave
a talk at the 2025 L … ⌘ Read more
10 Rare & Interesting Versions of Common Animals
The animal kingdom is never short on variety, with over 1.5 million living animal species in existence today. And yet, our interests tend to focus on a common few—the black bear, the ring-tailed lemur, the gray wolf. But for every common species, there is an equally uncommon and interesting variation that hardly anyone pays attention […]
The post [10 Rare & Interesting Versions of Common Animals](https://listverse.com/2025/04/16/10-rare … ⌘ Read more
4Chan Hack Reveals University Professor Moderators, 10 Million Bans, 10 Year Old Software
Hack of 4Chan was carried out by users of a competing image message board which published 4Chan source code, staff emails, & more. ⌘ Read more
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Sharon Lerner, Environmental Staff Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: Dictator Trump has made it very clear that in thanks for the millions the carbon industries spent to buy his presidency for him, he will do nothing to prepare the United States for the catastrophe of climate change. As a result, millions of Americans are going to have their lives turned … ⌘ Read more
Number of Accounts Exposed in Hacks Now Nearly 2X Earths Population
Over 3 Million accounts were exposed this last week alone. ⌘ Read more
Trump Targets Law Firm Behind $787.5 Million Fox News Suit (4)
John Hughes, Reporter/Editor - Bloomberg Law
_Stephan: Psychopath “tyrant” Trump, and his fascist servant, Attorney General Pam Bondi, are, as quickly as possible, trying to destroy the judicial system of the United States. As a result over half of the attorneys in the Solicitor General’s office are resigning, and Trump is resentfully targeting law firms, many of whom are caving to his wishes. This a … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s justice department to disband unit investigating crypto fraud
Anna Betts, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I think history is going to record this period of American history as the most corrupt in 250 years. And it is also blatantly obvious. You suspect as well as I do, I bet, that at least several MAGAt leaders in the “emperor’s” regime made millions in this ongoing manipulated tariff crime. But that is just one piece of what is going on. Just … ⌘ Read more
‘Cost us $26M!’ Jasmine Crockett spits ‘fire’ at Trump’s golfing
David Edwards, Staff Writer - Raw Story
Stephan: While psychopath “emperor” Trump and his cretinous minions blather on about efficiency while they dismantle the government and destroy the wellbeing of America, you and I are spending millions of dollars to pay for the “emperor’s” golf games. It is straight out of the reign of Nero and Caligula.
Stephan:
_It should be clear to anyone with an IQ higher than their height in inches (78 is considered retarded) that the Trump MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party is doing everything in its power to create a pseudo-democracy. They do not want a fair all-citizens voting election. Here is … ⌘ Read more
AWS Support Fuels Kubernetes Innovation, Driving Global Adoption and Open Source Sustainability
AWS extends $3 million cloud credit grant to Kubernetes project, ensuring continued growth and resilience KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 1, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems… ⌘ Read more
Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues
Thomas Beaumont, Reporter - The Associated Press
_Stephan: America’s judiciary like its law firms is partially corrupt and weak and partially ethical and strong. This appellate court decision is an example of corruption and weakness. How could any ethical court rule that open bribery of voters to buy an election outcome is lega … ⌘ Read more
10 Logistical Secrets Behind the World’s Most Massive Events
From the Olympics to royal funerals to music festivals that transform entire landscapes, some events push human coordination to its limits. But behind the public spectacle lies a world of strategic planning, military-grade operations, and bizarre contingency protocols. These events aren’t just big—they’re logistical marvels, requiring teams to manage millions of people, thousands of moving […]
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10 Worst Movies by Great Directors
While the days of movies serving as a cultural monolith are long gone, there are still names out there that demand as much as hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from companies and demand from audience members many hours in driving to theaters, watching ads, reading or writing essays devoted to their work. Whether […]
The post 10 Worst Movies by Great Directors appeared first on [L … ⌘ Read more
DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In ‘Months’
Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to “rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.” This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine … ⌘ Read more
A new home for kernel.org
Akamai has sent out a\
press release saying that it is now hosting the kernel.org
repositories.
The Linux kernel is massive — approximately 28 million lines of
code. Since 2005, more than 13,500 developers from more than 1,300
different companies have contributed to the Linux
kernel. Additionally, there are many kernel versions, and
developers updat … ⌘ Read more
Trump administration to cut vaccine aid to developing countries
Marina Dunbar, U.S. Guardian Fellow - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: MAGAt Monarch Trump’s regime has just ended vaccine aid for millions of children in the developing countries. It is estimated that will result in the death of several million children. It will also ensure that Americans, particularly unvaccinated Americans, both adults and children, who travel to any of these countries may now b … ⌘ Read more
Help The Lunduke Journal Fight Against The Tech Goliaths
Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, & other corrupt, Woke “Open Source” organizations have received hundreds of millions in donations. ⌘ Read more
Help The Lunduke Journal fight against the Tech Goliaths
The corrupt Tech Foundations of the world — WikiMedia, The Linux Foundation, Mozilla, and the rest — have received hundreds of Millions of dollars in donations. ⌘ Read more
Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID
Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee, Staff Writers - The Hill
_Stephan: This is good news on several levels. First, it will restore aid to millions of needy or ill men, women, and children. Second, it will hopefully, restore respect and appreciation for the United States – although trusting the U.S. again may take quite a while. Third, there have been a whole series of court rulings … ⌘ Read more
10 Video Games That Were Scrapped Close to Completion
Remarkably, the world of video game development is often fraught with unpredictability, where immense effort and staggering amounts of money—sometimes tallying up to millions—can be poured into a project, only to see it abandoned before reaching the finish line. This phenomenon is not only bewildering but also disheartening as developers walk away from near-completed projects, […]
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Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy
Antonio Pequeño IV, Staff Writer - Forbes Magazine
_Stephan: In the fascist coup Trump is trying to carry out, Elon Musk is his Joseph Goebbels. The analogy is more accurate than most of the media seems to understand. Musk is a South African immigrant who was a supporter of apartheid and who has with increasing openness, as he works for Trump to make the Unit … ⌘ Read more
US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips
Richard Luscombe, Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: You may be one of the thousands of federal workers who lost their job without notice, but the psychopath who caused you to lose your job has plenty of time to play golf, does it most weekends by being flown from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and American taxpayers, including you, are payin … ⌘ Read more
Bombshell report reveals staggering amount of government funds paid to Elon Musk
Adam Nichols, Editor-in-Chief - Raw Story
_Stephan: Criminal Trump and and his Frankenstein Elon Musk, are both destroying the economic wellbeing of millions of Americans and, at the same time, enriching themselves with all kinds of schemes and scams. There have been a number of reports of how much Musk has lost from Tesla stock collapse, but what you don’t hear … ⌘ Read more
Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone
ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Foreign Policy and National Security Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: I have always found Marco Rubio loathsome. However, it was not until I have seen his behavior and words as Secretary of State that I have fully comprehended how loathsome he really is. The closing of USAID means that millions of people, … ⌘ Read more
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One of the biggest gripes of the community with the way the threading model currently works with Twtxt v1.2 (https://twtxt.dev) is this notion of:
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@prologic@twtxt.net We can’t agree on this idea because that makes things even more complicated than it already is today. The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One. Not five million. Granted, there might be archive feeds, so it might be already a bit more, but still faaaaaaar less than one file per message.
Also, you would need to host not your own hash files, but everybody else’s as well you follow. Otherwise, what is that supposed to achieve? If people are already following my feed, they know what hashes I have, so this is to no use of them (unless they want to look up a message from an archive feed and don’t process them). But the far more common scenario is that an unknown hash originates from a feed that they have not subscribed to.
Additionally, yarnd’s URL schema would then also break, because https://twtxt.net/twt/<hash> now becomes https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/<hash>, https://twtxt.net/user/bender/<hash> and so on. To me, that looks like you would only get hashes if they belonged to this particular user. Of course, you could define rules that if there is a /user/ part in the path, then use a different URL, but this complicates things even more.
Sorry, I don’t like that idea.
10 Movie Studio Decisions That Completely Backfired
Hollywood executives are tasked with making massive decisions that shape the film industry—but sometimes, they get horribly wrong. Whether it’s turning down billion-dollar franchises, firing key actors, or rejecting movies that went on to become classics, these blunders ended up costing studios millions (or even billions) of dollars. Here are 10 of the biggest Hollywood […]
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Big Oil Drops Renewable Goals, Expands Fossil Fuels
Tik Root, Staff Writer - truthdig | Grist
_Stephan: Greed is so powerful that it trumps rational thought. Anyone with an IQ larger than their belt size should know that climate change is altering all aspects of the matrix of life on Earth. Yet the carbon energy oligarchs don’t seem to care that they are the source of the problem and will live with the consequences as much as the poor. Their multi-million dollar sanctua … ⌘ Read more
Analysis Finds Trump Tariffs Will Cost Average US Family $1,600 or More Per Year
Jessica Corbett, Senior Editor - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I have seen several estimates on what the Trump MAGAt Party’s impact on the economy is going to cost each American household; this one seems the most fact-based. Maybe $1,600 this year is not that much to you, but to millions of U.S. families it is going to have a serious impact. And after the State of the U … ⌘ Read more
Yes, Mozilla Receives USAID Money.
The Firefox maker spends millions from tax payers on “social and political” training, “centering marginalized groups”, and “engaging race, gender, sexuality perspectives”. ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note – Buy Nothing Today
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Stephan:
Please join me, my wife, and hopefully millions of other Americans, and do not buy anything today, the 28th February. This is the sort of non-violent citizen action that can make a difference. (There is no click through.) ⌘ Read more
How Medicaid and Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Everyone’s Health Care
Gabe Fenigsohn, Contributing Writer - US News and World Report
_Stephan: By June I think we will not only be in a recession, we will also have millions of people – notably in Republican-controlled states - in chaos over their healthcare. I predict elder mortality, maternal mortality, and infant mortality will all increase. As I do this research day after day it is like watching a society wreckin … ⌘ Read more
How is Mozilla Spending that $1 Million from US Taxpayers?
That’s right, the Firefox maker (turned activist organization) received a $1,051,622 grant from US Federal Government. ⌘ Read more
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I heard that congratulations to Germany are in order, is that right? If so, congratulations!
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@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:
East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.
The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.
Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:
The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.
This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.
Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).
I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.
Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.
Trump talks of a third term amid growing concerns about a constitutional crisis
Brakkton Booker, National Political Correspondent - Politico
_Stephan: Trump clearly sees himself not so much as the President as an authoritarian king with sovereignty over the United States. And he has no plan to leave office. Nothing is going to stop this but millions of Americans out non-viollently protesting every day. Here’s something you can do. I got an em … ⌘ Read more
‘Outrageous Lies’: Claiming Fraud, Trump Floats Kicking Millions Off Social Security
Jake Johnson, Senior Editor - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Social Security and Medicaid are about to be gutted. Millions will be affected by the loss of financial support and healthcare. I have told you over and over we are in the midst of a coup and one party – the Republicans – has collapsed and like docile hamsters are doing what they are told. The only thin … ⌘ Read more
Telstra to splash $800m on network upgrades, ups dividend
The telco lifted its first-half profit and dividend while CEO Vicki Brady also announced a $750 million share buyback plan. ⌘ Read more
USAID gelé : panique institutionnelle et médiatique totale
Donald Trump et Elon Musk sont vraiment des gros vilains : en gelant aussi subitement la distribution des fonds d’USAID, ils vont – c’est certain – tuer des millions de gens. Et, ô surprise, ils mettent à la rue des douzaines d’ONG et de journalistes. Que c’est étonnant ! On s’en souvient, il y a quelques jours, […] ⌘ Read more
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Robin Fields, Staff Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: Yet another factual proof that the pharmaceutical industry is about profit not fostering wellbeing. I think this story is disgusting, and you will notice that even though your tax dollars are used to develop drugs once developed they become tools to empty your pocket. If you don’t already know about it please use a discount service such as G … ⌘ Read more
Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund
Karl Mathiesen, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: Fascist Trump isn’t very bright (as anyone will conclude who actually examines the history of his life) but he is very greedy and obsessed with being in control. So part of the coup he and the Republicans are carrying out is to serve their petroleum oligarch funders and block any sensible preparation for climate change. That several hundred million Americans will suffe … ⌘ Read more
La Taxe Lapin, illustration de l’effondrement du système de soins français
Chaque année, 27 millions de consultations ne sont pas honorées par les patients qui posent un lapin à leur docteur. C’est scandaleux, c’est intolérable, et c’est pourquoi le gouvernement agit ! Tout le pays l’attendait depuis un moment et enfin, le gouvernement s’est emparé du sujet : la « Taxe Lapin » fait son apparition dans un prochain projet […] ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note
Stephan A Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: The coup continues. We are just 17 days into the destruction of our democracy, our economy, and poised to become involved in wars. And the effect of the coup is not just affecting Americans. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of women, children, and men in poor countries around the world have had their already meager lives ripped apart.. Tens of thousands of children in those countries are predicted to die as a result of this. Rather … ⌘ Read more
Confusion over federal funding freeze prompts public health concerns
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech , Staff Writer - The Hill
Stephan: The coup we are undergoing is putting millions of Americans at risk by screwing up their healthcare. There is confusion and chaos raging throughout the system, and I think we are going to very shortly see worsening health reports across the country.
 224-3121 and a … ⌘ Read more
Trump executive orders threaten healthcare of millions of Americans
Marina Dunbar , Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Healthcare is going to deteriorate more in this country, as well as becoming more expensive As this article describes middle and lower-class Americans will be particularly affected.
_Donald Trump signs an executive order in t … ⌘ Read moreUS freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo
Shaun Tandon, Staff Writer - Agence France-Presse (France) | Yahoo! News
_Stephan: The status of the United States in the world has just been gutted by criminal Trump’s new Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Programs that depended on U.S. foreign aid worldwide have now been devastated. The result will affect millions of people, diminishing U.S, status and reputation worldwide. I think one should also se … ⌘ Read more
Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People
Shawn Musgrave, - The Intercept
_Stephan: Our new MAGA Trump villein Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as soon as he came into office, screwed up the lives of any trans-Americans. How many people are we talking about? According to the Williams Institute, about 1.3 million adults in … ⌘ Read more
What 10 Actors Actually Think of Their Most Famous Lines
You know you’ve really hit the mark with fame in Hollywood when you have one line that gets repeated over and over again by millions of people. To be an actor who has “made it,” as the phrase is used, is to be a star who can be readily quoted by millions of fans and […]
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22 states sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship
Mike Catalini, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: For over a century if your mother gave birth to you in the United States you were an American citizen. Millions of Americans became citizens that way. But that will not continue if Donald Trump has his way. As this report describes, and you have probably heard, with a stroke of his pen Trump seeks to abrogate the 14th Amendment of the C … ⌘ Read more
10 Times the Might of the British Empire Was Defeated in Battle
During the reign of Elizabeth I in the late 16th century, the British Empire began to take shape. Although the 1707 Act of Union brought Scotland into the fold, strictly speaking, it was the English Empire. That aside, by 1913, the Empire encompassed some 400 million subjects at a time when the actual British population […]
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Annual U.S. Dementia Cases Projected to Rise to 1 Million by 2060
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira , Contributing Writer - Scientific American
Stephan: This is a report on some important new research on the dramatic increase in the occurrence of dementia, both because we are an aging population and for previously unrecognized genetic reasons.
To read the research study upon which this report is based see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03340-9.epdf
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Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
Meghan Bobrowsky, - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: I have been telling you for several years now that social media is a flowing turd-filled sewer spewing hate, resentment and disinformation. And it is about to get much worse. Mark Zuckerberg who put more than a million dollars into Trump’s pocket is joining his fellow billionaires, to end any attempt at fact-checking. Any resemblance … ⌘ Read more
The Fossil Fuel Industry Spent $219 Million to Elect Trump and Republicans in Congress
Karin Kirk, Staff Writer - Reader Supported News | Yale Climate Connections
_Stephan: The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, as I have told you many times, legalized the renting of politicians like hiring prostitutes. A large percentage of American voters either don’t realize this, or don’t care but it has corrupted American democracy so compl … ⌘ Read more
Apple settles eavesdropping class action for $153 million
A US class action had alleged the tech giant was using its virtual assistant Siri’s microphone to record conversations occurring without users’ knowledge. ⌘ Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Donating $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund
Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple.
Following Trump’s wi … ⌘ Read more
Where the minimum wage will rise in 2025
Emily Peck, Staff Writer - Axios
Stephan: Here is some good news. Even in some Red states, and many Blue states the minimum wage will be going up.
Millions of workers are getting a raise on Jan. 1, when the minimum wage is set to rise across 21 states, and 48 cities and counties.
Why it matters: Th … ⌘ Read more
Deals: Grab an AirTags 4-pack for $69.99
AirTags are the compact easy to use tracking devices from Apple that allow you to keep track of your personal belongings, car keys, even pets, packages, and other interesting uses. AirTags leverage the Find My network of millions of other Apple devices to help pinpoint the locations of AirTags, and you can make them play … Read More ⌘ Read more
Wikipedia Spends $31 Million on “Racial Equity” in 2024
Wikimedia Foundation now has $286 Million in assets, spends 10x more on “Equity” than server hosting. ⌘ Read more
Software start-up likened to Atlassian defies funding slump, raising $27.5 million
Australian start-up funding continues to tank, but not for this company, which wants to emulate the success of local tech billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. ⌘ Read more
Here’s what happens when the world’s richest man buys the presidency
Sabrina Haake, Contributing Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here are the four things I think citizens should be demanding, with tens of millions going into the streets across the nation to demonstrate for them. First, the Supreme Court Citizens United decision has to be rendered meaningless by the Congress passing legislation that can overcome Trump’s veto. Second, Congress should pass le … ⌘ Read more
Dr. Oz Exposed for Colossal, Multimillion Dollar Conflict of Interest
Edith Olmsted, Staff Writer - The New Republic
_Stephan: Out of half a dozen stories I saw today reporting the organized corruption that constitutes the incoming Trump administration, I picked this one because it is going to directly affect your life if you are a recipient of Medicare of Medicaid. But I thought I should also mention that Elon Musk spent $277 million buying Trump the Pr … ⌘ Read more
Thousands of Australian Facebook users to share $50 million after privacy scandal
Meta has agreed to a record settlement with Australia’s information commissioner, ending years of legal proceedings over Facebook’s infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. ⌘ Read more
Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Have Subsidized Project 2025 and Climate Denial
Chuck Collins , Staff Writer - truthout
Stephan: As this report describes, because the bribery of politicians is legal in the United States, and MAGAt billionaires and the corporations they control, have also rigged the nonprofit system, your money and mine is paying for the degradation of our own wellbeing. We are nation defined by corruption.
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Annie Waldman, Staff Writer - ProPublica | G
_Stephan: Another horror story about the American illness profit system and the UnitedHealthcare/Optum conglomerate. I understand why Congress does nothing to remedy this abuse; they are mostly whores owned by illness-profit corporations. What I don’t understand is why millions of Americans voted for … ⌘ Read more
Bipartisan Plan to “Reform” Energy Permits Is a Brazen Giveaway to Fossil Fuels
Basav Sen , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: Jennifer M. Granholm, the Secretary of Energy under Biden has done everything she can to move the United States through its transition out of the Carbon era. She has not always had the support of Biden and others in his administration, because the petroleum industries pour so many millions into the American government t … ⌘ Read more
Tech billionaires prepare to invade the Pentagon
Paul McLeary and Jack Detsch, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: The transition of the United States into an authoritarian oligarchy is speeding up. By the inauguration which, I think it should be noted, is being paid for with million-dollar donations from billionaires like Musk and Zuckerberg, I think the transition will all be in place. The Republican Party is no longer interested in democracy, and the Democrat Party leade … ⌘ Read more
Billions of People Could Benefit from This Breakthrough in Desalination That Ensures Freshwater for the World
Andy Corbley, Staff Writer - Good News Network
Stephan: Here is some good news that will positively affect the lives of millions of people worldwide, and give them enough water to drink.
_Credit: Good … ⌘ Read moreNine States Poised To Shrink Medicaid Coverage
Phil Galewitz, Senior Correspondent - Kaiser Family Foundation | Truthdig
_Stephan: The Republican Congressional prostitutes whose services have been rented out to the illness profit system corporations are just waiting for Trump to come into power so that they can cut Medicaid. As this article describes, this would leave over 3 million Americans, many of whom voted for Trump, without health coverage. If you live in any of the … ⌘ Read more
What Trump’s Victory Means for the Private Prison Industry
Lauren-Brooke Eisen, - Brennan Center for Justice
Stephan: The United States has the shame of being the country with the largest and most racist incarcerated population in the world.
In 2024, there were over 1.9 million people incarcerated in the United States, including:
_- 1,566 state prisons
- 98 federal prisons
- 3,116 local jails
- 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities
- 142 immigration deten … ⌘ Read more