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May Day blackout: Activists shut down Chicago and Los Angeles… “No school, no work, no shopping” protest paralyzes major US hubs today

Labor unions and community groups demand end to Iran war and ICE operations… Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU lead massive economic disruption efforts… Police on high alert as “unlikely marchers” join elderly in street demonstrations… Thousands in US to join ‘no school, no work, no shopping’ May Day protest in economic blackout “Walkouts, marches and …

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Saudi Warns Oil Could Hit $180. Traders And Analysts Warn Of An ‘Armageddon Scenario’ For Gas Markets. Entire Countries Risk Running Out. People Urged To Work From Home.

Something is breaking, and it is not isolated. It is spreading, layer by layer, system by system, market by market, and now governments are quietly telling people to change how they live. Start with the center of it all, the energy system. Iran just launched drone strikes on Kuwait’s largest refinery while Israel hit the …

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104 Million Americans out of Work. More than 2020 Peak Pandemic Levels

BREAKING: A record 104.3 million Americans are now “outside” of the labor force. These are individuals who are neither employed nor actively looking for work, including retirees, students, stay-at-home parents, and discouraged workers. This exceeds the 2020 pandemic peak by 600,000 when nearly the entire economy was shut down. Since the 2008 Financial Crisis, the …

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Postman who was banned from starting work at 5am by Royal Mail wins £13,000 payout

Postman who was banned from starting work at 5am by Royal Mail wins £13,000 payout https://t.co/9IF5jMvcdc — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) February 24, 2026 A postman has received £13,000 compensation from Royal Mail after being banned from starting work at 5am. Darren Williams had worked on his early morning rounds in Eccles, Greater Manchester, for decades …

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12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us

Not long after the terms “996” and “grindcore” entered the popular lexicon, people started telling me stories about what was happening at startups in San Francisco, ground zero for the artificial intelligence economy. There was the one about the founder who hadn’t taken a weekend off in more than six months. The woman who joked …

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Agreements that allow local police to work with ICE skyrocket

Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement that allow officers to make federal immigration arrests have increased by 950% in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new analysis of ICE data. As of Jan. 26, there were 1,168 agencies with officers trained to help ICE, up …

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Rising jobless rate has precedent, and it often ain’t pretty. Six-figure earners work side hustles, skip meals.

Plus, Susie Wiles breaks cover, a new name in the frame for the Federal Reserve and Hegseth says the Pentagon won’t release the Sept. 2 boat strike video Good morning. New data released Tuesday showed that the unemployment rate has risen from 4% when President Trump took office to 4.6% in November. A sizable drift …

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Big warning from Apollo. Big danger for “business as usual.”

Jim Zelter’s warning hit hard because he was not talking about a normal slowdown. He was describing the kind of break that wipes out entire business models and leaves companies with no way back. He spoke calmly, but the message underneath was anything but calm. “I think you’re going to get more secular distress than …

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There are approximately 5.2 million people from India living in the United States. While 70% of College Grads can’t find work in their profession.

We need to end immigration and all Visa programs. We graduate more people every year than we have jobs for, but import hundreds of thousands every year. Then we wonder why so many people get stuck on welfare. Check out this guy, a lot of good information. pic.twitter.com/IJn9w3zbMO — American as Trump (@JoshuaBradner) November 9, …

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Map of U.S. airport flight cancellation rates… Trump demands air traffic controllers return to work as flight cancellations drag on

See a live map from Flightaware of flight cancellation rates as more than 1,700 flights have been canceled across the U.S. on Monday as the FAA limits capacity at 40 major U.S. airports. https://abcnews.go.com/US/1500-flights-canceled-us-monday-travel-disruptions-continue/story?id=127370393 Air travelers should expect worsening cancellations and delays this week even if the government shutdown ends, as the Federal Aviation Administration …

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Karp: Ivy grads are mad their degrees are worth less than drilling rigs…. Sam Altman: If AI kills your job, don’t worry – it probably wasn’t real work anyway.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani: “The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession” “I think that annoys the fuck out of these people” Palantir CEO Alex Karp on …

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ZIRP or ZAP? Will the Fed’s ‘Zero-Interest Rate Policy’ Return, and Will It Work?

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Only the wealthy will benefit from ZIRP, and the benefits of “the wealth effect” and “trickle down” have not just diminished–they’re now negative. Welcome to the era of ZAP. Correspondent Scott suggested I consider the possibility that the powers that be will respond to a weakening of the economy by pushing …

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Florida bill would allow families to sue for killings by illegal migrants, fine police refusing to work with ICE

Florida bill would allow families to sue for killings by illegal migrants, fine police refusing to work with ICE https://t.co/yucQ4j42HF pic.twitter.com/vaS6v9GO4d — New York Post (@nypost) October 22, 2025 A Republican Florida state lawmaker proposed a bill Monday that would open up opportunities for families to sue some local governments over killings committed by illegal …

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In France, pensioners earn more money than people who work.

In France, pensioners earn more money than people who work. byu/PlastDuck inEconomyCharts While boomers in the U.S. and UK are being forced to go back to work because they can’t afford to retire in the current climate, pensioners in France are not just kicking up their feet—they’re even out-earning those with jobs. French retirees over …

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Everyone’s yelling “constitutional crisis” but this is literally how the founders built it to work

We’re living under the most lawless administration in U.S. history. https://t.co/aAu8DOYEkQ — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 20, 2025 If they're overturned (and many have been), the exec branch continues. If Congress doesn't like / want it, they don't fund it. Exactly what's happening right now. It's incredible that so many people don't know how …

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175,000 Americans have now applied to work for ICE.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reached 175,000 applications as the agency works to build up its staff to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. ” I just got the numbers hot off the press earlier. It’s 175,000 Americans [who] have applied to join ICE,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs …

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Nobel Peace Prize announcement: María Corina Machado wins the Prize for democracy work

https://twitter.com/Ronxyz00/status/1976582108635091029 Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader and founder of Súmate, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long struggle to restore democracy in Venezuela through peaceful resistance. BREAKING: Donald Trump did NOT win the Nobel Peace Prize. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic …

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Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn’t work yesterday

oh my god lol — Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday pic.twitter.com/mjuQUELCJ4 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2025 🔥 The UN sabotaged Trump They stopped the escalator the moment he & the First Lady stepped up to it & the teleprompter stopped working as soon as …

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George Orwell’s most famous work, 1984, provides a warning about the suppression of freedom of thought and expression.

George Orwell's most famous work, 1984, provides a warning about the suppression of freedom of thought and expression. https://t.co/xGz8Y2CJAQ — Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 18, 2025 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-praises-george-orwell-united-kingdom-state-visit-free-speech-crackdown-2131675?ut President Donald Trump praised the British novelist George Orwell at the state banquet at Windsor Castle on Wednesday amid growing concerns over a crackdown on free speech. “A fifth …

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