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You’re Getting a Raise. So Why Are They Still Fear‑Mongering Social Security?
“You’re getting a raise… and they’re still fear‑mongering Social Security.”That pretty much sums up where we are right now. For 2026, Social Security checks are going up, not down. The Social Security Administration has already announced a 2.8% cost‑of‑living adjustment (COLA) for next year. For the average retired worker, that means a bump of around 56 dollars a month — roughly from about 2,015 dollars to 2,071 dollars. It’s not life‑changing money. But it is a raise. So why does every conversation about Social Security still sound like the sky is falling? What Your Raise Really Looks Like On paper, 2.8% sounds decent. In real life, it runs into two brick…
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PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DRUG WAR: FROM WMD TO THE SOUL OF AMERICA
President Trump has classified illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That is not another slogan. That is a declaration: America IS in a Drug War. For fifty years, politicians of both parties talked tough while overdose deaths climbed, cartels got rich, and liberal cities quietly stopped prosecuting the “little” crimes that destroy neighborhoods. The “war on drugs” was half‑hearted. The streets knew it. This is different. Turning fentanyl into a battlefield By calling fentanyl a WMD, President Trump is saying what every honest cop, ER nurse, and recovering addict already knows: this stuff is closer to a chemical weapon than a recreational drug. It kills by the thousands, it can…
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“Super Dumb” Fusion: Elon Musk vs. the Backyard Reactor
“Super Dumb” Elon Musk jumped on X this week to explain that humanity is wasting its time on “puny little reactors.” The Sun, he reminded us, is a “free fusion reactor in the sky,” so it is “super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth” and companies should “stop wasting money on puny little reactors, unless [they] admit they’re just pet science projects.” That’s a hell of a sermon from a man whose rockets, data centers, and AI models already chew through more electricity than small countries. Musk’s own xAI operation is part of an AI boom that’s driving up power demand so fast utilities are dusting off coal…
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Meta Made Billions on Scam Ads. Consumers Lost Tens of Billions More.
While Wall Street cheers Mark Zuckerberg for “unlocking new revenue streams,” regular people are watching their savings quietly disappear into scam ads running on his platforms. Meta isn’t just accidentally letting a few bad ads slip through; internal documents say they planned on scam and banned‑goods ads making up about 10% of their 2024 revenue – roughly 16 billion dollars. That’s not a bug in the system. That’s a line item. The Scam Ad Business Model Meta wants you to believe they’re just this neutral tech company, doing their best to “keep people safe.” But inside the building, the math looks a lot different. Their own internal audits show they were counting…
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Two‑Tiered Justice: Letitia James, Trump, and a System That Picks Sides
Two‑Tiered Justice in One Picture If anyone still wonders what a two‑tiered justice system looks like, just put New York Attorney General Letitia James on one side of the scale and Donald Trump on the other. The same political class that cheered when Trump was labeled a fraud suddenly discovered “insufficient cause” and “weak case” language when grand juries were asked to indict the prosecutor who went after him. What Letitia James Was Accused Of In 2020, Letitia James bought a modest house in Norfolk, Virginia, and signed a “second home” rider saying it would be primarily for her personal use and enjoyment for at least a year. Federal prosecutors…
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AI Bubbles, Tankers, and T‑Shirt Revolutions
This morning, everybody’s yelling about “artificial intelligence” again. Wall Street is suddenly nervous that the AI gold rush might actually have a bill attached to it. Oracle drops earnings, says, “By the way, we’re going to spend mountains of cash on more AI data centers,” and the market flinches. The same people who swore this stuff would “change everything” are now wondering if they just built the world’s most expensive slot machine and hoped it would print money instead of cherries. Out here in consumer‑land, that “AI bubble” doesn’t look like a philosophy debate. It looks like every app screaming “AI inside” while they quietly cut prices behind the scenes.…
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The Chehalis River has always been a working river and a legendary one, and its story is braided together with water, memory, and the stubbornness of people who keep rebuilding in a floodplain that never forgets. Long river, long memory The Chehalis Basin spreads across about 2,700 square miles of Southwest Washington, draining hills and forests before emptying into Grays Harbor and the Pacific. For thousands of years, Native peoples along the river told stories about periods when the water rose suddenly, reshaped the banks, and carved new channels, treating the big floods as part warning, part reminder that the river was alive. Early recorded floods When settlers arrived and…
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Why Can’t We Just Get Along?
Sometimes I find myself asking… Sometimes I find myself asking that question: “Why can’t we all just get along?” Conspiracy theory? Or… Here’s how it really works. Outrage isn’t an accident anymore. It’s a business model. And a lot of powerful people get paid when you and your neighbor hate each other. Who profits when we fight Media outlets and talking heads don’t get rich when you’re calm. They get rich when you’re glued to the screen, mad or scared, yelling at the TV or the phone, so they feed you the stories that spike your blood pressure. Politicians and activists cash in too. Grievance politics keeps their followers angry,…
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MS NOW Is Desperate
MS NOW is desperate. After years of losing viewers, they spent millions on a flashy rebrand—and now they’re clinging to one story: defend cartel boat crews, scream “war crime,” and hope one more “Get Trump” outrage cycle can save their ratings.But while they cry on TV for smugglers, families here are burying overdose victims. The Crisis MS NOW Won’t Lead With The United States has been losing over 80,000 people a year to drug overdoses, with more than 100,000 deaths at the peak of the crisis.Illicit opioids and other hard drugs shipped through international supply chains now kill far more Americans each year than murder or car crashes. Hitting the…
