Canceling your student loans could crash the US economy because billionaires and bankers are generating massive amounts of wealth for themselves through Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities, which depend on you being stuck in debt for the rest of your life with no ability to discharge that debt in bankruptcy.
The $1.7 trillion student loan debt bubble is in serious danger of creating an economic crisis in the exact same way that the subprime mortgage crisis crashed the economy in 2008 â...
2022-01-12 03:04:23 +0000 UTC
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Corporations are funnelling millions of unchecked dollars directly into overfunded police departments, in exchange for tax breaks, favors, and specific protections - y’know, just like the mafia, but if the mafia were an unaccountable paramilitary force.
Corporations are able to funnel that money through organizations called police foundations. R...
2022-01-07 16:10:37 +0000 UTC
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New data from the CDC shows that we may have already hit one million COVID deaths in the United States, and that 1 in 5 deaths are unreported, primarily by public officials in parts of the country where safety measures are ignored, the severity of the pandemic is minimized, healthcare services are underfunded, vaccination rates are low,...
2022-01-03 20:18:13 +0000 UTC
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The United States Senate is a corrupt, antidemocratic, obstructionist, and failed institution whose only purpose is to kill good ideas when those ideas threaten billionaires and corporations.
The Senate was originally created to keep power in the hands of rich white male landowners during the establishment of popular democracy in the United States, and the Senate should have been abolished in ...
2021-12-27 16:45:22 +0000 UTC
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It’s a COVID Christmas miracle! We’re looking at not one, but two massive medical breakthroughs that are going to change the course of the pandemic. the first is that the US Army has developed a universal COVID vaccine that claims to be variant-proof, 2021-12-24 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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The Build Back Better Act is officially dead after Senator Joe Manchin lied to President Biden about agreeing to support the bill if it was cut in half, and separated from the infrastructure...
2021-12-22 15:36:05 +0000 UTC
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Elon Musk has just been named as TIME magazine’s Person of the Year - by which we assume they meant “worst person of the year”. And while many have been quick to criticize TIME’s choice, we actually think it’s perfect. 2021-12-15 18:36:48 +0000 UTC
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Congress just approved a $778 billion dollar military budget, which is the most money we’ve spent on our military since World War Two, EVEN AFTER ACCOUNTING FOR INFLATION. It’s more than what we spent during the the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In fact, the 2022 budget is $25 billion dollars MORE ...
2021-12-13 16:52:10 +0000 UTC
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A hospital in Georgia just charged a woman $700 to wait in their emergency room, without ever being seen by a doctor. No medication was dispensed, no medical advice was given, no doctor or nurse attended to her, no medical professional even knew she was there - and she ended up leaving after 7 hours without being seen.
A few weeks later, she received a $700 bill from the hospital, which told her that even though she didn’t receive any services, she still owed it for stepping into the ...
2021-12-07 17:03:47 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, we’ve got MORE potentially good news about the Omicron variant, and more potentially terrifying news about the Omicron variant. A new report published just yesterday on December 4th from the South African Medical Research Council covers early observations among COVID-19 patients at the epicenter of the global Omicron outbreak, 2021-12-06 17:07:57 +0000 UTC
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The Supreme Court is about to vote on an abortion case that would invalidate Roe v. Wade and lead to a permanent ban on abortions. This is the case that we’ve all been afraid of. What’s worse is that given the court’s conservative supermajority, and the rulings they’ve 2021-12-01 22:52:33 +0000 UTC
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Starbucks is allegedly engaging in illegal threats, intimidation, and surveillance of its workers in an effort to stop them from unionizing. This is according to a labor board complaint, claiming that Starbucks is violating federal law 2021-11-25 17:27:44 +0000 UTC
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America was just downgraded to a “backsliding” democracy for the first time, alongside other massive geopolitical and economic powers. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance released its report on autocracies, and changes among existing democracies. Their conclusion is that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the danger of cou...
2021-11-23 18:02:14 +0000 UTC
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The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in which a 17-year-old shot three people during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is finally over - with Rittenhouse found not guilty on all charges.
The events leading up to the shooting, the shooting itself, the trial, the prosecutor, the defense, the judge, the media circus, even the victims of the shooting, and of course, Kyle Rittenhouse himself are all at fault.
The bad news here isn’t specific to one guilty or not guilty party, the case itself...
2021-11-20 16:40:36 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, terrible news: everything is more expensive - A LOT more expensive - you’re not just imagining it, the United States is undergoing record-breaking inflation, the biggest jump in prices since 1990. Compared to an annual inflation rate of about 2%, this pas...
2021-11-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, bad news: Senator Bernie Sanders and Billionaire Elon Musk are fighting over whether or not the extremely wealthy actually pay their fair share of taxes. In just the last week, Musk sold nearly $7 billion dollars worth of stocks to pay his taxes, after which Bernie Sanders tweeted “We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Pe...
2021-11-15 22:44:45 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, bad news: the United States is one of the biggest violators of international law and documented crimes against humanity - in fact, the United States has been repeatedly found guilty by international courts, and you may be hearing on TikTok that an international tribunal of l...
2021-11-07 20:38:42 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, bad news: if you want a Big Mac in Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Miami, or a half dozen other cities you might want to look elsewhere. But actually, it’s good news, because across the United States, 2021-11-02 04:56:10 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, bad news: a few days ago, actor Alec Baldwin inadvertently shot and killed a cinematographer on the set of his latest movie - there’s no doubt you’ve been hearing a lot about it, and we normally don’t cover tragic accidents - but this tragic accident wasn’t just preventable, but inevitable. Alec Baldwin was responsible, but not for pulling the trigger. So here’s what happened, and...
2021-11-02 04:40:21 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, great news! Since the start of the pandemic, average wages have skyrocketed, jumping by 15% month-over-month. This is historically unprecedented, and the fastest averag...
2021-11-02 04:29:09 +0000 UTC
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A bunch of mugs have been shipped already, everybody who signed up in September should have gotten theirs a few weeks ago, so if you didn’t, please send us a DM! If you ordered in October, we’re about to do a big shipment!
We actually ran out of stickers and are waiting for our supplier to send us a new batch this Monday, so the next big round of mug + sticker shipments will go out before Halloween!
Thanks again everyone for all your support, it has helped tremendously in payi...
2021-10-22 06:30:28 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, bad news: The crisis behind the global supply chain collapse is so much worse than you would expect, and is going to last longer than you think. Worst of all, absolutely nothing will change once it’s over. The supply chain crisis is purely a symptom of late stage hyper-capitalism, and even though the covid-19 pandemic triggered the crisis, is has almost nothing to do with the pandemic, and everything to do with decades of companies cutting corners, and deregulation focused on ...
2021-10-21 16:53:02 +0000 UTC
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