"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" does not apply to nearly one in four US workers (24%) who suffer from "job lock." Approximately 23m Americans stay unhappily in their current job, even though they want to leave, because they are afraid of losing their health insurance.
Medical debt crushing Americans
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started -- and what to expect.
Talarico Sends Trump a Blunt Message, Vows to Repeal DOGE Cuts
Texas state Rep. James Talarico criticised President Donald Trump's policies on war, education and the economy, arguing that public funds should prioritise healthcare, schools and working families over tax breaks and military conflicts.
Talarico also pledged to reverse DOGE cuts, defend public education and expand economic opportunities through affordable childcare, housing, and support for small businesses.
The Pentagon insists the Strait of Hormuz remains open, but after weeks of renewed Iranian attacks on ships, traffic through the vital waterway has slowed again, pushing up global oil prices. ... President Trump threatened Wednesday to "bomb and destroy" an Iranian bridge or power plant for every new attack by Iran on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
A nondescript facility south of Cleveland has become an early staging ground for the auto industry's next supply-chain pivot: replacing vehicle hardware from China. The plant belongs to Eagle Wireless, a maker of electronics that was formed in late 2025, largely in response to a federal rule that bans certain Chinese connected-car software and hardware in U.S. vehicles by the end of the decade.
A special prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was indicted on accusations of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul of courts in the heavily Democratic city.
The US House of Representatives passed a $1.15tn defense policy bill in a near-party-line vote on Wednesday, after Democrats refused to back the measure amid the war with Iran and Donald Trump's push to impose new restrictions on voting nationwide. A key plank of the president's plan to spend $1.5tn on the military in the 2027 fiscal year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed the Republican-controlled chamber by a 216-212 vote, with all but six Democrats opposing its passage. Seven House Republicans broke ranks to oppose it. The measure now goes to the Senate. Read more
As temperatures rise this summer, Japanese men are baring more leg at work than ever before, thanks to a new policy allowing them to wear shorts. Some women describe the experience of "leg hair harassment" or "sunehara", referring to the discomfort of being forced to see their colleague's leg hair.
James Talarico and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D- Ga., who is running for re-election, have both received donations from Reid Hoffman, a billionaire who has admitted to spending time on Epstein's Caribbean island, Fox News reported. Hoffman donated $11.5 million to a Talarico-aligned super PAC called Lone Star Rising, according to The Texas Tribune. Hoffman donated $7,000 to Ossoff's campaign, the maximum legal amount. Read more
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to push back against talk of a "kill switch" in American technology products following the White House's short-lived decision to keep foreigners from America's most advanced AI models, according to a recent cable reviewed by Reuters.
The United States has recorded more measles cases this year than in any year since 1991, with more than five months still left on the calendar. The country had logged 2,295 cases as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University's U.S. measles tracker. That total edges past the 2,289 cases reported for all of last year and is the highest annual count since measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, The Washington Post reports.
President Donald Trump is trying to force E Jean Carroll to pay back the $5.6 million he was ordered to pay the former Elle magazine writer after a federal jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. That money was disbursed to Carroll from a court-controlled escrow account on July 9. But the president's legal team is seeking an emergency injunction that would order Carroll to return the payment to the account in the hopes that the Supreme Court will grant him a legal Hail Mary and reverse the judgment, sending the money back to him. That payment to Carroll " more than three years after the jury's verdict " "should have been the end of this case," her lawyers said. "But Defendant now demands yet another unprecedented remedy. ... The judgment here is final, the money has already been disbursed, and Carroll is entitled to keep it."
If approved, it would add an eighth nation to the list of countries where President Donald Trump has ordered strikes since the start of his second term " a chapter of his presidency that he initially said would be dedicated to ending global strife and redirecting U.S. resources to Americans.
Plus: Another rant about the WHCD
Modern men are demanding a job they're not qualified for.
The USIC advised the detestable Trumpf junta that Iran's government is unlikely to feel significant impact or soften its negotiating position as a result of the costly billion dollar a day offensive the US is waging against Iran on behalf of Israel -- who is now sitting out the war to save their own manpower and treasury -- leaving Tehran and Washington stuck in an indefinite limbo between peace and war.
Expensive quagmire with no clear exit
