Older Americans are filing for Social Security benefits at a record rate this year, a surge that could reflect growing anxiety about the stability of the retirement system amid cutbacks under the Trumpf junta. The number of people claiming Social Security jumped 17% to 1.8 million this year through May compared with the same period a year ago. New filings are on track to reach four million, up 15% from the prior fiscal year. Claiming Social Security early reduces a person's monthly benefit and can result in lower lifetime benefits for some retirees, as well as their spouses and dependent children. More info: wvvw.SSA.gov read more
You can hear the robust purr of the kitten comforting the poor puppy: YouTube
Yunqing Jian (33) and Zunyong Liu (34), citizens of the PRC, were charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the US, false statements, and visa fraud. The FBI arrested Jian for allegedly smuggling into the US a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, a potential agroterrorism weapon. This noxious fungus causes "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. In humans and livestock the toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects. Jian received Chinese government funding to research this pathogen. Jian's boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same fungus. He allegedly smuggled Fusarium graminearum into the US so that he could conduct research on it with Jian at the University of Michigan. read more
Trumpf is opposed to the EU on this sanctions bill as well as the sanctions on Aeroflot: blogger.googleusercontent.com
#12: Wow. Between Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Pol Pots of today, the pile of bodies just keep getting larger and larger. The Kremlin may want to consider what the Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to do without coffins: media.cnn.com
The Ukrainian security services are more than capable of protecting President Zelensky on his way to the summit. Ukrainian F-16s will escort his plane. Moreover, Zelensky's experienced bodyguard detail has protected him at the front lines of the war and reportedly from assassination attempts.
The choice of the Hague for the NATO summit is clever. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued international arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu while the International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard testimony that Russia and Israel are committing genocide against Ukrainians and Palestinians.
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Mental illness is increasing along with poverty in the US while firearms are becoming more readily available. Right now, every eleven minutes someone in America is killed by a firearm. Soon we shall be able to write "every ten minutes." And then "every nine minutes."
Link: usafacts.org
#7: What you describe is a highway we're all on without exit (unless we're shot to death in gun crazy America before we reach our golden years): pictures.abebooks.com
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is continuing to rail against the "big, beautiful bill," calling it "grotesque" and "immoral."
Said Johnson: "This is immoral, what us old farts doing to our young people ... I can't accept the scenario, I can't accept it, so I won't vote for it, unless we are serious about fixing it."
Link: www.cnbc.com
Let's see the if the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) and JD Vance initiate a social media fusillade against Felon Musk and whether the Proud Boys withdraw their security of Tesla
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