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Thursday, December 11, 2025

An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as "unambiguously illegal." read more


Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media. read more


The measles outbreak in South Carolina is "accelerating" with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday. As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what's known as upstate South Carolina " an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg. "We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks," Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the South Carolina Department of Public Health, said during a news briefing Wednesday.


Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Fewer than 60,000 people -- 0.001% of the world's population -- control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential. read more


Boys in the Assemblies of God join the Royal Rangers for Bible study and backpacking. But the ministry has also drawn sexual predators, an NBC News investigation found. read more


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More: The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they're so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren't falling apart.

The applause is the point. When billionaires are cast as heroes, no one has to admit that the system has collapsed so thoroughly that private charity is now doing the work of the state. This is how the social contract dies without anyone calling it what it is. People look at the $250 and say at least it's something. They say maybe it'll grow. They say maybe it'll help someday. They don't say what's obvious. They don't say the quiet part. They don't say that America now expects the financial markets to raise children because the country has decided it won't.

There's also the quiet financialization happening underneath. These accounts invest in index funds. That means millions of new dollars flowing into the same corporate structures that already dominate the economy. Kids become passive capital generators before they can read. Their "gift" enriches the very companies that helped create the inequality this program is pretending to solve. It's a perfect loop. The wealthy get to look generous while reinforcing the machine that made them wealthy. The public gets a story about hope. The corporations get the money.

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