Week in Review | 'Disaster in the Making' and Disasters in Real-Time

 

Saturday, August 9, 2025 ■ The Week in Review Trump DOJ Gives Monopolist UnitedHealth a Green Light to Swallow Yet Another Competitor "As a result, Big Medicine will profit at the expense of vulnerable hospice patients, some of whom will pay with their lives, and the workers who care for them." By Jake Johnson • Aug 8, 2025 'Disaster in the Making': Trump to Open 401(k)s to Crypto, Private Equity Vultures "Stuffing private equity, crypto, and other 'alternative assets' into 401(k)s is about propping up scams and bailing out an industry that's run out of buyers," said one critic. By Jake Johnson • Aug 7, 2025 'We're Fast Stumbling Into Stagflation,' Expert Warns as Unemployment Rolls Hit 4-Year High Under Trump "In contrast with the president's assertion of bustling job creation," said The Century Foundation's Andrew Stettner, "Americans can't get off of unemployment benefits in an economy that has stopped adding jobs outside of healthcare." By Jake Johnson • Aug 7, 2025 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?': Trump's ICE Is Now Recruiting Teenagers "ICE opening up recruiting to teenagers because they can't find enough adults willing to be their racist storm troopers is some real dystopian shit," said one critic. By Brett Wilkins • Aug 6, 2025 'Gouging': US Health Insurance Giants Raked in Over $71 Billion in Profits Last Year Meanwhile, 17% of Americans say they're using buy now, pay later services for medical or dental care. By Jessica Corbett • Aug 6, 2025 They Need More Tax Giveaways Why? Profits of Fortune 100 Companies Surged by $100 Billion Last Year "All these goodies were paid for in part by denying families healthcare," said the executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness. "The tradeoff couldn't be more clear or more cruel." By Brad Reed • Aug 6, 2025 'Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Fanatic' RFK Jr. Shredded by Medical Experts After Pulling Support for mRNA Research "RFK Jr. is systematically turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience," said a prominent infectious diseases doctor. By Brad Reed • Aug 6, 2025 'Safeguards? What Safeguards?': Grok's New 'Spicy Mode' Makes Nude Taylor Swift Deepfakes "Deepfakes are evolving faster than human sanity can keep up," said one critic. "We're three clicks away from a world where no one knows what's real." By Brett Wilkins • Aug 5, 2025 Trump EPA Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Solar Grants for Low- and Middle-Income Households "At a time when working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs and the planet is literally burning, sabotaging this program isn't just wrong—it's absolutely insane," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. By Brett Wilkins • Aug 5, 2025 State Labor Federations Team Up to Fight 'Corrupt, Rigged Redistricting' by Trump's GOP "We are at a pivotal moment in our country—the future of our unions, our democracy, and our freedoms is at stake," said labor organizations across the country. By Jake Johnson • Aug 5, 2025 'Living in a Fantasy World': Critics Pounce as Trump's CNBC Interview Goes Off the Rails "The racism here is on steroids," said one critic about Trump's statements on immigrant farmworkers. By Brad Reed • Aug 5, 2025 Cost of Groceries 'Major Source of Stress' as Trump Tariffs Start to Bite Anxiety about grocery prices is particularly strong among Americans earning $30,000 or less per year, as nearly two-thirds of them described paying for groceries as a "major source of stress." By Brad Reed • Aug 4, 2025 VIEW ALL NEWS JOIN THE MOVEMENT As a people-powered nonprofit news outlet, we cover the issues the corporate media never will. Your contribution supports this bold media model—free, independent, and dedicated to reporting the facts every day. Stand with us in the fight for economic equality, social justice, human rights, and a more sustainable future. JOIN WITH US TODAY ■ Opinion VIEW ALL OPINION

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Trump voters chose to be UNINFORMED & IGNORANT of what Trump promised. Did they listen? Who votes for a Daffy Clown who continually speaks about his BEST FRIEND the Fictional Hannibal Lector? Who votes for a Daffy Clown who babbles about Electric Boats & Sharks? Who votes for a Daffy Clown who claims WINDMILLS cause CANCER? EVERY THING the Daffy Clown said was a LIE! How many times did the Daffy Clown claim that immigrants were released from prisons & asylums? You thought you were immune? Suggest that you shut off FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS LIARS & try informing yourselves with FACTS & TRUTH!

The MAGA GOP BILL may have been defeated, but some MAGA GOP still voted for it! Some voted against it because CUTS didn't go far enough! That bill provided TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY & EXPLODED THE DEFICIT into the future! Your grandchildren will not live long enough to pay for the DEFICITS! Agencies have been destroyed, staff slashed, offices closed....GOVERNMENT NO LONGER FUNCTIONS because REPUBLICANS are incapable of governing! Just look at the RED STATES that can't provide services or economic opportunities, have high poverty, poor health care & FAIL in every single category that matters.

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