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As oil prices surge, IMF research highlights a Latin American strength often goes unnoticed. Well anchored inflation expectations are helping limit broader price increases, giving policymakers room to respond, underscoring how credibility built over time can make a difference when new shocks hit.
imf.org
‘You’re proud?’ Trump official’s brazen admission leaves analyst floored
‘You’re proud?’ Trump official’s brazen admission leaves analyst floored
Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins made a startling admission Tuesday while speaking at a trade show in Minnesota, one so brazen that journalist Prem Thakker was left taken aback.Speaking at the Mi...
rawstory.com
Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.
In my mind (and likely with many others) this is stolen valor, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and an act of treason by a man who avoided military service. Congress needs to get angry. Each of the military services need to reclaim their diminishing honor.
Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social · 15h agoI’d be pissed AF if I’d served in the military and my draft-dodging POS of a president posted this. Americans are dying because of his incompetence and he thinks it’s funny???
This is why private healthcare is not about health…it’s about wealth.
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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Researchers at UCLA and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health projected that the continuing absence of USAID funding will cause 4.5 million child deaths under the age of five by the year 2030 Via The Lancet
August is expected to deliver an exciting lineup of celestial events for skywatchers around the world. Source/Credits: NASA Skywatching; TimeandDate com; EarthSky; International Astronomical Union (IAU).
In bad news for Republicans heading into the midterm elections, a new poll revealed that DJT is less popular than explosive diarrhea. By a two to one margon, likely voters said they would rather suffer 2 yrs of the acute stomach ailment than the remainder of Trump’s term.
For the small minded people or the biggots who think only two chromosomal genders exist (XX & XY):
Cheat sheets…know the differences.
Since lauded as a seminal work and sci-fi classic, Dune was ahead of its time, discussing issues of the day as warnings of what could come. The story is an intricately woven narrative of three families. It serves as a cautionary tale of the corruption of power and religious radicalism.
This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 5d ago61 years ago, on the 1st of August 1965, Frank Herbert's Dune was first published as a novel after a serialized run. The publisher, Chilton Books, was mainly known for printing auto repair manuals. Initial sales were poor. Critics reviewed it negatively due to the story being atypical. #otd 🗃️
📜 On This Day – August 2, 1939 🔬💣 A letter that changed the course of history. Today marks the anniversary of the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter signed by Albert Einstein—one that would spark the beginning of the U.S. atomic bomb project.
AI losing face with Hugging Face and others victimized by rogue AI.
AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss
Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".
bbc.com
