In the past 250 years of American history there has never been a level of corruption and self-enrichment such as is occurring in the United States under Trump and his administration.

Trump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal Yet

The media should not be covering Trump’s new crypto bank as if it were a legitimate business story.

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A reader sent me this story from a reliable science and engineering source and, as I read it, I felt I was in a science fiction novel, and it was rather scary.

World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons

Singapore has unveiled a biological data center prototype that harnesses living human neurons for low-power computing.

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Glyphosate, the world’s most common weed killer, sparks debate between health agencies. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” but, under Trump, the US EPA says it is not, and...

Native American leaders denounce record glyphosate spraying on national forests

“It’s kind of like killing our tribe again.”

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Nothing is more exemplary of America’s transition into a neo-medieval society, than the cars, private jets, and yachts of the new billionaire, multri-millionaire class. Here are the facts.

The new AI super-rich are reshaping the market for jets, yachts and cars - Schwartzreport

Billionaire yacht, big as an ocean liner Credit: Boca do Lobo The rapid growth of AI-focused companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic has created a wave of

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This exegetic essay, about the change in male-female roles in America very competently describes one of the most important cultural trends going on in the United Statesand Europe; it is a social change corporate media almost never discusses.

Feminism didn't kill the male breadwinner model, the economy did

The discourse around young men's place in the world is frustrating. On the one hand, the idea that men may genuinely be having a harder time...

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President Dwight Eisenhower, formerly an Army general who commanded allied forces in World War II, warned the nation about the military-industrial complex on January 17, 1961, during his televised Farewell Address from the Oval Office, just three days before leaving office.

The United States Spends More on Defense than the Next 6 Countries Combined

Defense spending by the United States accounted for 33 percent of military expenditures by countries around the world.

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Donald Trump, and the serviles he has appointed, have made it repeatedly clear that they have no interest in preserving the forests, national parks, or wildlife of America’s public lands.

Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: 'Slaughter in plain sight'

Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopte...

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Another of Trump’s schemes has come to light, although corporate media is not even mentioning it. Like the reflecting pool is it is being done with no competitive building, and is not something the Coast Guard requested.

Trump's $6.8 Billion Arctic Icebreaker Plan Faces Scrutiny Over No-Bid Shipbuilding Contracts

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

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Harry S. Truman: Reached an all-time low of 22% in February 1952, driven by the Korean War and economic and corruption issues.

Like all fascist authoritarians, Trump and his minions, have created within Federal law enforcement agencies, secret police and surveillance agents to control the American population.

Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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I have been telling you for years now that authoritarian Trump and his serviles, have explicitly said climate change is a Democrat “hoax”, and done everything in their power to stop any preparation for the coming climate change crisis.

How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Climate Policies

At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has led the nation in environmental protections.

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Maybe because I have two daughters, and remember their sensitivity, particularly my younger daughter, to how their classmates thought of them, this AI caused trend outrages me.

AI "nudify" apps that can digitally undress any photo pose back-to-school risk

Think that back-to-school photo is safe to post online? Bad actors could use AI "nudify" apps to make it X-rated.

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From what I read in media and the comments people post I don’t think most Americans have any concept how their lives and American society, and everything from politics, to education, to medicine, are being fundamentally altered by the AI trend.

AI has created a shadow medical system

Financial incentives – health care makes up nearly one-fifth of the American economy – have driven every major AI company into health care.

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Here you see another example (see SR archive) of what AI is doing to American children’s education.

Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With "North Dahota" and "Olkchoma"

An educational packet given to students at one Kentucky middle school contained 17 pages of AI-hallucinated garbage.

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There is an important trend in the MAGAt Republican Party that is not getting covered properly by the media: the distorted perverse attitudes about gender and sexuality that seems to define so many White MAGAt Republican men, particularly those who seek public office.

Florida Republican could face death penalty under child abuse law he championed

A Florida Republican from Donald Trump's home district could potentially face the death penalty under a law he had championed as a state legislator.Mike Caruso, the Palm Beach County clerk of courts a...

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Even the fascist majority on the Supreme Court would not touch the E. Jean Carroll lower court jury decision, so now the matter is settled. The President of the United States is a convicted sex abuser, married to a former soft-porn model.

Supreme Court rejects final Trump appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

The Supreme Court on Monday declined President Donald Trump's attorneys' petition for a rehearing of its denial to review E. Jean Carroll's 2023 defamation case.

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The Trump administration in service to the millionaires and billionaires who own the logging industry, is attepting to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, in order to allow them to profit from the desecration of the public parks and forests that belong to the American people.

The Republican members of Congress, are spineless servants of the uber-rich. They remind me of England’s Parliment under King Henry II in the 1500s, and it is because of them, and the way they have rigged the American tax system, that the United States has become a neo-medieval society.

Donald Trump doesn’t just love billionaires, he loves multimillionaires too

US tax policy deprives the government of revenue and overwhelmingly serves the interests of the rich

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Another report of the growing neo-medievalism of America. The UNited States has become a culture where wellbeing and happiness are not priorities.

From Urban Housing to Rural Nursing Homes, the Working-Class Fight to Protect Public Goods From Private Buyers

Public goods were meant for us, but corporate interests want to take them away.

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Usually SR is a website covering trends, but I think this strange story about of a high ranking trans women, A CIA intelligence officer, who served at the highest levels of security under the administrations of both Trump and Biden, until her career was terminated when it became public she was trans

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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We are now in a six months long illegal war begun by Trump — who promised there would be no wars during his presidency. We are losing the war, and Trump has devastated the U.S. and world economy.

Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal

Trump's threat on Oman, which has been holding its own talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, comes as a 60-day window for peace negotiations expires.

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The technologies of war are changing, and Trump and his servile Hegseth, seem not to be capable of thinking strategically, or directing the military-industrial complex to evolve quickly enough. Defense One, is a publication in that world, and this is what they are reporting.

As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns

The White House revives “privateering for the digital age” by authorizing cyber firms to strike foreign targets.

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I have been telling you for more than a year (see SR archive and search on “AI”) that because Trump and his Congressional serviles have done essentially nothing to regulate AI, ...

AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry Into Utter Chaos

The spectacular implosions of big deals over suspected AI use are forcing a reckoning over creativity, trust and the future of the industry.

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Here is some good news: Critics of solar who want the United States to stay dependent on carbon energy, as one of their major criticisms of solar is to claim that it taking up too much farmland.

Solar panels on storage units: Illinois is going all in on this no-brainer

"The beauty of commercial-industrial real estate is the speed and scalability."

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The MAGAt pseudo-Christian movement constitutes a major part of Trump’s base. Why do I call them pseudo-Christians? Because, although they talk the talk of Christians, the politics they support is in blatant violation of Jesus’ teachings.

'God's money': White House enrages with vow that public cash belongs to evangelicals

This story has been updated with comment from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.A White House official called $4 billion in taxpayer funds being spent to address homelessness “God’s...

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The United States spends roughly $950 billion annually on national defense, accounting for about 33% to 40% of total global military spending. U.S. defense expenditures outpace the next six to nine largest military spenders in the world combined.

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

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Under Trump, the United States has become one of the most corrupt countries in the world. This is another story corporate media is not covering correctly, or at all. America is now something similar to South American authoritarian regimes in the 1960s.

Trump Is Hoping You Won’t Notice His Major Gift to Putin’s Pals

His administration is destroying one of the paper trails investigators need to follow secret money…

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This is the story of the University of California’s failure of admissions policy. It is about incompetence at the administrative level. But there is something else that isn’t covered in this report, but is obvious, and a national trend.

Opinion: I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math

Since the University of California abandoned the SAT and ACT, thousands of faculty say it’s admitting students who aren’t prepared for the coursework. Will UC listen?

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To understand the MAGAt Republican obsession with trans people, I think you have to place it in context with two other MAGAt obsessions: the passionate belief in male dominance; and the obsession so many MAGAt men, including the President, have with barely pubescent girls, and...

Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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The United States has a President who is a convicted sex offender, with multiple accusers, and a first lady who was a soft porn model (Do a Google on Melania Trump nude). There has never been anything remotely like this is the country’s 250 year history.

Trump oddly claims ‘young beautiful girls’ come to White House and thank him

The bizarre comment was part of an omnibus stump speech in New York’s Long Island attended by hundreds of armed police officers

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