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We’re 8 Years Away From an Automatic 23 Percent Cut in Social Security Payouts
https://reason.com/2025/06/19/were-8-years-away-from-an-automatic-23-percent-cut-in-social-security-payouts/
“it’s perfectly legal for members of Congress to visit ICE detention facilities, even unannounced. And ICE’s attempt to circumvent that requirement threatens the constitutional system of checks and balances.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/19/ice-insists-that-congress-needs-its-permission-to-conduct-oversight/
What’s in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” nearing a final vote in the Senate
https://www.yahoo.com/news/whats-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-172443427.html
Hamas dressed as civilian woman successfully ambushes Israeli APC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttoXFOvXjk
Why Israel’s Adir Is the World’s Only Fully Autonomous F-35 Jet? Here’s Why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM9c3QJDk0U
E-3 Sentry Replacement Shake-Up! – USAF Turns To The Navy’s E-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-m669vukj0
“Three years ago..the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and conservative states rushed to pass strict new abortion bans or revive old ones still on the books but unenforceable under Roe. And for a short while, things went according to anti-abortion campaigners’ wishes, with the U.S. abortion rate—which had been declining since the 1990s anyway—continuing to fall.
But over the past couple of years, the U.S. abortion rate has begun to creep back up, according to data from the Society of Family Planning. There were more abortions in the U.S. in 2024 than in either 2023 or 2022, according to the group’s latest #WeCount report.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/23/abortion-rates-keep-rising-after-dobbs/
“Without fixing H-2A, tougher immigration enforcement is a recipe for empty fields, higher food prices, and failing farms.”
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“Without a legal path to hiring the workers they need, mass deportations will gut the agricultural workforce with no backup plan, hurting farms, driving up grocery prices, and weakening America’s food security. If Washington ignores the warnings from farmers, the real harvest this fall will be shortages and higher costs for everyone.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/23/mass-deportations-are-putting-americas-food-supply-at-risk/
North Carolina Lawmakers Are Trying To Kill the State’s Booming Shrimp Industry
https://reason.com/2025/06/23/north-carolina-lawmakers-are-trying-to-kill-the-states-booming-shrimp-industry/
If fired for appropriately investigating the president or his allies, then this is a great degradation of the rule of law. The U.S. cannot call itself a strong democracy when administrations can punish people for proper legal investigations. Future prosecutors and investigators will have to think twice before investigating any potential crimes by Trump or his friends.
“At least three federal prosecutors who worked on cases against Jan. 6 rioters were fired Friday by the Justice Department, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials familiar with the dismissals.
A copy of one of the dismissal letters seen by NBC News was signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, notifying the recipient that they were “removed from federal service effective immediately.” No reason for the removal was stated in the letter.”…”The Trump administration in late January fired probationary federal prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases and prosecutors who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump. The administration also demoted some career prosecutors who worked on the Capitol siege investigation.Probationary workers are either recent hires or have taken new positions.The firings on Friday, though, marked the first time that career prosecutors who had worked Jan. 6 cases and who were past their probationary period of federal employment had been fired.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bondi-fires-two-jan-225031625.html