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The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Over the past two decades, the perverse incentive structures of America’s elite media have caused a new species of pundit to rise from the Beltway’s primordial ooze, at once less insightful and infinitely more annoying than any of his progenitors. InContinue Reading

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The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666-to-1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made last year, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans invented the wheel.  Starbucks takes the prize for theContinue Reading

the-dc.-dress-rehearsal

Just one day after President Traitor 47 ordered the National Guard into Washington D.C. in response to a spurious crime wave, the Washington Post reported that the administration was evaluating a plan to rapidly deploy troops to other American cities. According to the Post, the plan would establish a “DomesticContinue Reading

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National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who was previously criticized for acting like a Russian asset, is planning to gut the agency responsible for monitoring influence from foreign governments. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a fact-sheet saying it would begin “refocusing functions” within the supposedly “redundant” ForeignContinue Reading

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Traitor 47 said Tuesday the Smithsonian Institution was too narrowly focused on negative aspects of U.S. history, including “how bad slavery was.” The Traitor’s social media post minimizing the horrors of chattel slavery came after the White House ordered a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions in order to ensureContinue Reading

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Here’s what to know about how AI could change the labor market., Business leaders have offered dire warnings in recent months about the turmoil artificial intelligence (AI) could unleash on the job market, predicting widespread worker displacement and mass unemployment.   Experts say the picture is still unclear, with theContinue Reading

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NEW YORK (AP) — Sony has raised the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles being sold in the United States by $50. “Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment,” Sony Global Marketing Vice President Isabelle Tomatis wrote in a blog post. “As a result,Continue Reading