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Concerns for Social Security’s future under Trump mount as program celebrates milestone

SEATTLE — The 90th anniversary of Social Security did not pass quietly this week. Some advocates and lawmakers…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #anniversary #benefits #concerns #Economy #Privatizing #protect #socialsecurity #Trump #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/65342/

#Privatizing #weather agencies has long been an aim of #Republicans. During #Trump’s first presidency, he signed a bill that utilized more private weather data. And #Project2025, a proposed blueprint for Trump’s 2nd presidency that was co-authored by #OMB director #RussVought, calls for #NOAA to be broken up & for the weather service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations.”

#law #broligarchy #profiteering #BudgetCuts #MassLayoffs #climate #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather

#Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from #privatizing #weather forecasts

As #commerce secy, #HowardLutnick oversees the US govt’s vast efforts to monitor & predict the weather.

#law #broligarchy #profiteering #BudgetCuts #MassLayoffs #NWS #NOAA #climate #NaturalDisasters #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #flooding #Texas
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96

The US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.

«They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»

Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.

I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.

A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power to bootstrap other independent power structures, leaving themselves as gatekeepers, but making these less regulated structures more untouchable.

Capture of the voting structures locally in each state feels like another. Privatization of government services is another. Injecting religion into the public sphere is another. The according of protected rights to corporations ("legal people") is another. In my mind, these all share a common tactical structure of exploiting a legislative weakness to create an unchecked power structure.

Further to the death of irony, too, the GOP wrongly complains, and recently offers Project 2025 as alleged antidote, that FDA, CDC, NOAA, and other science-based agencies are on par, doing the same. They want party loyalists installed there to keep science more responsive to the ruling party. As if that science is a thing one can or should vote on. But then they create their own similarly extragovernmental groups and processes but make no effort to make THOSE groups responsive to party.

It leaves me flabbergasted.

https://www.themarysue.com/utah-releases-first-list-of-books-to-be-banned-statewide/

#FreeSpeech #BookBan #BookBanning #UtahBookBanning #LBO #SCOTUS #democracy #privatizing #politics #FreedomOfSpeech

Patients are paying for surgeries covered by the province
@fordnation stop #privatizing #healthcare

https://youtu.be/WNXaVYkl2Kg?si=el1VGyuUkuYd2Dbd via @YouTube

@LeftistLawyer #Capitalists make billions off children, education, the elderly, and the disabled. They are trying to make even more by #privatizing all their services and then cutting their expenditures while taking an even larger share of public funds.

@chris I'd say #capitalism not fucking up and #socializing #losses whilst #privatizing #profits!

Just shy of 100 yr anniversary, troubled #logistics network firm #Yellow #trucking declares #Chapter11 #bankruptcy and to sell assets, end all operations, #layoff 30k employees and blames #InternationalBrotherhood of #Teamsters instead of own #mismanagement. Corporation has teetered at least since 2009, taking $700 million in #COVID #GovtAid during pandemic, socializing its failures while #privatizing profits.

Trucker Yellow Goes Bankrupt After Debt, Labor Woes Pile Up

Yellow Corp. filed for bankruptcy and will remain shuttered after the trucking firm’s long-running financial woes were compounded by a dispute with its labor force. The Chapter 11 filing, in Delaware, gives it breathing room from creditors while it winds down the business and sells off assets.

Teamsters National Freight Director John A. Murphy said union members’ loss of work at Yellow was no fault of their own, adding "they should be the first in line for real relief as bankruptcy moves forward. While Yellow's closure represents one last shameful act by a greedy employer, the Teamsters will never desert our brothers and sisters," he said.

"We will do everything we can to prioritize our members at Yellow and their families during this bankruptcy.”

Yellow at the union were at odds over a makeover of Yellow's network called One Yellow. The goal was for the company to emerge as a lean "super-regional carrier." Phase 1, integrating the linehaul networks of YRC Freight and Reddaway

@housepanther @DamienMarieAtHope

The reason why #rent hasn't skyrocketed in my hometown compared to the average is because instead of "just #privatizing" by selling off public-owned assets like city-built #housing for cheap to #HedgeFunds and #BigRealEstate corporations, the city spun off said holdings into a #cooperative that has non-profit status, at least reducing any gentrification against seniors and low-income households.

https://www.leverkusen.de/verzeichnisse/adressverzeichnis/Gemeinnuetziger_Bauverein_Opladen_eG.php

The #Provinces have #failed. #Canada #needs nationalized #HealthCare
https://www.tvo.org/article/the-provinces-have-failed-canada-needs-nationalized-health-care
"OPINION: #Provincial governments are #incrementally #privatizing the systems they’ve #broken. It’s time to consider something bold." #ConservativePremiers #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #onpoli #DougFord #NeverEverVoteConservative #Oligarchy

#privatizing

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