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  • Trump administration to garnish wages of 5.3 million defaulted student loan borrowers this summer

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  • Roughly 2.9 million people who have student loans are age 62 or older. I'm very curious as to how many in that demographic are within this defaulted status. Mostly because any change in social security benefits for a retiree is life altering and if any significant portion of that group that's defaulted is also this 62 or older group, the changes this will have a massive impact on the population. Retirees that get caught into money troubles not only brings them down, but usually the family that ultimately has to catch them from completely falling through the cracks.

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  • So completely unqualified people, gotcha.

  • Trump Says He Will Order US to Reopen Alcatraz as Federal Prison

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  • Well the bars kind of need to have a particular bit of strength to prevent prisoners from taking over the place.

  • Trump Says He Will Order US to Reopen Alcatraz as Federal Prison

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  • The prison camp isn't where they want to hold them. It's the Guantanamo Bay's Migrant Operations Center where they want to hold them. It suffers the same issues at Alcatraz, so either way they want to slice the bread here, they have to go through a set of hoops to get it to any kind of position to hold long term prisoners.

  • Trump Says He Will Order US to Reopen Alcatraz as Federal Prison

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  • Things that won't happen.

    The salt from the ocean has corroded the bars, a good kick likely would open the windows. To secure the place would take years of rework or just outright tear down and rebuild.

    The place hasn't had proper upkeep since the late 1960s and honestly very likely before then too. It wouldn't serve to secure anyone that various places out in the Midwestern desert regions wouldn't do multiple times better.

  • Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters

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  • Wants to stop mRNA. Which interestingly is being tested to cure AIDS, types of cancers, and other diseases.

    All those wacks who thought that big pharma didn't want to develop cures for these diseases, and the reality is it's one of the wacks that didn't want these cures.

    How ironic.

  • Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters

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  • The first wave of COVID deaths were clearly not enough.

  • White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: 'Hostile and political act'

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  • Trump hates transparency. Hey Jeffrey, how's that's "donation" working for you?

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  • Right? The group he's threatening is likely to have plenty who can pass with flying colors.

  • Trump Admin Will Garnish Struggling Borrowers' Wages as Student Loan Payments Resume

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  • there could be almost 10 million borrowers in default in a few months

    That's not a small amount. That's fucking with economic outlook levels.

    As for their program to "guide" folks to repayment, I mean you might as well tell them that they're indentured servants at this point. Bully tactics are not going to work in an economy where it does not matter how much or little credit you have.

    And I highly doubt this administration has any kinds of plans to gentle get folks back to repayment. I fully expect, "pay your loans or we will make you a slave for the rest of your life" to be their go to solution.

    There's a correct manner to handle this, I expect Trump's administration to fuck it up every step of the way.

  • Trade war fallout: Cancellations of Chinese freight ships begin as bookings plummet

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  • The start of the actual effects.

    Everyone looking at stock markets and 401(k)s as the effects, but the actual ground level affects they were always going to take at least three to six months to really feel.

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    Evil Elon wants more babies

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  • And love zero of them.

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    Just a reminder to users here to pay attention to where your Lemmy instances are hosted, and who runs them

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  • Vindictive. Turkey feels better about themselves when the person is completely silenced.

  • helth rule

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  • Careful with that. As a workaholic who was on this style for a while, I got introduced to a thing called refeeding syndrome while out on travel for the company.

    Nothing too terrible in my case, but one moment I was on-site explaining some programmable logic controllers that needed to be installed at site and then next moment I'm waking up in a hospital.

    Your body can get really used to one way of doing things that when you shock it in some other direction (like having a big meal with the facility you're at) it'll ask you to have a quick nap while it figures out what to do with what you just gave it.

  • 'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat

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  • However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. So to wish ill on someone and to love the fact that they’re suffering, to love the fact that their family is being negatively affected, because I didn’t vote the same way that you did is [expletive] up

    This guy is a double idiot. That he would think the manufacturing would be around before the tariffs went into place. it's just silly thinking.

    But also that he believes "go woke, go broke" isn't the exact same thing he's facing, is a whole other level of ignorance.

    There's no way this person isn't just rage bait. No one could truly be this fucking regraded. I refuse to believe there are people this genuinely ignorant who aren't just out there for rage bait.

  • China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech

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  • Ha ha, but for real. They'll just turn people's power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.

    Team Orange let's no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.

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  • You're mostly right in that the person you're replying is missing that we are providing money for those people's detention. But El Salvador doesn't HAVE TO give the person back, there's nothing outside of us stopping payments that compels them.

    It's a semantic difference indeed but goes to point out the difference between legal means and diplomatic means. Legally, there's nothing the US can do, once the person is in El Salvador they are under that country's legal system. Diplomatically, yes, absolutely we can ask El Salvador to hand the person back or there will be diplomatic and potentially economic consequences for not doing so.

    Now as others have pointed out, the Executive branch has a wide latitude for diplomatic powers. Judge indicated that the President work diplomatically to bring the person home, but outside of that, the "or else" part. There's not much the Judge can do past that.

    Additionally, El Salvador could press charges on the person and then there would be nothing that can be done to bring the person home in any legal means and likely less so diplomatically. This is the issue with sending people there. President Bukele of El Salvador could wish for better diplomatic relationships with the United States and Trump and just invent charges to keep the person there forever. There's literally nothing we can do is El Salvador indicates that they are keeping the person and there's nothing in the court system that can compel anyone to make those reasons clear.

    That's the biggest thing about the difference between diplomatic and legal. In legal means, the Court system can ensure that people are following through on requirements. In a diplomatic means, it's just depends on who can butter who's biscuit the best. The Judge can tell the President to bring him back, but that means next to nothing when it comes to diplomatic matters.

  • Senate Republicans buck Trump, join Dems in rejecting Canada tariffs

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  • If it passes the House, it doesn't matter, Trump can veto it.

    Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha in 1983 declared Legislative Veto unconstitutional. It should have been then when all the emergency powers were rewritten.

    So as it stands. All those emergency powers that were written with the understanding that a simple majority was all that was needed to end an emergency, now need a veto proof majority.

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  • President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries

    It's just whatever at this point. Clearly he's gunning for recession, fuck it. Nobody in Congress stopping him.

    At this point all those emergency powers Congress has given the President since the 1920s needs to be pulled back because clearly we can no long assure that the President won't declare everything an emergency.

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  • Schedule F classification. Trump tried it once towards the end of his first term, promised that he would do it again when he came back into office but Trump lost that election.

    That he's now doing again is literally no surprise. He absolutely promised that this would happen and spoke about how he was going to do it if he won 2024 after losing 2020.

    Long story short, this creates what basically amounts to at-will employment at the Federal level. Again, this should come as a shock to no one, like he started detailing the implementation back in 2022, before he even got the nomination, it's literally one of the most consistent things about Trump's policy.

    Now if you're wondering, yes, at-will employment styled employment in Federal Office will mean that if Trump doesn't like someone for any reason, they can be let go, zero employment protections.