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Smoke and mirrors?

Trump announces ‘TrumpRx’ website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal – ABC

Trump announces deal with Pfizer to lower drug prices, new ‘TrumpRx’ website – WaPost

The Art of the Bad Deal: Trump’s Failure to Lower Prescription Drug Prices – Senate HELP Committee Minority Staff Report

“Trump’s drug pricing policies so far have followed the playbook of his first administration: make grand claims about lowering prices while issuing press releases and limited executive orders that will fail in the courts. If Trump is serious about making real change, he should work with Congress to make sure all Americans pay no more than people in other countries for prescription drugs.”


Israeli troops kill at least 31 Palestinians in Gaza as Trump peace plan raises questions – LA Times


​​Israel’s secret ‘Esther Project’: DOJ filings reveal paid US influencer campaign amid AI-powered PR blitz – Forward


‘Full-throated assault on the First Amendment’: Judge rips into Trump over attempts to deport pro-Palestinian academics – CNN


Workforce updates:

  • UAW Prepares for Strike at Volkswagen Chattanooga – Abrego Garcia Transferred to Moshannon ICE Detention – Federal Workers Say Hold the Line – Payday Report
  • Administration Plans for Mass Firings in a Shutdown Not Justified by Law or Prudent Management – CBPP
  • State Dept. Makes Visa Announcement for Farm Workers – Raleigh News & Observer
  • AI-Generated Actress Draws a Rebuke From Actors Union

How to control increase of income inequality due to new technologies? – Branko Milanovic/Global Inequality

“Spread, tax and ban.”

CCSE has proposed that all Americans could be owners of capital through a universal retirement savings and investment system:

Including all workers in our retirement savings system requires two things: a universal tax credit and a secure place to invest it. Congress should be working on both.

Half of Americans have no retirement savings — here’s how Congress can look out for them – op-ed

Also see: How the American Retirement Savings System Magnifies Wealth Inequality – Society of Actuaries


Two-Thirds of Working-Age Renters Struggle to Afford Basic Needs – Harvard JCHS


How Insurers That Own Providers Can Game The Medical Loss Ratio Rules – Health Affairs

One more example of how the US medical industrial complex is screwing Americans vertically, horizontally, or at any other angle corporate profiteers can contrive. Health care costs need more than controlling. They need to be cut.


How Pharmaceutical Tariffs Will Affect US Health Care Costs – AEI


What The Ugly History of Tax Policy Over The Past Four Decades Means For The Future – Howard Gleckman/TPC


France Takes Aim at Wealthy as Way Out of Political Paralysis – Bloomberg


Portland’s city leaders and residents are pushing back against ICE. Now Trump is sending in troops – CNN

“On Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum announcing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard would be ‘called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days.’ The City of Portland and the State of Oregon then filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration had overreached its mandate in federalizing the Oregon National Guard in response to unrest.”

Statement on Wearing of Masks by ICE Agents – NYC Bar


Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs – NPR


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