JAMES CARTER: Dissecting The US Treasury’s Dastardly Debt Disaster
Count five seconds. The federal government spent, in those few seconds, $137,940 on interest on the federal debt. Shockingly, the $870 billion the federal government will spend on interest this year is three times greater than what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated for fiscal year 2024 just three years ago. It didn’t need to be this way. […]
Mike Francesa predicts NBA Finals ratings disaster
Mike Francesa is frustrated with the sluggish NBA playoff schedule this week. The Celtics swept the Pacers and just days later the Mavericks beat the Timberwolves in five games, forcing sports fans to wait a full seven days for the NBA Finals to begin. According to Francesa, this would mean a “catastrophe” for the league. […]
NYC schools could use gyms, other spaces to comply with class-size mandate as critics blast ‘disaster in the making’
As the city struggles to meet state class size restrictions amid a surge in enrollment, up to 500 schools may choose to repurpose gyms or teacher lounges as classrooms. The option is one of 12 suggestions for the school outlined in a draft plan released Tuesday by city education department officials. “Principals may closely review […]
There’s A Massive Red Flag That Could Spell Disaster For Americans’ Pension Plans
U.S. government pension funds currently have the lowest cash holdings since the 2008 financial crisis, and corporate pensions’ cash holdings are barely above the 13-year low they hit in 2021, which could spell disaster in the event of a financial crisis. Over the past 15 years, public pensions had 2.45% cash holdings and private pensions […]
Over a third of Texas counties are under a disaster declaration
More than a third of Texas counties are under disaster declarations after extreme weather battered much of the state Saturday night and into Sunday. Severe weather, including multiple tornadoes, hit across the central United States, killing at least 18 people. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had issued disaster declarations for 108 counties across the state as […]
Soul Dysphoria [A Trans and GenZ Disaster]
Understanding the “trans” phenomenon means recognizing it’s about more than gender. In 2013 the DSM-V, an authoritative diagnostic manual for therapists and clinicians published by the American Psychiatric Association, defined gender dysphoria as “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender,” where “gender” refers not to […]
Google testing ads in AI-powered search as news publishers warn of looming disaster
Google has announced plans to place advertising directly into its new AI-powered search results, stoking concerns from news publishers that the controversial overhaul of the world’s most popular search engine could deal a devastating blow to site traffic and advertising revenue. The tech giant plans to begin testing search and shopping ads within automatically generated […]
Biden Admin Has Paid Taliban Nearly $11 Million Since Withdrawal Disaster
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report On Monday, the Biden administration announced it was overseeing $10.9 million in payments to Afghanistan’s Taliban junta since President Joe Biden took office. a disastrous retreat of the U.S. military in August 2021. cigar Said The majority of US taxpayer funding for the Taliban regime came from […]
Trump hits Biden for blaming ‘disaster’ inflation on shrinking size of Snickers Bars
Former President Trump criticized President Biden’s handling of inflation in a late-night social media post, joking that President Biden’s “economic disaster” was due to the downsizing of Snickers bars. In a series of posts on Truth Social late Friday night, President Trump suggested that “corporate greed” is the main reason why prices remain high, and […]
Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Championship weekend takes another twist with Day 3 disaster
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At least this week, Scottie Scheffler’s focus and patented ability to remain unflappable will be tested. After all, this week’s PGA Championship a Valhalla was his first tournament in a month, the week after his wife, Meredith, gave birth to their first child, Bennett, on May 8th. Then came Scheffler’s surprising arrest […]