I had not heard that bit of it. Capping student loans at $200k will, indeed, end med school dreams for most who are not rich enough to lay out a couple hundred grand themselves. Fun stuff…
Robert Reich and Heather Lofthouse discuss recent events and what we can do in a way that makes difficult times easier to bear:
And away we go.
There’s a fourth way, now. Blame the problem on some non-white persons, and deport them. Problem solved. /s?
And re “remigration” - how far back do they want to go with that? Because, no, we’re not having those right-wing fuckwits of European descent back over on this side of the Atlantic thanks, even if it would be the right thing to do for the indigenous population.
Wouldn’t do much for health, but it sure would make tracking our activities, conversations, opinions and so forth a whole lot easier for the Gestapo, wouldn’t it?
Tariffs return to April rates on August 1 without deals, Bessent says
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/06/trump-tariffs-letters-trade-war
Trump blinked first again.
Any country that negotiates with him is a chump.
Strap it on your dog to confuse them.
I mean, how do they plan to make us… like, are they going to come to our houses and force us to wear them? I’m with you… NO.
90-day labor camp sentences for anyone caught not wearing theirs.
I guess I’m going to a fucking labor camp then.
I was thinking that they’ll give tax breaks to health plans that require devices for their plans, which the healthcare giants will force on people by way of increasing premiums on the non-compliant.
I guess I won’t have health insurance when I’m more likely to get seriously ill…
But yeah, I agree that’s the most likely method of forcing people to do this.
Freedom health insurance!
I use an app to track my walks (the only time I turn on my location on my phone). I don’t use any of the other health options that my phone’s app tries to push on me because I don’t trust their privacy. Turn on my mic for possible sleep apnea? Just no way. I don’t want an app to record private conversations and I don’t trust the app to do the right thing. My mic is off for everything but phone calls. 
I always wonder how much of this is an accidental - in this case a side effect of turning America fully into a caste-stratified country where only the children of the (currently) wealthy will be able to afford to send their children to universities to get the kinds of degrees required for high status, high income jobs, and they didn’t consider that would also mean a huge shortage of doctors. But then I look at all the things they’re doing to reshape America into something that has no viable future (economically, socially, ecologically), and it absolutely does seem like a deliberate attempt to annihilate the country.
I would guess China-style coercion, where you can’t get health insurance without wearing one 24/7, or they become mandatory for government employees, or your social credit score is reduced if you don’t wear one… (just as soon as they introduce a China-style social credit system, thanks to centralizing all the data). I mean, it’s for your own good - who could possibly object?
Of course, then you’ll see the same attempts to fake data that cropped up in China (e.g. rocking devices at cafe tables, so you could put your step-tracker in it and get credit for being active while you sat around smoking and eating, drinking), but potentially having to be more sophisticated.
Can someone send him back to either Scotland or Germany, two countries which would absolutely know just what to do with him?