Robert Reich

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What To Do About the Tinpot Dictator
He can be stopped only with people power





Friends,

Never before in American history, not even in wartime, has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.

Yesterday he sent ICE agents and National Guard troops into Los Angeles, over the objections of the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles. He is also sending 200 Marines to Florida to aid ICE.

Where will he next direct ICE, National Guard, and active duty military? He isn’t saying. But it’s our country.

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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Mexico tops Team USA 2-1 to win their second straight Concacaf Gold Cup and 10th overall (More) | Liverpool and Portugal soccer star Diogo Jota dies at 28 along with his brother in single-car crash in Spain (More)

> Joey Chestnut eats 70.5 hot dogs and buns to win his 17th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest; Miki Sudo eats 33 to win her 11th women's title (More)

> "Jurassic World Rebirth" hauls in $318M at the global box office in its opening weekend as "Lilo & Stitch" crosses $972M in its seven-week run (More) | Julian McMahon, actor known for starring roles in "Nip/Tuck" and "Fantastic Four," dies of cancer at 56 (More)


Science & Technology
> Astronomers detect the third interstellar object ever observed; the roughly 20-mile-wide comet will pass around 150 million miles from Earth, travel past the sun, and eventually exit the solar system (More)

> Neanderthals crushed and boiled bones in "fat factories" to access bone marrow and other nutrients as early as 125,000 years ago, evidence suggests (More)

> Researchers discover microbe with one of the smallest genomes known to date; findings raise questions around what constitutes life in single-celled organisms (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Thursday (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.0%) after report showing the US added 147,000 nonfarm jobs last month, beating expectations; unemployment rate dropped from 4.2% in May to 4.1% in June (More)

> President Donald Trump says 12 countries will receive letters today notifying them of tariffs going into effect tomorrow unless they accept "take it or leave it" deals; will name countries today (More)

> Eight OPEC+ countries, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agree to increase oil production next month by 548,000 barrels per day in virtual meeting Saturday (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Tropical Storm Chantal makes landfall in northeastern South Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of up to 50 miles per hour and warnings of potential flash flooding across the two Carolinas (More)

> Israel sends delegation to Qatar after Hamas says it is ready to negotiate US-proposed 60-day ceasefire; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump today in Washington, DC (More) | Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance since 12-day war with Israel (More)

> US deports eight men convicted of violent crimes to South Sudan, most of whom are citizens of other countries in Asia and Latin America; the move ends weeks of a legal saga, which saw the men held at a US military base in Djibouti (More)

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Immigration

 

America is built on immigration; the great industrial age here was predicated upon European TOOL AND DIE MAKERS coming over here because we did not have those skills.

Since the ONLY REAL AMERICANS are NATIVE AMERICANS, then one could easily say that ALL AMERICANS today came from immigration.

So, we are a country of immigrants!!!

Over the years, we have passed laws so that if one wants to immigrate into the USA, it must be done LEGALLY, not illegally.

President Biden allowed Immigrants to enter the USA illegally as opposed to entering the country legally.

These illegal immigrants caused most of all other Americans to vote for Donald Trump who promised to REMOVE the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...  and this is what he is doing.

Those who are opposed to Trump want these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to remain in this country.  That is UNACCEPTABLE for the rest of us.

Personally...

I am not opposed to immigration.

I am opposed to illegal immigration.

I have been told by a legal immigrant that these illegal immigrants do not want to wait ten years to enter the USA legally.

Them not wanting to wait is irrelevant because that is the law, whether it take ten years, ten months, or ten weeks.

You must wait if you want to be legal.

MY CONCERN:

If you are willing to enter the USA illegally, what other laws are you willing to break after you get here???

Americans either obey the laws or must accept the consequences...  they know this...  so, I don't feel bad for anyone who breaks the law and gets punished.

Somewhat Political

 

The Earth’s rotation is accelerating

Our planet is speeding up, yes, like Hamilton when he reaches a corner. Astronomers are investigating because, since 2020 (and for still unknown reasons), the Earth has been spinning on its axis faster than usual, and the next record is about to happen. Graham Jones is the astrophysicist who is studying this phenomenon, and he has predicted the next shortest day on three possible dates: July 9, July 22, or August 5, 2025.

It’s not that you’re going to work one day less, hold your horses, the day will be shortened by 1.66 milliseconds. Not even the length of a blink!

But of course, the important thing is not how long the day lasts but why this is happening, and, although there are several hypotheses on the table, the origin is still unclear. And do you know what’s even more curious? Until recently, the planet was spinning slower and slower!

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A Painful Truth

 

Whether we like it or not, Artificial Intelligence and Humanoid Robots with AI are on the near horizon.  What do I mean by near horizon?  I would suspect no later than 2030, and most likely well before that.

This was provided to me by CoPilot AI:

Now through 2030: Experts like Vinod Khosla predict that AI could automate up to 80% of economically valuable tasks by 2030. That doesn’t mean 80% of jobs vanish—but many will be reshaped or require fewer humans.

A prediction now but as we all know too well, these expert opinions are always underestimated in the hopes of not putting the general public into a state of PANIC!!!

AI, whether it be CoPilot or Gemini or Claude, is being used more and more by the general public than ever before and that usage rate is only going to escalate.

• Robots don't need sick leave
• Robots don't take breaks
• Robots don't need vacations
• Robots don't bitch about the work
• Robots don't need pay increases
• Robots don't need benefits
• Robots don't sabotage production

The first to feel the squeeze from robots and AI? It’s typically those in roles that are routine, repetitive, and rules-based—jobs where decisions follow a clear script and physical tasks don’t require much dexterity or creativity.

When you look at this situation a little closer, one might begin to wonder, robots replacing people will cause a lot of UNEMPLOYMENT...

Are we ready for an increase in claims?

How will be pay for food, housing, healthcare?

Who will be able to buy the products made?

How will we pay off student loans?

What will laid off military personnel do?

There are hundreds of more questions, and no one seems to care or are talking about these UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES...

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Central Texas flooding leaves at least 82 dead and 41 still missing. July Fourth flash flooding along the Guadalupe River caused water to rise 20 feet in two hours in some areas, devastating campgrounds on the banks where visitors were gathered for the holiday. Roads were also washed out, endangering travelers. Kerr County, TX, was among the hardest hit, with at least 40 adults and 28 children killed and 10 children and a summer camp counselor still missing as of Sunday night. Yesterday, President Trump signed a major disaster declaration for the county, granting first responders access to more resources. TX Gov. Greg Abbott’s state disaster declaration remains in effect in many counties.

Elon Musk announced the America Party in opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill. Musk launched an X poll asking, “Should we create the America Party?” He framed it as an alternative to “the two-party (some would say uniparty) system,” which he believes propagates government waste. Over 1.2 million respondents participated in the poll, voting 65.4% in favor. The next day, Musk wrote, “You shall have it!” He went on to say that focusing on two or three Senate seats and eight-to-10 House districts with the party would “be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws.” On Sunday afternoon on Truth Social, Trump voiced his disapproval of the move, posting that third parties are only good for “the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS.”

BRICS summit takes place in Rio, with some drama afoot. The annual meeting of emerging economies, which kicked off yesterday, encompasses Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—which gave it its acronym—as well as other recent additions like the UAE and Iran. However, for the first time in a decade, Chinese leader Xi Jinping chose not to attend. The group stands as a counterpoint of sorts to the G7, advocating for a “multipolar world” that moves away from the US dollar as the predominant international trade standard. President Trump essentially issued the group a “hold your horses” memo before it convenes for its second day of discussions today. Late last night on Truth Social, he posted, “Any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff.”—HVL

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Robert Reich

Now the Second (and Worse) Stage of Trump’s Police State
It’s part of the Big Ugly Bill just signed into law, and it will be evident very soon.




Friends,

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.

This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.

ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets.

Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from $3.4 billion in the current fiscal year to $45 billion until the end of the 2029 fiscal year. That’s a 365 percent increase.

Funding for ICE detentions will exceed funding for the entire federal prison system.

When government capacity is built out this way, there’s always political and bureaucratic pressure to utilize such capacity. Supply creates its own demand.

“They pass that bill, we’re gonna have more money than we ever had to do immigration enforcement,” Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said recently, adding, “You think we’re arresting people now? You wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.”

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