Our final Fucked-Up Friday for 2025 touched on the next potential pandemic, Trump’s global war posture, and why student loan borrowers are about to get crushed again.
Listening to this on Sunday, and I’m hit by the profound weakness of [too many] white men who need a sheltered space to protect their interests and from which they can throw rocks at everyone else.
Thinking back to all the ways in which they have harmed ex-slaves and their descendants, needing to keep them down out of the absolute fear of how powerful they would be if given the same resources and opportunities.
Solid breakdown of how wage garnishment timing reveals the policy's punitive intent. The january start date when premiums spike isn't coincidence, it's systemic design. I've watched how garnishment creates a debt spiral for borrowers who can't even cover basics once the deduction hits. What's missing from the conversation is how this compounds with other forms of financial extraction happening simultaneously (medical debt, housing costs, etc). Dunno why policymakers act suprised when people just stop participating in systems built to bleed them dry.
Thank you for speaking about paywalls. It is soul crushing when I listen to half a substack to be blocked from hearing the rest of the talk unless we subscribe. Many of us do not have bottomless pockets. Worse yet it is mostly the Substacks with many thousands of subscribers who charge. I will no longer even listen to such channels. Sadly other individual sub-stackers who are lesser known or other reasons, feel the need to share their voices with the big guys,… they seem to be desperate or unaware they are being used by the big guy whose substack they’re on.
New bird flu WARNING has become the top country to spread this flu. It is already spread to dairy cattle in USA. We have no warning signals, they have been taken away by this reg1M€ and cretins like r. k€nn€dy .
I think 3 way tie is appropriate. 🤦🏻♀️ How did a world get to this point?
I'm watching this on the following Tuesday, and I just read a headline that said there was a measles warning in a local shopping center in the SF Bay Area. This is not a good sign...
Listening to this on Sunday, and I’m hit by the profound weakness of [too many] white men who need a sheltered space to protect their interests and from which they can throw rocks at everyone else.
Thinking back to all the ways in which they have harmed ex-slaves and their descendants, needing to keep them down out of the absolute fear of how powerful they would be if given the same resources and opportunities.
Solid breakdown of how wage garnishment timing reveals the policy's punitive intent. The january start date when premiums spike isn't coincidence, it's systemic design. I've watched how garnishment creates a debt spiral for borrowers who can't even cover basics once the deduction hits. What's missing from the conversation is how this compounds with other forms of financial extraction happening simultaneously (medical debt, housing costs, etc). Dunno why policymakers act suprised when people just stop participating in systems built to bleed them dry.
Thank you for speaking about paywalls. It is soul crushing when I listen to half a substack to be blocked from hearing the rest of the talk unless we subscribe. Many of us do not have bottomless pockets. Worse yet it is mostly the Substacks with many thousands of subscribers who charge. I will no longer even listen to such channels. Sadly other individual sub-stackers who are lesser known or other reasons, feel the need to share their voices with the big guys,… they seem to be desperate or unaware they are being used by the big guy whose substack they’re on.
Yes Qasim, what is being done by 1sRA€£ and USA… it is disgustingly clear that DjtRuMp is escalating the power grab worldwide.
New bird flu WARNING has become the top country to spread this flu. It is already spread to dairy cattle in USA. We have no warning signals, they have been taken away by this reg1M€ and cretins like r. k€nn€dy .
I am so grateful you’ve invited Qasim to your Substack. I am a subscriber to his channel and have learnt so much from you Qasim.
I think 3 way tie is appropriate. 🤦🏻♀️ How did a world get to this point?
I'm watching this on the following Tuesday, and I just read a headline that said there was a measles warning in a local shopping center in the SF Bay Area. This is not a good sign...