CURRENT EVENTS July 31-Sept 27

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altmin said:
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America doesn't have enough truck drivers

The trucker shortfall risks upending supply chains, driving up prices and sending shockwaves through the broader U.S. economy.
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America is experiencing a nationwide shortage of truckers, prompting the logistics industry to place more emphasis on employee retention satisfaction as the driver shortfall threatens to upend the nation's supply chains.

According to a report published last week by business research firm Tech.co, 56 percent of U.S. freight businesses concerned about staffing retention plan to increase driver compensation, with the same number also planning to place greater emphasis on work-life balance to "combat the perception of long and inflexible hours in the industry."

This is against the backdrop of what Tech.co called a "persistent trucker shortage," which it warned threatens the stability of America's supply chains and dubbed a "ticking time bomb" for the logistics sector.

A spokesperson for the Department of Transportation told Newsweek: "Secretary [Sean] Duffy is working tirelessly to address the concerns of American truckers who have been vocal about the issues facing their industry."

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As evidence of how vital this industry is, there are an estimated 3.6 million truck drivers in the U.S.—equivalent to just over one out of every hundred people. However, according to Statista, the industry has faced a persistent shortage that is expected to grow to 162,000 drivers by 2030.

As Tech.co noted, the issue is a "hiring problem, not a demand problem," given 84 percent said there was sufficient or surplus freight to haul, and 63 percent reporting increased demand compared to 2024. As a result, companies are now assessing ways to improve recruitment and retention.

As noted, 56 percent of business who chose "staffing retention" as a priority plan to improve salaries and work-life balances to this end, with an additional 43 percent putting more emphasis on recruitment efforts and 44 percent providing better training and development opportunities.
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A tough job and potential younger drivers are reasonably concerned it is a short haul career path where they will be replaced by self-diving trucks in the relatively near term.
 
altmin said:
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F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents

The plan appears to be part of a broader effort to shift the agency’s focus from tracking national security threats to fighting crime.
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The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree, according to people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it.

The shift comes as the agency anticipates losing more than 5,000 employees by September, largely as a result of agents, analysts and others taking severance or early retirement packages offered by the Trump administration to try to reduce the budget.

Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor’s degree.
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Has the FBI had an MS-13 gang member being an agent?

If not, it’s happening soon.

Crips? Bloods?
 
He's Not Here said:
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The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There

Housing rights experts say a community restricted to white residents is illegal, but the creators believe they could win a potential challenge in court in the current political climate.
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You can argue that, since losing the battle over school integration and segregation in public facilities, many white conservatives since the 1970s have been doing just the opposite - segregating themselves from mainstream America as much as possible via "Christian" private schools, homeschooling, creating right-wing Evangelical colleges and universities, their own TV "news" networks like Fox which show them only what they want to see and hear, conservative accrediting agencies for schools and colleges, and so on. So it fits that we have finally reached the end point at which some whites are just going to ensure they don't have to live with minorities by creating legal whites-only neighborhoods again. So we've come full circle, in a sense.
 
The FBI has raided John Bolton's home...The raid comes just days after the former Trump appointee criticized his former boss over his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

inch by inch, step by step

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FBI descends on ex-Trump official John Bolton's home in early morning raid: report

Former Donald Trump advisor John Bolton is the subject of an early morning raid being conducted by the FBI, The Bulwark is reporting.Bolstered by live video being streamed by Lawfare’s Ben Wittes which shows the street being blocked off by Montgomery County police, the Bulwark’s Jonathan Last is...
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heelinhell said:
The FBI has raided John Bolton's home...The raid comes just days after the former Trump appointee criticized his former boss over his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

inch by inch, step by step

www.rawstory.com

FBI descends on ex-Trump official John Bolton's home in early morning raid: report

Former Donald Trump advisor John Bolton is the subject of an early morning raid being conducted by the FBI, The Bulwark is reporting.Bolstered by live video being streamed by Lawfare’s Ben Wittes which shows the street being blocked off by Montgomery County police, the Bulwark’s Jonathan Last is...
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I know this is supposed to bother me, but…
 
nycfan said:
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Trump seems determined to cut and paste that last one every day or two, regardless of what's actually happening. It's the essential definition of gaslighting.

That said, it does appear to be true that Trump's "an ebbing tide sinks all boats" approach to economics and foreign policy is causing at least as much pain and chaos abroad as it is here. So I guess it's possible we are "hotter" than most countries, relatively speaking. But only because Trump and MAGA have shat all over the entire world.
 
After years of underperformance, European and Chinese stock markets have outperformed the US in 2025, despite the US going from being a dead country to the “hottest” country in the world.
 
Duke Mu said:
Bolton is a loudmouth that lovers war...but, still...the Gestapo actively as the hand of retribution. Disturbing.
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with apologies to Buffalo Springfield...

There's something happening here
And what it is is very clear
There's FBI over there
Telling Bolton he better beware

I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, Trump's men come to take you away

I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
 
nycfan said:
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Justice Friedman's perfect description of lawfare:

"Plainly, [James'] ultimate goal was not 'market hygiene'...but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump's political career and the destruction of his real estate business. The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. The bench today unanimously derails her effort to destroy his businesses."
 
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