Day: April 4, 2024

New FBI field office paying tribute to special agent  KCTV 5

Video. ‘Havana syndrome’ possibly linked to Russian intelligence  Euronews

Cedar Hill man arrested this week faces felony assault in U.S. Capitol breach, DOJ says  NBC DFW

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has based her entire career around anti-government stances, and she’s continually called for things like the Affordable Care Act to be revoked. She’s about as opposed to the notion of government-supplied health care as one can be.

Yet Boebert announced today that she just had surgery to repair a dangerous clot in her leg, resulting from what appears to be a pre-existing condition. We wish her a speedy recovery, of course.

But everyone quickly noticed the hypocrisy of an anti-government, anti-healthcare politician like Boebert relying on her government-supplied healthcare as soon as she needed it. So many people began dunking on Boebert for her hypocrisy, her name spent much of Wednesday trending on social media.

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One thing we keep seeing play out: if you’re a defendant and you’re looking to delay your trial, the time to do that is early on in the process. Once the judge finally sets a firm trial date, the defendant’s remaining nonsense motions tend to get shot down in real time, and the trial tends to start on the scheduled date no matter what.

That’s why it was such a big deal once Judge Merchan set April 15th as a firm start date for Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial. At that point there was likely nothing Trump could say or do to delay the trial, not even by a day.

Sure enough, Judge Merchan shot down Trump’s last ditch delay tactics today, and the trial remains on track to begin on April 15th. It’s a reminder that while Trump does have some two-bit antics, he doesn’t have a “magic delay wand” for delaying things to his liking. Trump wasn’t able to keep his New York criminal trial from happening, and now it’s happening in just twelve days.

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(NewsNation) — The choice is very clear for some young people: Take on decades of debt to earn a college degree, or find a trade school to gain a skill that’s valuable, and in some cases very well-paying?

“Gen Z got the memo,” says a guy who knows a lot about “Dirty Jobs.”

Tune in Wednesday, April 10 at 8/7p Central for a special edition of [CUOMO] with Mike Rowe, media personality and CEO of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which is focused on elevating and encouraging blue-collar jobs. Not sure how to watch NewsNation? Use our ChannelFinder App to locate us on your TV.

Rowe tells NewsNation’s “On Balance” that fewer people are now looking at plumbing, welding and other skilled trades as a “vocational consolation prize,” and he’s more encouraged than ever that Gen Z is not buying the long-time stigma associated with blue-collar jobs.  

“We’re seeing lots of people go affirmatively toward trade schools, away from massive educational debt, onto a path that looks an awful lot like prosperity if you can master a skill that’s in demand.”

And the numbers support his case. The National Student Clearinghouse says enrollment in vocational training is surging while it’s falling at community colleges and four-year institutions.

“The cost of college has gotten exponentially more expensive,” Rowe said. “More than real estate. More than food. More than energy. Nothing … has become more expensive more quickly than a four-year degree.”

Another factor fueling the move from white-collar to blue-collar: jobs. Lots of jobs, according to Rowe.

“For every five tradespeople who retire, two replace them. And it’s been that way for over a decade. I talk to people every day who are making close to $200,000 — plumbers, steamfitters, pipefitters, electricians.

Also contributing to the shift: future white-collar job insecurity. Unlike past waves of automation, Generative AI doesn’t simply mean a faster way to accomplish tasks. It has the potential power to create content and ideas — the kind of things that millions of people sit in front of a computer screen and do today.

And it’s not just about making money. Rowe says it’s also ignoring traditional ideas about belonging to the “credentialed class” or the “working class.”

“It’s a rung,” Rowe says. “It’s not a bottom rung. The stigmas and the stereotypes that keep people from exploring these careers have been a huge problem in our country. And they’re starting to erode.

“The idea that that diploma on your wall is something other than a receipt is starting to take root.”

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It took Donald Trump more than half his ten day extension just to come up with the reduced bond in his New York civil fraud verdict, raising questions about just how much of a clown show his financial situation is. Now it turns out the bond wasn’t even posted correctly.

The courts are now (temporarily) rejecting Trump’s bond, because the company that provided that bond reportedly didn’t include key details about its own finances. Trump and the bond company are being given a brief window to correct this, and we’ll see what happens. But it certainly raises eyebrows about why such key details were left out of the bond posting. Is this just the usual Trump ineptness, or is there something else going on?

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Trump leads Biden in key swing states, new polls show  NBC News

Underground Sessions  Star Observer