78-Year-Old Forced Out of Retirement Due to Cost of Living; America Celebrates

Rather than highlight our current retirement and cost of living crises, Corporate News spun an American horror story into a Capitalist Fairy Tale.

The Fair Labor Standards Act Allows Employers to Rob You

Benjamin Franklin wrote in an essay, “Remember that time is money.” Smart man. But if Mr. Franklin is correct, why doesn’t that saying apply to me?Like most Americans, since entering the workforce full-time, I have never worked a forty-hour work week. (It’s always at least fifty.) Yet,

When Funeral Marketing Turns Grief Into Greed

Another early weekday with a to-do list too long. Desperately needing an injection of caffeine to awaken my senses. As I waited for some water to boil, I found my phone. I’ve heard scrolling first thing in the morning decreases productivity and happiness, but here I was sliding my

How Super PACS Price Out the Average American Voter

I was about to wrap up my bad morning ritual, doom scrolling through memes and the news. Nine out ten well-functioning humans say this is the worst way to start the day, but at this point my habit is now a anxiety-inducing addiction. I stumbled across an article about Robert

Americans Spend Twenty-Two Years Staring at Screens

Want seven hours of your life back per day? Surrender your screens. You are going to die. Everyone you know? They’re toast too. But don’t fear our impending doom, dear reader. We’re all cursed with the same fate. When you accept this, you’re free to live.

We Remember the Shooters, Never the Victims

Are any of us honestly trying to stop these American massacres? Fourteen children knelt in prayer. For two of them, it was the last thing they ever did. On the first day of school, another gun-wielding American psycho unleashed her issues with herself and the society she lived in by

Millennials Earn $190,000 Less Than They Need to Feel Successful

Earning about $80,000 a year, millennials need to double their income and add $30,000 to hit their American Dream. God, my headline sucks, but I didn’t write it. That’s what the source article gave me to work with. “Feel successful.” Whatever that means. My headline is

My Closet’s Full of Reusable Bags, But So Is The Landfill

Big Grocery’s New Scam Guilts Americans Through Climate Change as 24,000 Private Jets Roam the Skies Something strange is going on with humanity. No, I’m not talking about … shit. I don’t even know where to start that list. Private jets seem like a good place to

The Law of Attraction Manifested Me the Avocado Specialty Knife with Scissors

If you visualize what you want, the Universe gives it to you. That’s the basic concept of the Law of Attraction. That’s how Sue from Attract the World You Think explained it to me and her 564,233 followers. I am not sure if the Law of Attraction

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, But It’s Not Working

135 Suicides a Day and No Headlines Except During Winter Holidays and Assigned “Awareness” Months  September is National Suicide Prevention Month, which means for the first week of the month social media and the news will be flooded with suicide content. The weeks after? The conversation dwindles until it disappears

Is True Crime Behind the Surge in American Violence?

Data shows there's one group to blame and it will surprise you. What’s up with everyone wanting to be a detective these days? If it’s not some corporatized content packaged as a movie, I’m looking at you Marvel, it’s true crime. Podcasts, videos, articles,

The Media Obsession With Trump vs Musk Is Another Example of "Cooked Journalism"

Ground-breaking or algorithm-following news?