American adult literacy keeps sinking — 28% of working-age adults now score at the lowest literacy level, up from 19% six years earlier.

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Basic reading ability among adults is getting worse, not better. The gap between high-skilled and low-skilled readers is widening and it hits daily life, jobs, and self-sufficiency hard. About 48 million adults read at or below third-grade equivalent according to some analyses. Over half of adults read below a sixth-grade level. Average literacy scores dropped … Read more

US takes control of Venezuela’s frozen gold funds

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BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank All of Venezuela's gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional. The value amounts to $4 billion, resulting in the loss… pic.twitter.com/eXY0wwonkJ — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) August 18, 2026 … Read more

Adobe still traps users with steep exit fees

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Free trial converts and bills even after cancel attempts. Annual monthly plans hit you with half the leftover cost to leave. Fees can reach hundreds of dollars depending on months left. Company only backs down when complaints go public and loud. Policy has already cost Adobe a big government settlement this year. https://www.news18.com/viral/i-never-wanted-this-subscription-man-claims-adobe-charged-him-demanded-99-to-cancel-internet-reacts-ws-l-10281527.html A heartfelt … Read more

Stan Druckenmiller: “the clowns in Washington – unless they get a signal from the bond market, they’re just going to keep spending”

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Stan Druckenmiller told Scott Bessent exactly what it would take to stop Washington from spending: “the clowns in Washington – unless they get a signal from the bond market, they’re just going to keep spending” this is him explaining the arithmetic nobody runs on corporate America, why he went from 93% invested to flat over … Read more

DOJ plans record monitors for the midterms under Trump

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BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the DOJ will be sending 1,000 election monitors to polling locations for the midterms. “[The DOJ] has sent monitors to election hot spots, polling places to increase voter confidence to troubleshoot problems and we are doing that now,” she said. https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/anchor-twitter Dhillon also said … Read more

Yes but, Google would NEVER read your Gmail.

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Google wants to buy a dead airline’s internal messages for $10 million. Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May, and now Google wants roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and millions of employee records going back decades. Customer data is excluded, but employee data isn’t. A third party would strip identifying information before Google … Read more

Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum

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A viral campaign is urging Americans to turn Halloween into “De-Flock America” night and target controversial surveillance cameras while crowds and costumes provide cover. Posts promoting the campaign have spread rapidly across Instagram and X, calling for Flock Safety cameras to be disabled, covered or destroyed on October 31, 2026. The idea is that Halloween gives participants … Read more

Navy destroyers keep breaking down

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A US Navy guided-missile destroyer spent four days last month without working toilets, galley services and air conditioning in the blistering heat of the South China Sea after the warship lost power. The incident was due to an engineering failure aboard the warship, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement to CNN, another setback … Read more

Long-term debt owners now pay the price for global deficits

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The entire world is repricing long-term debt at the same time. Bloomberg's Global Treasury 20+ Year yield just hit ~4.3%, the highest since 2015 and roughly double its 2020 low. Real yields are driving this and breakevens are anchored. The market wants more to fund the… pic.twitter.com/tohkFuNjRt — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 18, … Read more

Iran’s secret plan to escalate the war

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After President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, administration officials fanned out to build support for an agreement they hoped would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and start winding down the war. Iran’s hard-line leaders huddled in Tehran and came up with a different plan, according to Iranian and Arab officials. … Read more