| | | | | What We're Using | | I use AI all the time—it's made things like proofreading and working with numbers easier in countless ways. | But all the AI apps are owned by Big Tech giants who track you, censor you, and profit off your data. That's why we're teaming up with Venice.ai. Venice offers everything you'd want in an AI—text, image creation, AI characters, and code generation—without Big Tech's restrictions or snooping. | Venice is private, uncensored, and puts you in control of your data and creativity. If you're ready to break free from Big Tech's grip, give Venice a try. | Head over to venice.ai/upward and use UPWARD to unlock a truly uncensored AI experience. | Try it for yourself* → | -Ari |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | ⚖️ Biden said he regrets picking Garland as AG. Sources in the White House revealed that President Biden regrets appointing Merrick Garland as attorney general, criticizing his slow approach to prosecuting Trump for January 6 while the DOJ went after the president's son Hunter. Biden also believes he could have defeated Trump in the election if he had not withdrawn from the race. | 🇺🇸 Former President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100. Known for brokering peace agreements like the Camp David Accords, Carter's presidency was also marked by significant economic struggles and the Iran hostage crisis. After leaving office, Carter dedicated his life to humanitarian work, earning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and building homes with Habitat for Humanity. | 🛠️ Trump hailed the court ruling to save border wall materials. President-elect Donald Trump celebrated a federal judge's decision to block the Biden administration from auctioning off border wall materials, calling it a "major, crucial win for America." The ruling ensures unused wall components remain available for Trump to finish the border wall. | 📉 Yellen warned of the looming debt ceiling deadline. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter to Congress, warning that the US will hit its statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and 23, forcing the Treasury to use "extraordinary measures" to prevent default. Yellen's letter follows Trump's failed attempt last week to persuade Congress to raise or eliminate the debt ceiling. |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | Conservative commentator Steve Bannon called Elon Musk a "toddler" after Musk defended H-1B visas and lashed out at its critics, telling them to "f**k yourself in the face." Conservative media personality Mike Cernovich attacked psychologist Jordan Peterson for being a "moral coward" who only speaks up "when it generates publicity and cash for himself." Incoming deportations chief Tom Homan warned bad actors within his future department working against his border plans: "God help them, because we'll be looking for [them]." Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) commented that his GOP colleagues removing Speaker Johnson (R-LA) would be "stupid" and "playing with fire."
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| | | | IN THE LOOP | The Republican attorneys general of Virginia and Montana urged the Supreme Court to uphold the TikTok ban, opposing President-elect Trump's request to pause the measure. The United States saw an 18 percent rise in homelessness this year. Tackle your credit card debt with 0% interest until nearly 2026. If you have credit card debt, a 0% intro APR card can help. Earn up to 20,000 miles after spending $500 in 3 months with this popular card!* A plane crash claimed 179 lives in South Korea's deadliest air disaster in decades. European officials proposed a Defense, Security, and Resilience bank to fund $524 billion in military upgrades.
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| *Indicates content from our sponsors | | | ECONOMY | Big Tech continues massive layoffs while hiring thousands of foreign workers | | This article was published in April 2023. | What's happening: America's biggest tech companies are laying off thousands of employees while hiring thousands of foreigners for less pay, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. They do this through the H-1B program, which grants work visas to immigrants for jobs requiring a high degree of specialty and merit, usually in STEM fields. | Why it matters: Congress created the H-1B program in 1965 to address labor shortages. However, companies that aren't suffering such needs exploit the program by replacing American workers for the sake of profit since H-1B workers get paid less. This impacts hundreds of thousands of American STEM graduates each year, especially those with costly tech-related degrees, who struggle to find and keep these already coveted jobs because they must also compete with troves of noncitizens. | By the numbers: The EPI's data show that the top 30 H-1B employers in the U.S., which include Amazon, Google, and Meta, are in the process of laying off almost 85,000 workers from the start of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, they have imported over 34,000 H-1B workers. | A longstanding issue: Former President Donald Trump tried to reform the H-1B program to prioritize American workers, but many of his regulatory changes were blocked by judges or reversed by the Biden administration. Last month, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bipartisan bill to restrict the program to avoid the "outsourcing" of American labor. The issue of foreigners taking jobs for less pay goes as far back as the progressive workers' rights protests of the 1960s. | |
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