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1) With end of penny, change is no longer inevitable
AP: Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny
2) So much for the factory worker we keep hearing so much about
VISUAL CAPITALIST: U.S. Employment by Industry in 2025
3) Robbing Peter to pay Paul
MILITARY.COM: Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission
4) Who watches the watchers?
STRAT NEWS GLOBAL: India’s Concerns Over Chinese Espionage Jolt Global Surveillance Industry
5) Let that be your last battlefield
REUTERS: India and Pakistan's drone battles mark new arms race
6) Bothering with some Al-Qaeda franchise operating in some shithole country? I got better things to do!
WAPO: How U.S. cuts in Somalia could imperil the fight against al-Shabab
7) All aboard the brain train. Destination? ABUSA!
ECONOMIST: Demand for American degrees has already hit covid-era lows
8) Out of the frying pan and into the fire
ECONOMIST: If India chokes less, it will fry more; Pollution may have shielded it from the worst of global warming. That will change
9) Trump as Freddy Krueger
ECONOMIST: In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams
10) Hyper-what-you-say?
GUARDIAN: Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
11) Buyer’s remorse
ECONOMIST: How young voters helped to put Trump in the White House; And why millennials and Gen Zers are already leaving the president
12) It’s getting better all the time
VISUAL CAPITALIST: The World’s Shadow Economy
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