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The working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that approximately 1.7 million excess deaths among Americans 25 and older occurred between 2020 and 2023 related to the pandemic. Premature deaths related to COVID mean Social Security will not make retirement payments to those individuals in the future, reducing payments by about $294 billion, the researchers found.

@AnthonyJK oh shit. Thanks for the heads up. Let me fix that.

As the U.S. approaches the fifth anniversary of the official start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research finds so many Americans died from the virus that the nation’s Social Security trust fund will see a net increase of hundreds of billions of dollars as a result of retirement benefits that will not be paid out.

https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/americans-died-covid-social-security/

#covid #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

I’ve been trying not to boost news posts without hashtags just in case you are fed up but still don’t have filters set up.

Not sure if that helps.

Just a friendly PSA:

What's happening in the USA is shameful. Yes. But the silence by the opposition is noticeable.

Even the fact that the opposition backed a bill that pretty much equates being an immigrant with a criminal is disgraceful.

I don't care if you agree fully or at least some part of that bill. If you think that's the way to go then you better unfollow me before I block you. I do not wish to even entertain the idea of sharing community with you.

#USPol

Regarding the TikTok ban, straight from a user in China:

#TikTok #Redbook

Jake Paul gonna be the next attorney general ain’t it?

@grootinside @micchiato here ya go

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/11/8/israeli-football-fans-clash-with-protesters-in-amsterdam

On #TikTok liberals are now blaming Palestinians themselves for Kamala losing. What a strange way to cope.

They’re being victimized again for not falling in line in the last bastion of Democracy narrative… after watching their loved ones being brutalized in a genocide.

Edit; typo

@AnarchoNinaWrites I was bracing for MI as soon as I saw that Al Jazeera article a few days ago.

From uncommitted to abandon Biden/Harris to Trump.

Those votes were there for the Dems to pick up. And they failed spectacularly at that.

Still seeing the reaction amongst my peers in Puerto Rico, this analysis is way better than I could articulate.

Hidden in plain sight of all the electoral mobilization messaging is the fact that we were never part of the electoral agenda until now. And also, the messaging that it is now our time to “step up”. Which for folks like me, who can’t vote, translates to dread, and stress.

And that right there is the cruelty of it all. 🧵#PuertoRico #MastodonPR

The reaction by mainlanders to reminds us they vacation here all the time is a bitter reminder about what we are suffering right now:

mass displacement due to no job opportunities

corporate opportunities to soak up on cheap real estate for short term rentals

A failing social safety net due to austerity measures brought to us by Wall Street and by extension the PROMESA act

And the fact that we are increasingly more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. So… what do we do?

"Puerto Rico, remember who you have to vote for November 5"

Do these people know we can't vote for US presidents? Like what the fuck lol.

Iran threatening USA’s gas supplies in the Middle East if they intervene on behalf of Israel, which would skyrocket gas prices domestically. But before you get angry at Iran, remember that people have been protesting for a long time in favor of a ceasefire. A ceasefire would’ve avoided all this.

Remember, the infantilization and criminalization of protesters have led us to this point. And of course time has proven protesters were right yet again.

@AnarchoNinaWrites that was such a mask off moment…

I’m glad I try to stay away from following people like that. Being that naive at this stage of the game is so dangerous for everyone.

I was watching a tourist talking about their experience in Puerto Rico. I was ready to cringe.

But then they went into the details. Cheap AirBnB. Tons of red flags the owner is sketchy as hell. Gun shots outside. People trying to get in forcing the door. Them calling the police and the police asking them if they can step outside and see the shooter (!!!) while the electricity came and went.

They got the real PR experience. This shit ain’t for the weak 😩

Speaking of 2020. This just happened:

Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend caused her death, dismisses some charges against ex-officers

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/judge-rules-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-caused-her-death-dismisses-some-charges-against-ex-officers/5732134/

4 years ago as a society we were talking about George Floyd’s murder and how police brutality is so normalized cops usually get away with it. It was such a necessary conversation. And the media and politicians were actually paying attention for once.

4 years later people are begging for attention to the Palestinian genocide only to be met with indifference at best and outright conspiracy theories and propaganda at worst.

It feels like we didn’t do any progress at all.

*does a #Nickelback riff*

It’s too bad, it’s stupid, it’s too late, so wrong, so loooong. 🎶

Buenos días! Vigilancia de tormenta tropical para #PuertoRico