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🎙 Host @themarkthompsonshow on YouTube; Longtime TV/Radio News KTTV, KGO, KFI…Voice of American Idol and TYT contributor

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“After DOGE staff cuts devastated the agency, and ongoing turmoil has led scientists to leave in droves, the FDA organizational chart has been denuded of leadership” Trump Taps Don Jr.’s 38-Year-Old Turkey-Hunting Pal to Lead FDA - Rolling Stone apple.news/ApiJ-5731QhqbO…
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Ahhh no bid contracts… Reflecting Pool Repairs to Cost $13.1 Million. Trump Had Promised $1.8 Million. The Interior Department added $6.2 million to the no-bid contract for repairs to the Lincoln Memorial pool late last week. nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/…
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The New York Times@nytimes·
Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24
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Albert@ErmeloAlbert·
The @MarkTLive show will be live soon! David Katz & Dr. Rob Davidson highlight today's guests. Hegseth Called Incompetent as War Claims Shift, Costs Rise, and No Strategy Emerges 4/30/26 youtube.com/live/GytKcku9-…
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Elias Al@iam_elias1·
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617
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Good times… A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces. nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/…
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