“We’ve never seen this much surveillance,” said John White who was asked to remove words such as “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and “culture” from his syllabus.
A new book examines how trailer parks trap their residents in a cycle of deprivation.
Corporate owners, for instance, tend to increase rental rates. The national monthly average to rent a space in a trailer park is around $250, so a 10 percent surge means an additional $25 every 30 days. “This may seem minor to someone from the middle or upper class,” says MacTavish, “but that’s a really big deal for low-income families.”
When such price hikes make staying in a park untenable, it’s then hard for residents to move their homes: Despite their name, most mobile homes are fairly stationary and difficult to transport. MacTavish notes that many states prohibit hauling older homes on the highway. “We often heard about people leaving their mobile homes behind and losing them for this reason,” she says. And even when a resident is able to move their home, they may not be able to find a spot in another park, since overall numbers have declined.
As real estate prices have risen, owners of parks located near small or large cities are often tempted to sell the land to developers who will pay well to build condos, office buildings, and the like on the land, displacing residents. This was common before the 2008 recession, and is on the rise again.
The world’s most expensive private residence in the world, Antilia is owned by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, and is named after a mythical island in the Atlantic. This 400,000-square-foot building sits in the most prestigious postcode of India and reaches 27 floors, with each double-height ceiling counting as two floors. But, despite its huge height, it’s designed to withstand huge earthquakes.
These homes, whether single or double wide, provide low-cost housing for 20 million Americans, giving shelter and stability to those who might otherwise be on the streets or moving from place to place. “That’s the positive around the role mobile homes can play,” says Katherine MacTavish, a professor at Oregon State University and co-author of the recent book, Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park. Such stability can even help kids growing up in parks succeed in school and move up the social and economic ladder
.The most expensive private residence in Europe, Villa Leopolda sits between two of the most prestigious parts of the world: Monaco and Nice. Sumptuous and stylish, it’s a luxury property in the French Riviera with a regal past and first belonged to King Leopold II of Belgium (hence the name). Since then, it’s passed through the hands of many elite owners and has also been used as a film set for Alfred Hitchcock’s “La Main Au Collet” (To Catch a Thief).
Nestled in the heart of Regent’s Park, London, The Holme is a magnificent mansion previously owned by members of the Saudi royal family. However, this grand estate has recently come into receivership following the expiration of a £150 million loan.
Estimated to be worth around £250 million (approximately $320 million), The Holme is one of England’s most prestigious properties. Covering an expansive area, the Gatsby-esque mansion features more than 40 rooms, including lavish bedrooms, opulent reception areas, and a grand ballroom.
Yet in interviewing 240 residents of trailer parks across the country, MacTavish and her co-author, Sonya Salamon of the University of Illinois, found that such success stories are rare. Moreover, their research revealed that residents of trailer parks are largely unable to parlay their mobile homes into the American dream of conventional home ownership—though most of them saw their mobile home purchase as a path toward just that.
Trump Just Gave Us the Worst January Since the Great Recession
Layoffs have surged to a nearly 20-year high, as job openings plummet.
Two companies are responsible for 40 percent of these job losses: Amazon, which cut 16,000 jobs, and UPS, which cut 30,000 jobs. The cuts are even related: UPS’s cuts are connected to how it is winding down a delivery agreement with Amazon.
The most layoffs were seen in five industries: transportation, technology, health care, chemical manufacturing, and financial.
“Generally, we see a high number of job cuts in the first quarter, but this is a high total for January,” said Andy Challenger, the firm’s chief revenue officer, in a statement. “It means most of these plans were set at the end of 2025, signaling employers are less than optimistic about the outlook for 2026.”
Everything is being rewritten since Americans are not taking to the streets and piling tires on roads with a little love from gasoline:
In 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was gunned down outside of his own Mississippi home by Byron De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member. Now the Trump administration wants the National Park Service to stop calling Beckwith a racist.
Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that they were being ordered to make ahistorical and incredibly political omissions to the brochure that accompanies the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.
[Myrlie Evers-Williams pauses during an interview alongside a bullet hole in the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 1, 2023.[
The original brochure stated that Beckwith was part of “the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council,” but it has now been removed from the monument.
If shooting Evers wasn’t evidence enough for Beckwith’s deep racism, his past interviews certainly are. An interview he did in 1990—four years before he was actually convicted for his 1963 murder—sees him calling the racist White Citizens’ Council “the first ray of light Dixie had seen since we fought through Reconstruction and captured the right to vote, the right of white people to run the South.”
“N—s are beasts. It says so here in the book of Adam,” he said in the same interview. Beckwith, who also belonged to the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, still called Evers a “mongrel” over 30 years after killing him, adding that “God hates mongrels.”
Pets trained to bite, hold and release on command are growing ever more popular in the UK. But why – and at what cost to the animals and their owners?
While most of his clients are wealthy or in the public eye, Bly says he has seen growing interest from people who aren’t obviously either, wanting “to make an investment in security”. K9 Protector breeds and trains its own dogs, selling between 40 and 60 animals each year. Most are German or Belgian shepherds, or Bly’s own “chimera” hybrid: a “very specific genetic combination” he developed for higher-risk environments. Pricing depends on the dog’s level of training and the buyer’s threat profile, but chimeras start at £32,000.
Cane corsos have become a popular status dog. Photograph: Antons Aleksenko/Getty Images
He believes it is “just a matter of time” before one is injured or killed in an altercation. “Ultimately, they are being bought with the viewpoint that they may have to place themselves in harm’s way.” At the same time, Bly downplays the risks they pose outside that worst case scenario. The training they receive to bite, hold and release on command is “more of an obedience exercise”, like recall, than it is “forward aggression”, he says.
Slaver in Chief: “Not an Angel”: Trump Defends Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good Deaths
JD Vance Delivers Sick Message to Alex Pretti’s Family
The vice president was asked if he’d like to apologize for his comments to Alex Pretti’s family. He had a disgusting response.
“Have you apologized, did you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?” The Daily Mail’s Philip Nieto asked Vance.
“For what?”
“For, you know, labeling him an assassin with ill intent.”
Yeagh, those brown kiddos, show us their papers or else?
An Argentine judge on Wednesday requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York.
The inquest from Argentina, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases beyond its borders, accuses Maduro of having committed crimes against humanity in overseeing a harsh crackdown on protesters and political opponents as president.
“The urgent translation of the international request and the documentation attached thereto is hereby ordered,” said the warrant, which was signed by Argentine federal judge Sebastián Ramos and seen by The Associated Press
“On the other side,” he added, “are those accomplices of a narco-terrorist and bloody dictatorship that has been a cancer for our region.”
Argentina has long taken pride in its European heritage. The mass migration of 7 million Europeans, mostly Spanish and Italian, between 1850 and 1950, created a racial profile many Argentinians feel distinguishes their country from the rest of Latin America even today.
“Mexicans descend from the Aztecs, Peruvians from the Incas – but Argentinians descend from the ships,” goes an old saying that encapsulates Argentina’s perception of itself as a nation of transplanted white Europeans.
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
Child abuse, peodophilia, brownshirt academy. The Department of War announced Monday evening Scouting America may be on a path to get rid of “DEI” in the organization.
“From Day One at the War Department, we have made it very clear: No more DEI at DoW. Zero tolerance,” Sean Parnell, the senior Advisor to the war secretary wrote on X.
The Chlamydia Capitalism on Steroids: The Washington Post leadership announced a massive round of layoffs after years of staff turmoil and as the newsroom struggles financially, as its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos—once a very public Post cheerleader— maintains a silence about the organization’s fate that has stretched to nearly a year.
The power of Chlamydia Capitalism:
The Trump administration has secretly deported Palestinian men arrested by ICE to the occupied West Bank by private jet in coordination with Israeli authorities on at least two occasions, according to investigations by The Guardian and +972 Magazine. The detainees were flown in shackles to Tel Aviv and later released at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank. According to the report, the flights took place on a luxury jet chartered by ICE that is owned by Florida developer Gil Deze, a Trump donor, friend of Donald Trump Jr., and a member of the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Paul Haeder, Author 