Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 Europe CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through weekends
Apr 24, 2026
This is a mafia, this health care, what the fuck is that? For profit health care?
While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their No. 1 priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job.
Bupa’s CEO says if you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Barack Obama agree.
May Fucking Day.
On May 1, 1886, a movement was born that changed the lives of working people forever.
Across the country, unions organized massive strikes demanding a basic and just principle: an eight-hour workday. Before then, it was common for workers, including children, to labor 10, 12, or even 16 hours a day in unsafe conditions for little pay.
The sacrifices made by those brave workers laid the foundation for many of the rights we have today — including the standard 8-hour workday and the right to overtime pay (“time and a half”) for working beyond 8 hours in a day.
Their courage reminds us that every workplace protection we enjoy was fought for, not given.
As Union members, we honor their legacy by continuing to stand together for fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect on the job.
Solidarity is timeless. The fight for dignity at work continues.
These fucking people, all of them, should be shot.
Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future
The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.
Once upon a time, we lived in a society where the innermost thoughts of the one percent were largely confined to their own brains and the inner circles of their social and professional relationships. Then came the Internet, which gave anyone with a wireless connection or a smartphone the ability to broadcast their good and bad ideas to millions of people at once. Among the most aggressive adopters: Silicon Valley billionaires. When Marc Andressen wrote a 5,000-plus-word post titled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” in 2023, it went viral, and became something of a template for kindred grandiose edicts from various CEOs and founders in the tech industry. At the time, I wrote that Andreessen’s manifesto had the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacked its ideological coherence. Now another sort of manifesto has been produced by Palantir CEO Alex Karp in the form of a summary on X of his book, The Technological Republic. It shares the same intellectual lapses endemic to the genre Andreessen helped launch, but it’s bleaker, more antidemocratic, and nihilistic in its worldview.
And so, millionaire and dirty Kennedy addict sails off into his own dystopian world: RFK Jr. draws backlash for ripping Medicaid programs that pay people to care for relatives
Advocates for disabled people and those who care for them said they were insulted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allegations that the programs are “rife with fraud.”
THEY — TRUMP LLC, 319 Jewish Billionaires and the other 2,900 “other” billionaires, ALL NEED TO BE SHOT, these politocs and dirty LLC POTUS chumpbs.
“That’s insulting,” said Kim Musheno, senior director of Medicaid policy at The Arc of the United States, a national disability rights organization. “It’s insulting to the families, and it’s insulting to the work that direct support professionals do for people.”
That work, advocates say, is far more complex than shuttling loved ones to doctor appointments.
For many families, it involves constant, hands-on care for relatives who are unable to live independently — from managing medications and medical equipment to providing continuous supervision for those with significant physical or behavioral needs. The work can be physically and emotionally demanding, advocates say.
Demons, man, at will work, scum, worthless, throwaways.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to thousands of longtime US employees
Microsoft is offering one-time buyouts to long-serving employees in the US, according to an email obtained by Business Insider.
The move could affect up to 7% of its US workforce of 125,000 people, or about 8,750 people, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The tech giant says it’ll provide buyouts to people who want to retire and whose years of service, plus their age, add up to 70 or more. For example, a 58-year-old who has worked 12 years at Microsoft would qualify.
The buyouts allow the company to trim its workforce without needing to conduct high-profile layoffs. Microsoft has undergone several rounds of layoffs in recent years.
The screwing of us working people is on all fucking levels:
The I-Team continues to get reactions to our ongoing investigation into former chancellor Terrence Cheng. Now professors are calling out what they say is a stark contrast to their own pay structure.
Terrence Cheng is a special advisor to the board of regents. The I-Team has uncovered he isn’t attending board meetings, and in the month of December he sent 48 emails.
For 26 years, Ruth MacDonald has been a professor at Charter Oak State College. The college started as an online school to help adults finish degrees, but it has grown into a standalone college. By design, sometimes there is only one student in a class.
“You wouldn’t want to stand in their way because they need one course and there’s only one student. We want them to graduate and go on to be successful in Connecticut,” said MacDonald.
Right now, if a professor teaches a class with only one student, for the entire course the professor is paid $596. The union that represents the professors argues that when you calculate the time it takes to prep and teach the class, professors end up getting paid less than minimum wage.
“The problem is we’ve had two raises in the last 18 years,” said MacDonald.
The union is currently trying to negotiate a new contract with the CSCU Board of Regents. It’s the same Board of Regents paying former chancellor Terrence Cheng more than $400,000 a year to be a special advisor to the board. The I-Team uncovered that for the month of December Cheng sent 48 emails, and 40% of those emails were him reaching out about finding a new teaching position.
The I-Team asked MacDonald how many emails she sends in a month.
“While I’m teaching, I’m probably doing, let’s do this by the week, because that’s really how we conceptualize teaching. It’s sort of by the week. I’m doing 20 or 30, and that’s if I’m only teaching one course.”
That would be two to three times the number of emails Cheng sent, getting paid as low as $596 dollars. MacDonald thinks Cheng’s salary of more than $400,000 shows there is room to negotiate.
“Certainly, it suggests that there is money in the system to put towards Charter Oak faculty and to value the kind of work that we do,” said MacDonald.
FREE FUCKING SPEECH? Not in fascist AmeriKKKa, even at the so-called white man’s house, correspondents bash… read below….
The American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, DC, chapter sued the National Park Service on April 23, alleging that the agency violated the First Amendment by threatening to revoke a protest permit over signs critical of President Donald Trump.
The ACLU is representing Accountability NOW USA, a group described in the federal lawsuit as an “unincorporated association that demands accountability for the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the United States Constitution.”
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Kevin Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, are listed as defendants in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Accountability NOW USA maintains an ongoing demonstration against the Trump administration on public property in Washington, DC. In response to an NPR report in February that the Justice Department withheld from the Epstein files certain records related to Trump and sexual misconduct, the group began displaying signs referencing the alleged actions, according to the complaint.
Racist as it always has been: Florida, NFL, Trump LLC..
The NFL draft may dominate sports headlines this week, but another matter has the league ready to play defense: Florida’s move to pressure the league’s minority hiring practices in an attempt to get its “Rooney Rule” sacked.
State Attorney General James Uthmeier gave NFL officials until May 1 to repeal policies meant to bolster opportunities for minority coaches and top executives in the league, threatening a civil rights lawsuit if they don’t. With time ticking down, it doesn’t appear the NFL has officially responded yet to Florida’s warning, meaning the Rooney Rule will likely remain enforced beyond the deadline.
“I told them that they could get back to me by May 1,” Uthmeier said Tuesday at an event in Tampa. “I don’t think it’s May 1 yet, so we’ll see what they say.”
A civil rights lawsuit, as Uthmeier is threatening, would mount an unprecedented challenge for the NFL, enmeshing the nation’s most popular sports league in a new legal battle that advances Florida’s fight against “woke” policies. The efforts by Uthmeier, who is endorsed by President Donald Trump, align with a White House effort to boost scrutiny of programs they classify as diversity, equity and inclusion, making now a prime time to pursue changes to the Rooney Rule.
The NFL is currently embroiled in a Rooney Rule lawsuit brought by top coordinator and former head coach Brian Flores, who is Black and suing the NFL for alleged racial discrimination, claiming, among other things, that teams are conducting “sham” interviews to comply. But Florida’s move would go a different route by attempting to leverage a state law and spur the NFL into making a major policy change.
Animal Farm is a classic hand-drawn animated film that was the first feature-length animation ever made in Britain.
- Historical Context: It is famous for being partially funded by the CIA as anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War.
- Key Feature: To better serve its propaganda purpose, the film’s ending was changed from the book’s bleak conclusion to a more hopeful animal counter-revolution.
Epstein Country a la Charlotte’s Web and Animal Farm
Hundreds trying to storm Wisconsin beagle research facility met with rubber bullets, pepper spray
Ben-Hur (1925): Reportedly resulted in the deaths of approximately 100 horses during the filming of its climactic chariot race.
The 1959 epic Ben-Hur is one of the biggest films in Hollywood history, so it makes sense that it has generated its share of outsized urban legends: A stuntman’s actual death can be seen in the film; a red Ferrari zooms through one frame of the chariot race; a screenwriter added a gay romance without star Charlton Heston’s knowledge. Of those rumors, only the last appears to be true (read more about it here). But none of these legends are as crazy as what actually happened on the set of the original Ben-Hur, a wildly expensive and unsafe 1925 production that killed at least one cast member and more than a hundred horses. In the end, the studio didn’t care because the adaptation of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel about ancient Rome was a hit. With the third Ben-Hur feature film opening in theaters today (that’s not counting the one-reel short from 1907), let’s look back at the mind-boggling events that made the first one possible.
Under replacement director Fred Niblo, filming resumed in Rome, which had been under the control of Mussolini’s National Fascist Party for about a year. Political tensions leaked onto the set during the filming of the first big action sequence, a sea fight between a Roman war galley and a pirate ship (both life-sized, seaworthy boats built especially to be destroyed for the film.) The casting director hired dozens of Italian peasants to play the ships’ crews, and decided to add some realism to the conflict by placing the fascist extras in one crew and the anti-fascist extras in another. Niblo intervened, which is when he discovered that the ships were equipped with real, sharpened swords. The weapons were removed from set before anyone could be stabbed.
Nevertheless, things got gory. At the climax of the scene, the Roman ship was supposed to catch fire. While Niblo was shooting the effect, a wind fanned the flames and caused the fire to spread rapidly. The extras began leaping overboard. Some were wearing heavy armor; many couldn’t swim. Francis X. Bushman, one of the film’s stars, said that he pleaded with the director to help the drowning men, to which Niblo replied, “I can’t help it! Those ships cost me $40,000 apiece.” Three extras were recorded as missing after the scene was filmed. Some production members claim that either two or three men re-appeared days later, having been rescued by a fishing boat; others are certain they drowned. In Brownlow’s chilling words, “Opinions differ as to the casualty rate.”
Which brings us to the chariot race. Filming for the big action sequence — the centerpiece of all Ben-Hur adaptations — began in Italy on a custom-built Coliseum set, under the guidance of second-unit director B. Reeves Eason. The set looked real, but the surface of the track hadn’t been adequately prepared to handle horses and chariots. After a few laps, ruts formed in the ground, with deadly consequences. “During one take, we went around the curve and the wheel broke on the other fellow’s chariot,” said Bushman, who played Ben-Hur’s rival charioteer Messala. “The hub hit the ground and the guy shot up in the air about 30 feet. … It was like a slow-motion film. He fell on a pile of lumber and died of internal injuries.”
Dozens of horses were also killed, either during chariot crashes (one of which nearly took out the film’s leading man, Ramon Novarro) or because Eason ordered them to be shot. “They never had a vet attend any horse,” Bushman told Brownlow. “The moment it limped, they shot it.” The equine death toll was estimated at about a hundred.
Thugs, ICE et al ACAB . . . . The Department of Homeland Security is quietly rolling back some of its controversial immigration enforcement policies, according to two senior DHS officials and two immigration attorneys who have seen the changes firsthand.
THese people are daft and queer: Inside West Point, the Elite Military Academy and US Historical Site –
Dirty, dirty Americans. They even pay for fucking tours of this mercenary camp:
To create a just and sustainable food system, our elected officials must prioritize:
- An immediate, national ban on new factory farms and on the expansion of existing ones, with research and funding to help current factory farm operators transition to smaller, more sustainable crop and/or livestock systems;
- Investment to expand local and regional food markets and to build the infrastructure needed to help farmers bring their products to market;
- Reestablishing supply management controls, including the national grain reserve and price floors;
- Expanding crop insurance and other subsidies to cover more crops that directly feed people;
- Closing loopholes — like guaranteed loans and conservation payments — that allow factory farms to hijack public funds;
- Enforcing Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act regulations with respect to livestock operations;
- Enforcing antitrust legislation with respect to agribusinesses; and
- Rejecting false solutions like factory farm gas (greenwashed as biogas).
Ending factory farms will shift our food economy to embrace more regional, diverse food choices. Consumers who choose to eat meat can embrace a “less-is-better” approach, choosing high-quality meat, dairy, and eggs from local producers — a win-win-win for consumers, farmers, and the planet. However, we cannot shop our way out of this problem. We need to vote for candidates who share this vision of a more just and sustainable food system — and who are willing to take on the agribusiness giants that are only out to promote their corporate interests.
FACTORY NEWS (sic) FARMS:
If someone you knew kept threatening you and your friends with torture and rape in jail – and if that someone kept doing it with a grin – would you invite them to a dinner party?
You wouldn’t. Some lines need to be drawn in the sand.
And yet we are now years into Donald Trump making precisely that threat, over and over, at political journalists who piss him off, and now he has the power of the federal government to help him try to do it.
“We’re going to go to the media company… and we’re going to say, ‘National security. Give it up or go to jail,’” the president said this month.
Trump has adopted the idea of imprisoning journalists so they get raped as an applause line – musing that once a reporter “learns he’s going to be married to a certain prisoner who’s extremely strong, tough, and mean, he will say, ‘You know, I think I’m going to give you the information.’”
And yet, for some reason, a large number of journalists have dry-cleaned their cocktail attire so that they may attend a glitzy dinner party starring Mr. Trump in Washington, DC, this weekend.
Of note: Even without Trump’s attendance last year, headliner Amber Ruffin’s appearance was canceled due to comments she made about the president.
- On a Daily Beast podcast talking about her preparations for the dinner, Ruffin referred to the Trump administration officials as “kind of a bunch of murderers.”
Go deeper: Michelle Wolf’s vulgar anti-Trump jokes draw intense criticism
These cunts above are not journalists.
She is:
Wolf stunned the black-tie crowd with a barrage of harsh barbs at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Vice President Mike Pence, the mainstream media, and many others.
“I wouldn’t change a single word that I said. I’m very happy with what I said, and I’m glad I stuck to my guns,” she told NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
“I knew what I was doing going in. I wanted to do something different. I didn’t want to cater to the room. I wanted to cater to the outside audience, and not betray my brand of comedy.”
A day after the performance, which was blasted by President Trump, the WHCA issued a statement disavowing Wolf’s act.
The harshest criticism came over her wisecracks about Sanders.
Wolf talked about her “smokey eye” look and compared her to “Aunt Lydia”– the homely taskmaster from the dystopian novel-turned-TV show “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
“I think one of the things about being a comic is getting to actually, as a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes,” Wolf said.
Ahh, fucking Saudi headchoppers giving/not giving money to the Jew York Met Opera?
Met Opera’s Multimillion-Dollar Deal With Saudis Falls Through
The arrangement would have brought up to $200 million to the Metropolitan Opera, which has suffered a series of financial setbacks.
Jared Kushner has been involved in ‘negotiations’ with Iran. Here is a photo of Jared Kushner, Josh Kushner, Michael Bloomberg and Ghislaine Maxwell hanging out together.
I’ll just leave this here.
Oh, fuck Japan: The Empire of Japan is estimated to have killed between 20 and 30 million civilians and prisoners of war in Asia from 1937 to 1945. That is more than twice as many people as in the Holocaust. Yet while Nazi crimes are condemned worldwide, Japan’s mass atrocities to this day are scarcely addressed in the West—neither legally nor socially.
‘I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who,during the visit to Lebanon,was waiting there with a sign saying ‘Welcome Pope Leo’ He has been killed in this final phase of the war. There are many human situations and I think we must be able to think in these terms’
Pope Leo XIV
This is the child the pope is referring to.
He was killed by the US & Israeli Satans.
End of the blasphemy.
Paul Haeder, Author 