[Hot Air] Well, if there was one Epstein file I wasn't expecting, this is it. Today a federal judge unsealed the existence of a possible suicide note which Epstein allegedly wrote about two weeks before he died.
A purported suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein obtained by his former jail cellmate was unsealed Wednesday by a federal judge.
The letter, which is handwritten on lined paper and has not been authenticated, dates to what was believed to be Epstein’s unsuccessful suicide attempt on July 23, 2019, less than two weeks before he died.
Epstein was found “with an orange cloth around his neck” and “friction marks” on his neck, according to a report from the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. Epstein’s cellmate told officers Epstein tried to hang himself...
Epstein was discovered by his cellmate, a former New York City police officer named Nicholas Tartaglione. Immediately after the incident, Epstein said he was attacked by Tartaglione but later told investigators he did not know what occurred and did not want to talk about how he had sustained injuries, according to a report from the Department of Justice’s office of inspector general.
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You would think that authenticating the suicide note would be something that would happen in the initial stage of the instigation. Alternatively, you can release it and let the internet authenticate it a better part of a decade later.
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Time to say goodbye...
No fun - Not Worth it!
Sound like a MSN misquote of Trump.
My vote is fake.
[FoxNews] State records show payments to the nine centers more than doubled from 2023 to 2025 while student numbers held steady
Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) paid more than $67 million in public childcare subsidies over the past eight years to nine day care providers, several of which were confirmed to have been raided by federal authorities last week.
The figure is based on an investigation of state records by local Minnesota news outlet KSTP, which points out that since there have not been any charges, it is unclear how much of this may be fraud. While an exhaustive list of the daycares raided last week has not been released by authorities, public records can confirm several included programs that receive CCAP subsidies.
The investigation of state records found that in the final two years of publicly available data that state payments through the CCAP program to these nine centers more than doubled, growing from around $8 million in 2023 to over $16 million in 2025, while the number of students served remained steady.
"Just last week, Democrats killed a bill to increase oversight and fraud penalties for child care providers receiving high amounts of CCAP funding, like these nine providers," the Minnesota House Republican Caucus added on X.
Federal agents issued 22 search warrants at day care and autism centers in Minnesota last week.
Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI, Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota, and the Department of Health and Human Service's Association of Children and Families (ACF) to confirm details of the raids, including whether the nine daycares receiving CCAP funds were part of last week's operations. Only HHS responded, indicating that "ACF does not comment on ongoing litigation."
Former Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson said the scope of the warrants suggests investigators are looking for evidence that publicly-funded services were actually provided, according to KSTP.
"Whether it's a business, a school, a nonprofit — if something grows that much, you know, makes sense to ask why is it growing that much and how could it grow so fast," Swanson, who oversaw several Medicaid fraud prosecutions during her time as Attorney General, told KSTP.
"These are federally and state-funded programs," Swanson continued. "The question is, ‘were services billed to the government that weren’t rendered?'"
CCAP is a publicly funded program for families who cannot afford childcare administered via Minnesota's Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), which also provided the data examined by KSTP. Fox News Digital reached out to DCYF for comment and details about the CCAP program but did not hear back in time for publication.
DCYF did not give any information to KSTP, either. The local Minnesota news operation had to go to state Rep. Kristin Robbins, chair of the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee in the Minnesota legislature, after the agency ignored its public records request.
Robbins made the same request, but DCYF did provide the records, documents and data in that case, according to KSTP.
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A percentage of social service spending appears to have always been channeled towards fraud but the percentage has ballooned beginning under Obama. That is my take..
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Whites get audited. Star War Names do not. Obviously.
[FoxNews] Craig Berry fled after the domestic incident in Dover, Tennessee, and was considered armed and dangerous.
The retired Army Special Forces Veteran accused of trying to kill his wife is dead after the incident sparked a massive multi-agency manhunt, according to an official.
Deputy United States Marshal Christian A. Marrero told Fox News Digital that Craig Berry is dead and "no longer a threat to the public." The Stewart County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee said initial indications show Berry died due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Berry allegedly shot his wife during a domestic incident at the couple's house in Dover, Tennessee early Friday morning before he fled the area. He was wanted on charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, domestic assault and leaving the scene of an accident.
Investigators have spoken with Berry's wife several times, according to the report.
The sheriff said there was a possible "financial situation" with the couple but declined to speculate on "problems" between the couple.
Investigators have spoken with Berry's wife several times, according to the report.
The sheriff said there was a possible "financial situation" with the couple but declined to speculate on "problems" between the couple.
An Army spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Berry was an infantryman and Special Forces medical sergeant in the Army from 1992 to 2016, leaving the Army as a sergeant first class. He deployed to Iraq four times between 2003 and 2014, according to the spokesperson.
Deputies added that Berry was an "excellent swimmer and diver" and was believed to be in "good physical shape," stating he had "extensive training" in survival tactics. He couldn't survive his demons.
[Regnum] CNN founder and media manager Ted Turner has died at the age of 87. The news was announced on the channel's website on May 6.
The cause of death is not disclosed in the article, but it is specified that Turner had been suffering from a severe form of dementia for the past eight years.
"He was and always will be the guiding spirit of CNN. Ted is a giant on whose shoulders we stand, and today we all take a moment to recognize him and his impact on our lives and the world," said Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide.
Ted Turner was born in 1938 in Ohio. In 1980, he launched CNN, the world's first live, 24-hour news channel. He also acquired the MGM film studio in 1986 and the Hanna-Barbera animation studio in 1991. This allowed Turner to create the specialized networks TNT, TCM, and Cartoon Network.
After his company's merger with the Time Warner conglomerate in 1996 for $7.5 billion, the businessman lost operational control and resigned as vice president. He subsequently invested heavily in environmental projects and funded UN support programs.
Some of the finest news stories rely on discovery by accident
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[REGNUM] NATO is once again actively expanding, this time not in the physical realm, but in the media. As the British "independent" publication The Guardian discovered "completely by accident," alliance officials have recently been holding secret meetings with film and television figures from Europe and the United States.
Such meetings have already taken place in Los Angeles, Brussels, and Paris. Next up is a serious, heart-to-heart talk with members of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (a body of screenwriters, playwrights, writers, and others who use verbal manipulation to manipulate people) in London, scheduled for next month. Former NATO Press Secretary James Appathurai, now Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Hybrid, Cyber, and Emerging Technologies, will participate.
In fact, this is how information about NATO's attempts to establish footholds in the film industry leaked—through an email sent to Guild representatives. The email indicated that previous similar meetings had already resulted in the development of at least three projects.
What these projects are, of course, isn't specified. But there are all sorts of beautiful formulations.
For example: "NATO is founded on the belief that cooperation and compromise, strengthening friendships and alliances, are the way forward." And: "Even if something as simple as this message reaches the future, that will be enough."
However, British writers, for some reason, distrust such fine-sounding formulas and believe they are being coerced into creating war propaganda. Award-winning screenwriter Alan O'Gorman (his film "Christie" won the Berlinale prize and the Irish Film and Television Academy Award) is particularly indignant. "It's inappropriate and outrageous to present this as some kind of positive opportunity," he says.
Other screenwriters, O'Gorman assures, are no less outraged. Because no one wants to get involved in NATO wars in distant foreign lands. He is echoed by Faisal A. Qureshi, who, among other things, worked on the controversial documentary miniseries about Michael Jackson, Leaving Neverland. He admittedly initially agreed to attend the meeting—purely out of curiosity, he says. But ultimately, he declined: other things came up.
So, Qureshi warns his colleagues against collaborating with such organizations: immersion in the world of espionage and military briefings can be tempting, as it creates the illusion of gaining secret knowledge that morality doesn't really exist, and that the violation of human rights is permissible in the name of a higher purpose. According to Qureshi, this danger is concealed in seemingly harmless letters from powerful supranational entities.
So, the aforementioned screenwriters, playwrights, writers, and others are honest, free-thinking, and conscientious people, and therefore would never enter into unholy liaisons with NATO. Well, perhaps only out of pure curiosity—and even then, if they have the free time. But the same can't be said for the rest, unfortunately. Those three (for now) projects are eloquent evidence of this.
Here we can recall how, back in 2019, James Carafano, a professor at the Institute of World Policy and vice president of the Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation, bitterly lamented in an article for The National Interest that NATO, in its entire history, had never thought to produce a single great Hollywood film about a great NATO war. He even cited as references several films that he considered exemplary, which particularly well depicted how wars should be fought together. Among them were "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson and "Waterloo" by Sergei Bondarchuk.
Apparently, the call from one of the most prominent minds shaping American public policy was heard in the right places, by the right people, and taken into account. Work in this direction has begun, but until now it has been carried out almost unnoticed and cautiously, in the format of supposedly non-committal, intimate get-togethers. Thus, in 2024, several Hollywood screenwriters were invited—through the Center for Strategic and International Studies, based in Washington—to NATO headquarters in Brussels. They were introduced to the Secretary General, told many interesting things about the alliance's security policy, and the whole affair was cemented with a casual public talk.
The event was timed to coincide with NATO's 75th anniversary, and its stated goal was nothing less than to chart the alliance's course for the next 75 years. Why should Hollywood screenwriters determine the military bloc's course? A good question. But the invited Hollywood screenwriters themselves didn't ask that question. Instead, they wondered what NATO is.
Here's how screenwriter Christine Levinson (TV's "Bound," "Law & Order," and "Charmed"), who was among the Hollywood delegates, responded : "NATO is a little like sunscreen. You know, on the days when you remember to put it on, you don't have to think about it. It just protects you. And you can go out and do whatever you want. You can swim. You can run. You can hang out with your friends. You can have a cup of coffee. But if you forget to put it on, if you neglect your protection, you'll burn." That's it—poetic, yet threatening, and even seemingly convincing. Hollywood school.
The transcript of the aforementioned conversation is publicly available. It's nothing but praise for NATO, interspersed with the joyful laughter of those present. That's what's been made public. What was left behind the scenes, of course, no one knows, but there was a reason they dragged a whole bunch of American entertainment content specialists to Brussels. It's unlikely they were just there to chat—nor to point the way to the future.
Importantly, that event was neither the first nor the last. Contacts between NATO and the US creative elite are regular occurrences. And now, according to The Guardian, they have become even more intense and fruitful. This is even more curious in light of other recent events.
On the one hand, Donald Trump has developed some disagreements with the leadership of the organization that the United States de facto leads. On the other hand, with the assistance of that same Trump, a process of redistribution of spheres of influence in the American (and, de facto, global) entertainment industry has been launched: as a result of the deal between Skydance, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery, control of approximately 30% of the domestic film market could shift to the former.
This means that the Democratic Party's monopoly, whose interests Hollywood studios have so faithfully served, will end, as Skydance and Paramount are owned by Larry and David Ellison. The former is one of the richest men on the planet and a major donor to the Republican Party, and recently a member of the Trump administration's Science and Technology Policy Council. He is also a close ally of the current president. The latter is the former's son.
Consequently, Hollywood could see some kind of pluralism for the first time in its history. Locals, accustomed to voting unanimously, are probably not ready for this. In this context, it seems more than reasonable to enlist the support of new patrons who are just now looking to shore up their tattered image. The prospects for such cooperation are not yet clear, but they are certainly broad.
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[Regnum] A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported this on May 6.
According to the USGS, the epicenter of the tremors was located 234 km southeast of Attu Station. The earthquake's focus was at a depth of 10 km.
There were no reports of casualties or damage.
In December 2025, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Alaska. The epicenter was 90 km north of Yakutat, and the depth was 10 km. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
In July 2025, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of Alaska, with its epicenter 87 kilometers south of Sand Point at a depth of 20.1 kilometers. A tsunami warning was issued. No casualties or damage were reported.
[JTN] The Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer believes the Trump administration's lawsuit this week against the city of Denver's gun ban will one day soon lead to a Supreme Court decision legalizing the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle — revered by gun owners and reviled by liberals — in every jurisdiction in America.
"We intend to make sure they do that," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview set to be aired Wednesday night on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
Dhillon spoke just hours after her office filed a lawsuit against the city of Denver over its ban on "assault rifles," arguing the ban violates residents' Second Amendment rights.
The ban covers AR-15-style rifles, which the complaint argues are owned by "tens of millions" of Americans,
The complaint also describes the use of the term "assault rifle" in the Denver law's language as a "rhetorically politically charged" term used by "anti-gun publicists."
In addition, the suit cites the 2008 Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons that are in common use for lawful purposes.
"The Constitution is not a suggestion, and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. Denver's ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in praising the legal strike.
Dhillon credited her bosses for giving her the freedom to file lawsuits protecting Second Amendment rights.
"I want to thank the president for setting the tone at the beginning of his administration and having an executive order that made clear that the Second Amendment is a first class right in the United States, and Pam Bondi and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche have fully backed that up," she said.
"We intend to make sure that citizens of Denver have the same rights as citizens of the rest of America. And we do have other cities like this," she added. "The District of Columbia also has a similar ban. We have sued them already, and we will be absolutely looking for other opportunities. And there are other types of issues as well.
Dhillon explained why she believes the AR-15 will be deemed legal nationwide soon.
"I think the AR-15 ban is one that really is a kind of low-hanging fruit, because the Supreme Court held in a 9-0 opinion in the Smith and Wesson case that the AR-15 is the most commonly owned and operated rifle in the United States. And so when you add that statistic to the ruling in the Bruen and Heller decisions, which talk about firearms that are in common use and for law-abiding citizens, that leads to the inexorable conclusion that the AR-15 is presumptively legal all over America.
"And denial of the right to own it and, in fact, criminalization of that in Denver, is something that is long overdue to be updated. And we intend to make sure they do that," she said.
Dhillon said differing case law in the federal judicial circuits makes it likely that the Supreme Court will take up the case.
"There is kind of a Circuit split on this issue. So the Fourth Circuit has some bad precedent on this issue, and we intend to create some good precedent in some other circuits in addition to what's already there. And then I think it would be right for the (Supreme) Court.
"And the court has really signaled in several opinions where it is going with this," she added. "And I think there is going to be a ruling eventually from the Supreme Court that AR-15s are legal for all law-abiding citizens to own and operate."
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AR-15 is the Barbie doll of gun owners with an incredible amount of accessories.
It's really past time to apply Section 242 of Title 18, Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law, to these politicians who vote for and sign off on these measures. You punish a few and others will take notice.
Previously the armed wing of the Polisario Front liberation movement in Morocco’s Western Sahara (a member of the Socialist International since 1973), they are now the army of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), recognized by the UN and over forty countries, but not Morocco. The most recent estimate I’m aware of puts them at 20,000-30,000 active troops, down from 100,000 at peak. Almost the entire population is Sunni Muslim.
[Breitbart] Anthropic, the AI giant President Donald Trump has described as “leftwing nut jobs” has agreed to spend $200 billion with leftist giant Google over the next five years for cloud computing services.
The Information reports that woke AI startup Anthropic has agreed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years. The massive commitment was revealed by a person with knowledge of the matter and represents one of the largest cloud computing deals in the industry’s history.
The massive financial commitment indicates that Anthropic accounts for more than 40 percent of the revenue backlog that Google disclosed to investors last week, according to the report. This backlog represents contractual commitments from cloud customers that have yet to be fulfilled. Following the news, shares of Google parent company Alphabet rose approximately two percent in extended trading on Tuesday.
The agreement builds upon a deal that Anthropic signed in April with Google and the tech giant’s chip partner Broadcom. That arrangement involves multiple gigawatts of tensor processing unit capacity, which is expected to begin coming online starting in 2027. Tensor processing units are specialized chips designed to handle the intensive computational demands of artificial intelligence workloads.
Alphabet is also making a significant financial investment in Anthropic, committing up to $40 billion to the AI startup. This investment deepens the partnership between the two companies, even as they remain competitors in the global race to develop advanced AI technologies.
According to the Information, contracts involving Anthropic and OpenAI now account for more than half of the $2 trillion in backlogs at major cloud providers. These providers include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The massive scale of these commitments underscores the enormous computing resources required to develop and operate cutting-edge AI systems.
[ZeroHedge] California-based startup Span has developed XFRA, a distributed AI-compute network that turns unused electrical capacity in residential homes and small businesses into miniature data centers.
It may be one of the more ingenious workarounds yet from tech bros, as traditional data-center buildouts are increasingly delayed or canceled, not only because of permitting bottlenecks and grid constraints, but also because of rising local opposition.
Across parts of the country, ordinary folks are watching power bills surge, while AI hyperscalers are set to splurge $700 billion on data center buildouts this year alone. XFRA appears to be a convenient sidestep of local opposition by tech bros, transforming homes into miniature data center nodes.
“Comprising a distributed network of compute nodes located in residential and small commercial spaces, XFRA enables both the immediate and future compute needs of hyperscalers, neoscalers and AI cloud providers,” Span revealed earlier this month.
SPAN says XFRA is already running revenue-generating test units and plans a 100-unit test later this year, with broad U.S. deployment planned for 2027. This deployment next year could scale to more than 1 gigawatt of AI inference compute capacity.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours.[3][4] Nineteen Eighty-Four has been often regarded as a classic and has been acknowledged for its impact on twentieth-century literature. wiki
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[Regnum] Global oil inventories fell by 200 million barrels in April, the largest decline since the coronavirus pandemic. This was reported on May 6 by the British publication The Financial Times (FT), citing data from analytical companies.
It is reported that due to the conflict in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the global oil market lost approximately 1 billion barrels of crude. As a result, consumption of this crude fell by approximately 5 million barrels per day.
According to analysts, global oil reserves are currently below the amount needed for 98 days of global consumption. Experts have called this figure close to critical. Meanwhile, Jim Burkhard, head of oil research at S&P, warned that the worst of this crisis is yet to come and that the oil market faces an inevitable reckoning.
As Goldman Sachs noted, global oil reserves are currently approaching their lowest level in eight years. They also cited as a warning sign the fact that aviation fuel reserves in Northern Europe fell in April to their lowest level since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world.
Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in response to attacks by the United States and Israel that began on February 28. On April 11, American ships also began blockading the Strait of Hormuz to interdict Iranian shipping. On May 1, U.S. Central Command in the Middle East reported the interception of 45 vessels associated with the Islamic Republic since the blockade began.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak stated that the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is leading to a profound crisis in the global oil industry. Logistics problems have resulted in huge volumes of oil simply not reaching the market, and demand significantly exceeds supply, he noted.
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov also noted that Russia is contributing to stabilizing oil prices and minimizing the impact of the Middle East crisis on global energy. He added that Russia continues to supply oil. According to Peskov, demand is growing, while the amount of oil available on the market is not increasing, but rather decreasing.
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[Regnum] Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters that there are 186,000 food aid recipients in the United States.
"There are 186,000 dead people on welfare, and dead Americans on food stamps," the politician said, adding that 335,000 people are receiving double benefits.
At the same time, Vance noted that he believes it is necessary to take “food stamps from dead people.”
According to the vice president, the recipients of the benefits also include owners of luxury Lamborghini cars.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that "poverty at every turn" is observed throughout the United States outside of economic centers.
At the end of December 2024, Bloomberg reported that the number of homeless people in the country had reached its highest level on record. According to the agency, 771,480 people in the United States experienced homelessness overnight in January 2024. This was 18% more than the number recorded in 2023. Furthermore, the number of homeless families with children increased sharply in 2024: a 39% year-over-year increase (to 259,473).
In August 2024, The New York Times reported that San Francisco authorities, in an effort to combat the growing number of homeless people on the streets, began issuing one-way tickets to them. City Hall banned these people from sleeping on sidewalks. However, police were authorized to issue tickets to those lying, sitting, or pitching tents in pedestrian areas.
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"There are 186,000 dead people on welfare, and dead Americans on food stamps," the politician said, adding that 335,000 people are receiving double benefits.
[Breitbart] The Department of Homeland Security has restarted processing visas for thousands of foreign doctors from 39 high-risk countries who have been hired by U.S. hospitals.
Pro-migration advocates are celebrating what they hope will be a greater foreign inflow into American hospitals: It “is a great development for physicians and health care in the U.S.,” lawyer Curtis Morrison, who works for employers, told the New York Times.
But the renewed inflow is bad for American patients and bad for the many Americans who want to become doctors, said Kevin Lynn, the director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy.
“This year, over 1,300 [American] graduates from medical schools did not get [hospital training] residencies, but more than 6,000 foreign-trained physicians did get [residencies] at American teaching hospitals,” he said.
The increased inflow of foreigners for “hospitalist” doctor jobs also ensures less professional treatment for Americans, he said. “American [patients] are losing out because they’re not getting American physicians” who can speak English, understand U.S. culture, and will push back against cost-cutting by hospital managers, he added.
Foreigners already hold one-quarter of the physician jobs in the United States — even though many eager and qualified Americans are denied slots at medical schools and training hospitals, he said.
That huge population of foreign doctors also allows closed-door discrimination against Americans who want to become doctors and nurses, Lynn said, because “foreigners [are] willing to keep the door open for more foreigners.”
The reversal by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency came amid a media-magnified campaign by pro-migration lobbyists, and amid partially successful lawsuits by various pro-migration groups against the Department of Homeland Security.
The lawsuits seek to block the agency’s policy of pausing new visas and work permits for many foreigners from 39 suspect countries — including foreign doctors — pending a review of the many sketchy approvals granted during President Joe Biden’s presidency. India, the largest supplier of foreign doctors, is not on the list.
Many Democrats denounced the pause. “This is, unsurprisingly, a heartless betrayal of our nation’s values,” said Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Migrant “Dreamers deserve better than this,” he added, without mentioning the impact on Americans.
The agency is restarting the processing but will apply improved vetting procedures to ensure the incoming foreign doctors are not hostile.
The underlying issue is money. Hospitals want to cut operating costs, and Congress does not want to fund enough training opportunities for Americans who want to become doctors or nurses.
Hospital chains want to import cheaper and subservient “hospitalist” doctors and nurses because they are trying to replace American professionals who want good salaries and will argue with cost-cutting managers to protect their patients’ health, Lynn said, adding:
They’re not allowing willing, qualified, and capable Americans [to get into residency training courses because they don’t want to make the [training] investments in our medical infrastructure.
The hospitals prefer to hire migrant doctors from different cultures — such as India or Islamic countries — because they are less likely to push back against their cost-cutting employers, said Lynn. “They can’t — they’ve just arrived, they’re just off the boat, they don’t know why they should push back.”
Many employers are lobbying to import more healthcare workers instead of hiring American professionals — even as hundreds of thousands of American technology professionals have been displaced by H-1B visa workers and AI-enabled job transfers to India.
“Every health care client that I work with is experiencing more barriers to hiring than a year ago in a system that’s already overburdened and has struggled to hire,” Samantha Wolfe, an immigration lawyer for hospitals, told Politico on April 1. The site added:
There are more than 10,000 physician H-1B visa holders in the U.S. and more than 17,000 doctors with J-1s, another type of visa also subject to the hold. Many nurses, lab techs and other health care workers are stuck in the visa pause as well.
Barb Martin, who directs outpatient care hiring for Mercy — a Midwestern health system with 55 hospitals — said that stalled visa petitions have become an “exponential administrative burden” for the system.
“We’re in a position right now where we don’t have a path to offer them employment, especially the specialists,” she said about some medical fellows in visa limbo. “Physician petitions need to be prioritized.”
Establishment-backed media outlets sympathize with foreign doctors and graduates instead of with American graduates, patients, or professionalism. In November, for example, the Washington Post explained the concerns of foreign graduates:
“My [would-be] patients are also suffering, and I’m suffering,” said Mustafa Alawad, a 27-year-old Sudanese doctor in Cairo, who was denied a visa after receiving a job offer from an internal medicine residency program at a community hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. The Trump administration denied him a visa because of a ban on visitors from Sudan. So Alawad has been unable to join his fiancée, a dentist, who is already in the United States.
Nationwide, lobbyists have already persuaded legislators in 17 states to create fast-track approvals so foreign doctors can get hired without going through the professionalism training that Americans learn by growing up in the United States. Lynn said:
There are some 17 states that are either have, or in the process of, creating a licensure procedure for foreign doctors. … This year, over 6,000 got [residency] places at U.S. teaching hospitals.
Well, they’re now making it so that if you’re a foreign doctor and you practice abroad, you won’t have to go through a residency program here.
In a U.S. residency, they’ll teach you all the complexity, liability and human [professional] nuances of working in the American medical system. But these guys are going to come in, work under a [a U.S. or foreign] physician for a year or two, and then they’re going to be licensed by these states to practice medicine on Americans. Think about the opportunities for [jobs-for-sale] fraud in all of this!
“America is doing to its doctors what it already did to its tech workers” via the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training programs, he added.
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There is one thing that you can be sure of. The Leftists pushing this have white, mostly male doctors who graduated from US medical schools. They also did their residencies in Level 1 teaching schools.
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The centers of growth in the Catholic Church are Africa and South America. Areas where homosexuality is still actively frowned on. If the Vatican moves to the left on this expect the church to split.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Hot Air] Well, if there was one Epstein file I wasn't expecting, this is it. Today a federal judge unsealed the existence of a possible suicide note which Epstein allegedly wrote about two weeks before he died.
