UNDERNEWS
Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
May 29, 2026
No Kings Movement event
Middle East
Housing
Judge temporarily bars Trump's dubious $1.8 billion fund
Voting
Feds vs states
E. Jean Carroll
Immigration
The Associated Press reviewed death notifications, autopsies, coroner rulings, and police and emergency medical services records tied to 51 detainee deaths since January 2025.
Russia
Jeffrey Epstein
May 28, 2026
Justice Alito's son works for the Trump regime
Questionable Trump projects
Voting
Polls
Middle East
Donald Trump
Health
Axi0s - A Trump administration plan to overhaul wage levels for visa holders is jolting hospitals and long-term care facilities that are heavily reliant on foreign-born workers. It's the latest immigration-related policy change to loom over the health care workforce, coming after President Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee and the suspension of certain immigrants' work authorization renewals.
- The latest move could further drive up costs for providers already struggling with staffing shortages, thin margins and growing patient demand, because many health jobs can't be outsourced or automated.
....Lynn Bruder, the CEO of staffing firm Nucleus Healthcare, said wage rates for visa-holding nurses on the lower end of the pay scale could jump 25% to 35% in certain markets, or from about $40 an hour to more than $50 an hour. MORE
Just a thought
Political and government change for the better doesn't occur neatly. It often comes in bits and pieces and to demand that all evil be eliminated at the same time is not the best way to produce improvements in our society. For example if slavery had continued until women got the right to vote, it would have lasted another 55 years.
Hunger
Climate change
Declining birthrates
Ebola
May 27, 2026
Polls
| Data: UnidosUS/BSP Research/Shaw & Company; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios |
Tariff refunds
Three out of five Americans say they had to alter grocery list because of rising prices
Gavin Newsom
NBC News - For years, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reaped the benefits of Silicon Valley’s AI boom — in the form of tax revenue for his state and political contributions from industry leaders. Newsom’s interests often aligned with those of tech titans, and he largely protected those interests. In 2024, for example, he vetoed a bill that would have created legal liabilities for artificial intelligence companies in the event of catastrophes involving terrorism, mass casualties or other damage to society. It would also have required the companies to maintain kill switches so that AI processes could be turned off.
Newsom has long talked about the need to find a practical balance between utopian corporate visions of AI’s upsides and dystopian populist nightmares of human subservience to machines. “Given the stakes — protecting against actual threats without unnecessarily thwarting the promise of this technology to advance the public good — we must get this right,” he said in his veto message.
But as he lays the groundwork for a widely anticipated 2028 presidential bid, Newsom is shifting his weight away from the corporate end of the balance and toward the populist end. The move could have implications not only for the Democratic nomination fight, but also in a general election, as the political left and right have coalesced around concerns about AI driving up costs to consumers and posing threats to liberty, cybersecurity and physical safety.