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8. People 'doomscroll' in their heads a lot too -- about their rent/grocery/gas bills, job insecurity, getting deported..

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Sat May 30, 2026, 08:15 AM

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it’s probably a loose relationship but almost all of us do better with a little structure and predictability.
This was supposedly a construction crew accident; it could easily be a shortage of skilled workers or understaffing as a contributing cause.

The value of a human life has plummeted in this administration (actually, literally, when it comes to the permissible calculation of regulatory impact).

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