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One day after Charlie Kirk was killed, an email landed in Karen Attiah’s inbox. It accused her of “gross misconduct.” It said her Bluesky posts harmed the paper and could endanger staff. Four hours later, The Washington Post was done with an eleven-year columnist who had no disciplinary record to speak of. Now, the debate […]

BY WAYNE INCE · MIAMI, FLORIDA · BIG SARGE ECONOMY WATCH · AUGUST 25, 2026 I did 23 years in the Air Force before I retired to a Florida that keeps getting more expensive by the month. The Dale Mabry Publix parking lot does not care which president signed which tariff. The line at the VA pharmacy does not care. Neither does the Wawa pump that keeps ticking past what the young mother in front of me was planning to spend. Trump calls these tariffs strength. They a

By Wayne Ince (Big Sarge) · big-sarge.blog At Jewish Community Services of South Florida this summer, eighteen Haitian employees finished their last shifts. Some had worked as home health aides there for more than twenty years. Four hundred Holocaust survivors relied on their care. When the work permits expired, the aides who were left picked up the missing hours and the agency called it overtime. That is what Florida just did to the people who bathe its parents, lift its dis

Courtroom - Wix.com Thirteen thousand Haitians with Temporary Protected Status work in this country as nursing assistants. Eight thousand more work as home caregivers. Fifty thousand American children have a Haitian TPS holder for a parent. On June 25, six justices of the Supreme Court decided the government can strip the legal status of every one of those parents, and that no federal court is permitted to ask whether the government followed the law on its way there. The case

Wix.com AI generated image only *By Wayne "Big Sarge" Ince* The June jobs report came out while people were watching fireworks. It said the U.S. added 57,000 jobs, about half of what forecasters wanted, and the share of adults working or looking for work slid to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021.[1][2] The headline unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2 percent, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics was clear about why. People left the labor force. They did not find better

Understanding Political Theater vs. Genuine Policy This is a BreakingRanksBlog Podcast episode. In the realm of politics, the line between theater and genuine policy often blurs. As I reflect on recent legislative actions, I find myself pondering the motivations behind them. Are these moves truly aimed at addressing pressing societal issues, or are they merely performances designed to garner attention? The Context of Recent Legislation To fully grasp the implications of recen