Year: 2025

World’s List of Billionaires Tops 3,000

Buck Banks

3,028

The ranks of the monocle-wearing class are growing: Forbes has found there are now 3,028 billionaires on the planet. That’s a whole lot more than the 140 the magazine located when it started keeping a list in 1987. Twenty years later, there were 1,000 in total, and by 2017, the roll of the richest had reached 2,000. As of last year, there were 2,781. And it’s not just that there are more billionaires, it’s also that those in the rarest air are even richer than in years past—as of March 7, the world’s billionaires boasted a combined worth of $16.1 trillion, which is almost $2 trillion more than a year ago.

Mike Waltz Had at Least 20 Sensitive Signal Chats

Buck Banks

20

“National security adviser Mike Waltz’s team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work on issues including Ukraine, China, Gaza, Middle East policy, Africa and Europe, according to four people who have been personally added to Signal chats,” Politico reports. “Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at least 20 such chats. All four said they saw instances of sensitive information being discussed.”

Americans Are (Belatedly) Paying Attention to Trump

Buck Banks

71%

A new Pew Research survey finds about seven-in-ten adults say they have been following news about the actions and initiatives of President Trump’s administration very (31%) or fairly (40%) closely. The major reasons cited: 62% said Trump news is “relevant to my life,” 43% said “it’s hard to avoid,” 36% said “I like what the administration is doing,” and 25% said “it’s entertaining or interesting.”

Immigrant Round-ups Lead to Worker Shortages in Florida, Now MAGA Wants to Bring Back Child Labor

Pensito Editors
Florida is facing a shortage of workers like these because of MAGA anti-immigrant policies, now they want to loosen the state’s child labor laws

WESH: Child labor protections could soon be rolled back in Florida as lawmakers advance a controversial bill. This comes a year after lawmakers relaxed the state’s child labor laws.

On Tuesday, a divided Florida Senate panel gave initial approval to a measure that would further roll back work restrictions for kids as young as 14. The proposal, which builds on the 2024 law, sparked heated debate, with critics of the plan saying it would lead to exploitation of children and proponents calling it a “parental rights” issue.

The bill (SB 918) would do away with restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds, who would be able to work more than eight hours a day on school nights and over 30 hours a week while school is in session, without mandated breaks.