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How to make money as a Writer in the age of AI
By Matt Stone | The Grounded
You don’t.
THE NONPROFIT THAT CALLED POOR: HOW “NONPROFIT” INSURERS GREW INTO PARASITES THAT FEED ON THE SICK (And who the biggest culprits are)
By Matt Stone | The Grounded Newsroots
Truth with roots. No bullshit. One hundred dollars if I get something wrong.
Most people hear the word “nonprofit” and imagine something noble.
They picture charity.
Service.
Humanity.
A mission bigger than money.
But in American health insurance, “nonprofit” has mutated into a mask.
The Hellfighters from Harlem
They came from Harlem’s streets, from tenements where brass horns spilled out of basement windows and fists did the talking when words failed. They were porters, laborers, barbers, and musicians. They carried the same hunger that built Harlem itself, a hunger to prove that dignity wasn’t something a
Helene's Aftermath
Carrington 2026
When the Sun Strikes Back
In September 1859, the sun struck the Earth harder than at any other time in recorded history.
A massive solar storm, known as a coronal mass ejection, erupted from the sun and hit Earth’s magnetic field.
The first man to witness it was an
The War That Never Ended
By Matt Stone
They tell you the war ends when you come home.
That the uniform goes in a box, the rifle turns into a memory, and the world picks up where you left it.
It doesn’t.
For a lot of us, the war just changes shape. It follows
Triangulate Everything.
By Matt Stone
If you only listen to one source, you’re not informed. You’re trained.
That is the problem with modern media. It doesn’t teach people how to think. It teaches them what to repeat.
Fox tells you the world is on fire because of Democrats.
CNN
The Slow Corruption of Medicine
By Matt Stone
Most doctors don’t sell out overnight. They adapt.
A system that rewards compliance over curiosity turns healers into billers.
The slow corruption of medicine isn’t a scandal. It’s a business model.
Ever wonder why so many doctors become shills for Big Pharma?
It’s
The Janitor Who Taught the Surgeons
By Matt Stone
At The Grounded, we honor truth that survives without applause.
This is the story of a man who saved thousands of lives while the system labeled him a janitor.
It’s November 29, 1944, and the room smells like bleach, metal, and God.
A single infant lies
AI Is the New God, But It’s Running Out of Energy
By Matt Stone
Entropy, Faith, and the Machine That Never Dies
Every civilization believes it will be the last one to fall.
Rome believed it. The Church believed it. The modern world believes it too.
We tell ourselves that progress is permanent, that systems can be perfected, that what we
The Algorithm at the End of the World
By Matt Stone
ABC News published a satellite image of Kumia, Sudan. It shows what appears to be a pile of humans lying in a giant pool of blood, a massacre, a blackened sprawl of bodies captured by none other than Google Earth, while at the top of the frame
The Birth of an Idea
