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Where ICE Goes, Jobs Go Too
Read more . . . →Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television this week and said the quiet part at volume ten: “Where ICE goes, rents go down.” That’s the sales pitch — deport your neighbors and your landlord might charge you less. What he left out: the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. First negative payroll number in years. Healthcare hiring slowed to a crawl. Construction craters every time enforcement surges. For every six undocumented workers ICE pushes out of a community, one American-born worker loses their job too. That’s from economists studying payroll data in hundreds of cities. The jobs don’t get “freed...
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Poilievre Ran Out Of Enemies He's Allowed To Name
Read more . . . →Poilievre is sitting at 37% while Carney runs a 66% approval rating, his own seat is now something pundits openly game out losing, and the party that was supposed to stroll into government is watching two-thirds of the country say they’d rather keep the banker. So he did the thing every cornered politician does when the affordability pitch stops selling: he found someone smaller to blame. This week it’s “very hard caps” on immigration, and the line he said out loud is that he wants more people leaving the country than coming into it. That’s not a housing plan or...
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Trump Walked Out of His Own Supreme Court Humiliation
Read more . . . →Donald Trump sat in the front row of the Supreme Court to watch his executive order against birthright citizenship get torn apart, and he couldn’t even sit through the whole thing. He walked out midway through oral arguments — the constitutional equivalent of rage-quitting a multiplayer game you started. Then he went on Truth Social to call the country “stupid” for protecting the Fourteenth Amendment. The man tried to end a right that’s been in the Constitution since 1868 and got mad when the justices who can actually read told him no. Amy Coney Barrett — his own appointee —...
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Day 41: TSA Can't Pay Rent But At Least ICE Is Fully Funded
Read more . . . →The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for 41 days. Five hundred TSA officers have quit. Thousands more are calling out because — and I cannot stress this enough — they are not getting paid. Airport wait times hit four and a half hours this week. Lines are stretching into parking lots. People are missing flights in their own country. Spring break travelers are learning what it feels like to be processed like cattle, which is ironic given that processing people is supposedly what this whole fight is about. The Senate finally passed a bill last night to...
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