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Trump's Name Is Getting Etched in Marble at Penn Station. You're Paying For It.
Read more . . . →Penn Station has been a disaster for decades. Cramped, sweaty, falling apart — New Yorkers have been begging for a renovation forever. Now they’re getting one: $8 billion, raised ceilings, two new entrances. And “President Donald J. Trump” etched in marble next to a presidential seal, gold railings, columns, and escalators throughout. Of course. This is a public train station. The busiest in the country. Hundreds of thousands of commuters a day, most of them not billionaires. Design renderings leaked this week showing a monument to the sitting president built into a transit hub that working people depend on to...
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Poilievre Wants to Kill High-Speed Rail So You Can Save on Gas for Eight Months
Read more . . . →Pierre Poilievre’s big pitch this week is to cancel the Alto high-speed rail project — a $90 billion line connecting Toronto to Quebec City — and use the savings to fund a gas tax holiday for the rest of 2026. That’s the whole plan. Scrap generational infrastructure that would move millions of people between two of the country’s biggest corridors so drivers can save twelve hundred bucks before Christmas. He’s literally proposing to burn the future to subsidize the present, and he’s framing it like he’s some kind of populist hero for doing it. This is the Conservative playbook every...
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