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You Built the Bridge and Paid the Toll
Read more . . . →Canada spent $6.4 billion building the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Then agreed to share the toll revenue with the United States for fifteen years. Then scrapped the digital services tax. Then killed the Netflix tax. Then pulled its own retaliatory tariffs off the table. A reporter asked Carney what Canada got back for all of that. He couldn’t name one thing. Not a reduced rate, not a delayed deadline, not a handshake agreement scribbled on a napkin. Six and a half billion dollars and a stack of policy surrenders bought exactly zero goodwill from a man who doesn’t sell it....
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Your Groceries Have Surge Pricing Now
Read more . . . →Walmart is putting digital price tags on every shelf in every store by the end of this year. They say it’s about efficiency — updating a price used to take two days with paper tags, now it takes minutes. What they’re not telling you is that the same technology lets them change the price of milk at 5pm when every tired parent in the zip code walks through the door. The grocery workers’ union has a name for it: surveillance pricing. Uber for your cereal aisle. The tags can respond to foot traffic, time of day, weather, local demand. The...
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They Sold You Trump. Now They Want a Refund.
Read more . . . →The guys who spent two years telling you to get off the couch, hit the gym, grind your crypto portfolio, and vote for Trump are now calling for his impeachment. Sneako — the man who converted to Islam on a livestream to impress Andrew Tate — posted that Trump “would rather drag America into WW3 than have his Epstein blackmail footage released.” Rogan’s doing the same slow walk backward he does every time he realizes the person he platformed for three hours might be a problem. These are not political thinkers experiencing a crisis of conscience. These are brand managers...
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Water Break Killed in Committee
Read more . . . →On July 21st, the House Education and Workforce Committee voted 18-15 to pass a bill that would ban OSHA from finalizing a federal heat safety standard. The proposed rule — the one they killed — would have required employers to provide water and a cool place to rest when it hits 80 degrees. Water. Shade. That’s the government overreach they gutted. The same month, a heat wave had already killed dozens of people across the country. Rep. Mark Messmer from Indiana sponsored it. Committee chair Tim Walberg from Michigan backed it. They called a water-and-shade requirement “one-size-fits-all,” which is a...
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They Fired You and Blamed the Robot
Read more . . . →Almost six out of ten companies now admit they frame layoffs as “AI-driven” when the real reason is financial. Straight up. Into a survey. Block fired forty percent of its workforce and the stock jumped twenty-four percent the same day. Dorsey posted $2.87 billion in gross profit that quarter. Cloudflare axed eleven hundred people — a fifth of the company — while reporting record revenue up thirty-four percent. These aren’t companies in trouble. These are companies doing better than ever who figured out Wall Street pays you more per share when you have fewer employees. Meta’s internal memos said the...
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The Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs and Unemployment Went Down
Read more . . . →The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate went down. Not a typo. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that payrolls went negative and the rate “improved” to 4.1 percent, because 264,000 people left the workforce entirely. Stopped looking, stopped being counted. Labor force participation is at 61.4 percent, lowest in five years. The rate didn’t improve. The pool just got smaller. This is the number they’ll wave around. Four point one. Strong. Meanwhile average monthly job gains this year sit at 34,000. May’s numbers got revised down by 66,000 after the fact. June got...
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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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Walmart Gets $2.4 Billion Back. You Get the Receipt.
Read more . . . →Walmart just got a $2.4 billion refund check from the federal government. Apple got $2.19 billion. Amazon, $600 million. Ford, $1.3 billion. Your refund: zero. Trump spent two years collecting $166 billion in tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were illegal, and now the money is flowing back — to the corporations that filed the customs paperwork. You paid the markup at the register for two straight years. You ate the price hikes on everything from groceries to sneakers. The refund process is designed so that only the “importer of record” can claim a cent. You were never the importer...
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His Lawyer Said AOC Would Be President Without Him
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate’s lawyer went on Instagram this week and wrote that AOC will be the next president if Trump doesn’t intervene to stop his client’s extradition to the UK. The client in question is sitting in a Miami jail on 59 charges of rape and sex trafficking, using his phone to complain about the food and beg his followers to show up at his bail hearing on August 13. His lawyer, Joseph McBride, went on the Fresh and Fit podcast to make the pitch: help the man facing nearly five dozen rape charges, or lose the youth vote. The White...
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She Came from UnitedHealth and Promised Not to Make Trouble
Read more . . . →The CDC has a new director. The last one got fired for disagreeing with RFK Jr. about vaccines — the real kind, the kind that wiped out polio, not the Facebook comment section kind. The replacement is Dr. Erica Schwartz, previously of UnitedHealth Group, where she pulled $850,000 a year. At her confirmation hearing she said vaccines are safe and effective, then dodged every question about whether she’d push back if Kennedy told her otherwise. Said she was “unaware” of some of his policy changes. The whole audition was don’t know anything, don’t push back. The agency she’s inheriting has...
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