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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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No Work, No School, No Shopping — May Day Is Coming
Read more . . . →The “No Kings” marches put millions in the streets last month and now they’re aiming for the jugular: a full general strike on May 1st. No work, no school, no shopping. The AFT, the Chicago Teachers Union, Starbucks Workers United, the UE, and dozens of local labor councils have signed on. This isn’t a hashtag. This is organized labor remembering what it was built for. And the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Trump just spent the last week slapping 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals and jacking metals tariffs to 50% while the Supreme Court already told him half his tariff scheme...
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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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The People Who Make America's Bullets Can't Afford Groceries
Read more . . . →1,350 workers at Olin Winchester’s Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Kansas City walked off the job Saturday morning. These are the people who literally manufacture the bullets for the U.S. military — the actual supply chain behind every “support the troops” bumper sticker — and the company couldn’t be bothered to offer them a raise that keeps up with inflation. The workers cited garbage wages, forced overtime, and zero work-life balance. Olin posted $1.8 billion in revenue last year. But sure, the problem is that workers are too greedy. This is the part that never stops being darkly funny....
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28 Percent of Americans Support This War and Trump's Already Declaring Victory
Read more . . . →So we’re a month into a war with Iran that nobody asked for, 72 percent of the country opposes, and the president went on primetime TV to tell us it’s basically already won but also needs to keep going for a few more weeks. Pick one. You can’t “mission accomplished” your way through a conflict while simultaneously asking for more time and more money. Oil prices are through the roof, people can barely afford to fill their tanks, and the guy responsible is up there taking a victory lap. This is what happens when foreign policy is just content strategy...
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Under New Management
Read more . . . →His defense lawyer now runs the DOJ. At this point just rename it.
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Trump Just Slapped a 100% Tariff on Your Prescription Drugs
Read more . . . →The man who got slapped down by the Supreme Court for illegal tariffs two months ago just put a 100% tariff on patented prescription drugs. One hundred percent. As in, your medication now costs double at the border before it even hits a pharmacy shelf. This isn’t some abstract trade war number — this is insulin, cancer treatment, the stuff people literally die without. But sure, let’s “bolster national security” by making it financially ruinous to stay alive. The kicker is the carve-out. If you’re a massive pharma company willing to cut a deal with the administration — “Most Favored...
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Trump Fires Bondi For Not Being Corrupt Enough, Installs His Personal Lawyer
Read more . . . →Pam Bondi got fired as Attorney General today because she wasn’t prosecuting enough of Trump’s personal enemies. Read that again. The top law enforcement officer in the country lost her job because she didn’t weaponize the Justice Department fast enough. Trump wanted a hitman and Bondi was only willing to be an accomplice. Not loyal enough for the loyalty cult. And the replacement? Todd Blanche — Trump’s personal defense lawyer from his criminal trials — now running the DOJ as acting AG. The guy whose entire legal career peaked at keeping one man out of prison is now in charge...
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Happy Liberation Day
Read more . . . →One year ago today, they liberated us. The savings should be arriving any minute now.
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The Supreme Court Said His Tariffs Were Illegal. He Did It Again The Same Day.
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump’s IEEPA tariffs were illegal. Not a technicality — the man literally did not have the legal authority to bypass Congress and impose duties on every import in the country. $166 billion in wrongly collected tariffs now has to be refunded. Customs is still trying to figure out the logistics. And what did Trump do hours after the ruling? Signed a new executive order slapping a 10% global tariff under a different law. Same policy, different letterhead. The Supreme Court struck it down and he just reloaded. This is what “rule of law” looks...
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