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Meatpackers Are Striking for the First Time in 40 Years and Nobody's Talking About It
Read more . . . →Meatpacking workers are on strike for the first time in four decades. These are people standing in freezing plants for ten hours a day dismembering animals at line speeds that would make an ER doctor flinch, and they finally said enough. Meanwhile the companies posting record margins on your $9 ground beef can’t be bothered to negotiate in good faith. The last time meatpackers walked out, Reagan was president. It took forty years of getting ground down for these workers to hit the breaking point again. And where’s the coverage? Wall Street gets a live ticker for every quarter-point rate...
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Trump Goes to China With Nothing
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told Trump his tariffs were illegal. His response was to slap on a new 15% global tariff using a law that expires in 150 days. And now — today — he’s boarding a plane to Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping. The man who spent a year screaming about China eating America’s lunch is flying to China with the legal equivalent of a parking ticket in his back pocket and calling it leverage. Trump got his signature economic policy struck down 6-3 by a court that includes three justices he appointed. His replacement tariffs are temporary,...
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Happy Anniversary, Liberation Day
Read more . . . →One year ago this week, Trump stood in the Rose Garden and announced the highest tariffs in nearly a century. Called it “Liberation Day.” Promised it would bring back factory jobs, rebuild American manufacturing, and make other countries pay. Well, here’s your scorecard: factory jobs are down, inflation is up, and the Supreme Court ruled the whole thing was illegal. Liberated from what, exactly? Your own paycheck? The best part is the $2,000 rebate checks he dangled in front of everyone like a carnival prize. Not a single one has hit anyone’s bank account. Meanwhile, over 2,000 companies — including...
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The $175 Billion Self-Own
Read more . . . →He hired them. They ruled his tariffs illegal. Now he owes $175 billion in refunds. The system works, I guess.
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He's Doing This For You
Read more . . . →Young voters asked for no new wars and lower prices. The White House said you’re welcome, here’s both. Inverted. Enlist today.
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The Tariffs Aren't Working So Naturally We're Getting More Tariffs
Read more . . . →A year into the tariff experiment and the results are in: automakers have eaten $35 billion in costs, American families are paying an extra $1,500 a year, and thousands of autoworkers — the exact people these tariffs were supposed to protect — are sitting at home on indefinite layoff. GM just cut 900 workers at Fairfax. Stellantis workers at Sterling Heights got told not to come in because engines from Mexico aren’t showing up. The tariffs broke the supply chain and the workers got the bill. So what’s the administration’s response to all this winning? More tariffs. USTR Jamieson Greer...
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Your CEO Makes 600 Times What You Do
Read more . . . →Aptiv’s CEO took home $18.8 million last year. The median worker at that same company made $9,052. That’s not a typo. Someone working full-time at Aptiv earns less than what most people spend on rent, while the guy running the place pulls in more per day than his employees see in a month. Ross Stores — same story. CEO gets $17 million, median worker gets $9,602. A hundred major companies are running this exact playbook and nobody blinks. Meanwhile the national conversation is about tariffs and culture war nonsense instead of the fact that corporate America built a caste system...
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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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Your Car Just Got $4,000 More Expensive So Trump Could Pretend He Saved Manufacturing
Read more . . . →Thirty-five billion dollars. That’s how much Trump’s auto tariffs have cost carmakers so far, and guess who’s eating it? Not the CEOs — their margins slid from 8% to 4% and they passed the rest straight to you. Sticker prices on imports from Canada, Japan, Germany, and Mexico are up thousands of dollars. The average American household is paying $1,500 more per year in tariff costs across the board. This was supposed to bring manufacturing home. A year in, automakers still don’t even know which tariffs are staying. Real stable policy environment you’ve built there, guys. The Supreme Court already...
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Man Picks Supreme Court Justices, Gets Mad When They Do Their Job
Read more . . . →Trump is publicly raging at Barrett and Gorsuch — two justices he personally appointed — because they had the audacity to rule that the president can’t just make up taxes whenever he feels like it. The man hand-picked judges to rubber-stamp his agenda and is genuinely shocked that two of them decided to read the Constitution instead. Meanwhile Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas voted to let him keep the money. Three out of five ain’t bad when you’re trying to build an authoritarian judiciary, I guess. The fallout is spectacular. Over 2,000 companies including Costco and FedEx are now suing for...
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