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Jack Dorsey Fired 4,000 People and Called It Innovation
Read more . . . →Jack Dorsey just cut 4,000 jobs at Block — nearly half the company — and proudly announced it was because of AI. Not a restructuring. Not a pivot. He looked at thousands of people who built his platform and said a chatbot could do their jobs better. This is now the largest single workforce reduction explicitly blamed on AI in corporate history, and Dorsey is wearing it like a badge of honor. The stock went up. Of course it did. Here’s the part that should make you sick: some of those workers got “quickly rehired.” Meaning they were fired, stripped...
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The Party of the Working Class
Read more . . . →The Trump administration just gutted joint-employer rules and independent contractor protections in the same month. Corporations can now wash their hands of the workers who make them rich while those same workers lose every legal avenue to fight back. The “party of the working class,” everyone.
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The Only Thing He Reshored Was the Recession
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal and now US businesses are owed $130 billion in refunds while 98,000 manufacturing jobs vanished on his watch. The only thing he reshored was the recession.
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Budget Cuts Don't Fly
Read more . . . →An Air Canada Express plane goes down and somehow the conversation is about anything except the decades of budget cuts to aviation safety regulators. Every time a government guts oversight to save a few bucks, the bill comes due in wreckage and body bags — but the executives and politicians who signed off on it never ride coach.
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Poilievre Went on Rogan to Audition as America's Landlord-Friendly Neighbour
Read more . . . →Pierre Poilievre went on Joe Rogan this week to pitch Canada as America’s “resource partner,” which is just “51st state” with better manners. Carney’s polling at +25 approval by telling Trump to kick rocks while Poilievre’s down at -8 trying to sell the country off on a podcast. Canadians don’t want a resource partner — they want a prime minister who doesn’t flinch.
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"Winding Down" Is a Weird Way to Say Deploying More Marines
Read more . . . →Trump posted that he’s “winding down” the Iran war while the USS Boxer and thousands of Marines are literally sailing toward the Persian Gulf right now. He also had to lift sanctions on Iranian oil because his own war spiked gas prices so bad his Treasury Secretary is panic-buying barrels like it’s a Costco run. Starting a war you can’t afford and then buying your enemy’s oil to clean up the mess is peak American foreign policy.
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Read more . . . →The guy who sells deodorant sweated through his suit at a Trump rally. Sometimes the meme makes itself.
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Markwayne Mullin Launches Debut Fragrance
Read more . . . →New fragrance just dropped. Scent notes include evasion training, things he can’t discuss in a public forum, and bullshit.
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Accused Rapist Gets His Travel Ban Lifted by Trump's Friends, Posts Selfies
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate is posting nightclub selfies in Hong Kong right now because US right-wing figures close to Trump pressured Romania into lifting his travel ban — the same guy facing rape and trafficking charges in two countries. Meanwhile his associate is bragging about dinner with Barron at Mar-a-Lago on a Netflix documentary, because apparently the first family’s guest list and a sex trafficking indictment aren’t mutually exclusive anymore.
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Bringing the Factories Back Was Always Just a Red Hat
Read more . . . →98,000 manufacturing jobs gone in 12 months. The tariffs that were supposed to bring the factories back got ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, and the government won’t even refund what they took from importers. “Bringing the factories back” was always just a red hat.
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