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Poilievre Can't Even Keep His Own Caucus
Read more . . . →Pierre Poilievre has lost five MPs to the Liberals since the election. Five. Four of them were his own Conservatives. The latest, Marilyn Gladu, said her constituents want “serious leadership and a real plan” — which is Canadian politician for “my boss is a clown and everyone knows it.” Poilievre’s response was to whine about “backroom deals,” because when your own caucus can’t stand you, it’s obviously someone else’s fault. This is what happens when your entire political identity is being angry on YouTube. Eventually the people who have to work with you figure out the act isn’t an act...
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Mission Accomplished, Iran Edition
Read more . . . →Trump declared victory in Iran. Big speech, flag backdrop, the works. One problem — he didn’t accomplish a single thing he said the war was for. Iran can still attack its neighbors. The nuclear program is intact. And the regime is more entrenched than ever because nothing rallies a population like getting bombed by a foreign power. Zero for three, but the photo op looked presidential, so I guess that’s the bar now. This is Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner except dumber, because at least Bush waited a few weeks before the lie fell apart. Trump’s doing it live while the...
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Oracle Made $6 Billion Last Quarter and Said Thanks by Firing 30,000 People at 6 AM
Read more . . . →Oracle made $6 billion in profit last quarter — a 95% increase — and then fired 30,000 people via email at 6 AM. A mass email signed “Oracle Leadership” that said “today is your last working day.” Thirty thousand people woke up, checked their inbox, and found out they’re unemployed so Larry Ellison can spend $156 billion building AI data centers. The man is worth more than most countries’ GDP and his company just posted its best quarter in years, and the thank-you note to the workforce was a pink slip at dawn. This is the part they don’t say...
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'A Whole Civilization Will Die' Is Not a Foreign Policy
Read more . . . →“A whole civilization will die.” That’s a direct quote from the sitting president of the United States, on camera, about Iran. Not a warning — a promise. Iran froze nuclear talks this week and Trump’s response wasn’t to regroup or find another angle — it was to go on TV and threaten to erase a country from existence. This is what happens when your foreign policy is run by a guy who thinks diplomacy is losing. We went from “we’re open to a deal” to genocide cosplay in a single news cycle. Iran walked away from the table — which,...
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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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