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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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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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