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He Lost in Court So He Changed the Name
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him the tariffs were illegal. So he kept the rates, swapped the legal citation, slapped “forced labor” on the label, and went right back to taxing 99.4% of U.S. imports like nothing happened. Twenty-five state attorneys general filed suit yesterday because they can read a calendar — the old tariffs expired and the new ones showed up at the same rates, on the same goods, the next business day. His own trade rep went on record promising “continuity.” That’s not even a cover story. That’s a guy plagiarizing his own paper after the professor caught him...
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The Guy Who Leaked Airstrikes Put His Third Wife in Charge of Military Families
Read more . . . →Trump signed an executive order yesterday creating a “Presidential Military Spouse Commission” to improve the lives of military families. He put Jennifer Rauchet in charge. Her qualifications: she’s Pete Hegseth’s third wife. That’s it. Former Fox News producer, no government title, no confirmed security clearance, no accountability to Congress. She does sit in on Pentagon meetings though, so at least she knows where the bathrooms are. This is the same Hegseth who leaked airstrike schedules to a Signal group chat she was in. The same Hegseth who purged so many Pentagon staff he had to start bringing her to work...
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You're Paying to Power the Machine That Replaced You
Read more . . . →Oracle fired 30,000 people in March to free up cash for AI data centers. No warning. Employees got termination emails at 6am from “Oracle Leadership” — not from their manager, not from HR — a mass email from the void telling them their role had been eliminated and today was their last day. The company needed $50 billion for server farms, and the fastest way to find it was to stop paying humans. Call it what it is: a cash grab with a body count. Here’s where it gets good. Those data centers need electricity — obscene amounts of it...
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He Fired the Guards and Blamed the Neighbors
Read more . . . →Trump went on camera this week and blamed Minnesota for getting hacked. Not Iran, whose state-aligned hackers the FBI is actively investigating. Not his own administration, which fired a third of CISA’s workforce and is trying to slash another $700 million from the cybersecurity budget. Minnesota. Because they have a Democratic governor, and that’s apparently how threat attribution works now — not by forensic evidence, but by party affiliation. Hackers hit water systems in seven states starting July 27. Thirty-six municipal water systems in Minnesota alone — the kind of infrastructure where failure means people can’t drink the water. DOGE...
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They Work 35 Hours a Month for Free and the Airline Called It a System
Read more . . . →WestJet flight attendants work 35 hours a month for free. That’s not a union talking point — that’s how the credit hour system actually works. The clock doesn’t start when they greet you at the door, stow your bag, do the safety demo, or sit on the tarmac for two hours because the plane hasn’t pushed back yet. It starts when the aircraft leaves the gate. Everything before that — boarding, delays, deplaning — is, according to WestJet, not work. They have a term for this. They call it “the standard pay model.” Four thousand four hundred flight attendants voted...
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He's Taxing Your Prescriptions and Building Himself a Ballroom
Read more . . . →The White House confirmed today that construction on a $200 million ballroom starts in September. Ninety thousand square feet. Capacity for 650. Designed after Mar-a-Lago, because the man looked at the people’s house and decided it needed more of his living room. “Private donors” are covering it, which is Washington for people who need something from this administration and are buying the most expensive receipt in the country. Also today: 100% tariffs on imported patented drugs kicked in. Seventeen pharmaceutical companies were big enough to negotiate their way out. The rest pass the cost straight to you. He is taxing...
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He Told You It's the Same Tariff
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him no. Six justices, including three he appointed, said the tariffs were illegal. That was February. By July he’d slapped tariffs on sixty countries under a different statute and walked up to a microphone at a GM proving ground in Michigan to say, out loud, that the new ones are “doing the same thing” as the ones the court struck down. He said it was “a shame” he had to “go a harder way.” The man described his own workaround for a Supreme Court ruling like he was complaining about a detour on his commute. A...
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He Dug Up a 1930 Law to Put a 50% Tax on Hockey Sticks
Read more . . . →Trump found a tariff law from 1930 lying in a drawer and decided the real threat to America was hockey sticks. On August 19 a 50% tax lands on a stack of Canadian goods — wine, cement, dairy, furniture, wigs, and yes, hockey sticks — under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. That’s the same era of trade law that helped turn a stock crash into a decade of soup lines. He didn’t write new policy. He went to the attic, found the exact legal instrument that made the Great Depression worse, blew the dust off it, and...
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The Layoff Came With a LinkedIn Post Explaining Why It Was Good
Read more . . . →Monday.com cut one in five of its people this week — about 630 jobs out of 3,000 — and the cofounder went on LinkedIn to make sure you understood it wasn’t what it looked like. His words: this “was not made to reduce costs or replace people with AI.” Read that against the same filing, where the company says it’s trimming headcount to run “leaner” as it bets the whole product on its AI platform. And here’s the part that gives it away: Monday.com still projects up to 20% revenue growth this year. This isn’t a drowning company throwing weight...
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Amazon Fired the People Building the Robot That Was Coming for You
Read more . . . →Amazon spent two years telling everyone that AI was the future and your job was the past. This week it laid off people inside its AGI unit — the actual team building the models that were supposedly going to replace you — while it keeps pouring $200 billion into the data centers those models live in. Read that twice. They kept the concrete and cut the brains. The engineers writing the thing that was going to make you obsolete just found out they were a cost center too. This is where the whole pitch falls apart if you look at...
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