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3,000 Rallies Today Because the Tariff Revolution Was a Scam
Read more . . . →Three thousand May Day rallies across the country today. Five hundred labor unions marching. The National Education Association — three million members — calling a national walkout. The slogan is “Workers Over Billionaires,” which is apparently still a controversial position in 2026. Trump said tariffs would bring the factories “roaring back.” A year later, 100,000 manufacturing jobs are gone. A Kearney report confirmed the tariffs didn’t drive reshoring or reduce import dependence. What they did was hand every American household a $1,500 tax bill — the largest tariff increase as a share of GDP since 1993. The factories didn’t come...
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Tomorrow Is May Day. The Company Already Replaced You.
Read more . . . →Tomorrow is International Workers’ Day. This year, corporations are celebrating by laying off 882 people a day. Tech alone has cut 95,000 jobs in 2026 — Meta starts firing another 8,000 on May 20, Oracle just eliminated 30,000 people to fund $156 billion in AI infrastructure. Not to survive. To accelerate. You were the cost they were looking for an excuse to cut. The framing is always the same: “toward AI,” “efficiency,” “long-term value creation.” What that means is they found the machine that does your job for less. No benefits. No vacation. No back-talk. And the record profits keep...
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Violet Hill turns 18 and it still can't pull off being angry
Read more . . . →18 years ago today, Coldplay released “Violet Hill.” It still sucks. The idea was a war protest song — guitar distortion, Chris Martin attempting something like a growl. What they delivered sounds like someone who found out they were double-charged at Starbucks. Pouty and vaguely betrayed. The Iraq War was still going and Coldplay’s big political statement involved mumbling about priests with poison while being exactly as threatening as a passive-aggressive Post-it note. 2008 was a great year for music. Here’s what you should have been listening to while Coldplay was practicing their frowns: Deadmau5 ft. Rob Swire - Ghosts...
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"Tariff Relief" Means Pack Up Your Workers and Leave
Read more . . . →Trump dropped his “tariff relief” offer to Canadian steel companies yesterday: move your production to the US or keep paying 50%. The United Steelworkers — the union representing the people actually doing the work in Hamilton, Sault Ste. Marie, and across the country — called it blackmail and extortion. Not metaphorically. That’s the actual terminology for “relocate everything or face consequences.” They chose a precise word and they meant it. The workers on those lines are already being laid off under the current tariff regime. Trump’s offer doesn’t save them — it gives their employers an offramp to close up...
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Your gas bill is Trump's war tab
Read more . . . →The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since February. Used to carry 25% of the world’s seaborne oil. Now it doesn’t, because Trump and Israel bombed Iran and the Iranians shut the door. Gas is up 27% since the war started. Brent crude crossed $107 this morning. Trump canceled peace talks this weekend. Iran says it won’t negotiate under threat. Trump says they can “call us.” The standoff holds — and the cost lands at the pump, the utility bill, every week, no ceiling in sight. Delivery drivers and small shop owners are eating the tab for a war they...
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Joe Rogan feels 'betrayed.' Millions of workers felt it first.
Read more . . . →Joe Rogan says he feels “betrayed” by Trump over the Iran war. Tucker Carlson went on air and apologized for “misleading” his audience. Eight of the fourteen bro-podcast hosts Trump campaigned with have turned against the war. Day 56 of a conflict the no-more-wars candidate started — he’s blockading Iranian ports and just cancelled peace talks because the flights were “too long.” These are the guys who handed Trump the keys. Rogan gave him three hours of softballs. Carlson gave him months of uncritical coverage. They sold the no-more-wars line to millions of people and now they’re doing the confused...
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Your boss made 341 times what you did last year
Read more . . . →The numbers came in. Median CEO pay hit $29.4 million in 2025 — up 23.2% in a single year. Your salary increase was “held steady” at 3.5%. The CEO pay ratio is now 341:1. Last year it was 300:1. They’re moving faster than inflation, just in the wrong direction. This was the same year that Meta cut 700 workers after paying its executives $921 million. The same year Disney, SNAP, and Cleveland Cliffs announced mass layoffs. The board rooms were handing out bonuses at target while HR was firing off termination emails. Nobody called an emergency shareholder meeting about that...
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Barron's Pen Pal
Read more . . . →The New York Times reports the president’s 20-year-old son has been corresponding with Andrew Tate since 2024. Tate is the accused rapist and human trafficker who got airlifted out of Romanian prosecution onto a Florida tarmac because the manosphere economy demanded his continued podcasting. This is who Barron looks up to. Of course he does. The whole administration is a manosphere group chat with nuclear codes — call women weak, call workers parasites, call due process woke, then tape a four-hour podcast about how a Bugatti makes you a man. The Tates weren’t downstream of the White House. They were...
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Bezos Spent Billions on a Rocket and Built a Slow-Motion Lawn Dart
Read more . . . →Jeff Bezos just stranded a satellite in the wrong orbit because his rocket company couldn’t get the engine right. Blue Origin admitted Monday that a “bad engine” doomed the New Glenn launch over the weekend, leaving the customer’s payload as the world’s most expensive piece of garbage. The richest man on earth — the guy who built an empire on warehouses where workers piss in bottles to make rate — cannot reliably make a rocket go up. He just spent another fortune learning that fact in front of everyone. The mythology around these guys is that they’re visionary builders. Then...
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The Anti-DEI Loyalty Oath Just Became Federal Procurement Policy
Read more . . . →The Trump anti-DEI executive order kicked in yesterday. Every new federal contract over the micro-purchase threshold has to include a clause banning “racially discriminatory DEI activities” — language so vague it works as a loyalty test. Sign it or lose the work. The vagueness is the point. You can’t comply with a standard nobody will define, so you over-comply, sandblast your hiring page, and pray the auditors never ask. Higher-ed diversity officers sued in Maryland on Monday saying the order eats the First Amendment. They’re right and it won’t save anyone on the clock that matters. Contractors with payroll to...
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