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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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Poilievre Ran Out Of Enemies He's Allowed To Name
Read more . . . →Poilievre is sitting at 37% while Carney runs a 66% approval rating, his own seat is now something pundits openly game out losing, and the party that was supposed to stroll into government is watching two-thirds of the country say they’d rather keep the banker. So he did the thing every cornered politician does when the affordability pitch stops selling: he found someone smaller to blame. This week it’s “very hard caps” on immigration, and the line he said out loud is that he wants more people leaving the country than coming into it. That’s not a housing plan or...
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They Put a Clock-In App on the People Who Defend You
Read more . . . →Public defenders are the people who stand between a broke stranger and a cage, for a salary that wouldn’t cover a Brooklyn one-bedroom. Brooklyn Defender Services just spent days on a picket line to claw back a little dignity, and their contract fight ended in a tentative deal on Tuesday. The Bronx Defenders are set to walk on July 27. Not over some fortune. Over a tracking app that makes them clock in and out like they’re suspected of skimming the register, and over a probation period where management can fire a new hire “for any reason.” Sit with “for...
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327 Trades the Day Before He Flipped the Switch
Read more . . . →Here’s the timeline, because it does all the work. April 8, 2025: the market is still falling off a cliff that Trump personally pushed it over the week before with his “Liberation Day” tariffs. That same day, accounts linked to him make 327 separate stock purchases — as much as $12.8 million total, six figures a pop into Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet and dozens more. The next morning he posts on Truth Social that it’s “a great time to buy.” A few hours after that he pauses the tariffs. The S&P 500 rips one of the biggest single-day gains...
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The Tate Brothers Got Cuffed in the Country That Flew Them In
Read more . . . →Rewind eighteen months. In February 2025 the Trump administration leaned on Romania to lift the travel ban keeping Andrew and Tristan Tate in the country while they faced trafficking charges. Richard Grenell worked the Romanian foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference, calls got made, and days later the brothers boarded a private jet and landed in Fort Lauderdale like they’d won something. Trump, asked about the men his own people had just sprung, said he knew “nothing about it.” This week US Marshals walked into Miami and put both of them in federal detention on a British extradition warrant....
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