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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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Cleveland-Cliffs Cuts Another 950 — Seventh Straight Losing Quarter
Read more . . . →Cleveland-Cliffs is shutting mills in Pennsylvania and Illinois and putting 950 more steelworkers on the street at the end of June. That’s on top of the 1,200 they already cut in March. Seventh straight losing quarter, $225 million torched last quarter alone, and CEO Lourenco Goncalves — the guy who spent 2025 on cable news cheerleading Trump’s steel tariffs as the savior of American industry — wants you to know that next quarter is going to be great. Trust him. Here’s the thing the brain trust never figured out: tariffs only save steel if someone still buys the steel. Cars...
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Meta Gives Six Execs $921M Each, Fires 700 Workers The Next Day
Read more . . . →Meta’s board just handed six top executives a new stock package that will pile $921 million onto each of their stacks. Less than 24 hours later, 700 Meta workers got the email. Same company. Same week. Same accountants. The scale breaks your brain if you let it sit. One executive’s new raise alone could keep every single fired worker employed at a solid salary for roughly two decades. There are six of them. Around five and a half billion dollars in fresh comp going to the exact people who decided which 700 families to torch before breakfast. Zuckerberg calls it...
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Whirlpool Begged for the Tariffs. It's Still Shipping Jobs to Mexico.
Read more . . . →Whirlpool wrote the tariff playbook. The company lobbied Washington for appliance duties, praised them at every press event, and publicly backed Trump’s “Liberation Day” schedule because — on paper — it was supposed to kneecap LG and Samsung. Turns out the America First poster child just laid off 341 workers at its Amana, Iowa plant this spring, a plant that had 3,000 people in it five years ago. Union reps say it could be down to 500 by year’s end. Where’s the work going? Mexico. Whirlpool poured over a billion dollars into Mexican facilities and tripled its workforce south of...
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Poilievre Calls Reality 'Fear-Mongering'
Read more . . . →Mark Carney looked at the camera Sunday and said the thing every Canadian already knew in their gut: the Americans aren’t our partners anymore, the relationship is a weakness, and we need to diversify or we’re cooked. Premiers from both parties nodded along. New Brunswick’s Susan Holt called it exactly what it is — a vulnerability. Pierre Poilievre’s response? Carney is “pushing fear.” A grown man who wants to run the country watched a full year of tariffs and betrayals and a customs portal owing businesses $166 billion, and decided the real problem is the Prime Minister being honest about...
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The Dead Don't File Takedowns
Read more . . . →Trump spent Sunday posting a four-minute clip of Frank Sinatra singing “My Way” on Truth Social — no caption, no context, just Ol’ Blue Eyes serenading him from beyond the grave like a hostage video the president filmed himself. Nancy Sinatra, 85 and done with this man, called it sacrilege in four words. She has said in the past that her father loathed Trump. She has said she will never forgive the Americans who voted for him. Neither statement has aged poorly. Grabbing a dead crooner’s catalog and waving it around like a trophy is the oldest move in the...
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Disney's New CEO Marks Day One By Firing 1,000 People
Read more . . . →Josh D’Amaro is two months into the Disney top job and already he’s sent the memo every new CEO sends: we’re cutting 1,000 jobs. Studio, TV, ESPN, Product & Tech. The castmembers who kept the magic running while the C-suite argued about streaming margins are cleaning out their desks so D’Amaro can prove to Wall Street he means business. Nothing says “happiest place on earth” like watching your boss announce your layoff in the third paragraph of a company-wide email. Disney is sitting on a $180 billion market cap. The first real move of the new regime is to squeeze...
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Snap Fires 1,000 So a 2.5% Shareholder Can Feel Good
Read more . . . →A hedge fund called Irenic Capital bought 2.5% of Snap, put up a website named savesnapnow.com, and uploaded a PowerPoint titled “6 Steps to 7X.” Two weeks later, Snap fired a thousand people. The stock jumped. Evan Spiegel got on the earnings call and described it as “a new way of working,” which translates from billionaire into English as “we figured out we can stop paying a thousand people and the market will applaud.” This is the whole model now. You don’t have to own the company to gut it. You buy a slice of the cap table, post a...
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The Tate Brothers Just Accidentally Funded Women's Shelters
Read more . . . →Devon and Cornwall Police seized roughly a million pounds from Andrew and Tristan Tate — unpaid taxes on £21 million the brothers raked in running their misogyny-industrial complex — and handed it straight to programs that reduce violence against women and girls. That is the single funniest sentence written in English this month. The guy whose entire career is built on teaching young men to treat women as objects is now, involuntarily, bankrolling the people trying to undo his damage. He ran the grift, skimmed the receipts, and a U.K. magistrate stuffed those receipts into a women’s shelter. Incredible. Meanwhile...
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HUD Workers Had to Build a Website to Do Their Jobs
Read more . . . →The people whose literal job is to investigate housing discrimination are being told they can’t investigate housing discrimination. HUD civil rights lawyers got fired for going to Congress with concerns that the agency was gutting fair housing enforcement. So they did the most American thing possible — they built a website. “Dear America” is a collection of anonymous employee letters from inside HUD, and the picture they paint is grim: if a case involves race, gender, or sexual orientation, you’re not allowed to touch it. The agency that exists to fight discrimination has been ordered to stop fighting discrimination. Meanwhile,...
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