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Your Mailbox Just Became a Checkpoint
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday to let Trump’s mail voting executive order move forward. The one that creates a federal voter eligibility list and puts the Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security in charge of deciding whose ballot gets delivered. Two months before the midterms. A federal judge blocked the whole thing in June because it’s flatly illegal under existing election law. The Court didn’t say it was legal now. They said the government can start building the machine while everyone argues about whether the machine should exist. By November, the argument won’t matter. This is the...
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Green Flag, Empty Plate
Read more . . . →Yesterday Donald Trump took a lap around downtown Washington in an armored limousine, waved a green flag, and 150,000 people watched open-wheel race cars tear down Pennsylvania Avenue at 160 miles per hour. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix, part of the America 250 birthday bash, turned the National Mall into a racetrack. Meanwhile, buried in a report nobody covered on a Saturday: SNAP enrollment dropped from 42.2 million to 36.6 million in twelve months. 5.6 million people lost food assistance in the same year the president turned the capital into a speedway. Arizona alone lost more than half its recipients....
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The Deal Was Never a Deal
Read more . . . →Trump spent three days telling everyone he had a deal with Canada. Posted about it on Truth Social. Floated resurrecting a dead oil pipeline as a victory lap. Then late last night, the talks collapsed, and at midnight 50% tariffs landed on $20 billion in Canadian imports: lumber, electronics, clothing, furniture, dairy, booze. The USMCA, the trade agreement he personally signed in 2020, says none of this is supposed to happen. His trade rep blamed Canada for “walk backs.” Carney said the US changed terms at the last minute that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of...
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The Ref Works for Management Now
Read more . . . →The agency that exists to protect your right to organize just got handed to the people who spent their careers making sure you can’t. Senate confirmed two Trump picks to the National Labor Relations Board on August 7th, locking in a 3-1 Republican majority. One of them is a former chief labor counsel for Boeing. Yes, the Boeing currently under investigation for retaliating against workers who reported safety defects. Trump already fired the general counsel who was actually enforcing the law. A federal judge ruled he illegally fired the board chair. The administration shrugged and kept going. The NLRB is...
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Bomb the Ally
Read more . . . →Oman has never fought the United States. Not once. Not in any war, any proxy conflict, any diplomatic standoff in the country’s entire modern history. It’s been a US ally for decades, hosts American military facilities, and has spent years brokering back-channel talks between Washington and Tehran because somebody in the region had to be the adult. And on Monday, on Fox News, between segments about boat parades, the president of the United States said, direct quote, “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.” Because Oman is close to a deal with Iran to...
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He Broke the Window and Sold You the Glass
Read more . . . →Trump set a deadline of August 19 — tomorrow — for 50% tariffs on Canadian dairy, alcohol, and autos. The “deal” he’s offering to make them go away: Canada drops its retaliatory tariffs, opens up dairy markets, kills provincial procurement rules, and accepts the American interpretation of trade quotas. In exchange, the US would reduce some of the tariffs it imposed on Canada in the first place. That’s not a negotiation. That’s a guy who breaks your window and then offers to sell you the glass. Carney keeps saying Canada won’t accept a bad deal, but the framework leaking out...
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They Sold You Trump. Now They Want a Refund.
Read more . . . →The guys who spent two years telling you to get off the couch, hit the gym, grind your crypto portfolio, and vote for Trump are now calling for his impeachment. Sneako — the man who converted to Islam on a livestream to impress Andrew Tate — posted that Trump “would rather drag America into WW3 than have his Epstein blackmail footage released.” Rogan’s doing the same slow walk backward he does every time he realizes the person he platformed for three hours might be a problem. These are not political thinkers experiencing a crisis of conscience. These are brand managers...
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His Lawyer Said AOC Would Be President Without Him
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate’s lawyer went on Instagram this week and wrote that AOC will be the next president if Trump doesn’t intervene to stop his client’s extradition to the UK. The client in question is sitting in a Miami jail on 59 charges of rape and sex trafficking, using his phone to complain about the food and beg his followers to show up at his bail hearing on August 13. His lawyer, Joseph McBride, went on the Fresh and Fit podcast to make the pitch: help the man facing nearly five dozen rape charges, or lose the youth vote. The White...
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She Came from UnitedHealth and Promised Not to Make Trouble
Read more . . . →The CDC has a new director. The last one got fired for disagreeing with RFK Jr. about vaccines — the real kind, the kind that wiped out polio, not the Facebook comment section kind. The replacement is Dr. Erica Schwartz, previously of UnitedHealth Group, where she pulled $850,000 a year. At her confirmation hearing she said vaccines are safe and effective, then dodged every question about whether she’d push back if Kennedy told her otherwise. Said she was “unaware” of some of his policy changes. The whole audition was don’t know anything, don’t push back. The agency she’s inheriting has...
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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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