Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
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Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone
Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.
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Leading Minnesota Republicans want to help the feds terrorize the residents of their state.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoEvery single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
More on the biggest pump and dump operation in modern times. Today’s investment contest: Guess how many paragraphs deep is the revelation that SpaceX lost $541 million in a single quarter in first report after IPO. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...
SpaceX Shares Sink on AI Spending Plans
The Elon Musk-led rocket company spent $15.8 billion on AI projects in the second quarter and doesn’t plan to slow down.
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“Racism and capitalism are impossible to separate from each other in the American story. And Musk is a modern variant of that.” The latest from our colleagues at @revealnews.org:
How Elon Musk is re-engineering the world
Author Quinn Slobodian talks about how Musk’s futuristic worldview is transforming capitalism, government, and how we live our lives.
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You could think, this Hawaii Supreme Court justice should mind his own business. Or you can recognize how bad the situation must be for him to have devoted a share of a decision to warning about the U.S. Supreme Court's hard-right turn.
A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
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Thankfully Abdul was able to defeat one of the 726,000 Trojan Horse Democrats - Democrat on the outside, Republican and Israel on the inside - but we must make all ballots 100% public and end secret ballots so that the people who voted for genocide cannot hide their names.
WSJ offers details on the scam that Scott Bessent (a seasoned currency speculator-predator) is using to try to artificially prop up the Japanese Yen, just as he propped up the Argentinian peso earlier. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Why Bessent Is Leaning on the Fed to Help Prop Up Japan’s Currency
The Treasury secretary wants the central bank to help by raising its $60 billion borrowing limit on an obscure lending program.
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America’s biggest corporations shelled out millions to support Freedom 250 and then did not disclose the payments on lobbyist contribution reports due to Congress last Friday. Trump himself is the chair of Freedom 250. trib.al/bb9On0R
Klobuchar is going to put up Saddam numbers in November.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoEvery single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
They all complain but no Senator or House member has gone to the well of the floor and read the Epstein files out loud. Their anger is not real, our anger is very fucking real.
It is surprising that there is not widespread public outrage among Americans regarding this issue. The majority of the funds will be allocated to shareholders, leaving little to no benefit for the lower-level employees. And will the prices come down for you, who paid the tariffs?
Today’s top D Bags in The Boy’s Club: Shill Us & Corn Hole
So are we sure the SpaceX rocket on a collision course with the moon isn’t on purpose? The batshit crazy rich guy does have a reputation of blowing stuff up.
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
“This is not saying science should never be questioned. Science is always being questioned. But when you come in with answers to questions and hypotheses already, that’s the backwards way to do science.”
How RFK Jr. is dismantling America’s health policies
On this week’s “More To The Story,” anti-vaxxers, an upside-down food pyramid, and the many ways MAHA is transforming public health in the US.
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Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.” - Navalny
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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120,000 Americans are shot every year. 44,000 Americans die by gun violence every year. This is a crisis that we could easily end, but continue to justify as an “acceptable loss” in order to feed America’s rabid obsession with firearms - a fervor manufactured and fueled by the NRA.
Multiple People Dead After Shooting At Fast Food Restaurant In Southern Idaho
Authorities in southern Idaho say a shooting near a shopping center has left multiple people injured.
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🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
