Trump admin drops court fight on 15% IDC www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t...

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying.

This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you.

In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.

The moment he started talking about Sewer Socalism is the moment I started paying attention. He's being way more thoughtful than I expected.

Who needs Heated Rivalry when you have this?

I have seen the future, and it's one where information scientists define "information" as increasingly diverse types of mediated objects.

Documents are so over.

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I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws.

You know, like a democracy.

"What if your hero is in the Epstein Files?"

No way in hell Dolly Parton is in the Epstein Files.

Al Gore heckling the Commerce Secretary is peak 2026.

The Cold War ended and they replaced the USSR with Democrats and liberalism as their enemy.

Canada takes the stage.

Given the circumstances, I'd say thst he is overperforming for a political newcomer.

Anyone who doesn't pay fealty to the mad king is an enemy. Fuck these clowns.

Yup.

Second, everyday life is still pretty normal here. It's the exceptions that send off alarm bells. Things are good until suddenly they arent.

An observation (or two) from down south. First, y'all have responded well. I see a level of social cohesion that reminds me of the U.S. in the 30s. People either rise to the moment or they don't, and so far, you have.

Modern day speculators.

FWIW, he's openly acknowledged that the best proof of his ideas and governing philosophy is when they succeed. He may be a socialist, but he's sending signals that he's also a pragmatist.

the joker is wearing a purple suit and making a funny face while standing in a dark room . ALT: the joker is wearing a purple suit and making a funny face while standing in a dark room .

That or this administration is plain nuts.

There's a reason. The cultural conservatives here don't want international openness, because if there is, they know that the country will change. I honestly think they want us a little isolated.

I second this. ❤️🇺🇸 ❌️🍊

My wife is Canadian. I asked her about some old cannons pointing across the Detroit river a few years ago. She stayed quiet. 😂

An enterprising left-leaning politician might find a way to work with evangelicals to regulate the industry across-the-board. But doing that would require leadership.

The troubled disability benefits system is also deteriorating after some improvement, with 66 percent of disability appointments scheduled within 28 days as of December — down from nearly 90 percent earlier in the year, data shows.

The Trump administration has said it was improving the SSA. A year in, it looks like the mess that everyone else predicted. Not enough staff, manipulation of numbers and declining performance.
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Exhibit A in why the Democrats are completely feckless. Franken resigned over indiscretions that look trivial compared to those of Trump, when all he needed to do was say, "I'll resign when he does."

If you're gonna self-immolate, then make some good come from it.

The President is relying on the same legal theory for attacking Venezuela as he is for deploying US troops in American cities.

Let that sink in.

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

Movement conservatism is an oxymoron. The moment that American conservatives started to act like insurgents and revolutionaries and reformers, they stopped caring about what the public wants.

They're gonna win, aren't they?

The world got mean this year, but I'm still standing. Is that the best you got?!

Are the artists who cancel boycotting themselves? 🤣

Something that suprized in 2025 was the maximalist Canadian response to the Trump administration. What didn't suprize me was how little my countrymen understand our neighbors.