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🇨🇦 Canada to hit US with dollar-for-dollar tariffs after trade talks collapse Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on US goods starting Sept. 8 after trade negotiations with Washington broke down late Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said. The US imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods, including hockey sticks, building materials, liquor, and some clothing, at midnight. Carney called the new duties “a miscalculation” and blamed the collapse on the Trump administration’s “uneconomic” and “unfair” last-minute demands, saying his negotiators had worked “in good faith” for more than a year. “Canada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses,” he said, adding that Canada “will not allow any nation to determine our future.” More details below ⬇️

Brian Lilley @brianlilley

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This was the most interesting part of Carney's appearance this morning. Asked what changes the Americans made that were unacceptable, he gave a clear and direct answer with concrete examples. This was not a deal any PM should have signed with those auto tariffs on trucks.

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Trump reported a staggering 1,051 trades in his June financial disclosure. Here are two of the more curious ones: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract for P-8A training systems. — June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX.

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Election Security—or the Engineering of Distrust? #CounterPunch twp.ai/4huTSW

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🗞️ Axios reports that Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon had a heated call Friday with state Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried. According to the outlet: • “Nikki wants her to back away from DSA, from socialism,” one person who spoke with Nixon told Axios. “She’s listening to other people saying that they’re afraid, they’re scared—the Jewish members and the Hispanic caucus. But to Angie, Nikki doesn’t want Angie to be who Angie is. Angie has already done the backing-away.” • On the phone call, Nixon told Fried, “You never gave a care about me from the beginning, and now you’re telling me how to run my campaign?” according to the source. • At one point, a source told Axios, Nixon yelled, “stop gaslighting me!”

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(Axios) “Stop gaslighting me!”: Florida Democrats’ US Senate nominee and party chair have heated call over socialism Florida's new Democratic Senate nominee, Angie Nixon, and the state party's chair had a heated conversation Friday which included a yelling match about the impact

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🇮🇷 Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called for a “homegrown, independent order” to deliver peace and security in the region, saying Iran has received “numerous messages” from neighboring countries about new security arrangements and economic cooperation. Ghalibaf said Washington’s support for Israel had put its own regional allies at such risk that they briefly saw their “entire existence on the line.” “The United States put the security of every single one of its allies at such risk,” he said.

محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf

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1/2 We’ve received numerous messages from neighboring countries about shaping new security arrangements and economic cooperation in the region. The United States put the security of every single one of its allies at such risk…

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🇮🇷 Reuters reports that the U.S. blockade is increasingly squeezing Iran’s oil trade with China, sharply reducing available cargoes and pushing prices higher. ➤ Iranian crude in floating storage outside the blockade zone has fallen from about 105 million to 80 million barrels, according to Kpler. ➤ China’s imports of Iranian oil have dropped to about 534,000 bpd so far in August, down from 823,000 bpd in July and an average 1.4 million bpd in 2025. ➤ Some Iranian crude, normally sold at a discount, is now being offered at a $2-per-barrel premium to Brent, after trading around a $3 discount earlier this week. ➤ Kpler says buyers may have virtually no new Iranian supply available for late-September delivery onward because no laden Iranian supertankers have visibly crossed Hormuz since the blockade resumed July 13. Chinese independent refiners are increasingly looking to Iraqi, Russian and Brazilian crude to fill the gap. reuters.com/business/energ…

💢 REPORT | An estimated 1.98 million Palestinians in Gaza, or 94% of the population, need shelter and basic household assistance, according to a new report by the UN Shelter Cluster, led by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) as humanitarians say Israel continues to block proper shelter. 🔸The report found that nearly two-thirds of households live in tents or makeshift shelters, structures that are not designed for long-term accommodation. ▪️More than half of households in tents had already used the same tent for over a year ▪️And more than half of tents and makeshift shelters assessed were in poor or very poor condition. 🔸”A shelter is not adequate simply because it has four walls or a roof,” Jehan Salim, National Shelter Cluster Coordinator, said in a statement. ▪️ “The materials needed to repair homes, restore basic services and provide improved shelters are still not entering Gaza at anything close to the scale required.”

Norwegian Refugee Council @NRC_Norway

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Ten months after a ceasefire, nearly 2 million people in #Gaza are still without adequate shelter. Israeli restrictions on shelter materials are blocking aid from reaching the people who need it most, and preventing us from scaling up. @‌UNmigration @ShelterCluster

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MYSTERY MEAT: Trump says he struck a deal to flood the U.S. with cheaper foreign beef. There’s just one problem: He refuses to tell Americans which countries the beef is coming from. And U.S. ranchers are furious. meidasnews.com/news/mystery-m…

@SenSanders Bernie fights for justice

At a time when Black Americans make up 14.5% of our population — just 5% are doctors, 4% are dentists & 8.6% are nurses. Now, Trump is making a bad health care situation even worse by cutting funding for Black medical schools due to his racist policies. That is outrageous.

@BernieSanders End super PACs get money out

Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress. That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy. End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionaires—from both parties—out of elections.

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Florida Angie Nixon said she “doesn’t believe in defunding anything,” but wants federal money prioritized for public education, Medicare, universal health care, and child care. She wants to make sure that “we are looking at the Department of Defense budget with a fine-tooth comb.” “There are veterans who are living unhoused on the streets. There are active-duty military people who are on—their families, their spouses, who are on food stamps. Clearly, something is broken right now,” Nixon said. “So we need to make sure that Pete Hegseth isn’t allowing combat helicopters, helicopters, to go outside of Kid Rock’s home for a cool social media moment. Our taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be spent on that.”

Mamdani Derangement Syndrome

James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki

3 days ago

The hostility to Mamdani's Parents Night Out initiative is very odd, because no one (at least no one normal) has any problem with NYC running summer day camps. This was a one-day, four-hour camp running from late afternoon to early evening. It's a nice idea.

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Melania suddenly resurfaces as Trump’s economic schemes unravel, his threats fall flat, and another election delivers a brutal warning for MAGA. Meanwhile, world leaders are starting to respond to Trump in a very different way. youtube.com/live/x85-fzzJV…

NEWS: The DNC is suing the Trump administration over its failure to turn over records about any plans to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election equipment in the midterms. Nearly five months after the requests, the DNC says the FBI and DOJ have produced nothing.

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There’s a reason why Americans don’t trust Big Tech Oligarchs. These AI billionaires are threatening to obliterate their jobs, eviscerate their privacy, undermine democracy, raise their electricity bills & destroy the environment. We need a moratorium on AI data centers.

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Noosphere @noosphereapp

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.@chucktodd: What do you think the hesitance has been in the black community with [@AbdulElSayed]? @RepAndreCarson: I think it dates back to the earlier part of the 20th century, where you had Muslims in Michigan, particularly Detroit. You had the Ahmadiyya movement. You had the

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