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Kill The Kangaroo

Via Legal Insurrection, Secretary Marco Rubio

Our message is clear: the United States and its people are not subject to the jurisdiction of the [International Criminal Court]. Both parties agree on this, but only President Trump has the resolve to take the action needed to end this threat for good. Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. We expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American servicemembers for their defense, to rein in the court.

If they do not, the United States will continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC, brick by brick, until Americans are threatened no longer.

Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC.

Very much related: A Nobel Prize for Hating Israel

Canadians Karens – 2026 Edition

Think back to 2020-2022, when there were countless examples of “Karens” (male & female) enforcing The Current Narrative™ demanded by Trudeau & co. Now, in 2026, we’re seeing the same sort of people trying to enforce on their fellow Canadians what they’re allowed to buy and what their political views must be. Even Joseph Goebbels couldn’t have dreamed that propaganda could be so easily foisted on a large swath of a population.

Foreign Around, Find Out

CNBC;

The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Sonderling said the Labor Department won’t accept or process any new applications under the program for a host of companies, including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL.

The secretary said Adobe and Microsoft were also suspended “due to multiple active federal investigations.”

“Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.

If only Canadian Conservatives possessed this level of clarity: “You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”

Lightening The Burden

Too bad they didn’t scrap the requirements entirely. But it’s a step in the right direction.

The Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that the finalized standards would correspond to a combined industry fleetwide average of roughly 34.9 miles per gallon for passenger cars and light trucks in the 2031 model year. That’s up from 30.1 miles per gallon for model year 2024, but down from a projected 50.4 miles per gallon in 2031 under rules put in place by the Biden administration.

Canadian-American Discussion

What’s your take on what these folks are saying:

Art Of The Deal

Expect to see lots of this.

More details here.

If You Demolish It, They Will Go

Center for Immigration Studies;

Since January 2025 when President Trump took office the government’s monthly household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.9 million decline in the foreign-born population — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants. We preliminarily estimate that the illegal immigrant population has fallen 2.3 million. While the survey is the most up-to-date and best data available through 2026, the findings come with caveats. […]

The huge recent decline in the foreign-born population indicates that net migration to the United States was negative in the last year and a half for the first time since the 1930s.

Via

Elbows Down!

Surely this is just a massive coincidence, right?

The unemployment rate held steady at 6.4 per cent last month, Statistics Canada said Friday. August’s losses fell short of economists’ expectations for a gain of 15,000 positions.

And just south of us:

The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring with a bang.

The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%.

 

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