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Posting a series of charts help people navigate the current dialogue for the topic.

Canadian and American gas prices and changes percentage. Also shows the nearly undetectable impact of removing things like Carbon taxes

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/gasoline-prices

Even after becoming a net exporter of oil and the general perception of American oil culture. The fate of their nation isn't tied to oil, but it does substantially burden gas prices and other aspects of their economy.

Economic profits generated from oil extraction, measured as the difference between production value and costs, expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-rents-as-a-share-of-gdp?tab=line&country=CAN%7EUSA%7ESAU%7EARE%7ERUS&tableSearch=canada

U.S. crude oil exports surge to record as tankers flock to Gulf Coast during Iran war

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/03/us-crude-oil-exports-surge-to-record-as-tankers-flock-to-gulf-coast.html

Inflation adjusted oil prices. After the highs is usually a big drop.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-prices-inflation-adjusted?time=earliest..2024

When millions of tonnes of rock fell one kilometre into an Alaskan fiord last year, it set off one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded, a monstrous 481-metre wave higher than the tallest viewing platform of the CN Tower, a new study shows.

Dan Shugar, an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the corresponding author of the study, says the scale of the Tracy Arm Fjord tsunami shows the catastrophic potential of such waves and why their risk needs to be a stronger focus for policymakers, particularly in British Columbia.

In my state, timber tycoons have systematically stripped the forests of usable wood. Having exhausted local resources, they are now migrating to neighbouring states to repeat the extraction cycle.

About five years ago, the state governor enacted a strict logging ban, citing the industry's absolute failure to replace the trees they harvested. For nearly two years, these corporate interests lobbied the government relentlessly to lift the restriction. Throughout this extensive lobbying period, they consistently failed to present any viable reforestation strategy.

Consequently, the governor drafted a state-led initiative. He established a new agency dedicated to reforestation, superseding the existing national forestry department that had long since abandoned its mandate. For six months, this new office functioned as intended. They planted saplings, monitored ecological recovery, and actively regulated logging activities.

Then, regulatory capture took effect. The tycoons successfully bribed the new agency, and all conservation efforts ceased completely. The governor's personal complicity remains unconfirmed; however, the institutional failure is absolute.

Capitalism functions as a purely extractive virus upon the planet. If this economic architecture is allowed to persist, within a few decades the populace will be forced to purchase polluted water and privatised oxygen simply to survive.

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Fry concluded: "Cass didn't make us any money at all. And, in a lot of ways, she was a disaster. She spent hundreds of dollars on paper clips and leaked our passwords to a total stranger.

After The New York Times reported that the administration had identified 384 foreign-born Americans as targets for denaturalization, Fox News host Will Cain asked Vice President JD Vance in an interview, “Could the law lead you to a place where we’d see accountability in the form of denaturalization or deportation from people who come to this country, legally or illegally, and take advantage of America?” Vance responded that the administration would “absolutely” be looking at how to denaturalize citizens and claimed that under the Biden administration there was a “big blurring of the lines between illegal and legal immigration.”

According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, denaturalization has historically been rare. It is typically only used in cases in which there is proof that a person was naturalized when they were not eligible, for example if a person misrepresented or concealed information during the naturalization process that would disqualify them from U.S. citizenship.

But in June 2025, the Trump Department of Justice released a policy memo expanding the administration’s “priorities for denaturalization.” The memo not only outlines new categories of immigrants who could be prioritized for denaturalization, but specifically warns that “the Civil Division retains the discretion to pursue cases outside of these categories as it determines appropriate.”

The fiery dispute centered on a proposal that would have allowed agents to enter homes without judicial warrants

An internal dispute over how to carry out Donald Trump’s deportation agenda grew so heated that officials had to “clear the room,” according to a new report.

The argument unfolded during a February 2025 meeting attended by Rodney Scott, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, and Caleb Vitello, who was then the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Scott and his deputies were advocating for a “master plan” — approved by then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — that called for establishing a National Incident Command Center, which would tap the resources of ICE, CBP and the Pentagon, NBC News reported.

The plan was part of an effort to dramatically ramp up deportations to 1 million per year, lining up with the president’s promise to carry out the largest illegal immigrant expulsion program in U.S. history.

Mirror

Put down the cudgel and reach for the olive branch

Hi not sure where to start here a bit embarrassed to ask ive lost my job and so down on life not eat for 2 days spent the last what I had to feed children can anyone help me in the right direction that will help us

Hi not sure where to start here a bit embarrassed to ask ive lost my job and so down on life not eat for 2 days spent the last what I had to feed children can anyone help me in the right direction that will help us