Covid is surging, measles is killing again, and the man running America’s health system spent years attacking the very vaccines that could save lives… Louise went to the local pharmacy yesterday to get her Covid shot because Covid is climbing in all fifty states right now. She was turned away, because there’s apparently no current Covid vaccine available anywhere in America. This isn’t a minor risk to us all, and should be a national scandal. It’s baffling that the media is ignoring it, particularly given the consequences.

Trump just unleashed a trade weapon no president has used since Herbert Hoover, and Canada’s retaliation could be the beginning of a global move away from America… Late Friday night, trade talks with Canada collapsed when Prime Minister Mark Carney — the former president of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, a guy whose knowledge of economics and history makes Scott Bessent’s bleatings sound pathetic — said he was tired of Trump bullying his country. He was blunt about the scam Trump’s trade people tried to run on Canada, saying, simply: “We were attacked.” And they were. As Dean Blundell documents, Trump was demanding of Canada: — Control over who Canada trades with. — Control over Canada’s use of the French language. — Control over Canadian-made cars. — Control over what goods the Canadian government buys for its own use. — And the ability to re-impose tariffs against Canada any time Trump gets irritated, for any reason. That midnight, in retaliation for Carney refusing to bow to Emperor Trump, the US imposed fifty percent tariffs on about twenty billion dollars’ worth of Canadian goods destined for American consumers.

The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion. — Republicans created the morbidly rich and stuck America with the $40 trillion debt — Donald Trump claims we have a new category of crime: publishing numbers he doesn’t like. — Trump’s inspectors general have found our government’s waste, fraud, and abuse: It’s them. — The Democratic establishment is now upset that they’ve spent a decade begging young people to run for office. — Judge Emmet Sullivan, forty-one years on the federal bench, has run out of F’s to give about the Justice Department’s ongoing Epstein/Trump child rape coverup. — Big corporate American employers are advertising jobs that don’t exist just to terrify their employees. — Crazy Alert! Rosie O’Donnell closed out her week guest-hosting Kimmel with an extraordinary rendition of “Danny Boy.”

Organized people can overcome organized money as we saw with Angie Nixon’s primary victory in Florida and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s in Michigan… Do we stand on the edge of a grand new progressive era, with good wages for all, racial and gender equality and justice, and America joining the rest of the developed world with cheap college and healthcare paid for by rational taxes on the morbidly rich? Or will Trump gleefully overthrow American democracy, finish his ongoing project of shuttering or handing to his oligarch partners-in-crime our free press, and imprisoning more of us who object?