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- The Hound | June 29
The Hound | June 29
A House bill could raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers, it's America 250 week, and more.
Hi there,
It’s Monday. A House bill aimed at protecting children through online age verification could curtail whistleblowing and raise the risk for journalists and dissidents. Donald Trump is furious at Mayor Zohran Mamdani after NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board passed a rent freeze, making good on a key promise of his mayoral campaign.
And the Gordie Howe International Bridge — a fully completed span connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, at the busiest land crossing in North America — is sitting empty and unopened because Trump doesn't want it open yet. A grand opening was scheduled for this month and canceled at the last minute after Trump intervened. The economic consequences are real and growing. And the Moroun family — owners of the rival Ambassador Bridge, which benefits financially from every day the Gordie Howe stays closed — has donated millions to Republicans in recent years, including a $1 million contribution to a Trump-aligned super PAC.
Yet too much media coverage treats this as a diplomatic oddity — another wrinkle in Trump's fraught relationship with Canada. It is not. It is a textbook corruption story: a completed piece of public infrastructure being held hostage while a politically connected family with a direct financial stake in keeping it closed showers money on the president's allies.
🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the Gordie Howe Bridge closure not as a trade story or a Canada story, but as a corruption story — one that asks who benefits, who is paying, and why a president is blocking a completed bridge that serves millions of people on both sides of the border.
The public deserves reporting that follows the money and calls what it finds by its name.
Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:
America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump’s presidency is testing how far it’s come (AP News)
The Rogue Supreme Court Blesses Ethnic Cleansing (The American Prospect)
Trump Is Clearly Rattled by What Mamdani Just Did in New York (The New Republic)
Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing (The Intercept)
Until next time,
Harry from The Hound
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