Trump claims tears were streaming down DeSantis’ face Lol: I believe it. This is the desperate ad DeSantis ran and it garnered him just enough votes to win in 2018:
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“Astonishing labor market growth” Headlines at the New York Times and Washington Post trumpet 25 straight months of job growth. Unexpected jobs numbers Friday show the unemplyment rate falling to 3.4 percent, a rate not seen since 1969. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the economy added 517,000 jobs last month. The labor force participation rate remained stable at 62.4 percent but below pre-pandemic levels. But wage growth is slowing with inflation. Despite claims that employers cannot find workers because “nobody wants to work these days,” restaurants cannot find workers because many have found better jobs with “increased flexibility, stability and often better pay” (Washington Post): Nearly three years since the coronavirus pandemic upended the labor market, restaurants, bars, hotels and casinos remain short-staffed, with nearly 2 million unfilled openings. The leisure and hospitality industry, which before the pandemic accounted for much of the country’s job growth, is still short roughly 500,000 employees from 2020 levels, even as many other sectors have recovered.
It is nearly 20 years since I blew the whistle on British Government complicity in torture and the extraordinary rendition programme, under which thousands of people were deliberately tortured as a systematic act of government policy. Many of them were killed. I had, and I leaked, substantial documentary evidence to back my claims, of which […]
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The other pandemic “I knew there were some crazies out there. But I underestimated how many,” a friend said at an event last night. “Our culture is so sick…” Digby wrote in her last Thursday post. Scanning through Twitter every morning reinforces that assessment. Couldn’t it have just been a dancing fever? Police in Huntington Park, Calif. on Saturday shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect, a double amputee who dismounted his wheelchair to flee on his stumps. The Telegraph reports: Police said they got a call on Saturday that a man was stabbed by another man in a wheelchair. Officers said when they arrived on the scene they found Mr Lowe with a butcher knife. Video footage taken by a passerby which was released online on Monday shows Mr Lowe out of his wheelchair, trying to get away from two officers using his arms to propel himself along the ground. When a third officer arrived, they shot Lowe “around ten times,” killing him, said Lt. Hugo Reynaga. ‘He tried to run away, and every time he turned around and did the motion like he was gonna throw the knife at him, they Tased him,’ said Reynaga.
Anti-arms trade campaigners say UK-made weapons are contributing to thousands of civilian deaths in the devastating Middle Eastern war
Campanha nas redes sociais contra vacinas genéricas de covid-19 foi só uma parte do ataque das farmacêuticas para segurar as patentes – e atingir recorde de lucros.
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Our newly minted “independent” Kyrsten Sinema making friends. The good news is that she’s no longer attending any Democratic strategy meetings. It’s pretty clear that she doesn’t have the party’s best interests at heart.
A script read out at the start of every Proud Boys gathering reveals the paradoxes of being a woman in the far-right, and the misogyny inherent in nationalism. Sian Norris reports
Sure, this is fine: A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a conservative-leaning appeals court ruled Thursday. The ruling is the latest significant decision dismantling a gun restriction in the wake of the Supreme Court’s expansion of Second Amendment rights last year in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen decision. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals said that the federal law targeting those believed to pose a domestic violence threat could not stand under the Bruen test, which requires that gun laws have a historical analogy to the firearm regulations in place at the time of the Constitution’s framing. “Through that lens, we conclude that (the law’s) ban on possession of firearms is an ‘outlier’ that our ancestors would never have accepted,” the 5th Circuit said. The court’s opinion was written by Judge Cory Todd Wilson, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump.
S-Q-U-I-S-H It’s hard enough to know what conservatives mean by socialism or woke. It may be harder still to know these days what they mean by conservative. Charlie Sykes takes a swag at The Bulwark. He’s not sure anymore, beacuse “what passes for ‘conservatism’ now, in right-wing media and MAGA circles, is not really what Edmund Burke (or J.S. Mill, Milton Friedman, Bill Buckley, George Will, or Charles Krauthammer) had in mind, is it?” What conservatism is and is not in his estimation (abbreviated here, see post for details): MAGA “Conservativism” is for a strong national defense… …except, of course, when it is not. MAGA “Conservatives” believe in fiscal restraint… …except when they are in the White House. “Conservatives” are devoted to the constitution, which must be strictly observed… … except when it needs to be scrapped in order to hold onto power.