Seattle gradually raised the minimum wage from $15 to $20 (plus secure [advance] scheduling requirements, paid sick and safe leave) and a good hunk of restaurant owners said it would destroy restaurants and employment. Strange: it did not! It did mean workers could work fewer overall hours.
Weāve all become desensitized, but itās amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that arenāt happening ā a imaginary bad economy, imaginary runaway crime and now an imaginary failure of Biden and Harris to respond to natural disaster
"While the Stateās interest in protecting 'unborn' life is compelling, until that life can be sustained *by the State* -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the Stateās work -- the balance of rights favors the woman."
"Women are not some piece of collectively owned property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote". Damn.
Donald Trump mused on Sunday about āone really violent dayā as an answer to what he has described as a plague of unchecked property crime in U.S. cities. The FBI last week reported a decline in property crime in 2023.
The remarks were the latest example of his praise for executive power and force in imposing order, this time over crimes the F.B.I. said last week were falling.
My name is Bunch Tuggley. Iām a patriot, self-made snake owner, waterpark inheritor, & Iām running for congress on a simple platform: 1. Go woke, get choked 2. Unleash free enterprise by loosening onerous waterpark regulations 3. Issue me a button that, if pressed, makes the US government explode
My latest Typebar essay answers such questions as: Why is LEGO telling you to pick up garbage? Why are there two different "ambulance ride after a skate park accident" sets? And who the hell has been putting eyeliner on animals?
