A new Iowa bill would roll back child labor laws, allowing 14 to 17-year-olds to work in mining, meatpacking, demolition, operating guillotine shears, and other dangerous jobs. Under the business-backed bill, employers wouldn't be civilly liable if kids are injured or killed.
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The groomer panic is about breaking unions and ending public education. They're saying it out in the open.
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This is must-read analysis from Revolver about the education reform campaign in Florida: taking over public universities, eliminating DEI bureaucracies, reducing the power of teachers unions, and moving the state toward universal school choice.
revolver.news/2023/02/desant
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I hate that they release Super Bowl ads early now but this is amazing
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. scoops that DeSantis' consultant Phil Cox has been recruiting staffers to support a super pac for his presidential run - the clearest sign yet that he's going for it
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Ontario was again the lowest emissions large grid on earth yesterday (North Sweden is today). 4.54GW of wind showed up, 2,226MW of which was exported. We also spilled about 1.2GW of hydro (wind has priority).
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Bed, Bath & Beyond came under new management in 2019.
In 3 years, corporate executives paid themselves over $70 million, spent over $1 billion on stock buybacks, and bankrupted the company.
Now, thousands of workers will pay the price. perfectunion.us/bed-bath-beyon
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Look, the opponents suing to stop my plan are the only thing standing between millions of Americans’ crushing student debt and relief. It’s frustrating, and I won’t stop fighting to get it done in the courts.
Allow me and my friend to explain.
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Fox guest on Pelosi attack: Where is the evidence of a breaking and entering
Fox anchor: There's video of him breaking into the house.
G: I haven't seen that
A: It's on the screen right now.
G: Maybe that's true, maybe I'm wrong
A: He's clearly using that to break in
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Big oil is ripping you off AND lying to you!
We’re working with the Legislature on a price gouging penalty to keep oil company profits in check.
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Extraordinary that some of the loudest critics of the decision by the conservative bloc on the New York Court of Appeals to strike down the NY State Legislature’s congressional map are now working to … reinforce that conservative bloc.
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We used to be a proper country
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“Everything is working great and we should focus on celebrating our collective enormous achievements”
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“People would feel better about their circumstances if the media wasn’t feeding them so much negativity”
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I went to the Queens Italian restaurant where George Santos has somehow spent almost $50k in campaign funds since 2020, often in installments of exactly $199.99, one cent below what you have send the FEC receipts for. I tried to recreate his favorite meal.
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It rules that the only way this country will ever cut military spending is because conservatives now think the troops are too gay.
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Larry Kudlow indicates support for cutting military spending because "there's a lot of woke in that budget"
It's notable about "woke" has become a catch all for anything Republicans don't like
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Watched 'This Place Rules' last night and this guy is a victim of the most severe "this you" I've ever seen.
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MIKE ROGERS of alabama just had to be pulled away from Gaetz
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Greta no!!
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Great news for Masters…
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I've seen enough: GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) will not win the speaker's gavel on the first ballot.
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NEW: conservatives have a Millennials problem.
In both UK & US, it’s not just that Millennials aren’t voting conservative because they’re young.
Every previous generation grew more conservative with age, but Millennials are not playing ball.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/a0c1c1b
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Sincerely think that Richard Nixon has a claim to being our unintentionally funniest president
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words …
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Wall Street is pushing Costco for higher profits at the expense of customers.
In yesterday's earnings call, Costco's management faced pressure around its decision to absorb some grocery inflation instead of raising prices.
"Why make that decision?" a Citigroup analyst asked.
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I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.
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This all makes sense to me, and obviously these aren't the smartest or hardest-working guys in the world, but I keep thinking about how even the people trying to sell this never really posited a clear idea of what was on there. They left that to the fans.
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The thing to understand about the Hunter Biden laptop story was that it was SUPPOSED to be the Trump campaign’s “October Surprise.”
Mainstream media and social media were supposed to take the bait and focus on the appearance of scandal for the last weeks of the election.
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People are slowly, very slowly, coming to the realization that any system in which "More people have jobs" and "Wages went up" are treated as bad news is a deeply, irrevocably broken system.
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WOW. 263k on payrolls, blows past the estimate. Fed's not gonna like that and the market doesn't either
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most of the conservative discourse on this seems to be driven by their belief that joe biden was the president in 2020
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UPDATE: Joe Manchin, a reliable ally of the U.S Chamber of Commerce, has voted against paid sick days for rail workers. The Chamber, America's largest corporate lobby, had told lawmakers that this would be tracked as a "key vote" for the organization.
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Ah, well. Nevertheless.
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95% tempted to just make a runoff model now because I do not understand where people are getting these takes now
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Imagine if there is low Dem turnout on election day and Walker wins the runoff by 4 or 5%. Sorta like Georgia SOS in 2018. I don't expect a 2008 runoff scenario. Too extreme.
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It's a good thing we sued to add an extra day of voting on Saturday, Nov. 26. It is too bad you fought us.
Thankfully for voters, you lost and we won.
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There are going to be lines in early voting. Counties make decisions on locations and staffing and I am sure they made what they thought were the best decisions w/ the resources they have available. Location and trained poll worker availability are the Choke points. #gapol
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6% of deaths means still over 60,000 people under 50 have died. When you compare that to the things you guys panic about, such as kids using litter boxes in schools (0 occurrences), and kdis getting groomed at drag shows (0 occurrences), that's a lot of people!
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No Joe, you’re supposed to help the railroad workers… you got it backwards. A handful of sick days c’mon! Workers of the world unite!
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Joseph, while you’re fixing things with the railroad…get them to pass The Equality Act affording civil rights to the LGBTQ community. And extend the child tax credit. How bout the 35$ cap on insulin … all’s I’m saying, a few things already passed in the house. C’mon buddy
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Katie Hobbs is a Democrat, but she isn’t the one “choosing not to count” the votes of deep-red Cochise County, despite it being advantageous to Ds. She’s suing to force the county to certify after both its GOP commissioners voted against it. Without this, the Democrat flips #AZ06 twitter.com/RRHElections/s
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OIL MARKET: Washington eases its oil sanctions on Venezuela, allowing Chevron (for the next 6 months) to pump crude in the Latin American nation and export it into the United States. A major shift in the White House policy | #OOTT #Venezuela $CVX 🇻🇪 ⛽️ 🇺🇸
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