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Is Katy Tur going to be the next MSNBC anchor to get the boot? She trends every other week it seems.
OLbermann ripped her apart on his podcast, even claimed she hit him while he was recovering from surgery.
This is one crazy-ass timeline.

 

So Musk won the stockholder vote yesterday to get back his $50B Twitter salary. In Twitter news more likely to affect the public, you can no longer see another person's likes on Twitter. This sounds like something positive/no big deal until you think back on all the stories where a given politician is found to have liked racist Tweets, tweets by Proud Boys, and other such discoveries.

Fucking Elmo.

 

The key to Trump's vile viability (even more than his cowardly party, his cult members or the propaganda "news" outlets that protect and promote him) is the f*ckin' Electoral College, man. Without it, he's a footnote, a Trivial Pursuit answer. (This insane businessman lost to the first female POTUS).

 

There’s a technical term for that. It’s called “not a lot of black people.”

A Democrat running for president can pretty much lock in 40 percent of the vote from Mississippi. But that last 10 percent is never coming in.

 

I think that, in the wake of all the fallout from the settlement of the House case, chances are even more slim that Electoral College will ever get a football team.

 

Dems playing a little more hardball. Let's get those votes on record going into the election.


Democrats are forcing a vote on women’s right to IVF in an election-year push on reproductive care

https://apnews.com/article/senate-ivf-alabama-reproductive-care-460d099153d3faf548e9326ff17dbae6

 

Yeah, I came to post the thing about the likes. The other was a throw in, and I didn't confirm which company's pay structure it was.

I regret the error. Thank you for the correction.

 

There goes Wisconsin.

 

Sad!

Republican National Committee prepares for a convention Trump may not attend

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/13/starbucks-union-supreme-court-decision/


Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in blow to union activists
Legal experts say the decision could make it tougher for the National Labor Relations Board to obtain relief for unions when companies are accused of violating labor law.

"The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to restrict the National Labor Relations Board’s authority to obtain relief for fired union activists, in a win for Starbucks that could deal a blow to labor organizing efforts.


In April, the justices heard Starbucks’s challenge to a federal district court’s 2022 decision to order the coffee retailer to reinstate a group of seven baristas who claimed Starbucks fired them from a Memphis store in retaliation for union-organizing.


The Seattle-based coffee giant says the move to fire the Memphis workers was within its rights under the law because the workers violated company policy by inviting a TV news crew into the store after hours. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) agreed at the time with the workers’ claim that Starbucks had illegally fired them, and a court granted an injunction forcing Starbucks to rehire the workers."