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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fastfood-schedules-idUSKBN1A20VC

The text message came as Flavia Cabral walked to a McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan for her 6 p.m. shift on a May evening. It was from her manager. Business was slow and she was not needed.

Cabral said she was not too surprised. Her work hours fluctuate almost weekly, though losing an entire shift at the last minute happens only once every few months. This time the canceled shift took a $63 bite out of her average $350 gross weekly earnings from two part-time jobs.

"Every week you're guessing how much money you're going to get and how many days you're going to work," said Cabral, 53, who has been employed at McDonald's for four years.But a measure of relief is coming for Cabral and 65,000 other New York City fast-food workers whose schedules and incomes often change with little or no notice.

New York recently became the largest U.S. city to require fast-food restaurants to schedule workers at least two weeks in advance, or pay them extra for changes.

The law, which the restaurant industry vigorously opposed, also requires employers to allow 11-hour breaks between shifts, offer part-time staff additional work before hiring new employees, and pay retail workers to be "on call." It takes effect late this year.

McDonald's Corp did not respond to a request for comment.

Nationwide, the issue of scheduling is becoming a new battleground in the fight to boost living standards for low-paid workers, waged largely by the "Fight for $15" movement. The five-year-old, union-backed initiative has already helped convince many jurisdictions, including New York state, to raise minimum wages.

In Oregon, a bill that would set regular scheduling for workers at large food service, hospitality and retail companies is awaiting the governor's signature. Similar bills are pending in five other states.

Not only do fluctuating schedules wreak havoc with tight household budgets, they make it difficult to make appointments, arrange child care and plan family time, workers point out.

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This is fine, actually. And not in the "dog while house burns down around him" way.
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This topic makes me mad
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The letter was written more than a year ago, before this assault
http://chicagoist.com/2016/07/20/jamal.php

A court released a local activist from electronic monitoring on Tuesday, ABC7 reports, thanks in part to an old letter of support from Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The ruling came after activist Ja'Mal Green was charged with hitting and attempting to disarm a police officer at a protest against police brutality earlier this month.
The letter from Emanuel was not related to this specific case, Mayoral spokesperson Adam Collins told Chicagoist. However, Collins said the Mayor did send Green a letter, more than a year ago, expressing support for an anti-violence campaign Green was involved in. Michael Oppenheimer, Green's attorney, confirmed to Chicagoist that this was the letter from Emanuel submitted at Green's Tuesday hearing. Other letters of support were submitted on Green's behalf, too, including one from Father Michael Pfleger of Gresham's St. Sabina church, ABC7 reports.
Oppenheimer said Emanuel's letter was about Green's "work as a peace activist," which, Green has acknowledged, he once did in collaboration with the Mayor's office. Green told RollingOut in January:
I voted against [Emanuel] but when he got in and I was given the opportunity to partner my company with his team, I took it to save lives. I was the "Put The Guns Down" ambassador going into schools to promote a safe summer. It was business, I did my part for the community and now that business relationship is done.

The implication given by TC's link is that Emanuel wrote a letter in support of this guy because of his incident with the officer, but that is simply not true. Please leave this bullshit off CE.
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They can take it from my cold, dead hands.
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Who's going to do it?
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fan357 posted...

Breaking Bad?!

The Wire is what came to my mind, but yeah this is probably closer
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Good job, Jamaica
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Yeah, the outlet here is biased; the problem is that it's misleading. Here is PBS, which is also biased, but actually explains why the guy was held in contempt of court

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/judge-finds-pro-life-activist-contempt-court-planned-parenthood-videos/

U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick said David Daleiden, a leader of the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress, had violated the judge’s injunction against releasing additional videos.

Orrick ruled Daleiden’s lawyers, former Los Angeles prosecutor Steve Cooley and Brentford Ferreira, had also violated his injunction. Ferreira said Monday they would appeal the judge’s contempt ruling.

He's not being punished for being pro-life, he's being punished for doing what the court already told him not to do. You would not know this from reading the article TC posted.

Here's the LA Times, also biased, providing helpful context in this story from before the Judge's decision
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-planned-parenthood-videos-20170525-story.html

Daleiden is facing felony charges in California accusing him of recording people without their permission in violation of state law.

Orrick issued a preliminary injunction that blocked the release of videos made by the Center for Medical Progress at meetings of the National Abortion Federation, an association of abortion providers. He also blocked the release of any names of NAF members.

The National Abortion Federation had argued that releasing the videos and names would endanger its members.

A federal appeals court in March upheld Orrick's ruling.

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Don't languages like Swedish kinda lend themselves to that sort of thing?
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For sure:
Sonic Mania
F1 2017
Xcom 2: War of the Chosen
Forza 7

Maybe:
Aven Colony
FIFA 18
AC: Origins
Life is Strange
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If Trump weren't born into wealth, he'd be the sort of person who posts pictures of Eminem talking about fake people on Facebook.
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ledbowman posted...

I thought he said he was innocent.

I don't think this in any way suggests otherwise, even accounting for Trump's unique grasp of the language.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889217183930351621
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Transcendentia posted...

DiesMortis posted...

The emblem is a clear callback to workers rights, a platform the original Nazi party used as well. Successful revolutions start with the most marginalized groups in a nation--the working class. Where it goes from there differs greatly across political spheres.

So....are they communists rather than white nationalists or Nazis? Since when is white nationalism friendly with communism?

They are white nationalists coopting some rhetoric about the working class. I think they'd be the first to say that they are in no way communists, and the rest of their platform includes calls for things that are anathema to the left. They're pretty strongly pro-life, and call for a voucher system for education and healthcare, rather than universal programs.

Transcendentia posted...

Not to mention that recently some of these same posters were criticizing the right's proposed new law that would make it illegal to support boycotts against Israel, whereas these so-called alt-righters have the completely opposite stance towards Israel. It's strange how these CEmen are accusing the same group of people as being Nazis and also Zionists depending on when it's convenient to do so.

The alt-right is very clear that they are distinct from mainstream conservatism, this being one of many issues where they differ. They are not the same group of people, and they are criticized for different reasons. Furthermore, that anti-BDS bill had plenty of Democrats on board too.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/23/texas-tragedy-8-dead-including-children-found-locked-in-hot-truck-in-suspected-smuggling-case/

Outside a Walmart in San Antonio early Sunday morning, authorities said, they discovered a sweltering tractor-trailer with dozens of people inside — eight of them dead and many more expected to have brain damage from severe heat.

“They discovered an alien smuggling venture gone horribly wrong. Eight immigrants were found dead,” Richard L. Durbin Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, wrote in a statement released by federal immigration authorities on Sunday morning. “All were victims of ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their fragile cargo.”

Police Chief William McManus did not go quite so far when he spoke to reporters before dawn. But he said his homicide detective would work with federal immigration authorities to determine “the origin of this horrific tragedy.”

The truck had no working air conditioning or signs of water as it sat in the Walmart parking lot off Interstate 35 in south San Antonio, about 2½ hours from the border with Mexico, authorities said.

Surveillance footage recorded vehicles pulling up to the truck on Saturday night, taking people from the trailer and driving away, McManus said.

But at least 38 people remained locked inside, Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters, their hearts beating rapidly and their temperatures spiking — unless they had already died.

At some point, somehow, one of the passengers got out of the trailer and asked a Walmart employee for water.

The employee “came back with the water, called the police, and we found eight dead in the back of that trailer,” McManus said.

The truck was open by the time police arrived, shortly after midnight, a spokesman told The Washington Post. Eight inside were already dead.

The driver was taken into custody and is expected to face charges.

Some of the survivors ran into the surrounding trees, according to police, evading helicopters and foot patrols in the darkness.

But many more remained, badly needing help.

“They were very hot to the touch,” Hood said. “Each one of them had heart rates over about 130 beats per minute.”

They had been transported inside “a refrigeration truck with no refrigeration,” he told CNN. “If they were to spend another night in that environment, you’d have 38 people who would not have survived.”

As it was, Hood said, 30 were hospitalized — 17 in critical condition. Of those who suffered heatstrokes, “a lot of them are going to have some irreversible brain damage,” he said.

“We flooded downtown San Antonio and our critical hospitals with patients tonight,” Hood said at the news conference.

At least two in the truck were school-age children, he said.

While juveniles were initially reported among the dead, a police spokesman told The Post that the children survived.

Authorities tagged and numbered the bodies, and on Sunday they were trying to figure out their identities.

A hearse pulled into the parking lot early Sunday morning, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Walmart customers went about their shopping when the store reopened, though a large area of the parking lot remained cordoned off with police tape.

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Transcendentia posted...

You'd expect Mexico to look at their neighbors in Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil

Weird definition of neighbor here.
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Here's the Traditionalist Worker's Party website, just to clear up whether Nazi is an appropriate descriptor
https://www.tradworker.org/platform/

The organized Jewish community’s record of deceit, duplicity, and double-standards in lobbying against American interests within the American political system is unmatched.

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Bump
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Professor is a weird way to describe a middle school teacher.
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JohnLennon6 posted...

Then why even being her up?

This is a topic about bad reactions to the police shooting. I recalled Coulter's as being particularly heinous. No need to be so defensive.
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k darkfire posted...

But, imo he did what he felt was right.

That should not be the standard he is held to. He shouldn't avoid punishment.
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JohnLennon6 posted...

Antifar posted...

Ann Coulter had some thoughts on this.

You will not be surprised to learn that they were extremely bad.

Ann Coulter does not represent conservatives.

Nor did I claim she does.
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Ann Coulter had some thoughts on this.

You will not be surprised to learn that they were extremely bad.
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Probably some asshole
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Damn_Underscore posted...

CircleOfManias posted...

The 4-axis model is the best one, but it's less popular for some reason. Economic (left/right), Diplomatic (nationalist/globalist), Civil (libertarian/authoritarian), Social (traditional/progressive).

Wouldn't you need 4 dimensions for this to be possible?

It doesn't lend itself to easy graphical representation, but you don't need four directional dimensions to have that many dimensions to something like ideology.
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The one-dimensional spectrum is an oversimplification. So 's the 2d one, but it's better.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-politics-idUSKBN1A80RB

The current president's party is in third
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You could try reading the article. Yes, Buzzfeed has a great deal of clickbait, but I've found that their reporting on stories such as this has generally been solid.
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Because the party, since the 70s or so, has been beholden to wealthy donors who are socially liberal but resistant to economic redistribution. The working class, union led base that Democrats relied on for decades has been in decline (in part because of decisions made by Democrats).
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Anteaterking posted...

Let's step back(?) to the primaries in 2020. Would you support a candidate who you thought had a high chance of dying in office?

If the alternative is Andrew Cuomo or Cory Booker? Yeah.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/hes-spent-almost-20-years-funding-the-racist-right-it?bftwnews&utm_term=.oyyAoYgo0#.caE546y4p

How did explicit racism move from a taboo to an open, unabashed force in American politics? A loose but sprawling internet army, often called the alt-right, gave white supremacy a massive megaphone. And with the rise of Donald Trump’s candidacy, it suddenly seemed to be everywhere at once.

In fact, that movement had an infrastructure — organizations, journals, conferences, money — that had been laid down years before. It was in large part funded by one person: a secretive and aging multimillionaire named William H. Regnery II, the most influential racist you’ve never heard of.

Despite inheriting immense wealth, growing up in a prominent family in the conservative movement, he had managed to chalk up virtually no public success in his first six decades of life. He never graduated from college, and he floundered in his attempt at running the family business.

But starting in 1999 — when he convened a dozen other middle-aged white nationalists at an ornate seaside hotel nicknamed the Pink Palace — he has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the quest to transform America and create what he calls a white “ethnostate.”

His traceable donations have gone chiefly to two organizations, both of which he established and led as founding president. The first was the secretive Charles Martel Society, named for a leading figure of the European Middle Ages who fought off Muslim invaders. That organization helped create the second: the innocuously named National Policy Institute, which became a nerve center of the alt-right. In 2011, Regnery hired Richard Spencer, the charismatic speaker widely credited with coining that term, to be the NPI’s president and director.

Still, for more than a decade and a half, Regnery’s investments and activism achieved no measurable results, and his dream of an America separated by race seemed destined to end as just another of his failures.

Until, that is, they were redeemed by an extraordinary historical event: the candidacy of Donald Trump. In a rare interview, Regnery reached for a word to describe the effect: “I think Trump was a legitimatizer,” he said. White nationalism “went from being conversation you could hold in a bathroom, to the front parlor.”
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“I’m most comfortable around Europeans,” he went on, as if describing a preference for tweed suits rather than twill. But soon his preoccupation got serious, “I just like living around people with whom I’m most comfortable, and that’s white.”

Soon he corrected himself. “Yes, I’m race conscious,” he said. “In my ethno state,” he explained, “I would exclude, as a rule of thumb, non-whites, non-Europeans, wherever, however you want to define them. So, that includes blacks. We keep getting back to blacks, but we've got to throw in Han-Chinese, have to throw in Amerindians, people who are distinctly different.”

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Bernie would win, yes, but I wish we had someone who isn't so old.
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His slogan could be "Orange you glad I'm not Trump?"

This is my shitpost for the day.
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Owners.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/these-swedish-nazis-trained-in-russia

By the time Anna Ahlberg arrived at the shelter, the only evidence that remained of the blast was a pool of blood that had melted through the snow in the parking lot.

The makeshift shelter was a rundown concrete motel on a lonely road off the highway running into Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city. It housed people who had come to Sweden seeking asylum, but had been ordered to leave the country. Ahlberg, the director of the local migration agency, rushed to the scene about an hour after the explosion went off on the afternoon of January 5. By the time she arrived, the only person injured had been taken away in an ambulance. He was a janitor who’d been peppered with shrapnel and had both legs broken in the blast.
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Ahlberg’s worst fears were confirmed a week later when investigators revealed that the people behind the blast were members of Sweden’s largest Nazi organization, the Nordic Resistance Movement.

They had found DNA samples on fragments of a bomb and the bicycle it had been strapped to that matched a 23-year-old named Viktor Melin. Melin was the leader of the group’s Gothenburg cell, and prosecutors ultimately brought charges against him and two other members, 20-year-old Anton Thulin and 50-year-old Jimmy Jonasson. The explosive matched devices used in two other attacks that winter: one that exploded in November outside the gathering spot of a left-wing organization without injuring anyone, and another that was discovered before it could go off at a residence for refugees in late January.

This was not the first time Ahlberg had seen one of her facilities vandalized. Two others in her jurisdiction had been damaged just before they were due to open in 2015. Scores of facilities were torched that year, part of the backlash that met the 160,000 asylum seekers who came to Sweden at the height of the EU refugee crisis. But the incident in the parking lot was the first time Ahlberg had heard of a bombing — and someone was nearly killed.

As the case headed to trial six months later, prosecutors dropped a bombshell. The perpetrators weren’t simply inspired by events at home, according to court filings reviewed by BuzzFeed News. Prosecutors presented evidence that two of the men had traveled to Russia, where they trained with paramilitaries who had fought alongside Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine.

The evidence prosecutors laid out to the judge could have far-reaching consequences throughout Europe. They showed how a largely forgotten war hundreds of miles away that has claimed thousands of lives had emboldened fringe nationalists deep inside the EU and built networks into Russia.

Security analysts worry that the Ukraine conflict fueled a transformation of right-wing extremist groups across the West.

“There’s a state actor or proxies for a state actor that is supporting these networks, and that’s a game changer,” said Alina Polyakova, director of research on Europe and Eurasia at the Atlantic Council. “I think that is the problem.”

Some security analysts believe that the war in Ukraine has transformed nationalism in the West in a way that echoes another conflict that fueled extremism around the globe: the fighting in Iraq and Syria.
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“For us, in Central Europe … Ukraine is kind of our Syria,” Cingel said. “The only difference is [European nationalists] will not blow themselves up, but they are training in the woods with standard army rifles. This is what is happening — and we don’t know what they’re preparing for.”

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Try and stop me.
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I mean, it's not good, but there were Nazis and Monarchists and etc.
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/21/investing/scaramucci-trump-sean-spicer-resigns/

During the presidential campaign two years ago, Anthony Scaramucci called President Trump "another hack politician" who is "anti-American."
On Friday, at a press briefing after being named White House communications director, Scaramucci apologized.
"I should have never said that about him," Scaramucci said.
Scaramucci, whose appointment Friday was followed by the resignation of press secretary Sean Spicer, called the remarks about Trump "one of the biggest mistakes" he's made. He blamed it on his lack of political experience and support for another candidate.
Trump brings it up to him "every 15 seconds," Scaramucci joked. He added: "Mr. President, if you're listening, I personally apologize for the 50th time for saying that."
Scaramucci, who made his name in the hedge fund industry, made the original comments on Fox Business in August 2015 after Trump criticized "hedge fund guys paying nothing" in taxes.
"He's got a big mouth," Scaramucci said at the time. "You're an inherited money dude from Queens County. Bring it, Donald."
Scaramucci added that Trump is "probably going to make Elizabeth Warren his vice presidential nominee." He even asked if Trump could be a "Democratic plant for Hillary Clinton."
While many in America may not know Scaramucci, he is well known on Wall Street.
For years, he hosted a conference and extravagant party in Las Vegas for hedge funds called SALT, which has been attended by the likes of Will Smith, Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant and Al Pacino.
Scaramucci has a knack for turning adversity into opportunity -- he was once fired and rehired by Goldman Sachs in the same year. And last year, once his preferred presidential candidates Scott Walker and Jeb Bush dropped out, Scaramucci threw his support behind Trump. That bet obviously paid off in spades. After the election, Scaramucci served on the executive committee of Trump's transition team.

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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Don't liberals hold a circle jerk every time there's some article about physical difference in brain scans between libs/cons ?

Maybe. I'm not a liberal, though.
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"Neurodiversity" is a shitty way to put it. Conservatives don't have different brains, just different opinions
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Current events
Polls about video games
Polls about music
Dumb jokes
Other
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...

www.vox.com

They're only citing the White House press secretary's own words.
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Do you want California to have, rough guess, 8 Dem senators and 4 Republican ones?
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They shouldn't need that much space, he's like 5'3"
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https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/z4k7xj/tweets-of-our-time-richard-dawkins-watches-two-dogs-69
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