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Shuto-uke posted...

asking the child separately for the parent's name,

When some of these kids are under 5, that is not easy.
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Dad joke here

Well maybe The Sun should just be less hot then
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She went to my college and we have several mutual friends. I probably met her once or twice. Her friends call her Sandy
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I feel like we could enforce human trafficking without the family detention centers and church raids, but idk
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I don't know, I think it's noteworthy that the president makes a joke about #MeToo on the same day he adds a Fox News exec to his administration
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bump
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Liberals are acutely aware of his wrongdoings
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It goes through a few episodes where it might as well be like a CBS episodic crime drama before it gets to the good stuff.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

remember when the right was crying and bitching about the lack of civility in political discourse? lmao fuck anyone who rides with this dude.

Harass them publicly until they resign in shame
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https://apnews.com/38334c4d061e493fb108bd975b5a1a5d/AP-NewsBreak:-US-Army-quietly-discharging-immigrant-recruits?

Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.

The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures.

It was my dream to serve in the military, said reservist Lucas Calixto, a Brazilian immigrant who filed a lawsuit against the Army last week. Since this country has been so good to me, I thought it was the least I could do to give back to my adopted country and serve in the United States military.

Some of the service members say they were not told why they were being discharged. Others who pressed for answers said the Army informed them theyd been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the Defense Department had not completed background checks on them.

Spokespeople for the Pentagon and the Army said that, due to the pending litigation, they were unable to explain the discharges or respond to questions about whether there have been policy changes in any of the military branches.

Eligible recruits are required to have legal status in the U.S., such as a student visa, before enlisting. More than 5,000 immigrants were recruited into the program in 2016, and an estimated 10,000 are currently serving. Most go the Army, but some also go to the other military branches.

To become citizens, the service members need an honorable service designation, which can come after even just a few days at boot camp. But the recently discharged service members have had their basic training delayed, so they cant be naturalized.

Margaret Stock, an Alaska-based immigration attorney and a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who helped create the immigrant recruitment program, said shes been inundated over the past several days by recruits who have been abruptly discharged.

All had signed enlistment contracts and taken an Army oath, Stock said. Many were reservists who had been attending unit drills, receiving pay and undergoing training, while others had been in a delayed entry program, she said.

Immigrants have been serving in the Army since 1775, Stock said. We wouldnt have won the revolution without immigrants. And were not going to win the global war on terrorism today without immigrants.

Stock said the service members shes heard from had been told the Defense Department had not managed to put them through extensive background checks, which include CIA, FBI and National Intelligence Agency screenings and counterintelligence interviews. Therefore, by default, they do not meet the background check requirement.

Its a vicious cycle, she said.

The AP interviewed Calixto and recruits from Pakistan and Iran, all of whom said they were devastated by their unexpected discharges.

Now the great feeling I had when I enlisted is going down the drain, said Calixto, 28. I dont understand why this is happening.

In hopes of undoing the discharge, he filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., last week alleging the Defense Department hadnt given him a chance to defend himself or appeal. He said he was given no specific grounds other than personnel security.

Calixto, who lives in Massachusetts and came to the U.S. when he was 12, said in an email interview arranged through his attorney that he joined the Army out of patriotism.

In the suit, Calixto said he learned he was being kicked out soon after he was promoted to private second class.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fourth-ohio-state-wrestler-says-rep-jim-jordan-knew-about-n889071

A fourth former Ohio State University wrestler came forward Thursday to contradict Rep. Jim Jordans claim that he had no idea the wrestling team doctor was molesting athletes.

The wrestler, Shawn Dailey, said he was groped half a dozen times by Dr. Richard Strauss in the mid-1990s, when Jordan was the assistant wrestling coach. Dailey said he was too embarrassed to report the abuse directly to Jordan at the time, but he said Jordan took part in conversations where Strauss' abuse of many other team members came up.

"I participated with Jimmy and the other wrestlers in locker-room talk about Strauss. We all did," Dailey, 43, told NBC News, referring to Jordan. "It was very common knowledge in the locker room that if you went to Dr. Strauss for anything, you would have to pull your pants down.

Dailey spoke out two days after NBC News reported that three former wrestlers who were coached by Jordan more than two decades ago accused the GOP congressman of turning a blind eye to Strauss' alleged abuse and then lying about it. Jordan denied knowing anything about the abuse and continues to do so.

Dailey corroborated the account of one of those wrestlers, Dunyasha Yetts, who told NBC News that Yetts had protested to Jordan and head coach Russ Hellickson after Strauss tried to pull down his wrestling shorts when Yetts went to see him for a thumb injury.

"Dunyasha comes back and tells Jimmy, Seriously, why do I have to pull down my pants for a thumb injury?" Dailey recalled. "Jimmy said something to the extent of, If he tried that with me, I would kill him.'"

Calling Jordan a close friend, Dailey said he is a Republican and that he contributed to the powerful Ohio congressmans first political campaign for state representative in 1994.

What happened drove me out of the sport, said Dailey, a married father of two who works as a fundraiser for an Ohio college. So I was surprised to hear Jim say that he knew nothing about it."

Jimmys a good guy, Dailey added. But to say that he had no knowledge of it, I would say thats kind of hurtful.

Jordan, via spokesman Ian Fury, has denied any knowledge of the abuse. On Wednesday, Jordan, a founder of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus, who has been floated to succeed retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan, repeated the denial in an interview with Politico.

Its not true, said Jordan, who was assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1986 to 1994. I never knew about any type of abuse. If I did, I would have done something about it.

Fury did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday after Dailey's remarks. But Jordan got a shoutout of support from President Donald Trump, who spoke to reporters Thursday on Air Force One.

I dont believe them at all," Trump said of the allegations against Jordan. "I believe him. Jim Jordan is one of the most outstanding people Ive met since Ive been in Washington. I believe him 100 percent. No question in my mind. I believe Jim Jordan 100 percent. Hes an outstanding man.

Strauss died of suicide in 2005. The university opened an investigation into the abuse in April after former Ohio State wrestler Mike DiSabato came forward with allegations.

The Perkins Coie law firm, which is overseeing the probe for the university, has interviewed more than 150 former students and witnesses so far, OSU officials said. Former athletes from 14 Ohio State sports have reported abuse by Strauss, the university said.

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I'm not saying she made him resign, but...
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I'm going to miss the "Let's see what Scott Pruitt has been up to" topics. I look forward to the inventive ways in which his successor will be awful.
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shockthemonkey posted...

Antifar posted...

Worth noting that the Democrat in question is pro-life and anti-ACA

Oh what the fuck

He was given the job by his dad in like 2004 or 2006 and hasn't really had a challenger until this year, because it's one of the bluest districts in the country.

His challenger was good, but he may well have won because the GOP didn't field a real candidate. The few republican voters in the district likely voted for him in the Democratic primary so as to fend off a more progressive Democrat.
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Here are some of my pics















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Worth noting that the Democrat in question is pro-life and anti-ACA
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pinky0926 posted...

Do you know how the answers were collected? Like a scale of 1-5 or a Yes/No? Was any context given prior to the question?

Possible answers were Good Thing or Bad Thing

And, at any rate, it's the same question wording they've been using since 2001
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pinky0926 posted...

I think with polls like this all that matters is how the question is being asked (and to who).

Their wording:

On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/235793/record-high-americans-say-immigration-good-thing.aspx

A record-high 75% of Americans, including majorities of all party groups, think immigration is a good thing for the U.S. -- up slightly from 71% last year. Just 19% of the public considers immigration a bad thing.

The latest findings are based on a Gallup poll conducted June 1-13, a key time for immigration reform in the U.S. as the House of Representatives debates the issue. The House will vote this week on two pieces of legislation that address several key immigration policy reforms. Among them are the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally at a young age with their parents and the border wall that has been the cornerstone of President Donald Trump's immigration policy.

At the same time, Trump has been under strong bipartisan pressure to amend the "zero-tolerance" policy that resulted in the separation from their parents of more than 2,000 children of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico in recent months. Trump bowed to the pressure on Wednesday, signing an executive order to keep children and their parents in the same location.

Meanwhile, proposed legislation by conservative members of Congress would include actions to cut back on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. legally. Republican legislators are facing a public that is largely supportive of immigration into the U.S., in general. In all but one year since Gallup started asking this question in 2001, majorities of Americans across party lines have viewed immigration as positive for the U.S. The exception came in 2002, when slightly less than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents thought immigration was a good thing, although 58% of Democrats and Democratic leaners held this view. So a majority nationally, 52%, were still positive. This was recorded about nine months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks were committed by hijackers holding legal visas. Currently, 85% of Democrats and Democratic leaners and 65% of Republicans and Republican leaners view immigration positively.

Given attempts by the Trump administration to cut back on legal immigration, Gallup tested an alternative wording to this question for the first time this year -- asking half of the respondents about "legal immigration," whereas the trend question does not specify a particular type of immigration. Americans are more likely to support legal immigration, with 84% describing it as a good thing, nine percentage points higher than the reading for "immigration."

Eighty percent of Republicans and leaners and 92% of Democrats and leaners say legal immigration is a good thing for the U.S.

Corroborating the data that show Americans believe immigration is good for the country, a separate Gallup trend question shows a record-low number of Americans -- 29% -- saying that immigration into the U.S. should be decreased. A plurality of 39% think immigration into the U.S. should be kept at its present level, while 28% say it should be increased.

These results mark a six-point drop from one year ago in the percentage of those preferring a reduction in immigration. In the past 20 years, the highest reading for those calling for a decrease in immigration levels was in October 2001, about a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

I hate when people go to Opinion article to rant about a news source.

I am specifically making fun of the Guardian opinion section, which is full of these inane aristocratic twits.
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frozenshock posted...

Soviet agents infiltrated in all levels of government,

Is it 1989?
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I mean there is a lengthy bit in there calling Native Americans savages
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Headline: I stopped going to the gym because of Trump. Now I can't open jars

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/05/i-stopped-going-to-the-gym-because-of-trump-now-i-cant-open-jars
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Axiom posted...

What. This is a straight up scam

That's correct!
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http://www.whec.com/news/webster-trump-store-closed/4976483/

The "Team Deplorable" shop in Webster that News10NBC has been looking into appears to have closed its doors.

The store and all of the merchandise have been cleared out as of Thursday morning. Even the Team Deplorable poster hanging over the door has been removed.

There is no word yet on the reasoning behind the apparent closure. News10NBC's Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke has reached out to owner Bruce Ben-Dov but has not heard back.

When News10NBC spoke with Ben-Dov earlier this week, he said he wanted to turn it into a combination of a coffee shop, speakers corner, and a political action center for President Trump and pro-Trump congressional candidates.

Ben-Dov was also asking for thousands of dollars in donations to help kick-start the business and to support President Trump.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/andreatta/2018/07/05/deplorable-t-shirt-shop-pro -trump-supporter-webster-ny-andreatta/758100002/

None of the apparel screamed Trump, although some of the shirts carried messages that were mildly political or patriotic, its hard to tell nowadays which is which.

There was Honest Abe with hand to his ear under the saying, Sorry, I Cant Hear You Over the Sound of My FREEDOM. Another read: Dont Tell Me How to Freedom.

Most of the shirts, though, were run-of-the-mill, with logos of superheroes, sports teams and car brands and tired catchphrases like, Breaking News: I Dont Care and Of Course Your Opinion Matters, Just Not to Me.

Ben-Dov went on to relay a half-baked plan to turn his operation into a community activity center to advance the Trump agenda. The plan was spelled out on a glossy flier that declared him a patriot who wants all Americans to have the chance to prosper.

He and the flier explained he needs $150,000 in donations to get the activity center off the ground. Hes hoping 50 people will give at least $2,000 apiece.

Those who do, the flier promised, would be recognized as charter members and will receive free lifelong membership at the gold level for them and their immediate family.

Charter members, the flier explained, become eligible to sit on one of many steering and policy committees that have yet to be formed.

Charter members of what Ben-Dov couldnt say. State and federal election laws may require him to register his center as a political committee or incorporate as a nonprofit, but Ben-Dov acknowledged he hadnt given that much thought yet.

Im looking at different organizations at this point and I have to work on that quite frankly, Ben-Dov said. Ive been working on just the store. Its kind of a grassroots organization, so Im going to see how I want to organize very shortly.

A GoFundMe website Ben-Dov created to finance his effort had taken in $240 in donations before it shut down Thursday with a message indicating the fundraising campaign was complete.

The site had read that Ben-Dov was seeking $150,000 and that the money would first go toward building out our existing national headquarters the T-shirt shop and that whatever was left would finance programming to support the Trump agenda and get more pro-Trump Republican House and Senate members elected.
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Last month, American Express National Bank sued Ben-Dov in state court, claiming he ran up a $10,699 tab on his AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card that he never paid. The case is in litigation.

I have some bad credit, I do have some bad credit, Ben-Dov said. (Team Deplorable) is an organization thats totally different. Ill deal with AMEX in the future. Obviously, if Im running this organization, Ill get paid and Ill settle with AMEX as far as that goes.

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Yeah, the photography is really what I'm here for, because the racing is kinda eh
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care
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Cancer is a noun. Cancerous is the adjective.

Bad grammar is not moddable
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

if he's a certain kind of person i can see why he'd be surprised by the presence of seasoning

lol
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The rent is too damn high
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Capn Circus posted...

His polls aren't going down, most people want border security.

The public has pretty consistently opposed Trump's border policies

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/immigration-trump-approval/index.html

Approval for the President on the issue of immigration specifically is at an all-time low in CNN polling. Only 35% approve of the way Trump is handling immigration, down from 40% in March, and 59% disapprove, up from 55%. Disapproval is highest among Democrats, liberals, those who disapprove of the job Trump is doing and nonwhite residents.

Immigration is one of the issues where Americans rate the President the poorest, with his approval on the economy at 49% and on foreign affairs and foreign trade tied at 39%, and only a third of people approving how he is handling health care policy. Out of these, immigration is the second lowest, next to health care, an issue where Democrats have historically had an advantage in polling.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/369487-poll-nearly-nine-in-10-favor-allowing-daca-recipients-to-stay

An overwhelming majority of Americans supports legal protections for certain undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, according to a new CBS News poll.

According to the survey, almost 9 in 10 respondents 87 percent said they believe that the so-called Dreamers should be allowed to remain in the U.S. if they meet certain requirements, such as working or going to school.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/poll-oppose-trump-deportation-immigration-policy/index.html

Americans disagree with President Donald Trump's immigration priorities, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, with nearly two-thirds of Americans saying they'd like to see a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants rather than deportations.

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I wouldn't say it was a consistent thing, and especially not as time went on and white supremacy became more entrenched as an ideology. But you see cross-racial solidarity pop up in places and times you wouldn't expect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_New_Orleans_general_strike
https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885
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Kazi1212 posted...

In the past, there was even less distribution of wealth then there is today, so its not like most people had an incentive to amass wealth because they simply had no opportunity to do so. Most people were forever destined to be peasants or lower class in the past, so I just dont see the incentive to be racist for that reason because they couldnt amass wealth anyway.

The amassed wealth of some whites in US history was made possible only by concerted efforts to keep poor whites and poor blacks from allying with one another.
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ICE does not enforce our borders; that's CBP
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It does a lot of things I like
- The map is gigantic
- The photo and replay editors are really in-depth and cool
- Switching between vehicles is really fun, and the bikes are especially enjoyable to ride

There are some weird design choices
- You, the main character, never speak. You also choose your avatar at the beginning of the game and can never change this decision. However, you have a friend named Hiro who speaks for you in cutscenes and annoys you during gameplay sometimes too. The story, such that it is, is every racing game cliche you could imagine
- I think the real fun of the game is to be had in exploration, but they undercut this slightly by allowing you to fast travel to events for free from the very start. There's this big open world, but you don't need to actually use it to just race. A lot of players skipped from event to event without really driving in the world, and felt disappointed (I believe) as a result
- Everybody on Reddit is complaining about rubberband AI, but I've found it really, really easy to beat provided your vehicle is the recommended level
- This is the first racing game I've encountered with a Destiny-style endgame: about 12 hours in I unlocked all the events and began the real grind of the game, raising my level from 1 to a max of 9999, upgrading vehicles along the way. There's a loot system and everything
--- There really isn't enough content in the game as it stands to support this grind. If you want to boost up a Rallycross vehicle, for example, there are only 6 races with which to do that, in three locales. There are plenty of street races, but even those are clumped together in a few cities and aren't found in others.

Which brings me to the larger point that the game pretty obviously just isn't finished at launch. They've been pretty upfront that they're gonna constantly update it (for free!) post-launch, but for now
- There are locales and events already in the game world that aren't yet available for use
- PVP is five months away. That's not something I particularly care about, but I don't get the urge to grind otherwise
- There's not a whole lot to do in the world; events and challenges are weirdly spaced.
- They've hinted at the ability for players to create their own challenges, which was available in DLC for the first game, but this as of yet isn't in TC2.
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weekoldhotdog posted...

70 million voters out of 330 million Americans. hmmmm.....

Only 130 million voted in 2016
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I read the title as "mom"

Was very confused
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thecoolgu posted...

That's why states where independents cannot vote (e.g. Pennsylvania) went red.

Independents can always vote in general elections; there are some that bar them from voting in primaries, but this is unrelated from the Trump-Hillary election.
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JoshY2JosHBK posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

JoshY2JosHBK posted...

The american population is 327 million. Given the topic, i dont think minors should be ignored

Minors can't vote.

No but this topic wasnt about voting, it was about people who identify as democrat or republican.

You said "300 million people voted." We have actual vote tallies; no, they didn't.
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JoshY2JosHBK posted...

300 million people voted

My dude, we do not have 300 million adults, much less voters.

About 130 million voted in 2016
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https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2018/07/black_oregon_state_rep_says_he.html
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Genocet_10-325 posted...

Doom_Art posted...

In fairness a lot of that may be leftovers from when the south was more Democratic.

Like IIRC on paper West Virginia is heavily Democratic but in practice a lot of people started voting Republican years ago and never changed their party affiliation.

The south stopped being democratic in the 60s when the civil rights act passed. Most old southern Democrats who didn't switch are dead

WV is full of them. Not elected officials, but voters who are registered DS but, in practice, Rs
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Not an S, just an Xbox One
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The majority of people support increasing the minimum wage
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/233183-poll-finds-support-for-minimum-wage-increase-paid-leave

Six in 10 Americans want a higher minimum wage, while one-fifth are opposed to such a plan, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll released Thursday.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/minimum-wage-poll_us_570ead92e4b08a2d32b8e671

Fifty-three percent of all Americans say that raising the minimum wage will help workers, while just a third see the idea as a negative.

Proposals to raise the minimum hourly wage to $10.10, $12 and $15 are all popular, but theres more backing for a smaller wage hike. Sixty-six percent of Americans support a $10.10 federal minimum wage; 59 percent support $12 and 48 percent support $15.

A plurality opposes the GOP tax cut
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/poll-gop-tax-law-656387

Public support for the recent tax overhaul plunged in the past two months, as more voters became ambivalent about it, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

Just 37 percent of registered voters said they supported the tax-cut laden law, down from 44 percent in an April poll. The number of voters who were undecided or offered no opinion leapt to 24 percent from 17 percent.

The 39 percent of respondents who said they opposed the law was unchanged from April.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/gop-tax-cuts-have-gotten-less-popular-with-voters-nbc-wsj-poll.html

The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that the tax-cut law, never broadly popular, has sagged in public esteem lately. Just 27 percent of Americans call it a good idea, down from 30 percent in January. A 36 percent plurality call it a bad idea, while the rest have no opinion.

Moreover, a majority gives thumbs-down on the plan when asked to consider its potential effects. Just 39 percent foresee a positive impact from a stronger economy, more jobs and more money in their pockets; 53 percent foresee a negative impact from higher deficits and disproportionate benefits for the wealthy and big corporations.

They also disapprove of Trump's immigration policies
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/immigration-trump-approval/index.html

Approval for the President on the issue of immigration specifically is at an all-time low in CNN polling. Only 35% approve of the way Trump is handling immigration, down from 40% in March, and 59% disapprove, up from 55%. Disapproval is highest among Democrats, liberals, those who disapprove of the job Trump is doing and nonwhite residents.

Immigration is one of the issues where Americans rate the President the poorest, with his approval on the economy at 49% and on foreign affairs and foreign trade tied at 39%, and only a third of people approving how he is handling health care policy. Out of these, immigration is the second lowest, next to health care, an issue where Democrats have historically had an advantage in polling.

Democrats would do just fine campaigning on increasing the minimum wage and undoing the tax cuts and Trump's immigration crackdown.
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I've been reading this book about Frank Little, who was an IWW organizers in the early 1900s. Among his stunts was getting arrested for reading the Declaration of Independence, owing to the anti-union bans on street a peaking. He did this in several cities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Little_%28unionist%29?wprov=sfla1
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Call her Maeby
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Four-player
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