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https://twitter.com/isaiah_bb/status/1489738809638010886

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For instance, imagine how this country would be if we treated inter-state borders the way we treat our border with Mexico.

Google Music is where I had everything until they shut that down. Since then I've been using Spotify, but I switched to Tidal of late.

The combat in Dungeon Encounters feels really refined. You can tell they put a lot of thought into the basics there.

EventualDecline posted...

Not sure how democracy is supposed to work with open borders, a dumbed-down illiterate populace, and election fraud. Explain it to me.

20 year old account with 7 years worth of karma

WingsOfGood posted...

So what exactly does his supposed pro-worker alternative do?

https://twitter.com/janecoaston/status/1489680964603326464/photo/1

This is how they initially reported the shooting
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1489627022129344513

The most famous punched Nazi was Richard Spencer, who has basically disappeared in the five years since.

https://twitter.com/poppy_haze/status/1489452793203200002

Lol cmon

kelemvor posted...

I thought Starbucks was a progressive company with left leaning politics.

The important word in that sentence is company.

a-c-a-b posted...

Was there even any notable JRPGs in 2010?

The first one on the list is Persona 3 Portable, followed by Dragon Quest IX

I will roam the earth, finally freed from my eternal prison

bump

You're watching Daytime TV, where the audience largely consists of retired people

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Rock Band 3
God of War III
Super Street Fighter IV
MLB 10 The Show
Halo Reach

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/starbucks-union-campaign-legal-strategy_n_61fc4a2ce4b06abdc42d615b?25s

Ever since a group of Starbucks workers in western New York moved to unionize last year, the worlds largest coffee chain has been locked in a fierce legal battle with the upstart union, Starbucks Workers United. But as more baristas across the country unite, a clear winner has already emerged in this potentially historic labor struggle.

That would be Littler Mendelson, the law firm handling Starbucks litigation at the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that referees private-sector union elections.

The companys lawyers have been busy trying to slow the fast-spreading union campaign thats stunned the labor world. In a matter of months, Starbucks workers have filed petitions for union elections at more than 50 stores in at least 19 states. Starbucks has been using the same legal argument to stop these elections from moving forward at the NLRB, even though the board rejected it the first time Starbucks tried it.

A review of NLRB filings shows at least 30 Littler lawyers have worked on these Starbucks cases so far, suggesting the coffee chain is running up a big tab on its as-yet unsuccessful effort to halt elections. That number may have grown during the writing of this article, since Starbucks Workers United just filed new petitions this week that havent had NLRB hearings yet.

Its standard practice for an employer facing a union campaign to retain a firm specializing in union avoidance. Many companies will dig as deep in their pockets as necessary if it means staying union-free. Whats unique about the Starbucks situation is that the company is scrambling to stamp out organizing fires coast to coast all at once.

To outsiders, the legal strategy seems designed to buy whatever time the company can get, regardless of whether the arguments might succeed.

To them, its not going to matter how many rulings they lose on exactly the same question. They will do it every time, said Jennifer Sherer, who works on collective bargaining issues at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank. To many of us it looks pointless but it is fully legal. For any employer with the kind of resources that Starbucks has available, time is their favorite weapon.

The Starbucks union, which is an affiliate of Workers United, has already won two of the three elections held in the Buffalo, New York, area.

Starbucks argued that those elections should have been grouped into a much larger one encompassing all the Starbucks stores in the area, and has continued to make the same case in other regions as more workers have tried to unionize. Enlarging the potential bargaining unit could dilute each unions support and force it to do more organizing at other shops, to Starbucks benefit.

Starbucks challenged a regional NLRB official in New Yorks decision to allow the Buffalo stores to vote in individual elections last year. But the NLRBs board in Washington, D.C., shot down that effort in December. The company has pursued the same argument to stop other union elections elsewhere, even though its highly unlikely the board will act any differently.

Ian Hayes, a Buffalo-based labor attorney whos been coordinating Starbucks Worker Uniteds legal work, described the companys mounting challenges as something close to carbon copies: The same facts with different proper nouns.

The company is making identical arguments, and the union is forced to do the same in response, he said. The companys lawyers are just going to continue to raise the same dead legal issue until somebody puts a stop to it. They are not going to stop doing that out of a sense of shame, or out of the knowledge that theyre going to lose and theyre wasting everyones time and money.

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in a letter to employees in December that it was fighting single-store elections because we feel strongly that all partners in Buffalo should have a voice.

A Starbucks spokesperson told HuffPost this week that the company was continuing to make the same argument elsewhere in the country not as a stall tactic but as a matter of consistency and principle.

Slowing down a union campaign through NLRB proceedings gives an employer more time to ramp up their anti-union campaign on the ground. When workers in Buffalo began organizing last year, Starbucks flooded the area with outside managers and executives who met with workers to discourage unionization. Delaying a vote, by weeks or even days, would allow a company to hold more captive-audience meetings and send more text messages to workers.

Stalling can also change the composition of the voter pool over time, especially in a high-turnover industry like food service. Unions typically file for elections after theyve determined they have a strong majority of support among current workers. Employers can increase their chances of defeating the effort by watering down the pro-union contingent.

Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America, said companies will try to bog a campaign down in legal proceedings while hiring more employees likely to vote against the union.

Even in cases where a union wins an election, employers can use turnover to galvanize a decertification campaign, where workers eventually vote to purge the union from the workplace. (In a memoir, Starbucks co-founder Howard Schultz reveled in the decertification of an early union at Starbucks worksites in Seattle in the late 1980s.)

They will use their control of the hiring process to try to change the outcome, said Cohen, who is now the board chair of Our Revolution, the progressive group aligned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). You get a bunch of people in a store that were hired basically to be pro-management, if not explicitly anti-union.

The very prospect of delay can shape crucial decisions in a campaign.

Define finish however you wiil; it isn't always clear these days when a game really ends.

Looking back at my tracking of this, I've beaten about 15 games a year the last couple years.

https://twitter.com/rod_inanimate/status/1489634116630978566

64 is the weakest 3D Mario, just by virtue of the camera controls.

I tend to favor obstacle course gameplay to exploration, so my ranking would be
3D World
Galaxy
3D Land
Odyssey
Sunshine
64

Someone died who did not have to.

monkmith posted...

and if you're a new parent why would you want to raise your kid in a state with a broken education system?

In many cases: so you can send your kid to a segregated private school and pay less taxes.

I think it's a largely correct analysis of history

Morning bump

monkmith posted...

i'm not entirely sure how federal funding works for school districts, but i'm reasonably sure that doing this would have their funding completely stripped.

If Democrats are in control of the federal government, maybe.

TheOtherMike posted...

No one's making them do anything.

*Sticks finger in front of your face*
I'm not touching you

https://www.techspot.com/news/93264-new-tiktok-trend-making-amazon-delivery-drivers-dance.html

Now you know I do not believe in capital punishment. But!

CE isn't that cute either

https://twitter.com/GlennaWPLG/status/1489394777598664704

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/2/AAWHm8AAC4ve.jpg

I'm playing 4 and just nodding along as it shows me the same hostess training activity that was in 3.

Tbh it's been a slow start to this game, but I have to give it credit for the music, which slaps.

TheOnionKnight posted...

I feel sorry for her children. They're being cut off from the world and fed a diet of pure propaganda.

Also they've got some sort of mucus issue going on: https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1422950838985707523

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/us/politics/bethany-mandel-conservative-childrens-books.html

Childrens bookstores are full of titles celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late Supreme Court justice. Why not Amy Coney Barrett?

Its a question that bothers Bethany Mandel, the editor of a new series of childrens books aimed at conservative families. The series, called Heroes of Liberty, features a roster of luminaries of the right that so far includes Alexander Hamilton, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, John Wayne and, indeed, Justice Barrett. Margaret Thatcher will be next.

On Twitter and in her opinion columns, Mandel is a conservative firebrand and a fierce critic of what she views as liberal policies such as mask mandates for children. But the books, she insists, are not ideological. [Antifar's note: a patently absurd claim to make.]

For me, its: Who do I want my kids to be reading about? Mandel said in an interview.

The books are the latest sign of how red America and blue America are becoming separate cultural ecosystems. From TV networks to coffee, chicken sandwiches to automobiles, Americans increasingly want the products they buy, the clothes they wear and the media they consume to be infused with their political preferences and values.

Growing up, Mandel said, I hated American history. As a child, she was more likely to be found reading The Chronicles of Narnia or The Baby-Sitters Club series than biographies of, say, Winston Churchill.

Now, she says, there are too many left-wing titles flooding bookshelves, and too few options for parents like herself, who prefer their children learn about the values that made America great.

The new series comes amid a conservative backlash against books focused on race and sexual or gender identity that is playing out across the country and in political campaigns. Republicans say these books are invading public schools and libraries without their consent. And while Democrats often flag works they find problematic, liberals denounce what they see as a retrograde effort by groups on the right to censor viewpoints that conservatives dislike.

Republicans in Congress have rallied behind a Parents Bill of Rights that would grant parents a federal right to know what their minor child is being taught in school, including, but not limited to, curricula, books, and other instructional materials.

And while it remains to be seen whether that agenda captures the imagination of voters nationwide, the timing of the new series seems to fit a moment when many on the right are unhappy with what they see as the cultural hegemony of the left.

Mandel, a convert to Orthodox Judaism who home-schools her five children, said she was disturbed when one of her children stumbled upon The Breakaways, a graphic novel about a middle-school soccer team that includes a character who is undergoing a gender transition.

It kind of spooked me a bit, she said. I dont feel like I can go to the library and have my children pick out a book anymore.

Its not that Mandel has a problem with L.G.B.T.Q. identities, she insisted. [Antifar's note: she absolutely has a problem with LGBTQ identities. Here's a piece she wrote in 2017 https://thefederalist.com/2017/09/06/transgender-crusade-made-rethink-support-gay-marriage/ ] Its that she wants to discuss human sexuality with her children on her own terms and thinks there are millions of other parents who feel the same way.

I dont want other people dictating those conversations and how they occur, she said. You want that to happen on your lap.

The books are not always subtle. At times, they can sound like an essay from a Heritage Foundation scholar.

Ronald Reagan believed in God, family, and patriotism, a concluding passage in the Reagan book reads. And he believed America would remain strong as long as its government avoided the mistakes of communism. It should never try to do for people what they ought to do for themselves. Nor should it run their lives for them.

https://twitter.com/carygolomb/status/1489413836541247489

https://twitter.com/carygolomb/status/1489424619878727684

https://twitter.com/carygolomb/status/1489409865512628230

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-us-border-policy-expelling-migrants-cdc-covid-19/

After a recent internal review, the Biden administration decided to maintain a pandemic-era order put in place under former President Donald Trump that authorizes the rapid deportation of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told CBS News Thursday.

Since March 2020, the Trump and Biden administrations have expelled migrants over 1.5 million times without affording them the opportunity to request U.S. asylum, citing a series of CDC orders that argue the expulsions are needed to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in border processing facilities.

The latest order authorizing the border expulsions, signed by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in August 2021, instructed public health officials to evaluate the need for the policy every 60 days. Two reviews last fall led the agency to keep the order in place.

On Thursday, a CDC spokesperson said the agency decided to continue invoking the expulsion authority, known as Title 42, after a third 60-day assessment that was due on February 2.
"At this time, it remains in effect," the spokesperson told CBS News, referring to the Title 42 order. "The current reassessment examined the present impact of the pandemic throughout the United States and at the U.S. borders, taking special note of the surge in cases and hospitalizations since December due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant."

The CDC, the spokesperson noted, "continues to emphasize the need for testing, vaccination, and other mitigation measures at border facilities beyond the use of the Order."

The unprecedented Title 42 policy, initially instituted over the objections of CDC officials, has allowed the U.S. to "expel" migrants to Mexico or their home countries without allowing them to see a judge or an asylum officer, safeguards in U.S. law the government has argued it can suspend during a global pandemic.

Last summer, Biden administration officials proposed vaccinating migrants against the coronavirus as part of a plan to wind down the Title 42 expulsions, according to government documents obtained by CBS News. But the plan was shelved after high-ranking officials, including top White House aide Susan Rice, warned it could trigger more migrant arrivals at the U.S. border, people familiar with the deliberations said.

To date, U.S. officials have not offered coronavirus vaccinations to most migrants who enter border custody.

The Biden administration's decision to retain the Trump-era expulsions has alarmed human rights groups, public health experts and advocates for asylum-seekers, who are challenging the policy in federal court.

But the Biden administration has vigorously defended the emergency order, telling a federal court earlier this month that its termination would pose a "serious danger" to the public health of U.S. communities.

At this point, the Biden administration has enforced Title 42 for over a year, longer than the Trump administration. It has carried out over 1 million migrant expulsions in 11 months, compared to 400,000 expulsions during Trump's last year in office, according U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

But the Biden administration has also faced a record increase in migrant arrests at the U.S. southern border. And a larger percentage of migrants were processed under regular immigration procedures, which allow them to seek asylum, in 2021 than in 2020, when the start of the pandemic suppressed migration.

Unlike the Trump administration, the Biden administration has declined to use Title 42 to expel unaccompanied children, most of whom are being transferred to government shelters in the U.S. interior, as required by a 2008 law.

Most migrants processed under Title 42 are turned back by land to Mexico within hours, while a limited number are placed on deportation flights to Central America or other countries in the Western Hemisphere, including Haiti and Brazil.

Because Mexico has formally only agreed to accept its own citizens and migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador under Title 42, U.S. authorities have struggled to apply the expulsion policy to migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, who journeyed to the U.S. in record numbers last year.

The Biden administration this month started expelling some Venezuelan migrants to Colombia under Title 42. In a statement, DHS said U.S. expulsion flights to Colombia transporting Venezuelans who used to live there will continue on a "regular basis."

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, a fellow Democrat, implored President Biden this week to "reverse this cruel course of action," calling deportations of Venezuelans to Colombia "unconscionable."

Like I said I might be being stupid about it.

I know Corvettes are sports cars, but in my mind they're lumbering high-horsepower machines, not similar to the more nimble Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

But maybe that's because they're made by Chevy and it's an aesthetic thing more than anything under the hood.

0's real estate vs LAD's business management is fairly similar; I liked that 0 tied that in more with the rest of the game.

Dragon Kart is fun, but there are better Kart racers out there so it feels a little flat in comparison. Whereas Cabaret Club management is unique and fun all its own.

Also 0 has bowling and pool, which is a big plus in my book.

Shredders (unrelated)

Background_Guy posted...

Because your whole argument is "Me and a bunch of twitch streamers think they're lying because we said so. The US government isn't trustworthy but a bunch of internet shitposters are."

That is not my argument. I'm saying the US government isn't trustworthy because they have a documented track record of lying about incidents where we killed civilians. Fool me once, shame on me, and all that.

I have never and will never care about a Twitch streamer.

I don't know why we're resting the "do not take the United States Military's claims at face value" side on some Twitch streamer.

Ferrari for when I'm feeling like a fancy lad, Lamborghini for when I want ostentatious.

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Six children were killed in the process.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-forces-launch-raid-in-syria-civilians-also-reported-dead/ar-AATqeVe?ocid=uxbndlbing

ATMEH, Syria (AP) U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday. First responders at the scene reported 13 people had been killed, including six children and four women.

The operation, which residents say lasted about two hours, jolted the sleepy village of Atmeh near the Turkish border an area dotted with camps for internally displaced people from Syria's civil war. The target of the raid was not immediately clear.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a brief statement that the mission was a success. There were no U.S. casualties. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Several residents told The Associated Press they saw body parts scattered near the site of the raid, a house in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, and said the raid involved helicopters, explosions and machine-gun fire.

It was the largest raid in the province since the 2019 U.S. assault targeting the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Idlib is is broadly controlled by Turkey-backed fighters, but is also an Al-Qaida stronghold and home to several of its top operatives. Other militants have also found refuge in the region.

Reports on the number of dead varied. A journalist on assignment for the AP saw body parts around the house, whose upper story was almost completely leveled leaving rubble in the surrounding olive grove.

Blood could be seen on the walls and floor of the remaining structure, which contained a wrecked bedroom with a child's wooden crib on the floor. On one damaged wall, a blue plastic swing for children was still hanging. The kitchen was blackened with fire damage.

The opposition-run Syrian Civil Defense, first responders also known as the White Helmets, said 13 people were killed in shelling and clashes that ensued after U.S. the commando raid. They included six children and four women, it said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the strike killed nine people, including two children and a woman. Ahmad Rahhal, a citizen journalist who visited the site, reported seeing 12 bodies.

The Pentagon provided no details on who was the target of the raid, or if any combatants or civilians on the ground were killed or injured.

Residents and activists described witnessing a large ground assault, with U.S. forces using loudspeakers urging women and children to leave the area.

There was at least one major explosion. A U.S. official said that one of the helicopters in the raid suffered a mechanical problem and had to be blown up on the ground. The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the military operation.

The Observatory said troops for the U.S.-led coalition using helicopters landed in the area and attacked a house. It said the force clashed with fighters on the ground. Taher al-Omar, an Idlib-based activist, also said he witnessed clashes between fighters and the U.S. force.

The military operation got attention on social media, with tweets from the region describing helicopters firing around the building near Atmeh. Flight-tracking data also suggested that multiple drones were circling the city of Sarmada and the village of Salwah, just north of the raid's location.
The clandestine operation came as the Islamic State group was reasserting itself, carrying out some of its biggest attacks since it was defeated in 2019. In recent weeks and months, the group has launched a series of operations in the region, including a 10-day assault late last month to seize a prison in northeastern Syria.

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force said more than 120 of their fighters and prison workers died in the effort to thwart the IS plot, whose goal appeared to free senior IS operatives from the prison. The prison houses at least 3,000 Islamic State group detainees.

The attempted prison break was the biggest military operation by the extremist group since IS was defeated and members scattered to havens in 2019. The U.S.-led coalition carried out airstrikes and deployed American personnel in Bradley Fighting Vehicles to the prison area to help the Kurdish forces.

https://twitter.com/feliciasonmez/status/1489322277430874118

Ebony Black and Ivory White

Both of which sound like porn star names, tbh

https://twitter.com/facebookstop10/status/1489267491255767046

Click on that account, every day is a fairly similar list of outlets.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/olliolli-world?

That's rad