Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Missing Link) derailed a House Oversight Committee meeting Thursday by insulting Rep. Jasmine Crockett's (D-Texas) "fake eyelashes." Attacking the physical appearance of another member is against House rules, but the committee's Republican chair ruled to allow it, leading Crockett to respond, "I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?" read more
World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was detained by Louisville Metro Police on Friday morning while trying to drive into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, the site of this week's PGA Championship. According to ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington, who witnessed the incident, Scheffler was trying to drive around a crash scene on a median. read more
Federico Kochlowski, the new president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, had a not-so-subtle message for workers as they headed to the polls this week to vote in a potentially historic union election. "[A]lthough I respect everyone's right to take a position on this matter, I prefer that we work on our future together without anyone else between us," he wrote. read more
Wall Street's three major indexes notched record closes on Wednesday with the benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX), and the Nasdaq (.IXIC), both advancing more than 1%, after a smaller-than-expected rise in consumer inflation bolstered investors' hopes for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. All three indexes hit intraday record highs with technology stocks leading the charge. The blue-chip Dow (.DJI), drew closer to the 40,000 milestone. read more
Fear of uncontrolled immigration is upsetting the political landscape in the run-up to the presidential election. Americans' mistrust of new immigrants is hardly new. In fact, it exhibits a striking resemblance to the prevailing fears 100 years ago. On May 15, 1924, Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act, which would constrain immigration into the United States to preserve, in Smith's words, America's "pure, unadulterated Anglo-Saxon stock." read more
A police officer instructed Scheffler to stop, but Scheffler continued to drive about 10 to 20 yards toward the entrance.Well, it appears that mild-mannered Scottie Scheffler just found out how it feels to be treated as though he was DWB even though he's a pale multimillionaire and one of the most famous professional golfers on the planet.
At one point, an officer attached himself to the side of Scheffler's car. Scheffler stopped his car as he turned into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club.
After about 20 to 30 seconds, Scheffler rolled down his window to talk to the officer. The officer grabbed Scheffler's arm to pull him out of the vehicle, according to Darlington. The officer reached inside the vehicle to open the door, and once Scheffler was pulled out, he was pushed against the car and placed in handcuffs.
Darlington was standing at the entrance when Scheffler was detained. Darlington said Scheffler turned to him and asked, "Can you help?"
According to Darlington, an officer instructed him to back away. "You need to get out of the way," the officer told Darlington. "Right now, he's going to jail, and there's nothing you can do about it."
The part I'm failing to understand is how Scheffler is charged with 2nd degree assault of a police officer when it was the officer who decided to "attach" himself to Scheffler's moving car. Unless Scheffler was going to endanger others in his attempt to circumvent the accident scene, I don't see how any of this was warranted nor useful in the overall scheme of things. Police judgment is often out of control, and this appears to be another example of an unwarranted escalation solely due to an officer's lack of reasonable perspective. To my knowledge, event-provided courtesy cars are readily identifiable by stickers, plates, and uniformity of make and model.
The video makes the police look quite unhinged and overreactive due to this being a freaking golf tournament, not an appearance by a President or politician.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 40000 for the First Time#3
We all know this. But we also know that "confidence" is another measure of the economy that isn't based on raw numbers themselves, and I've never seen corporate confidence low whenever the indexes are setting record highs matched with record corporate profits.
Now, the problem with the above is that monied donors still believe their interests will be served even more positively with the GOP controlling policy, even though at the moment it's Democrats creating the conditions for record breaking revenues and stock valuations.
And wages for workers have also reached all-time highs even though inflation continues to eat away at those gains. Let me put it this way, if things were the opposite, Republicans would be flogging Democrats on a daily basis. At minimum, the rising indexes keep that particular economic factor out of the negative column.
The public conversation over immigration that has raged at least since the days of the 1924 Johnson-Reed law can explain Washington's policy failure: There is no way America can reconcile the sentiments embodied by the Statue of Liberty - "Give me your tired, your poor," etc. - with its deep-seated fear that immigrants will reshape its ethnic makeup, its identity and the balance of political power.
Try as they might, policymakers have always been unable to protect the White America they wanted to preserve. Today's "melting pot" was built largely with policies that didn't work. Millions upon millions of migrants have overcome what obstacles the United States has tried to put in their way.
Immigration has re-engineered U.S. politics. Non-White voters account for some 40 percent of Democrats. Eighty-one percent of Republican voters, by contrast, are both White and not Hispanic. The nation's polarized politics have become, in some nontrivial sense, a proxy for a conflict between different interpretations of what it means to be American.
The renewed backlash against immigration has little to offer the American project, though. Closing the door to new Americans would be hardly desirable, a blow to one of the nation's greatest sources of dynamism. Raw data confirms how immigrants are adding to the nation's economic growth, even while helping keep a lid on inflation.
The 2045 needs to quit.
Naw, this was just the first attempt.
And a reminder for those who know and don't know the details: This election ONLY happened because the organizers were able to get over 50% of the workforce to sign cards asking for such an election. And reports were that the union collected over 60% of the workforce's cards - if I read correctly, so the fact that only 44% ended up voting for the union, the company's efforts and expenditures to forcibly change minds was successful.
That is why there are companies being paid millions to come into workplaces and stop workers from unionizing after an election has been called.
I guess the workers who voted against union representation must be blindly ignorant to the fact that their employer will spend millions of dollars to stop them from having a collective voice while at the same time not spending that same amount of money (or any at all) providing them better pay and benefits, if they really want to make the case their workers don't need a union.
I think most of you know exactly why and I wish workers in these situations would stop and think about it themselves and then respond accordingly.