[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

There's a chance they go further and make things better in the longer-term

If dems get the house and maintain the senate, there's a decent chance that some dem reps will take a crack again at tying the minimum wage to inflation. There were proposed bills in the past by dems which would do exactly that

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Removing the minimum wage exception to tips does help with that. Part of the reason why tips are inventived

Plus taxes on tips as they exist already has quite a number of assumptions that tipping will always exist. For instance, assumptions of a minimum 8% tip rate for reporting. Which will be withheld from pay from at least that assumption (which you can get back if you earn less by filling)

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And to clarify, she is also calling for an overall increased minimum wage at the same time

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In policy proposals posted to her website, Harris called for an increase in the overall minimum wage and for the end of the subminimum wage for tipped workers.

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She has been getting lots of small dollar donors. Many of the earlier headline touted figured were actually only looking at small donors. Not only that but large numbers of first time donors

From the article

But the August haul comes on the heels of largely small donors (those giving less than $200) and first-time donors contributing to Harris’ July fundraising. In the first week of her campaign, roughly two-thirds of donations came from first-time donors

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Multiple (albeit limited) polls are suggesting the race is about neck and neck. Fischer's seat was not previously expected to be anything close to competitive. Large numbers are undecided so it could still change directions come election day

Osborn has a pro-union background having lead Kellog's strikes in 2021, supports legalized weed, better worker protections, and right to repair

Nebraska democrats intentionally did not run anyone in the hopes that Osborn would do better than any democrat would. Though Osborn has turned down any party endorsement

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

Don't let one singular poll discourage you. Instead use it to motivate action. Singular polls bounce around with statistical noise. This is still a very winnable fight

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 189 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes the strategy of trying to court jewish Americans by *checks notes* being blatantly antisemitic. There's no real reason to mention he's Jewish here other than to be antisemitic and imply he's a "bad jew"

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Main thing they're doing:

Party operatives, armed with a high-powered projector, booked themselves a room across the street from Trump Tower to display the message “Trump-Vance: Out For Themselves” — along with other slogans intended to rankle, rile, and otherwise irritate the candidate — across his 92-story building’s gleaming glass facade.

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To clarify, this is a parody account, not an actual NYT releated account

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For anyone looking from the all feed and confused what that means, YIMBY refers to "yes in my back yard" as opposed to the common refrain of people who profess they want more housing/public infrastructure/etc. but "not in my backyard" (called NIMBYs). The problem with NIMYism is that NIMBYs exist everywere so you have troubling building anything ever if one sticks to that mindset

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 176 points 3 weeks ago

Don't worry, when reporters asked his campaign about a very easily provable fact on a live-broadcast and widely recorded event, they said this:

In an emailed response to an inquiry about the lisp from a Huffington Post reporter, the Trump campaign said, “Must be your s****y hearing. Get your ears checked.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elon-musk-interview-x-stream-lisp-b2595384.html

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 211 points 3 weeks ago

The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.

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18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned.

The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 253 points 1 month ago

Headline undersells how he did this during the 90's during the Don't Ask Don't Tell era. Was not nearly as socially or politically acceptable then as it is now in the US to do that

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 123 points 3 months ago

If you look at the reddit post it's citing, it's from r/shittysuperpowers. A subreddit where you come up with fake shitty super powers is now getting cited as truth by google

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