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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen: Biden preps for Putin

John Oliver: Asian Americans

Amber Ruffin: ♫ What gender are potatoes? ♬

Samantha Bee: We need to talk about the intersex experience

Mark Fiore: History for White people

The Liars, Thieves, Child Molesters, and Grifters of Today’s GOP:

Amber Ruffin: ♫ Everything wrong with the living wage in America ♬

Legal Eagle: Florida law violates First Amendment?

Stephen: Biden Battles cicadas en route to Europe while VP Harris swats away border questions

Amber Ruffin: Since Joe Biden became president…

Jonathan Mann: ♫ Abolish The Filibuster ♬

Bloomberg Law: The long fight for environmental justice continues

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Week in ТрампPlague:

Samantha Bee: How “no promo homo” laws target sex ed in Arizona

Now This: Inside the fight for D.C. statehood

Amber Ruffin: On “critical race theory”

Michael Kosta: The end of democracy, explained

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  2. 2

    Capitalism needs regulation like fish need water.
    And it is better when it is transparent, smart and honest. That requires an engaged, informed democratic citizenry… which is a hard thing to come by.

  3. 3

    At the rate news of Trump’s illegal behavior keeps pouring out getting back in the WH and installing Bill Barr as AG by August may be the only thing that stops him from doing hard time.

  4. 4

    Nother!

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-confirms-first-federal-muslim-judge-us-history-2021-06-10/

    The Democrat-controlled Senate voted 81-16 to confirm Quraishi, 46, who is the son of Pakistani immigrants and a former federal and military prosecutor.

    Uh? Muslim? Where’s teh babblin’ butthole to babble “sharia law” when ya need it for the entertainment around here?

    Butt, butt, butt.. Ruh roh! Thar be repuke support for this “muslim” judge..

    Did Moscow Mitch throw the lever for this Judge? Hmmm. MM voted YEA.. Damn… And so did Tom Cotton?? What ever will the repukes do with these “RINOS”???

  6. 6

    5)There were no good options in 1938, appeasement, although flawed, was the least bad option. As we have seen, the UK was barely ready for war in 1939. One great example, was when they tried to stop the Bismarck’s breakout, the HMS Prince of Wales still had civilian dock workers on board finishing up getting the main guns working.

  7. 7

    Is it the HA site or Google that no longer allows you to copy a link form my iPhone?

    When try to copy a link of a story that I try to send via email, with then a cut and paste, I get a message that it’s a Google link, then it doesn’t post

  9. 9

    @4 Yeah, I saw that yesterday, and the first question that popped into my mind was whether there were impassioned speeches about “Sharia law” on the Senate floor.

    The twits out in the weeds and trailerparks are going to have a fit when they hear about this.

    They’ll all be going to mosques at gunpoint by the end of this month. Given that Sharia law calls for throwing gay people off rooftops, I’m surprised they’re not lining up and fighting to get in.

  10. 10

    @5 Uh, China has been totalitarian since 1949. Is she just discovering that? Although perhaps someone should remind her that Nazis and communists were deadly enemies, not one and the same, despite being much alike in their behavior.

  13. 13

    Researchers at Georgia Tech, Cornell, and UWashington. Published in the Harvard Business Review.

    “For every $1 increase in the minimum wage, we found that the total number of workers scheduled to work each week increased by 27.7%, while the average number of hours each worker worked per week decreased [sic] by 20.8%,” the researchers wrote. “For an average store in California, these changes translated into four extra workers per week and five fewer hours per worker per week — which meant that the total wage compensation of an average minimum wage worker in a California store actually fell by 13.6%.”

    This didn’t just result in less overall income for many workers, the authors noted. It also impacted their ability to receive non-wage benefits.

    “We found that for every $1 increase in minimum wage, the percentage of workers working more than 20 hours per week (making them eligible for retirement benefits) decreased by 23.0%,” the researchers said.

    Lessee, what would Goldy say? Oh, yes. I remember.

    Damn you, $15 minimum wage!

  14. 14

    I wonder if YLB has had time to wonder why 30+ GOP Senators voted to confirm Quraishi.

  19. 19

    Trailer for a nice web series in comic book format, centered around a Canadian urban legend, the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow. Specifically the legend that one specific example, RL-206, was spirited away from the factory hours before the Canadian Department of National Defense carried out Diefenbakers orders to scrap all traces of the plane following his decision to end the program. The series started with a F-35 and CF-18 unable to intercept a Russian Blackjack doing a routine penetration flight over the Arctic. This was what the Arrow was designed for.

    https://youtu.be/zEj-fC0KIS4

    The real life story of the Arrow has become the Canadian equivalent of the JFK Assassination with conspiracy theories. 206 was going to be the production Mk2 version, with the Orenda Iroquois engine. When tested on a Boeing B-47, the Iroquois produced enough thrust to power the plane without the remaining 5 engines.

  20. 20

    Was surprised Saturday that Sound Transit has LINK back up to it’s pre-pandemic weekend Frequency, every 10 minutes. I knew that a frequency boost was happening, but just for weekdays. Weekdays are not back to pre-pandemic, but Monday, it will be back to December’s frequencies. Every 8 minutes peak, every 10 minutes Mid-Day.

  21. 21

    5,
    Steve, how do you think Ms. Boebert would explain the former guy’s total failure to respond to “GYNA”?

    Why did “the Republican President from before”, imbued with all the Article 2 powers and the world’s most advanced military at his disposal, do absolutely nothing except WALLSHITDOWNS!! for four years?

    Every time a “conservative” opens their stupid mouth about “GYNA” this is the only response.

  22. 22

    @13 Confirmation Bias. The greedy racist incel hates the concept that people he dispises should be paid better so he searches for arciles that confirm his bias.
    The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is a right-wing 501(c)3 educational foundation based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Foundation for Economic Education is listed as a partner organization of the Charles Koch Institute.
    FEE is an associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN). SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party.

    Propaganda in a shiny package. The Greedy Racist Incel is lying again with half truths.

  23. 23

    @13. From the original article, not mentioned in the biased propaganda generated by the Koch brothers shills.

    “In light of these market realities, what can policymakers do to achieve their stated goal of improving worker wellbeing? The answer isn’t necessarily to throw out raising the minimum wage entirely — but policymakers do need to approach these policies with caution.

    One potential approach is to couple any minimum wage increase with additional mechanisms designed to ensure consistent schedules and adequate hours while avoiding placing a major burden on employers (since that can lead to job losses). For example, five cities and one state have passed comprehensive “fair workweek” laws since 2014. These policies mandate that employers provide workers with greater stability and predictability in their work schedules, and in many cases, they also require employers to offer part-time workers the chance to increase their hours before adding new staff. .

  24. 24

    History doesn’t repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes.

    Rhymes with dumbfuckery.

    Heh. GYNA. That one has a rhyme, too. Hint. Dumbfuck incels have issues with them.

  25. 25

    Researchers at Georgia Tech, Cornell, and UWashington. Published in the Harvard Business Review.

    I no longer believe the dumbfuck traitor deliberately strips away context, a ‘bigger picture”, as he does here and with everything else he dumbfucks about. He’s just too stupid to see that it even exists.

    The dumbfuck nouveau riche. What a joke. Wealthy, yet worthless. Now that worthless shits like the dumbfuck traitor have embraced fascism, I’d just as soon shoot’em as look at them.

    Take everything from them. Leave them absolutely nothing at all. Let them embrace becoming the nouveau poor. Let us harvest their bitter tears. And if they so much as whine about it, off with their fucking heads.

    God bless America and our beloved president. And don’t forget to bless Gman, too.

  28. 28

    A gang of 4 motorcyclists driving slow in traffic on the West side highway, one of them, the most Neanderthal one of them, is reving his engine with the clutch in, just to make noise as he drives. Why? Just because he can be a Neanderthal (Hetero)! That’s why!

  29. 29

    Takes a lot of skill to be a tough guy Neanderthal. Rev your tricycle engine today.

    God Bless Steve. God Bless Raw Story.

    Pride people. You don’t have to rev your tricycle engine to prove your a tough guy…the other guy is always tougher than you. Not only making you less tough but pretty fucking stupid.

  31. 31

    I think I finally understand why Doctor Dumbfuck resents workers getting paid for their work. It’s jealousy. He didn’t get paid for his medical work for the first several years.

  32. 32

    @23 Apparently even they realize asking people to drive 2 hours to work a 2-hour shift at $7.65 an hour when gas costs 4 bucks is more than most folks are willing to do during a period of acute labor shortages.

  33. 33

    Since Doctor Dumbfuck gets Barrons before I do, I’m surprised he wasn’t on top of this:

    ” … worker pay isn’t actually rising … faster … than before the pandemic.

    “The average employed American earned about $30.33 an hour, up from $28.51 before the pandemic … an annualized growth rate of 5.1%, up from a prepandemic average growth rate of 3% a year. But the surge isn’t because workers got big raises.

    “While some did, the bigger explanation is that most of the people who lost their jobs weren’t paid much to begin with. That automatically lifted the reported average wage of anyone who still had a job, even if most individual workers weren’t any better off.”

    https://www.barrons.com/articles/inflation-wages-51623438774

    In other words, when more low-wage people than higher-wage people get laid off, the average wage rises without anybody getting paid more.

    The Barrons article says “some” people got raises, but most of the average wage increase is a statistical phenomenon resulting from higher-wage earners making up a larger portion of the workforce.

  35. 35

    @34. OMG. That’s precious. Fleecing the rubes and they keep lining up to shovel money to who ever promises they can keep being racist.

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