How timely. My daughter tried two different times today to take a package to the local USPS, and I (knowing how bad that location is, and having access to a car) went to one further away to mail some work-related letters: the lines were well out the door, with only one person working behind the counter in each of the two locations. The one I went to, they usually have 5 or 6 people working the counter at any given time.
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The Republicans went all-in for white supremacy with the Southern Strategy, but that wasn’t exactly reversing their previous position. They’d been at best neutral since the Compromise of 1877, which ushered in almost a century of consensus between the parties against civil rights for Blacks.
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Big Tech backs colleges in war against Trump’s ban on foreign students taking web-only classes mid-pandemic
Big Tech has thrown its support behind a legal challenge to a Trump administration rule that will force foreign students to leave the US if their university courses are online-only amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have joined [PDF] a wide range of other large tech companies, including Adobe, Dropbox, GitHub, Linkedin, Paypal, Spotify, Salesforce, and Twitter, in backing a lawsuit brought by Harvard and MIT against the Department of Homeland Security.
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It’s handbags at dawn: America to hit France with 25% tariffs on luxuries over digital tax on US tech titans
America is moving ahead with massive 25 per cent tariffs on French products in retaliation for the Euro nation approving a new digital tax aimed squarely at tech giants like Google and Facebook.
In a notice [PDF] put out by the US Trade Representative this month, the Trump administration said it will add the taxes to 21 categories of three types of product: cosmetics, soap, and handbags. Which may seem ridiculous but their value is collectively over $1bn in trade, apparently.
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Good luck on that. If Google is getting big money from French advertisers to promote to French users, it’s not happening in a nowhere called cyberspace, nor on some off-shore tax haven.
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Hopefully Americans will do just that in November.
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From the motion lines on those items, they’re all being sucked into the magic hat, where they’ll disappear.
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Yeah, but this is more of a case of quantity over quality.
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“Immigration: Trump administration drops plan to reject student visas if classes are online-only - CNNPolitics”
Is this good news? I certainly hope so.
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If thus runs true to form for Trump and 2020 in general, they’re only dropping their plan so they can replace it with something worse. If I had to guess, they’ll arrest the students at the airport and send them to Cuba so they can do their distance learning from Guantanamo.
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What’s with trump’s hair of late? Is gray the new orange? Did China stop making orange dye? Did his hair dresser get the rona??
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this is fine, right?
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BREAKING NEWS: Someone in the Trump administration possibly made an ethics violation.
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Black beans matter?
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She totally knew that. Kellyanne Conway ran into the same mess when she tweeted out support for Ivanka’s apparel line shortly after Trump’s inauguration.
I wish these violations included some hefty fines.
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