Found out the day off employees had when everything was frozen will not be paid. Also the work 5 Holidays in order to keep their vacations is now- If you get sick and miss working a holiday day you lose a weeks vacation. They get 4 a year. A nice guy who works there just found out the 2 days he took off sick one was New Years day. He thought he could make that up like he had in the past. He found out he lost a weeks vacation. He is battling early throat cancer. :(

The Republican Head Select Committee Is As Useless As Its Leader Jim Jordan. This Committee Should Be Called The Republican Revenge Club.
https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/08/jim-jordan-to-subpoena-the-fbi-for-their-criminal-evidence-against-trump.html

Mike Sington @MikeSington
The estate of US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the day after the Jan 6 riot after suffering two strokes, files a $10 million wrongful death suit against Donald Trump for inciting the violence that injured Sicknick.

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People who haven't had COVID will likely catch XBB.1.5 – and many will get reinfected, experts say

Variant XBB.1.5 is very contagious, meaning everyone is at risk even if you've already been infected. As the U.S. enters year 3 of the pandemic, here's an update on the state of COVID.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/01/06/covid-update-xbb-variant-symptoms-reinfection/10995204002/

@Gladari Even the craziest Rs mostly want to grandfather in current recipients to avoid instant political catastrophe.

Though I don't think that dodge would help them much. As the response to their abortion evasions showed, voters aren't that stupid.

January 6th Report Exposes Ongoing, Converging Threat of Anti-Democracy Schemes and Paramilitary Violence
And Lessons on Where to Go Next

https://www.justsecurity.org/84669/the-january-6th-report-exposes-the-ongoing-converging-threat-of-anti-democracy-schemes-and-paramilitary-violence/

A six-year-old deliberately shot their teacher today during an altercation in school in Newport News, VA.

#GunControlNow

We live in a time when intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.

@RationalLeft @Gladari

Isn't it also true that certain GOP calling to impeach Biden can't do so without the Senate in agreement? I'd say Greene & Boebert threatening to do this is just theatrics also.

"On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found."
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-twitter-elon-child-abuse-material-rcna63621

Can we just have Tina Fey as speaker and put this whole sorry mess behind us?

@tomtom4468 Guess you missed the whole thing where actual MD Doctors went on TV to advertise how good cigarettes & smoking were for you!
One company countered this with: "The Parliament cigarette was unique in that it had a 5 mm recessed charcoal filter. The novel filter was designed to prevent the tongue from touching the filter face."

@peeppeepcircus @Charles_Hawtrey @JohnnyGenX
Yes, that is my interpretation as well. And I think that until W decided he needed more troops for his oil war in Iraq, he could call them up, away from their States & Governor's authority, to serve in his war!