Pay workers more and treat them like people. If your employees feel expendable, they have no problem ghosting on that spot that you’ll easily fill with someone else you don’t care about.
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No one “deserves” to be an American.
It’s so maddening that the only argument Trump supporters have about immigration rests on the unacknowledged premise that they were simply lucky enough to be born in a country where their lives aren’t in danger. You didn’t do anything to *deserve* living in the US either.
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Vox: Paul Ryan’s Long Con
Anybody still giving the benefit of the doubt to Republicans needs to go outside and break off a switch. Republicans keep playing this “fiscal responsibility” card, and too many of us keep falling for it to debate its merits as if their positions ever hold fast once they get elected. “Fiscal responsibility” is a catchphrase to bring two groups to the polls: rich people and poor whites.
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Random thought: The Try Guys are three dopey (yet endearing) straight white guys and one queer Asian lust machine ¾ths of the Internet is in love with and that fact is both hilarious and super cute.
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Daily Beast: Trump on Coming Debt Crisis – ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up
We point out a lot of ways this current administration is breaking from accepted norms, but the one difference that gets the least discussion is the frequency with which Trump and this current GOP says out loud what we all knew to be true anyway.
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ThinkProgress: Michigan GOP cuts paid sick leave, repeals minimum wage increase in lame-duck session
How do we impress upon our representatives that Republicans have no intention of playing fair and we have get in the gutter with them in order to clean it up? We can’t afford to go high when they keep taking a baseball bat to the knees of democracy.
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The Golden Globe nominations are out!
Overall, it’s a solid list! Just a few quick observations:
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The Hill: Wisconsin Senate passes limits on incoming Dem governor
Republicans are such crybaby snowflakes. The only thing that matters to them is winning, and whenever they don’t (or can’t), they just rewrite the rules.
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Yearly Reminder:Not only is Kelly Clarkson’s Wrapped in Red the best Christmas album of all time, it’s also one of the top 50 best pop albums of the decade, thanks so much.
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Chuck Schumer’s unpaid intern.
We’re expected to work FOR FREE after 6, 7, and 8 years of college, but we’re the ones who are spoiled because we want a $4 coffee every once in awhile to forget about the strain of living in country the generation before us ruined with greed.
