iโm gonna take this chance to reiterate what iโve said before. Gay people: your family, friends, and neighbors do not give a fuck about your rights. They think itโs annoying and kind of pushy when you bring it up. They miss when it wasnโt something they had to acknowledge.
Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trumpโs help.
Let Michigan be a constant reminder that if you want your football team to win, first you must end gerrymandering, expand abortion rights and legalize weed.
BREAKING: Chicago just voted to eliminate the subminimum wage for restaurant workers.
Currently, tipped workers like servers are paid $9.48 + tips.
The new law will raise that to the full minimum wage of $15.80.
SAG's decisions are in part strategic.
Small streamers like us continuing to work while the major streamers cannot gives us a competitive advantage and puts more pressure on them to make a deal. ๐
I love John Adams on monarchies:
"A Monarchy would probably, somehow or other make me rich, but it would produce So much Taste and Politeness, So much Elegance in Dress, Furniture, Equipage, So much Music and Dancing, So much Fencing and Skating; So much Cards and Backgammon..."
Biden nominated a person turning 60 next year for an appeals court seat and Durbin is protecting the sacred blue slips to keep Republicans happy, but Cotton and Blackburn won't allow Dems to change committee membership. Got it.
BREAKING: Brandon Johnson is projected to win the Chicago mayor's race, defeating a billionaire-funded conservative in an upset victory.
Johnson is a public school teacher and labor organizer and ran as a voice of working people.
Don't overlook this, it's a big deal: Michigan Dems are passing pro-labor *and* pro-LGBTQ/abortion bills. They're explicitly casting this as a pro-worker agenda, economically *and* culturally. This is the blue state answer to red state culture war madness:
https://t.co/ysbzdrc1iq
Unions made Michigan a hub of American business, and an engine of Americaโs middle class.
A strong middle class benefits everybody.
Michigan is leading as a great place to be a worker and a great place to do business.
Democrats in Michigan voted to repeal a right-to-work law, codify LGBTQ rights and expand gun background checks, despite Republican objections. It was the boldest assertion yet of their new political power since taking full control of state government. https://t.co/ZnQUwwdr9w
I don't bring this up much because I don't want to be a bummer, but I think the entire world is actually still currently experiencing large-scale psychotic episode thanks to the pandemic that is affecting every aspect of our lives and is made worse by our inability to admit it.
Really strange GOP reaction to House Joint Resolution No. 34 which would clear witchcraft convictions from the Connecticut Witch Trials. Rep. Dubitsky (R) asked Beverly Khan if she had any evidence of innocence... does he think witches are real?