Jessica Johns

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[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

@united 8 hours and counting, still haven’t boarded but at least you gave me a $15 food coupon that doesn’t even cover a sandwich lol.

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

11 hour flight delay with no options to rebook today, absolutely unacceptable @united

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

@united 11 hours at the airport and $15 is your concession… yikes 🫠 #inthiseconomy

[Karen Bass @KarenBassLA]

Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis.

We need to build a movement to kick them all out.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Hey wait a second

[J6 Videos @J6Videos]

42 SECONDS
.@SpeakerJohnson @elonmusk
The "counter snipers" didn't take the shot at the shooter sniper

They were looking at him at least 42 seconds before the ear shot on Donald Trump and failed the President

Did The CIA do an inside job with Thomas Matthew Crooks w/ the AR-15

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump survives assassination attempt

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

Crime is dropping tho so it’s fine

[KTVU @KTVU]

A U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint in Tustin, California, over the weekend while President Joe Biden was visiting Los Angeles. https://t.co/3buH8FwqYe

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

O.J. Simpson juror casually admitting that 90% of them knew he kiIIed Nicole and Ron, but let him off for revenge:

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

Can you believe this used to be an In ‘N Out in Oakland? The first and only restaurant ever closed in their franchise history.

Walmart, 2 Starbucks, a Subway, In ‘N Out, a Dennys, Black Bear Diner… all closed along the Hegenberger coridor in East Oakland.

And now the A’s play their last home game in Oakland in September.

All those lost jobs.

Recall @MayorShengThao Recall Pamela Price.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Border Patrol arrests of Chinese nationals who crossed the U.S. border illegally over recent years.

2021: 342

2022: 1,987

2023: 24,125

2024: 22,233 fiscal year of 2024

(6,300% increase since 2021)

What do you think is the reason for the increase year over year?

[ABC7 News @abc7newsbayarea]

A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Sydney just two hours into its nearly 14-hour journey to San Francisco, in the carrier's fifth flight incident in seven days, the company said. https://t.co/xeReapZGWr

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

Another day another issue with @onepeloton ?

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

@onepeloton is this another outage?

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

What is the difference between a “hot girl walk” and a regular walk?

[Jessica Johns @Jessicarjohns]

Knowing how to calm a woman when she’s hungry js an underrated male skill

[Overheard @realoverheardla]

Barista: “I love your natural blush!”

Customer: “It’s my rosacea.”

[🌹 @mlgar511]

Me with a glass of wine getting ready for the reunion vs me 15mins into getting the same error message #LoveIsBlindLIVE https://t.co/SSjgGqufh3