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‘A made up holiday nobody even heard of’: Hillary Clinton savaged for claiming Juneteenth is ‘America’s second Independence Day’
'Feelin no ways tired! Bringin the hot sauce in her purse. What a pandering cheeseball'
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National Review
From Concertos to Cage Matches, America Can Do It All
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Mixing high and low culture is what this country’s all about.
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Hillary Clinton Savaged For Claiming Juneteenth is “America’s Second Independence Day”
Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton jumped on the Democrat trend and posted a message about Juneteenth. The post Hillary Clinton Savaged For Claiming Juneteenth is “America’s Second Independence Day” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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New York Post
Belgium vs. Iran World Cup prediction: Odds, picks, best bet for Group G match on Sunday
Belgium and Iran will want to wash the bitter tastes out of their mouths on Sunday.
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The Hill News
Mike Lee: Senate GOP must do ‘hard work’ to pass SAVE America Act
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Sunday said Senate Republicans must do the “hard work” to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a voter ID bill touted by President Trump as his legislative priority. Lee told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream that the SAVE America Act makes “it easy to vote, hard…
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Axios
Welcome to America, World Cup visitors. Don't forget to tip.
Millions of World Cup visitors are experiencing American cuisine for the first time and there's one menu item that's completely foreign: tipping.Why it matters: Many restaurants in World Cup host cities are adding 20% gratuities to customers' bills this summer to accommodate international fans who might otherwise accidentally stiff their servers.What they're saying: Teneshia Murray Butler, owner of the Atlanta-based chain T's Brunch Bar, tells Axios she raised the restaurants' automatic gratuity from 18% to 20% for the World Cup."My servers are everything. They're like the quarterback to the rest of the team," she says."Doing this makes the server see that I'm putting them first, ... and I care about them and their money."The big picture: Tipping isn't customary in many countries, and the U.S. version of it is unusually central to worker pay.In America, tipped workers can be paid as little as $2.13 an hour as long as tips bring them up to the $7.25 federal minimum wage.Tipping originated in feudal Europe, where royalty tipped servants in addition to paying them a living wage. The U.S. later adopted the practice after enslavement ended, using it as a way to keep Black workers in poverty."Restaurants wanted to be able to continue to access free Black labor," Saru Jayaraman, president of advocacy group One Fair Wage, tells Axios. "So they mutated tipping from being an extra bonus on top of the wages... to becoming a replacement for wages."Case in point: Jessica Ordeñana, a NYC bartender, tells Axios her restaurant is adding automatic gratuity for tourists, but that occasionally gets missed during busy game days.She says a large group of foreign fans came in to watch Tuesday's match between Argentina and Algeria and ran up a bill of about $300."They left like a $4 tip, and that was really, really disgusting. We depend on [tips], but unfortunately we cannot depend on them, because of how low they are," Ordeñana says.Between the lines: David Cooper, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, tells Axios research shows the poverty rate for tipped workers is "dramatically lower" in states like California, Minnesota and Montana where servers receive tips on top of the full minimum wage versus those in states that follow the federal tipped minimum wage.Poverty rates for non-tipped workers are "essentially the same" across both groups of states, which suggests the tipped wage policy itself is a key driver, he says.Zoom in: Unionized servers and bartenders at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles authorized a strike a week before the tournament's opening match, threatening a walkout.The strike was averted after the union reached an agreement with management. Tipped workers at SoFi won a 30% pay increase.The bottom line: Jayaraman says she hopes the World Cup "shines a light" on tipped workers' vulnerability — and the year-round insecurity a temporary service charge can't fix."We always say your tips go up and down, month to month, shift to shift, season to season, but your bills don't go up and down, they just go up and up."Go deeper: World Cup collides with Trump's America First agenda
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Schumer Accidentally Makes the Case for Passing SAVE America Act During Appearance on MS NOW (VIDEO)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer this week accidentally made the case for the SAVE America Act during an appearance on MS NOW with host Lawrence O'Donnell. The post Schumer Accidentally Makes the Case for Passing SAVE America Act During Appearance on MS NOW (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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New York Post
Spain vs. Saudi Arabia World Cup prediction: Odds, picks, best bets for Sunday’s match
It wasn’t the start to the World Cup that anyone expected for Spain.
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Common Dreams
You Are America, Ready To Seize What Ought To Be
This week, a clear "dignity gap" amidst more botches - war, flu, pools, fans - suggests a faint, nascent shift in momentum back toward we the people. As DC sank into mire, New York came together "as one" - Mamdani: "We find a way" - with a jubilant party for its beloved Knicks, and Chicago marked a dazzling, joyful, Juneteenth launch of an Obama Center with free library, museum, gardens, sledding hill where "hope took root" for the first Black president, and somehow still resides. Meanwhile, the regime tried to sell a fragile Iran deal deemed "the worst foreign policy blunder in decade" that achieved none of their goals, prompted Iran to claim "total victory," and led Andy Borowitz to report the Ayatollah had named Trump "Employee of the Month." Now a newly empowered Iran will control the Hormuz Strait, levy new fees, see sanctions lifted, get a $300 billion infrastructure fund that makes Obama's 2015 pay-out pale, and be free to keep building its nuclear stockpiles and repressing its people, all at the cost of thousands of lives including 175 Iranian schoolgirls and global economic mayhem. The surreal bonus: In "the greatest diplomatic troll" ever, France's Macron got Trump, stunned by gold and ignorant of history, to sign the MOU at Versailles, where World-War-I Allies forced Germany to sign "one of the most famous surrender documents in history.”With it all, a still-homicidal, hold-my-beer Israel continued bombing and killing civilians in Lebanon, and US-Iran talks were (again) cancelled. Other fails, less lethal, often cringey, kept coming. Again playing the buffoon on the world stage at the G7 summit, where he appeared dazed and confused before chatting leaders, he claimed Italy Premier Giorgia Meloni had “begged me to take a picture with her!" Meloni, fed up, swiftly retorted on social media that she was "astonished" by a claim that was "completely made up" (America nods wearily), she has no idea why he "behaves like this," and "Italy, and I, do not beg." Then Italy's foreign minister cancelled an upcoming trip here, noting Trump, "whether out of intent or ineptitude," has managed with "his inappropriate outbursts," to make the U.S. "unpopular across the entire European continent" - "no easy feat." Sigh. Too much winning.A flu outbreak hit 150 recruits training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after manly dry-drunk Christo-fascist Pete Hegseth, declaring "Your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable," said he was “restoring freedom" by ending mandatory flu vaccines, ”absurd overreaching mandates (that) weaken our war-fighting capabilities." New viewership data for the Freedom 250 cage fight - Trump: ”one of the most exciting days in the History of our fabled White House“ - were not, as predicted, ”Super-Bowl numbers“ of 125.6 million, or Rubio’s giddy billion, but a sad 17 million. Their latest attempt to "make friends" with MAGA hats and cookie bribes to kids in Greenland, home to Make America Go Away hats, was met by scowls and fingers. After Congress shut him out, Trump stole $352 million from the Secret Service for his ballroom. Then he was defeated by a Medal of Honor.And in the running debacle of his $14 million redo of the Lincoln Reflecting pool, surging algae is worse than it's been in years - “Now that the bottom is nice and dark, the algae grows better" - and peeled-off chunks of his "American-flag blue" paint are floating to the surface, loosened by chlorine-neutralizing hydrogen peroxide hapless workers are dumping into it. The historic kicker: The same thing happened - creation of a swamp-green guac pool - at the 2016 Rio Olympics; it made global headlines, easily recalled. But nope, not by all-knowing "Nero on the Potomac." The pattern repeats: Claim something needs improving, ignore experts, screw it up big-time for too much money, blame someone else when it crashes. It will end, God willing, in humanity's "oldest political ritual" - Rome's "condemnation of memory" wherein evildoers' names are chiseled off, statues toppled, their faces hacked, unmade by history.Until then, we get by on whatever slivers of hope, good cheer, good trouble we can find or make. Thursday saw not just a parade but "a jubilee" in New York, a vast, messy, blue and orange spectacle of two million exuberant fans descending on a packed city to salute the dogged Knicks, NBA champions after a 53-year wait. The staggering turnout for their first ticker-tape parade ever, one of the largest for a sports title celebration, caused mostly glad mayhem in lower Manhattan. For a 10 a.m. parade start, thousands camped out overnight, paid others to hold them a place, took red-eye flights, arrived at dawn, inched forward; many more got turned away when viewing pens filled up before 8 a.m and had to settle for watching on TVS in overflowing bars. Buses shut down, subways blocked exits, people caught rides on garbage trucks and crowded friends' balconies.
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