I mean,
Union leaders say the veto is an about-face from promises she made on the campaign trail. In February, a month after entering office, the governor attended a rally in support of the bill held by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), according to the Virginia Mercury.
but yeah, their endorsement of her looks pretty silly now
Yeah she told me
At first I really thought this was some sort of ai generated arcane horny post, but after looking it up - yeah that’s pretty shitty too
I mean, I’m never going to admit it to you because I ragebaited myself at the beginning of this and now you’re putting an unseemly amount of effort into defending evil shitheads, but I hope I’d add an edit to my first comment in an effort to promote factual accuracy in the community generally
Fuck off with the Heritage Foundation bullshit. Maybe having multiple metrics for slicing the same underlying pool of data could be useful, but then dumbasses with PhDs get lost in their little numbers and do stupid shit like “Hey, if we used core CPI for cost of living adjustments in benefits programs that’d save the government a bunch of money,” forgetting that poor people actually have to buy food and energy because they don’t give a shit because they’re bad people.
Maybe when our governments stop using “expert” economist advice to fuck over poor people and give taxpayer money hand over fist to wealthy scumbags I would be open to some more abstracted metrics and have a bit of trust in the eggheads, but since I’ve spent my entire adult life watching highly educated fucking idiots do the exact opposite fuck it, core CPI is a scam.
Nope, energy and food don’t get counted because a) respected economist: “tHeYrE tOo VoLaTiLe!” b) me: fucking rich bastards and the government economists that work for them lie like rugs (the reasonable truth is probably somewhere in between those two but I got too frustrated to be reasonable like ten years ago)
e; Actually nope, I screwed up and assumed CNN was reporting core inflation (which does exclude food and energy prices and gets used for adjusting the payouts of a lot of different benefit programs and such), but they decided to go with overall inflation. Core is at 2.8% overall is at 3.8.
Bernie’s fate was less bloody than Rosa’s at least
Nah, free subways or busses or whatever they end up doing, no more means testing. Every single paperwork barrier is an opportunity for perniciousness.
Can’t put my finger on it either, but my brain is telling me this is a 2D image, not a photograph of a 3D space. Like I can’t say why for sure, but it looks like there’s nothing “behind” that chyron to me.
That data might be useful for food industry and agricultural industry regulators, but it really doesn’t tell us anything about hunger. Like, just because Americans are making most of their expenditures on other things (probably healthcare, childcare, transportation, etc.) doesn’t mean they can afford food, probably the opposite if anything.
Meanwhile,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Household Food Security in the United States report, assessing that 13.7 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2024, marking the highest prevalence of U.S. food insecurity in nearly a decade. According to the USDA, this household food security report will be its last. In September, the USDA announced the “termination” of future reports with the claim that reports were “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous” and did “nothing more than fear monger.”
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https://www.csis.org/analysis/last-us-hunger-data-what-we-lose-termination-usdas-household-food-security-united-states (arc)
Ugh, when we finally fix this country by ramming a new VRA down the throat of every single red state tyranny out there we absolutely need to make some kinda ranked choice system the standard
Honestly they’ve repeatedly been worse than I have been able to imagine
Gaia I’ve come to bargain [ODs on pain killer]
In this economy?
Yeah, I just did a quick search that turned this up as the most likely place to find more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile,_ca1870.png
but I’ve seen this photo probably hundreds of times in a bunch of different textbooks and articles over the years
Maybe they did! People believe more unlikely things to make themselves feel better all the time
Posting misinformation is acceptable behavior in a shitposting comm, so this could be a photoshop
I feel like the real question to ask in these situations is whether or not it matters whether it’s “real” or not
That’s the Biden administration brand moderation I’ve come to know and loathe