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US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports average hourly wage growth has surpassed inflation for 12 straight months
  • The last time I looked the real impressive growth was at the lowest ends of the labor market. Effectively it's state minimum wage increases hitting. Everyone above minimum wage is far less affected by this. But you do have to go looking for that kind of information. Leadership wants to look at the line go up and cheer, not understanding that the person making the median isn't really affected by this. the other fun thing is since it's mostly minimum wage movement, they aren't suddenly being able to afford stuff. They're still getting crushed by inflation like most people.

  • US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports average hourly wage growth has surpassed inflation for 12 straight months
  • And how much of that is minimum wage going up? Don't get me wrong I love that. But going from 15k to 20k a year is going from drowning to clinging to a piece driftwood. The full time annual take home needs to be around 40k-50k per person with all the decades of negative real wages.

  • Sanders: Supreme Court Is “Out of Control” and Must Be Reformed
  • The filibuster is already gone in regards to judicial appointments, The Republicans killed it and the Democrats didn't bring it back. But also, yeah the chamber rules are a simple majority vote. It's Manchin and Sinema keeping that from happening, but also without the house of representatives it's kind of useless to get rid of it right now.

  • Judge orders surprise release of Epstein transcripts
  • Malfunctioning cameras, sleeping guards that were rotated in, controversy over the medical examiner report...

    Not being able to prove something happened and nothing happening are two different things.

  • Sanders: Supreme Court Is “Out of Control” and Must Be Reformed
  • Fun fact, the Constitution gives authority to make new SCOTUS judges to the Senate and the President. Congress as a whole only has the power to organize courts below SCOTUS. The entire idea that the house can set the size of the court is unsupported.

  • Michelle Obama Is Only Democrat Beating Trump in New Post-Debate Poll – And It’s by A LOT
  • In polling there's a piece of wisdom that journalists don't listen to. Ignore the outlier polls. If there's multiple polls saying one thing and one poll saying something else then there's far more likely to be something wrong with the one outlier. But clickbait machine goes brrrrt.

    https://am11.mediaite.com/med/cnt/uploads/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-5.06.44-PM.jpg

    Okay looks like Clickbait Machine goes brrrt for a different reason here. The upshot is that many respondents skipped the follow on questions. So assuming any amount of campaigning is competently done then the 12% Don't know/skip category is likely to shrink closer to the 4% of the Biden-Trump match up. Then you can see that 40% of the respondents just answered Trump no matter what. In fact the Democrats percentage goes down nearly in lockstep with, Don't Know/Skipped. So, in my opinion, there's a really good chance the Democrats could actually pick up most of that column for Beshear or Pritzker.

  • It's exhausting...
  • This from the guy who says you only get to vote against your party's president before they're president.

    Biden is very much the Democrat presumptive nominee. The time to select someone else was before he was President.

    If you're going to deny things that clearly exist then I'm under no obligation to take you seriously.

  • Sanders: Supreme Court Is “Out of Control” and Must Be Reformed
  • Even more dispiriting for Americans who want to see real reform? The most optimistic view any of the campaign surrogates could offer Monday was a promise that Biden would at least “have conversations” about court reform that would be non-starters under Trump.

    This is the same language they used in 2020 for all the progressive stuff. That he then did nothing substantive on.

  • Sanders: Supreme Court Is “Out of Control” and Must Be Reformed
  • And his die hard supporters on here wonder why people don't want to vote for Biden just because it keeps Trump out of office. Biden isn't fighting this fight. The democrats are asleep at the wheel, another 4 years of, "oh no, poor me, SCOTUS said we can't do this, we just have to executive order the most conservative policy in 60 years." Does not excite the people who are willing to go vote.

  • cowboystatedaily.com ‘Stunning’ Revelation Bolster’s Wyoming-Based Custodia Bank’s Case Against Federal Reserve

    A Federal Reserve database of master accounts reveals “stunning” information in Wyoming-based Custodia Bank’s precedent-setting lawsuit against the Fed for denying its master account.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/403754

    > A Federal Reserve database of master accounts reveals “stunning” information in Wyoming-based Custodia Bank’s precedent-setting lawsuit against the Fed for denying its master account.

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    news.yahoo.com U.S. urges China military dialogue despite rebuff to Blinken

    BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday pressed its call for military communication channels with China and signalled concern over reports that China plans a military training facility in Cuba following Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to Beijing over the weekend. Establishing milit...

    The Biden administration wants to set up a deconfliction line with China in much the same way they set one up with Russia during the Cold War. They're also signaling that future cooperation may come in the financial sector or by refining sanctions by tapping the Treasury Secretary as one of the next US officials to meet with Chinese leaders. The Commerce Secretary may also be about looking for a ways to offset the US bringing chip production home.

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