Breakfast at the Blue Plate Cafe; late dinner at Zaxby’s. #vacationallieverwanted #memphis2019 #ieatfoodjustlikeyou #noms #blueplatecafe #waffles #ham #zaxbys #chicken #tastycakes #witnessmybeanchewing https://www.instagram.com/p/B2GEkGkD6QV/?igshid=vijwkv71csmi
I got two of these on sale at 99 Ranch since I love mandarin, and let’s just say, there was a reason they were on discount. #nasty #sogross #undrinkable #bottleoflies #theingredientswereatrick #discountshopping #99ranch #mandarinjuice #bleah https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HDNNFjGph/?igshid=1fox3kne135di
If you see something like this when you know there’s a strike coming do not reach out and grab this opportunity. It provides you zero benefits and makes you a scab because you’d be crossing a picket line and doing my job while I’m fighting for a better wage and better benefits. Don’t be a fucking scab!
[id: picture of a flier in a grocery store. It has large, bold text reading, “seeking replacement workers.” Underneath that text are details of the position such as pay rate and the fact that these workers would be replacing people during a “potential labor dispute.”]
I actually saw something about this on Facebook this morning saying that no, they absolutely don’t pay that much normally, even for workers who’ve been there a few years. They’ve bumped up the pay specifically to attract scabs, showing in the process that they could be paying their usual workers that much regularly and just don’t want to, and you know the moment the strike’s over wages will go right back down to where they were again unless they’re forced to do otherwise.
Anyone who works as a scab goes to Nidhogg to be chewed to the marrow after they die, just saying
Twitter users went into meltdown on Thursday when President Donald Trump tweeted for an eighth and ninth time about Alabama being in Hurricane Dorian’s path.
A tweet from Trump on Sunday mistakenly identified Alabama as one of the states in Dorian’s trajectory, and the error presumably would have long since been let go had the president not repeatedly resurfaced it to defend his claim.
People on Twitter couldn’t seem to believe their eyes when the president brought it up yet again Thursday, with many ridiculing the fact he was still tweeting a week-old map to prove an irrelevant point while the storm was actually hitting the Carolinas and had just ravaged the Bahamas.
Some pointed out that even if Alabama had been in the storm’s path, it was simply unacceptable for the president to be sharing outdated forecast maps while the storm was currently affecting people who required up-to-date information.
News outlets report that former Chattanooga police officer Desmond Logan reached a plea agreement Wednesday in federal court in which he also admitted to pulling a stun gun on a woman to prevent her from leaving her car.
According to court documents, the 33-year-old has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of deprivation of rights. Each count carries up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
Logan resigned in February before he could be fired.
Earlier this year, two retired Chattanooga officers were accused of helping suppress allegations against Logan.
The women say they notified police, but an official probe wasn’t launched until the county sheriff was notified.
Cecil Roberts said at an event in Washington that his message to
Trump and others running for president in 2020 is: “Coal’s not back.
Nobody saved the coal industry.” He said coal-fired plants are closing all
over the country, calling it a “harsh reality.”
The Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule could
result in 1,400 more premature deaths by 2030, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency, while the Obama-era plan it will replace would have
avoided 3,600 premature deaths due to pollution from coal-fired power plants by
that year. The Obama Clean Power Plan was set to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, which contribute to the climate crisis, by up to 32% compared with
2005 levels by the same year.
Roberts said Trump cutting back some of the Obama-era regulations that
limited coal-fired power plant emissions “perhaps kept the coal industry
… in existence” but that plants are still closing
“dramatically” and the market keeps shrinking. He said coal mining
jobs will continue to be lost because of what he called bad public policy, and
“eventually there will be no market here or only the strongest companies
will survive.”
Roberts, who said he believes the global climate crisis is real,
said the only thing he hears 2020 presidential candidates talking about
“is how they’re going to save all the coal miners in this country or
get rid of all the coal miners in this country. Do it tomorrow, you still
are not solving climate change.”
He said technology that removes carbon from the burning of coal
needs to be developed to solve the climate emergency.
Roberts also pleaded with the President to tweet that he
believes coal miners who are entitled to pensions should have them. He noted
that Trump has repeatedly said he loves coal miners, and he asked the President
to “just make us 15 seconds of his day,” adding that he wasn’t being
critical of Trump.
In July, retired coal miners and advocates went to Capitol Hill
to urge members of Congress to protect their pensions, according to the United Mine Workers of America’s website.
They urged support for the Miners Pension Protection Act, a bill that was introduced
early this year in the House of Representatives by Rep. David McKinley, a West
Virginia Republican.
“The UMWA’s pension fund is headed towards insolvency, with
almost all of the coal companies that paid into the fund now bankrupt,”
the website reads.
Suits questioning the law’s stance on same-sex marriages were filed simultaneously at four district courts, in Tokyo and other areas, in February. But this action, lodged at the Fukuoka District Court, is the first time such a case has been launched in the Kyushu and Yamaguchi areas of western Japan.
The couple behind the suit, Kosuke, 30, and Masahiro, 31, said, “We want to make same-sex marriage in Japan a reality, and reduce the number of people who will be concerned by these same issues in the future.”
Both plaintiffs are company employees, and they have refrained from releasing their surnames or the spelling of their names using kanji characters. They became a couple in May 2017, and the following month they started living together.
This July they attempted to file a marriage registration at a ward office in the city of Fukuoka, but they were told that a marriage application in which the relevant parties were both men was not legal, and their request was turned down.
The Constitution of Japan guarantees freedom of marriage and equality under the law. Among its arguments, their suit maintains that the inability for same-sex couples to marry is unconstitutional and the National Diet has unreasonably neglected its legislative duty to enable them to wed. Both seek compensation of 1 million yen each for their mental suffering.
The Fukuoka Municipal Government introduced the “partnership oath system” that recognizes LGBT couples as partners in April 2018, and the pair began using the system from June that year. But it does not bestow the legal rights and obligations arising from marriage, nor does it allow for inheritance or joint ownership when taking out loans to buy a home, thereby blocking couples from advantages available to heterosexual couples.
In addition to arguing that their legal rights have been stolen from them, the suit also asserts that their dignity has been undermined by their inability to marry. They say the lack of recognition for same-sex marriage has encouraged discriminatory views that their lives are “abnormal and inferior compared to heterosexual couples.”
