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A waffle shop in Seattle is being forced to close down over the city’s new $20 per hour minimum wage law, according to a new report by the New York Post.The owner of Bebop Waffle Shop said she was forced to close after the city’s new $20.76 minimum wage law took effect on New Year’s Day.Owner Corina Luckenbach told the Post: “I’ve cried every day.”Luckenbach, who founded Bebop over a decade ago after moving from New York to Seattle, said inflation-driven food costs and reduced foot traffic due to remote work had already strained her business. The minimum wage hike was the final blow.“This is…
January 6 victims of police violence The Democratic National Committee released a statement on Monday, the fourth anniversary of January 6, 2021, continuing to push their debunked lies about Trump and Trump supporters. “Donald Trump directed a violent mob that stormed our Capitol, attacking law enforcement and threatening our democratic institutions,” the Democrats claim. Here’s a reminder of what really happened: It can be recalled that on January 6, hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters gathered at the White House Elipse to attend a rally, where President Trump told them to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol and make their…
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Gavin Lux watches his RBI single in a baseball game against the Chicago White … [+] Sox Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved The Los Angeles Dodgers decluttered their infield, and the Cincinnati Reds have recluttered theirs. Gavin Lux has been traded to Cincinnati for minor-league outfielder Mike Sirota and the 37th overall pick in the 2025 draft. Lux, a former top prospect, had an up-and-down tenure in Los Angeles but he ultimately won two championships. The lefty-swinging second baseman batted .251/.320/.383 in 139 games for…
Senior Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor Jay Bratt, who was accused of ethical misconduct in the “documents” case against President-elect Donald Trump, has reportedly resigned in advance of the start of the new administration. Bratt is described by journalist Michael Isikoff — a key figure in the publication of the “Russia collusion” hoax, with deep sources in the DOJ — as having resigned before Trump could retaliate against him. Isikoff wrote at SpyTalk: The resignation of Jay Bratt, a career lawyer who served as chief of the counterintelligence and export controls section inside the national security division before being detailed…
The most notorious of all Jan. 6 defendants — former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio — has formally asked President-elect Donald Trump to pardon him for his seditious conspiracy conviction related to the attack on the Capitol. Tarrio was convicted by a jury of helping orchestrate the attack on the Capitol, even though he was banished from the city by prosecutors that day for his role in burning a stolen Black Lives Matter banner. U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, a Trump appointee, sentenced Tarrio to 22 years in prison, the lengthiest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant. Now, Tarrio is…
Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance: They’re refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action.Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, both inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, filed emergency motions in federal court in the state’s southern district on Dec. 30 seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.The men believe that having their sentences commuted would put them at…
Former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin speaking with protesters outside President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign rally in New Mexico on Oct. 30, 2024. Griffin appeared with others on the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection urging Trump to pardon those charged or convicted in the riot. (Photo by Austin Fisher / Source New Mexico)Two of New Mexico’s most prominent election deniers used Monday – the fourth anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection – to urge incoming Donald Trump to keep his promise to pardon many charged and convicted in the riot, even as Congress certified his win. What had…
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,The status quo has it backwards: low rates are now essential to prop up the wreckage left from previous doses of default and cascading losses.The economy depends on two related drivers: low interest rates and asset bubbles. These two feed back into one another, as low rates / loose credit enables those marginal buyers who otherwise wouldn’t qualify to enter the market, generating demand pressure which boosts asset valuations, which then provide more collateral for additional borrowing.This dynamic is what inflated Housing Bubble #1 in 2003-2007, as mortgage agencies (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac), private-sector…
Today was the four-year anniversary of the greatest political rally since Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Americans came to Washington, D.C. from every one of the fifty states—by plane, train, automobile—some even on foot. We came from all fifty states. Never in the history of this nation was a President capable of drawing such a crowd of Americans from all walks of life- rich, middle class, poor, white, black, gays, straights, Christians, Jews, Muslims- Republicans, disenfranchised Democrats, Independents…even past “Bernie bros”. The largest populist movement in the history of the Republic. The largest populist movement in the…
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 28: Tyrese Haliburton #0 of the Indiana Pacers looks to throw a pass … [+] against Jalen Suggs #4 of the Orlando Magic during the second half at Kia Center on October 28, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images)Getty Images INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers lost to the Milwaukee Bucks last Tuesday before beating the Miami Heat two days later, and their effectiveness against a certain type of defense was the story of each game. When the Pacers went against zone coverage, their results varied. The Bucks wrecked everything for the blue and…