Lead is still used as a gasoline additive for some applications. It was only banned for sale for on road vehicles in the 90s. Prior to 1975 just about every car on the road was spewing it from the tail pipe.

Credit scores don’t measure how responsible with your money you are. They measure how much you’re willing to pay lenders.

Someone on his staff told him he needs to appeal to black and Hispanic voters. So his usual rhetoric changes from “They’re coming here and stealing American jobs!” to “They’re coming here and stealing Black jobs and Hispanic jobs!”

This is the maximum level of nuance Trump can handle.

Yeah, I watched it the other day. That cop was nuts. “I thought maybe you were signaling me because you needed help.” Bullshit. He just wanted him to admit he’d flipped him off because he thought he could charge him for that.

If an offered is not accepted or whatever, HR should have some record of who the other top contenders would be.

It doesn’t work that way. We search until we find one person we want to hire and we offer that person the job. If they decline, it doesn’t mean we go down the list until someone accepts. Everyone else was rejected for one reason or another, so we continue our search. I’m not saying OP definitely did not run across some fake postings. It’s a possibility. But there’s also the possibility that they’re not as qualified as they think they are, or their resume doesn’t make it clear that they are. Or whoever is screening applicants is screwing up. Job searching is tricky, and so is candidate searching.

When discussing politicians, “challenged” almost always means “ran against them in a campaign”.

That’s not necessarily a fake posting. It may be that they offered the job to someone who took time to decide not to accept. Or accepted and then changed their mind when they got a better offer. Or used the offer as leverage to get a raise/promotion at their current job. Games get played on both sides. Hell, I once hired someone who just didn’t show up on their first day. Or the next three days. We tried to call and email. We didn’t hear anything until a week later when they claimed they were sick and couldn’t come in. No explanation for why they couldn’t call to let us know. That was the most immediate termination I’ve ever dealt with.

Not “probably”. The court literally declined to take any disciplinary action at all.

This gives me hope for the future. The district is solidly red, but the recall effort was able to cross party lines and convince enough Republican and Non-affiliated voters that it was more than just a partisan issue.

Technically, not forced. They sent him a C&D letter, which is basically threatening to sue if he leaves it up. It’s not legally binding or anything, he could choose to ignore it. They’d have to get a court order to actually force him to take it down. I’m glad for this family that it worked, but there’s no greater justice here.

Dudefella is trying to claim he’s a whistleblower and should therefore face no consequences. Last time I checked, whistleblower laws only protect you if you’re reporting illegal activity. If the hospital stopped providing these services when they were made illegal, then he’s just doxing people for no good reason. (not that I think it would be a good reason either way)

I’m just really concerned that, in the political environment of Texas right now, he’ll get away with little or no consequences. Hell, there are probably a ton of people looking at him as some kind of hero right now, and that just makes me feel ill.

Slaughterhouse 5 is a great novel. I haven’t read it in a long time. Maybe time for a re-read.

Note that the writer did not apologize for what she said. She only apologized for using Dolly Parton as an example of someone who is “unaligned with God’s vision for humanity”. You know, because she doesn’t tell queer people that they are going to hell just for existing.

Ah, I think I understand. The potential problem here is that even a donation to a campaign fund could be seen as a bribe if the person running for office is a public official. “Sorry, I can’t accept your generous gift, but you cold contribute to my campaign for mayor!” Interesting, I’ve honestly never run across that info, but it makes sense. Thanks!

Interesting. What state is this in? We don’t have any restrictions like that in my state and I’m a little curious about what the justification is.

Public employees can not take campaign funds directly, so if a teacher wanted to run for local office, it’s a campaign finance violation for them to accept money directly.

I don’t think that’s right. The main issue that PACs address is individual limits on campaign contributions. You, as an individual, can only legally give a candidate $X towards their campaign. X varies depending on the race. But you can give as much as you want to a PAC. They just have to disclose your name if you give more than $10K in a calendar year. The thing is, the FEC act used to make it illegal for a PAC to directly campaign for or against a federal candidate. The Citizens United decision overturned that clause and opened the doors to unlimited campaign contributions. Candidates aren’t supposed to coordinate with a PAC, but there’s a lot of nodding and winking going on.

Slightly off topic but this is a perfect example of why school staff should not be carrying firearms.

Already happening in some places. Local governments are cutting library funding because they don’t like the some of the content that their libraries are stocking, but the courts won’t let them ban it all.

You make a lot of blanket statements without having any actual data to back any of it up. Home schooling CAN be a very positive experience, but it can also be a dumpster fire with little or no oversight. The truth is that we have very little data about the academic performance or even welfare of home-schooled children in the US because in many states they aren’t required to meet even basic curriculum or assessment goals. The only information we do have is largely coming from providers of home schooling curriculums who are motivated to show positive outcomes.

I’m glad it worked out well for you, but if you haven’t watched the Shiny Happy People documentary series about the Duggar family and the IBLP (who have millions of families following their curriculum), you ought to check it out.