John Keller

Walmart, Once a Byword for Low Pay, Becomes a Case Study in How to Treat Workers The largest private employer in the U.S. increased wages in a bid to jump-start sales

When Walmart enacted the biggest pay raise in history, it destroyed $21.5 billion in market value. Today, it credits the moves with its gains.

The Trump cabinet and staff keep finding expensive toys for Trump to play with while they complete their silent oligarchic coup

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

And innumeracy. Gift link
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It’s not clear that the peace will hold, but if it does according to plan, then this will be a peace brought about by the military victory of Israel over Hamas

Maybe errors will cancel

I pity the immigrant care giver tasked to wipe his bottom

Warships on the Chicago River

YouTube video by The Bulwark Jake Tapper: Trump Texted "Total Obliteration"—Then Ghosted Me | The Bulwark Podcast

Apparently Tapper doesn’t want to risk the possibility that Trump will stop replying to his texts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY77...

She can’t give him an airplane but she can stroke his craven neediness

I don’t know but I wouldn’t rule it out. Machado is walking a tightrope in which she and her cause to exist if she fails. She can’t give him an airplane but she can butter him up.

I’ve never believed in reincarnation but maybe it’s time to think again

Crypto Markets Crash As US-China Trade War Officially Begins With Trump’s 100% Tariff Crypto market loses $200 billion as Trump announces 100% China tariffs and new export controls, reigniting full-scale trade war fears.

Today’s crypto carnage described here finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-...

A telling quote "… sparking a broad “risk-off” retreat across equities, commodities, and digital assets." 'Risk off' means selling crypto apparently

Bitcoin was down nearly 14% before it "recovered" for a loss of 6.7%. Meanwhile gold and treasuries increased in value on a bad day for the stock market. A reminder that bitcoin is not a hedge against market volatility

Where have they hidden MTG and who is this person impersonating her?

Words, what do they mean?

No lie is too big or too ridiculous for Trump. Much of MAGA knows this but it’s all part of the performance. They think they're going to get a participation trophy

How much will he try to charge the government to use his likeness

Is daring them to end the supermajority rule a good idea?

That feeling when you’re about to puke.

Finally, an easy captcha code

Watters is the resident clown at Fox. If Bozo isn’t funny ignore him.

Most of MAGA will not understand why this is funny

She was a paragon, an example for humanity.
She was an enrichment for research, for animal rescue.
She was an animal advocate, known beyond our generations.

Jane Goodal passed away peacefully, dies at age 91.

R.I.P Jane, you will be missed.

A crypto crash is inevitable independent of Trump although he might accelerate the timeline. Government backed stable coins might be protected, indeed these might trigger the collapse of bitcoin and the like as investors move to the safer alternatives

Someone should tell him that this is the 21st century. We don't need to prepare to fight WW1 with masses of bullet catchers.

What goes on on the Hawaiian island he owns

He's going to have us ready to fight WW1 by golly,

Ready to man the trenches of Verdun

Also ignoring a revolution of combat tactics taking place right before our eyes in Ukraine

I think he could make it as a second tier Fox News whatever-they-call-themselves