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Instead of giving these workers additional employment benefits, the result is that they are less likely to be hired at all. The California SAC heard testimony from workers from a diverse array of industries offering their experiences with AB5, including court reporters, translators, cosmetology workers, and exotic dancers. Many of these workers were women, immigrants, people of color, and from other politically disadvantaged groups. Esther Hermida, a representative of the American Alliance of Professional Translators and Interpreters (AAPTI) testified about AB5’s impact on thousands of citizens in her industry comprised of 75 percent women. One professional translator, Ildiko Santana, reported...

I have a five year old grandson who seems to have very much enjoyed the movie "White Christmas" with Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby a couple of days ago. I would like to put together a list of age appropriate classic movies to recommend for a weekly afternoon movie with grandpa. Keep in mind he is only 5 and as yet not polluted with the "common" culture or exposed to a public school. He lives with a stay at home mom and a working dad and goes to a private school. He and his two younger sisters are much loved...

https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/2005718386316308862 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸@Real_RobN·5hHere it is:Hillary Clinton spent $10 million to engineer fictitious documentation that Barack Obama could then use to overthrow the United States government.“This is a CNN article from 2022. It says, ‘Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says.’So, this is not some right-wing conspiracy. This is not some Republican talking point. This is a CNN article from three years ago—I wouldn’t be surprised if @HillaryClinton could be indicted and finally had to answer some of these questions about the Russia collusion narrative and this dossier.”Now, conspiracy to overthrow the...

https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2005483084100116914 Bridgett Fertig@LightOnLiberty·20hThrowback to when Julian Assange exposed Hillary Clinton was funding ISIS / ISIL / Al Qaeda."There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, so not so long after she left Secretary of State, to her campaign manager, John Podesta. That email, it states that ISIL, ISIS, is funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.This is a, I actually, I think this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the place, including into many media institutions.All serious analysts know, even...

https://x.com/PatrickByrne/status/2005713162750791962 Patrick Byrne@PatrickByrne·4hInside the Data Center Plot I Discussed with @EmeraldRobinsonI talked this through with Emerald: allegations link former CIA Director John Brennan (Obama era) to a Serbian Huawei-linked businessman tied to data centers in Belgrade that reportedly hosted Dominion servers. With Huawei’s CCP ties, the claim is that elections could be manipulated remotely—and that a shutdown of this site allegedly disrupted attempts to interfere in 2024.December 29, 2025

White supremacist and MAGA influencer Nick Fuentes went all in over the weekend on supporting California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) over Vice President JD Vance because Newsom is more “handsome.” Fuentes, who has regularly attacked Vance in the past, calling him childish names like “gay” and “fat,” posted to social media on Sunday: “Physiognomy is real. Post physique, its handsome thursday. I only believe in beauty and aesthetics!!” JD Vance = fat subhuman. Newsom mogs him to death I would vote for him 100x over just because he’s handsome. “NOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!!!! YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAn!!”...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed that President Vladimir Putin's state residence in the Novgorod region was the target of a Ukrainian drone attack overnight into Monday, and said it would have implications for the peace negotiations.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the claim as "typical Russian lies" made because Moscow does not want to end the war.The allegation comes as U.S. President Donald Trump hailed progress toward peace following his latest talks with Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.Securing a long-sought deal on Ukraine would be a crowning moment for Trump, the self-styled global...

ransomnote: Video at the link. I captured the text of the clip in two segments below.https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/2005237732285751723 illuminatibot@iluminatibot·14hTop 10 dark quotes from The World Economic Forum.You can't say they didn't warn you...

Dear ARMY Veterans,My first attempt at create a table of military service for those who served in the ARMY was saddled with an incorrect thread title. I still want to complete a table of honor for the ARMY.If you are willing to be added to the table, have a look at the format I've created and repy on this thread to have your name added. Once I get the names, I can post the completed table in a comment at the bottom of this thread, which you can link for later reference.place holder for usernameU.S. ARMY1972 - 1978, optional details...

I've seen ads regarding car/home insurance and how you should NOT get it through an agent but get it "direct". Does anyone have info or experience? I'm retiring soon.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by the two-year war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use. Muddy water soaked blankets and mattresses in tents in a camp in Khan Younis and fragile shelters were propped up with old pieces of wood. Children wearing flip-flops and light clothing ill-suited for winter waded through the freezing puddles, which turned dirt roads into rivers. Some people used shovels to try to push the water out of their tents. “We drowned last...

Khan Yunis (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – It only took a matter of minutes after the heavy overnight rain first began to fall for Jamil al-Sharafi's tent in southern Gaza to flood, drenching his food and leaving his blankets sopping wet. The winter rains have made an already precarious life worse for people like Sharafi, who is among the hundreds of thousands in the Palestinian territory displaced by the war, many of whom now survive on aid provided by humanitarian organisations. "My children are shivering from cold and fear... The tent was completely flooded within minutes," Sharafi, 47, said on Sunday....

https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/2005086582995669193🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸@Real_RobN·4hHere it is:The organization whose sole goal is to overthrow the United States government and bring down Western civilization with it.The Democrat Party, through the Biden–Harris terrorist administration, paid $6 billion in American taxpayer money to a network of United Nations agencies and over 200 NGOs to take down and overthrow the Constitutional Republic of the United States.Mike Howell: currently serve as the executive director of the Oversight Projects and previously was at DHS and on Capitol Hill conducting oversight of immigration matters.“The United States of America is still reeling from the worst border invasion in its history.”Mike Howell: “This...

https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2005049676886933967Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmeleBefore Your Heart Ever Beat Once, Thousands of Cells Made a Silent Decision That Still Controls You Today.Before a heart ever beats, life organizes itself in complete silence.Scientists have captured the exact moment when cardiac cells begin acting as one second before the very first heartbeat exists.No heart chamber.No pumping.No pulse.Instead, thousands of individual cells synchronize their electrical signals, creating a wave of energy that triggers the heart's first contraction - and sets a rhythm that can last a lifetime.Using fluorescent proteins and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, researchers watched this electrical chain reaction spread, transforming biological chaos into perfect coordination.This is...

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https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/2004864547929157860 Valerie Anne Smith@ValerieAnne1970·13h🚨WARNING: The Shingrix shingles vaccine is grown in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells using an SV40 Promoter—linked to cancer in lab studies.FDA black box warning: Guillain-Barré paralysis risk!New 2025 study: 11X shingles surge within 21 days post-vax. Is this "protection"?...NOShingrix production raises red flags: Immortalized CHO Chinese Hamster Ovary cells engineered with plasmids containing SV40 promoter to crank out viral antigens. SV40 drives high gene expression but has oncogenic potential—linked to cancerous tumors.Ingredients you won't love:• GMO Chinese hamster ovary cells (host proteins & DNA remnants)• AS01B adjuvant: MPL (Salmonella cell wall toxin), QS-21 (plant saponin), Polysorbate 80•...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing intense backlash for making racially-charged comments about Hispanic Americans serving with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Bass, a Democrat, was speaking with CNN’s “The Situation Room” on a recent network feature that profiled Border Patrol and ICE agents training to work along the southern border. CNN noted that a large percentage of recruits were of Hispanic heritage and at one point asked whether they had any reservations about apprehending their “own kind.” “They didn’t come in the right way so they aren’t my kind,” one recruit said without hesitation. Border Patrol Agent...

One of the first things I did when I moved to Dubai was buy a Dodge Challenger. Not the volcanic Hellcat or the feral Scat Pack — the SXT, the V6 base model. Nevertheless, for those nine months in 2023, the car carried itself like it had seen things it couldn’t legally discuss. I miss it the way a grounded teenager misses his phone — painfully and often. The car was, in many ways, gloriously pointless. But to me, it was absolutely perfect. Nobody buys a Dodge for practicality. You buy one because fun is a dying art and driving...

Droubay said her family's housing costs doubled, but their New York life is a dream come true. snip I have been pleasantly surprised by how kind 99% of people have been. I will get to the subway, and before I even fold up my stroller, strangers pick up the other end and carry it for me. Everyone stands up and offers seats to my kids, or older women have even grabbed one of my kids' hands and helped them on or off the subway for me.

During an appearance on the "Rich Little Brokegirls" podcast, former Vice President Kamala Harris offered up some advice for single people looking to meet a partner: "There are different phases in your life. Depending on what phase you're in, maybe you're going to choose that you want to have that kind of Friday night relationship or you want that Sunday morning relationship...be in those phases where you are having fun. Be in those phases where you have a sense of I just want something more."