Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
IronLionZion
IronLionZion's Journal
IronLionZion's Journal
March 3, 2024
Apparently there's another type of "value based" shopping that has nothing to do with price, quality, or quantity.
Republican Lady Accidentally PROVES The "War on Woke" Is Stupid
Apparently there's another type of "value based" shopping that has nothing to do with price, quality, or quantity.
February 29, 2024
Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
February 29, 2024
Regular occurrence in our nation's capital city.
D.C. Housing Authority officer shot in Navy Yard area; suspect in custody
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/29/police-officer-shot-dc/
https://wapo.st/49WPvVL
Police arrested a man who they believe shot and wounded a D.C. Housing Authority police officer Thursday morning in a Navy Yard apartment building, authorities said, ending an hours-long shelter-in-place order and a massive police presence that unnerved residents in the dense residential area.
The officer was shot in the torso about 5:45 a.m. inside the Carroll Apartments at 410 M St. SE, a public housing building for senior citizens. He was alert and in stable condition at a hospital at 9:30 a.m., officials said.
Housing Authority Police Chief Michael Reese said the shooting occurred after two officers came to the apartment building to investigate reports of an unwanted guest. There they found a man and a woman who were not residents outside an apartment unit on the second floor, the chief said.
The officers asked the two to leave, but the man refused and fired a gun as the officers were attempting to arrest him, Reese said.
Reese said there were additional shots fired in the lobby and outside the apartment building, but did not specify by whom. The officer has been on the force for six years, the chief said.
The man then fled and hid in a building about a block away, Reese said. An emergency alert from the D.C. government advised occupants to shelter in place, as residents looking out of their windows captured an armored vehicle rolling into their garage.
https://wapo.st/49WPvVL
Police arrested a man who they believe shot and wounded a D.C. Housing Authority police officer Thursday morning in a Navy Yard apartment building, authorities said, ending an hours-long shelter-in-place order and a massive police presence that unnerved residents in the dense residential area.
The officer was shot in the torso about 5:45 a.m. inside the Carroll Apartments at 410 M St. SE, a public housing building for senior citizens. He was alert and in stable condition at a hospital at 9:30 a.m., officials said.
Housing Authority Police Chief Michael Reese said the shooting occurred after two officers came to the apartment building to investigate reports of an unwanted guest. There they found a man and a woman who were not residents outside an apartment unit on the second floor, the chief said.
The officers asked the two to leave, but the man refused and fired a gun as the officers were attempting to arrest him, Reese said.
Reese said there were additional shots fired in the lobby and outside the apartment building, but did not specify by whom. The officer has been on the force for six years, the chief said.
The man then fled and hid in a building about a block away, Reese said. An emergency alert from the D.C. government advised occupants to shelter in place, as residents looking out of their windows captured an armored vehicle rolling into their garage.
Regular occurrence in our nation's capital city.
February 28, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Immune to Normal The DailyShowography
February 27, 2024
Biden's economy is kicking Trump's corrupt ass. It's time we take credit for the complex factors involved including immigrants filling our labor shortage. Trickle up
The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/27/economy-immigration-border-biden/
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3OXqTnC
Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the countrys economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.
That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor markets extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the foreign-born labor force had grown so fast that it closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Immigrant workers also recovered much faster than native-born workers from the pandemics disruptions, and many saw some of the largest wage gains in industries eager to hire. Economists and labor experts say the surge in employment was ultimately key to solving unprecedented gaps in the economy that threatened the countrys ability to recover from prolonged shutdowns.
Immigration has not slowed. It has just been absolutely astronomical, said Pia Orrenius, vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. And thats been instrumental. You cant grow like this with just the native workforce. Its not possible.
Yet immigration remains an intensely polarizing issue in American politics. A record number of migrants have crossed the southern border since President Biden took office, with apprehensions topping 2 million for the second straight year in fiscal 2023, among the highest in U.S. history. Cities like New York, Chicago and Denver have struggled to keep up with busloads of immigrants sent from Texas who are overwhelming local shelters.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3OXqTnC
Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the countrys economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.
That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor markets extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the foreign-born labor force had grown so fast that it closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Immigrant workers also recovered much faster than native-born workers from the pandemics disruptions, and many saw some of the largest wage gains in industries eager to hire. Economists and labor experts say the surge in employment was ultimately key to solving unprecedented gaps in the economy that threatened the countrys ability to recover from prolonged shutdowns.
Immigration has not slowed. It has just been absolutely astronomical, said Pia Orrenius, vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. And thats been instrumental. You cant grow like this with just the native workforce. Its not possible.
Yet immigration remains an intensely polarizing issue in American politics. A record number of migrants have crossed the southern border since President Biden took office, with apprehensions topping 2 million for the second straight year in fiscal 2023, among the highest in U.S. history. Cities like New York, Chicago and Denver have struggled to keep up with busloads of immigrants sent from Texas who are overwhelming local shelters.
Biden's economy is kicking Trump's corrupt ass. It's time we take credit for the complex factors involved including immigrants filling our labor shortage. Trickle up
February 26, 2024
"Nobody wants to work anymore" beats "they're stealing our jobs" any day. I see it first hand during every American recession: post 9/11, The Great Recession, and COVID. Spring 2021 was the last time an interviewer decided I wasn't "American" enough for a job despite having Kamala as US VP. It's my most reliable economic indicator. No matter what the GOP bloviates about, Biden's economy should be strong enough to defeat Trump this year.
Why you can feel good about your job prospects for a while longer
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
New York
CNN
The US economy isnt out of the woods yet, but its doing a lot better than many forecasters thought it would just a few months ago.
At least better than economists at S&P Global Ratings thought it would.
They now expect US real gross domestic product to grow by 2.4% in 2024, up from their forecast of 1.5% in November. Real GDP is the value of all goods and services a country produces, after adjusting for inflation.
Before the Bell spoke with Satyam Panday, chief economist at S&P Global Ratings, to discuss the state of the economy and how GDP impacts your wallet and 401(k).
Satyam Panday: Its been almost three months since our last prediction, and this is a significant revision. Since November weve had data come out that shows much stronger growth in the jobs market, so we made some changes. But the overall message still remains the same, we will be slowing down to below trend growth for some time, its just that the timing is pushed back because of the strength of US households.
New York
CNN
The US economy isnt out of the woods yet, but its doing a lot better than many forecasters thought it would just a few months ago.
At least better than economists at S&P Global Ratings thought it would.
They now expect US real gross domestic product to grow by 2.4% in 2024, up from their forecast of 1.5% in November. Real GDP is the value of all goods and services a country produces, after adjusting for inflation.
Before the Bell spoke with Satyam Panday, chief economist at S&P Global Ratings, to discuss the state of the economy and how GDP impacts your wallet and 401(k).
Satyam Panday: Its been almost three months since our last prediction, and this is a significant revision. Since November weve had data come out that shows much stronger growth in the jobs market, so we made some changes. But the overall message still remains the same, we will be slowing down to below trend growth for some time, its just that the timing is pushed back because of the strength of US households.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" beats "they're stealing our jobs" any day. I see it first hand during every American recession: post 9/11, The Great Recession, and COVID. Spring 2021 was the last time an interviewer decided I wasn't "American" enough for a job despite having Kamala as US VP. It's my most reliable economic indicator. No matter what the GOP bloviates about, Biden's economy should be strong enough to defeat Trump this year.
February 25, 2024
Landlords Trying To Enforce 'No-Sex' Policies In The U.K.
February 23, 2024
Trump and Fox News are connecting to voters on a different level
Fox Contributor Says Black Voters Like Trump Because They LOVE Sneakers
Trump and Fox News are connecting to voters on a different level
February 23, 2024
Measles is super contagious and spreads very quickly. Trump and RFK Jr. might have fewer voters by election time.
Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/22/florida-measles-outbreak-ladapo/
Gift Link: https://wapo.st/49Gxfj9
As a Florida elementary school tries to contain a growing measles outbreak, the states top health official is giving advice that runs counter to science and may leave unvaccinated children at risk of contracting one of the most contagious pathogens on Earth, clinicians and public health experts said.
Florida surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo failed to urge parents to vaccinate their children or keep unvaccinated students home from school as a precaution in a letter to parents at the Fort Lauderdale-area school this week following six confirmed measles cases.
Instead of following what he acknowledged was the normal recommendation that parents keep unvaccinated children home for up to 21 days the incubation period for measles Ladapo said the state health department is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance.
The controversial move by Ladapo follows a pattern of bucking public health norms, particularly when it comes to vaccines. Last month, he called for halting the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines, in a move decried by the public health community.
Ben Hoffman, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said Floridas guidance flies in the face of long-standing and widely accepted public health guidance for measles, which can result in severe complications, including death.
Gift Link: https://wapo.st/49Gxfj9
As a Florida elementary school tries to contain a growing measles outbreak, the states top health official is giving advice that runs counter to science and may leave unvaccinated children at risk of contracting one of the most contagious pathogens on Earth, clinicians and public health experts said.
Florida surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo failed to urge parents to vaccinate their children or keep unvaccinated students home from school as a precaution in a letter to parents at the Fort Lauderdale-area school this week following six confirmed measles cases.
Instead of following what he acknowledged was the normal recommendation that parents keep unvaccinated children home for up to 21 days the incubation period for measles Ladapo said the state health department is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance.
The controversial move by Ladapo follows a pattern of bucking public health norms, particularly when it comes to vaccines. Last month, he called for halting the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines, in a move decried by the public health community.
Ben Hoffman, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said Floridas guidance flies in the face of long-standing and widely accepted public health guidance for measles, which can result in severe complications, including death.
Measles is super contagious and spreads very quickly. Trump and RFK Jr. might have fewer voters by election time.
February 21, 2024
Anti-Ukraine rhetoric has saturated right-wing media. Now it is helping to deliver actual war victories to Putin
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/media/anti-ukraine-right-wing-media-putin/index.html
Vladimir Putins information war in U.S. media paid off this weekend with a key victory halfway around the world.
Some 5,000 miles away from a paralyzed Washington, Ukraine was forced to surrender the city of Avdiivka to Russian forces, handing Putin one of his most monumental triumphs in months. As The NYTs Julian E. Barnes, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt noted, it is a sign of the battlefield impact of the failure of the U.S. Congress, so far, to approve more military assistance as dwindling supplies of artillery shells make it even harder to hold the line. CNNs Nick Paton Walsh added, It is a pivotal moment, where both Russian advances and Western atrophy threaten to transform the biggest land war in Europe since the 1940s.
That atrophy has taken form in Congress where U.S. funding to continue aid for Ukraine has stalled, threatening even more devastating defeats for the Eastern European nation as it struggles to defend its borders from the brutal Russian invasion launched by Putin two years ago this week.
But its not clear whether an aid package with real teeth will be approved by Congress, with the House under GOP control. House Speaker Mike Johnson has already indicated that the $60 billion in funding passed by the Senate cant clear the lower chamber. And he has privately told Republicans there is no rush to tackle the issue.
As a Republican, Johnson is in a tough spot, politically speaking. While the Republican Party was once vehemently hawkish toward Russia, viewing the post-Soviet country as its chief adversary on the international stage, it has softened considerably in recent years and much of the party actively opposes sending additional dollars to Ukraine to continue fighting Russia.
It was little more than a decade ago when Mitt Romney, then the partys standard-bearer, famously declared Russia to be our number one geopolitical foe. In the years since, the party has dramatically changed its tune on Russia. A CNN poll conducted last summer found that a staggering 71% of Republicans do not support additional aid to thwart Putins war on Ukraine.
Vladimir Putins information war in U.S. media paid off this weekend with a key victory halfway around the world.
Some 5,000 miles away from a paralyzed Washington, Ukraine was forced to surrender the city of Avdiivka to Russian forces, handing Putin one of his most monumental triumphs in months. As The NYTs Julian E. Barnes, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt noted, it is a sign of the battlefield impact of the failure of the U.S. Congress, so far, to approve more military assistance as dwindling supplies of artillery shells make it even harder to hold the line. CNNs Nick Paton Walsh added, It is a pivotal moment, where both Russian advances and Western atrophy threaten to transform the biggest land war in Europe since the 1940s.
That atrophy has taken form in Congress where U.S. funding to continue aid for Ukraine has stalled, threatening even more devastating defeats for the Eastern European nation as it struggles to defend its borders from the brutal Russian invasion launched by Putin two years ago this week.
But its not clear whether an aid package with real teeth will be approved by Congress, with the House under GOP control. House Speaker Mike Johnson has already indicated that the $60 billion in funding passed by the Senate cant clear the lower chamber. And he has privately told Republicans there is no rush to tackle the issue.
As a Republican, Johnson is in a tough spot, politically speaking. While the Republican Party was once vehemently hawkish toward Russia, viewing the post-Soviet country as its chief adversary on the international stage, it has softened considerably in recent years and much of the party actively opposes sending additional dollars to Ukraine to continue fighting Russia.
It was little more than a decade ago when Mitt Romney, then the partys standard-bearer, famously declared Russia to be our number one geopolitical foe. In the years since, the party has dramatically changed its tune on Russia. A CNN poll conducted last summer found that a staggering 71% of Republicans do not support additional aid to thwart Putins war on Ukraine.
Profile Information
Gender: MaleHometown: Southwestern PA
Home country: USA
Current location: Washington, DC
Member since: Mon Nov 10, 2003, 07:36 PM
Number of posts: 45,541