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What's the best way to completely destroy a good thing gig workers have going for them? Mandate a minimum wage. The second best would be require them to have benefits and a 401k, which is likely the next step in these big cities. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blow-uber-grubhub-and-doordash-court-rules-food-delivery-gig-workers-must-be-paid-least

Is it the end for Biden, or is he set to be the recipient of a blue wave and all of the polls are wrong? Hard to tell this far out, but one thing is for sure, no one running the left's media machine can seem to agree on what's going to happen or what's even the best thing for the party. https://www.salon.com/2023/11/21/pollster-sees-hope-for-biden-republicans-are-in-far-greater-trouble-than-is-generally-understood/ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/27/happily-joe-biden-is-finished

President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office with a message for America that warned against much of what we've seen come to pass within the military, scientific, and education communities. This speech is one of the last great men of modern politics warning against all the things lesser men have spent the next 50 years permitting to become the norm. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/eisenhowers-farewell-address

As interest fades in continuing the resistance in Ukraine, more information comes out point to the fact that much of the narrative all along has been nothing more than that, a narrative, and complete divorced from the truth that Ukraine was never going to win. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/peter-van-buren-ukraine-war-just-about-over

Studies show prehistoric women were great hunters. And the Egyptians were black. And a bunch of other ridiculous BS that fits a narrative rather than the truth that history tells. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/

Let's say something happens and Trump doesn't make it to election day. What happens with the Republican nomination? Business Insider answers the question literally no one was asking! https://www.businessinsider.com/if-donald-trump-dies-presidential-election-republican-candidates-2023-11

Throughout time there have been figures who have risen to change the course of human history. Has the time of "The Great Man" passed us by? Or will there be another Napoleon coming in the modern age? read://https_www.telegraph.co.uk/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fbooks%2Fnon-fiction%2Fnapoleon-ridley-scott-great-man-myth-history%2F%3Futm_medium%3DSocial%26utm_campaign%3DEchobox%26utm_source%3DTwitter%23Echobox%3D1699798248-1

You can change the headline, but you can't change the truth that's told in the article https://ktla.com/news/california/some-californians-leaving-for-texas-may-be-replaced-by-texans-leaving-for-california/

Today we take a look at how the division of rural and urban America has changed over the course of a century, but also how in many ways it is still exactly the same. read://https_www.newyorker.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2023%2F10%2F23%2Fbeyond-the-myth-of-rural-america

Are people really getting tired of superhero movies, as the poor box office returns from The Marvels might imply? Or is it just that people are fed up with crappy movies! https://www.xfire.com/mcu-the-marvels-bombs-thanksgiving-weekend-box-office-flop/

The Pro-Life Movement can't seem to stop playing defense even after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Why do the varying groups struggle so much to capitalize on momentum and find ways to gain legislative wins? read://https_www.theepochtimes.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theepochtimes.com%2Farticle%2Four-strategy-is-wrong-pro-life-leaders-reflect-on-ohio-defeat-5528873

Six years in a row the Pentagon has failed an independent audit of where the money is going. The department that takes the most tax-payer dollars every year and controls some $3.8 trillion in assets, and at no point in their history have they been able to pass a financial audit. Government at its finest, ladies and gentlemen. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/

Leading up to the 2020 election the left-controlled intelligence community went whole-sale in to the business of censoring any unapproved opinions and painting everything as foreign disinformation. The right is now pushing back and cutting the legs out from under all of those agencies. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/gop-muzzled-quiet-coalition-fought-foreign-propaganda-rcna103373?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=654e3e726fd6760001b4887b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Here's the original episode covering the Time Magazine article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLu57BGSBao And the article itself https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

MAGA Republicans are trying to create a new theocracy and we'll prove it by talking about climate change and Biden's falling popularity. Because that's how leftist puff pieces work. This is what passes for "journalism?" https://www.salon.com/2023/11/02/maga-and-christian-nationalism-bigger-to-america-than-hamas-could-ever-be/

Parents are getting their children off of the vaccine schedule at increasingly higher rates in the wake of COVID and the uncertainty the effects of those shots has brought. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-reports-highest-childhood-vaccine-exemption-rate-ever-rcna124363?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=654d41531e234e00019fa4fc&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

What happens when you have more diversity in communities? Well, based on the research that was done several years ago, it turns out it is not actually our greatest strength. https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230925124809.htm

A bunch of youngsters feel like they aren't doing anything meaningful with their lives and they're crying about the 9-5 work week. Well, let me tell you what I think about these pathetic children.

Following a theme for the end of the week, let's take a look at some workplace complaints and how some women are dealing with those. read://https_fortune.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Flazy-girl-jobs-burnout-gallup-research%2F

Corruption and military ineptitude have plagued Ukraine in the war effort. Now availability of able-bodied fighters and Western military and monetary support are drying up. What does the dying breath of Zelensky's war effort end up looking like? Probably something like this. https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

A study had previously concluded that kids under 16 had no effect, positive or negative, from puberty blockers. A reanalysis showed that wasn't exactly the case, and now a number of European countries are looking more closely at how they handle gender dysphoria in children. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66842352

Climate change is going to kill us all this time. For real though. It's happening. By the year 2100 for sure. But at the end of the day we have no more impact on whether or not that happens than we did on whether or not climate change even exists at all. https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-warn-climate-collapse-2100

California is rolling out a new educational standard for math that, according to college professors and experts in the fields that are most reliant on math, will set students back for years to come. https://archive.ph/20231002152047/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/california-math-framework-algebra/675509/

Victoria's Secret tried their hand in pushing a woke agenda with their advertising and clothing lines. It did not pay off. So to get back to making money, the brand is getting back to promoting sexiness! https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/victorias-secret-ditches-wokeness-over-sexiness-after-sales-drop/

Following the script Viktor Orbán in Hungary, the American Right is hoping to create fascism in 2024 by... doing all of the things the Left has spent the past 40 years doing to establish their own unbreakable regime of fascism... https://www.alternet.org/revealed-the-magat-republicans-three-step-plan-for-classic-fascism/

If you're a female in sports and you're having trouble beating those pesky men who now have decided to identify as women, the obvious answer to your problems is that you just need to train harder! https://fistfulofdollars.com/women-should-be-training-harder/