Couillon

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Life is not ours, we are property of life. I’m killing time until time decides I’ve had enough. SELU. SoMiss. LSU. Saints. Pens. Astros. Aston Villa. Louisiana expat. Amateur cook. Historian. \m/

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It was only a matter of time and that time didn’t last long. DOL is going to be busy as employers try to affect overtime pay and tips. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Businesses Quick to Deploy Chevron’s End to Attack Labor Rulesnews.bloomberglaw.com The US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling curbing agencies’ rulemaking power is already cropping up in numerous legal challenges to US Labor Department rules less than a week after the decision.

What would you say if this rhetoric was directed at a group of people, oh I don't know, let's call that group of people "Jews"

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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The GOP has *never* "loved the troops" And the troops they love least are veterans. We are expensive (because service is hard) and many of us vocally disagree with them; visibly, for being hypocritical shitheads. www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

Project 2025 will rob veterans and active duty troops of billions in benefitswww.rawstory.com The Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump administration would plunder veterans' benefits and shower cash on private contractors.Right-wing policy makers led by the Heritage Found...

Louisiana was particularly used as a modern day state sample. Slaves kept on plantations to cultivate farms, dig ditches, use as human shields. It wasn’t glamorous.

Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

There will be blood unless we want subjugation

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Planes, trains, and Danes. Good first two days of work. See ya in 22 days, DC.

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I would like to see Biden give an address to the nation from the Oval Office explaining what the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity means and what its possibilities are. Then hit the campaign trail attacking "the MAGA Court" for shredding the Constitution to give felon Trump license to crime.

With the stated intent to engage in a massive deportation roundup, the option to use the Insurrection Act, and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity, I think it's worth noting how fast the total Trump takeover will occur. Weeks. That's it.

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Fun reminder that one of the reasons the colonists give in the Declaration of Independence for, well, declaring independence, is that the king of England "has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Declaration of Independence: A Transcriptionwww.archives.gov [get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in

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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not

First day at the new job

I had intentions of walking the dog today but after bringing desks & bookshelves up 2 floors from the garage, bringing a bed down 2 floors to the basement then Planted herbs & Weedeated. It's 87 w/ 80% humidity. I'm comprised of 98% sweat right now.

Got an email from the hiring manager requesting references and was told that they wanted to move up the hiring process. Now I need to see how much negotiation there is from going from a higher level GS on a term appointment to a lower level GS on a perm appointment

Got a fed job but now trying to get a permanent fed job

Those motherfuckers did it. We're cooked thehill.com/regulation/c...

Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal agency power in Chevron casethehill.com The Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to executive agencies’ power Friday by overruling a prominent precedent that bolstered their ability to implement regulations in wide areas of American life, i…

Got a C in Walking in college.

Let’s post them Terrible But Only For Blue Sky scores and grades. Like I got a B- in Econ for Social Welfare in grad school and tbh I think it was out of pity

Friend of mine got out of the restaurant and was selling two of his knives. So I have two Misono’s now: Gyuto and Sujihiki.

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private equity is literally to society what cancer is to a healthy cell

"Veterinary prices have soared more than 60% over the past decade, according to federal stats. Private equity firms and large corps have bought 100s of facilities around the country, an acquisition spree reminiscent of the corporate roll-ups of doctors’ offices." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/h...

Why You’re Paying Your Veterinarian So Muchwww.nytimes.com People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

Louisiana is going through some real hard times. Louisiana has highest share of underwater mortgages (11.3%), up about a percentage point from a year ago. Home values dropped 6% from their summer 2022 peak, per Redfin data. www.axios.com/2024/06/10/h...

Where "seriously underwater" mortgages are on the risewww.axios.com Location matters. Seriously underwater mortgages are most common in the Midwest and South where underwater mortgages exceed 40-80% in some zip codes, per ATTOM.

This is utter horse shit. Even the wind feels like a hair dryer on my face. I left Louisiana to escape the heat. I didn’t expect it to follow me.

Got a fed job but now trying to get a permanent fed job

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Wild to think about how different the world was the last time A&M won a big 3 men's sport title: fascism was running rampant globally, isolationism was infecting US politics, and the Russians were trying to partition Eastern Europe.

I’ve stayed on Twitter because more people are on there but goddamn it’s unusable. My feed is nothing but people I don’t follow

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Cannot stress this enough: everything js a monopoly play. That’s where and why the VC money flows.

Wall Street’s pathological and ruinous demand that companies show perpetual growth, as opposed to healthy sustainable profits, is only possible in a world where firms are allowed to lock up markets, eliminate competition and collect increasing extractive rents at increasing scale.

And I fucking love it. Break up the trust TR style

Why are corporate CEOs cozying up to Trump? Yes, the tax cuts — but it's not just that. Biden is reviving anti-trust in a massive way, with lawsuits against Amazon, Apple, Ticketmaster, and many more. Corporate execs are terrified of their monopolies being broken up.

America is a failed experiment

NEW: ProPublica identified a group of connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers. www.propublica.org/article/poli...

How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causeswww.propublica.org ProPublica identified a group of connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than ...

So far Troop NOLA has conducted 94 stops. From those 94 stops, 19 arrests, 12 seizures, 6 stolen cars recovered, and 6 car crashes. The ROI for having Gestapo-esque police patrolling Orleans Parish seems awfully low

Getting older is strange. One of my best friends is back in LA. We've had a lot going on in life so I wanted to talk on the phone to him about it. I texted, asked him to call when he has time, that was a week ago. Still no word.

Chicken fajitas with cilantro lime rice

Booked my flight. Gonna be in DC for July 1. After all this time, I’m finally getting back to real unemployment. It’s been since January 8 when I was laid off bc the company I was with knew fuck all about the industry they were in that I had 13 years xp to help them

Everything is cleared up here's an update: Accepted fed job. Had to immediately choose duty station. Chose CHI bc close. Was going to move. Realized how $$$ CHI is. Didn't make sense financially. Asked & had it approved to change duty station to DC so I could crash on @tlsk1066.bsky.social sofa