• MEDIA: The North American Meat Grinder that Used to Be the USA

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 3 09:59:23 2024
    Chronicles' Pedro Gonzalez on whether Casey DeSantis advised Ron
    to request a grant from David McIntosh's Club for Growth to make
    Donald Trump regret his clemency for Sholom Rubashkin: <URL:https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-north-american-meat-grinder-that-used-to-be-the-usa/>
    | Most of the coverage of this story has focused on the question of
    | labor violations. Federal law prohibits hiring anyone under 18 to
    | work in slaughterhouses due to the dangerous nature of the work. NBC
    | News reported that Perez was illegally hired through a third-party
    | staffing agency while posing as a 32-year-old man. An attorney for
    | the company told the outlet "they were surprised and somewhat
    | horrified" to learn the 16-year-old wasn't a 32-year-old. I imagine
    | they were as "surprised" and "somewhat horrified" as my wife is
    | whenever I find a stack of packages addressed to her on our porch.

    Will Trump nominate Tom Homan to succeed Patrick Lechleitner at
    ICE.GOV and will Mitch McConnell consent?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "There is zero evidence that Trump had any influence on Twitter
    policies. On the other hand there are massive amounts of evidence
    that other politicians (including the Republican-Democrat duo of
    Richard Burr and Mark Warner) did have such influence... (1/2)" -
    Matt Taibbi
    <URL:https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1627657264428457986>

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