Month: February 2023
Florida Workers Owed Billions in Unpaid Overtime
$11.4 billion
According to a wages study done by law firm Bisnar Chase, the average Florida employee in the private sector worked about 2.5 hours of “unpaid overtime” per week during 2022. The national average for unpaid OT is 2.1 hours. When this figure is applied to the number of exempt workers in the Sunshine State (and based on the median wage), and then annualized, Florida workers are collectively owed about $11.4 billion in backpay, researchers said.
Move over George Santos. Meet Rep. Andy Ogle (R-TN), Another Freshman Liar in the GOP House
News Channel 5 Nashville: “If you believe Middle Tennessee’s newest congressman, he’s not only a businessman, he’s also an economist, a nationally recognized expert in tax policy and health care, a trained police officer, even an expert in international sex crimes.
“But an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Andy Ogles’ personal life story is filled with exaggerations, a story that’s often too good to be true.”
Read the full report.
Christianist Wingnut: DeSantis Anointed by God
“We need to watch Ron DeSantis. Because the Lord is going to use him in a powerful way.”
— Charlie Shamp — a self-proclaimed Christian “prophet” who backed Donald Trump in 2020 — told the Jim Bakker Show last week that God isn’t backing Trump in the 2024 election this time, Rolling Stone reports.
Most Have Heard of It, But Few Have Used it
46%
A new YouGov poll finds that 46% have heard at least something about ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence program, but just 6% have actually used it.
Dominion Voting Systems Legal Filings Show Fox TV Hosts Knew They Were Lying to Viewers
Heather Cox Richardson: “A legal filing today in the case of Dominion Voting Systems against the Fox News Corporation provides a window into the role of disinformation and money in the movement to deny that President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
“Dominion Voting Systems is suing FNC for defamation after FNC personalities repeatedly claimed that the company’s voting machines had corrupted the final tallies in the 2020 election. The filing today shows that those same personalities didn’t believe what they were telling their viewers, and suggests that they made those groundless accusations because they worried their viewers were abandoning them to go to channels that told them what they wanted to hear: that Trump had won the election….
“The filing says that not a single witness from FNC testified they believed any of the allegations they were making about Dominion”
Clueless Coulter Bashes Haley
“This is my country, lady. I’m not an American Indian, and I don’t like them taking down all the monuments.”
— Conservative pundit Ann Coulter said Nikki Haley — who was born in South Carolina — should “go back to your own country” after the former South Carolina governor announced her 2024 presidential candidacy. Coulter took issue with Haley removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol in 2015 after a White supremacist shot and killed nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston.
Low on Prosecutability
He’s known as a gaslighting, showboating ass,
Just brimming with aplomb, bravura and sass.
Yes, he’ll still be at large,
So guard the teen girls in your charge,
Because that asshat Matt Gaetz has gotten a pass.
Poll: Trump Leads DeSantis Nationally
According to Political Wire, a Quinnipiac poll finds that when GOP voters are given a list of 14 names of Republicans who either have said they are running for president in 2024 or are seen as potential candidates in a Republican primary, Donald Trump receives 42% of the vote followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who receives 36%.
Nikki Haley receives 5%, Mike Pence receives 4% and Mike Pompeo receives 4%. No other candidate garners more than 2% of the vote.
When the potential field is narrowed to only four candidates, however, voters are split between Trump at 43% and DeSantis at 41% — a virtual dead heat. Haley receives 6% and Pence receives 4% in this hypothetical 4-way Republican primary.
