What I’ve never understood about this kind of analysis: restaurants presumably run with the minimum staff required. So when they cut jobs, what happens to the required labor necessary to run the restaurant?

Fight For $15 Meets Reality: DC Restaurants Lost 1400 Jobs During First Half of 2016
Fight For $15 Meets Reality: D.C. Restaurants Lost 1,400 Jobs During First Half of 2016

Nope, he’s not going away. It’s all about money.

By 2020, the Fox viewers will be the moderate conservatives and the Trump viewers will be the batshit crazy. What Are Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, and Steve Bannon Really Up To? – The New Yorker

Republicans: we will defend America by making sure their rubble glows more brightly than our rubble for the next 10,000 years. With one word, Congress looks to change a legacy of nuclear defense

Question for my security friends: how does stockpiling in Turkey provide a deterrent effect if they have no deployment capacity? I would think it just makes them a first strike target. How Safe Are US Nuclear Weapons in Turkey?

Top Democrats briefed about Democratic party hacking a year ago, did not tell their own party. So I guess we know where one party stands on putting country before party.

Exclusive: Congressional leaders were briefed a year ago on hacking of Democrats – sources

It’s time to begin discussing what we’ll need to do when Trump loses. A new blog post.

What comes after Trump? There is no “after Trump.” | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy

Damn.

I was on an ABC interview show in 1975, and was amazed to see the Captain Noah set tucked away behind a curtain offstage. I knew it was a set (somehow), but I thought anyone as important as Captain Noah would have a permanent stage. Daring Fireball on Twitter

The lede of this article made me burst out laughing. Conflating two Republican talking points in one lawsuit? I have no doubt this is being driven by PAC money.

I still feel sorry for the families, but I look forward to the scathing judge dismissal.

“In the wrongful-death lawsuit, Patricia Smith and Charles Woods allege that the attack that killed four Americans, including their sons, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, “was directly and proximately caused, at a minimum” by Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while in the State Department.” Parents of 2 Americans Killed in Benghazi Attack Sue Hillary Clinton

Astonishing interview with Scott Glenn of the Daily Caller impugning the motives and patriotism of Khizr Khan and American Muslims. Second link on the page.

There Must Be Another Way

Excellent article about the current state of voting technology. Voter ID fraud is bullshit, and Trump’s belief that polls and elections are rigged is hallucinatory… but don’t let that crying wolf distract you. Voting technology is not safe. Dan Rather

Unfuckingbelievable.

http://ift.tt/2aWsOIr Trump’s Website Seems to Make It Impossible to Cancel Your Recurring Campaign Donation

Having been recently called out on Facebook for (actually not) saying that all Republicans are evil, I’ll go this far: if I were to believe what I’m told they believe, the vast majority of them are hypocritical as hell. Conservative friends who have opposed Republican economic policies as vociferously as Democratic ones, when they’re identical, are excepted from this. New York Magazine

Attention anyone who’s still fixated on email bullshit. Does this make a difference?

Despite Email Debacle, Prominent Cybersecurity Leaders Favor Clinton

Oh, boo fucking hoo. Everyone be nice to Republicans, otherwise they will have a sad and resist their natural impulse to govern with decency and listen to reasonable debate. Bullshit. Unmitigated bullshit.

You want to draw a line to the start of this phenomenon, you wouldn’t be wrong to land on Newt Fucking Gingrich, current eminence grise of the same people we’re supposed to be nice to.

W really was the worst president since the 19th century. McCain really would have gotten us into an expanded war in the Middle East. Romney really would have launched a Malthusian economic hellscape. And Trump really would run high odds of getting us all killed.

You want moderation in the tone of your opponents? Stop running candidates who make Reagan look like a fucking moderate, and stop demonizing your opponents who try to create bipartisan legislation. The Atlantic

Adam B. Sherr, you may have given your daughters superpowers. Scientists have found a woman whose eyes have a whole new type of colour receptor