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Don't All Legitmate Charities Ask for Donations in Crypto?

Matthew Perry's X account was hacked by scammers attempting to solicit donations through a fraudulent website.

"We have received reports that Matthew's official X page has been hacked and is directing users to a fraudulent site soliciting donations via cryptocurrency," the Matthew Perry Foundation wrote in a statement. "Please do not donate to this site or share the fraudulent posts on social media."

"MatthewPerryFoundation.org is the only website associated with the foundation, and we are only accepting donations through this site," the foundation added.

The post has since been removed from Perry's X account. No information is available about the identity of the scammers or the amount of money stolen.

This Is Your Brain If You are a MAGA



This is Protest to a MAGA

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall revealed Monday that an explosive device was detonated outside his office building over the weekend.

No one was hurt, and officials are carrying out an investigation. The explosive was set off a day after Marshall said he would not enforce the state Supreme Court’s controversial new ruling on in vitro fertilization, though his office did not connect the two events.

Fortunately No Innocent Civilians Were Hurt

Immigrants!  They Get the Job Done.

The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.

Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.

That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the foreign-born labor force had grown so fast that it closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Immigrant workers also recovered much faster than native-born workers from the pandemic’s disruptions, and many saw some of the largest wage gains in industries eager to hire. Economists and labor experts say the surge in employment was ultimately key to solving unprecedented gaps in the economy that threatened the country’s ability to recover from prolonged shutdowns.

We Need More Immigrants!

Hotel owners have been on an epic hiring spree. Yet even after clawing back hundreds of thousands of jobs during the past two years, the industry is still light on staff and often struggling to adapt.

Daily housekeeping for all guests, room service and other amenities that were reduced or eliminated during the pandemic are still lacking at many properties.

At the same time, hotels across the U.S. have held their daily room rates near all-time highs this winter, in part to offset the increase in wages to lure workers back. Hotels will collectively pay $123 billion in compensation this year, up more than 20% from 2019, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Some hotel owners now fret that a guest backlash could be building as smaller staffs can compromise the level of service and higher wages threaten to push the cost of travel even higher.

Just the Disciple to Get Through Four Five Years Means Something.

Maybe you've heard you don't need a college degree in today's job market. Don't believe it.

Employers are increasingly saying you don't need a college degree to get hired, but secretly, you still kind of do.

A new report from Indeed said 52% of job listings on its platform didn't mention any educational requirements, compared with 48% in 2019. During the same period, the share of job postings asking for a college degree or higher fell to 17.8% from 20.4%.

This is part of a move toward "skills-based hiring," a push for companies to look at what candidates can do, not where they studied. Having hiring managers focused on a candidate's qualities instead of their diplomas is generally good news for the two-thirds of Americans who aren't college graduates — and companies love to tout their progress in this area.

In recent years many businesses have hopped on initiatives to tear down the "paper ceiling," or open up more opportunities for workers without higher education. In 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's murder, several big-name companies signed onto an effort to place 1 million Black Americans without college degrees in "family-sustaining jobs." In 2023, The New York Times' editorial board applauded various efforts in the public and private sectors to ax degree requirements for jobs.

"There are many jobs that can be done without a college degree, but ask for one anyway," Abbey Carlton, the vice president of social impact at Indeed, said in a statement accompanying the Indeed report. "This is keeping thousands and thousands of otherwise qualified job seekers from applying for these roles, especially those who may not have had equal access to college. Having inflated degree requirements perpetuates the cycle of inequities in the workforce."
But just because companies say they're not looking at education doesn't mean it's not a factor. Companies' claim that they're not looking at education as much is neat, but a recent study from Harvard Business School and the Burning Glass Institute, a nonprofit research center, found that fewer of them were actually walking the talk.

The QOP Continues With the Important Business of the Nation

Five months into the 2024 fiscal year, House Republicans still can’t agree on how to fund the government, with a partial shutdown deadline on Friday. While they’re nearly half a year behind on this fundamental task, some of them are playing games with President Joe Biden, agitating House leadership to disinvite him from giving the State of the Union address if he doesn’t send them a 2025 budget beforehand.

Seriously. Here’s Freedom Caucus member Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania telling Fox News that Biden’s speech should be blocked until he sends his proposed budget: “He comes at the invitation of Congress. Republicans are in charge of the House. There’s no reason that we need to invite him.”

They even have a bill in the works to prevent future presidents from delivering the SOTU if they haven’t submitted a budget by the first Monday in February. That’s the deadline set by law, though there’s no enforcement mechanism in the law, and presidents missing the deadline is common. The law wouldn’t apply until next year, but Republicans seem to think it makes them look serious to have a bill, and they will use it to argue for blocking Biden’s speech this year.

“This is irresponsible,” Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia said to Fox News. “Until Congress receives the president’s national security strategy and budget, he has no business delivering a State of the Union address.”

While Republicans are trying to shift the budget mess onto Biden, they’re facing a Friday deadline to stop a partial government shutdown this year, and they are foundering. The House isn’t even back from the Presidents Day recess until Wednesday, and Speaker Mike Johnson clearly doesn’t have a handle on the situation. Johnson whined about it to members of the GOP conference in a call Friday night, complaining that they are undermining his bargaining position with their constant infighting and chaos.

How Swede It Is!

Sweden Is In NATO

Hungary’s Parliament voted on Monday to approve Sweden as a new member of NATO, allowing the Nordic country to clear a final hurdle that had blocked its membership and held up efforts by the military alliance to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine.

The measure passed after a vote of 188 for and only 6 against in the 199-member Parliament, which is dominated by legislators from the governing Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.