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Jokes and Humor / Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2024
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Economy/Business / Consumer confidence drops to lowest level in nearly two years
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 05:47:20 pm »Consumer confidence drops to lowest level in nearly two years
By
Zachary Halaschak
April 30, 2024 12:36 pm
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Consumer confidence in April fell well short of expectations, dropping to its lowest level in nearly two years as people expressed some growing pessimism about the economy.
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index fell to 97 in April, down from a revised 103.1 the month before, the group announced on Tuesday. That is the lowest consumer confidence reading in 22 months.
Tuesday’s report marks the third month of declining consumer confidence. Economists had expected consumer confidence to rise to 104, so the latest reading is a big miss and bad news for President Joe Biden and Democrats, who are working to shore up perceptions of their economic stewardship in a critical election year.
The expectations index, which tracks the short-term outlook of consumers for business, income, and labor market conditions, fell to 66.4 this month from 74 in March. An expectations index reading below 80 often signals a forthcoming recession, according to the Conference Board.
“Confidence retreated further in April, reaching its lowest level since July 2022 as consumers became less positive about the current labor market situation and more concerned about future business conditions, job availability, and income,” said Dana Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board.
The drop in consumer confidence was observed across all age groups in the survey and almost all income groups. Younger consumers, those under 35, expressed greater confidence than those over 35. Those with incomes below $25,000 annually and above $75,000 reported the biggest declines in confidence.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/2984808/consumer-confidence-drops-lowest-level-nearly-two-years/
By
Zachary Halaschak
April 30, 2024 12:36 pm
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Consumer confidence in April fell well short of expectations, dropping to its lowest level in nearly two years as people expressed some growing pessimism about the economy.
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index fell to 97 in April, down from a revised 103.1 the month before, the group announced on Tuesday. That is the lowest consumer confidence reading in 22 months.
Tuesday’s report marks the third month of declining consumer confidence. Economists had expected consumer confidence to rise to 104, so the latest reading is a big miss and bad news for President Joe Biden and Democrats, who are working to shore up perceptions of their economic stewardship in a critical election year.
The expectations index, which tracks the short-term outlook of consumers for business, income, and labor market conditions, fell to 66.4 this month from 74 in March. An expectations index reading below 80 often signals a forthcoming recession, according to the Conference Board.
“Confidence retreated further in April, reaching its lowest level since July 2022 as consumers became less positive about the current labor market situation and more concerned about future business conditions, job availability, and income,” said Dana Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board.
The drop in consumer confidence was observed across all age groups in the survey and almost all income groups. Younger consumers, those under 35, expressed greater confidence than those over 35. Those with incomes below $25,000 annually and above $75,000 reported the biggest declines in confidence.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/2984808/consumer-confidence-drops-lowest-level-nearly-two-years/
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Military/Defense News / Re: Lloyd Austin Says Troops On Gaza Pier Are Not ‘Boots On The Ground’
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 05:47:19 pm »They should send his sorry ass over there and tell him his new office is on the pier until the area is secure. I'll bet it would become one of the safest places on earth within 48 hours. 
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Jokes and Humor / Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2024
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Elections 2024 / Re: Report: Trump and DeSantis Meet in Miami, Talk Fundraising
« Last post by catfish1957 on Today at 05:45:24 pm »The guy campaigned in all 99 Iowa counties without winning one of them. Is this the support you reference?
You mean that 20% number that keeps incovienently popping up even after Tump secured the nomination over a month ago?
Face facts.... One in Five GOP voters do not like or want trump, even as a pseudo-incumbant.
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Health/Education / Re: Anti-Israel Columbia students defiant as 2 p.m. deadline passes to clear encampment
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 05:44:39 pm »Nolte: Three Columbia University Janitors Claim Hitler Youth Held Them Hostage
Three janitors claim the pro-Hamas insurrectionists at Columbia University temporarily held them hostage, reports Fox News.
“They held me hostage,” one maintenance man told the Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper. Fox News adds that at around 12:30 a.m., the Jew-hating insurrectionists stormed Hamilton Hall. The mob then “shattered windows, barricaded doors using tables and chairs, and obscured the windows of the facility.”
https://twitter.com/PatriotsOfMars/status/1785328753222066574
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https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/30/nolte-three-columbia-university-janitors-claim-hitler-youth-held-them-hostage/
Three janitors claim the pro-Hamas insurrectionists at Columbia University temporarily held them hostage, reports Fox News.
“They held me hostage,” one maintenance man told the Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper. Fox News adds that at around 12:30 a.m., the Jew-hating insurrectionists stormed Hamilton Hall. The mob then “shattered windows, barricaded doors using tables and chairs, and obscured the windows of the facility.”
https://twitter.com/PatriotsOfMars/status/1785328753222066574
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https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/30/nolte-three-columbia-university-janitors-claim-hitler-youth-held-them-hostage/
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Military/Defense News / Lloyd Austin Says Troops On Gaza Pier Are Not ‘Boots On The Ground’
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 05:43:29 pm »Lloyd Austin Says Troops On Gaza Pier Are Not ‘Boots On The Ground’
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MICAELA BURROW
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, DEFENSE
April 30, 2024
1:24 PM ET
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin insisted Tuesday that stationing troops off a humanitarian pier leading to Gaza does not count as having boots on land, while leaving wide open the possibility of a live-fire exchange with attackers on the ground.
The statement appears to undercut the Biden administration’s attempts to assuage concerns about the safety of the 1,000 U.S. troops who just began construction on the artificial port, and its insistence that the U.S. military will not be involved in combat operations in Gaza while supporting Israel’s war against Hamas. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said the administration is claiming that “boots on a pier connected to the ground connected to service members shooting into Gaza doesn’t count as boots on the ground” at a House Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.
“It does not,” Austin responded.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/30/lloyd-austin-says-troops-on-gaza-pier-not-boots-ground/
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MICAELA BURROW
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, DEFENSE
April 30, 2024
1:24 PM ET
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin insisted Tuesday that stationing troops off a humanitarian pier leading to Gaza does not count as having boots on land, while leaving wide open the possibility of a live-fire exchange with attackers on the ground.
The statement appears to undercut the Biden administration’s attempts to assuage concerns about the safety of the 1,000 U.S. troops who just began construction on the artificial port, and its insistence that the U.S. military will not be involved in combat operations in Gaza while supporting Israel’s war against Hamas. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said the administration is claiming that “boots on a pier connected to the ground connected to service members shooting into Gaza doesn’t count as boots on the ground” at a House Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.
“It does not,” Austin responded.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/30/lloyd-austin-says-troops-on-gaza-pier-not-boots-ground/
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Health/Education / Re: Anti-Israel Columbia students defiant as 2 p.m. deadline passes to clear encampment
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 05:42:15 pm »Columbia University Announces Wave of Restrictions After Protesters Seize Control of Building
Elizabeth Weibel 30 Apr 2024
Columbia University announced a wave of restrictions on Tuesday for the remainder of the spring semester after anti-Israel protesters seized control of an administrative building on campus.
The Office of the President sent an e-mail informing Columbia University students, faculty, and staff of updates regarding student access to dining halls, transportation services, dormitories, and mail services hours after anti-Israel protesters involved in an encampment at the university took over Hamilton Hall, an administrative building, according to the campus newspaper the Columbia Spectator.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, anti-Israel protesters seized control of Hamilton Hall. Video footage showed the protesters carrying barricades into the building, smashing the glass doors to the building, and hanging pro-Palestinian banners from the windows of the building.
Before this e-mail, Columbia University had sent an earlier e-mail revealing that access would be restricted to the campus “until circumstances allow otherwise.”
In a statement released by Columbia University addressing the protestes’ occupation of the building, the university advised: “Members of the University community who can avoid coming to the Morningside campus should do so.”
https://twitter.com/Columbia/status/1785292054928453718
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/30/columbia-university-announces-wave-of-restrictions-after-protesters-seize-control-of-building/
Elizabeth Weibel 30 Apr 2024
Columbia University announced a wave of restrictions on Tuesday for the remainder of the spring semester after anti-Israel protesters seized control of an administrative building on campus.
The Office of the President sent an e-mail informing Columbia University students, faculty, and staff of updates regarding student access to dining halls, transportation services, dormitories, and mail services hours after anti-Israel protesters involved in an encampment at the university took over Hamilton Hall, an administrative building, according to the campus newspaper the Columbia Spectator.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, anti-Israel protesters seized control of Hamilton Hall. Video footage showed the protesters carrying barricades into the building, smashing the glass doors to the building, and hanging pro-Palestinian banners from the windows of the building.
Before this e-mail, Columbia University had sent an earlier e-mail revealing that access would be restricted to the campus “until circumstances allow otherwise.”
In a statement released by Columbia University addressing the protestes’ occupation of the building, the university advised: “Members of the University community who can avoid coming to the Morningside campus should do so.”
https://twitter.com/Columbia/status/1785292054928453718
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/30/columbia-university-announces-wave-of-restrictions-after-protesters-seize-control-of-building/
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Politics/Government / Joe Biden’s Deputies Force Transgenderism into Workplaces
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 05:40:10 pm »Joe Biden’s Deputies Force Transgenderism into Workplaces
Hannah Knudsen 30 Apr 2024
President Joe Biden’s deputies are forcing transgenderism into workplaces via updated federal workplace guidelines that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released.
Under the guidance, employers who adhere to biological reality — expecting biological males to use the men’s restroom and biological women to use the women’s restroom — will be committing workplace “harassment” if they refuse to allow employees to choose restrooms based on their gender identity rather than biological sex. Further, employers will be committing workplace harassment if they “repeatedly misgender” employees, according to reports.
According to a press release from the EEOC, “These laws protect covered employees from harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions; sexual orientation; and gender identity), national origin, disability, age (40 or older) or genetic information [emphasis added].”
The guidance reads:
Sex-based discrimination under Title VII includes employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Accordingly, sex-based harassment includes harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, including how that identity is expressed. Harassing conduct based on sexual orientation or gender identity includes epithets regarding sexual orientation or gender identity; physical assault due to sexual orientation or gender identity; outing (disclosure of an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity without permission); harassing conduct because an individual does not present in a manner that would stereotypically be associated with that person’s sex; repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering); or the denial of access to a bathroom or other sex-segregated facility consistent with the individual’s gender identity.
The updated guidance from the EEOC, released Monday, is the first update in more than two decades.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/30/joe-bidens-deputies-force-transgenderism-into-workplaces/
Hannah Knudsen 30 Apr 2024
President Joe Biden’s deputies are forcing transgenderism into workplaces via updated federal workplace guidelines that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released.
Under the guidance, employers who adhere to biological reality — expecting biological males to use the men’s restroom and biological women to use the women’s restroom — will be committing workplace “harassment” if they refuse to allow employees to choose restrooms based on their gender identity rather than biological sex. Further, employers will be committing workplace harassment if they “repeatedly misgender” employees, according to reports.
According to a press release from the EEOC, “These laws protect covered employees from harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions; sexual orientation; and gender identity), national origin, disability, age (40 or older) or genetic information [emphasis added].”
The guidance reads:
Sex-based discrimination under Title VII includes employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Accordingly, sex-based harassment includes harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, including how that identity is expressed. Harassing conduct based on sexual orientation or gender identity includes epithets regarding sexual orientation or gender identity; physical assault due to sexual orientation or gender identity; outing (disclosure of an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity without permission); harassing conduct because an individual does not present in a manner that would stereotypically be associated with that person’s sex; repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering); or the denial of access to a bathroom or other sex-segregated facility consistent with the individual’s gender identity.
The updated guidance from the EEOC, released Monday, is the first update in more than two decades.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/30/joe-bidens-deputies-force-transgenderism-into-workplaces/
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Military/Defense News / Re: China’s Real Military Budget Has Quietly Become Almost as Big as Ours
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 05:40:10 pm »I wonder how much of that money is earmarked for woke programs and gay/trannnie education. 
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