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This is a huge deal: The FTC proposed a sweeping ban on non-compete agreements.
30M Americans are trapped by these contracts.
The ban is estimated to increase wages by nearly $300 billion/year.
It's not a sure thing. Please flood the FTC with comments: https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0007/document
Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."
Conservatives. Is that what they are?
John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:
"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."
Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"
Is MAGA conservative?
Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?
ODing on schadenfreude.
Hard to overstate the psychological/optical blow of *losing* support on the third ballot when you desperately need things to be heading the opposite direction.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1610389618284716034
You don't have the votes (you don't have the votes)
Aha-ha-ha ha
You're gonna need congressional approval and you don't have the votes