Writer, teacher, mother, event planner, software engineer & paleowhovian. I twitter politics & am often shocked at just how crazy the extreme right can get.
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you don't get to demand a certain level of tip and you sure as hell don't get you for a takeout order and frankly if he had named the restaurant I would be calling for a boycott!
I picked up a $140 takeout order for my family tonight and left a $10 cash tip at the counter
The cashier looked down at the $10 bill, looked at the screen, and said: "That’s under 10%"
I thought he was joking. "It's a takeout order, I drove here to pick it up myself."
He called the shift manager over.
She stepped up to the counter and said: "If you can afford $140 in food, you can afford a minimum 20% tip for our kitchen staff."
I said: "Tipping on takeout is optional. You didn't seat us, serve us, or clean a table."
She replied: "Then we have the right to refuse service," and pointed toward the line behind me.
I could feel every eye in the restaurant on my back, trying to publicly shame me into handing over another $18 for a bag of food I was carrying out myself.
So I made a decision right there.
I told her to cancel the entire $140 order, refund my card, and walked out.
I don't have a problem tipping for good service. I have a problem with businesses using public guilt and employee shaming to make customers subsidize hourly wages they refuse to pay.
Was canceling the order justified, or is expecting 20% on takeout normal now
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Since Buc-ee’s said they won't do business in blue states, I expect a press release today saying they are closing up shop in Arizona and Texas. 😁🤷
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James Talarico traces 50 years of trickle-down back to one 1971 document, the Powell memo, a corporate blueprint to buy power
“In fact, you can, you can pinpoint this one document called the Powell memo, 1971.”
“But if you read this memo, it's basically a blueprint for how corporate interests can start to dismantle the Great Society and the New Deal”
“They're going to spend massive amounts of money in our politics, buying politicians in both parties, elevate corporate voices in media, appoint sympathetic judges.”
“And that has really been the story of the last 50 years in this country, last five decades.”
w/ @jamestalarico
doesn't matter how much Steven Miller lies we all know when we attempt to buy our groceries, fill our tank, or pay for our health care that everything has gone up in price and it's all down to #TrumpWars and #TrumpTariffs!
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BREAKING: Company could reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk’s X and bring back Old Twitter to compete against X in 2027
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ICE is detaining a Wisconsin State Trooper.
Trooper Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe is being held at the ICE detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
His attorney, Marc Christopher, says the trooper holds a valid work authorization.
well that means senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin it needs to be unelected and thrown out on the next chance to do so!
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) backs President Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.
"I've known Stephen since 2011, when he was the communications director for Senator Jeff Sessions," Johnson says. "He's a smart guy, a very principled guy, has very strong beliefs, and he's a very effective spokesman."
this monster must be removed from influencing anyone or anything ever again!
AI data centers are making everything more expensive from electricity to water to breathing the air. they pollute the air they create noise pollution they use our public infrastructure and pay no taxes. reform the process and maybe they won't die in the stock market!
#RFKjr is à danger to the health of our children, HE MUST GO!!! @ewarren @BernieSanders @amyactonoh @AnnieAndrewsMD
Dangerous bleeding in U.S. infants nearly doubled in 2025, and most affected babies missed their vitamin K shot. Babies who skip the shot face 81 times the risk, and serious bleeds often strike without warning.
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Proud that Elias Law Group is representing the next Senator from Mississippi, Scott Colom.
first your family benefited from birthright citizenship you lying jackass and second we are all a nation of immigrants unless we are native Americans so if you end birthright citizenship you and america! it's in the Constitution stop your damn whining!
ice must be reigned in the second Democrats have Congress because the power of the purse might be the only way to stop them! @SenSherrodBrown @turek4iowa @AnnieAndrewsMD @peggyflanagan @amyactonoh @AbdulElSayed @jamestalarico
ICE grabs U.S. citizen from behind—slams her down on the pavement.
"I'm like four feet tall," she says.
"How dangerous can I be?"
"We don't have weapons—other than our voice!"
Agents were on county property—in direct violation of cease & desist order.
Order demanded ICE stop using county property—including the jail—as a staging area for civil immigration enforcement.
Community members arrived on the scene to protest after agents refused to comply with the order.
One ICE agent at the site said he was: "Waiting to hear back from their chain of command."
Incident occurred outside the Monterey County Jail in Salinas, California.
Reporter Chris Cerney doesn't have an active account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
whiny snowflake complaining that she's losing and pretending it's not her fault
NEW: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert’s campaign is alleging “unusual voting patterns” as she trails her Democratic challenger in Colorado’s 4th congressional district.
Her campaign said they are "investigating" but didn't provide any additional details. demdock.com/4k1AzxI
not authorized by Congress, illegal as hell, how do we stop this insanity? @SenAdamSchiff @RepRaskin @SenatorDurbin @HouseDemocrats @SenateDemocrats
A federal commission stocked with Trump allies just approved Trump's planned 250-foot-tall triumphal arch — despite it likely violating federal law because the current Congress has not authorized it. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
for a man who has no understanding of the Constitution or America he is certainly being allowed to do a lot of damaging things! STOP HIM! @PattyMurray @SenatorCantwell @SenBlumenthal @MarkWarner @ossoff @ReverendWarnock @ewarren @SenSanders @tedlieu