‘Look, You Can Live on Minimum Wage!’ Say Modern Slavers
Pundits can’t understand why millennials are killing so many things like fast food businesses.
Hello? Because they can’t afford them on current minimum wage.
Author Archive for: Rayne
About Rayne
Blogger since 2002, political activist since 2003, geek since birth. Opinions informed by mixed-race, multi-ethnic, cis-female condition, further shaped by kind friends of all persuasions. Sci-tech frenemy, wannabe artist, decent cook, determined author, successful troublemaker. Mother of invention and two excessively smart-assed young adult kids. Attended School of Hard Knocks; Rather Unfortunate Smallish Private Business School in Midwest; Affordable Mid-State Community College w/evening classes. Self-employed at Tiny Consulting Business; previously at Large-ish Chemical Company with HQ in Midwest in multiple marginalizing corporate drone roles, and at Rather Big IT Service Provider as a project manager, preceded by a motley assortment of gigs before the gig economy was a thing. Blogging experience includes a personal blog at the original blogs.salon.com, managing editor for a state-based news site, and a stint at Firedoglake before landing here at emptywheel as technology’s less-virginal-but-still-accursed Cassandra.
Entries by Rayne
Three Things: Shocker, Badger, Vapor
/37 Comments/in Congress, Domestic Policy, Health Policy, Russian hacks, Trump Administration/by RayneSummer doldrums hitting hard; it’s too steamy today to do much but watch the garden grow and the ‘hot takes’ bloom. Stay cool with a quick three things on AHCA and Trump-Russia.
Three Things: Lawyer Dumps Kushner, Hot at Fox, Dimon’s Douchery
/43 Comments/in Trump Administration/by RayneIt’s a Friday smack in the middle of summer, for god’s sake; can’t the news-making weasels give the treadmill a rest? This is an open thread.
And Now Akmetshin, or Why the Hell *Didn’t* Obama ‘Tapp’ Team Trump?
/27 Comments/in Foreign Policy, Russian hacks, Trump Administration/by RayneThe definition of stink: today’s revelation that a former-GRU-agent-cum-campaign-hacker-now-lobbyist was present at Junior Trump’s June 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Death of the Car(go) Cult(ure)
/12 Comments/in automobiles, Culture, Economics, Energy Policy/by RayneI had an economic and philosophic epiphany recently. It sneaked up on me, right about the time I let go of my comfortable illusion of middle-class security.
Curiouser: The Blindsiding of Sally Yates
/15 Comments/in Department of Justice, Trump Administration/by RayneLooks like former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was completely blindsided by the travel ban.
Minority Report: An Alternative Look at NotPetya
/6 Comments/in Cybersecurity/by RayneTuesday’s ‘Petya/Petna/NotPetya’ malware attacks generated a lot of misleading information and assumptions. This post looks at a prevailing assumption arising from the impact on Ukraine.
Penetrated: Today’s Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Elections
/43 Comments/in 2016 Election, Congress, Cybersecurity, Russian hacks/by RayneNothing in today’s Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing nor the House Intelligence Committee hearing changed the fact the U.S. election system was penetrated last year. We should be very concerned.
From Long Island and Maryland with Love
/4 Comments/in Trump Administration/by RayneYet another Two Trump-Russia-related story stories dropped after regular business hours, delaying cocktails. Blame Jared Kushner.
Angry Mom: Hauling out the Time-Out Chair
/11 Comments/in Culture, Trump Administration/by RayneI just want to march some overgrown children toward the time-out chair. (An open thread while we wait for MT election results.)