Drug Test Woes: State Law Protections for Employee Cannabis Use May Not Protect Them After All The changing landscape of the cannabis industry is keeping employers on their toes nationwide. As more and more states expand the legalization ... 12/17/2024 - 1:45 am | View Link
GMB Conference: Drug test ex-coppers ‘play judge and jury’ over users In 2009 drugs charity Release said drug tests were being used to sack workers without redundancy pay. While testing was once confined to safety critical jobs, experts and workers say the practice has ... 12/16/2024 - 1:02 pm | View Link
FAA Expands Drug, Alcohol Testing To Non-U.S. Shops hailed its passage “This closes a major safety gap that the Transport Workers Union has fought to end for decades,” said TWU International President John Samuelsen. “And because the cost of drug and ... 12/16/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Klarna tells employees it will start drug testing workers in Sweden Klarna, which is expected to IPO next year, said in an internal memo that random drug testing is part of a broader effort to "strengthen security." ... 12/16/2024 - 4:51 am | View Link
US to require drug, alcohol testing for foreign aviation-repair stations The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it has finalized rules requiring aviation-repair stations in foreign countries to conduct drug and alcohol testing for employees performing ... 12/16/2024 - 2:25 am | View Link
Champ Bailey says college football’s future wears shades and a cowboy hat. If your school isn’t looking for its own Coach Prime Effect after 2024, it’s not just missing the boat, baby. It’s kissing the gravy train goodbye.
“Prime, to me, is the trend,” Bailey, the Broncos icon, Pro Football Hall of Famer and TNT/Warner Discovery college football analyst, reflected earlier this month when asked about CU football coach Deion Sanders.
“He’s one of a kind.
After Elon Musk bought Xitter (I'll never call that rancid shithole site X) in 2022, he broke the social media platform. In 2022, Xitter was valued at $5.7 billion. By 2023, that number dropped to nearly $3.9 billion. By 2024, the brand's value had fallen to $673.3 million. Leon eradicated the team setup to keep the platform safe, leaving moderation on the site nonexistent. When Leon bought Xitter, he claimed it should be politically neutral.
We've seen all sorts of crazy vehicles used by Russians in their war against Ukraine, from soldiers on dirt bikes to Chinese golf carts. Now a new weapon: the e-scooter.
Source: Daily Wrap
The war in Ukraine, ongoing for just under three years, is undoubtedly one of the most well-documented conflicts in history.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants us to believe grandpa has a "mandate" to annex Canada and Greenland, invade Mexico and steal the Panama Canal.
Here's our number two candidate for the dumbest person in the Senate (I think Tuberville has her topped) sanewashing Trump's recent insanity threatening all of our allies, with Kellyanne ConJob who was filling in for Hannity on Fox this Monday:
CONWAY: Senator Blackburn, I think many people have questions tonight about the Panama Canal, about Greenland, about President Trump issuing warnings about tariffs to comply or incentivize other countries' behaviors.
The beautiful state of Wyoming is unfortunately tainted by extremism, now more than ever. For the first time anywhere in the country, the hard-right Freedom Caucus has won control of a state house. Via the New York Times:
After ousting a slew of Republican incumbents they viewed as too liberal in a caustic primary, and then galloping to victory in November, members of the ultraconservative caucus hope to cement their meteoric climb to power by passing five priority bills in the first 10 days.
Their agenda, known as the Five and Dime Plan, aims to immediately tighten election rules, invalidate drivers’ licenses issued to undocumented immigrants by other states, prohibit college diversity initiatives, prohibit the state from considering environmental concerns when making investment decisions and reduce property taxes.
“We’re going to unwoke the state,” Representative Jeremy Haroldson, the next speaker pro tem, said.
This clown actually received applause for this at the Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, AZ last Saturday.
BECK: But Jackson and Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, who destroyed us. (Crowd boos.) Thank you. I love anyone who hates Wilson as much as me.
They kept moving us, slowly but surely moving us towards total control, and by the time we got to Joe Biden, we were right here.