• Air fryer
• Aspirin
• Dry ice
• Escalator
• Flip phone
• Heroin
• Kerosene
• Teleprompter

• Adrenaline (owned by Pfizer)
• Allen wrench (owned by Apex Tool Group)
• Band-Aid (owned by Johnson & Johnson)
• Bubble Wrap (owned by Sealed Air)
• ChapStick (owned by Suave Brands Company)
• Frisbee (owned by Wham-O)
• Google (owned by Google)
• Hula hoop (owned by Wham-O)
• Jacuzzi (owned by Jacuzzi)
• Jell-O (owned by Kraft Heinz)
• Jet Ski (owned by Kawasaki)
• Kleenex (owned by Kimberly-Clark)
• Lava lamp (owned by Mathmos)
• Ping Pong (owned by Parker Brothers)
• Play-Doh [and "Play Dough" in the UK] (owned by Hasbro)
• Plexiglas (owned by Altuglas International)
• Popsicle (owned by Good Humor-Breyers)
• Post-it note (owned by 3M)
• Putt-Putt golf (owned by Putt-Putt Fun Center)
• Q-tips (owned by Unilever)
• Realtor (owned by National Association of Realtors)
• Rollerblade (owned by Nordica)
• Scotch tape (owned by 3M)
• Sharpie (owned by Sanford L.P)
• Styrofoam (owned by Dow Chemical Company)
• Super Glue/Superglue (owned by Super Glue Corporation)
• Tupperware (owned by Earl Tupper)
• Velcro (owned by Velcro Companies)

• Announced the election outside of number 10 in the pouring rain with no plans to use an umbrella or take it inside.
• Went to a brewery in Wales and asked if they were looking forward to the summer football, only for staff to respond that Wales didn't make the qualification for the cup.
• Person who questioned the PM on Television was actually a plant
• Went for an interview at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast and the reporter said "are you captaining a sinking ship into this election?"

• This picture.
• Promised a return of National Service which OBLITERATED the young vote.
• A top Tory minister instead of campaigning went to fucking Greece.
• A Tory minister gave up her own seat and told everyone to vote for the Reform candidate instead.
• Three Tories defected to a different party.
• Did a PR thing involving the PM dribbling a football and someone commented on camera "he's as good at football as he is as being Prime Minister" (he was terrible).
• Former Tory minister suggested on Twitter that once he loses the election he would bugger off to California to be a speaker at GOP conferences like other former Tory ministers have done, and he had to furiously deny the allegations.
• He said he'll get rid of poor value for money University Courses and when asked which ones, couldn't name a single one.
• Announced the election but were nearly 200 candidates short to compete and are scrambling to find some.

• Hung the flag upside down in their campaign video, which means we're in distress.

• Gave a speech with factory workers, and one woman was so aghast at his bullshit on camera that they sent someone out to stand in-front of her to block her reactions; it has already been satirised.

• A high profile conservative MP called a pollster who was live on air, the pollster answered, telling him that he was going to lose his seat by a massive majority. The MP didn't say anything and just hung up. Again, this was LIVE ON AIR.

• They went campaigning in Hanley, and in the river behind them, the Liberal Democrat party very slowly sailed by on a little boat. The camera man panned the camera away from the prime minister to focus on the Liberals in the boat slowly sailing down the river.

• A new poll shows that for the first time in decades, if not over a century, the Conservatives could be in third place, with Labour (Social Democrat) and the Liberal Democrats becoming the top two parties.

Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York

“We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York State until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last ye

ProPublica

New York lawmakers proposed three new bills last week that would make it difficult for wage theft violators to conduct business in the state. The legislation would bolster the power of state agencies to crack down on wage theft by stripping violators of their liquor licenses or business licenses, as well as issuing stop-work orders against them. The legislation was prompted by reports of rampant wage theft against New York workers, including two investigations published by Documented and ProPublica. The stories revealed that more than 127,000 New Yorkers have been victims of wage theft during a recent five-year period, but that the New York State Department of Labor was unable to recover $79 million in back wages owed to the workers. The stories were based on an analysis of two databases of wage theft violations obtained from the U.S. and New York Labor departments. The databases provided previously unreported details on how much money had been stolen from workers and also shed light on which businesses had committed wage theft. “We knew from our conversations with labor and from our constituent service caseload that wage theft is a chronic problem,” said Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation. “We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York state until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year. Having this reporting as a tool set us up to put this package together and focused our attention on” the capacity of the Department of Labor. The legislation — dubbed the “wage theft deterrence package” by lawmakers — includes three bills, which are co-sponsored in the State Assembly by Assembly members Kenny Burgos, Harvey Epstein and Linda Rosenthal.

1. Are you okay?
2. That's not the kind of language I was raised to use with others.
3. Do you need a moment to think on why that wasn't acceptable?
4. This is no way to engage in intelligent conversation. Please try that again in a kinder tone if you'd like this to continue. (I really like this one because it lets you turn their public-shame rhetoric around)

1. What's happening in your life to cause you this much anger? I can't imagine hurting so badly that I need to hurt other people.
2. Who taught you it was acceptable to treat other people this way? Certainly not the Jesus I remember.
3. Whatever happened to 'judge not lest ye be judged'?
4. If I talked like that in front of my parents or grandparents I would be ashamed.
5. I think there's something you need to pray on before we try and have this conversation.

Nebraska Dem with trans son vows to block all bills: "No one in the world holds a grudge like me"

"No one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don't care. I don't like you," said Sen. Megan Hunt.

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Nebraska Democratic state Sen. Megan Hunt vowed to filibuster every bill for the rest of the legislative session after the Nebraska Legislature advanced a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for people under 19.

The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Kathleen Kauth, would ban minors from seeking gender confirmation surgery and hormone treatments — issues that could impact Hunt’s transgender son. She discussed her son and his testimony in committee on Wednesday and to the wider body the next day.

“My son is trans,” Hunt said of her 12-year-old child, who she says has been unable to attain gender-affirming care. “And this bill, colleagues, is such an affront to me personally and would violate my rights to parent my child in Nebraska.”

The bill is one of many anti-trans policies rolled out this year, according to Trans Legislation Tracker.

“We have made it clear that this is the line in the sand,” Hunt said to lawmakers on Thursday.

“People have said, ‘What if we go after your bills? What if we put a bunch of bills introduced by progressives up on the agenda? Are you going to filibuster those, too?’ Yes, because we’re not like you,” Hunt explained. “We have a principle and a value that actually matters that much to us that we’re willing to stand up for.”

Hunt was scolded over her stance by Republicans, who said her pushback set a bad precedent.

“You really don’t get it,” Hunt said to Republican state Sen. R. Brad von Gillern. “You’ve crossed a line and you’ve gone too far.”

“Don’t say hi to me in the hall, don’t ask me how my weekend was, don’t walk by my desk and ask me anything. Don’t send me Christmas cards ― take me off the list,” Hunt warned. “No one in the world holds a grudge like me, and no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don’t care. I don’t like you.”

“This hateful bill is not about policy. It is a basic human rights issue. The vote today will show us exactly which senators value the dignity, autonomy, and personhood of Nebraskans,” Hunt added on Twitter. “Do not cross this line. Do not violate our rights”

Hunt joins Democratic state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh in her promise to filibuster the remainder of the legislature’s 90-day session, which ends on June 9.

“I will burn the session to the ground over this bill,” Cavanaugh warned.