There is another new blog post, “Family values and children as commodities.”
I just noticed that I have not received my final payout from Uber. Normally, it would have been in my account Wednesday (yesterday). By their own reckoning, they owe me $162.68 and they have notified me it was on the way.
This would have been the weekly payout and should not have been affected by their suspension of my access to Instant Pay.
I’m glad I quit working for them.
Currency
It seems that (white, male, slave-owning) Andrew Jackson is Donald Trump’s favorite dead president. It’d help a lot if Steven Mnuchin would explain just how it is that counterfeiting is a problem on the Harriet Tubman $20 bill and not the $10 or $50 bill or even the Jackson $20 bill. (Maybe he did: The Washington Post links to an article on a site that prohibits ad-blockers, rendering the site an unacceptable source.)[1] I can’t help but suspect he’s choosing an alternative meaning to “counterfeit.”
DeNeen L. Brown, “Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her,” Washington Post, May 22, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/22/whether-shes-bill-or-not-harriet-tubman-made-men-pay-underestimating-her/
Isaac Stanley-Becker, “A 3-year-old touched a Harriet Tubman mural. Now, she’ll wait a decade to touch a $20 Tubman bill,” Washington Post, May 23, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/23/year-old-touched-harriet-tubman-mural-now-shell-wait-decade-touch-tubman-bill/
Julian Assange
Chris Megerian, “Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, faces 17 more charges in new U.S. indictment,” Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-julian-assange-indictment-wikileaks-20190523-story.html
World Cop
Uri Friedman, “America’s Alliance System Will Face One of Its Biggest Tests Yet,” Atlantic, May 23, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/us-and-south-korea-gear-burden-sharing-talks/589999/
- [1]DeNeen L. Brown, “Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her,” Washington Post, May 22, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/22/whether-shes-bill-or-not-harriet-tubman-made-men-pay-underestimating-her/↩