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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why It’s So Hard for America to End Its Wars</strong> - Is there any way for Biden to achieve peace with honor in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-its-so-hard-for-america-to-end-its-wars">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Vladimir Putin Has a Message: “Hey, Joe, Are You Listening?”</strong> - The Biden Administration can’t escape the Russia problem. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/vladimir-putin-has-a-message-hey-joe-are-you-listening">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Can We Continue to Keep Schools Relatively Safe from the Coronavirus?</strong> - Experts warn that any vaccine mandate for educators could backfire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-can-we-continue-to-keep-schools-relatively-safe-from-the-coronavirus">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Simple Facts of Derek Chauvin’s Trial</strong> - In the case of the police officer who killed George Floyd, the defense’s best hope is to instill doubt about what jurors can plainly see. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-simple-facts-of-derek-chauvins-trial">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Passing of Prince Philip</strong> - What must he have thought when he reflected upon the accomplishments and the travails of the family and institution of which he was long the patriarch, if not ever the head? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-passing-of-prince-philip">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Biden’s Supreme Court reform commission won’t fix anything</strong> -
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Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to President Joe Biden. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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The president’s new commission has a lot of fans — in the Federalist Society.
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In 2014, Judge Thomas Griffith authored an opinion in <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15333446924860763904&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr"><em>Halbig v. Burwell</em></a> that could have <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/7/22/5821600/obamacare-halbig-subsidies-illegal-most-states">wrecked Obamacare’s insurance markets in over 30 states</a> and potentially stripped health coverage from millions of Americans. Griffith’s court eventually <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/9/4/6105523/this-is-good-for-obamacare-dc-circuit-court-will-review-halbig">vacated his ruling against Obamacare</a>, and the Supreme Court rejected Griffith’s reasoning in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf"><em>King v. Burwell</em></a> (2015) — but not before the <em>Halbig</em> decision plunged the Obama administration, health care advocates, and patients into a year of terror that Obamacare would be gutted.
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On Friday, President Joe Biden announced that he would sign an executive order creating a “<a href="https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1380540399517896705/photo/1">Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States</a>.” Griffith — who retired from the federal bench in 2020, allowing former President Trump to choose his successor — is <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2021/04/09/biden-releases-names-of-members-of-his-judicial-reform-commission/">one of several prominent conservatives on this commission</a>, which the White House says Biden appointed to “provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform.”
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Yet, while the author of one of the most significant attacks on Obamacare in the last decade is on Biden’s commission, none of the leading academic proponents of Supreme Court reform were appointed (the overwhelming majority of the commission’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/09/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-creating-the-presidential-commission-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states/">three dozen members</a> are law professors or political scientists).
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Biden initially said in October he would convene a commission of leading academics to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926607920/asked-about-court-packing-biden-says-he-will-convene-commission-to-study-reforms">study possible reforms to the Supreme Court</a>. At the time, Biden was torn between liberal activists who were enraged by Senate Republicans’ efforts to ensure that the GOP could control the Supreme Court, and Republican critics who accused Democrats of wanting to add seats to the Supreme Court in order to undo those efforts by the GOP.
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Rather than take a position on whether to add seats to the Supreme Court, Biden ultimately punted the question until after the election with his promise to appoint a commission.
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Now he has appointed such a commission and, measured solely by its intellectual firepower, the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/09/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-creating-the-presidential-commission-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states/">names</a> on the commission are impressive. They include some of the nations’ most prominent legal academics, such as Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken and Harvard’s Laurence Tribe.
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But the commission does not include law professors Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman, authors of a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/10/30/20930662/pete-buttigieg-court-packing-anthony-kennedy-citizens-united">highly influential proposal</a> to expand the Supreme Court to 15 justices and have the key members of the Court be chosen in a bipartisan process that is intended to make the Court less ideological. And it does not include Aaron Belkin, a political science professor and <a href="https://www.takebackthecourt.today/press-release-statement-from-aaron-belkin-on-tuesdays-democratic-debate">leader of Take Back the Court</a>, a pro-reform organization. In choosing the members of this commission, the White House appears to have prioritized bipartisanship and star power within the legal academy over choosing people who have actually spent a meaningful amount of time advocating for Supreme Court reforms.
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(I reached out to the White House for comment about several of the concerns raised in this piece, but have not heard back from them as of this writing. We will update this piece to include the White House’s comment if they respond.)
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When the White House released the list of commission members on Friday, it swiftly won praise — from members of the conservative Federalist Society. Evan Bernick, a <a href="http://www.georgemasonlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/23_3_Millhiser.pdf">right-libertarian</a> law professor at Georgetown, praised the commission as a “powerhouse lineup of scholars.” Stephen Sachs, a Duke Law professor who won the Federalist Society’s Joseph Story Award in 2020, called the commission “<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenESachs/status/1380561439052726272">an astonishingly well-balanced list</a>.”
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Ilya Somin, a libertarian law professor at George Mason University, wrote shortly after the commission’s membership was announced that “the composition of the Commission is also <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2021/04/09/biden-releases-names-of-members-of-his-judicial-reform-commission/">bad news for advocates of court-packing</a>, who may have hoped that it will produce a report endorsing the idea.”
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So, if the White House’s goal was to allay concerns among conservatives that President Biden might try to diminish the Republican Party’s influence over the judiciary, this commission appears to have accomplished that goal.
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How we got to this point
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Not that long ago, the idea of adding additional seats to the Supreme Court in order to change its partisan makeup was <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/51/lets-think-about-court-packing-2/">considered very radical</a>. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed doing so in 1937 in order to neutralize a Court that frequently struck down New Deal programs on spurious legal grounds, but his proposal was unpopular and ultimately went nowhere.
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Yet several crucial events happened in recent years that convinced many Democrats that the federal judiciary is unfairly stacked against them. In 2016, after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February of that year, Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/5/29/18644061/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-hearings-2020-merrick-garland">refused to even give a confirmation hearing</a> to President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, now-Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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At the time, Republicans claimed that it was inappropriate to confirm a Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
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But then Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/9/18/20917757/justice-ginsburg-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies">died in September of 2020</a>, and Republicans immediately abandoned the position that they invented in order to justify scuttling Garland’s nomination. Trump’s nominee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, was <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/10/26/21529619/amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-supreme-court">confirmed just eight days before the 2020 election</a>, which threw Trump out of office.
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In the interim between Garland’s unsuccessful nomination and Barrett’s successful one, Democrats endured two other significant traumas. The first was that Trump became president, despite <a href="https://www.vox.com/21336225/voting-rights-senate-electoral-college-gerrymandering-supreme-court">receiving nearly 3 million fewer votes</a> than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Republicans also controlled the Senate for the entirety of Trump’s presidency — but they only controlled the Senate thanks to malapportionment. The Democratic “minority” in the Senate <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/26/20981758/brett-kavanaughs-terrify-democrats-supreme-court-gundy-paul">represented millions more Americans</a> than the Republican “majority” during Trump’s presidency.
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Indeed, all three of Trump’s Supreme Court appointees were nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by a bloc of senators who <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/10/26/21534358/supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-constitution-anti-democratic-electoral-college-senate">represent less than half of the country</a>.
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The second trauma was the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/22/17886814/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-deborah-ramirez">credibly accused of attempting to rape Dr. Christine Blasey Ford</a> while Kavanaugh and Ford were both in high school. Kavanaugh responded to these allegations with an angry rant before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which he <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/27/17911256/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-senate-hearing">seemed to threaten retaliation against Democrats</a> for repeating the allegations against him — “what goes around comes around,” Kavanaugh told the committee.
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All of this contributed to a sense among Democrats that the Court has become too partisan, and led many prominent Democrats to conclude that radical action was necessary to prevent a GOP-led Supreme Court from <a href="https://www.vox.com/22286213/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-arizona-brnovich-democratic-national-committee-republican-party">dismantling voting rights</a> and otherwise entrenching Republican power.
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Yet, when candidate Biden was asked about whether he’d support radical reforms such as adding seats to the Supreme Court, he <a href="https://www.vox.com/22286213/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-arizona-brnovich-democratic-national-committee-republican-party">initially said he opposed these reforms</a>. After Ginsburg’s death, he took a more agnostic stance, saying that, while he’s “not been a fan of court-packing,” his approach to the issue would depend on how the Barrett confirmation fight played out.
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Now that Barrett’s been confirmed, however, Biden appears to be signaling with his new commission that significant reforms to the Supreme Court will not be on the table.
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Why a milquetoast Supreme Court commission matters
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Court-packing is not something that anyone should do lightly. If Democrats did add seats to the Supreme Court in order to change its partisan balance, the result most likely would not be widespread acceptance of the newly liberal Court’s decisions. It would be <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/51/lets-think-about-court-packing-2/">massive resistance from Republicans</a>.
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As Justice Stephen Breyer recently <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/07/supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer-warns-against-packing-bench/7116124002/">warned during a lecture at Harvard Law School</a>, “structural alteration [of the Court] motivated by the perception of political influence” will erode trust in the Court’s decisions.
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Yet, while Breyer is correct to warn that significant reforms to the Supreme Court are likely to undermine the Court’s legitimacy, the <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/51/lets-think-about-court-packing-2/">mere threat of court-packing can serve an important function</a>. If the justices believe that President Biden may send them six new colleagues if the Court dismantles what remains of the Voting Rights Act, then those justices may be less likely to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.
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A healthy fear of a Democratic majority could lead the Supreme Court to become less partisan.
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But Biden’s new commission sends the opposite message. With so many prominent members of the Federalist Society praising the commission right out the gate, it’s clear that conservatives do not feel threatened by this commission. And the justices themselves are just as capable of looking at the list of names that Biden picked and seeing that this commission is unlikely to support significant reforms.
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<li><strong>The Amazon union vote is over. Here’s what happens now.</strong> -
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<img alt="A protester holds a sign near Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse that reads, “United we bargain, divided we beg.”" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/yceELCnDh9BsbvV2vct2RiTjVrI=/222x0:3778x2667/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69105580/GettyImages_1231457370.0.jpg"/>
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A demonstrator holds a sign during a February protest near Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse. | Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Whether or not the union’s challenge in Bessemer fails, Amazon will face labor battles elsewhere.
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Amazon <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/4/8/22362911/amazon-union-legal-challenge-alabama-vote-results-bessemer">has come out on top in the largest US union election</a> in the company’s history. But the labor battle appears far from over.
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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) announced on Friday that it planned to file unfair labor practice charges against Amazon over allegations of employee intimidation and manipulation. The union also<strong> </strong>requested a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to go over its objections.
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Meanwhile, activists who’ve worked for Amazon said the election outcome will not stop more organizing efforts at other Amazon facilities in the US. And reports in recent months point to the Teamsters Union trying to organize other Amazon warehouses and delivery drivers.
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In short, the Amazon union conversation is entering a new phase. Here’s what to expect next.
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What’s next at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama
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Out of 2,536 workers who voted in the union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama facility<strong> </strong>(known as BHM1), 1,798 voted against unionization compared to 738 who voted to unionize. Ballots from another 505 workers were challenged by either Amazon or the union, but those votes won’t change the outcome, so the election is over.
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In a virtual press event organized by Amazon after the vote count ended, four Bessemer warehouse workers who voted against unionizing said they believe the union lost because most colleagues appreciate the benefits they already have at Amazon and didn’t think they need a union to make changes.
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“The union said that we would never have a seat at the table on our own, but we actually have a seat at the table,” said an Amazon worker named William Stokes. “Now we’re talking with senior management. … Over the next 100 days, we are going to talk about things that we want to change. So change will come out of this.”
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Stokes did not provide details of the changes sought.
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Around the same time, pro-union Amazon workers appeared with union officials at a separate virtual press event. The message they tried to get across was that they are not done speaking up or fighting for what they feel they deserve.
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“Bezos, you are wrong, you are wrong all the way around,” one Amazon worker, Linda Burns, said, referencing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. “You misled a lot of our people.”
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22311708/amazon-union-alabama-vote-explained">Amazon pushed<strong> </strong>hard to convince workers to vote against unionization</a>. The company set up an anti-union website that harped on the fact that union dues would cost full-time workers close to $500 a year. What the company didn’t say on the website is that, in Alabama, unions can’t require workers to pay union dues. So a union at Amazon’s BHM1 wouldn’t be able to force workers to become members and pay dues or fees. Even in such a situation, these employees would still be covered by a union contract and would be represented by the union in a case in which the company violated the agreement in a way that harmed the worker.
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Amazon also convened mandatory in-person meetings during worker shifts to stress the downsides of unions, sending frequent texts to workers with anti-union messages and encouraging them to vote no. The company went so far as to post anti-union flyers on employee bathroom stall doors.
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The retail giant also did something else that appears to be even more<strong> </strong>controversial. Amazon pressed the United States Postal Service to install a mailbox on the grounds of the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse right before voting started — and after the NLRB denied the company’s request to place a ballot drop box on the property. Some <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3anw9k/amazon-sends-vote-no-instructions-to-unionizing-employees-tells-them-to-use-new-mailbox">workers have said they were intimidated by the installation of the mailbox</a>, as well as the messages from Amazon to use it, and believe that the company wanted to monitor who voted.
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Amazon spokesperson Heather Knox previously told the Washington Post that “the RWDSU … pushed for a mail-only election, which the NLRB’s own data showed would reduce turnout. This mailbox — which only the USPS had access to — was a simple, secure, and completely optional way to make it easy for employees to vote, no more and no less.”
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The mailbox and the anti-union messaging around dues will both likely come up in the union’s complaints. The NLRB said that the parties “have five business days to file objections contesting the conduct or results of the election,” and RWDSU has already said it will file unfair labor practice charges against Amazon for certain behavior during the campaign and election. The NLRB could choose to hold a hearing to find out more about the union’s claims if an investigation deems them credible. The labor board could then choose to throw out the results and call for a new election if it sided with the union.
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The Bessemer union election, whether or not the results are upheld, will likely not be the last union drive at an Amazon facility in the US.
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Christian Smalls, a former Amazon assistant warehouse manager who the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/17/22287439/new-york-amazon-lawsuit-letitia-james-christian-smalls">New York Attorney General says was unlawfully fired for his labor activism</a>, told Recode he is in the process of organizing workers at the Staten Island warehouse where he worked before Amazon dismissed him.
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“Although we may not have gotten the results we wanted this time around, this doesn’t discourage the workers of Amazon,” he wrote in a text message to Recode. “If anything, it motivates. We believe it’s possible even more so than before, so I still consider this a victory for Bessemer to spark the fuse which ignited us all to be talking about unions again in this country.”
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Smalls and others have created their own union, the Amazon Labor Union, that they hope will eventually represent workers not just in Staten Island but, if successful, at other Amazon facilities too.
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There have been signs of labor organizing activity at other Amazon facilities in recent months of well. In Iowa, for example, a local chapter of the Teamsters Union has been working on organizing Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers. But a representative for the union said the group is trying to take a different tack than the RWDSU.
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“We’re focused on building a new type of labor movement where we don’t rely on the election process to raise standards,” Jesse Case, secretary-treasurer of a Teamsters local in Iowa, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/business/economy/amazon-labor-unions.html">told the New York Times</a>.
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In the US, union organizers typically need to win an election at each individual facility of a company like Amazon’s. Organizers first have to get 30 percent of workers to sign a card saying they are interested in a union. After that, the NLRB will hold an election, in which a majority of voters have to vote to unionize in order for the union to take hold. What Case, of the Teamsters, is describing is a more informal approach, using protests and other forms of public pressure to get a company like Amazon to make changes in line with what workers want. An Amazon worker group called Amazonians United Chicagoland has also held protests and walkouts throughout the pandemic.
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As for the RWDSU, the union’s president said on Friday that the organization has heard from more than 1,000 Amazon workers at other facilities who are interested in unionizing. But the union would not say for sure whether, or where, they might push for an election at other Amazon sites should the Bessemer appeal fail.
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“I think it will be a moment to reflect and think about the best strategy moving forward,” Rebecca Givan, a labor professor at Rutgers University, told Recode of whether the RWDSU might consider giving up on Amazon should their Bessemer challenge fail. “We might see other kinds of organizing in other Amazon warehouses, rather than formal union drives under the NLRB process.”
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<em>Shirin Ghaffary contributed reporting to this story.</em>
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On May 25, 2020, the world witnessed the final moments leading up to George Floyd’s death: Police officer Derek Chauvin pinned a handcuffed Floyd to the ground with his knee for more than nine minutes until he became unresponsive. The bystander video of<strong> </strong>the incident, with Floyd muttering his last words, “I can’t breathe,” sparked racial justice protests around the globe. Now, nearly a year later, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/27/22350040/derek-chauvin-murder-trial-george-floyd">Chauvin is on trial</a> facing charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
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But despite what people saw, both virtually and in person last May, at the center of the trial is the question: What ultimately killed Floyd? The prosecution has argued that it was Chauvin’s knee, constricting Floyd’s neck and airway, that ultimately led to his death. Meanwhile, the defense has argued that it was Floyd’s history of drug use and underlying conditions that caused his death.
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Two autopsy reports — one by a private medical examiner commissioned by Floyd’s family and another by the <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNHENNE/2020/06/01/file_attachments/1464238/2020-3700%20Floyd,%20George%20Perry%20Update%206.1.2020.pdf?referringSource=articleShare">Hennepin County Medical Examiner</a> — reached the same conclusion: that Floyd died of homicide, meaning death at the hands of someone else. But the <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/05/read-george-floyd-autopsy-report-with-cause-of-death-and-other-factors/">medical examiner report also highlighted</a> that Floyd suffered from other<strong> </strong>“significant conditions,” such as fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use. These latter conditions are what the defense is using to argue that Chauvin is not responsible for Floyd’s death.
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On Friday, Hennepin County chief medical examiner Andrew Baker, who performed the county autopsy, took the stand. In documents last year, Baker described the “<a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/new-court-docs-say-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-his-system/89-ed69d09d-a9ec-481c-90fe-7acd4ead3d04">fatal level of fentanyl</a>” in Floyd’s system and told federal investigators that if the victim was “found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be an acceptable overdose.” Baker also cautioned, “I am not saying this killed him.”
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During cross examination, Baker clarified further. When the defense asked Baker whether fentanyl could have caused the abrasions on Floyd’s lung that were revealed during the autopsy, Baker said that underlying health conditions were “contributing” and not “direct causes” of Floyd’s death.
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“In my opinion, the law enforcement, subdual restraint, and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take by virtue of those heart conditions,” Baker said.
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Floyd’s history of drug use is expected to be the most contentious part of the trial. So far, the prosecution had Floyd’s girlfriend take the stand to preemptively humanize his addiction. “Our story is a classic story of how many people get addicted to opioids,” Courtney Ross said during her testimony. “We both had prescriptions but … we got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times.”
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The prosecution also brought in witnesses, such as the paramedics and the doctor who treated Floyd as well as a police surgeon and national breathing expert, who have said Floyd died due to a lack of oxygen. Even Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, the city’s first Black chief, testified that Chauvin pinned Floyd for too long and that restraints should have stopped “once Mr. Floyd stopped resisting.”
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To get a conviction, prosecutors don’t have to prove that Chauvin’s actions were the sole cause of Floyd’s death, according to the <a href="https://www.startribune.com/cause-of-death-at-issue-in-chauvin-trial-as-prosecution-questions-medical-examiner-s-findings/600041966/?refresh=true">state’s jury instruction guidelines</a>. “The fact that other causes contribute to the death does not relieve the defendant of criminal liability,” the guidelines note. By emphasizing Floyd’s drug use, the defense is just trying to muddy the waters, john powell, a law professor at the University of California Berkeley and civil rights scholar, told Vox.
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“The prosecutors shouldn’t have to make the case that Floyd didn’t have drugs in his body or that drugs were a contributing factor,” powell said. “All they have to do is make the case that Chauvin’s knee on the neck for nine minutes and 20 seconds substantially contributed to Floyd’s death.”
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How the defense has used the medical examiner’s findings to shield Chauvin
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Despite similar conclusions ruling Floyd’s death a homicide, there is a key difference in accounts of what caused it. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office states that the cause of death was a “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression” — which means physical restraint (handcuffs and Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck) was a significant factor in Floyd’s cardiac arrest. But the private autopsy report found the cause was actually “mechanical asphyxia” that made Floyd’s heart stop, implying that there were no underlying conditions that may have played a role.
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In their opening statement, prosecutors said they would make the case that Floyd died of asphyxia, or insufficient oxygen, which was not mentioned in the county report. On Monday, the prosecution brought to the stand Bradford Wankhede Langenfeld, a senior resident at the Hennepin County Medical Center who worked to recover Floyd but eventually pronounced him dead. Langenfeld said that based on the information he had, asphyxia was “more likely than other possibilities” to have caused Floyd’s cardiac arrest. But under cross-examination by the defense, Chauvin’s attorney Eric Nelson stuck with questioning Floyd’s use of drugs and asked if high levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine could also cause insufficient oxygen. The doctor agreed.
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Martin J. Tobin, a pulmonologist and breathing expert, offered perhaps the most striking medical testimony in the prosecution’s case. On Thursday, Tobin took the stand and provided a detailed account of how Floyd died — including that Chauvin had placed more than 90 pounds on Floyd’s neck and that 85 percent of Floyd’s airways were restricted. Ultimately, Tobin said, Floyd died from “a low level of oxygen” caused by police restraint. “A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died,” he said.
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Tobin pushed back against Nelson’s questioning about Floyd’s drug use, saying he saw no evidence of an overdose in the footage, as Floyd seemed to be breathing fine before police restrained him. Seven medical experts who spoke to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/george-floyd-fentanyl/2021/03/10/c3d4f328-76ec-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html">Washington Post</a> last month also warned against calling the situation an overdose, arguing that Floyd wouldn’t have had the same energy or behavior interacting with the police as he did if he were on his way to an overdose.
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In his testimony Friday, Baker clarified why he ruled Floyd’s death a homicide. According to Baker, Floyd had severe underlying heart disease and hypertensive heart disease, meaning his heart weighed more than it should. But these conditions didn’t cause Floyd’s death. What caused Floyd’s death were conditions created by Chauvin and other officers that caused Floyd’s heart to work harder to provide oxygen during the encounter. He also explained the language he used on Floyd’s death certificate — “complicating” means “in the setting of.” In other words, Floyd’s heart stopped because of Chauvin’s neck restraint.
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So far, the defense’s argument has relied largely on Floyd’s history of drug use and the result of the Hennepin County toxicology report. But Baker’s testimony — that drugs were “not a direct cause” — has hindered this argument.
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The defense’s strategy of focusing on Floyd’s drug use has drawn parallels to <a href="https://www.vox.com/first-person/22373806/george-floyd-trial-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-black-lives-matter">a long history of painting Black men killed by police as criminals and drug addicts</a>.<strong> </strong>“Part of the [defense’s] argument is really just saying Floyd is not worthy of our concern and respect, and you saw this on Fox News like ‘why are people so upset this guy has a criminal record, he was on drugs, he was trying to pass off a fake dollar bill, he’s not a hero,’” powell said. “It’s like immediately Floyd became on trial. It’s not the police on trial; it’s the person who has been killed who is on trial. It’s Michael Brown. It’s Eric Garner. … It’s Rodney King.”
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While the prosecution has called a handful of medical experts to the stand so far, the defense has 15 medical experts queued up as potential witnesses when it presents its case next week — though it is unknown how many will testify. Multiple medical testimonies, notes powell, may confuse and overwhelm the jury.
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“The defense has to prove that there’s reasonable or some doubt,” powell said. “Sometimes, what lawyers do is that if you have good facts, you try to confuse people, so any contradiction or anything to make the jury question like, ‘When you look at all these things are you sure this is what caused his death?’”
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The trial’s outcome may hinge on whether the prosecution has built a strong enough case with medical and police testimony to erase doubt that Chauvin played “a substantial causal factor in causing” Floyd’s death. The proceedings are expected to last another two weeks.
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After all the background checks, interviews and testing were done, there were three finalists: two men and a woman.
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For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
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“We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances . Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill her.”
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“You can’t be serious. I could never shoot my wife”.
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The agent said, “Then you are not the right man for this job. Take your wife and go home”.
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The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes,
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“I tried, but I can’t kill my wife.”
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The agent said, “You don’t have what it takes, so take your wife and go home”
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Finally, it was the woman’s turn. She was given the same instructions to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard one after another.
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They heard screaming, crashing, and banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman, wiping sweat from her brow.
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“The gun was loaded with blanks” she said.
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“I had to kill him with the chair”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/meaksy"> /u/meaksy </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mntvq2/why_women_make_better_assassins/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mntvq2/why_women_make_better_assassins/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>An engineer who was unemployed for a long time decided to open a medical clinic. He puts a sign outside the clinic: “A cure for your ailment guaranteed at $500; we’ll pay you $1,000 if we fail.”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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A Doctor thinks this is a good opportunity to earn $1,000 and goes to his clinic.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Doctor: “I have lost my sense of taste.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Engineer: “Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Doctor: “This is Gasoline!”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Engineer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your taste back. That will be $500.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The Doctor gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days later to recover his money.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Doctor: “I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Engineer: “Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Doctor: “But that is Gasoline!”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Engineer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your memory back. That will be $500.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The Doctor leaves angrily and comes back after several days, more determined than ever to make his money back.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Doctor: “My eyesight has become weak.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Engineer: “Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 11 and put 3 drops in the patient’s eyes.”
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</p>
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The nurse walks in carrying box #22.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Doctor: “Wait, that’s the box with the gasoline in it!”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Engineer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your vision back! That will be $500.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TitaniumDragon"> /u/TitaniumDragon </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mnxp0l/an_engineer_who_was_unemployed_for_a_long_time/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mnxp0l/an_engineer_who_was_unemployed_for_a_long_time/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>I was reading a great book about an immortal dog the other day</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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It was impossible to put down
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SeadawgCT"> /u/SeadawgCT </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mnh0am/i_was_reading_a_great_book_about_an_immortal_dog/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mnh0am/i_was_reading_a_great_book_about_an_immortal_dog/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>A husband comes home to his wife after being fired from the pickle factory…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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His wife asks him “So what happened?”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The husband explains “I often get bored at work and today my mind was wandering and I thought to myself ‘what would happen if I stuck my penis inside the pickle slicer?’”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The wife is clearly blind-sided by this confession and doesn’t know what to say next. Eventually she says to him “That was an incredibly stupid and unsafe thing to do but at least you’re all in one piece.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The husband appreciates his wife’s response and says “I suppose you’re right.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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To lighten the mood the wife asks cheerfully “So what happened to the pickle slicer?”
|
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The husband takes a moment and says “Oh, she was fired too.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MelvinDoode"> /u/MelvinDoode </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mo1zf0/a_husband_comes_home_to_his_wife_after_being/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mo1zf0/a_husband_comes_home_to_his_wife_after_being/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>They say that during sex you burn off as many calories as running eight miles.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Who the hell runs eight miles in 30 seconds?
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</div>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kang1981"> /u/Kang1981 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mnw9kd/they_say_that_during_sex_you_burn_off_as_many/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/mnw9kd/they_say_that_during_sex_you_burn_off_as_many/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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