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Inflation shot up in June as the impacts of Donald Trump’s tariffs slowly started to show in US prices.

Business leaders have said for months that the high, volatile rates of Trump’s tariffs will force companies to raise consumer prices. Prices remained stable in the spring, particularly as many of Trump’s highest tariffs were paused; however, they started increasing in May and have continued to rise in June.

Annual inflation rose to 2.7% in June, up from 2.4% in May, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the prices of a basket of goods and services each month. Core CPI, which leaves out energy and food prices, ticked up slightly to 2.9%, compared with 2.8% in May.

The prices of appliances, furniture and toys, products typically manufactured outside the US, all rose. Food prices increased by 3%, with the price of beef rising by more than 2% over the month, coffee up 2.2% and citrus fruit prices rising 2.3%. While the price of eggs has been dropping over the last few months, a dozen eggs are still 27% more expensive than last year.

 

The NEA, the largest labor union in the U.S., passed a resolution last Sunday at its Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon, calling for an end to its relationship with the ADL. The resolution directs the union to stop using or endorsing ADL materials, reports, or programs. Supporters said the ADL had used accusations of antisemitism to discredit critics of Israel and advocates for Palestinian rights.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest union in the U.S. with 1.7 million members, has issued a response to last week's vote by the National Education Association to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, saying engagement, not isolation, is the way forward.

Weingarten, who is Jewish and has long been outspoken on issues of antisemitism and Middle East policy, has walked a fine line in recent years, calling out anti-Jewish hate while also pushing for a two-state solution and Palestinian rights.

 

Original question by @FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 25 points 4 months ago

Yea lol going all the way to 19.9 lmao

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You have been banned from ~~Pyongyang~~ .ml

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 7 points 4 months ago

@nicole40@lemmy.cixoelectronic.pl how could you

I thought we had fixed things‽‽

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hah whatever dude, you're doing more harm than good flying off the handle like that. It just gives them something to point to when they bring up their "we're just being bullied :'(" arguments

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 10 points 4 months ago (9 children)

You can say fuck on the internet.

Yes, but you're not being judged just because you used it but how

You absolutely should call Tankie scum at every opportunity.

No, you shouldn't, "Tankie" by itself targets their ideology and their actions (Pushing misinfo, propaganda etc) by adding "scum" into it or other slurs you shift that target from ideologies and behavior to the actual person. Not cool. For the most part, they're just people being used as tools by the real evil people pulling the strings.

Tankies don't use logic, trying to reason with those intolerants is just turtles all the way down.

That's fine, remember, your arguments are public so aren't just about convincing a tankie, but any potential observers as well

Anybody who wants to foster healthy community on Lemmy should promote open hostility towards Tankies

No. Absolutely not. They can have their community, we should be promoting defederation, boycotting and general awareness.

You know I'm pretty anti-tankie around here, and even I'm saying, chill out open hostility does nothing but anger everyone.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 7 points 4 months ago (11 children)

YDI. The other comments probably just got swept up in it, it happens, but that first that triggered mod action is def over the line

There's no need to get angry like that, or at least type it out, fight the tankies with logic, reasoning and evidence not a bunch of expletives and slurs

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Every once in a while I think about lighting up at my job so I could be like John from Jurassic Park now that I'm in IT

Unfortunately a) id probably get fired and b) I HATE the smell of cigarettes LMAO

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh neat, any way to make bongs? I was told bongs I had to be especially careful with because you're inhaling out of it instead of just eating

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I thought you weren't supposed to make food, bongs or uh "other bodily items" with a 3d printer

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 months ago

You'd think, but from what I understand the Invidious/YT cat and mouse game is rather intense so the larger public instances often don't work and it's better to use smaller private or personal instances instead

So most who care have opted to just set something up to handle YT links on the fly

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

Idk, I don't keep track of it I just click the links lemming give me lmao

I do think the last one I tried was peertube.wtf a couple days ago

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Videos without audio? Imgur can handle mp4s and imgur links autoplay in the Lemmy apps ive used (Boost and Voyager)

Videos with audio, well really YT is the best place, pretty much anybody who cares about YT tracking/ads/views will have processes/plugins in place to handle YT links. Like there are plugins that will automatically modify a YT link to a designated invidious instance or whatever

If you really really don't want to upload to YT, a Peertube instance is your best bet, unfortunately just don't expect it to be particularly...fast. Every Peertube video I've tried to watch buffered every 10-30 seconds, but I don't blame them, video is very intense, expensive and difficult to handle compared to every other media type

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