Seattle’s Delivery Minimum Wage Failed Drivers and Raised Costs

“In 2022, Seattle became one of the first cities in America to pass a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers. The law went into effect in 2024, and the results were nothing short of calamitous. Food orders plunged to unprecedented lows, delivery costs exploded, and driver earnings appeared to crater.

Now, new research on Seattle’s delivery driver minimum wage ordinance shows that the law had no long-term effect on driver wages. And yet, Seattle’s city council shows no signs of changing course, even with higher consumer costs and zero growth in driver pay.”

https://reason.com/2025/12/20/seattles-delivery-minimum-wage-failed-drivers-and-raised-costs/

Frame by Frame Analysis: How Minneapolis Woman Exercised Her Rights in ICE Encounter

A video shows ICE agents apparently acting illegally while talking to and threatening a woman in Minnesota. A lawyer breaks it down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2hsArjzis

Did Delta Force using a secret SONIC WEAPON in the Maduro raid?

The claims that the US used a new secret sound weapon in Venezuela are not well sourced. It’s not clear if any actual Venezuelan guards made these claims. If they did, it’s possible they are making it up. Or, if they did, it’s possible they were hit by flashbangs, buzzing drones, and breaching explosions and just thought they were being hit by some new, hightech weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elt2Zi4ENk4

MAHA Republicans Are Imposing New Food Labeling Mandates

“Seed oils have become a major target of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, whose figurehead is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Seed oils are one of the driving causes of the obesity epidemic,” according to Kennedy, who has accused fast-food restaurants that use seed oils of poisoning Americans.

But among nutrition experts, opinions about seed oils and health are much more mixed, with plenty suggesting they’re fine in moderation, are better than alternatives, or are unwisely treated as a unit despite the fact that different seed oils have different properties and effects on health.

There’s also mixed evidence on the effects of common food dyes and additives)”

https://reason.com/2025/12/22/maha-mandates-food-labels/