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auburnwire.usatoday.com Payton Thorne's commitment to Auburn was an 'easy decision' Daniel Locke ~2 minutes The news of former Michigan State Spartans quarterback Payton Thorne announcing his decision to play for Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers is only a few weeks old, but everyone from the fans of the program to Freeze and Thorne himself seems to be excited about the pairing. Thorne joined a recent episode of the MAX Roundtable hosted by Doug Amos who asked the former Spartan what drew him to Auburn. Buy Tigers Tickets You know when I was down for my visit, I was there for a day,” Thorne said. “Just an unofficial visit, but you know it was a great time. I obviously got to meet Coach Freeze and Coach Montgomery and listen to them talk football and watching what they do on offense, along with many other things, getting to see the facilities getting to see the town. Then just everything that I’ve heard about Auburn and Auburn football has been nothing but great things. I was very excited when I was down there with my dad; we talked for a while about it, and Coach Freeze made it an easy decision for me.” Thorne was a three-star recruit coming out of Matea Valley High School in the class of 2019. The Naperville, Illinois native was the No. 18 ranked dual-threat quarterback and the No. 16 ranked player in the state of Illinois according to 247Sports. Thorne played four seasons for Michigan State, starting two of them. In 2022 Thorne went 242-387 for 2,679 yards and 19 touchdowns. Thorne is the front-runner for the starting quarterback position for the Tigers in 2023, expected to beat out Robby Ashford and Holden Geriner. Contact/Follow us @TheAuburnWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Auburn news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow Daniel on Twitter @DanielJLocke

Former North Texas LB Larry Nixon III commits to Auburn Christian Clemente 33–42 minutes The former North Texas standout arrives with one year of eligibility remaining. AUBURN, Alabama — A first team All-Conference USA selection will spend his final year of collegiate eligibility at Auburn. Former North Texas linebacker Larry Nixon III announced on Tuesday his commitment to Auburn, choosing the Tigers over Miami and West Virginia. Nixon III visited Miami last weekend, with trips to Auburn and West Virginia over this past weekend. His transfer commitment is the second of the day for Auburn — and the second former North Texas transfer — as he joins wide receiver transfer Jyaire Shorter. Ultimately, the SEC was his choice. "Being in Auburn, it’s crazy," Nixon III said. "You can’t beat that stadium, being in the SEC." Spending five seasons at North Texas, Nixon III is a graduate transfer with one year of eligibility remaining at his next stop. After redshirting in 2018, Nixon III worked his way into the rotation for the Mean Green, eventually becoming the second-leading tackler during the 2022 season. Nixon III was a first team All-Conference USA selection in 2022 as he totaled 105 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack. He finished his career at North Texas with 246 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks. After landing Austin Keys and DeMario Tolan in the first portal window, Keys solidified his role as Auburn's mike linebacker in spring practice. Nixon III is expected to play at will linebacker, along with Tolan. "Speed, coverage ability," Nixon III said. "I can get one-on-ones, blitzing ability and everything. That’s what they’re looking for out of me. Everything I just saw on film now is perfect. I can do everything that they want me to do." In the 247Sports transfer portal player rankings, Nixon III is a 3-star and the No. 418 overall player. 247Sports ranks him as the No. 35 linebacker. Auburn currently holds the No. 3 class in the 247Sports transfer portal team rankings. Nixon III is transfer pickup No. 6 for Auburn in the second portal window, joining Shorter, former Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne, former Ohio State receiver Caleb Burton, former Tulsa offensive lineman Jaden Muskrat and former App State edge rusher Jalen McLeod.

The baby boomer retirement surge will spark a forever labor shortage Aki Ito 8–10 minutes Ever since the pandemic, American companies big and small have been scrambling to find enough workers to stay fully staffed. They've been forced to offer big salaries and generous perks, while employees were free to shop around for better offers or simply walk off the job to join the Great Resignation. But now, layoffs are up and job openings are down. The economy is slowing, and the Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates at the fastest pace in decades. By any objective measure, the balance of power in the job market should be tipping back to employers. Strangely, though, it isn't. Ask pretty much anyone who's hiring these days, and they'll tell you something curious: It remains incredibly hard to find and hire enough qualified people for the roles they're desperately trying to fill. Somehow, workers still hold the power — and a massive shift that's underway in the labor market could keep it that way forever. The shift boils down to demographics. Ever since the baby boom that followed World War II, companies have enjoyed a never-ending supply of workers to tap. Hate your job? Fine — we'll just replace you with one of the hundred others who would be happy to fill your shoes. The abundance of workers made them cheap — and disposable. But now, those baby boomers are retiring in droves, and companies are suddenly finding themselves without an endless reserve of available bodies. "The labor shortage we're dealing with today is likely to remain this way — and perhaps get even worse," says Jay Denton, the chief analytics officer at LaborIQ, which provides salary analysis to employers. "It's going to continue to be really hard to attract people and get them into new jobs." We're entering what is shaping up to be the Forever Labor Shortage. It may seem like ancient history today, but the baby boom that followed the Second World War spurred a massive shift in the US labor market. As the boomers came of age, the economy was suddenly flush with millions of new workers looking for jobs. The working-age population jumped by 17% in the 1960s and by another 19% in the following decade. If you were looking to hire, times were good. But the boomers, unlike their parents, didn't have many babies themselves. The pill and the legalization of abortion sent fertility rates cratering — from 3.7 babies per woman in 1960 to 1.8 babies a decade and a half later. For a few decades, an influx of women and immigrants into the workforce kept the labor pool expanding. But by 2000, the rising supply of female workers reached its peak. And after Donald Trump took office, immigration took a nosedive. That meant there were no new workers left to hire, just as the first of the baby boomers were starting to retire. Then COVID-19 put the labor shortage into hyperdrive. Immigration came to a standstill, the boomer retirement wave began in earnest, and millions of younger boomers decided to tap into the stock boom and retire early. "All these tailwinds were pushing in the same direction, and suddenly they were all stopping at the same time," says Aaron Terrazas, the chief economist at the job-search site Glassdoor. "The slow-moving demographic tidal wave is finally cresting." In April, the unemployment rate declined to its lowest level since 1969 — meaning there are few available workers left to hire. Despite all the talk of how "no one wants to work anymore," there's actually a higher share of 25- to 54-year-olds with a job today than before the pandemic. And the shortage is just getting started. The Congressional Budget Office projects the potential labor force to expand by a mere 3.6% between 2022 and 2031 — one-eighth of the pace in the 1970s. Over the following decade, that growth is projected to slow even more, to 2.9%. That means employers face decades of an essentially stagnant labor pool. So what does the Forever Labor Shortage mean for workers in the years ahead? The bottom line is there will be an all-out competition for their services. For starters, they can expect higher salaries: In April, average hourly earnings jumped 4.4% from a year earlier. Denton, the labor analyst, expects wages to continue rising above the 2% annual bumps we saw in the decade before the pandemic struck. To attract enough workers, employers will also be forced to provide better benefits and working conditions. Terrazas points to the "big mindset shift" taking place in the trucking industry. To attract more drivers, some companies have started to break up their long-haul routes, allowing drivers to do shorter runs instead of forcing them to endure grueling, cross-country shifts. "When labor supply is plentiful, it's easier to do the business practices that are optimal for the business," Terrazas says. "But when labor is scarce, companies need to be more active in listening to what their employees want." Another effect of the labor shortage: In the years ahead, younger workers can expect to receive faster promotions as older bosses retire. Last year, by one estimate, 29% of managers — and 40% of CEOs — were 55 or older. As those old-timers begin to collect their gold watches and head for Florida, a generation of younger workers is going to find themselves elevated at a rapid clip. "There's going to be a lot of opportunity for career progression," Denton says. But perhaps the biggest change prompted by the labor shortage won't be how employers hire — it will be who they hire. Facing a constrained supply of workers, companies will be forced to employ those they have long shunned or ignored. The federal government is relaxing drug-testing requirements for job candidates, and more businesses are hiring people with criminal records. Companies are also making jobs more flexible, to attract mothers with young children and people with disabilities. In the Forever Labor Shortage, all labor is going to be in demand. But here's the thing about this new age of labor scarcity: Employers aren't going to take it lying down. The labor shortage makes workers more expensive, and that's not a price companies are willing to pay. "High prices spark innovations that expand supply and ultimately lower prices," Terrazas says. "Some of these innovations will be small, and some of them will be really big." So what kind of "innovations" will employers introduce? Some will turn to a tried-and-true tactic: offshoring. If businesses can't find enough workers at home, they'll just look overseas. Denton expects a lot of companies to say, "Hey, we just don't have the people to do what we need to do here, and we're going to find it where we can." As I wrote last year, tech companies are already moving their software-engineering roles abroad, hiring coders in places like Latin America. Other companies will attempt to eliminate the need for workers altogether. Take leisure and hospitality, a sector that no longer enjoys access to a steady stream of young, low-wage workers. Restaurants have started replacing servers with app-based ordering systems, and hotels have reduced the need for housekeeping staff by doing away with daily room cleanings. Those are changes businesses could easily have made in the past — mobile apps, for example, have been around for more than a decade — but they didn't think them worth the investment until an acute staffing shortage forced them to rethink the way they operated. Now the question is: At what point do these adaptations-by-necessity end up eradicating entire occupations for the next generation? That means the Forever Labor Shortage will be more an ongoing battle than an enduring peace. Power never changes hands without a struggle. Millions of workers are going to benefit from the new demographic shift — but the greater the reward to employees, the greater the backlash from employers will be. "There's a risk to this idea that the labor supply is perpetually going to be tight moving forward," Terrazas says. "It's a mistake to assume the line is always going to be upward to the right. There are going to be blips — potentially big blips — along that path." Aki Ito is a senior correspondent at Insider.

he is really in deep dooky as she has recordings and emails......................

i could care less if you are across the aisle the fact you do not further bullsh*t is what matters to me. i am more conservative than folks probably think. but i fear for my country and i get worked up to the point of panic. i always thought when i got old things would be right and things would make sense. i was not prepared..........

well kinda. but i know top shelf when i see it. and anytime he ever disagreed with me he never was insulting. hell i cannot say that. but i confess i do love insults. i am however working on my delivery.........

look it happened to my sister. she got it repeatedly and was so ashamed and afraid she did not tell anyone until she hit her fifties. and let me tell you it ruined her life. she still would not go into details with my mom about what all exactly he did to her.she turned to drugs, alcohol, and i always suspected prostitution as well. i was at home when it happened and i never knew. ever. but i was kept locked up. my point is people are different. quit thinking with that military mind and realize a lot of folks are not john wayne who can handle that kind of stuff.she started wearing tons of makeup to grammar school. she would put it on after we left the house. and let me tell you something. i pay for that every single day and it will never go away.

wow. kansas i bet you rock in real life. if you are ever in the anniston gadsden area and hit me ealry in the month i would buy you lunch or dinner as long as it is not close to the end of the month. but i mean that. you always seem to be the class in the room.........................

you are so right about family. i am alone in this world. when thanksgiving and mom and dads day roll around i am. no sisters. it is pretty scary to be almost 68 and be alone. it is pretty tough watching friends go celebrate this or that with joy and laughter and home cooked meals which i rarely ever get. sometimes i think it is a trade off for being able to live this long. i am certainly not looking for sympathy. it is what it is. but no one cares as much about people as they used to. i was stuck in the pentagon in dc on my first thanksgiving. a sailor i barely knew just showed up knocking on my door telling me to get my stuff that he would not allow a brother to suffer the holiday alone. i am sure they still do it in the military but this kind of thing rarely ever happens. the worst thing is i live alone and fear one day i will pass and no one will know for a couple of weeks. that happened to a fellow musician i met. he was well loved by all. no one saw him and it turns up he was lying dead for about two weeks and they still talk about how bad it looked. and you guys say have faith and turn to jesus. but i had faith in much of anything beaten out of me. i do pray and i hope one day jesus reaches out to me. pardon me for getting off tangent. i am high at the moment and sometimes i am less guarded in what i say. as an after thought when god says no other god before me does this mean i can believe in other gods as long as he is number one?

remember ernest angsly ? he gave me the creeps real bad. i might have his last name wrong.

at least he did not make fun of rape victims.........right?

E. Jean Carroll's Lawyer Says Donald Trump's CNN Town Hall Slurs Crossed The Line Lee Moran 3–4 minutes Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, on Monday told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that Donald Trump’s slurs against her client during his controversial CNN town hall last week are “definitely actionable.” Kaplan also teased an imminent development in another defamation case that Carroll has brought against the former president stemming from derogatory comments he made in 2019, when he was still in the White House. A Manhattan jury last week found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages after Carroll alleged that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and that Trump responded with insults and false claims that Carroll was lying. The day after the verdict, Trump called Carroll a “whack job” and claimed he didn’t know her during the fiercely criticized CNN event. The supportive town hall audience lapped up Trump’s comments, even laughing in response. Maddow on Monday noted that Carroll and her lawyer forced “accountability” on Trump, but pointed out that “he did it again, the defamation” while live on CNN. “The calling you a liar. The exact same things the jury held him liable for the day before, he did again the next day on national television,” said Maddow. “Is that just the way it has to be? Do you think that potentially could be actionable, if you were to file another suit? Would it work the same way?” “So, it’s definitely actionable,” Kaplan replied. “And here, the cruelty will make him less wealthy. He is not going to get away with it another time. It’s unprecedented for a person to have been held liable in defamation to keep doing the defamation, so there are not a lot of cases that we can look to for a playbook about how to do it.” “But, suffice to say, I have a lot of lawyers who are very busy looking into this, and we are weighing all of our options,” Kaplan added. Maddow highlighted another pending lawsuit that Carroll has brought against Trump, stemming from the 2019 slurs. Kaplan suggested a development “very, very soon” in that case ― potentially “two to three days, max” ― saying “we will be able to move forward with damages in that case.” “We don’t even need a finding of liability, because we already have it,” she explained. “And we will be able to find damages. And, there, the defamation damages are much higher, because that was the first statement he made.”

we all saw rudi lose his mind on national tele and you guy are claiming he did nothing. lol what a bunch of wankers. he did his part to try and overthrow a lawful election. if he was a lib you guys would be all over it.

the point i think bothering ichy is some of you seem happy about someone losing their life. the fact they were mentally makes it worse. and what is the first commandment? this country enjoys death too much. it has become part of our culture. and again, since no one answered is a choke hold still legal? the last i heard it was NOT. if it was then mr hero messed up trying to help out.

thanks. only had one cup of coffee..........

i have a question about the bible since we touched on it earlier in this thread. If the bible is gods word why is it that so many things concerning books of this or books of that WHO decided what would and what would not be included in the bible? this makes no sense to me and it is confusing. why not allow everything god said available to be read? who gets to make that choice for god? i am not looking for an argument i am curious.

rollingstone.com Rudy Giuliani Responds to Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Rape Seth Hettena 6–7 minutes Skip to main content Giuliani Smears Former Assistant After She Accuses Him of Repeated Sexual Assault The former mayor’s lawyer suggested his accuser, who worked for Giuliani for two years as an assistant, was an “escort” Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani Spencer Platt/Getty Images Rudy Giuliani responded to a graphic series of sexual assault allegations by smearing his accuser, noting an ex had called her an “escort” after a previous sexual assault suit. Noelle Dunphy, who worked for Giuliani from 2019 to 2021, filed a $10 million lawsuit Monday against the former New York mayor, alleging he repeatedly forced her to have sex with him. In a statement, Giuliani’s team denied the accusations and attacked Dunphy. “Mayor Rudy Giuliani unequivocally denies the allegations raised by Ms. Dunphy and every news outlet covering this story must include the fact that an ex-partner accused her of being, ‘an escort that fleeces wealthy men,’” Giuliani attorney Ted Goodman said in a statement to Rolling Stone. Giuliani’s lawyer is referencing a previous domestic abuse case Dunphy was involved in. In 2015, she accused a partner of raping her and violently abusing her in a lawsuit. That lawsuit ended with a judge ordering Dunphy’s partner to pay her $10,000. The attacks on the accuser come amid a shocking lawsuit that accuses Giuliani of sexual battery, assault, and harassment and paints a picture of “America’s Mayor” and 2008 presidential candidate as a dissolute, drunken sex pest. Dunphy said she worked under constant threat that Giuliani might demand sex from her at any moment. She claimed that Giuliani drank “morning, noon, and night.” He also took Viagra, according to the lawsuit. “While working with Ms. Dunphy, Giuliani would look to Ms. Dunphy, point to his erect penis, and tell her that he could not do any work until ‘you take care of this,’” Dunphy wrote in her complaint. Dunphy said she was first pressured into performing oral sex on Giuliani a few days after she began working for him as director of business development on a $1 million a year salary. That generous offer was a “sham” motivated by Giuliani’s desire to pursue a sexual relationship, according to the complaint. Giuliani said in a recorded statement that he “wanted [Ms. Dunphy] from the day [he] interviewed [her].” Giuliani has paid her $12,000 in cash, according to the complaint. While staying as a guest in Giuliani’s Upper East side apartment, Dunphy said she exited the bathroom to find the former mayor in his suite. The former mayor then sat on the bed and pulled down his pants in a scene reminiscent of Giuliani’s behavior in the 2020 film by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Subsquent Moviefilm. (Giuliani claimed that he had acted appropriately in Borat.) “Giuliani then pulled her head onto his penis, without asking for or obtaining any form of consent,” the complaint states. “He had her by her hair. It became clear to Ms. Dunphy that there was no way out of giving him oral sex. She did so, against her will.” Dunphy said she felt “extreme pressure” to go along with Giuliani’s demands because she did not want to lose her promised salary and the former mayor’s promises to represent her pro bono in legal matters arising from a domestic abuse case. On more than occasion, Dunphy says she was too intoxicated to consent to sex with Giuliani. The former mayor also initiated sex with Dunphy over her objections, even after being told no, according to the complaint. According to Dunphy’s complaint, Giuliani told her he liked receiving oral sex while he was on the phone with then President Trump and others because it made him “feel like Bill Clinton.” The former mayor also told Dunphy that he was concerned Trump might try to steal her away from working with Giuliani, the lawsuit alleges. In her 70-page court filing, Dunphy also backed up previous reports that Giuliani was selling pardons. Giuliani said in 2019 he was “selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split,” according to the complaint. The New York Times has previously reported that former CIA officer John Kiriakou was told that Giuliani could help him secure a pardon for $2 million. Kiriakou rejected the offer, but an associate, fearing that Giuliani was illegally selling pardons, alerted the FBI, the Times reported. Dunphy claims that Giuliani instructed her not to talk to the FBI about various matters she had witnessed while working for him. According to the complaint, Giuliani threatened that he had access to professional investigators who could make her look bad, according to the complaint. Dunphy says in the complaint that she recorded Giuliani—with his consent—discussing the penis size of Jewish men and remarking how Black and Hispanic men “hit women more than anybody,” according to the complaint. He also made used an anti-gay slur to attack Matt Damon and claimed that Mayor Michael Bloomberg “became gay” because his wife left him, according to the lawsuit.

come on guys lets get out the vote!

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247sports.com Jason Caldwells Monday morning quarterback column Jason Caldwell 42–54 minutes Talking Auburn baseball, Auburn softball and Auburn football in the transfer portal in this edition of the MMQB. Impressive coaching job For much of the 2023 season, Auburn's pitching issues were at the center of some of the frustration for the Auburn baseball fans because of the struggles on the mound for the Tigers. Now heading into the final SEC series of the regular season, it’s time to give this coaching staff for the job they've done working with Auburn’s pitchers this year. Coming into the year, Auburn knew it was going to be a partial rebuild with the staff after losing weekend starters Mason Barnett and Trace Bright along with top reliever Carson Skipper as well as closer Blake Burkhalter. Throw in LHP Hayden Mullins and you have 20 wins and 16 saves to replace right out of the gate. Without those pitchers, Auburn was going to count on Joseph Gonzalez, Tommy Sheehan and Carson Swilling to be the veterans to build around this season. Instead, the Tigers got just five innings out of Gonzalez on opening weekend before an injury ended his year. Sheehan has been bothered by bone spurs and has thrown just two and two/thirds innings, while a rules violation made Swilling ineligible this year. That partial rebuild turned into a total overhaul in a hurry, and it just took time to put the pieces together for a staff now composed almost entirely of junior college players and true freshmen. The key has been the pitching of Tommy Vail in a starting role. Scheduled to play the role of Skipper this season as a setup man to Will Cannon out of the bullpen, Vail has instead turned into Auburn’s most dependable starting pitcher. Cannon was a closer early, moved into the starting role, and now has settled back in as a bullpen piece. It has taken lots of trial and error this season with junior college transfer Christian Herberholz stepping into a starter role along with Chase Allsup late in the year, but the production has shown up the last four weeks. Now it’s time to finish off the regular season with a strong week against a very good offensive team from Missouri. Puzzling draw for Auburn softball? When you just look at the numbers, Auburn’s 2 seed in the Clemson Regional (No. 16) doesn’t make much sense. The Tigers finished 40-17 overall and finished third in the SEC, but Alabama got the No. 5 national seed despite finishing fifth in the league in the regular season. When you dig deeper, however, the numbers don’t tell the entire story. Auburn lost non-conference games to Pitt and Georgia Tech, who both finished under .500 this season. The Tigers also had two opportunities against both Oklahoma and Northwestern, and lost all four. Meanwhile, Alabama had wins over Florida State, Duke, Texas and UCF in the non-conference. While I still don't think that's anywhere close to enough to warrant a national seed, obviously schedule strength and non-conference wins were very important to the selection committee. In a world where teams are separated by just a few games over the course of the season, having a few big non-conference wins could make a huge difference. That was very likely the difference between hosting and being on the road for Auburn this season. Football portal keeps giving Auburn added another important piece from the transfer portal last week with the addition of offensive lineman Jaden Muskrat from Tulsa. One of the things the Tigers have been looking for is a player that can play multiple positions, something Muskrat brings to the table. That makes him invaluable because injuries are going to happen on the offensive line. Having someone that knows the offense and is able to play guard or tackle makes him worth his weight in gold. That’s what Muskrat will be able to do. Expected to get his first shot at guard, Muskrat will likely also be a top option at tackle behind starters Dillon Wade and Gunner Britton. Speaking of Wade, I continue to hear rave reviews from his teammates and some coaches after watching the Tulsa transfer in action during the spring. He’s a player that if he can stay healthy, will have a great opportunity to hear his name called in the NFL Draft this time next year.