This clip form More Perfect Union tells us about a potential rail strike that could affect about 115,000 workers; the Biden Administration is trying its hand at mediation to arrive at a contract that would avert a work stoppage (definitely not a good result for most of us while trying to head off a recession, but it’s still important to support the workers striking for equitable pay, time off, benefits, safer working conditions, etc...there is a history behind rail strikes of course – the illustration above shows the U.S. Army breaking up the 1893 Pullman Strike...the work action ultimately led to the signing into law of recognition of Labor Day by President Grover Cleveland the following year, as noted here...probably a few weeks early in pointing this out I know)...
...and Farron Cousins tells us about the DCCC and other like-minded organizations using their funds to hype election-denying pro-MAGA candidates (“gobsmacking” and “dunderheaded” doesn’t even begin to describe this as far as I’m concerned; I had a lot more to say about this here)...
...and it seems that TX guv Greg Abbott was busy at a Huntsville fundraiser hosted by his pal Jeff Bradley after the Uvalde school massacre (and Bradley got a little bitchy when questioned about it apparently – Ana with Jessica Burbank...more here)...
...and David Pakman tells us about Kansas – Kansas! – voters defeating an anti-abortion amendment...I pretty much agree with Pakman’s coverage here, since I’ve seen pretty much the same anecdotal analysis elsewhere also – you can be sure that the other side is going to look at this and try to change their messaging for future upcoming contests on this issue, but it’s pretty damn hard to get around the inescapable fact that the “shadow docket” SCOTUS took away a hard-earned right enjoyed by nearly half of this country for about the last 50 years...
...and keeping with the theme of the prior clip, Sam and Emma and the Majority Report crew discuss the consequences of the Dobbs ruling in polling data so far, also considering the good news from Kansas last night, though nothing is “written in stone” of course as the panel says; they may be correct that, tragically, more stories of women probably dying of sepsis from untreated ectopic pregnancies will emerge, combined with the likelihood that that will impact public polling and support for abortion...still unbelievable that we’ve reached this barbaric state in this country, but the fundamentalist nut jobs have been itching for this fight for 50 years – now let them live with the result...and yeah, GREAT point that “Caribou Barbie” once railed about “death panels” from Obamacare – well, what the hell do you call what we have now based on this...highlighting the following below...
...here is the video...
...and happy birthday to the incomparable Tony Bennett.
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