BREAKING UPDATE
Oct 1 9:20AM: I’ve been told that a new contract has been signed this morning.  After extending the contract on an hourly basis at midnight, the new contract was apparently signed sometime around 9am today.  Details to follow.   Click “read more” to see previous updates.

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The GOP’s electoral “reform” plot to steal California’s electoral votes (in order to steal the White House in 2008) has been thwarted. An impressive groundswell of progressive activism scared off the right-wing hacks who wanted to change the rules of the election in the middle of the campaign.
This is great news, because it means [...]

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For the past several weeks, the United Auto Workers International Union (UAW) has been in the middle of contentious, high-stakes bargaining. The contract issues still to be resolved include wages, getting management to provide for adequate employee health care, and workload protections to ensure that employees are paid for all the work that they [...]

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The Washington Post has published shocking details about a database kept by Bush’s Department of Homeland Security. Apparently, when you pass through airports or drive into the US from Canada and Mexico, border agents input all kinds of information about you into a giant database.
What kinds of information are in the database? Well, agents [...]

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President Bush said today that the GOP has a “good record to run on” when it comes to fighting racism. Before you laugh — think about it. That might be an even bigger lie than the one about Iraq having WMD. Let’s fact-check our President real quick. Here are the latest [...]

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