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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump takes his #campaign of #hate to #Wisconsin’s #critical #Democratic #stronghold ahead of #vicepresidentialdebate.

Trump is scheduled to appear at a #nonunion #manufacturing #facility in #Waunakee, a suburb of #Wisconsin’s capital city of #Madison in the #Democratic stronghold of #DaneCounty. #DaneManufacturing, a #metal #fabricator that has a long #history of #hosting #Republican #candidates and #officeholders.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-biden-wisconsin-debate-walz-vance-60307f1fa8530c60a7f7cde721260efc

[Video] #Trump paid $20,000 to #rent #plant for #fake #union #autoworker #event: #filing.

#CampaignFinance #filings that show Trump paid $20,000 to the #nonunion #autoparts #plant he used to #stage the #fake #event.

#Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Disinformation #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-paid-20-000-to-rent-plant-for-fake-union-auto-worker-event-filing-203677765970

In a video, #Fain said a #nonunion contractor driving an SUV hit 5 picketers while leaving a #GM parts depot in #Flint, #Michigan. 2 of the workers went to the hospital for treatment. The SUV fled….
At a #Stellantis parts depot in #California, nonunion truckers crossing the picket line have pulled #guns on #strikers, Fain said. In #Massachusetts, a #UAW member & a state #senator were #hit by “cars on the picket line,” Fain said, w/o clarifying whether the drivers were connected to the automaker.

“There Hasn’t Been Empathy”: NYT Staff Frustration Over After Sports Desk Closure

New York Times employees pressed management for answers about the paper’s recent decision to #disband the #sports section.

The move left many angry about the company’s plan to #subcontract certain sports coverage through The Athletic, the #nonunion subscription-based sports website the Times acquired last year.

“There is sincere concern in the newsroom that if this is left to stand, they could do this to any section, and nothing they said at the meeting made us feel otherwise,” one Times staffer tells me.

@JoeKahn

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/new-york-times-sports

Even in Japan, I sometimes end up in a conversation about Gringo football. David Zirin helps me find worthwhile parts so the talk isn't as big a waste of my time.

This article is from ten years ago, but recent news about responses to a near-death on the field suggest not much has changed. I'm looking for an article that mentioned player union demands for safer grass on the fields.

.> officials who—I mean, at the risk of sounding unkind—are unskilled, untrained scabs who are in over their heads on an NFL field in front of 70,000 fans. They have no idea what they’re doing. And that’s what made Monday night such a big story, is that it crystallized in front of a national audience the problems of both corporate arrogance as well as unskilled, non-union workers.