The Biden administration just filed a landmark lawsuit that could break up Amazon's $1.3 trillion empire.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/26/regulators-launch-suit-to-upend-amazons-business-empire-00118158

Joe Biden joins striking autoworkers in Michigan, becoming the first modern US president to visit a picket line. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/biden-picket-line-michigan-uaw/index.html

If you have not not figured it out [it is the same pattern, over and over], the GOP demands giant cuts when the Dems are in power. Then, the public blames the Dems for the cuts.
#GOPShutdown

It seems nuts not to pay prison guards, but what do I know?
#GOPShutdown

Steven Cheung, Trump campaign spokesperson, has deleted his post claiming that Trump purchased a handgun in South Carolina. If true, Trump committed (another) federal crime. Cheung is now in full damage-control mode, denying that Trump purchased the gun.

Call me a radical Lefty, but I don’t think an entry-level federal employee should be subject to more stringent ethics rules than Clarence Thomas.

NoLabelsOrg
brands their third-party bid as “unifying” & “commonsense.” So you might not have noticed how extreme the rhetoric of this purportedly centrist organization has become.

NEW memo—their words speak for themselves...

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/no-labels-extremism-in-their-own-words

From Sen. Bernie Sanders newsletter:

"Today there are tens of thousands of UAW workers working 60, 70 hrs./wk making inadequate wages & benefits. These workers are getting squeezed while the guys at the top have never had it so good. Meanwhile, weekly wages for average American workers today are lower than 50 years ago.

I strongly support the UAW strike against the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford and Stellantis), and I believe you should too. They are fighting for all of us. "

Go while you can because Republicans suck!

National parks are free to enter Sept. 23

Can we even call people who report the news "journalists" when they're too busy "Both side"-ing every issue?

More evidence of my naïveté: I honestly thought political media would care far more about women and girls dying due to lack of access to abortion care than they would over a U.S. Senator wearing a hoodie to work. Serves me right.

WashPost:
U.S. braces for costly #GovernmentShutdown in eight days
Federal workers and military service members won’t be paid, while federal programs — from some food safety inspections to child care funds — come to an abrupt halt. 1x
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/22/us-braces-calamitous-costly-government-shutdown-eight-days/

Cash hidden in clothes, lxuruy vehicle and gold bars.... allegedly from bribes.

The indictment of the chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee ====>

https://cbsnews.com/news/robert-menendez-indicted-bribery/

Justice Dept is alleging Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using Menendez’s power and influence as a senator to seek to protect and enrich New Jersey businessmen

This seems significant. // Biden administration to ban medical debt from Americans' credit scores - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-administration-to-ban-medical-debt-credit-scores/ #medicaldebt

My dear Canadian friends...

Canada has 140 TLAV (M113) Armored Personnel Carriers. 67 are slated to be scrapped.

Armatec, a Canadian defense contractor, says they can refurbish them for Ukraine. The government is scrapping them anyway.

195 LAV II Bison APCs & 149 LAV II Coyote Armored Recon Vehicle are also slated to be removed from service this year.

Ukraine really needs those vehicles. Could y'all scream at your government please?

President Zelenskyy has raised a profoundly important point: Russia is not a legally member of the United Nations or its Security Council. The membership that they're using was given to the Soviet Union — which ceased to exist on 25 December 1991. They cannot inherit membership and should be voted out immediately.