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Biden’s decision to stand in UAW picket line makes him first sitting president to join an ongoing strike

President Joe Biden joined United Auto Workers strikers on their picket line on September 26 as their work stoppage against major carmakers hit day 12, a demonstration of support for organized labor unparalleled in presidential history. “You deserve the significant raise you need,” President Biden said through a bullhorn while wearing a union baseball cap after arriving at a General Motors parts distribution warehouse located in a suburb west of Detroit. He walked along the picket line, exchanging fist bumps with grinning workers. He encouraged them to continue fighting for better wages despite concerns that a prolonged strike could...

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Slander campaigns: How Republicans have revived the “Swiftboat” lie strategy for the Biden impeachment

House Republicans have revived the infamous Swiftboat lie strategy that helped defeat John Kerry in 2004. In essence, it involves relentlessly lying about a candidate and smearing his or her name and reputation in the hopes it’ll shave a few points off their popularity with independent voters. While virtually 100 percent of the men who served with Kerry in Vietnam spoke glowingly of his service, a group who did not serve with him made up lies and exaggerations. And the Swiftboat effort was well funded: Clarence Thomas’ sugar daddy Harlan Crow threw big bucks into it in 2004. Kerry and those...

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President Biden honors the late Senator John McCain at his Hanoi memorial during visit to Vietnam

President Joe Biden closed a visit to Vietnam on September 11 by spotlighting new business deals and partnerships between the two countries and paying respects at a memorial honoring his late friend and colleague Senator John McCain, who endured a lengthy imprisonment in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Biden met with Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính, who also accompanied Biden to a quick drop by at a meeting of business leaders. Biden also sat down with President Võ Văn Thưởng, who hosted the U.S. president for a formal state luncheon. The two sides are looking to strengthen their partnership...

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Hasbro now forbids its illustrators from using AI to generate artwork for Dungeons & Dragons franchise

The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it will not allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids, fantasy characters, or scenery. D&D art is supposed to be fanciful. But at least one ax-wielding giant seemed too weird for some fans, leading them to take to social media to question if it was human-made. Hasbro-owned D&D Beyond, which makes online tools and other companion content for the franchise, said it did not know until August 5 that an illustrator it has worked with for nearly a decade used AI to create commissioned...

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A rebuttal to the GOP debate’s trash talk of President Biden’s record of improving America for Americans

The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle took place in Milwaukee on August 23. While all the drama seemed focused on whether or not anybody beyond Chris Christie would take a serious swing at Trump, much of the evening’s time was devoted to trashing President Joe Biden. So, for anyone still clinging to their sanity after enduring all the lies, here is a quick summary of the things that Biden has accomplished with a little help from Democrats in Congress in his first two-and-a-half years in office. First of all, Joe Biden has restored trust, confidence, and...

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Local Investment: President Joe Biden visits Milwaukee to highlight the success of his economic policies

President Joe Biden traveled to Wisconsin on August 15 to highlight his economic policies in a state critical to his reelection fortunes, just a week before Republicans descend on Milwaukee for the party’s first presidential debate. His arrival in Milwaukee came on the eve of the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, major economic legislation that he signed into law with great ceremony – but polls show that most people know little about it or what it does. Wisconsin is among the handful of critical states where President Biden needs to persuade voters that his policies are having a...

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