Why we have weekends – Robert Reich (2:26):

We got yet another good jobs report from the Biden Administration Friday. Remember how the previous administration had been one of only two administrations to preside over job losses during their term. The other loser was Herbert Hoover, also a Republican.

The formula for successful job growth is not a secret. President Biden tells us out loud all the time – from the bottom up and from the middle out. Labor unions are integral to this formula as they help secure better wages and safer working conditions for their members. Much better for all when the rewards of an economic system are widely spread among many than narrowly spread among a few. 

Thanks to all you workers out there. And never make the mistake that a Republican politician will help you out. Republicans do nothing but hurt laborers. Do you need any more proof?

A) Let’s start with a labor history question: A state Supreme Court in Massachusetts was the first to hold that labor unions were legal. Was that before or after the Civil War?

B) 15 minutes of fame. Mark Rissi of Cedar Rapids was sentenced to 2.5 years for threatening an election official. In what state did the election official that Rissi threatened live?

C) Speaking of election officials, what member of the Trump gang lost a summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by election officials in Georgia?

D) What was Idalia?

E) What organization mostly made up of Irish miners in eastern Pennsylvania was crushed in the 1879s?

F) A week ago Saturday a young man committed a mass murder in Jacksonville, Florida in a crime that was driven by what motive?

G) A new rule proposed by the Labor Department this week would extend overtime pay to those earning less than how much per year in a full time job?

H) In a truly unexpected move, Georgia Gov, Brian Kemp refused to do what to start the process to fire Fulton County DA Fani Willis?

I) In a somewhat related story Republicans in Wisconsin’s legislature are preparing to do what to newly elected Supreme Court justice Janet Protasiewicz?

J) Rapper M&M sued what Republican presidential candidate to keep that candidate from using M&M’s songs in the campaign?

K) You can’t get there from here – the Panama Canal is limiting the cargo weight of ships using the Canal due to what?

L) September 1, 1939 – what began?

M) Which woman associated with the labor union movement was described as “the most dangerous woman in America” in 1902?

N) Iowa’s AG Brenna Bird will appeal a district court’s decision that will allow what official forms to be printed in languages other than English in Iowa?

O) Alabama’s AG argued in court Wednesday that he has the power to file criminal charges against anyone who does what?

P) What national figure froze in the middle of a news conference Wednesday?

Q) Real horrors. In Canberra, Australia a neurosurgeon removed what from a woman’s brain in what is thought to be a world first?

R) Trial gets under way this week in Canada for the leaders of a protest last year that shut down what major Canadian city?

S) A financial statement by what Supreme Court justice last week revealed yet more major gifts from benefactor Harland Crow?

T) What is the purpose of “Right to Work” legislation?

Asking why women aren’t having more babies in a country with the highest maternal and infant mortality rate in the developed world, no mandated maternity leave, childcare higher than in state tuition in over 30 states, and school boards afraid of facts is hilarious. – Kyla Lacey

Answers:

A) before – 1842

B) Arizona – Maricopa county

C) Giuliani – he had no evidence to produce to show that the election workers had done anything

D) A cat4 hurricane that hit Florida Wednesday

E) the Molly McGuires

F) racial hatred.

G) $55,000

H) Call the legislature into special session

I) Impeach the new justice, even though she has yet to hear a case

J) Vivek Ramaswamy

K) drought – probably caused by climate change

L) WWII – Germany launched an attack on Poland

M) Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

N) ballots – Bird wants ballots printed in English only

O) somehow aids in a woman leaving Alabama to get an abortion

P) Mitch McConnell

Q) a 3 inch living round worm – this happened a year ago but was just reported

R) the capital, Ottawa

S) Clarence Thomas

T) It prevents employees from forced union membership

Trump is using his presidential campaign to stay out of prison

Ramaswamy is using his campaign to dodge a legal subpoena and lawsuit in Bermuda

Christie is using his campaign to resuscitate his dead career

RFK Jr is using his campaign to grift

None give a damn about America. – Lindy Li

Have happy and meaningful Labor Day folks!