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So this was posted to a retro video game group on facebook. The OP said they gave out this "prototype" back in the day, but another user mentioned that there's no mention of it on Nintendo's website.

Another user replied that they just updated it 10 minutes ago and they might need to clear their cache lmao

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that it will monitor voting in a county in Northeast Ohio, citing intimidation concerns stemming from a social media post from a local sheriff about migrants.

The DOJ will deploy its staff to observe and ensure that Portage County, Ohio, is complying with federal voting rights laws during the early period and on Election Day, the department announced Tuesday.

“Voters in Portage County have raised concerns about intimidation resulting from the surveillance and the collection of personal information regarding voters, as well as threats concerning the electoral process,” the release states.

The department added that it “regularly” has its staff monitor election law compliance all over the country, noting that it deploys “federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management, where authorized by federal court order.”

The news comes as Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican, was scrutinized over a post on social media in September, where he asserted that if Vice President Harris wins in November, they should jot down her supporter’s addresses and have migrants sent there, The Associated Press reported.

Zuchowski’s post, shared on his campaign account and personal Facebook profile, was seen as a threat to Democrats, while his backers argued he was utilizing his right to free speech and making a political statement.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio demanded in a letter that Zuchowski take down his post. The organization also threatened to sue the Republican sheriff.

He took down the Facebook post in late September, according to the AP.

Portage County Sheriff’s Office told the news wire that “monitoring of voting locations/polls by the DOJ is conducted nationwide and is not unique to Portage County. This is a normal practice by the DOJ.”

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/17842009

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Talks between Boeing (BA.N) and its key manufacturing union broke down, and no negotiations are currently planned as the financially damaging strike heads into a fourth week. The company said on Tuesday it withdrew its pay offer to around 33,000 U.S. factory workers, saying the union had not considered its proposals seriously after two days of talks. The stalemate shows no signs of resolution, a person briefed on the talks said. "Unfortunately, the union did not seriously consider our proposals," Boeing Commercial Airplanes head Stephanie Pope said in a note to the employees, calling the union's demands "non-negotiable". "Further negotiations do not make sense at this point," she said. The breakdown compounds financial and production problems at Boeing, one of the two primary global commercial aircraft makers. The company has been burning cash in 2024 as it struggles to recover from a January mid-air panel blowout on a new plane that exposed weak safety protocols and spurred U.S. regulators to curb its production. Earlier this year, Boeing replaced its CEO Dave Calhoun with Kelly Ortberg, who started in August with the hope to pull together a labor deal and shore up the company's reputation with customers and regulators. So far, none of that has happened.

Boeing is now examining options to raise billions of dollars to shore up its balance sheet. Reuters reported that it was looking to sell stock and equity-like securities, with its prized investment grade credit rating at risk. The company has also introduced temporary furloughs for thousands of salaried employees, while the factories producing its best-selling 737 MAX and its 767 and 777 planes are shut. Shares of the U.S. planemaker were down 1.7% in premarket trading on Wednesday. The stock has lost more than 40% of its value in 2024, with a 5% fall since the strike began on Sept. 13. Referring to the two days of negotiations, Pope said, "Our team bargained in good faith and made new and improved proposals to try to reach a compromise, including increases in take-home pay and retirement." The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union pushed back on those assertions, saying that Boeing was "hell-bent on standing on the non-negotiated offer" proposed last month. "They refused to propose any wage increases, vacation/sick leave accrual, progression, ratification bonus, or the 401k Match/SCRC Contribution. They also would not reinstate the defined benefit pension," it said. The union, which represents factory workers on the west coast, wants a 40% pay rise over four years and the restoration of a defined-benefit pension that was taken away in the contract a decade ago. More than 90% of workers voted down an offer of a 25% pay rise over four years before going on strike. Boeing made an improved offer last month that it described as its "best and final", which would give workers a 30% raise and restore a performance bonus, but the union said a survey of its members found that was not enough.

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Talks between Boeing (BA.N) and its key manufacturing union broke down, and no negotiations are currently planned as the financially damaging strike heads into a fourth week. The company said on Tuesday it withdrew its pay offer to around 33,000 U.S. factory workers, saying the union had not considered its proposals seriously after two days of talks. The stalemate shows no signs of resolution, a person briefed on the talks said. "Unfortunately, the union did not seriously consider our proposals," Boeing Commercial Airplanes head Stephanie Pope said in a note to the employees, calling the union's demands "non-negotiable". "Further negotiations do not make sense at this point," she said. The breakdown compounds financial and production problems at Boeing, one of the two primary global commercial aircraft makers. The company has been burning cash in 2024 as it struggles to recover from a January mid-air panel blowout on a new plane that exposed weak safety protocols and spurred U.S. regulators to curb its production. Earlier this year, Boeing replaced its CEO Dave Calhoun with Kelly Ortberg, who started in August with the hope to pull together a labor deal and shore up the company's reputation with customers and regulators. So far, none of that has happened.

Boeing is now examining options to raise billions of dollars to shore up its balance sheet. Reuters reported that it was looking to sell stock and equity-like securities, with its prized investment grade credit rating at risk. The company has also introduced temporary furloughs for thousands of salaried employees, while the factories producing its best-selling 737 MAX and its 767 and 777 planes are shut. Shares of the U.S. planemaker were down 1.7% in premarket trading on Wednesday. The stock has lost more than 40% of its value in 2024, with a 5% fall since the strike began on Sept. 13. Referring to the two days of negotiations, Pope said, "Our team bargained in good faith and made new and improved proposals to try to reach a compromise, including increases in take-home pay and retirement." The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union pushed back on those assertions, saying that Boeing was "hell-bent on standing on the non-negotiated offer" proposed last month. "They refused to propose any wage increases, vacation/sick leave accrual, progression, ratification bonus, or the 401k Match/SCRC Contribution. They also would not reinstate the defined benefit pension," it said. The union, which represents factory workers on the west coast, wants a 40% pay rise over four years and the restoration of a defined-benefit pension that was taken away in the contract a decade ago. More than 90% of workers voted down an offer of a 25% pay rise over four years before going on strike. Boeing made an improved offer last month that it described as its "best and final", which would give workers a 30% raise and restore a performance bonus, but the union said a survey of its members found that was not enough.

"Genocide is well and good doo doo dee doo"

The White House on Tuesday doubled down on its stance that it won’t force striking dockworkers back on the job, and insisted that impacts to America’s vital goods will be minimal for now.

The key phrase is for now.

Just after midnight on Tuesday, thousands of dockworkers from New England to Texas represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association, who load and unload cargo at ports on the East and Gulf coasts, took to the picket lines. So far the Biden administration is sticking to its script: try to bring the union and the shipping industry to the table, monitor the situation and hope the dispute doesn’t drag out.

All of this means President Joe Biden is not planning to use powers from the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to end the strike. Business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are already calling for Biden to invoke the act, but that would infuriate union members just weeks before the election.

On Tuesday the Republican chair of the House Transportation Committee also called on the administration to use the Taft-Hartley law and blamed the administration for not preventing the strike in the first place. The letter, signed by Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and and Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Chair Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) pointed to President George Bush’s decision to invoke the act against striking dock workers in 2002 as an example of effective action.

“Continued inaction only compounds our Nation’s economic harm, further burdening American families’ pocketbooks,” the Republicans wrote.

The White House said the president and vice president were briefed on assessments by federal agencies that “show impacts on consumers are expected to be limited at this time,” including fuel, food, medicine and infant formula.

The White House also outlined all the products that it says will not be affected by the strike, including bulk shipments of grain, crude oil, gasoline, natural gas, and other liquid fuel exports and imports.

But many other products — from fresh fruit to new cars and materials for manufacturing — will be affected, and that list could grow depending on how long the strike lasts.

For now, Biden is counting on his lieutenants to try to cajole both sides into a deal. He’s tasked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and economic adviser Lael Brainard to try to keep negotiations going.

The administration is also trying to assure Americans it has learned lessons about the supply chain from the pandemic, severe weather events and the collapse this year of a Baltimore bridge that idled part of that city’s port.

One Biden ally, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, suggested on Monday that the closeness to the election had its upsides because consumers shouldn’t feel major impacts from a strike during the few weeks before voters finish heading to the polls.

But the head of the dockworkers union has threatened to “cripple” the economy to get the shipping industry he’s negotiating with to meet his demands for higher wages. There were some last-minute hopes Monday for a deal before the strike began, with the shipping industry saying it had offered dockworkers “nearly” 50 percent wage increases over the next six years.

Appearing on Fox News Tuesday morning, Harold J. Daggett, international president of the dockworkers union, said it’s “time for Washington to put so much pressure on them to take care of us because we took care of them.”

“Now you start to realize who the longshoremen are, right? People never gave a shit about us until now when they finally realized that the chain is being broken now. Cars won’t come in, food won’t come in, clothing won’t come in. You know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world,” he said.