billion per day and drive inflation even higher. todd: kevin cork e has the lost. kevin: on the virge of striking across america as result some freight and passenger train companies have already begun reducing services. from the international association of machinists and workers, the tentative agreement has been rejected and strike authorization was approved by members and extension has been agreed to until september 29th to allow us to negotiate changes with the nccc, in hopes of an agreement. what that means is most unions involved well, unfortunately, most have agreed, but two major unions are holding out. so a 30-day cooling off period, we ve been talking about for weeks, ends on friday. that means a strike could begin later this week and that would be devastating. in all, talking about a dozen unions in dispute with six of the largest freight rail carriers in the country and a strike could be economically devastating with 60 s,000 workers holding out for better wo
fragile democracy takes us to wisconsin, or a conservative majority supreme court just made it harder for its own citizens to vote, in a move that just happens to align quite nicely with the agenda of a certain twice impeached former president. and the velshi banned book club is in session, with a historical fiction title for younger adults, that has gotten parent so out of that it was the subject of a viral video, of an angry mom calling for its removal. velshi starts now. good morning, i am ali velshi. it is sunday, july 11th, 18 months and five days since a group of anti-american insurrectionists attacked the united states capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government and destroy american democracy in the name of a former president. mind you, that attempt is still ongoing in other ways. more on that later in the show. but luckily for america, the january 6th select committee continues its vital work in investigating that insurrection. and this morning, we are g
act is a climate bill and he hops off a jet. todd: not confident in our absentee voting system. breaking just minutes ago, tentative deal with rail workers to avoid massive strike that would have crippled our supply chain. carley: cheryl casone has the details coming up.
it s a long held tradition in this country, and fact, the absentee voting system has been in place since as far back as the civil war and 18 hundreds. in fact, take a look at these images. these are american soldiers learning about absentee ballots while stationed in the united states and korea and the 1940s and 50s. as long been available to the military. some states have had it in place for some time. the popularity and availability of that absentee voting exploded in 2020 because of the pandemic. people didn t want to go to public places like polling booths. more than 40%, 40%, to voters nationwide submitted mail ballots. this is an unmitigated success. there is no way to look at this except good. more people were able to vote because they were able to vote in the comfort of their own home. however, access to free and fair elections just got a lot tougher to come by in wisconsin. on friday, the wisconsin
meet the statutory element of a felony assault. now greg gianforte must appear in court sometime between now and june. if he enters a not guilty, he will get a court date. they are saying that ben jacobs was much more aggressive than what i just described. they were saying that he was aggressively jumping the recorder into his face as a result of all this, the three largest newspapers in this state have removed their endorsements and today is election day for the special election. i should also mention that folks in this state have been voting through their absentee voting