Friday Politics Roundup | UAW win at Ford; Christian nationalist House speaker; Amazon sucks; Biden’s polls slip after Israel trip; another mass shooting; Pennridge SD extremism metastasizes

<p><a href='https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-ford-tentative-agreement-ta-auto-workers'>UAW settled their contract with Ford </a>this week - the gains in the contract show once again that organized, fearless worker organizing is what gets the goods. </p> <p><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion?utm_source=newsshowcase&amp;utm_medium=gnews&amp;utm_campaign=CDAQyYWdso_viuH6ARjgyeC6_dLEo4wBKhAIACoHCAowwo6qCzDCmcID&amp;utm_content=rundown'>House Republicans finally managed to elect a new speaker of the house</a>. Introducing Mike Johnson, the anti-LGBTQ, election-denying, climate crisis-denying, right-wing Christian nationalist leader of the Republican-led House. </p> <p><a href='https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/amazons-profit-margin-nears-record-high-after-ceo-jassys-cost-cuts.html'>Amazon announces near-record profits</a> after two straight years of eliminating jobs and tightening worker surveillance. Also in Amazon news, <a href='https://inthesetimes.com/article/injury-burnout-surveillance-amazon-warehouse-workers-uic-report'>a new report shows that more than 4 in 10 Amazon workers report being injured on the job</a>, and about 80% of workers feel the stare of Big Brother, surveilling them at work. Coincidence? </p> <p><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/us/politics/biden-democrats-israel-2024.html'>Biden’s strong support of the Israeli government</a> - even during its indiscriminate, ongoing bombing of civilian areas in Gaza - is hitting him in the polls. </p> <p>The Biden administration approved the <a href='https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-bombs-syria'>bombing of targets in Syria</a> after drone and rocket attacks against American forces stationed in Iraq and Syria. </p> <p>And another <a href='https://apnews.com/article/maine-shooting-what-we-know-40e373f7f2f0e0fb012ad4b26f4b78cd'>mass shooting rocks the country, this time in Lewiston, Maine</a>. At least 18 people have been killed and the killer rem