On The Rick Smith Show, Rick rips into billionaire Jeff Bezos with NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss over the Washington Post gutting its newsroom firing 300 union journalists, axing sports, local coverage, and photographers while Amazon bankrolls a $75M Melania Trump movie to curry favor with Trump. Schleuss blasts Bezos for killing innovation and trust with AI slop as democracy dies in darkness.

Later, VW worker Michael Bromley celebrates UAW’s historic tentative agreement with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, TN locking in job security, product commitments, and dignity after years of fights against Southern politicians’ union smear lies. Southern auto workers’ solidarity breakthrough.

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