• The new vigilantism: How so-called “stand your ground” laws, championed by the gun lobby, have emboldened racists and crackpots to shoot first and ask questions later. [Facing South]
• How our old friends at the American Legislative Exchange Council are passing bills in state legislatures to gut the climate science curriculum in public schools. What’s next, the Scopes Troposphere Trial? [AlterNet]
• News anchor Diane Sawyer is touting egg-freezing as a means to extend fertility, but the American Society for Reproductive Medicine still classifies the $15,000 procedure as experimental because thawed eggs don’t reliably produce pregnancies and some of the chemicals used in the freezing process may be toxic to embryos. [RH Reality Check]
• The UAW is stepping up its bid to unionize a West Virginia Volkswagon plant, which, if successful, would extend the union’s influence beyond its traditional stronghold in Detroit. [Reuters]

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