The Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks used “an array of illegal tactics” to thwart union drive, NLRB complaint alleges. (CBS)
   
• In forensic pathology, racist assumptions can lead to false allegations. (NYT)
   
• A billionaire and GOP mega-donor is gaming the tax system. (ProPublica)
   
• Gore-Tex heir funded a GOP spy op linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. (Mother Jones)
   
• Philadelphia Story: An armed society is a mass-shooting society. (Prospect)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• What do workers want? New report has answers. (WERN)
   
• California fast food workers strike for better working conditions. (LAT)
   
• Private equity, absentee landlords, and weak tenant protection laws make most of Georgia’s affordable housing barely habitable. (AJC)
   
• In Limbo at the Airway Inn: Jackson Heights residents displaced by fire wait to return home. (Curbed)
   
• San Francisco journalists debunk national media myth-making about the recall of progressive DA Chesa Boudin. (Defector; Mission Local)
   
• Sidney-winners making an impact: Detention facility that illegally jailed children will now have oversight. (ProPublica)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Flight attendants rise with Sara Nelson. (New Yorker)
   
• Did a retired federal agent have advance knowledge of the Buffalo massacre from the shooter’s posts on a private racist chat? (Buffalo News)
   
• Midwest Planned Parenthood workers seek union. (ABC)
   
• Leaked video shows Apple VP giving anti-union speech to Apple Store workers. (Motherboard)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Check out videos of the 2022 Hillman Prize speeches!
   
• Unionized nurses are fighting hard, but terrible working conditions persist. (The Nation)
   
• What are unions doing to protect American democracy? (TNR)
   
• Diplomacy with a side of fraud: A Russian envoy dangled $500 billion fake dollars to entice Catalonian Separatists to break from Spain and become a cryptocurrency haven. (OCCRP) 
   
• Trump lawyer John Eastman urged Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature to disenfranchise all PA voters by declaring the entire vote illegal and choosing Trump electors. (NYT)