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The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Employees of Microsoft and OpenAI knew they were committing “the largest theft of labor in human history,” court documents show. (NYT)
   

• Trump is sending Somali immigrants with no criminal records to Guantanamo. (Mother Jones)
   

• 52 babies were hospitalized for botulism linked to formula, but the FDA insists the formula supply is safe. (ABC News 7)
   

• A Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin paid for Donald Trump, Jr.’s tropical wedding celebrations. (ProPublica)
   

• Why does New York City’s police commissioner keep putting the most compromised cops on the most problematic units? (HellGate)
   

• Republican who marched with the Nazis in Charlottesville is expected to win a seat in Florida’s state legislature. (TPM)

The Best of the Week’s News

• The labor movement bids a fond farewell to union sister Dolly Parton. (Nation)
   

• Maria Bartiromo was fired from Fox News, allegedly for leaking to the White House details of the network’s policy of not discussing Trump’s outlandish election conspiracy theories (Daily Beast)
   

• Democrats warn that the Pentagon is so broke that it’s siphoning moneyfrom the National Institutes of Health. (TNR)
   

• Trump’s bribe jet lacks the critical security features needed to fly it outside the U.S., but he wants to take it to Ireland next week. (WaPo)
   

• One of Elon Musk’s DOGE kids applied for college credit for trashing the government. (Wired)

   

• Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin arrested for contempt of court while working as an extra on a Christian film. (LPM)

The Best of the Week’s News

• A few well-placed attacks could destroy the entire US power grid. (NYT)
   

• The Natalie Harp blunder. (The Atlantic)
   

• MAGA Rep. Max Miller is bleeding union support as he faces serious allegations of child abuse. (Politico, WaPo)

   

• Unions remain defiant in the face of federal surveillance in the wake of anti-ICE protests. (MN Reformer)

   

• DOGE broke the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and fishermen, farmers, insurers, and consumers are paying the price. (Forbes)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Union representing IRS workers sues to stop Trump’s $100 million tax immunity deal, arguing that it would force them to break the law. (AP)
   

• What’s the deal with Trump’s “Freedom Fuel” gas stations? (WaPo)
   

• Climate change dropped the water level in the Danube, now Romania is sinking barges of rocks to bring it back up to keep a nuclear reactor running. (AP)
   

• A St. Louis woman self-deported to Guatemala, weeks later she and her husband were found shot to death in a field. (MoJo)
   

• Trump’s boat strikes in the Caribbean have killed innocent people (ABC)

The Best of the Week’s News 

• Trump imposes new tariffs on the bizarre pretext that worker-friendly countries like Norway and New Zealand use forced labor to produce their exports. (Guardian)
   

• The Department of Defense briefly subtracted the four U.S. troops killed by Iranian strikes in the Middle East last week from its casualty count on the grounds that they occurred after the war ended. (MS Now)
   

• Peter Thiel’s scheme to put journalists on trial has flopped. (MSN)
   

• MAGA congressman Max Miller is accused of misogyny and family violence and suspected by his ex-wife of breaking his two-year-old daughter’s collarbone. (MoJo)
   

• Canadian Hillman Prize-winner Robert Cribb says big tech has the tools to stop the spread of child abuse images online, but chooses not to. (Walrus)