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The Best of the Week’s News

• Killer ICE agent was a mentally ill, violent, brain damaged domestic abuser when he got the job. (AP)
   

• Bags in the van of a Houston man killed by ICE contained salt for homemade Gatorade, not drugs, lawyer says. (NYT)
   

• Shoddy application doomed the coating of the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool, not vandals with boxcutters. (WaPo)
   

• A preliminary hearing for Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin undermines conspiracist narratives. (MSNow)
   

• Climbing Workers United protest Northface over partnership with Movement Gyms. (Fashion United, Athletech News)

The Best of the Week’s News

• AI is breaking bosses’ brains. (Futurism)
   

• Workers at the Guggenheim Museum vote to authorize a strike. (Art Newspaper)
   

• Prediction markets are giving arsonists a profit motive by letting people bet on whether their towns will burn. (HCN)
   

• This disabled lawyer built an independent life, Trump’s Medicaid cuts could take it all away. (NBC)
   

• Trump is using a secret no-bid contract to build his corrupt ballroom. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Influenza swept Lackland Air Force Base after Pete Hegseth nixed the vaccine mandate, causing 160 cases and one suspected death. (NYT)

• National Labor Relations Board upholds Whole Foods unionization. (Bloomberg)

• Trump’s newly renovated Reflecting Pool is choked with algae slime and the “American Flag blue” paint is peeling off in sheets. (Reuters)

• More people are now accessing news through social media and video networks than from the platforms of news organizations. (Reuters Institute)

• Bill requiring media organizations to disclose the use of generative AI heads to governor Kathy Hochul’s desk. (E&P)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Pentagon hires pardoned J6er for top-secret anti-terrorism job as new investigation reveals that at least one in fifteen insurrectionists has been convicted of a new crime. (WaPo, Lawfare)
   

• Bill Pulte was a degenerate conspiracy theorist, now he’s the acting Director of National Intelligence. (Bulwark)
   

• How a pro-worker bill might advance in the House. (Prospect)
   

• Four migrant workers burned alive in Italy amid rampant exploitation. (NYT)
   

• Disgraced former Rep. George Santos threatens NPR reporter for exposing his alleged insider trading on Kalshi. (NPR)

The Best of the Week’s News

• U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion dollars a year on union-busting. (Guardian)
   

• Senate Republicans check Trump’s insurrectionist slush fund, his boondoggle ballroom, and ICE funding as the House GOP kills a vote on his war powers they knew they would lose. (CNBC, NPR)
   

• The U.S. and Israel schemed to put Iran’s Holocaust-denying pro-nuke former president in charge of the country, but may have hit him with an airstrike during a botched jailbreak. (NYT)
   

• Samsung workers in South Korea avert a strike after six months of “all-out struggle” for a fair share of AI profits. (AP)
   

• Trump’s war on data. (NYT, video)
   

• Elon Musk’s harvest of death. (Prospect)