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The Best of the Week’s News:

• Striking Nabisco workers reached a tentative deal with management after a week of rising tensions and allegations of anti-union violence.  (EaterPDX, KATU, WWeek) 
   
• Will Biden’s plan finally tax the rich and boost local news? (NPR, MarketWatch, Forbes)
   
• Broken promises and surging workplace deaths in North Carolina. (The Assembly)
   
• Courts in Wisconsin are forcing women to co-parent with their abusers. (ProPublica) 

Best of the Week’s News:

• The Supreme Court kills Roe v. Wade quietly, on the shadow docket, by refusing to pause a Texas law that sics legal vigilantes on anyone who facilitates an abortion. (Rewire, NYT, NY Mag)
   
• Anti-vaxxers bearing zip ties confront high school principle, threatening to kidnap her. (WaPo)
   
• Organizing Starbucks workers in Buffalo call on CEO to uphold eight fair election principles, as they look ahead to organizing one store at a time. (NYT, In These Times)
   
• The national Nabisco strike heated up, with the company sending scabs to the Portland plant and workers halting rail deliveries. (NW Labor Press, Willamette Week)
   
• Unprecedented rains kill at least 13 people in Brooklyn and Queens, drowning most in their basement apartments. (The City)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Workers at all US Nabisco bakeries are now on strike. Workers are fighting for middle class jobs and fair working hours. (Today, Vice, Stranger)
   
• Scattershot: How a secret police algorithm based on sketchy science and tweaked by human bias landed a man in jail for murder. (AP)
   
• Extremist GOP rep Lauren Boebert introduced legislation to help oil drillers, without disclosing that her husband made $1 million in energy consulting. (WaPo) 
   
• Liar’s Remorse: She spread AZ election conspiracy theories, and it ruined her life. (AZ Audit) 
   
• South Carolina politicians blow off millions in ethics fines. (Post & Courier)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Remembering AFL-CIO Richard Trumka (1949-2021) (Prospect, Nation)
   
• Hundreds rally in multiple states to support striking Alabama miners. (ABC)
   
• The right-wing agents and big bucks behind Trump’s Big Lie. (New Yorker)
   
• Meatpacker Tyson mandates Covid vaccines for all workers. (MoJo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• A devastating plant shutdown looms in West Virginia, but politicians are nowhere to be seen. (In These Times)
   
• “I’m sorry but it’s too late:” Alabama doctors speak out about the grim task of caring for terminal covid patients who refused vaccines. (AL.com) 
   
• Meet 115 of the service workers who kept New York City going during the darkest days of the pandemic. (NYT)
   
• Activists raise the alarm about Raytheon building a plant in their North Carolina city. (Facing South/Responsible Statecraft)