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The Best of the Week’s News

• From the unitary executive to Jeffrey Epstein: The death of elite accountability (Atlantic)
   

• The FBI raids the home of the superintendent of LA schools after with AI chatbot fiasco. (LAT)
   

• Chicago ICE protesters keep winning in court. (CST)
   

• The Trump tax cuts pushed Medicare closer to insolvency, slashing 12 years off the lifespan of Part A. (Fortune)
   

• Volkswagen workers in Tennessee approve their first union contract. (NPR)
   

• Pentagon and Anthropic face off over control of contracted AI technology as Anthropic demands assurances their tech won’t be used for mass surveillance or autonomous drone ops. (NYT)
   

• Jeanine Pirro’s office refuses to press charges, but the Labor Secretary’s husband remains banned from the building after alleged sexual assaults on staffers. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• A federal judge blocks Pete Hegseth’s attempt to discipline Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding troops of their obligation to refuse illegal orders, and a grand jury refuses to induct Kelly and five other legislators for their speech. (WaPo)
   

• The academic fallout from the Epstein Files keeps getting weirder: OSU professor physically attacks journalist for asking too many questions. (NYT)
   

• “I have never felt so much fear”: Kids in the Dilley immigrant detention center speak out. (NYT, ProPublica)
   

• An Irishman and 20-year resident of Boston says he fears for his life after five months in U.S. immigration detention. (RTE 100)
   

• DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard was placed on a TSA watchlist in 2024 because she took a trip sponsored by a pro-Kremlin businessman with ties to sanctioned oligarchs. (SpyTalk)
   

• Censorship of student journalism is a threat to free speech. (E&P)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Federal agents arrest Don Lemon for covering a church protest in Minneapolis. (NYT)
   

• Feds seize ballots from Fulton County to boost Trump’s outrageous 2020 election conspiracy theories. (Guardian, ABC) 
   

• How a violent, warrantless ICE raid devastated a family. (MoJo)
   

• Grok probed: Europe investigates Elon Musk’s revenge porn engine. (CNN)
   

• Remembering the Challenger disaster, which claimed the lives of seven astronauts including beloved teacher and union leader Christa McAuliffe. (WaPo)
   

• A MAGA billionaire bought TikTok, what does that mean for the culture?

The Best of the Week’s News

• ICE will hire anyone. Laura Jedeed proved it. (Slate)
   

• If an ICE agent orders you to exit your car, do you have to obey? Maybe not. (NYT)
   

• Eric Adams returned to private life as a crypto huckster. A million investor dollars went missing on Day One. (Hellgate, NYT)
   

• UAW defends the free speech of a member who was suspended for calling Donald Trump a pedophile protector. (Politico)
   

• In a dramatic escalation, the FBI executed a search warrant on the home of a Washington Post reporter who covered Trump’s assault on the federal government. (WaPo)
   

• The Pentagon moves to strip Stars and Stripes of its Congressionally-mandated journalistic independence. (AP)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump administration poised to destroy one of the world’s most criticalclimate research centers. (WaPo)
   

• General testifies that he might kill suspected drug traffickers on American soil if Pete Hegseth ordered him to. (Intercept)
   

• Jeffrey Epstein got rich from simple fraud, not financial wizardry or international espionage. (NYT)
   

• Trump’s cuts cripple the National Labor Relations Board. (NYT)
   

• Few farms participate in programs that might protect farmworkers from exploitation. (ProPublica)
   

• U.S. will pay $450,000 to compensate each wildfire fighter who develops smoke-related cancer. (NYT)