Cheap kills: White House cancels 2026 OSHA penalty increases. (Confined Space)
Trump pledged $10 billion of your tax dollars for his corrupt “Board of Peace,” but lawmakers object to the massive slush fund. (Jezebel, Hill)
Elon Musk and DOGE killed a program that controlled the screwworm parasite across the Americas. Now the blight has spread to the United States, threatening the beef industry. (HuffPo, Common Dreams)
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)
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)
Death squads: The CIA is assassinating suspected drug traffickers in Mexico. (CNN)
Soaring temperatures endanger New York City construction workers. (Documented)
Nick Kristof calls out sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners by their Israeli captors, Israel threatens to sue for defamation. (NYT, Poynter, Post)
Hillman prize-winner Adam Serwer on why all political violence fuels authoritarianism. (Atlantic)
Check out the photos of the 2026 Hillman awards ceremony in New York.
The U.S. and Canadian mints say their gold coins represent the highest patriotic values, but the metal comes a mine owned by a Colombian drug cartel. (NYT)
2026 Hillman Prize-winner Lydia Polgreen talks migration with Hot 97 host Nessa.
The Supreme Court effectively killed the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to mass disenfranchisement of Black voters. (Atlantic)
ICE deports a Colombian survivor of torture and domestic violence to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a place she has never been. (Bulwark)
McClatchy reporters refuse to lend their bylines to AI-generated summaries. (NYT)
New York City nixes plan for AI-themed high school. (Chalkbeat)
