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The Best of the Week’s News

• 500th Starbucks store wins union election in Washington State. (Common Dreams)
   
• A Trump win could threaten overtime pay for millions of workers. (HuffPo)
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Ava Koffman on the billionaire pastors reshaping Texas politics. (NYT Mag) 
   
• Bracing for Impact: Climate change disasters like Hurricane Helene are killing workers. (Jacobin)
   
• Long-running Immigration and Customs Enforcement program trains civilians to use deadly force. (DocumentedNY)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• States are passing anti-union laws, but local governments are fighting back. (IA Capital Dispatch)
   

• A network of Georgia election officials is scheming to undermine the 2024 election as the state’s attorney general admits that the state’s election board is flouting the law. (Guardian, NYT)
   

• How the Teamsters botched their presidential endorsement decision. (Slate)
   

• Department of Justice expands investigation into the “Goon Squad,” a MS sheriff’s unit accused of torturing suspects for two decades. (NYT)
   

• At least two pregnant Georgia women have died after their medical care was delayed due to the state’s abortion ban. (ProPublica)
   

• “I’m a Black Nazi!”: North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s shocking posts about race, sex, and Martin Luther King. (CNN)

The Best of the Week’s News

• MAGA’s Boys: Young male voters are flocking to Donald Trump, but his policies harm their interests. (Guardian)
   

• A former top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested for allegedly being a Chinese agent and the New York City police commissioner’s home was raided by the FBI. (Gothamist, BBC)
   

• Lifesaving anti-hemorrhage drug yanked from hospital bedsides after anti-abortion legislators in Louisiana make it a controlled substance. (LA Illuminator)
   

• Ben Sasse claimed an audit vindicated his extravagant spending as president a Florida university, but that audit never happened. (Alligator)
   

• New York Times publisher warns that Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to freedom of the press. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• The unionization boom is overwhelming the National Labor Relations Board, that’s why we need the Employee Free Choice Act. (NYT)
   
• The messy, drama-filled world of an American militia. (ProPublica)
   
• Trump doesn’t even pretend to care about the working class. (NYT)
   
• Sparks fly in the trial of a former Arizona public official charged with murdering an investigative reporter who exposed his misdeeds. (WaPo)
   
• “He’s an agent”: An alleged rape and a culture of silence in the Border Patrol. (MoJo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Why prairie populist Tim Walz is good for workers. (NYT, Slate)
   

• Project 2025 is Trump’s real campaign platform and it would devastate the working class. (WaPo, Guardian)
   

• Republican-controlled Georgia elections board gives local officials new powers to delay certifying election results based on conspiracy theories. (NBC)
   

• In historic win, workers at a Baltimore-area Apple Store secure a union contract. (CBS)

• Former police chief faces a felony charge for ordering raid on a small town newspaper and its publisher. (NYT)