Did Google, Facebook, and Amazon Endorse Jim Crow? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Moose, Maple Syrup and Monopolies: Is Canada Finally Taking on Its Oligarchs? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Time for Biden to Break With Netanyahu (prospect.org)
When Alabama Police Kill, Surviving Family Can Fight Years to See Bodycam Footage. There’s No Guarantee They Will. (www.propublica.org)
On Tyranny (snyder.substack.com)
South Africa's genocide case against Israel sets up a high-stakes legal battle at the UN's top court (apnews.com)
Link to the summary of findings submitted by South Africa: apnews.com/…/un-court-south-africa-israel-gaza-ge…...
Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice (www.propublica.org)
SCOTUS is making major decisions based on outright lies (www.publicnotice.co)
Why Turkey, Eggs and Air Travel Just Got Cheaper (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Politicized science inevitably tends toward pseudoscience (www.noahpinion.blog)
North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force" (popular.info)
In Defense of My Students (thomaszimmer.substack.com)
Trust in science down; trends worst in minorities, Republicans (arstechnica.com)
Why the Supreme Court’s new ethics code is neither a code nor about ethics (robertreich.substack.com)
“Faith and Family” vs Democracy (thomaszimmer.substack.com)
The result is a portrait of Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, as someone well within the bounds of the regular, the respectable. Here is a normalization machine that perpetuates itself: Once it has successfully transformed Johnson into someone who is legible as “normal,” he will get the “normal” treatment: Rising...
How the GOP became the party of tax cheats (www.rawstory.com)
Trump's Truth Social page is a riot of witness intimidation (www.publicnotice.co)
The Middleman Economy: Why Realtors Just Took a Big Loss and Homebuyers Might Benefit (www.thebignewsletter.com)
The Banality of Price Fixing (www.thebignewsletter.com)
North Carolina Republicans Enact Highly Gerrymandered New Maps (www.democracydocket.com)
Blood Money: How America’s Biggest Charities Are Bankrolling Hate Groups Without Anyone Noticing (www.importantcontext.news)
The Not-So-Great Replacement Theory (kevinmkruse.substack.com)
Raising the cost of telling the truth about the far right (sethcotlar.substack.com)
This is a story about what happened after WWII to one of the people involved with the 1944 Sedition trial that Rachel Maddow discusses in her new book Prequel. Robert Edward Edmondson was one of the nation’s most virulently antisemitic propagandists in the 1930s and 40s. After the sedition case against him and his fellow...