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This Week in People’s History, Jun 4–10, 2025

Poster that reads Fair Treatment for Farm Workers NOW!
Farmworkers’ Unions Win a Big One (1975), The Nixon Gang Gets Down to Business (1970), A Deportation that Backfired (1950), Popular Justice Is No Crime (2020), Whitewashing the CIA Isn’t Easy (1975)

The Legal Brief That Torched Trump’s Tariff Power Grab

Adam Liptak The New York Times
A coalition including leading figures on the right filed a fiery brief with the court that rebuffed most Trump tariffs. The tariffs are "taxation by proclamation" and do violence to the Constitution, the brief argues. One judge cited it eight times.

Sunday Science: MATHUSLA – Long Live the Long-Lived Particles!

Paul M. Sutter YouTube
As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.

Get Ready To Pay in ZuckBucks

Luke Goldstein The Lever
The GENIUS Act isn’t just a crypto giveaway — it could turn tech giants into unregulated banks.