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May 30, 2025

What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean?

Dahlia Scheindlin Haaretz

Everyone wants Palestinian statehood but Israel, and Israel won't change on its own. Recognition must be a big package of policy, one with teeth and bricks alike, or it will end up like all the other failures.

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May 30, 2025

Driverless Trucks In Texas Should Scare You

Driverless trucks just hit the highway in Texas. Truckers warn, “your job could be next.”

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May 30, 2025

Colossal Did NOT De-extinct the Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences recently claimed to have brought dire wolves back from extinction. They didn't. Here's why.

Hit Single - Taco Taco Taco (Trump Always Chickens Out)

May 30, 2025

Featuring street parades, hip-hop dancers, a giant inflatable chicken, Mexican celebrities, and a funky Latin-pop beat that slaps harder than a NAFTA renegotiation

Trump Blows Up Over TACO Nickname | Jimmy Kimmel

May 30, 2025

“TACO,” which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” has been making the rounds on Wall Street

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber On Building A Better Social Ecosystem | WIRED

May 30, 2025

Wired Editor Katie Knibbs interviews Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

May 30, 2025

Coordinated Attacks on State Labor Standards Are Laying the Groundwork for Dangerous Project 2025 Proposals To Undermine All Workers’ Rights

Nina Mast and Jennifer Sherer Economic Policy Institute

Some states are already modeling Project 2025 proposals to allow states to “opt out” of federal labor laws

May 30, 2025

Small Comment

Sonia Sanchez, From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts

Poet Sonia Sanchez asks the obvious question: man or beast?

May 29, 2025

Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy

Parker Molloy The New Republic

The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle. He had the audacity to suggest that “our sacred rule of law is under attack.

May 29, 2025

Hundreds of NYC Students Walk out of Class for ‘Anti-Trump, Nonpartisan’ Protest

Michael Elsen-Rooney and Amy Zimmer Chalkbeat

Hundreds of high school students in New York City walked out of class Tuesday for what organizers called an “anti-Trump, nonpartisan” protest against attacks on democracy under President Donald Trump’s administration.