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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.

The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag

John Washington The New York Review of Books
Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

Collective Property, Private Control

Laleh Khalili London Review of Books
The U.S. was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.

Why the Canada Post Strike Is Not Just a ‘Labour Dispute’

Rhea Rollmann The Independent
The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.
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