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Will Lindsey Boylan Be New York’s Newest Sewer Socialist?

Ilana Cohen The Nation
The first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment is running for City Council. Her progressive campaign has been backed by Zohran Mamdani. Now Boylan is running a sewer socialist–style campaign that has resonated...from Trump-proofing New York...

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Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in the UFW Gave Chavez Immunity - Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; "State Ideology" of Zionism; After No Kings: What’s Next; Cartoons

Trump Officials Built an AI Tool To Turbocharge Deregulation

Freddy Brewster and Luke Goldstein Convergence
Artificial intelligence has a history of making poor regulatory decisions with disastrous effects on people’s lives. Newly released documents show the Trump administration sought to deploy a powerful AI tool to accelerate its deregulation spree.

GOP School Censorship 2.0

Timothy Messer-Kruse CounterPunch
How the MAGA Crusade Against Critical Race Theory has Become a Movement Against Knowledge Itself

Good Riddance to Trump’s Horrible, No Good Labor Secretary

Robert Reich Common Dreams
The disgraced Lori Chavez-DeRemer is what you get when you have a president and White House staff who don’t give a rat’s ass about whom they appoint to positions of power except for their loyalty to Trump and how they look on television.

John Roberts’s About-Face on Supreme Court Activism

David Sirota Convergence
During the Reagan administration, John Roberts was known for denouncing judicial overreach. Today he has adopted an assertive use of judicial power, using the Supreme Court’s shadow docket to fast-track corporate wins on climate and federal policy.
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