Tidbits-May 7- Reader Comments: Voting Rights Overturned by Trump Administration and Supreme Court; Kamala in ’28?; Haymarket Monuments; Barbara Kopple’s Labor Films; Black Employment Under Trump; a Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur

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Reader Comments: Voting Rights Overturned by Trump Administration and Supreme Court; Kamala in '28?; Haymarket Monuments; Barbara Kopple's Labor Films; Black Employment Under Trump; A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur;

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Gig Workers Need a Solid Floor and Portable Benefits

Meegan Dugan Adell and Morgan Polk Convergence
We can’t let gig-worker protections remain dependent on each new administration’s priorities. We need to experiment with new approaches, from passing strong state classification laws to scaling employer-of-record systems that give gig workers stabili

How the Tech World Turned Evil

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.

Tidbits-Apr 23-Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in UFW Gave Chavez Immunity – Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; “State Ideology” of Zionism; After No Kings-What’s Next

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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.

Kathy Hochul Has One Last Chance To Do the Right Thing on Climate

Ilana Cohen The New Republic
Instead of weakening New York’s landmark climate law, Gov. Hochul could choose to meet its targets. Hochul’s choice to roll back the law inevitably signals a concession to fossil fuel interests, which have spent millions seeking to lobby the governor

“Give Me the Names of All Your Jews”

Daniel Spector Thoughts-letter Substack
Is this a prelude to asking for the names of all Black people on campus who could have experienced or witnessed racism in the workplace? Or all women, queers, or trans people? Probably not – that would be woke DEI and critical race theory stuff.

The Ongoing Battle Over Transportation Security Administration Funding

Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American
The far right insists that only it knows how to govern because its ideology is the only legitimate way to look at the world. The TSA funding fight illustrates how lawmakers who ignore the real world to cleave to ideology strengthen authoritarianism.
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