The Best of the Week’s News

• Influenza swept Lackland Air Force Base after Pete Hegseth nixed the vaccine mandate, causing 160 cases and one suspected death. (NYT)

• National Labor Relations Board upholds Whole Foods unionization. (Bloomberg)

• Trump’s newly renovated Reflecting Pool is choked with algae slime and the “American Flag blue” paint is peeling off in sheets. (Reuters)

• More people are now accessing news through social media and video networks than from the platforms of news organizations. (Reuters Institute)

• Bill requiring media organizations to disclose the use of generative AI heads to governor Kathy Hochul’s desk. (E&P)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Pentagon hires pardoned J6er for top-secret anti-terrorism job as new investigation reveals that at least one in fifteen insurrectionists has been convicted of a new crime. (WaPo, Lawfare)
   

• Bill Pulte was a degenerate conspiracy theorist, now he’s the acting Director of National Intelligence. (Bulwark)
   

• How a pro-worker bill might advance in the House. (Prospect)
   

• Four migrant workers burned alive in Italy amid rampant exploitation. (NYT)
   

• Disgraced former Rep. George Santos threatens NPR reporter for exposing his alleged insider trading on Kalshi. (NPR)

The Best of the Week’s News

• U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion dollars a year on union-busting. (Guardian)
   

• Senate Republicans check Trump’s insurrectionist slush fund, his boondoggle ballroom, and ICE funding as the House GOP kills a vote on his war powers they knew they would lose. (CNBC, NPR)
   

• The U.S. and Israel schemed to put Iran’s Holocaust-denying pro-nuke former president in charge of the country, but may have hit him with an airstrike during a botched jailbreak. (NYT)
   

• Samsung workers in South Korea avert a strike after six months of “all-out struggle” for a fair share of AI profits. (AP)
   

• Trump’s war on data. (NYT, video)
   

• Elon Musk’s harvest of death. (Prospect)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Why do major newspapers have business sections but not labor sections? (DC Report)
   

• Jeff Bezos wants to halve the budget of the Washington Post’s newsroom and double its productivity. (NYT)
   

• More babies are bleeding to death because parents are refusing lifesaving Vitamin K shots. (ProPublica)
   

• Hacker uses Morse code to scam $200,000 from Elon Musk’s Grok AI. (Dexterto)
   

• Trump tries to dodge his $83 million defamation judgment from E. Jean Carroll. (AP)