The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Did Elon Musk break the law with an anti-union tweet?
   
• Prosecutors are charging overdose survivors with their friends’ deaths.
   
• ER Follies: When in-network patients get huge surprise bills 
   
• Study: Unions promote social equality

Sidney’s Picks: 

• Sex work is work, and criminalization is deadly. 
   
• Philosopher Kate Manne on Schneiderman and strangulation 
   
• The VA is abusing a “whistleblower law” to purge union workers. 
   
• White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly. 
   
• Firm that paid Michael Cohen is deeply tied to Russian oligarchs.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Chuck Schumer will introduce a bill to decriminalize cannabis.
• What’s at stake in the teachers’ strikes?
• Wells Fargo will pay a billion dollars to federal regulators as punishment for phony account scam.
• Republican state legislators continue their assault on abortion rights.

The Best of the Week’s News 

• Trump killed protections for female contractors on Equal Pay Day.  (Correction: This is from a year ago this week.) 
   
• Scott Pruitt demanded a bulletproof desk, and lights and sirens to dodge traffic.  
   
• The man sent to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave lavish salariesto his accomplices. 
   
• New California law automatically registers eligible voters when they get their drivers’ licenses.