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The Best of the Week’s News

• MAGA’s Boys: Young male voters are flocking to Donald Trump, but his policies harm their interests. (Guardian)
   

• A former top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested for allegedly being a Chinese agent and the New York City police commissioner’s home was raided by the FBI. (Gothamist, BBC)
   

• Lifesaving anti-hemorrhage drug yanked from hospital bedsides after anti-abortion legislators in Louisiana make it a controlled substance. (LA Illuminator)
   

• Ben Sasse claimed an audit vindicated his extravagant spending as president a Florida university, but that audit never happened. (Alligator)
   

• New York Times publisher warns that Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to freedom of the press. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• The unionization boom is overwhelming the National Labor Relations Board, that’s why we need the Employee Free Choice Act. (NYT)
   
• The messy, drama-filled world of an American militia. (ProPublica)
   
• Trump doesn’t even pretend to care about the working class. (NYT)
   
• Sparks fly in the trial of a former Arizona public official charged with murdering an investigative reporter who exposed his misdeeds. (WaPo)
   
• “He’s an agent”: An alleged rape and a culture of silence in the Border Patrol. (MoJo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Why prairie populist Tim Walz is good for workers. (NYT, Slate)
   

• Project 2025 is Trump’s real campaign platform and it would devastate the working class. (WaPo, Guardian)
   

• Republican-controlled Georgia elections board gives local officials new powers to delay certifying election results based on conspiracy theories. (NBC)
   

• In historic win, workers at a Baltimore-area Apple Store secure a union contract. (CBS)

• Former police chief faces a felony charge for ordering raid on a small town newspaper and its publisher. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Meet the far-right conspiracy theorists behind Project 2025, Trump’s real campaign platform. (New Yorker)
   

• Kamala Harris draws cheers for fiery pro-labor speech at American Federation of Teachers’ convention. (Guardian) 

   

• Succession IRL: Rupert Murdoch battles his heirs to preserve his media empire as a conservative force. (NYT)
   

• World of Warcraft developers form the largest and most inclusive union at Blizzard Entertainment. (Verge)
   

• Illinois becomes the latest in a series of Blue states to ban anti-union “captive audience” meetings. (HuffPo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Project 2025 is Trump’s real campaign platform. (Vanity Fair)
   

• Wisconsin judge strikes down parts of the state’s notorious anti-public sector union law. (MJS)
   

• Biden administration offers $1.7 billion to boost to electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. (NYT)
   

• Is noise pollution from a huge bitcoin mine sickening Texans? (Time)
   

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sent a text apologizing to a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her. (WaPo)