Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to govern by AI bot (arstechnica.com)
Audit finds Minnesota agency's lax oversight fostered theft of $250M from federal food aid program (apnews.com)
Supreme Court, siding with Starbucks, makes it harder for NLRB to win court orders in labor disputes (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks....
Elon Musk’s Boundary-Blurring Relationships With Women at SpaceX (www.wsj.com)
Man, fuck this guy
Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose Use of I.V.F. as ‘Fetal Personhood’ Gains Momentum (www.nytimes.com)
Microsoft president to testify before House panel over security lapses (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify before a House of Representatives panel on homeland security on Thursday, fielding questions about the company’s security practices after Russian and Chinese hackers breached its systems over the past year....
Bird flu detected in Houston-area wastewater (www.click2houston.com)
Who’s ready for Pandemic 2?
Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (www.theverge.com)
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the popular movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the two companies announced on Wednesday....
Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations (apnews.com)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make amends for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history....
NY governor calls vandalism at the homes of Jewish board members of the Brooklyn Museum ‘an abhorrent act of antisemitism’ (www.cnn.com)
Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children (theintercept.com)
Around 9:30 p.m. in late February, a white Mazda pulled up near a game cafe in the Jenin refugee camp on the northern edge of the West Bank, where a crowd of boys and young men often gathered to socialize....
Book about book bans banned by Florida school board (www.theguardian.com)
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle (www.theguardian.com)
The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics....
White Supremacist Group At General Mills Used KKK Imagery To Intimidate, Silence Black Workers, Lawsuit Alleges (atlantadailyworld.com)
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/2919644...
Supreme Court rules U.S. must pay more for Native American tribes’ health care - SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com)
Middle East Crisis: Blinken Calls Some Hamas Changes to Cease-Fire Proposal ‘Unacceptable’ (www.nytimes.com)
Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Mr. Blinken said that “a deal was on the table that was virtually identical” to one that Hamas put forward on May 6....
Lynn Conway, revolutionary trans computer scientist & activist, dies at 86 (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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Some Hamas demands for cease-fire changes are unworkable, Blinken says (www.nbcnews.com)
Texas immigrants’ rights groups sue Biden administration over asylum restrictions (www.texastribune.org)
President Joe Biden’s order, issued a week ago, largely suspends noncitizens’ entry into the country whenever the number of migrants entering the country illegally is high....
A jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain (www.npr.org)
China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges (www.theguardian.com)
They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea...
DeSantis ‘freedom fund’ Pac targets abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives (www.theguardian.com)
Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races...
Man with gun, body armor and writings that said 'You gonna learn today' arrested in NYC, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors (apnews.com)
Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks....
