10 Weekend Reads

10 Weekend Reads

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The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Donald Trump Won Everywhere: This was the second COVID election. (The Atlantic) • A timeline of two years of chaos at Elon Musk’s X: The company has shed a jawdropping $35 billion in value in just two years. Let that sink in. (Sherwood) • Reinventing the world’s favorite building material: Concrete, the second-most-used […]

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Can People Suing Sean Combs / P. Diddy for Sexual Assault Litigate as John or Jane Does? Judges Are Split

Can People Suing Sean Combs / P. Diddy for Sexual Assault Litigate as John or Jane Does? Judges Are Split

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Many people have sued Sean Combs (P. Diddy) for alleged sexual assault in federal court in Manhattan (S.D.N.Y.); many of those have sued pseudonymously. So far: [1.] Some judges have allowed the cases to go forward under a pseudonym (Doe v. Combs) until Combs’ lawyers enter an appearance and have an opportunity to oppose pseudonymity. The orders (see, e.g., here, here, here, and here) have mostly been short, but have offered at least some reasoning; here’s one from […]

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Vance Downplays Trump's Promises To Use 'Lawfare' Against His Opponents

Vance Downplays Trump’s Promises To Use ‘Lawfare’ Against His Opponents

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“That’s the way that Kamala Harris lies,” said Republican vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week. “Not only does her administration actively brag about trying to arrest her political opponents; she will go out and say that if Donald Trump is president, he’s going to arrest his political opponents, even though he already was president and he didn’t do that.” Let us count the ways in which this statement by Ohio’s junior senator is […]

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Deputado denuncia escola por ‘rituais de magia’ ao Ministério Público

Deputado denuncia escola por ‘rituais de magia’ ao Ministério Público

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O deputado distrital Pastor Daniel de Castro (PP-DF) denunciou uma escola do Distrito Federal por realização de “rituais de magia” durante as aulas. O parlamentar enviou a denúncia ao Ministério Público do Distrito Federal e dos Territórios (MPDFT). A informação foi publicada nas redes sociais, em 23 de outubro. A acusação veio depois de a instituição promover uma aula sobre “História e cultura afro-brasileira e indígena”, conforme as diretrizes do Ministério da Educação. Em resposta, a escola divulgou […]

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Solar Panels and Open Lands

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Chris Edwards In 2025, the new Congress and incoming Trump administration should reassess the sprawling 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which handed out vast subsidies for green energy. One reason to reassess is that the cost of the law has ballooned from $390 billion over 10 years to more than $1 trillion. The budget cost of green energy is not the only cost. In the effort to reduce CO2, the IRA subsidies for wind power, solar power, batteries, and electric vehicles […]

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EFF and IFPTE Local 20 Attain Labor Contract

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First-Ever, Three-Year Pact Protects Workers’ Pay, Benefits, Working Conditions, and More SAN FRANCISCO—Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have achieved a first-ever labor contract, they jointly announced today.  EFF employees have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE.   The EFF bargaining unit includes more than 60 non-management employees in teams across the organization’s program and administrative staff. The contract covers the usual scope of subjects including compensation; health insurance and other benefits; time […]

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