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A Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional [link removed]

**The NLRA hovers somewhere between de facto and de jure nullification.** It’s been slowly eroding for at least half a century. Now, the Fifth Circuit’s court decision [link removed] frees Elon Musk—and any fellow employers—to violate whatever rights their workers thought they enjoyed.  

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Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind [link removed]

**A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed.** Trump just stopped it in its tracks. [link removed] It’s the latest example of how Trump is doing everything in his power to make your electricity bills go up.

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Protesting ICE in a Rural Pennsylvania Coal Town  [link removed]

**Deep in Trump country,**

**an old coal mining town has turned into an ICE detention hub.** It’s the town’s largest employer. And yet, people there are protesting the prison’s inhumane conditions [link removed].

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Injecting Crypto Into the Mortgage Market [link removed]

**Trump’s top housing regulator wants to allow crypto to be used as collateral for mortgages.** Injecting crypto [link removed] would not only make the housing market unstable, it could undermine the U.S. financial system as a whole.

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Donald Trump Won’t Be Saved by Maps [link removed]

**It can be compelling to suggest that cartographers hold a skeleton key to U.S. elections.**But the universe of voters changes from year to year, and individuals change their minds. Gerrymandering in red states is predicated on Republicans holding Trump’s support in 2024, particularly from Latinos. That could be a bad bet [link removed].

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