John, I'm excited to share the latest from CRC with you:

Are there limits to union power?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a challenge to California's agricultural unionization law. That law forces farms to let union organizers "take access" of their property in order to conduct union organizing activities. The Court said the requirement is so broad that it amounts to government taking the property for its own purposes, and so the farms deserve compensation. CRC's Michael Watson reports on weeping and wailing among union bosses here.

Who complained about my piece on disinformation hypocrites?
A week ago, I reported on left-wing mega-donors' hypocritically attacking conservative "disinformation" even as they subsidize their own side's disinfo campaigns. That led a p.r. representative for Kathryn Murdoch, one of my targets, to accuse me of making a "bad faith argument" because I "conflated" Murdoch's giving to one left-wing group with giving to a separate left-wing group. When I responded that the two groups are literally parent and child, because one owns and controls the other, the best Ms. Murdoch and her flack could do is to keep insisting the two groups are technically separate. Read the funny story, including our emails back and forth, here.

Why is the Left reviving FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps?
At a time when the Left is reclassifying almost everything as "infrastructure," it should come as no surprise that someone would want to revive President Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as the "Civilian Climate Corps." This proposal would check off multiple boxes: (1) pay back Big Labor; (2) pander to the "Pajama Boys"; (3) appease "environmental justice" warriors. CRC's Hayden exposes this Great Leap Backward here.

Which think tanks are staffing the Biden administration?
Several high-ranking officials came from the president's own favorite institutions: the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and the left-of-center American Prospect. Others came from the Center for American Progress, the unions' Economic Policy Institute, and Demos. In the first of a series of reports, CRC's Robert Stilson identifies the nonprofits exerting heavy influence on the administration here.

Featured Video

The Politically Incorrect Guide to
Real American Heroes

In the sixth episode of CRC's "Politically Incorrect Guide" video series, hosts Tom Woods & Michael Malice explain the complicated and un-PC thinking of America's greatest abolitionist heroes. Lysander Spooner argued the Constitution was an anti-slavery document, William Lloyd Garrison believed the North should secede from the South because there should be “No Union with Slave Holders,” and Harriet Tubman proved the purpose of the 2nd Amendment.

Watch the 16-minute video here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 174

The History of
Big Tech Censorship

In this episode: Big Tech is dominated by the major social media and online communications companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—FAANG, for short. Especially since Facebook and Twitter banned then-President Donald Trump from their services after the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January, conservatives have expressed increasing alarm at the power of Big Tech to remove voices not aligned with current-year liberalism from the internet.

Joining Michael Watson to discuss the history of Big Tech censorship and the prospects for reform is James Bowers, managing director of Challenge Censorship.

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