Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
More evidence that publicly funded research is disproportionately productive and hence critical to innovation.
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As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Community groups and ICE protestors have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks to help neighbors sound the alarm.
Read more...Social Reuse of Seized Assets
The Taxcast goes to West Yorkshire in the North of England to see social reuse of seized assets in action.
Read more...Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.
Read more...‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
Read more...Fatties and Diabetics Not Welcome! Immigrants With Health Conditions May Be Denied Visas Under New Trump Administration Guidance
MAHA meets immigration, with deemed-unhealthy applicants set to be denied visas under new Trump Administration guidance.
Read more...Trump Looks Likely to Lose at Supreme Court on Challenge to His Assertion of Emergency Tariff Authority. How Much Damage Would That Do to His Pretenses of Power?
The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the Trump Administration’s advantage. What happens if it loses at the Supreme Court?
Read more...Rage Against the ICE Machine
Anti-ICE protestors are showing signs of developing effective strategies and tactics.
Read more...‘We’re Not Going to Forget’: Pritzker Warns Trump Enforcers Miller, Homan, Bovino That Immunity Not Forever
Governor Pritzker has gotten out of bed to threaten Team Trump over ICE abuses. But this still amounts to a wet noodle lashing.
Read more...Trump Plans to Use Men With Guns as Part of IRS Campaign Against “Left-Leaning” Groups
Trump, in particular his key deputy Steve Miller, is gearing up to launch his war against political enemies, above all Soros’ Open Society
Read more...Farmers Fight Federal Efforts to Block States from Promoting Humane Animal Agriculture
Federal legislation is pending as part of a Big Ag effort to combat states requiring more humane animal farming methods.
Read more...More Trump Jackbootery? Body Camera Video Betrays DHS Account of Chicago Border Patrol Shooting, Attorney Says
More evidence of Trump law enforcement officials using unwarranted violence, here shooting, against protestors.
Read more...What Do Trump Administration’s Threats on “Anti-Capitalism” Terrorism and RICO Mean for Organized Labor?
If the administration continues to expand guest worker programs and makes good on anti-capitalism pre-crime threats, who there by any union workers left for planned general strike on May Day of 2028?
Read more...Israeli Forces Spark Global Outrage by Intercepting Sumud Flotilla Off Gaza Coast [Updated]
Israel has captured some of the courageous passengers and crew of the Gaza relief ship Sumud. They will be tortured.
Read more...What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
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