Trump, Ryan, and Walker Seizing Wisconsin Homes to Build a Foxconn Plant
"State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant."
Inside the converted Walmart where the U.S. is holding nearly 1,500 immigrant children
"The policy of criminally prosecuting all who cross the border illegally is creating a new category of residents at these holding centers, young boys and girls who are grappling with the trauma of being unexpectedly separated from their mothers and fathers."
The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Especially Wikipedia
"Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems."
CA Governor Pushes Statewide Drinking Water Tax To Clean Up Farm Pollution
"California governor Jerry Brown wants to impose the state’s first-ever tax on drinking water, tacked onto monthly bills."
California’s Solar Mandate Raises Housing And Energy Prices Without Reducing CO2
"The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved the regulation with little public debate or discussion, prompting criticism from one of the state’s top energy economists."
Too much gold around the house? Store it at Texas’ new precious metals depository
"Like other facilities that store precious metals, the Texas Bullion Depository insures them and has complex security measures to guard people's assets. Depositors can buy metals from a dealer and have them shipped directly to the depository, or send in what they already own."
Making Heart Surgery Accessible to the Poor, by Embracing Mass Production
"Instead of looking to government to fix our health care system, we should be looking to innovators like Dr. Devi Shetty."
Once Again, Activists Must Beg the Government to Preserve the Right to Repair
"The excruciating DMCA section 1201 exemption process is upon us again, and the right to repair tractors, cars, and electronics is at stake."
Google Cancels Pentagon Drone AI Program After Historic Employee Mutiny
"The company plans to unveil new ethical principles about its use of AI next week."
Top 10 Goals in the Communist Manifesto, Accomplished in America
"These are the goals, in Marx and Engels’ own words, followed by an analysis of how deeply they have seeped into the United States governing structure."