Superyacht Lost At Sea After Falling Off Cargo Ship International Business Times Oops.
Abortion Rights Are More Popular Than You Think Jacobin
Why New York Can’t Have Nice Things New York magazine
Why we need to start drinking coffee like Italians TreeHugger
Antonio Salieri’s Revenge New Yorker
Ultra-processed foods linked to increased risk of death and disease TreeHugger
Federal appeals court rejects challenge to Kentucky’s campaign ethics law Jurist
On Thin Ice: March Warming in Alaska Led to Eight Deaths, Disrupted Fishing Common Dreams
Julian Assange
UN Torture Report: ‘Demonized’ Assange Has Faced ‘Psychological Torture’ Consortium News
UK Foreign Secretary Defends Torturing Journalists, Then Says We Must Protect Journalists Caitlin Johnstone
Recreational marijuana movement takes root in Midwest but efforts elsewhere have stalled LA Times
Big Brother IS Watching You Watch
Cameras Came to the Newsroom. What if They Catch Us Printing Springsteen Tickets? NYT
Experts warns of ‘epidemic’ of bugging devices used by stalkers Metro UK
2020
Elizabeth Warren campaign’s in so, so much trouble Boston Herald. Caveat lector. Note the source. I don’t endorse this, but link to it to point out this is out there, and it’s not going to go away. Will it matter? Don’t know.
2020 Democrats impress San Francisco audience with ‘big ideas’ San Francisco Chronicle
‘Oh my God, is that Bernie Sanders?’ Democrats swarm San Francisco First Post
737 MAX
Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change NYT
Sports Desk
Liverpool Beat Spurs to Win Champions League BBC
Champions League final: how money buys success on the pitch The Conversation
North Korea
Death And Resurrection In North Korea Moon of Alabama
Iran
IAEA Confirms Iranian Compliance for the Fifteenth Time American Conservative
China
China sets up blacklist to hit back in Huawei fight Asia Times
Europe’s China diplomacy seeks silver linings to US trade war Al Jazeera
India
Indian politicians have to be like Bernie Sanders: Ruchir Sharma The Hindu
Gaja: When a Cyclone’s Wake Is Worse Than the Cyclone Itself The Wire
Did the secular sanitisation of pre-colonial Indian history allow Hindu nationalism to weaponise it? Scroll
Troubling Unemployment Data, Leaked in January, Now Released Post-Elections The Wire
Class Warfare
The AI gig economy is coming for you MIT Technology Review
Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report Guardian
Forget retirement — focus on financial independence Market Watch. Cavet Lector. I post this not because I agree with all it contains, but to spark discussion. Enjoy!
Counter culture: what we lose when shops disappear FT
War on Cash
Scotland is on the front line in the fight against “cash deserts” Quartz
Antitrust Alert
How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years Ars Technica
Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators WaPo
Google Should Be Afraid. Very Afraid. Bloomberg
DOJ takes step toward a bruising antitrust battle with Google Politico
Cutting through the Trump noise, the big tech fight is bipartisan. Dem Senator @ewarren and GOP Senator @HawleyMO are assertive critics of big tech. R state AGs are most concerned about Google, Dem @AGKarlRacine has a key Facebook consumer case. https://t.co/RFstTI9wi2
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) 1 June 2019
Trump Transition
Noam Chomsky: Trump’s “Economic Boom” Is a Sham TruthOut
Journalists with state broadcaster CGTN in US denied passes to cover Congress SCMP
Donald Trump terminates preferential trade status for India under GSP Economic Times
Letter From Mexican President Goes Way Over Trump’s Head Splinter
State Department Requiring Visa Applicants to Reveal Social Media Accounts, Raising Deportation Concerns Common Dreams
CONSERVATIVES PUSHED A STRATEGY TO WEAKEN HOME HEALTH CARE UNIONS. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BIT. The Intercept
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