This podcast on the history and memory of slavery in Kentucky is really well done. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This article describes it in more depth, but I want to focus on a few things. First, when you build infrastructure like this and create new jobs/pensions for right-wing unions, it's hard to ever remove them. This new gestapo could become a permanent feature of our lives. www.wola.org/analysis/160...

With obituaries of DOGE and Elon Musk's political career circulating prematurely, @brbarrett.bsky.social is must read: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...