“Judges keep ruling that anti-trans health care bans make shitty law.”
Natasha Leonard follows the relentless GOP campaign to pass anti-trans legislation despite losses in the court system. From the article:
“The Supreme Court’s recent decision in favor of religious convictions and against gay rights is hardly encouraging, and the Dobbs ruling underlined the conservative majority’s willingness to see the criminalization of established, necessary medical practices that enable bodily autonomy.”
The Intercept: Judges Keep Ruling That Anti-Trans Health Care Bans Make Shitty Law. The GOP Isn't Giving Up.
“The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettuce”
Michael Grunwald’s latest piece on his Substack is about the failure of vertical farming. He makes both a practical and economic case for why the dream is not being realized.
“But vertical farms are not technologies. They’re farms. They’re manufacturing facilities that deliver physical products to brick-and-mortar grocery stores; they don’t make digital software that they can distribute around the world at no cost with a click. That’s why it’s crazy that so many exuberant investors gave them tech valuations, and that’s why those valuations have crashed. I’m way more bullish on alternative proteins, but I think this explains the collapse of Beyond Meat’s stock, too; it’s a food company that was valued as a tech company. It makes atoms, not electrons.”
Emissions: The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettuce
Current Affairs Magazine
Nathan Robinson interviews comedian and author Danny Katch about his new book Socialism… Seriously. Robinson is no stranger to the subject, having written a book of his own on socialism. The two have a fun back-and-forth filled with great insight into modern interpretations of socialism and the alignment between present day and the period in which Marx was most productive. Here’s a snippet of the interview:
Katch: “But I also think there’s the question of, to what degree is socialism going to be able to take the expansive capacities of capitalism and finally make this more rational by making it democratic and putting it under collective control? That is still somewhat true, but also that in the age of capitalism, many technological developments happen. There are libertarians who act like socialists don’t get to then build on those achievements, that we have to return them to the checkout counter of history as if like that’s ever happened. All stages of history build on each other.”
Current Affairs: How To Explain Socialism Clearly In a Way That Actually Persuades People
Unf*cker Comment of the Week
Dan G., “Dear Max: I know one of your favorite clips is former libertarian candidate Gary Johnson asking “And what is Aleppo?” Well, now we have some competition with 2024 presidential candidate and Miami Mayor, Francis Suarez. When asked by a journalist if he would be talking about the persecuted ethnic group, the Uyghurs, in his presidential campaign, he proudly stated “The what? What is a Uyghur?” Following that with a promise to look into them, Suarez then asks, “What did you call it? A weeble?” This man wants to be our president…”