Public Media's Last Stand

Republicans have been threatening to cut federal funding for public media’s NPR and PBS since the 1990s when Newt Gingrich led the charge. Their claim of a liberal bias in the programming has long been their excuse for such efforts.

But until now, public support for public television and radio has been solid enough across the political spectrum that the attempts to cut federal funds have been rebuffed.

Unfortunately, the second Trump administration is unlike any previous presidency in American history. Rather than a mere partisan political assault, Trump is waging an all-out ideological war against any and all institutions he considers biased against his authoritarian style of government.

Throughout the land, good people doing good work are scared. That includes many in the public media system.

If fear prevails, Trump will succeed in defunding NPR and PBS. But as the leaders at Harvard have chosen to do, principled resistance is also an option. If that happens, Trump may fail.

"We will vigorously defend our right to provide essential news, information and life-saving services to the American public," NPR said in a statement Friday. "The President's order is an affront to the First Amendment rights of NPR and locally owned and operated stations throughout America to produce and air programming that meets the needs of their communities."

To contact your Congressional representatives about funding NPR and PBS, click on these links for the House or the Senate. Enter your zip code to get direct contact information.

Note: In 1994-5 and from 2013-9, I worked at KQED, Northern California’s large public media company. 

HEADLINES:

• U.S. press freedom falls to historical low (Axios)

• As wreckage piles up, Trump and his aides retreat to fantasyland (WP)

• Americans see more overreach from the president than from judges, an AP-NORC poll finds (AP)

• Trump Budget Proposes Slashes to Renewable Energy, Farms, EPA (USNWR)

• Trump is proposing Congress cut $163 billion in non-defense spending next year (NPR)

• GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts (WP)

• Harvard’s Trick for Fighting Trump? A Deep Bench of Conservative Lawyers. (NYT)

• More Than 80 Faculty Pledge 10 Percent of Pay To Support Harvard’s Fight Against Trump (Harvard Crimson)

• Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't (NPR)

• A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea (Atlantic)

• Justice Department Sues Big Medicare Insurers Alleging Kickbacks (WSJ)

• The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’ (NYT)

• The judge losing his patience with the Trump administration (Economist)

• The intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who stand in Trump's way. (Reuters)

• Photos reveal Trump cabinet member using less-secure Signal app knockoff (Guardian)

• Critics are blasting President Donald Trump over a plan for the U.S. Army to hold a massive parade on June 14 — his birthday. The type of parade Trump envisions, as revealed by planning documents reviewed by The Associated Press, would likely cost tens of millions of dollars. [HuffPost]

• Beijing Weighs Fentanyl Offer to U.S. to Start Trade Talks (WSJ)

• At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage (NYT)

• A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos (CNN)

• We Could Soon Be Seeing Empty Shelves Everywhere. Here's Which Items Might Disappear First. (HuffPost)

• Birds are rapidly declining in America — especially in places once thought safe (WP)

• Ready for AI-enhanced credit cards? Here's Visa's vision of automated shopping (ZDNet)

• 'Annoying' version of ChatGPT pulled after chatbot wouldn't stop flattering users (LiveScience)

• Why the A.I. Race Could Be Upended by a Judge’s Decision on Google (NYT)

• Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance (The Onion)

 

Ideological War

This morning’s top stories concern the administration’s attempt to destroy the so-called “left,” as Trump’s ideological war continues with new threats against public broadcasters and Harvard. David Horowitz would be pleased.

I am not.

Meanwhile, courtesy of John, we have: “Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation” (TED). This 15-minute talk contains a roadmap for regulating AI.

To contact your Congressional representatives about preserving NPR and PBS, Harvard’s tax-exempt status, or regulating AI, click links for the House or the Senate. Enter your zip code to get direct contact information.

HEADLINES:

• Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS (NYT)

• Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status to Be Revoked, Trump Says (WSJ)

• Trump’s Maximalist Assertion of Presidential Power Tests the Rule of Law (NYT)

• Trump nominates ousted adviser Waltz as UN ambassador (Axios)

• Trump names Secretary of State Rubio as acting national security adviser, taps Waltz for UN envoy (AP)

• Mike Waltz Learns the Hard Truth About Serving Donald Trump (New Yorker)

• Here’s what’s in Trump’s Ukraine minerals deal and how it affects the war (CNN)

• U.S. and Ukraine sign minerals deal, as White House affirms ‘long-term strategic alignment’ (WP)

• Trump-appointed federal judge rejects use of Alien Enemies Act in Venezuelan deportations (NBC)

• More than 1,100 arrested in 6-day Florida immigration sweep, officials say (WP)

• Freedom of speech 'at stake' in Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi's case, lawyer says (NPR)

• Republicans in the US Congress are weighing steep cuts to the Medicaid health program as part of a wide-ranging budget package that also would cut taxes and raise spending on defense and border security. (Reuters)

• Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis (WP)

• A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts (ProPublica)

• Trump threatens sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil after US-Iran nuclear talks are postponed (AP)

• Israel redraws Gaza map, limiting Palestinians to a third of the enclave (WP)

• RFK Jr. Unhingedly Claims Measles Vaccine Made With Aborted Fetuses (TNR)

• RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research (Wired)

• Contra Costa County's $19-million EPA grant abruptly canceled by Trump administration (Fox)

• Why is Trump So Into Crypto? (Atlantic)

• Google is putting AI Mode right in Search (Verge)

• Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI (Quanta)

• A.I. Can Trick You, Warns Book That Hid A.I.’s Help Writing It (NYT)

• Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris (TED)

• Trump: Russia Must Be Allowed To Keep Fighting As Part Of Any Ceasefire Deal (The Onion)

MUSIC VIDEO:

Bob Dylan - She Belongs To Me (Live HD Footage) [Birmingham 1965] 

Final Words

For most people, obituaries are the final word. They confirm that you’ve passed away and the world moves on. 

But for a few people, obituaries are not the end of their story. David Horowitz is one of those people.

Among those who knew him are a handful of us who dealt with him on the Betty Van Patter case. Betty was the bookkeeper hired by the Black Panther Party on Horowitz’s recommendation and whose murder 50 years ago has never been solved but is universally believed to have been committed by the Panthers.

Horowitz often cited her case as the precipitating factor in his dramatic transformation from a left-wing radical into a Trumpian extremist who seemed to blame the left for just about everything. In the process, he kept Betty’s case alive for decades when almost everyone else chose to ignore it.

In retrospect, it seems likely that Horowitz probably was using Betty’s murder as an excuse for what he was going to do anyway, but I never doubted the sincerity of his concern for Betty’s family or his desire to help solve the case.

No doubt he was acting partially out of guilt for his role in convincing Huey Newton and Elaine Brown to hire Betty in the first place, but there is nothing wrong about doing the right thing out of guilt. Lots of good things are done that way.

Horowitz was the key source for Kate Coleman and Paul Avery’s seminal article, The Party’s Over, which in 1978 exposed the violent and corrupt side of the Panthers, who also did so many important things to combat the systemic racism that is one of the ugliest realities in American society.

Horowitz knew that was true yet he went on to mentor many younger conservatives like Stephen Miller who now seem bent on destroying what modest progress we have collectively made as a people to acknowledge and address those ugly realities.

In these and other societal matters, David Horowitz’s death is not the final word. I hope that his obituaries are nuanced enough to reflect the complexities and contradictions of his life, but in his case, that book is far from closed.

He warned that leftists would inevitably lead our society to totalitarianism, but apparently failed to see the irony that his right-wing friends had America teetering at the edge of the authoritarian precipice even as he lay dying.

Teetering but not over that final edge. The obituary for democracy has not yet been written.

HEADLINES:

• US releases Mohsen Mahdawi, detained Columbia student activist (BBC)

• 5 Takeaways from The Times’s Examination of the Salvadoran Prison Deal (NYT)

• America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock (Economist)

• The U.S. economy shrinks as Trump's tariffs spark recession fears (NPR)

• Big troubles lie ahead for Trump (The Hill)

• One hundred days of Trump 2.0: Falsehood after falsehood, again and again (WP)

• Supreme Court's conservatives lean toward allowing country's first religious public charter school (NBC)

• Justice Amy Coney Barrett Recuses Herself in a Charter School Case (NYT)

• New research contradicts RFK Jr.’s claim that severe autism cases are rising (NBC)

• Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S. Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison. (Reuters)

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump after attempted board firings (WP)

• How President Trump’s Second Term Is Changing Everything (NYT)

• How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election (Atlantic)

• Takeaways from Canada’s election: America’s northern ally rejects Trump after he dominates race (AP)

• US ready to sign Ukraine minerals deal ‘this afternoon’, as Kyiv sends minister to Washington (BBC)

• China creates list of US-made goods exempt from 125% tariffs, sources say (Reuters)

• Chinese e-commerce exports to US plummet by 65% in face of tariffs (Guardian)

• UPS set to lay off 20,000 workers as it reduces business with Amazon (WP)

• Trump's manufacturing renaissance could mean more jobs for robots (Axios)

• An escaped kangaroo caused highway chaos in Alabama. No one was injured — including the kangaroo. (WP)

• Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI (TechCrunch)

• World Wildlife Fund Now Just Trying To Get Few Nice Photos Of Every Species For Posterity (The Onion)

MUSIC: 

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert - You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma 

Father-Son Treasures

During my first divorce, as I moved my stuff to a friend’s house across town, everything got jumbled together in boxes, so it was hard to sort out. Slowly, as I settled in, I unpacked the boxes and sorted through old letters and books, some reaching back to my childhood. 

My oldest — and at that time only — son, then about eight, had just become a big baseball fan, rooting for the Giants, playing little league, and collecting baseball cards. I told him about my own card collection back in the 1950s, when I was around his age.

He came over to spend the night one Saturday and I dug through my boxes to see whether any baseball-related stuff had survived the many moves I'd made since childhood. Out tumbled an old scrapbook, circa 1958, with prime baseball cards of legendary stars including Willy Mays, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams, among others, glued inside.

He gasped. Collectively, these old cards might be worth a small fortune! 

This was long before the likes of eBay, so I checked directly with collectors, who explained the cards might be valuable assuming they could be removed from the scrapbook without damaging them.

Alas, upon further investigation it turned out that removing them would destroy them. So we just left them in the place where had I pasted them all those decades ago. 

It was at that point that I realized the real value they had was helping create a memory of a special moment together. So I took that to the bank.

(This is from 2006.)

*** 

News reached me last night that David Horowitz has died at the age of 86. Although I did not share his ultra-conservative politics, I was grateful to David for his help on the Betty Van Patter case. Also, I edited David’s pieces in Salon in the site’s early years and I always found him to be gracious and open to my edits. As for his complicated migration from a left-wing radical to a Trump apologist, I’m unable to make any sense of that. On some occasions, he struck me as a tortured soul. But now that is over. Rest In Peace.

HEADLINES: 

• US consumer confidence plunges in April (Reuters)

• In his victory speech, Mark Carney warns Canadians that 'Trump is trying to break us' (NPR)

• What Canada’s election results mean for Canadians, Trump and U.S. tariffs (WP)

• Trump marks his first 100 days in office with a rally in Michigan, a state rocked by his tariffs (AP)

• 220 lawsuits in 100 days: Trump administration faces unprecedented legal blitz (ABC)

• An Unsustainable Presidency (Atlantic)

• Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as "dangerous dictator," poll says (Axios)

• Frustrated Americans want more checks on Trump, have dim views of Democratic opposition (CNN)

• Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts (WP)

• Musk’s companies got billions from the government. Now he’s pulling up the ladder behind him (Guardian)

• FBI, national security agencies using polygraphs for ‘leak’ hunts (WP)

• China Offers Olive Branch to U.S. Firms After Boeing Delivery Halt (WSJ)

• Amid Uncertainty About U.S. Support, Ukraine Pins Its Hopes on Innovation (NYT)

• She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead (WP)

• Spain rules out cyber attack - but what could have caused power cut? (BBC)

• David Horowitz, R.I.P. (FPM)

• Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons (TechCrunch)

• Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? (New Yorker)

• Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon (The Onion)

 

Alt-Retirement

 My career in journalism coincided almost perfectly with the rise and fall of the profession during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. 

Thus any narrative of those years could serve as a personal version of the historical record. The first half had lots of highlights, Rolling Stone, the Patty Hearst stories, the Center for Investigative Reporting, “Circle of Poison,” Salon, Wired News, book deals, Hollywood, and awards.

The second half was a constant dance from job to job as media institutions lost out to Internet-based companies including social media.

During the dozen years before my first retirement, I held jobs at startups MyWire, Predictify and GreatNonProfits; consulted for clients including Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes Wikipedia, and the California Academy of Sciences; worked with a wonderful French software company called Smub, and took on part-time gigs as a media analyst/blogger for BNET and 7X7.

In the last two positions, I met and interviewed founders of Twitter, Lyft, Airbnb, Uber, Nextdoor, Getaround and dozens of other companies as the age of social media came into being.

Occasionally, I put my investigator hat back on; for example, I wrote a report that of the 44 board members of the largest social media companies early on, none were women. 

As I reached the age of 65, further employment opportunities seemed to be limited, so I decided to retire. This was early in 2013.

But retirement bored me and within months I had rejoined a former employer, KQED, as a part-time blogger. The public media company had a large radio and TV footprint, but only a minor web presence.

Next, as senior editor for digital news at KQED, I assembled a team of writers and producers that built a large digital audience to complement the legacy broadcast services.

We also started an ad hoc investigative team at KQED that produced award-winning reports on police violence, sexual abuse, and official corruption.

Finally, in late 2019, health issues forced me to retire again, 53 years after I had started at the age of 18.

Once again “retire” was probably not the right term because that was six years ago now and marked the start of whatever this is…

HEADLINES: 

• Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform (NYT)

• Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy? (New Yorker)

• Former Social Security Chief Martin O’Malley Warns of “Collapse of the Entire System” Under Trump (Democracy Now)

• ‘I Run the Country and the World’ (Atlantic)

• New estimates indicate that Elon Musk's DOGE might not achieve any savings (MSNBC)

• Public sours on Musk’s role, is skeptical that government is cutting waste (WP)

• RFK is causing irreparable damage to our public health system (The Hill)

• ‘Exceptional’ power outage in Spain and Portugal affects millions of people (AP)

• Trump suggests Canadians should elect him, making the country the 51st state (ABC)

• The US and China are on a collision course, and nations are being forced to choose sides (AP)

• The White House threatens sanctuary cities in another EO, but courts are skeptical (NPR)

• Karoline Leavitt Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges (TNR)

• Disability-rights arguments grow heated at Supreme Court, though sweeping ruling appears unlikely (AP)

• Demand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freight (Financial Times)

• Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump (NYT)

• Nonprofits, Hobbled by Funding Cuts, Now Worry About Losing Tax-Exempt Status (Barron’s)

• Sixty-eight bodies were recovered in Yemen and 47 others were wounded after a US strike on Saada hit a detention center hosting African migrants, Yemen's Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported. (Reuters)

• Rubio Says Trump Will Decide This Week on Continuing Ukraine War Talks (NYT)

• Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? (New Yorker)

• An AI startup founded by Yale students wants to compete with LinkedIn. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $3M. (Business Insider)

• Catty Cardinal Can’t Wait To See Who Got Fat Since Last Conclave (The Onion)

LESLIE’s LINKS:

Why Trump's Economic Disruption Will Be Hard to Reverse

Debt cliff is ‘hard deadline’ for GOP megabill, Thune says

‘I Run the Country and the World’

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

Pritzker Thunders Against ‘Do Nothing’ Democrats as He Stokes 2028 Talk

Laura Ingraham's Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA's Dark Endgame

DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets

Trump Floats Improbable Income-Tax Cut Tied to Tariffs

Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials

A Road Map of Trump's Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars

‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee's disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer

I Can't Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism

In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism

The Tiger Cub

(Warning: I don’t know whether it was listening to this interview, my advancing Parkinson’s (which can include vivid dreams) or something random, but last night after writing this piece I had the longest, worst nightmare I’ve had in memory.)

When I worry about the future, it’s not the near-term future and it’s not about me, because I’m not likely to still be around when these problems hit.

In this case, it’s not even about Trump and the damage he is causing, which is likely to be considerable. Somehow I have faith that the residual strength of our democratic institutions will ultimately withstand and survive his depredations.

No it’s about two existential threats — artificial intelligence (AI) and climate change. Both are caused by humans yet for neither is there a known antidote.

For the threat from AI, listen to the CBS interview with famed researcher Geoffrey Hinton, who in a chilling phrase describes our current AI as a cute little tiger cub. It may be cute now but it will soon grow up into a lethally dangerous beast, probably within a decade.

By then it will be too late to wish we had kept it in a cage.

***

It’s not too late to get the cage built for that tiger cub but lawmakers need to get to work on establishing a regulatory framework like the one for nuclear power. To contact your Congressional representatives about regulating AI, click links for the House or the Senate.

(Thanks — I think — to John for this one.)

HEADLINES:

• “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?” (New Yorker)

• Trump's first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order (Reuters)

• Trump’s first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies and igniting trade wars (AP)

• Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies (WP)

• ICE deported 3 children who are U.S. citizens, their families’ lawyers say (PBS)

• Wisconsin judge’s arrest by FBI sends chilling message, scholars and critics say (WP)

• Dollar Doubts Dominate Gathering of Global Economic Leaders (NYT)

• As Trump destroys the economy, GOP and Wall Street execs stay mum (WP)

• Trade war hits foreign companies in China with double tariffs (Financial Times)

• As Trump softens tariff talk, supply-chain disruption is already in motion (WP)

• Long-running legal saga over N.C. Supreme Court race could pave way for future election challenges, critics warn (NBC)

• Chaos unleashed by Musk’s Doge is starting to wane – what does that mean? (Guardian)

• Tesla Seems Doomed If Musk Stays, And Sunk If He Leaves (Forbes)

• DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone (Fortune)

• With Trump-Zelensky Meeting, Ukrainians See a Glimmer of Hope (NYT)

• "Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings (CBS)

• 2-Year-Old Unaware He’s Basis For 6 Couples’ Decisions Not To Have Kids (The Onion)

The Second Half

My years at Stanford (2002-5) teaching public interest journalism were terrific. I met many young journalists who’d grown up all over the world but shared the common goal to start a career in this very difficult profession.

Meanwhile the old-school media industry was rapidly being overtaken and replaced by the new technology giants.

It was becoming clear that Google was not really a search company but a media company sucking up all the online advertising income it could find, while advertising dollars for traditional media were in steep decline.

Facebook launched and it followed the same business path as Google, vacuuming up advertising revenue based on personal data users gave away freely in order to expand their social networks.

In 2005, I rejoined the private-sector fray, at a start-up called Keep Media, where we explored the new lexicon of content surfacing, categorization, and interactivity with user-created content.

The company, which was started by entrepreneur Louis Borders, rebranded itself MyWire, but eventually met the fate of most startups — extinction.

By this point, I was resigned to the undeniable fact that my “career” had devolved into chaos. Along the way, over the years, there had been too many other projects to list, but a few of the highlights were teaching memoir-writing to boomers; acting as the interim managing editor for the Stanford Social Innovation Review; guest-editing at Business 2.0; working as an investigator for the victim families of 9/11; serving as interim editorial director at CIR; editing some investigative articles post 9/11 for The Nation; guest editing a special issue of BIG magazine and writing editorials and sitting on the editorial board of the San Francisco Examiner. And writing an ebook on startups.

In the more distant past was a decade of screenwriting and consulting in Hollywood, plus 14 years of teaching at U-C, Berkeley's journalism school. For many years, I also traveled internationally and spoke at conferences, mostly about global environmental problems. During all this time, I tried to balance the journalistic requirement to remain aloof from direct activism with my penchant to be involved in my communities in every way possible. Not an easy act to master, and I don't think I did it all that well in the end.

This long, unpredictable voyage has always been as much a private search for my writing voice as a career, and finding ways to support my family, and therefore, to be a productive member of our society.

That same quest continues in this space, unabated. At this point, all I really wish to do is become a better writer.

HEADLINES: 

• CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades (CNN)

• At least nine killed after car driven through Vancouver street festival (BBC)

• Trump, Zelenskyy hold ‘productive’ meeting at the Vatican (Al Jazeera)

• Trump says a Ukraine deal is close (Reuters)

• Trump doubts Putin’s willingness to end Ukraine war after Vatican meeting with Zelensky — and threatens further sanctions (Independent)

• Massive explosion at Iranian port kills 14 and injures hundreds (CNN)

• Vicious interpersonal conflicts among Hegseth staff cloud leak investigation (Guardian)

• Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge (Axios)

• The Clever Court Ploy That Could Force Trump’s El Salvador Scheme to a Head (Slate)

• Public isn’t buying Trump’s message about Kilmar Abrego García, polls show (WP)

• Voters See Trump’s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds (NYT)

• Federal employees find themselves without health insurance despite being told otherwise (NPR)

• Video casts doubt on Ed Martin’s apology for praising Nazi sympathizer (WP)

• The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor (ProPublica)

• U.S. attorney for D.C. Ed Martin accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status (WP)

• US judge sets May 2 hearing to discuss remedies in Google digital ads lawsuit (Reuters)

• The Meta Trial Shows the Dangers of Selling Out (Wired)

• Big, big trouble at ‘60 Minutes’ (WP)

• One of the House's foremost experts on the nation's health systems breaks down the terrifying pace at which Kennedy is working to make America sick again (Rolling Stone)

• Iran says 'extremely cautious' on success of nuclear talks with US (Reuters)

• Son of CIA Official Was Killed in Ukraine, Fighting for Russia (WSJ)

• Trump is trashing electric vehicles. China is building cars the world wants. (WP)

• Trump’s trade war creates problems for businesses (Reuters)

• Study Finds Plants Increasingly Reliant On Gig Workers For Pollination (The Onion)