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Mother Jones has published a commentary arguing that racial segregation-era discriminatory practices, long considered consigned to history, are being revived by the US Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts. The piece frames recent rulings by the conservative-majority court as dismantling civil rights protections built after the Jim Crow era. It is drawing attention among readers debating the court's direction on voting rights and race.

A tech executive reportedly described the AI industry's use of human-created work as potentially "the largest theft of labor in human history," according to documents uncovered in a lawsuit and reported by Mother Jones. The comments suggest some industry leaders privately acknowledge that AI systems are built on creative and intellectual labor taken without compensation, fueling ongoing legal and ethical debates.

A Palantir co-founder is arguing that the public should be less judgmental about a deadly strike on a school in Iran, according to Mother Jones. The comments, reported amid ongoing debate over Western military actions and civilian casualties in Iran, have drawn criticism from readers who see them as dismissing civilian deaths.

Mother Jones reports that billionaires in the United States pay a far lower effective tax rate than the average American worker. The piece argues that as wealth has become increasingly concentrated at the top, tax rates for the wealthiest Americans have declined, allowing them to pay a smaller share of their income than ordinary households.