Irina Raicu (Markkula Center). In an SEC filing this Monday, following the acceptance of Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company, among potential risks, Twitter included “the possibility that our current employees could be distracted, and their productivity decline as a result, due to uncertainty regarding the merger.”

Lawton Young and Collette Ivanov (Students). Students at Santa Clara University are taking extra steps to stop the spread of COVID this week.

Meir Statman (Finance). People’s normal wants, even more than their cognitive and emotional shortcuts and errors, underlie answers to important questions of finance. We discuss this and other topics with our guest Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University.

John Pelissero (Markkula Center). In a year of unprecedented turnover in the California Legislature, several lawmakers are trying to bequeath their seats to relatives and staff members. Critics say they’re trying to game the system. Also Ukiah Daily Journal and Red Bluff Daily News.

Ruth Silver Taube (Law). A few years ago, the demand for $15 an hour was dismissed as unimaginable pie in the sky. On Jan. 1, 2021, 20 states and 32 cities and counties raised their minimum wage. 

Michelle Oberman (Law). For abortion rights advocates in the U.S., Latin America has long been a cautionary example:"The people dying from the abortion ban in El Salvador? They're women whose doctors are afraid to operate on an ectopic pregnancy," law professor Michelle Oberman says. Also WNYC, Audacy and numerous other outlets.

Michelle Oberman. In the wake of last week’s leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, President Biden — never a strong champion of the ruling, and an outright opponent of it earlier in his career — has set about defending the constitutional right to abortion largely by talking around it. 

Margaret Russell (Law). The draft opinion raises a host of legal questions.

Maryland and Virginia Governors Urge DOJ to Tighten Security at Justices' Homes

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Stephen Diamond (Law). It's becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. Also UKTimeNews, Biztoc MyJoyOnline, and other outlets.

Ann Skeet (Markkula Center). The CEO of Twitter asked two executives to leave as the company announced some drastic cost-cutting measures.

Don Heider. Two mass shootings over the weekend left several people dead. In Buffalo, a gunman fired into a crowd at a supermarket before another incident on Sunday in Southern California involving a shooting at a church.

Eric Goldman (Law) discusses a family suing TikTok over the death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly participated in an online challenge.

Eric Goldman. Today, we’re talking about how two of Texas’ most controversial laws — its social media “censorship” law and its abortion ban — conflict.

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Subramaniam Vincent (Markkula Center). He has already proven to be dangerous to democracy. It is not that his populist criticism of the DC elite and the elite-led globalist consensus have no kernels of truth in them.

Eric Goldman. A federal appellate panel on Wednesday ruled Texas could enforce its social media law, which prohibits Twitter, Facebook and YouTube from suppressing users' posts based on viewpoint.

Tyler Ochoa. Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill on Tuesday that aims to revoke Disney’s copyrights, as Republicans are seeking to outdo each other in attacking the “woke” corporation.

Tyler Ochoa. Hawley’s bill attempts to limit Disney’s copyright protections to 56 years. The company currently has 95-year protection, which ends on Jan. 1, 2024, according to Variety.

Colleen Chien. Evzio, a naloxone auto-injector made by pharmaceutical company Kaléo, has regularly undergone dramatic price increases, at one point costing $4,500 for a two-pack.

Stephen Diamond. California’s governor has signed an executive order to officially build a framework for the use of crypto, tasking several state agencies to work out the details.

Eric Goldman. The New York attorney general's office said Wednesday that it has launched an investigation into tech platforms including video-streaming site Twitch, messaging platform Discord and the anonymous message board 4chan in connection with the mass shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 people.

Eric Goldman. On Wednesday, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to undo a preliminary injunction that for the past few months has been blocking Texas's law prohibiting online content moderation while that legislation is being challenged.

Eric Goldman. A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn former President Donald Trump's Twitter ban. 

Eric Goldman. In connection with the mass shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 people, the New York attorney general's office announced Wednesday that it has begun an inquiry into tech platforms such as Twitch, Discord, and the anonymous message board 4chan, as per NPR.

Michelle Oberman. The state-by-state patchwork of abortion restrictions that a reversal of Roe v. Wade would render will be even more complicated by the approaches of local prosecutors and law enforcement officials charged with enforcing abortion bans. 

Michelle Oberman. Social media posts claim an Alabama law imposes criminal penalties on those who receive abortions. This is false; the legislation in question was blocked by a federal judge in 2019. Also DNYUZ.

Eric Goldman. A federal court's ruling leaves big social media platforms with a trying choice: Subject themselves to a plague of lawsuits from their most toxic users, or stop most of their content moderation and surrender their spaces to those same toxic users.