• Design Genius Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Leaving Behind Crapified Products That Cannot Be Repaired (naked capitalism) Apple has increasingly chosen style over reliability.  It’s not just the butterfly keyboard.  It’s ditching the magsafe power cord, thing iPhones that bend, unexpandable “Professional workstations, etc.
• New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear (Forbes) Half the cost of a natural gas plant, and full cost of nuclear has always been stratospheric.
• I Was One of 36 Jews Arrested Protesting ICE. Never Again Is Now. (The Forward) A Jew who recognizes Trump’s concentration camps for what they are.
• Kavanaugh’s Clerkship Quid Pro Quo Continues (Above the Law) Corruption at Yale Law School.  They endorsed someone unsuited for the job in order to get more clerks on the Supreme Court.
• If The Democratic Primary Field Was a University History Department (Notes from the Ironbound)  “Joe Biden is the old professor still teaching off of notes he typed up in 1975 and who gets handsy at the holiday party after one too many scotch and sodas.”  It’s the funniest thing on the internet you’ll read today.

Don’t make Bernie Sanders angry, you wouldn’t like it when he’s angry: