The billionaires promise a technological paradise while predicting the decline of human labor. But if their gamble collapses, who loses their jobs, who keeps their fortunes, and who pays the bill? The AI bubble and it’s possible disintegration gives us some pretty grim insights into the question of what happens when the richest people in the world rebuild the economy in a way that it no longer needs working people, but still expects them to pay their bills. Reuters reported this week that China’s AI and semiconductor stock boom has suffered a sudden and staggering reversal: their STAR50 index of Beijing’s AI and chip champions (like our NASDAQ) has plunged 40 percent in less than four months, wiping out roughly $480 billion in market value.

The golf industry wants longer evenings, but sleep researchers say permanent daylight saving time would disrupt our biological clocks and expose children to darker school commutes… His greed seems to have no limits: Trump wants to make more money off his golf courses, and you and your kids may pay for it with your lives. And one lone Republican is standing up to him. Back in 1974, the year Richard Nixon put into place year-round daylight savings time, Louise and I were living just outside Lansing, Michigan. I remember the sun not coming up that January until nine in the morning; we drove to work in full darkness, kids stood under streetlights to catch the school bus, and eight schoolchildren were killed in traffic accidents in Florida alone. When Nixon first flipped the switch, 79 percent of Americans supported year-round daylight savings time; by the end of 1974 that had collapsed to 42 percent support. President Gerald Ford signed the repeal that October. The biggest force behind this bizarre idea of year-round daylight savings time was the golf course industry. The Englishman who invented the idea of shifting the clocks was an avid golfer named William Willett; the whole idea was to give golfers another hour to play in the evening.

From the slaveholding South to Jim Crow, Reagan’s billionaire revolution, and Trump’s police state, the same dangerous pattern keeps repeating. Is fascism conservatism’s ultimate destination? What happens when “conservatives” would rather destroy their democracy than surrender power? History shows us how that road leads straight to fascism, and Trump is taking America down it.

The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion. — Trump’s Justice Department has sued to throw out Alaska’s Senate election before anybody’s finished voting in it, but — surprise! — only if the Democrat wins. — The Supreme Court just told New Hampshire’s college students to go find a different ID two weeks before an election, and did it in the name of not changing the rules too close to an election. — Trump now says he has “the right” to run in 2028 because, you see, the election he lost in 2020 was stolen, so it doesn’t count. — Trump spent Thursday night demanding that Mike Johnson refuse to seat Ilhan Omar, and for good measure declared that her party had “conceded” her seat. — Mark Zuckerberg’s algorithms are apparently pushing hard for Trump’s buddy’s son, Flavio Bolsonaro, to win Brazil’s presidential runoff. — Donald Trump looked an NBC reporter in the eye Friday and said he doesn’t “know anything about a stepfather,” which is a remarkable claim about an ad he’s spent three days defending — A new book alleges Jared Kushner had access to roughly $2 billion in Gulf money while running Middle East policy out of the White House, and Trump’s considered response is that the reports are “fake news.” — Climate Alert! The American West has lost nearly 300 of its original 1,450 glaciers since the 1960s.