The Best of the Week’s News

• Will the United Auto Workers unionize the South? Republican governors are getting nervous. (Guardian, NYT)
   
• Criminalizing homelessness won’t make it go away. (NYT, video)
   
• The meat grinder: At least 50,000 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine in the second year of the conflict, almost 25% more than last year. (BBC)
   
• Federal regulators finally tighten silica dust standards in mines after an alarming increase in Black Lung. (Public Health Watch, NYT)
   
• Red states pass new laws that could jail librarians as the U.S. Supreme Court effectively criminalizes organizing a mass protest in three states. (WaPo, Vox)
   
• Far-right “constitutional” sheriffs gather to spread their radical election-denying agenda. (NBC)