Rep. Beto O’Rourke on “Constitution-free zones” at the Border; Plus Independents Re-Run Open Thread for “Rise of the Machines”!

There was a lot of quality content on The
Independents this week, including an interview from the

Monday episode with anti-prohibitionist border-district
Democrat Rep. Beto
O’Rourke (El Paso):

From that same episode, Lowell Peterson, executive director of
the Writers Guild of America, East, tries to defend the
use
of tax breaks to promote ethnic and gender diversity in TV
writing rooms:

At 7 p.m. ET tonight (4 p.m. PT), Fox Business Network is
presenting a re-airing of our Friday robot episode, “Rise
of the Machines.” Re-live the Singularity magic on this open
thread with Katherine
Mangu-Ward, James
Barrat, Robin Hanson,
P.W. Singer, Marc
Scribner, Lori
Sanders, and some of your most beloved robots from the ’70s and
’80s!