Meta’s Training Camp for Building Data Centers is an Anti-Union Scheme
The company promises people a “fast track” to a career in the trades—as long as workers don’t care about their safety, job security, or right to organize.
Centrists Are Not More "Electable"
Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum.
We Can’t Let the Right Have Mold, Too
The “MAHA” pseudoscience industry has made mold its latest obsession, but moldy, unsafe housing is too important of a political issue to leave to the grifters.
Neoliberal Economics Was a Con From The Start
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