A brief note on some good news!

The Teamster boss has cozied up to the GOP, but the Republicans’ anti-labor politics are the same as ever.

As state violence escalates around the country through ICE, people are considering mass labor action as a way to fight back. Could general strikes make American workers an organized political force to reckon with again?

From New York in 1677 to India in 2025, the people who collect our trash are among the labor movement’s greatest heroes.

While factories collapse and workers die, privileged bloggers call it progress.

In 1905, Upton Sinclair documented the horrors workers in America’s slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants were forced to deal with. In 2025, Donald Trump is making them worse.

Hating work and wanting to do less of it is one of the few things that unites nearly everybody across demographics. But right-wing labor policy is threatening to grind us all into dust.

Work is burdensome, and labor is exploitative. Life is what’s left over.