John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up. The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...

Data centers dominated 2025. They (shakily) propped up the economy, they got exponentially bigger, and they provoked resistance across the country. So we spent 2025 covering data centers, and the fight back, from the perspective of working people. perfectunion.us/data-centers/

I’m old enough to remember when Mitt Romney said the problem was that 47% of America didn’t pay taxes and wanted to be freeloaders. But I welcome him to the resistance.

Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.

One data center campus in Pennsylvania will use as much power as the entire city of Philadelphia. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month. techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...

"[M]onetized the dysfunction" is a good way to describe the American health care system too.

We joined SBWU baristas at Seattle HQ to tell CEO Brian Niccol: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE! ☕🚫 Baristas have been fighting for a contract since 2021 while their CEO makes 6,666x the avg Starbucks barista. SEIU 925 stands in solidarity with our union siblings during their ongoing ULP strike!

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the Senate as the new head of NASA. His plans for the space agency include a bigger emphasis on commercialization. And he's also an associate of Elon Musk, having flown twice on SpaceX launches.

A bipartisan pair of Michigan lawmakers are working to repeal data center tax exemptions. Last year Michigan approved exemptions aimed at getting tech companies to build massive data centers in the state. Now the push to reverse these giveaways to Big Tech has begun. bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

BREAKING: The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Instacart, according to Reuters. The probe follows our investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social revealed the company is using AI algorithms to increase grocery prices.

Thanks to Donald Trump and Republicans, your bills are getting more expensive.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a Senate committee today that his agency is “not formally ... independent.”

AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year. It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study. www.theverge.com/news/845831/...

Big tech is spending millions to push back against rising opposition to data centers. Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers. An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp just paid a staggering $120 million for a 3,700-Acre Colorado monastery. It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date. Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s, and they blame a deadly pesticide that's banned in 70 countries — but not in America. Paraquat, a weed killer, is the subject of thousands of lawsuits claiming it’s linked to Parkinson’s disease. www.mlive.com/news/2025/12...

A California judge ruled Tesla should face a 30-day suspension of its licenses to sell and manufacture cars in the state because of deceptive marketing around “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving." If the marketing issue isn't settled in 60 days, the 30-day suspension will ensue.

BREAKING: Four House Republicans have just forced a vote on healthcare subsidies. Four GOP members of Congress have signed on to the Democrats' discharge petition, and now a mandatory vote on extending ACA tax credits must be held.

An anonymous AI company wants to buy Dr. Tim Grosser's family land in Kentucky to build a data center. They offered him up to $8 million dollars, and he refused. They asked him to name his price, and he still refused.

Tesla’s Robotaxi is crashing roughly once every 40,000 miles so far in Austin, and that's with a human safety supervisor in vehicle. For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. electrek.co/2025/12/15/t...

Jim Cramer: " I think that we don't have enough people that are building data centers." Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett: " The president, and his team, has put together a plan to rapidly accelerate data centers..."

The wealthiest 20 Americans increased their net worth from $1.3 trillion to $3 trillion in just the last five years.

New York is suing UPS over millions of dollars in stolen wages. Letitia James' office accused the delivery giant of shortchanging seasonal workers for years. The suit alleges that UPS illegally failed to pay seasonal workers minimum wages, promised wages, and overtime wages.

The Trump administration is letting bosses get away with rampant wage theft. Penalties for bosses who break wage and hour laws has fallen a staggering 94% during the second Trump administration. Workplace health and safety penalties have also dropped 45%. goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...

Elon Musk is back to funding Republicans. Earlier this year the oligarch said he was starting a third party. But now he's cutting checks for Republicans again, even after Trump's chief of staff said he's an avowed drug user who is not a rational person.

The US unemployment rate continues to rise, hitting the highest level in over four years in the latest data.

USDA plans to give Palantir a no-bid contract for AI "data integration" for the National Farm Security Action Plan which notably highlights SNAP 'fraud.' So Palantir AI will ingest "key user data previously submitted by applicants" to "conduct security checks." It'll cost up to $300 million.

The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things. The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.

BREAKING: Elon Musk's net worth just crossed $600 billion, making him the first person ever to hit that level of wealth.

Private equity must be stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Energy bills across the U.S. have increased 13% since Trump took office at the beginning of this year. abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...

Former workers at Rockstar Games say they were fired for trying to unionize. Over 30 employees at the company behind Grand Theft Auto were fired in what the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain calls a "ruthless act of union-busting." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations. Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Utah has repealed a law that barred public unions from negotiating on behalf of their members. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox approved the rollback of one of the most anti-union laws in the country after thousands of union members rallied outside his office for a week. apnews.com/article/utah...

Amsterdam is about to start requiring strict permits for second homes in the city. The proposal will free up upwards of 3,000 second homes in the city for residents to live in.

NEW: Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.

DoorDash and Uber have both sued New York City to block requirements that the delivery tip option be displayed at checkout and set to at least 10%. These greedy companies don't want to be required to show the option to tip delivery workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Republican-led House has approved a measure to reinstate collective bargaining rights for nearly 1 million federal workers, voting to nullify a Trump executive order for the first time.

The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.

6,000 faculty members at Penn State has filed for a union. These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year. If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.

Part of the deal is that Disney+ will allow users to watch Sora-generated videos. This means we'll be paying to watch AI slop?? 😭

Disney CEO Bob Iger says that OpenAI has made an "agreement to both honor and value and respect our content" and explains the new partnership by saying " we want to participate in what Sam [Altman] is creating and what his team is creating."

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

This is for sure going to go great. No possibility that anyone will misuse this or convince the system to do something unexpected.

Cory Doctorow on the Daily Show says that while guys like Musk and other tech oligarchs are "failures that are running the world" and "terrible people" they're ultimately "filling a void that was created by policy."

While Starbucks workers are on strike because they can't get a fair contract, the Bezos-owned Post is saying the CEO deserves the $96 million he got last year.