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In a thinly-veiled act of profiteering, President Trump’s Transportation Secretary (and former corporate airline lobbyist) Sean Duffy is pushing to repeal the regulations meant to protect consumers from airlines’ junk fees, writes @JimHightower. otherwords.org/trumps-transp…
NEW: Making it easier to build data centers and fossil fuel infrastructure benefits no one except Big Tech and Big Oil. A bipartisan group of Senators wants to do it anyway.
IPS scholar @BasavIPS in @commondreams: commondreams.org/opinion/per…
"I wrote up a proposal for a moratorium on AI data centers. The ensuing public meeting drew more attendees than I had ever seen. They overwhelmingly supported it, and it passed easily."
Mayor Jamie Jeffery believes you can pass a data center moratorium: otherwords.org/my-town-passe…
NEW: Domestic work makes all other work possible.
The more we protect and invest in these critical workers, the more it will strengthen economies worldwide.
End the precarity for domestic workers.
The global economy already runs on care. Here's how our policies and our understanding of whose work has value can finally catch up. @aijenpoo in @inequalityorg: inequality.org/article/globa…
If poor and low-income Americans voted at the same rate as higher-income citizens, they could sway elections in every single state(!).
Low-income Americans must unleash this power — and politicians must give them a powerful, tangible enough vision to draw them to the polls.
In Lochbuie, Colorado, where water is already in short supply, mayor Jamie Jeffrey banded together with the residents of her town to enact a moratorium on AI data centers.
Now, she is sharing her experience and encouraging other towns to do the same. otherwords.org/my-town-passe…
If democracy means only voting every 2-4 years, it becomes something distant and theoretical.
But if you give people tangible ways to improve their community with their neighbors, it can make democracy feel like something worth saving.
Bring back local, year-round democracy.
NEW: Private equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has pillaged health care and the life sciences. Now, he’s trying to expand an ecologically disastrous private-jet airport.
Time to expose this oligarch. IPS scholar @Chuck99to1 in @thenation: thenation.com/article/societ…
Trillion-dollar corporations will blow money on anything except the workers that keep them operational.
A document unveiled in a court case appears to show Amazon using AI to track workers and rank how likely they are to form unions.
The document has been released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor.
It shows Amazon using an AI tool dubbed "Atlas" to give warehouses a risk score of between 100 and 900 for union activity, with a lower score meaning it believes workers are more likely to unionize. A higher score is “better” for leaders at the company, the document says.
novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/a…
With the rise of paid content creators and more people turning to social media for news, journalism is experiencing a crisis at a time when we need it most.
If we want to save our democracy, that must include investment in journalism.
@SonaliKolhatkar otherwords.org/worried-about…
