Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Dying on the Job: How Workers Get Hurt When Businesses Keep Deadly Secrets
OSHA reversed a rule that would have provided more information about workplace dangers nationally. It decided to stop requiring large employers to electronically report injury and illness data. OSHA still requires employers to document this information, but they don’t have to tell anyone.
House Democrats Schedule Hearing on HR1384 (#MedicareForAll) for This Tuesday, April 30
Witnesses for the HR 1384 hearings include one (known) HR1384 advocate, only two Medicare for All advocates, and no subject matter experts who can speak on budget.
How AI Systems Could Threaten Democracy
AI surveillance is more widespread than most people realize…with virtually no checks in place.
Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 MAX Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks, and Demands Muilenburg Resign
Nader: “There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost.”
Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement to Score a Major Win for Public Education
Despite the decades-long effort to privatize Milwaukee’s local school, recent events in that community have shown that public school advocates can successfully fight back against privatization.
Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories
MappingBack can support Indigenous perspectives on territories and resources through spatial representations
Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 21st-Century Capitalism
Packed in the Boeing 737 fiasco are all the economic problems we face: crony capitalism, regulatory capture, offshoring and man vs. machine.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread, until it isn’t!
Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism
A campus debate over free speech illustrates how the neoliberal world view is accepted by people who think they oppose it.
Private Equity Investors’ Pockets Picked Even More With Increases in Carry Fees
More evidence that private equity is an exercise in separating fools from their money.
How Your Employer Uses Perks Like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to Control Your Life
Just as Henry Ford sought to transform auto workers through a generous though invasive profit-sharing program, today’s employers also use perks to influence our behavior in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
