This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.

One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.

Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

It takes a union village: CAUT and the unfinished project of academic staff unionism | CAUT One of the recurring features that has left its mark on the long road of CAUT’s history over the past 75 years is the tension between professionalism and unionization.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers celebrates 75 years and turns to the unfinished project of academic staff unionism - www.caut.ca/bulletin/it-...

Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today

How the American oligarchy went hyperscale The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

The explosive growth of AI data centers have transformed opaque structures of inequality and power into literal ones.

Oligarchy is now more than an idea, it is a place—and the people who live there are fighting back.

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For The startling rapidity of the bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For newrepublic.com/article/2066... via @newrepublic.com

This is looting of a government by its leader and his family in such a bold and open way that a Boss Tweed or Huey Long would have stood righteously opposed and explained to underlings that they should dare. It's stealing in plain sight. And everyone involved will need to be one day prosecuted.

Credible evidence suggests he's never finished any book, let alone the Bible.

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Out there, and lovin' it!

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

The delusion continues.

Celestial distancing.

Cuckoo for Coco Puffs

The hollowing out of public postsecondary education: What do we have to lose? - CCPA Is post-secondary education in Canada a pipeline to train students for jobs or a source of critical perspectives essential to a healthy society?

"Canada’s system of public postsecondary education is being hollowed out through chronic underfunding combined with a marketized orientation that values postsecondary education primarily as a pipeline to train students for specific jobs."

Jack Pine at the Station
Peter D. Harris
2025

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender YouTube video by Simpson Center

It's time to #TalkAboutHumanities so here is a contribution:

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of 'AI': The View from the Humanities

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc...

Trump issues latest statement on the Strait of Hormuz.

When schools ban politics, what are students really learning? Not allowing students to express disagreement and dissent is undemocratic

"Citizenship without politics isn't neutrality - it's obedience."

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’ll never get tired of watching people in Budapest celebrating getting rid of Viktor Orbán.

I’m dancing along with the people of Hungary!

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BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

Rare image of a stork delivering a baby!

The Hungarian Candidate Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?

The Hungarian Candidate
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

A semblance of sanity?

"I didn't come here to be insulted!" ... "Oh, where do you usually go?" (Groucho Marx)

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

The president speaks genocide
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Is the US military prepared to refuse illegal (genocidal) orders?