The IP Laws That Promote Enshittification

Cory Doctorow Jacobin
Laws included in trade deals protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes and stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.

Unions Without Strikes

Hamilton Nolan Working in These Times
Military with batons in the foreground. Striking workers in the background w
Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees

Nels Goñi Christianson In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid

Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H. Tribe The New York Times
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants... If the government can disappear any people it wishes, we all should be very, very afraid.