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NEW: America’s biggest berry empire doesn’t actually grow berries. Driscoll’s is the middleman that controls the genetics, reaps the profits, and then shifts blame. A whistleblower alleges the Canadian government repeatedly flagged their berries for exceeding pesticide limits.
More Perfect Union4,185,881 views • 6 days ago
"I paid $2500 for power — two weeks later I'm still out of power." We went to Indiana, where thousands of people still haven't had the power switched back on. In Gary, Maryville, and Hammond schools are closed, families are throwing away spoiled food, people are driving to Illinois to get ice for insulin. Power rates are higher than ever, but people in the region are being put through hell just two years after Blackstone bought into their power company. Now residents are fighting back against the utility company -- filing a class action lawsuit against it for negligence.
More Perfect Union467,293 views • 7 days ago
NEW: Major League Baseball owners now get paid more to have a losing team. We investigated the playbook that allows teams like the Marlins and Pirates to rake in the largest sums of cash while paying players the least. Billionaires win no matter what, while fans lose out.
More Perfect Union766,311 views • 11 days ago
A woman in Texas was arrested after she made a Facebook post sounding the alarm about the water quality in her town. The water in Trinidad, Texas, sometimes runs brown, but when Jennifer Combs posted about it, the cops came and took her to jail. Video via FOX 4 NEWS
More Perfect Union8,939,884 views • 3 months ago
“He needs to resign. That’s the bottom line.” Ranchers are outraged over Trump’s move to flood the market with 300,000 metric tons of discounted beef. We went to a beef show in Michigan to talk to ranchers who feel sold out by Trump’s policies. They say they’re being squeezed by climbing production costs – while the big 4 meat corporations controlling 85% of the market carve up the extra profits.
More Perfect Union102,441 views • 3 days ago
In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.
More Perfect Union2,645,445 views • 1 month ago
NEW: Gen Z uses AI the most yet trusts it the least. We sat Bernie Sanders down with them for a messy debate that isn’t happening in public right now. If we’re going to live with AI and push for a future that benefits working people, we need more conversations like this one.
More Perfect Union48,943 views • 1 day ago
NEW: Big Tech claims AI data centers don’t use much water. But data centers typically report the water used inside the facilities — we found them indirectly consuming 10x that amount. We went to the drought-stricken West, where farmers now have to fight AI oligarchs for water.
More Perfect Union709,391 views • 21 days ago
LEAKED AUDIO: In an all-hands meeting on April 30, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees that he's training AI on them ahead of mass layoffs. "The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things... The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks. So if we're trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally build tools or solve tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think is going to dramatically increase our model's coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of extremely strong engineers at their company."
More Perfect Union4,563,602 views • 3 months ago
Dua Lipa speaks out about the Albania protests: "I find it so inspiring to see how much people really care. You know, day after day they're hitting the streets, because the government has opened up this part of a beautiful nature reserve to a high-end beachfront development. And of course, this has been a huge story internationally because the company that's invested in the project is part-owned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. But what I actually find concerning is the principle that the government could just change the law to remove the environmental protection without any kind of public consultation."
More Perfect Union1,771,654 views • 1 month ago
MAJOR: Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to resolve lawsuits that alleged the company’s talc products caused ovarian cancer. This settlement is less impressive when considering that 76,000 plaintiffs have been in litigation for a full decade, bearing the costs of cancer treatment during that time. Each will receive only $36,000, approximately. In 2020, Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $2.1 billion to 22 plaintiffs after a jury found the company's talc-based baby powered caused them to develop ovarian cancer. The Missouri Court of Appeals found "significant reprehensibility" in the company's conduct. Johnson & Johnson have attempted to dodge accountability for their alleged cancer causing product through three different attempts to declare bankruptcy in the last ten years, and made hundreds of billions of dollars during that time.
More Perfect Union1,065,055 views • 1 month ago
NEW: Youth sports is now costing parents as much as $25,000 a year. Private equity and corporations are turning a childhood pastime into something only the wealthy can afford. Youth sports has become a $40 billion industry, and the steep costs are crushing American families.
More Perfect Union4,314,523 views • 4 months ago