Brandon A. Weber

Brandon A. Weber

Contributing Writer

Brandon Weber has been writing and creating viral joy on the Innerwebz for over 7 years at Upworthy, The Progressive, Big Think, and more. His book on forgotten histories of unions, working people, veterans, and other marginalized people is available on Barnes & NobleAmazonPowell's

The move comes on the heels of blue collar layoffs in October of last year, though it was a smaller number at around 700 people.
It’s not clear, though, whether the “trailer” is meant to influence Kim Jong-un or #45’s fans. rn
In the patent filed by Uber, it's clear that the ride company's A.I. software will use a number of data points to decide if a passenger is drunk—and how, then, to proceed.
The CDC has published very worrisome statistics about this upward trend in our culture.
NASA has found organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater on Mars. Is it just a matter of time before life is discovered on the red planet?
At this rate, the country of Japan will have zero population in the year 2500.