Such a tired trope; why does no one acknowledge how some women go on and on about the postwar reconstruction of Germany and Japan, and really specifically the policy fights over deconcentration and Zaibatsu dissolution
This is makes me happy
To be clear, EVERY small press wants to get away from Amazon. Not one small press likes being part of this monopoly. But with other print and ebook distribution channels locked up by oligopolies, we don't always have the luxury of our convictions. In this TED talk, we'll…
#booksky
This quote: "Critical lessons follow from last week’s decisions. Enforcers — whether our government, our states, harmed business or individuals — should continue bringing antitrust cases to juries. Juries do not systematically favor plaintiffs or defendants. They favor credible evidence, clear explanation and conduct that passes the test of basic fairness. Juries have returned verdicts in favor of home sellers who were being overcharged in Missouri, young social media users who were harmed by addictive algorithms and a Texas steel company that was the victim of an illegal boycott. When government officials fail to stop corporate abuse, jury trials can be a key catalyst to force real change."
From @linamkhan.bsky.social and @dohamekki.bsky.social in the NYT today:
✅ state AGs fight corporate power when feds don't
✅ juries can stop it when the gov't or judges won't
✅ antitrust enforcement cannot be so expensive
✅ talk to actual small business owners & workers
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
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Over 70 former federal employees have submitted resignation letters for our next book. Senate-confirmed officials, entry-level office workers.
If you wrote a head-snapping resignation letter last year yet you /aren't/ in this book, your former colleagues might ask you why.
#ResignationBook
"People are finding that, because of the way the machines are changing the world, more and more of their old values don't apply any more. People have no choice but to become second-rate machines themselves, or wards of the machines." - Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, 1952
Today's executive order on psychedelics signals a real shift:
accelerates FDA review, clarifies access via Right to Try law (for terminally ill patients etc), directs $50M to state partnerships, anything that completes Phase III trials considered for rescheduling
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Breaking News: President Trump ordered U.S. agencies to loosen restrictions on psychedelic drugs, in a move aimed at accelerating research.
Opinion: The Supreme Court could resolve a circuit split on a question that goes to the foundation of the SEC’s remedial authority: Must the SEC show that the target’s conduct caused pecuniary harm to investors for a disgorgement remedy?
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
Zohran Mamdani getting Kathy Hochul to agree to a pied-a-terre tax breaks the stone wall against taxing the rich that Hochul had been building since Mamdani's election. It's a critical moment, writes @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social.
prospect.org/2026/04/16/m...
Since Google started putting AI Overviews at the top of its search results, traffic to websites all around the world has plummeted. This is a problem. 🧵
Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power. How Weyland-Yutani helps explain monopsony — and the rise of inequality on Earth. n.pr/4dGFaCl
The Google antitrust remedies are actually going to lead to advertisers getting cash back. If you spent more than $10k on Google ads, you can file for damages here. The lawyer is Ashley Keller, he's a super creative antitrust litigator. adsrefund.com
NEW: Big Tech's AI money is flooding campaigns across the country. OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z are spending hundreds of millions to oppose candidates who support AI safety, chatbot protections, and data privacy.
We're calling on Dems to disavow Big Tech's Trump-connected backers.
BOOM!
When Trump tried to sabotage the Ticketmaster antitrust case, the state attorneys general kept it going. And won.
The antitrust revolution goes onward.
1. New evidence shows Amazon compelling specific sellers to hike their prices on other shopping sites. This is from depositions in the California antitrust case obtained by The Guardian. Expect a lot more to come out at trial. This drives prices up & is why Amazon has an iron grip.
Live Nation Monopoly Overcharged Fans by $1.72 Per Ticket, Jury Finds
Count 1: yes
Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
Useful rundown of the policy positions of Magyar and supermajority party Tisza, including power to reverse backsliding on rule of law in Hungary 👇
"The current system whereby the individual views of the minister are controlling and his executive power transcends any legislative enactment must be done away with" -- American State & War Department joint postwar mission to Japan, 1946
I wrote about Eric Swalwell, why he's been abandoned so quickly, why a political class that surely knew about his antics didn't do anything about it and continued to support him, and what that says about accountability in America.
prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...
NEW: There is real appetite among House members in both parties to expel Swalwell, Gonzales, Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills in one go and be done with it, @axios.com has found.
"We want a full house cleaning," said one Democrat. "Get the garbage out of here."
www.axios.com/2026/04/12/s...
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"Everything I learned in law school tells me I cannot remain here another day. For that matter, everything I learned in Hebrew school reinforces that same feeling…."
-former employee
Dept. of Interior
Did you resign in 2025?
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#ResignationBook #AltGov
