1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.
Since Trump appears poised to try to pull out of NATO, Democrats should vociferously assert that pulling out of the 77-year-old compact without Congress would not only be wrong but illegal, @billscher.bsky.social writes.
I thought my National Counterterrorism Director was "weak on security"
Text: Once ICE facilities are built, the problem of producing inmates for them to hold will be easily solved. The damage to our society will be irreversible. Newport does not want to be part of the new society that mass deportations will produce. But it’s getting a taste of it. A helicopter, dedicated by law to search and rescue, was taken away and used to patrol the borders. The government simply ignored a bargain struck by the U.S. Congress with a group of constituents who had played by the rules of democracy, using the First Amendment right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” If the nation looks away from the deportation industrial complex, it will grow. The work will affect and warp its institutions, laws, and communities, large and small, even the ones in paradise.
Powerful, gripping new story by @garrettepps.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com, about the reaction in small-town coastal Oregon when ICE and the "deportation industrial complex" arrived.
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“Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback” — my latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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NEW @mattizcoop.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com
“sticking with the JCPOA … would have made sense. We’d still have our allies. We wouldn’t be alone, save for Israel.”
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Shocked shocked I am that Collins is trying to have it both ways
To be clear, there is still hope for blocking a Paramount–Warner merger. But as @jonathanalter.bsky.social notes, we need a loud public outcry.
Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter.bsky.social) has learned that Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner Bros and help Paramount win, giving the president control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok.
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I got a contributor's copy (I wrote a book review), and started paging through it, and this is a pretty amazing issue. tons of eye-opening reporting/analysis of grocery pricing and affordability issues for starters. highly recommended.
@davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social calls @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds "a nuanced and sophisticated look at MAGA’s intellectual and institutional infrastructure," for @washingtonmonthly.com. Check out the full review here:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/11/t...
Announcement from @astrolabe.bsky.social: "There's so much news about Minnesota that I can spell it!"
Can't algorithmically deprioritize a bus stop
This Claremont twit is so fearful of “wine moms” with cell phones and whistles that he’s demanding Trump crush them with violence.
Or rather, more violence.
Green-card holders no longer have access to the Small Business Administration's 7(a) loan program - the primary loan program for small business owners.
The Trump Administration is determined to tighten the economic noose any way possible on ALL immigrants.
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On affordability, Democrats have the stronger hand. They just need to stop folding.
The winter issue of the Washington Monthly is here, featuring @glastris.bsky.social, @jrakove.bsky.social, @alexbronzini.bsky.social, @billscher.bsky.social, @gooznews.bsky.social + more: shorturl.at/38NmN
I had the same exact thought.
Very pleased to be published in @washingtonmonthly.com today! And —“Bernie for Burlington”…what a fabulous biography!
If this be "de-escalation," imagine what escalation would be like.
The raids will continue; ICE can make warrantless arrests. Protesting is “domestic terrorism,” observing is “obstruction”; news coverage is “conspiracy”; Walz & Frey can be prosecuted for criticizing ICE. If this be "de-escalation" . . .
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/02/trumps-ice-problem-and-ours/
my lord... 10 billion?
My latest in @washingtonmonthly.com: a review essay of @lkatfield.bsky.social's FURIOUS MINDS, which I thought was an excellent overview of the various strains of the MAGA Right even as they may (hopefully) be imploding in real time. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/t...
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Credit card interest rates have soared to record levels, draining household budgets and padding bank profits. Laissez-faire policies aren’t protecting consumers.
The case for capping em:
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The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out
And we also clarify that these stores would be best created in abject food deserts, so not NYC.
Read the piece, we explicitly reject the Zohran idea of municipally owned stores
