Was honored to join consumer advocates and small businesses to urge #mnleg to prohibit predatory surveillance pricing practices in Minnesota. #BreakEmUp

Jesse Jackson’s Most Consequential Power Was Not His Oratory, But His Vision In 1988, I was one of only two white elected Democratic officials in all of America to endorse Jesse Jackson to be our party’s nominee for President.

Jesse Jackson could do something most politicians can't even imagine.

He got conservative dirt farmers and inner-city families fighting the same enemy: corporate profiteers running roughshod over us all.

That's not (just) oratory. That's vision. And it's exactly what we need right now.

While the FTC sucks right now, if state legislators want to address high grocery prices and protect their small businesses there is legislation at the #mnleg RIGHT NOW that would give the state new tools to crack down on Walmart’s unfair tactics.

A player in massive trade rumors owning part of a prediction market where people can bet on whether he gets traded is a MASSIVE conflict of interest.

This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.

Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from Closure, organized by Cooperativa Mercado Central Mercado Central, a cooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs with… Cooperativa Mercado Central needs your support for Help Save Mercado Central from Closure

Hey all…I know we’re exhausted with all the money requests, but Mercado Central is in trouble, too: gofund.me/dac7d7cb5

There is a level of alarm coming from many great small businesses in Minneapolis & St. Paul that I haven’t heard since COVID.

This weekend - pick a locally-owned business or three that you love and go spend some money if you can. We’ve all got to look out for one another and they need our help.

Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE - The American Prospect Executives who lobbied for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which enabled the immigration terror in their state, now want everyone to believe they are on the people’s side.

For too long MN has held up its corporate giants as something unique and special, but their cowardly letter has exposed the lie. Everyday Minnesotans are what make our state great, not these vultures. Must read from @ddayen.bsky.social & @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/01/28/m...

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

ICE is just one part of the problem. The security state depends on the surveillance economy we’ve allowed to grow unabated.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Thanks to the Reformer for publishing my piece about the opportunity Minnesota has to address high grocery prices while protecting small businesses.

Antimonopoly advocates say weak enforcement is fueling higher grocery prices Farm, consumer and grocery groups argue consolidation and price discrimination are squeezing shoppers, farmers and small stores.

Some great coverage of the unfair pricing webinar that @mnfarmersunion.bsky.social held last week. If the #mnleg wants to address the cost of living, it must confront the monopolies and anticompetitive conduct driving up prices. www.agweek.com/news/policy/...

Want to know how you are getting ripped off and what we can do about it? Join us next week!

Not sure I could have dreamed up a quote that so perfectly encapsulates Dems problem.

"Titans of industry" have never been the guardrails protecting democracy. Ensuring power is not concentrated in the hands of a few is the guardrail!

Total refusal to learn anything.

Just in case it still wasn’t clear.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Opinion | Maybe Twins fans don’t have to pin their hopes on billionaires "Fortune 500 companies like CHS and Land O’Lakes are cooperatives and much larger and more complex than a sports franchise, making partial ownership of the Twins by a fan cooperative a realistic alter...

The Twins drew the smallest September crowd in Target Field history this week.

Seems like a good time to re-share Erik Hatlestad and I's piece charting a new way forward! www.startribune.com/twins-owners...

Acyn on X: "Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza. https://t.co/DwVzZZ7FoG" / X Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza. https://t.co/DwVzZZ7FoG

This is a winning politics. x.com/Acyn/status/...

If you find a company to be an illegal monopoly and then your proposed remedies boost that company’s stock, you did it wrong. Our corporatized judicial system at work.

Thank you! Belatedly.

I like to think backlash from the powerful corporate elites screwing all of us is a sign you are doing something right, but sure, you go be annoying online.

"We don’t have to choose between abundant housing and fair pay. In fact, the best way to build more homes quickly and sustainably is to restore the natural alliance between pro-housing advocates and the people who build housing." Our @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social together with @moreneighbors.org

Missouri lawmakers return to Capitol to debate stadium funding Kansas City Royals and Chiefs stadium funding, disaster assistance and construction projects are on the governor's special session agenda.

PAY.FOR.YOUR.OWN.DAMN.STADIUM!!!! thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

It’s tough being big and profitable.

One of the best things #mnleg has done in recent years was ban noncompetes and the arguments for carving it up (the first of many from the corporate lobby I’m sure) are total nonsense. This is simply about grabbing power away from workers. From the @minnesotareformer.com. #BreakEmUp

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...

Great example of the need for more grassroots state antimonopoly infrastructure. You can’t out lobby Big Tech but you can out organize them. If legislators only hear from “experts” on these issues, the deep pockets will win every time. #BreakEmUp

From the amazing folks at @goodjobsfirst.org, a depressing look at states data center obsessions. Glad that Big Tech can make out so well in these uncertain times!

I’m thinking these folks are onto something.