"If the FTC wanted to formally rescind the rule, they would have to propose doing so with an explanation and accept public comments." But they're not doing that. Why? @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social breaks it down here. Forever proud of supporting the ban to non-competes 💪 prospect.org/2025/11/06/t...

Grateful to @rebeccawilliams.info for staying up late to do this on election night- her proposed tech agenda for NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social:

Bannon calls on the DOJ and DHS to revoke Mamdani’s citizenship. These guys can’t stand a fair fight because they lose every time.

No matter how many spins the WH Press Secretary gives to journalists about the SNAP crisis during press conferences, the fact remains that when the U.S. wants to mobilize resources, it does so, no matter where. It is indeed a choice, not a problem of lack of resources. So, what's gonna give?

LET'S GO 💪💪

Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on AI with little to show, and are now turning to complex financial vehicles to sustain their spending. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how it could all come crashing down:

"About a third of the world’s billionaires—1,135—were in the US and their fortunes accounted for 43% of the collective wealth, according to Altrata, a wealth-intelligence firm. China came in second with 321 billionaires holding about 10% of the world’s wealth."

I always learn new things from my colleague @clairek.bsky.social. This time, she breaks down how Sysco (the corporation) dominates America’s restaurant supply chain, and why that should matter to all restaurateurs and us as consumers. www.fox9.com/video/1728428. A #mustwatch here:

As we warned in an @openmarkets.bsky.social report earlier this year, our dependence on a handful of US tech giants for essential cloud infrastructure isn’t just a competition problem, it’s a serious threat to national security & societal stability. How many more outages before we get the message?

I'm not one to promote talks or presentations just because, but I honestly cannot overstate how valuable, timely, and provoking was @mariaressa.bsky.social's presentation today. Journos & publishers (especially local media): please watch her talk. Recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZTw...

Mira Milosevic from the Global Forum for Media Development, Quinn McKew from @article19.bsky.social, MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social, and @dimi.wikimedia.brussels from @wikimediafoundation.org join us for our final panel, AI, Big Tech and the Future of Media Freedom. www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...

"What would happen when journalists disappear?" Part of @mariaressa.bsky.social's presentation calls out the large-scale AI biz model that needs relevant, accurate, and timely journalistic content to make itself useful - and how the indiscriminate scraping of that content is not compensated.

Margrethe Vestager talks about the #googleadtech case (pending in the US & EU): "Had we taken the decision 25 years go that we would not allow conflicts of interest [in digital markets], we would be in a different world. And it's going to get worse with AI." www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...

It's a full house here at Residence Palace in Brussels. Up Next: Keynote and Q&A with Margrethe Vestager, former EU Commission EVP, moderated by Barry Lynn @openmarkets.bsky.social. #mustwatch here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...

Jonathan Kanter: "There is no such a thing as a benevolent dictator, as there is no such a thing as benevolent monopolist. We don't need domestic monopolies to better compete. The way to compete against China is not to have censorship, and it's to have checks and balances."

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

This ended fast. Looks like a big win on the monetary and behavioral front, indeed. BUT, AMZ admits no wrongdoing. Also, AMZ makes +$10B quarterly from all Subscriptions & it's the growth of Prime Video what more recently allows AMZ to continue monopolizing retail media ads (market worth +$60B).

We need some of that Jimmy Kimmel energy over here. An innocent journalist has been detained for 100 days without charges. And now he faces the threat of deportation -- for the crime of committing journalism. In fact, hey, @jimmykimmel.com, here's a story worth highlighting on your show.

I am very glad to see health reporters, rather than political reporters, leading most of the coverage of this announcement. They are not so easily deceived.

Finally a headline worth reposting

NEW: The Supreme Court granted cert before judgement in Rebecca Slaughter's suit challenging President Trump removing her from the FTC and stayed a lower court order keeping her on the commission. The court will consider whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor.

The US Department of Justice and Google will face off today in federal court to argue about what remedies the court should impose to unwind Google’s monopoly in the ad tech market. Karina Montoya from the Center for Journalism & Liberty at the Open Markets Institute breaks down what’s at stake:

#GoogleAdTecg Just left the courtroom. First witness was Grant Witmore, VP of ad tech & programmatic revenue at Advance Local. DoJ touched precisely on all these points, as I broke down for @techpolicypress.bsky.social ahead of the remedies hearings today: techpolicy.press/doj-vs-googl...

Quite a big day for antitrust trials again. 1. FTC v Amazon Prime kicks off today in Seattle with a jury trial (a rarity, recently seen in Epic Games v Google Play in SF). A good test before FTC v Amazon Online Retail -big monopoly case- goes to trial next year www.theverge.com/policy/78219...

So many people are asking how they can support me.. The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social! I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month. Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Living in a South Park episode with no end in sight, it seems. www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

#googleadtech update 👀 Remedies hearing will start as scheduled: next Mon 9/22 at 9:30 am ET in VA federal court. Just left the pre-trial hearing. The remedies ruling for the search case will seem to matter a lot more than anticipated. Google seems ready to explain how the search case bears...

#antitrustradar If David Ellison is going to offer FCC Chair Brendan Carr the same conditions he did to get the Paramount purchase approved, what's be left of the First Amendment, media plurality & press freedom? What's left of the FCC 'oversight' role? www.wsj.com/business/med...

💣"[The ruling makes] Bolsonaro the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy." Let's hope he'll be the first and the last. ⚖️Parabéns Brasil! Facam valer o sistema judicial👏 www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Very harsh statement about SCOTUS ruling today from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, and appropriately so:

Breaking: Michael Pratt, the ringleader of GirlsDoPorn, a sex trafficking ring that flourished on PornHub, was just sentenced to 27 years in prison. We were in the San Diego court room to witness and report the sentencing www.404media.co/michael-prat...

I'm back from a 2-week vacation overseas, feeling recharged and happy to have disconnected for a bit. Back to reality now and to #antitrust news: Incredibly disappointed in Judge Mehta's remedies ruling for the #Google Search case. So much for a strong liability ruling! What next?

While we wait on several antitrust cases against Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple to survive this administration, here's a story I wasn't expecting to see, by @capitolforum.bsky.social: Dozens of Federal Judges Attended Antitrust Seminars Hosted by Big Tech-Funded Group (with Joshua Wright involved).

this is particularly rich coming from Republicans who spent 30 years whining about "the fairness doctrine" while pretending they had read Orwell's 1984

It seems we're all finally having ENOUGH of Google's PR trying to cover the sun with one finger. Good catch by @pressgazette.co.uk @charlottetobitt.bsky.social pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...

Just absolute bonkers www.govexec.com/management/2...

"Meta has claimed that the AI option is an entirely optional service to use." It is not. It has never been. Meta and other Big Tech corps have made up what "optional" means, telling us we are to be thankful for the choices they make on our behalf. Ridiculous. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

“We haven’t figured that out yet” 💀 (Also please don’t use it as your therapist)

😂😂

Was beyond disappointed to see this in the AI Action Plan. Messing with the NIST RMF (which many private & public institutions currently rely on) feels like a cheap shot

Nowhere is it clearer that the AI Action Plan is a raw copy/paste of Big Tech's business interests than in Trump's remarks yesterday: www.wired.com/story/presid...

Just baffled by the simplistic and isolationist view of the Trump admin's AI Action Plan. A few highlights 🧵 This plan steamrolls any consideration for workers' rights, the sustainability of creative industries, availability of clean air+water, and pits federal govt against states even further...

More censorship. If congressional Republicans cared about protecting people's access to reliable news and information -- or even thought it was in their best interest -- they would not have voted for this.

What in the actual f www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

The lengths he will go to create a diversion from his own supporters' lack of support.

WeTransfer now trains on your content for machine learning, without any option to opt out. I've just told them no thanks and goodbye forever, and you can do the same. Legal Terms: wetransfer.com/explore/lega... Contact Support: help.wetransfer.com/hc/en-us/req...

Since Trump won in November, 69 of the 110 lawyers at the DOJ’s Federal Programs Branch—a unit specifically tasked with defending Trump’s most aggressive policies in court—have either quit or announced they’re quitting. https://trib.al/UJB0OUa

If you plan on clean-energy investments in your home, like solar panels on the roof or a heat pump in the basement, here is what Republicans are taking from you in the reconciliation bill. What they're not touching: federally-funded rebates run by states, most of which aren't processing rebates yet.

The only take away from this news: I guess it's a damn good time to live in a copper exporter country now 😂 Trade war live: Trump says he will impose 50% tariff on copper and threatens drug levy - on.ft.com/44Qfuy5 via @FT

The Duarts’ are secretive about "Alligator Alcatraz.” TPM texted Carlos to discuss his work on the project. “Don’t have a comment. We are also under NDAs,” he wrote. We followed up to ask if the conditions at the camp are “humane.” He did not respond. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...