AELP’s Katie Van Dyck says competitors don't need to directly communicate to collude. “It doesn’t have to be the old all defendants get in a smoke-filled room... They’re using the same tool collectively to set prices and it is upending traditional ideas of supply and demand.” #TCF2025TechConference

The Capitol Forum's 2025 Tech Conference has begun! Elizabeth Odette, the antitrust chief for the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, delivered her keynote remarks: "The way we look at tech has evolved and continues to evolve," she said. "State Attorneys General are ready. Are you?"

Fortune writes an entire story about Sinclair's effort to ban Kimmel "to protect communities" without making a SINGLE reference to Sinclair's long history of airing election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation

Great article by @megafreda.bsky.social! Thanks for the shoutout for my cloud work w/ @openmarkets.bsky.social (w/ @maxvonthun.bsky.social and @danielahanley.bsky.social)

If “caution” means allowing a defendant’s illegal behavior to persist, it defeats the purpose of finding liability in the first place and undermines the law enforcement function of antitrust law. www.promarket.org/2025/09/23/a...

They really act like the president is a king. But only if that president is a Republican.

Mainstream economics continues to rely on Newtonian mathematics — using calculus to optimise, subject to constraints, an approach not suited to understanding macroeconomics or human behavior. Nice shoutout to Vela Velupillai, my former professor at The New School www.ft.com/content/2925...

Come work with me, pals! #hiring

Welp, that’s 90 years of precedent down the tubes.

The Court is overruling federal laws, its own precedent, and lower court decisions, on the emergency docket which, quite simply, real courts do not do.

Remember, this decision isn’t about POTUS’s authority to remove officials for poor performance or the ability to enact the executive’s agenda. Instead, this decision is about whether dissent should exist at all in our regulatory system. SCOTUS effectively says it shouldn’t.

The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real And Congress keeps making them worse with a budget process that’s broken. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/22/t...

"Louisiana planning authorities have voted to rush through approval for three natural gas turbines to power Meta’s massive new data center in Richland Parish. When it’s done, the 4-million-square-foot facility will require more than 2 gigawatts of energy to run."

2. US v Google 2: Remedies hearings start today in VA for the antitrust case against Google's ad tech monopoly. It's the last big case on the DOJ's deck against the corporation. Will be doing a little coverage for @techpolicy.press. More soon!

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...

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

If you would like to point to one major problem that led to why we are here, it is this. And what people tend to pay for more and more is opinions from people who are on the same page, and who utilize reporting from the last few outlets that do much.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Voting with your dollars is one of the public’s most effective peaceful tools to reward or punish corporate behavior. But its power depends on competitive markets. When lawmakers/regulators facilitate consolidation they are undermining this vital form of democratic accountability.

👇🏾right here. We need to understand the machine behind the machine - corporate consolidation means fewer heads to knock together when out of control state power comes knocking. It means a small group of wealthy individuals doing deals with a corrupt set of leaders. Consolidation is bad for democracy.

Only authoritarian states ban laughter. Here's Harold Meyerson on the Jimmy Kimmel firing, with cameos from Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin, George Carlin and the Marx Brothers. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

This could not be more correct. It's easier to censor media that is consolidated. Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Monopoly and fascism go hand in hand. We aren't free if our public discourse is controlled by authoritarians and oligarchs that bend the knee to them It’s time to break up Sinclair, Nexstar, and big media companies. And repeal the ’96 Telecom Act that let these companies merge

1/ Kate Fredericks wanted to be a pilot. She worked at a restaurant and sold a house for $80K in licenses. When COVID stopped travel, she found work with one airline. She signed in a rush. They wanted more training: $12.50/hr, grueling schedule. She left. Then they billed her $20K for the training

There's an irony to four decades of shareholder primacy, defended by conservatives as the most "democratic" means of corporate governance, culminating in a reversion to one-man-rule managerialism www.ft.com/content/1e0b...

At some point the stock markets are going to catch up with the market markets, right?

Maybe, just maybe, dominant corporations are a fundamental threat to democracy. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

🚨 New Publication 🚨 ISP Fellows Rebecca Crootof & @bjard.bsky.social have launched their Technology Law coursebook! First chapters now live: 📑 TOC: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📘 Ch.1: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📘 Ch.2: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... New chapters drop twice monthly.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

A central question in antitrust policy is what do we want firms to do with their money. Money can be spent on socially desirable or wasteful/harmful conduct. Wasteful/Harmful: mergers, exclusive deals, predatory pricing Desirable: increased wages and productive capacity.

Reed Showalter, a veteran of Lina Khan's FTC, Jonathan Kanter's Justice Department, and the only congressional committee (House Antitrust 2020) that did something truly positive recently, is running for an open House seat in Illinois, hoping to add an antimonopoly veteran into Congress.

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

Friendly reminder. Competition is not a per se societial good. It’s value is dependent on the parties affected, as well as its intensity and scope.

Fantastic back and forth between Roger Alford and Doha Mekki on all the ways Judge Mehta failed to understand the situation on the ground in search and generative AI.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

"Foreign direct investment by China’s green-technology industry since 2022 has hit between $227 billion and $250 billion. That’s roughly the size, adjusted for inflation, of the post-World War II Marshall Plan that cemented the alliance between the US and Europe." h/t @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Am I the only one who thinks it is odd for Judge Mehta to speak publicly about a high-profile decision a few days after issuing that decision? I understand he said very little, except “judicial restraint“ but…

The anti-federalists were correct from the start that the Supreme Court is a botch. We need to pack the court, I guess. But beyond that, the court needs to be deeply disempowered. Never again should this court exercise unaccountable power.

Tapping this sign as well. newrepublic.com/article/1589...

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

It's hard to understand why this (i.e., this family of strategic questions) isn't the *main* conversation we are having about the Court right now.

A perfect afternoon in Astoria.

Simpering cowards one and all. This is almost unbearable to watch.

I mean, they’re asking for more public comment. But we already heard from 26,000 people. How can we not agree that workers — all workers, everywhere, without waiting for a lawsuit that’s likely never to happen — should be free?

Antitrust litigation is definitely having a moment right now. www.lighthouseglobal.com/blog/civil-a...

NEW: In the long-awaited return of our Hackwatch feature, @dylangyauchl.bsky.social talks all about abundance, the "middle-of-the-road sensation that's sweeping the nation." 1/4 revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/all-about-...

NEW: In new research, @dominicsmith.bsky.social and @socampdi.bsky.social show that retail concentration has increased in most markets across the United States, with the expansion of large retail chains driving the trend toward a more concentrated retail landscape.

I'll say it again: I want so desperately to believe in the existence of hell.