This type of licensing arrangement typically isn't that Complicated at all actually 🛹

I’m always telling people that Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind”

More union-busting at can/carton/etc. manufacturer Canpack last month: olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgRep...

More union-busting at wine-bistro chain Cooper's Hawk, this time an "ongoing" basis from 9/4 targeting "All employees at the Brookfield Wisconsin location excluding general manager and all Assistant managers, office/clerical, guards and supervisors": olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgRep...

Friendship Ended With First Amendment, Now Authoritarianism Is My Best Friend: www.garbageday.email/p/petty-powe... @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @garbageday.email

felt cute might delete later

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The US liquor market right now is basically CANNED COCKTAILS plus BLOODBATH (via Jefferies):

Read the column that made Joseph very angry at me:

love my fans!

i’ve gotten *actual linkedin comments* from real people that are clearly ai generated, which is less interpersonally bleak than what @lopatto.bsky.social and op are describing but also very ominous for the near future of american business vernacular

abundance (of stupidity) liberalism

good news: trump’s immigration shock troops don’t seem to be targeting vineyard workers bad news: that’s because the us wine business is so bad that even full-time crews can’t get work

what year is it man

After some brief flirtations with reality earlier this year to condemn Trump's trade war on behalf of capital, the WSJ editorial board has returned to its preferred mode of spinning pure own-the-libs fiction to titillate America's reactionary id: www.wsj.com/opinion/demo...

btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt

Some East Enders were confused about this rendering of a 6-story building on Jefferson Ave circulating on social media. The Lookout confirmed that it's NOT a real construction plan, but rather what some neighbors claim will happen if Richmond rezones the corridor: www.chlookout.com/p/in-union-h...

increasingly feels like the choices are "destroy meta" or "society is run by pedocons": www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today's top @richmond.com headline is another sop to VA's GOP gov Glenn Youngkin, who keeps pretending the state's economy is stable even Trump's destruction of the fed govt has put tens of thousands out of work. Unemployment only "stabilized" in August because 40k Virginians exited the workforce.

letters to the editor are a low-stakes relic but the ones @richmond.com opts to publish reveal editorial priorities. really playing to its (dying) base with this one!

🎶 Guess who’s back on the news? / It’s your favorite Republican hoods 🎶

"The Teamsters announcement is also a blow to former Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton, a Democrat in the race who stood with striking Teamsters in August."

If you love him, let him go. If he taters, he was never really yours in the first place.

"Starbucks executives told us privately they needed to focus on their June manager’s conference, after which we would return to discussing the union contract. We obliged as they spent a week at a glitzy Las Vegas junket, but [...] they failed to return to productive discussion."

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College and pro football have returned. Beer sales have not. In my column this week at @vinepair.com, I broke down the short- and long-term trends dragging the beleaguered industry down during what had been one of its most dominant occasions.

listen let’s not kink-shame here maybe sulzberger is into public submission and humiliation play

“[T]he lengthy, eleventh-hour delay […] will continue to drive up the city’s legal bills in a lawsuit that’s already cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead of being handled by the city’s own lawyers, Richmond brought in an outside legal team from the Ogletree Deakins law firm.”

Let's get out there and be politically appropriate today folks

MAHA vs the U.S. corn lobby is going to be a real Let Them Fight situation

imagine anybody ever giving this party a dollar ever again

why would liberal arts college students do this?

good jerk, if you can get it

Those who can IPAs do. Those who are tired of canning IPAs, teach.

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fascinating assessment of what voters consider a bridge too far from the woman who got smoked after relentlessly campaigning with liz cheney

america's bathrooms are not ready

If I were a major American macrobrewer I'd be very worried about the fact that national averages on retail spending are being propped up by an extremely wealthy few who are not my customer base: prospect.org/economy/2025...

ON BARI WEISS’S PODCAST AHAHAHA

Ezra Klein tomorrow: Brendan Carr Is Regulating Media Consolidation The Right Way

Turns out it's a lot easier to turn it all into state media when there are like 5 media companies instead 5,000.

Nexstar is currently awaiting approval from the FCC and FTC on a $6.2 Billion acquisition of TEGNA.

If this all ends with a fight over piercing the corporate veil, let alone doing so, I will be absolutely tickled.

incredible things are happening on the former bang energy ceo’s instagram

Since the high-flying Tennessee whiskey firm was laid low by a federally ordered receivership last month for defaulting on $100M+ in loans, the court's clean-up man has been digging into its records to figure out what it actually owns. Today at Fingers, I've got a close-read on his first big filing.

announcing my new think tank