Excited to be joined at #IRE26 by a cracker jack group of reporters sharing tips on covering the growing corporate influence. Learn how to dig into behavior and relationships, even when you're on deadline. Join us Thurs, June 18 at 2:30 p.m.! And don't forget to stop by the @goodjobsfirst.org table!

We used to wait in a line at the ticket office. Now we bid on our phones. The cheapest World Cup opener tickets would cost the average family the equivalent of 7 months of health care premiums. @lindsayowens.bsky.social on how dynamic pricing turned buying a ticket into an auction.

Georgia spent about $1.69 a day per person in prison in 2024, and has proposed to spend $1.60 a day in 2027 — less than $.60 per meal. The Food and Drug Administration’s “thrifty plan” estimates that feeding an adult man “a nutritious, practical, cost-effective diet” costs about $10 per day.

‪It's 95 degrees in Cambridge today. If you can't imagine spending time outside, imagine being a worker on a shift with no heat standards at your outdoor job. It's dangerous and it's preventable. Check out our latest report with @groundwork.bsky.social clje.law.harvard.edu/extreme-heat...

It's not too late to apply! Looking forward to being part of this amazing conference.

🚨NEW ANALYSIS🚨 14 states and scores of localities fail to disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. Yet such losses are known to be soaring in states that do disclose, with three states already losing $1 billion or more per year. 🧵 goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-...

NEW: At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax in 2025. That's despite collectively earning more than $105 billion in U.S. income. The list includes Tesla, Palantir, Live Nation Entertainment, Coinbase, United Airlines, Walt Disney, and more. itep.org/88-profitabl...

"Like Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman has benefited greatly from a U.S. tech press pathologically obsessed with mythologizing terrible white men with a lot of money." - @karlbode.com:

Gosh, if only there was 50 years of research on this subject, which had reached a definitive conclusion that public stadiums are universally awful public investments....

Hillsborough County previously identified $2.6B worth of roads, sewers, etc. to use Community Reinvestment Tax funds on — meaning diverting $437m to a Rays stadium could require cutting back on building actual public infrastructure.

Virginia’s sales and use tax exemption for the data centers that fuel the AI industry’s huge windfalls for billionaires are now costing the state’s public school students $212 per year. @goodjobsfirst.org goodjobsfirst.org/virginias-da...

I have a lot to say on the positives of these mass scale peaceful protests. They can not be the only action, but they're important pillars. They're high visibility, can give us all an energy boost, can foster new connections, and are excellent entry points for people who want to start taking action.

-The cases found a way around Section 230 -Juries are more willing to sanction social media than judges -the general public has soured on social media -states are responding to this & demanding structural remedies A big multidistrict litigation heads to trial in August. prospect.org/2026/03/26/s...

NEW: Our study discovers that companies boost their profits up to 200% by making it harder for you to cancel subscriptions. Your exhaustion & frustration is what makes these companies profitable. @julianakaplan.bsky.social breaks it down & how it's costing us $165B a year in wasted time & money.

this particular CEO routinely says all kinds of things that don't mean shit! Now I don't pretend to be a Pulitzer winner, but I think if you're doing even baseline actual journalism you might want to include that as useful context for a reader.

Reminds me of the infuriating Boeing 737 MAX saga, in which the sole person actually prosecuted was the guy in charge of the simulators, which weren't even the problem, it was cheap, lazy engineering. Not one executive even indicted. Boeing itself got a tidy DOJ agreement.

An Uber-backed group has poured more than $8 million into supporting Gov. Hochul's insurance deregulation push. The big cash drop includes an ad with "testimonials" by New York drivers who were mostly professional actors, Streetsblog found. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/13/h...

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Her lawyer believes that her case should be studied as a “playbook” for D.H.S. violence. “She’s one of the few people who has survived the bullets and can speak out,” he said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j0manC

it's quite surreal how we've completely normalized the fact that a good 70% of our business, political, and tech press exists exclusively to blow smoke up the ass of the wealthy, creating elaborate mythologies for otherwise unremarkable people

The truth is, modest tax increases on millionaires won’t change their lifestyles. But the revenue can make a real difference for working families who rely on public services every day. Fair taxes help build rich, free, & stable communities and economies. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n...

Do higher taxes cause millionaires to flee? Patriotic Millionaire Craig Kaplan doesn't think so.⬇️ “I can’t imagine anybody who has that kind of income would leave New York over a $20,000 tax increase. It would mean absolutely nothing for me.”

A recent industry piece in @pilotonline.com argues Virginia must preserve its data center tax breaks to protect its “competitive edge.” But if lawmakers stop subsidizing some of the world’s richest companies, will data center companies really flee? The tl;dr: No. goodjobsfirst.org/virginias-da...

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

Excellent point, Utah resident Lionel Trepanier: “This is real. This is people’s lives. The choices are being made between, what? Childhood and maternity care and giving a subsidy to the biggest oil producer in Utah?” www.utahinvestigative.org/tax-credit-f...

Remember that Kristi Noem created a bottleneck at FEMA by demanding personal approval of large contracts, but fast-tracked relief for a Florida tourist attraction after a contributor to her campaign made a call.

Please: LLMs do not 'hallucinate'. They provide incorrect information. They produce erroneous outputs. They don't have any intentionality, or consciousness. This metaphor is becoming increasingly unhelpful.

I'm moderating a panel at NICAR this week! Come hear @allanlasser.com, @elizabethrenter.bsky.social, @arlenemartinez.bsky.social and I talk about careers and finding your niche in news or news-adjacent roles. Stop by, say hi and bring your questions! schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#...

You paid more for a water at the airport than Southwest Airlines paid in federal income taxes last year. Because they paid $0.

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

ICYMI yesterday, the author of Searchlight's "Don't say abolish ICE" memo is a senior advisor to Tony Blinken's WestExec, a corporate shadow lobbyist. He works for companies that are immigration contractors. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

This NPR story also contains the most Minnesota lady shit I've ever seen in my life. The feels like tomorrow is -30F (not a typo) and JB does. not. care. about that "little chill air." www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, Big Tech is lobbying to roll back digital regulations across the globe. 🌍 Our new map tracks 200+ policies in 60+ jurisdictions that Big Tech lobbyists have asked Trump to attack. See it for yourself ⬇️

People get surprised when they hear Amazon, Meta, Google, Tesla, and other global giants get huge discounts on energy AND also pass off their infrastructure costs to the rest of us AND pay no taxes.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

@hshierholz.bsky.social nails it: "Today’s affordability debate, however, focuses almost entirely on prices...(but) The roots of today’s affordability crisis actually lie not in recent price spikes, but in the long-term suppression of workers’ pay." www.ms.now/opinion/infl...

Data centers like Project Blue and the #StargateProject are some of the most dangerous #AI projects to date — and it’s coming to the SW. Join us on 12/10 as we expose the projects' harms and outline how you can join the fight against #tech corporate greed & their #DataCenters. bit.ly/TheSWResists

Our work on data centers in the @nytimes.com. The facilities are heavy water/energy users, and often the big companies behind them get huge taxpayer subsidies. In many states, transparency is so bad the public can't see just how much $ they're giving companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Good Jobs First Founder Greg LeRoy is stepping down as executive director. Help us find a great candidate to lead this incredible organization! Details on the job and how to apply: www.idealist.org/en/job/ad148...

"The idea that these companies that have their profit wrapped up in the continued sale and use of fossil fuels is outright contrary to the very goals of the Paris Agreement..." I learned a lot from this conversation between @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @dharna.bsky.social

Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts. Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges. buff.ly/8PdXnTT

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The videos of often-violent ICE arrests circulating on social media are “brutal and terrifying,” Sarah Wildman writes. “What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras, away from the view of judges and lawyers and the media.”

5/ As lead author @balancecraft.bsky.social says, “You can think of Wall Street as the ultimate NIMBY.” “It’s impossible to solve America’s housing crisis without understanding the deep structural perversions in how homebuilding is financed.”

And we give Amazon billions of dollars that would otherwise go to after-school programs, expanding universal pre-K, roads, parks, child care and all the things that our lives security and joy.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

'Trump’s actions are not dangerously illegal, per Times journalists. Rather they “raise questions” and “stretch bounds”. Trump is not an authoritarian, he is a “maximalist.” Blisteringly obvious conclusions about his seizure of dictatorial powers are kept....' presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-...

"At a time when wealth disparities in the United States have reached historic levels, the report exposes how the Abundance platform sidesteps the root causes of inequality and enables the further consolidation of corporate power..." www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Seems like a pure public good, well worth the $350 million provided by taxpayers.

It would be cool if the journalists doing these kinds of stories would take 5 minutes and look up one of the many studies on the benefits of bike infrastructure and then include that in the story. But no, we get vibes and a one-sided story.