A lot of people want to be their own boss and own a business. A lot of them buy into a franchise or go into trucking. The new episode of @thefairfightpod.bsky.social explores how those two seemingly different professions have both been torn apart by greed and consolidation. youtu.be/Xxof_1HNFAw?...

“The manufacturing scenario is gone. Service sector is dead end. So people are jumping into trucking. Who wouldn’t buy a 1 year old, 2 year old truck for zero down? And who is this person? Well it’s me, who hasn’t got a pot to piss in. You’re doomed to failure and they know it.”

Tomorrow @MaxMMillerAT & I will be talking to a Subway owner and a long-haul trucker. They’ll tell us why they’re leaving their professions after decades of work. Tune in live at 8:45am ET at YT or catch it after on wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/live/pUjNxB7...

This is genius I wasn't able to conceive.

The headline says it all--"Big money still backs Michael Bennet for governor, but Phil Weiser is outpacing him in direct contributions." We are running a Colorado grassroots campaign against an establishment Washington, DC one. And that's why we'll win. www.denverpost.com/2026/05/06/c...

This is how to respond when your university starts pushing Gemini on you

@rbreich.bsky.social and @bedoyausa.bsky.social revive the idea of the people – ALL of us – against the billionaires and the system that serves them and only them. We've let them set us against each other for WAY too long. We ARE the 99%. Or maybe even the 99.9%. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2OH...

I'm doing about 7 times the amount of work that I did in the same amount of time 25 years ago and only 1.25 the amount of pay

...and don't take it from me. Here's an hourlong conversation on @thefairfightpod.bsky.social between an Iowa corn and soybean farmer and an NYC rideshare driver. Spoiler alert: They agree there's much more unites them than divides them youtu.be/oMPkAyJKCA0?...

"The people I talked to couldn't stop talking about how corporate power was bleeding them dry."

With family caregiving responsibilities increasing due the the Silver Tsunami, it’s time to normalize a 4-day work week. 5-2 is not “balance.”

The benefits of societal advancement should accrue to all, not only to the wealthiest in the form of accelerated wealth extraction. More free time for everyone would be one way that the labor-saving benefits of automation can be fairly distributed.

32/4 days should be standard for all, not just UAW, unionized, blue collar, trades, and service employees. Most office/knowledge/white collar workers are experiencing burnout. Same increases in productivity (profits for The Man) with wages so stagnant they look for side hustles and 2nd jobs

One of the many things I enjoy about a CBA is that I don't have to wait on politicians or their opposition, or the Senate parliamentarian, or who comes and goes from the presidency. The only people I need to politick are my union brothers and sisters, and then the bosses. Get a union.

This is a more exciting idea than some new tax exemption.

One weird trick to tighten the labor market

Happy May Day! Give us the Friday

When it comes to workers and AI, everyone is focused on not losing. This guy wants to win.

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain testifying in favor of a 32-hour workweek. "Eighty-four years ago the 40-hour workweek was established. And since then, we've had a 400 percent increase in productivity, and nothing's changed."

Trump wants a Fed chair who does what he’s told, not what’s best for families and workers. Kevin Warsh's record suggests he'll bend to Trump’s demands for rate cuts, prioritizing the needs of Wall Street over Main Street. "It's not about making people's lives better." - @bedoyausa.bsky.social

@rbreich.bsky.social and @bedoyausa.bsky.social do a phenomenal job of breaking down the real divide in this country and how economic populism will address it.

...and don't take it from me. Here's an hourlong conversation on @thefairfightpod.bsky.social between an Iowa corn and soybean farmer and an NYC rideshare driver. Spoiler alert: They agree there's much more unites them than divides them youtu.be/oMPkAyJKCA0?...

The vote to confirm Kevin Warsh is tomorrow. He was on the Fed in 2008. Pre-crash he said subprime mortgages weren't an issue. Post-crash he sprinted to give billion-dollar bailouts to the banks who bet big on those derivatives. Who do you think this guy is going to help?

Week 9 of the war: NYC rideshare driver --> +$25/$30 per tank of gas IA farmer (~500 acres)--> +*$25K* in fertilizer costs

NYC rideshare and Iowa farmers, seemingly worlds apart, are both being pushed to the brink by increases in the cost of gas and fertilizer

Who will Kevin Warsh care about once he's chair of the Fed? His billionaire and centimillionaire friends on Wall Street? Or people who work for a living?

I love this. Solidarity to all my union brothers and sisters. ❤️✌️✊

Time to get rid of the oligarchy

This is excellent. Please share it.

Aaron is the president of the Iowa Farmers Union. Amadou is a rideshare driver who is part of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. We brought them together and this was their reaction

... "[Paramount's owners] think that because they paid these bribes and kissed the ring, they get to decide and this deal is done," said @bedoyausa.bsky.social, former FTC commissioner. "You know what's going to happen to this merger? It's going to get blocked."

This morning we'll be talking live to the president of the Iowa Farmers Union and a rideshare driver from the New York Taxi Workers Alliance about rising gas prices, software locks, and life under monopolies. Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/VdCWTme...

Incredible reminder of how both Ellison and Trump actively work to subvert the First Amendment:

with David Ellison's bizarre dinner "in celebration of the First Amendment" and "honoring the Trump White House" tonight, here is a timeline of how Ellison is destroying the First Amendment (1 of 3)

On today's Stop the Merger press call opposing Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, @bedoyausa.bsky.social explains the many ways the acquisition can be blocked. "Shareholders aren't voting on a done deal... There's every reason to believe that CA State AG Rob Bonta will intervene."

Yep! It's pretty much an iron law of media consolidation that once massive debts have been incurred, the same $ spent servicing that debt are not available to invest in, you know, new films and tv series, music, journalism, etc.

when Paramount execs talk about $6 billion in ”synergies” this is what they’re talking about

Mark Ruffalo: “It’s the crews. If you merge [Paramount and Warner Brothers] the first thing they’re going to do is start firing people and laying people off to service $78 billion in debt. They’re going to have to get rid of half the crews.”

Mabrey gets it

From @linamkhan.bsky.social and @dohamekki.bsky.social in the NYT today: ✅ state AGs fight corporate power when feds don't ✅ juries can stop it when the gov't or judges won't ✅ antitrust enforcement cannot be so expensive ✅ talk to actual small business owners & workers

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

This is propaganda.

Franchise owners have become less like independent businessmen and more like a badly treated employee stripped of all their rights. Jarod Facundo reviews a new book on how franchisors put this legal regime in place. prospect.org/2026/04/10/a...

Wikipedia: "Stephanie Cutter is an American communications and political consultant. She served as an advisor to President Barack Obama, President Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Harris. She previously worked in campaign roles for Ted Kennedy and John Kerry."

I knew people were betting on what Karoline Leavitt said in her press conferences... I did not know that people were betting on the specific words Mr. Beast would say in his next video

It’s pretty hilarious that they managed to quote Mr. Burns unironically, and possibly inadvertently.

Max is burying the lede:-) He represented Iowa in 2019 when Live Nation/Ticketmaster repeatedly violated their commitments from 2010. Now, he'll walk us through the Trump administration's corporate pardon of execs who brag about "robbing them blind." We'll be live on YouTube at 8:45am ET / 7:45am CT

tomorrow at 8:45am ET we'll be live talking about the corporate pardon the DOJ just gave to Ticketmaster

When I toured an Amazon FC, I kept waiting to see the people in charge. The cliche bosses sitting in offices above everyone monitoring the work. It took a while for me to understand the scanners in everyone's hands were in charge, not people.

my running list of jobs that have been reverse centaur-ed (per Cory Doctorow's definition) 1. Amazon DSP driving 2. long-haul trucking 3. call center work (esp non-union) 4. food delivery 5. ____________