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What people can do right now: cancel their Disney+ streaming subscriptions. Disney is making an economic calculation here. Thus far -- they see only the benefits from cancelling Kimmel. We the media-consuming people have the power to make them see the costs.

States are stepping up! Look at the Northeast Public Health Collaborative that is going to fulfill formerly federal functions like recommending vaccines. Yay. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

“It could put loyalties at risk” says Bloomberg. Really? American farmers and Republicans are like Carlie Brown and the proverbial football. They always come back so they can always be exploited.

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Bluesky has set up headquarters in Belgium.

I'm tired of all the winning www.404media.co/2-000-shippi...

Lisa Cook must stay on as a Fed Governor. She must vote Wednesday. It’s not about her, it’s about us.

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

What he said

My take on the Google search remedies decision in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ➡️Remedies Not Enough as Google will still be default ➡️None of the other remedies compensate for this ➡️ Just relying on AI is bananas www.techpolicy.press/us-courts-re...

Republicans are in charge of everything. If the government shuts down, it's on them. I'm transparent about how you get my vote. And it's not hard. I just need a budget that doesn't destroy our health care system, and funds democracy, not totalitarianism and corruption.

The ideas in this paper would have helped restore competition in search. I am afraid what we got will not make much (perhaps zero) difference.

See also "Judicial Remedies to Restore Lost Competition in the Market for General Search" for an economic analysis of entry barriers and a demonstration of how the court could have facilitated a partial payment ban. www.michiganstatelawreview.org/forum2024202... @proffionasm.bsky.social

Exquisite timing by Apple! Perhaps designed to make a fool of the judge and show Apple’s approach to competition law? Was the executive who testified that Apple would never enter search the same one a different court described as “not credible” 14 times?

Suggests anything that the FTC has done without Slaughter can be challenged as invalid and without legal authority. Good scope for some creative attorneys…

Steven Colbert and his wife appeared in the crowd at the Alcaraz match, and the arena went wild when his face hit the screen. People clearly adore him—and honestly, seeing that joy gave me a surge of hope.

I find the unwillingness to leave X completely mystifying. Everyone who reads or posts there is contributing to the social media network effects that destroy democracy and enrich Musk. If those are not your values, leave.

Notice that 4 years allows undergrad and money making masters programs to continue. These are big sources of revenue (e.g. many Chinese students) for universities in red states. By contrast, phd programs cost money, and are disprop at rich universities that are Trump targets.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Stand up to Trump on Big Tech, says EU antitrust chief ↘️ on.ft.com/3Vq9NBu

Rollins: “I do believe we're in a revolution. 1776 was the first one. 1863 or so, with Abraham Lincoln, was the second. This is the third with Donald Trump leading the way.”

Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature www.politico.eu/article/russ...

I agree! I say please to the smart speaker because I never want to get out of the habit.

I quit over a year ago. Deleted my account soon after. Haven't looked back. willjennings.substack.com/p/why-im-lea...

Kharkiv right now ❤️‍🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

Record-high prices for beef in the grocery store, record-high profits for the world's largest beef packer.

Endlessly credulous about the pretextual actions of an authoritarian. It's not about mortgages. It's not about antisemitism. It's not about crime.

I want to see a competition among elected Democrats, especially those with executive authority in state office over who can use that authority most effectively to stymie, impede, block and discredit Trumps efforts to create an autocracy. That should be the coin of future electoral success

This trip will never stop giving. Starting to think for the benefit of both nations we should keep him

George called Dave who called his mate Johnny who owns the manor then George called Robert and Chris to come for drinks and Nigel for breakfast! All united by their determination to bring down the elites!

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

As we mark the 80th anniversary of WWII's end, I’ve come to believe that in losing that Greatest Generation, we are losing more than just the memories of combat. We are losing the memory and experience of what it means to fight fascism and authoritarianism. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...

The rich have been threatening to leave New York because of taxes all my life. Some of them do go to Florida or Texas, but then they discover that Florida and Texas are Florida and Texas.

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

To be clear, this is blatantly unconstitutional. But just in case the Court no longer cares about this precedent either, California should pass a law that Wyoming drivers licenses are no longer valid here www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_n...

Today, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy has expanded to become the Bennett School of Public Policy, @cam.ac.uk The Bennett School will continue to conduct leading public policy research, teaching & engagement, for the right kind of growth fairly shared. Please now follow our work here.

Olivier has been a great DG, committed to public interest and a well functioning market, a team builder able to support and find ways forward in difficult moments. Someone to enjoy with and to learn from. It’s been a privilege to meet you.Txs, my friend.We will always count on you. on.ft.com/45kQChd

This is really very good. One of the clearest expositions of generational inequality and what drives it (largely housing costs ofc) - also helped challenge some of my assumptions and see things from the perspective of my parents' generation.

" We cannot have a society, in which, if two people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them" ~Jaron Lanier youtu.be/qQ-PUXPVlos

Big change here for Meta. Will this be imitated in other countries? Certainly cuts down on content moderation costs for the company.

President Trump regards climate change as a hoax. This is no reason to give up for those who still worry about the future of the planet. In this column, @wederdim.bsky.social, @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social and I explain how and put forward concrete proposals. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

While an important area of study on its own (healthcare spending is a huge share of GDP), this paper demonstrates the social cost of having no way to monitor and enforce small mergers. Consumers really need government to figure this out in order to prevent anticompetitive consolidation.

New paper out now! In a co-authored @nber.org study released this week, @solomonctryls.bsky.social faculty affiliates Zack Cooper and @proffionasm.bsky.social find that hospital acquisitions of physician practices raise prices by decreasing competition. www.nber.org/papers/w34039

So Ellison meets with FCC Chair on Tuesday and Colbert was told on Wednesday his show was being cancelled. The FCC's merger-approval authority is a powerful weapon in the hands of censors. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...