Another great hire for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: Sam Levine, Lina Khan's head of consumer protection at the FTC, will head the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

"There's no antitrust. Antitrust went away when we got a ruling that it was okay to pay Apple $20B to keep everybody else out," CNBC's Jim Cramer.

@sisco.bsky.social and me

My favorite read of the day, from Keith Alexander at Bloomberg Law. Full of fabulous details -- including that the jury included a professional, stand-up comedian > news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...

A key US Supreme Court justice indicated he wants to protect the Federal Reserve’s independence as the conservative majority weighed giving President Donald Trump power to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission and similar independent agencies.

Final Google judgment dropped www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For Businessweek, I wrote about the Supreme Court arguments Monday that could reshape the federal government as it’s been known for the past century www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today's favorite gift guide find: $222 for a set of six pewter napkin rings shaped like saddles for horses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From @sisco.bsky.social and Kate O'Keefe www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My colleague @sisco.bsky.social with the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Apparently "fancy versions of everyday items" are in this year.

One of my favorite things about December is all the unhinged gift guides that come out. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Judge Boasberg today released a new version of the Facebook decision, with fewer redactions. Some highlights: - He decides that Meta doesn't have a monopoly because if you include YouTube and TikTok in the market they only control 30% of time spent on social networking apps.

A dispatch from today’s closings in US v Google (ad tech) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I read some books and wrote an essay for Bloomberg Weekend:

Meta wins; FTC loses in antitrust case

Congrats to my friend @ellenhuet.bsky.social, whose book, Empire of Orgasm, comes out TODAY. What started as some dogged reporting about an SF wellness company, turned into a vivid tale about a full-on sex cult. Get it now! bookshop.org/p/books/empi...

NEW: DOJ has been in settlement talks with Michael Flynn -- Trump's first national security adviser seeking $50M for his prosecution by ex-special counsel Robert Mueller -- and Stefan Passantino, a Trump I White House lawyer who accused the House Jan. 6 committee of privacy violations bit.ly/4hWdolc

The US Justice Department closed a years-long antitrust probe into the meatpacking industry during the Covid-19 pandemic just weeks before President Donald Trump demanded a fresh investigation,

From my colleague @lauranahmias.bsky.social (with a little assist from me): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The TunneyAct-related hearing in US v HP set for Nov. 18 at 10amPT will be live streamed: cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/160208161... Webinar ID: 160 208 1619 Password: 144322

"artistic" translation: he has seen your memes, and he loves them

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team: “I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”

Helping Mamdani's transition on economic policy issues: former FTC Chair Lina Khan www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Tariffs, Trump, and furry unicorn yoga balls: Must-read from @gregstohr.bsky.social on this week's blockbuster action in the US Supreme Court buff.ly/gsBVs1a

Media Matters won again in court. A federal appeals court panel split 2-1 to uphold the district court decision to stay the FTC probe into its reporting on advertiser practices on social media. Our previous story on the lower court's ruling: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Today’s 9th Circuit argument in Epic-Apple was a bit of a bear www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cali just banned bosses from requiring workers to repay them if they quit: www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u... Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"The court is required to continue its constitutional functions" US judges so far have rejected the Justice Department’s requests to delay more than a dozen legal challenges to Trump administration policies as the government shutdown enters its second week: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

from my colleagues in Brussels

Like a spy thriller, but it's a plane load of H1-B holders rushing to fly back to the U.S. to meet a (maybe, confusing) White House deadline. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

New @businessweek.bsky.social feature: On a budget of $1 per American, NIOSH conducts or funds most US research on how to keep workers alive & well. The Trump Administration decided to blow it up. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH

SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AAG for Antitrust Gail Slater: “we should reject the suggestion that the only path to our economic security is to turn a critical market over to a monopolistic corporation. National champions are too often national chokepoints.”

by @sisco.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

With @sisco.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...