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...

The Federal Trade Commission ordered seven companies to turn over information about the impacts of their artificial intelligence chatbots on kids.

The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing. This is wildly illegal. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf

With @kelcee.bsky.social

Well, well, well: in a court filing, Google finally admits 'the web is in rapid decline.' Sharply at odds' with executives' public comments this year www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning: Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.

After working for three days last week, FTC Commissioner Slaughter is now back in limboland. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wallethub is out with an interesting study today on how much consumers would overspend if they simply follow the top results on Google wallethub.com/blog/bad-goo...

Ad exchange Pubmatic is suing Google for billions of dollars in damages from over its ad tech monopoly.

The FTC has now dismissed its appeal that was seeking to reinstate the noncompete rule finalized during the Biden administration. Not much of a surprise given the current FTC chair’s views…

The fine is the second largest against Google, adding to a €4.125 billion Android penalty and €2.42 billion fine for crushing shopping search rivals.

After the DOGE slashing of the federal workforce earlier this year and the FTC offering older workers an early retirement, the agency now needs to hire again. www.usajobs.gov/job/845034400

This means full control over MPD would revert back to D.C. officials next Thursday, which is a big local victory – and one for Mayor Bowser’s go-along-to-get-along strategy, which rankled some local activists and lawmakers.

BREAKING: Trump asks Supreme Court to let him fire last remaining Democrat on Federal Trade Commission. Seeks both full review and temporary order. Case could overturn Humphrey's Executor.

Congratulations to Cory Doctorow, for coining an all-too-useful word.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Translation: we’d do what you told us if you actually said what you wanted us to do SCOTUS

With @davey.bsky.social and @sisco.bsky.social

Google antitrust ruling is good for Google and Apple; not so great for everyone else www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Surprise! Company that said it would never go into search so it could keep $20B now saying it’s going into search www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“This case emphasizes, yet again, that antitrust laws were not designed to work at the speed of tech.” - @davelee.me www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Disney will pay $10 million for violating children's online privacy laws. The company didn't mark its videos uploaded to YouTube as Made for Kids, which would have limited data collection about viewers.

Trump take yarn.

As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any

A US judge ruled President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles during June protests against his immigration crackdown violated federal law. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In a speech at Ohio State, AAG for Antitrust Gail Slater took companies to task for withholding relevant documents from antitrust authorities and overusing legal privilege to keep info from antitrust authorities. www.justice.gov/opa/speech/a...

If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days ‪@maustermuhle.bsky.social‬ ‬ at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.

Note that Primus was the only member of the NTSB to oppose the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern in 2023. Illegally removing Primus also avoids the possibility that the board splits 2-2 and can't approve the pending merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

“This is deeply troubling and legally invalid,” Primus wrote in an email to The Wall Street Journal. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What you need to know about the lawsuit filed this morning by Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook challenging Trump's effort to fire her: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... And here's the complaint if you want to read it yourself: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

motivational poorly drawn cats

I appreciate all the jokes about not being able to indict a ham sandwich but let's be accurate, please. He threw a SALAMI sandwich.

@superwuster.bsky.social in NYT about the coming Google decision

I also got an email this morning that Royal Mail in the UK is pausing shipment

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

new episode w/@svaneksmith.bsky.social features a conversation with @deenashanker.bsky.social on the awesome power of the phrase "Live Mas," a conversation with @edzitron.com on why AI sucks, and a conversation with my 8 year old son on why Labubu sucks (ymmv). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sometimes I don't enjoy having called things. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Judge in the Media Matters case has denied the FTC's request for a stay pending appeal. Practical effect is that MM doesn't have to respond while case continues.