While the FTC sucks right now, if state legislators want to address high grocery prices and protect their small businesses there is legislation at the #mnleg RIGHT NOW that would give the state new tools to crack down on Walmart’s unfair tactics.

A player in massive trade rumors owning part of a prediction market where people can bet on whether he gets traded is a MASSIVE conflict of interest. This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.

Hey all…I know we’re exhausted with all the money requests, but Mercado Central is in trouble, too: gofund.me/dac7d7cb5

There is a level of alarm coming from many great small businesses in Minneapolis & St. Paul that I haven’t heard since COVID. This weekend - pick a locally-owned business or three that you love and go spend some money if you can. We’ve all got to look out for one another and they need our help.

For too long MN has held up its corporate giants as something unique and special, but their cowardly letter has exposed the lie. Everyday Minnesotans are what make our state great, not these vultures. Must read from @ddayen.bsky.social & @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/01/28/m...

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

ICE is just one part of the problem. The security state depends on the surveillance economy we’ve allowed to grow unabated.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Thanks to the Reformer for publishing my piece about the opportunity Minnesota has to address high grocery prices while protecting small businesses.

Some great coverage of the unfair pricing webinar that @mnfarmersunion.bsky.social held last week. If the #mnleg wants to address the cost of living, it must confront the monopolies and anticompetitive conduct driving up prices. www.agweek.com/news/policy/...

Want to know how you are getting ripped off and what we can do about it? Join us next week!

Not sure I could have dreamed up a quote that so perfectly encapsulates Dems problem. "Titans of industry" have never been the guardrails protecting democracy. Ensuring power is not concentrated in the hands of a few is the guardrail! Total refusal to learn anything.

Just in case it still wasn’t clear.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The Twins drew the smallest September crowd in Target Field history this week. Seems like a good time to re-share Erik Hatlestad and I's piece charting a new way forward! www.startribune.com/twins-owners...

This is a winning politics. x.com/Acyn/status/...

If you find a company to be an illegal monopoly and then your proposed remedies boost that company’s stock, you did it wrong. Our corporatized judicial system at work.

I like to think backlash from the powerful corporate elites screwing all of us is a sign you are doing something right, but sure, you go be annoying online.

"We don’t have to choose between abundant housing and fair pay. In fact, the best way to build more homes quickly and sustainably is to restore the natural alliance between pro-housing advocates and the people who build housing." Our @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social together with @moreneighbors.org

PAY.FOR.YOUR.OWN.DAMN.STADIUM!!!! thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

It’s tough being big and profitable.

One of the best things #mnleg has done in recent years was ban noncompetes and the arguments for carving it up (the first of many from the corporate lobby I’m sure) are total nonsense. This is simply about grabbing power away from workers. From the @minnesotareformer.com. #BreakEmUp

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

Great example of the need for more grassroots state antimonopoly infrastructure. You can’t out lobby Big Tech but you can out organize them. If legislators only hear from “experts” on these issues, the deep pockets will win every time. #BreakEmUp

From the amazing folks at @goodjobsfirst.org, a depressing look at states data center obsessions. Glad that Big Tech can make out so well in these uncertain times!

I’m thinking these folks are onto something.

I wrote about some of the ways #mnleg can protect workers from monopoly power. #BreakEmUp

Read this from @blindeke.bsky.social. One really rich guy, who seemingly hated workers and also the city of Saint Paul, is disproportionately responsible for the challenges downtown is facing. In order to move forward, it’s key that we understand this. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Was glad to sit down with @justinofmn.bsky.social this week to talk about the next phase in Canada's fight against monopoly www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T2Z...

For decades pro-business has come to mean pro-monopoly. But antimonopoly has always been the way to unleash innovation and entrepreneurship and protect our main streets.

The two worst people you know are getting married. www.sportico.com/business/com...

This week’s You’re Probably Getting Screwed is about the unlikely playbook the FTC has given to state legislators looking to protect workers from monopoly power. youtu.be/m5fuuwbKwGU?...

A really great CLE organized by @agellison.bsky.social office to discuss consolidation in the seed industry! #BreakEmUp www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/CLE/D...

Anticompetitive behavior doesn’t just impact consumers, it’s a real threat to workers as well. www.startribune.com/jennie-o-tys...

Great 15 minutes on why the decline of small business is a a big problem and how the revival of a key antitrust law could make all the difference. Full conversation here: youtu.be/pi2vnhD0ZCU?...

Thanks to @ronmknox.bsky.social for chatting about the importance of small businesses with me. Full interview is at screwed.substack.com/p/youre-prob....

Wrote about why we should care about the decline of small businesses. screwed.substack.com/p/youre-prob...

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

#Datacenters are among the most subsidized industries in #Washington state. Local communities are on an “energy cliff.” Now the Gov. is forming a team to evaluate their impact. This follows a story by @sydbrownstone.bsky.social & Lulu Ramadan 4 @propublica.org and @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

These companies want to be “non-banks” that can accept deposits of your money and then not have any legal obligations to protect it—which lets them use it to speculate on crypto etc—and not have FDIC insurance. They need to kill the cfpb to do that.

No better way to combat the influence of the bro-ligarchs threatening democracy than by lavishing them with an unknown amount of taxpayer money. #mnleg 🤦‍♂️🥴

Four years and still probably the nicest thing the internet has done for me.

“I’m concerned these tariffs will lead to a drop in farm income and force farmers off the land. We need more farmers, not fewer farmers.” MFU Pres. Gary Wertish spoke against across-the-board tariffs today during a press conference hosted by @amyklobuchar.com + MN Building & Construction Trades.

Proud to meet w @angiecraigm.bsky.social She is a great #ProtectMedicaid champion. We talked about all of the healthcare jobs at stake in her district.

"We want no economic or political dictatorship imposed upon us either by the government or by big business. We want no system of detailed regulation of prices by the government nor price-fixing by private interests. We do not want bureaucracy or regimentation of any kind . . .”

Can’t top the bro-ligarchs, but the MLB Exec Council is trying. What a bunch of “mostly” cheap ass billionaires.

by @justinofmn.bsky.social "Musk’s actions have drawn lawsuits, but as journalist Luke Goldstein wrote in a piece on Musk’s power a couple years ago, 'If federal regulators had done their job, we would never have gotten to the point where one fickle titan has so much unfettered power'"

Elon sucks.