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Unclear if this is actually policy or just Trump shooting from the hip. But we agree that that the broadcast ownership cap should NOT be lifted. Broadcast is already highly consolidated.
Stay tuned 📺
Stay tuned 📺
Tegna shares fall 5% after Trump criticizes lifting local TV ownership cap reut.rs/3LZAiwj
Tegna shares fall 5% after Trump criticizes lifting local TV ownership cap
Shares in Tegna fell 5.5% on Monday after President Donald Trump criticized a proposal to lift the current cap on local television station ownership, which is necessary for the company to be acquired by Nexstar Media.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Unclear if this is actually policy or just Trump shooting from the hip. But we agree that that the broadcast ownership cap should NOT be lifted. Broadcast is already highly consolidated.
Stay tuned 📺
Stay tuned 📺
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Policymakers at all levels have options to make food markets more fair & competitive to stabilize prices for the long run. This includes fair pricing policy like the RobinsonPatman Act, public option grocery stores & wholesalers, and banning surveillance pricing, price-fixing, and exclusive dealing.
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
New Expert Brief -- Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries — Open Markets Institute
Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Policymakers at all levels have options to make food markets more fair & competitive to stabilize prices for the long run. This includes fair pricing policy like the RobinsonPatman Act, public option grocery stores & wholesalers, and banning surveillance pricing, price-fixing, and exclusive dealing.
How corporate consolidation has impacted the price of your Thanksgiving turkey, from @clairek.bsky.social: foodandpower.substack.com/p/bird-flu-h...
Bird Flu Hits a Consolidated Turkey Industry Ahead of Thanksgiving
Just three companies sell roughly half of all turkeys. Excessive consolidation increases the risk of price-fixing and harmful supply chain disruptions, both of which have come to roost in the turkey i...
foodandpower.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
How corporate consolidation has impacted the price of your Thanksgiving turkey, from @clairek.bsky.social: foodandpower.substack.com/p/bird-flu-h...
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
New Expert Brief -- Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries — Open Markets Institute
Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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you can read a 1000 word story on these mergers without the journalist EVER mentioning the fact that almost every merger like this has resulted in oodles of debt, layoffs, chaos, frustration, and shittier product
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
And So It Begins: Paramount, Netflix And Comcast Formally Submit Bids For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount, Comcast and Netflix have submitted bids to acquire all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, ushering in a dramatic period of evolution for the media business.
deadline.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
you can read a 1000 word story on these mergers without the journalist EVER mentioning the fact that almost every merger like this has resulted in oodles of debt, layoffs, chaos, frustration, and shittier product
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
Your reminder that an administration and FTC that claimed it would prioritize workers is choosing not to defend the ban on abusive non-compete agreements.
Read more from Sandeep Vaheesan & @bedoyausa.bsky.social in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
Read more from Sandeep Vaheesan & @bedoyausa.bsky.social in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
The Trump Administration’s Latest Assault on Workers
Sandeep Vaheesan & Alvaro Bedoya denounce the Federal Trade Commission's decision to stop defending a rule banning non-compete clauses.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Your reminder that an administration and FTC that claimed it would prioritize workers is choosing not to defend the ban on abusive non-compete agreements.
Read more from Sandeep Vaheesan & @bedoyausa.bsky.social in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
Read more from Sandeep Vaheesan & @bedoyausa.bsky.social in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
The many things you didn't know about public grocery stores.
Read it on Food & Power's substack here: foodandpower.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
Read it on Food & Power's substack here: foodandpower.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects
Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Pat...
foodandpower.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The many things you didn't know about public grocery stores.
Read it on Food & Power's substack here: foodandpower.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
Read it on Food & Power's substack here: foodandpower.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
As with so many things, the key to addressing exploding electricity costs in the US: break up the powerful entities keeping those costs high.
NEW from Sandeep Vaheesan in @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
NEW from Sandeep Vaheesan in @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
How to Lower Energy Costs: Break Up the Electrical-Grid Cabal
Seven obscure regional transmission organizations control huge parts of the country’s electrical grid.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As with so many things, the key to addressing exploding electricity costs in the US: break up the powerful entities keeping those costs high.
NEW from Sandeep Vaheesan in @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
NEW from Sandeep Vaheesan in @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
We teamed up with a range of public interest groups to urge state AGs to appeal the incredibly weak, insufficient remedies to address Google's monopoly over search.
www.economicliberties.us/press-releas...
www.economicliberties.us/press-releas...
States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Feckless Remedies Decision in Google Search Case, Advocates Urge - States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Feckless Remedies Decision in Google Search Case, Advocates Urge
Following Judge Amit Mehta's decision in September on remedies in U.S. v. Google search, in which he declined to terminate the tech giant's monopoly despite finding last year that Google illegally mai...
www.economicliberties.us
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We teamed up with a range of public interest groups to urge state AGs to appeal the incredibly weak, insufficient remedies to address Google's monopoly over search.
www.economicliberties.us/press-releas...
www.economicliberties.us/press-releas...
Today’s ruling from the D.C. District Court in favor of Meta is profoundly misguided. The court is wrong on the facts & the law, and the FTC should appeal.
Statement from our policy counsel @tarap.bsky.social here:
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Statement from our policy counsel @tarap.bsky.social here:
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
U.S. Court Fails to Apply Antitrust Law in Meta Case — Open Markets Institute
Open Markets Institute Policy Counsel Tara Pincock released a statement on the misguided ruling on the FTC’s case regarding Meta’s monopoly in social media.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Today’s ruling from the D.C. District Court in favor of Meta is profoundly misguided. The court is wrong on the facts & the law, and the FTC should appeal.
Statement from our policy counsel @tarap.bsky.social here:
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Statement from our policy counsel @tarap.bsky.social here:
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
NEW amicus brief in Ohio v Google:
Because Google sets itself up to serve the general public, states can enforce common carrier laws that say Google must not self preference its own products or favor its partners over others in search results. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Because Google sets itself up to serve the general public, states can enforce common carrier laws that say Google must not self preference its own products or favor its partners over others in search results. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Amicus Brief Urges Ohio Court of Appeals to Uphold State’s Authority to Designate Google as a Common Carrier — Open Markets Institute
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in State of Ohio v. Google , urging the Fifth District Court of Appeals of Ohio to recognize the state’s authority to designate Google Search as a co...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NEW amicus brief in Ohio v Google:
Because Google sets itself up to serve the general public, states can enforce common carrier laws that say Google must not self preference its own products or favor its partners over others in search results. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Because Google sets itself up to serve the general public, states can enforce common carrier laws that say Google must not self preference its own products or favor its partners over others in search results. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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Very promising news as the European Commission moves towards bringing Big Tech’s cloud arms under the Digital Markets Act, as long called for by @openmarkets.bsky.social.
Cloud alternatives won’t take off until we loosen the hyperscalers’ chokehold on the market.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Cloud alternatives won’t take off until we loosen the hyperscalers’ chokehold on the market.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EU Considers Cracking Down on Big Tech's Cloud Power
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study t...
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Very promising news as the European Commission moves towards bringing Big Tech’s cloud arms under the Digital Markets Act, as long called for by @openmarkets.bsky.social.
Cloud alternatives won’t take off until we loosen the hyperscalers’ chokehold on the market.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Cloud alternatives won’t take off until we loosen the hyperscalers’ chokehold on the market.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“The Commission must reject this paltry offer and force Google to break up its adtech monopoly once and for all.”
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“The Commission must reject this paltry offer and force Google to break up its adtech monopoly once and for all.”
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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🚨 Scoop: The European Commission is preparing to launch a new case against Google under its landmark digital rules — possibly as soon as tomorrow — despite Trump’s threats of retaliation, sources tell The Capitol Forum.
library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/91yxq4g...
library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/91yxq4g...
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨 Scoop: The European Commission is preparing to launch a new case against Google under its landmark digital rules — possibly as soon as tomorrow — despite Trump’s threats of retaliation, sources tell The Capitol Forum.
library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/91yxq4g...
library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/91yxq4g...
The media missed it, but 'moderate' Mikie Sherrill won her race for governor of New Jersey last week with a sweeping anti-monopoly platform and a pledge to fight the corporate interests who are ripping voters off.
libertyandpower.substack.com/p/sherrill-a...
libertyandpower.substack.com/p/sherrill-a...
Sherrill and Mamdani Just Showed How to Unify the Democratic Party – And Win
Mamdani stole the show last week, but ‘Moderate Mikie’ across the Hudson ran on an even bolder platform to rein in corporate power. From the governor’s mansion, she’ll have the authority to deliver.
libertyandpower.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The media missed it, but 'moderate' Mikie Sherrill won her race for governor of New Jersey last week with a sweeping anti-monopoly platform and a pledge to fight the corporate interests who are ripping voters off.
libertyandpower.substack.com/p/sherrill-a...
libertyandpower.substack.com/p/sherrill-a...
Mamdani stole the show last week. But across Hudson, the media missed what may have been an even more aggressive campaign to rein in corporate power.
Mikie Sherrill alum Ben Winsor breaks down how the two campaigns are a potential model for unifying Democrats — and winning.
Mikie Sherrill alum Ben Winsor breaks down how the two campaigns are a potential model for unifying Democrats — and winning.
Sherrill and Mamdani Just Showed How to Unify the Democratic Party – And Win
Mamdani stole the show last week, but ‘Moderate Mikie’ across the Hudson ran on an even bolder platform to rein in corporate power. From the governor’s mansion, she’ll have the authority to deliver.
libertyandpower.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Mamdani stole the show last week. But across Hudson, the media missed what may have been an even more aggressive campaign to rein in corporate power.
Mikie Sherrill alum Ben Winsor breaks down how the two campaigns are a potential model for unifying Democrats — and winning.
Mikie Sherrill alum Ben Winsor breaks down how the two campaigns are a potential model for unifying Democrats — and winning.
Don't miss the @skynewsrss.bsky.social investigation of how X's algorithm is fueling the British right-wing.
If you need another example of why oligarchs cannot be left in charge of our information platforms, this is it.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
If you need another example of why oligarchs cannot be left in charge of our information platforms, this is it.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Don't miss the @skynewsrss.bsky.social investigation of how X's algorithm is fueling the British right-wing.
If you need another example of why oligarchs cannot be left in charge of our information platforms, this is it.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
If you need another example of why oligarchs cannot be left in charge of our information platforms, this is it.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
A Senate Commerce hearing earlier today for Surface Transportation Board (STB) nominees drew our attention.
We believe it's a sign the Trump admin is trying to rush through the Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific merger.
Learn more: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
We believe it's a sign the Trump admin is trying to rush through the Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific merger.
Learn more: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Open Markets Calls for Senate to Halt Proceedings on Surface Transportation Board Nominees — Open Markets Institute
Open Markets Institute transportation analyst Arnav Rao released a statement urging the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to halt confirmation proceedings for the President’s S...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A Senate Commerce hearing earlier today for Surface Transportation Board (STB) nominees drew our attention.
We believe it's a sign the Trump admin is trying to rush through the Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific merger.
Learn more: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
We believe it's a sign the Trump admin is trying to rush through the Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific merger.
Learn more: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
A worker from Texas has stepped up to defend the national non-compete ban in the courts, after the Trump admin turned its back on workers and refused to act.
More @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/t...
More @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/t...
Texan Takes On Corporate Abuse as Trump’s FTC Abandons Workers - The American Prospect
Ric Davidson’s motion to defend the federal ban on noncompete clauses would force the FTC to undertake a formal process to roll it back, not just quietly suffocate it in the dead of night.
prospect.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A worker from Texas has stepped up to defend the national non-compete ban in the courts, after the Trump admin turned its back on workers and refused to act.
More @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/t...
More @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/t...
Book authors' $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic was a victory for creators. But as @EileenPomeroy breaks down, the narrow terms of the deal leave a lot of red flags for those concerned about AI corporations' illegal model training practices. www.journalismliberty.org/publications...
Anthropic’s Deal with Book Authors Won’t Be Enough to Curb Abusive AI Practices — Center for Journalism & Liberty
CJL intern Eileen Pomeroy breaks down the implications of Anthropic’s copyright settlement beyond the hefty fine, homing in on the news media sector.
www.journalismliberty.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Book authors' $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic was a victory for creators. But as @EileenPomeroy breaks down, the narrow terms of the deal leave a lot of red flags for those concerned about AI corporations' illegal model training practices. www.journalismliberty.org/publications...
It’s not just about saving an entitlement program. It’s about tackling the causes of economic insecurity — stagnant wages, financialization, pension loss.
New, from Phil Longman & Gillen Tener Martin in @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/h...
New, from Phil Longman & Gillen Tener Martin in @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/h...
How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s not just about saving an entitlement program. It’s about tackling the causes of economic insecurity — stagnant wages, financialization, pension loss.
New, from Phil Longman & Gillen Tener Martin in @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/h...
New, from Phil Longman & Gillen Tener Martin in @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/h...
Open Markets applauds Ric Davidson, his counsel at Gustafson Gluek, Burns Charest, and Towards Justice for stepping in to defend the FTC's ban on noncompetes in court after the current administration abandoned this crucial rule.
Our full statement:
Our full statement:
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Open Markets applauds Ric Davidson, his counsel at Gustafson Gluek, Burns Charest, and Towards Justice for stepping in to defend the FTC's ban on noncompetes in court after the current administration abandoned this crucial rule.
Our full statement:
Our full statement:
Defending social security is about more than just opposing cuts. As policy director Phil Longman explains in his latest piece for the @washingtonmonthly.com, there are a suite of reforms Democrats could embrace to stabilize the program while expanding benefits. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/31/h...
How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.
washingtonmonthly.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Defending social security is about more than just opposing cuts. As policy director Phil Longman explains in his latest piece for the @washingtonmonthly.com, there are a suite of reforms Democrats could embrace to stabilize the program while expanding benefits. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/31/h...
From early promise to pipeline of ads to value extraction: this is the cycle big tech rarely admits but that we all experience.
Our editorial director Anita Jain reviews Cory Doctorow’s new book, "Enshittification." @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/30/t...
Our editorial director Anita Jain reviews Cory Doctorow’s new book, "Enshittification." @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Cory Doctorow’s "Enshittification" explains why Tech platforms like Google and Amazon rot over time—squeezing users, businesses, and workers.
washingtonmonthly.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
From early promise to pipeline of ads to value extraction: this is the cycle big tech rarely admits but that we all experience.
Our editorial director Anita Jain reviews Cory Doctorow’s new book, "Enshittification." @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/30/t...
Our editorial director Anita Jain reviews Cory Doctorow’s new book, "Enshittification." @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/30/t...
American ranchers are saying that President Trump's decision to quadruple the amount of beef that Argentina can export to the U.S. at a lower tariff rate could not have come at a worse time.
More in Food & Power: substack.com/home/post/p-...
More in Food & Power: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Bigger Tensions Behind Trump’s Beef with Cattle Ranchers
President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports.
substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
American ranchers are saying that President Trump's decision to quadruple the amount of beef that Argentina can export to the U.S. at a lower tariff rate could not have come at a worse time.
More in Food & Power: substack.com/home/post/p-...
More in Food & Power: substack.com/home/post/p-...