Local grocers have to pay much higher prices for their products than Dollar General & Walmart. Last month the FTC quietly killed a case to level the playing field. It's huge blow to small businesses & will further devastate rural America. @ronmknox.bsky.social has a terrific explainer:

Trump's "MAGA antitrust" enforcers seem more interested in unserious culture war grievances than enforcing the law. But don't worry: The states - our original trustbusters - are fighting for workers, shoppers and small businesses. New from me in
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

I love blue sky, you know the one the sun shines through, we'll see about this new-to-me social network. Cheers.

Antitrust is no longer operating behind closed doors as the exclusive domain of technocrats. And that's a big reason for its success.

“I believe [our court wins] stem, in part, from the way our teams…are telling human stories and seeing those stories resonate with the courts & the broader public.”