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Writer/speaker/journalist/professor. #UX. #Elections geek. MSF instructor. #BookLover. Fights #disinfo. Writes at WiredPen.com. Deep south ex-pat #breastCancer #uga she/her

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Ya think?

Understatement succinctly summarizes what the GOP stands for.

https://apple.news/Ash0QlurXS4OuDDjabCsa0Q

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In case you missed it, major corporations are major contributors to inflation, because they can raise prices with impunity.

Our rejection of anti-trust law has led directly to record profits (just because we can, say CEOs). Can we rekindle the spark?

With h/t to @pluralistic and @GhostOnTheHalfShell

https://themoderatevoice.com/are-we-on-the-verge-of-a-new-age-of-anti-monopolists/

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Although CNN has dubbed it "meddling" (poor choice), Russian bribery of European leaders is a criminal act.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee: “We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor.”

When will the US DOJ conduct an investigation like those in the Czech Repubic and Belgium?

https://themoderatevoice.com/russia-is-winning-the-propaganda-war/

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Are we on the verge of a new age of anti-monopolist philosophy?

I’ve read more commentary on monopolists in the past year than in the 20 years after my post-grad studies.

From @pluralistic today (12 April), scathing takedown
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/#or-give-me-death

Also, @rbreich from 10 April: “Just four companies now control processing of 80 percent of beef, nearly 70 percent of pork, and almost 60 percent of poultry.”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-are-we-still-suffering-inflation

In 2023, PepsiCo’s chief financial officer said that even though inflation was dropping, its prices would not be. Pepsi hiked its prices by double digits and announced plans to keep them high in 2024. If Pepsi were challenged by tougher competition, consumers would just buy something cheaper. But PepsiCo’s only major soda competitor is Coca-Cola, which — surprise, surprise — announced similar price hikes at about the same time as Pepsi and has also kept its prices high. The CEO of Coca-Cola claimed that the company had “earned the right” to push price hikes because its sodas are popular.
Two Robert Reich linked tweets about monopolization in food. https://x.com/rbreich/status/1778800491465773144 https://x.com/rbreich/status/1778818030371246443

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FYI, @setiinstitute
I’m leading my book club discussion next week …

Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Sarah Scoles
https://a.co/2C4h1FB

Book cover Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Sarah Scoles

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Which of these is not like the other?

Ohio and Alabama secretaries of state give the phrase "politically motivated" new meaning in their threats to keep Biden off the ballot because the DNC is too late.

Look at 2004 ... 2008 ... 2012 ...2020 ... Gasp! No Dem SoS threatened to keep Republicans off the ballot.

https://themoderatevoice.com/gop-threats-to-keep-biden-off-the-ballot-in-november-have-no-historical-precedent-this-century/

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GOP threats to keep Biden off the ballot in November have no historical precedent this century

Ohio and Alabama secretaries of state give the phrase "politically motivated" new meaning.

https://themoderatevoice.com/gop-threats-to-keep-biden-off-the-ballot-in-november-have-no-historical-precedent-this-century/

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WTH, @pluralistic !

Didn’t you write Beezle early(ish) in the pandemic? You saw the enshittification that is the SPAC even then?

Oh. Right. Trump’s SPAC adventures started publicly in October 2021. Damn. (I’ll read what he’s reading.)

The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel (The Martin Hench Novels) by Cory Doctorow
https://a.co/9tUNC8J

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@pluralistic

I marvel at your ability to turn what would otherwise be just another history lesson into an engaging story.

My FiL is a retired accountant. I told him he needed to read the first book, first. I was wrong! (I didn’t anticipate the younger Marty would do coke, though.)

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So …. That bit ⬆️ about not having to meet the same (disclosure?) requirements as an IPO?

@pluralistic called it.

Trump Media (DJT) shares have plummeted, cutting market cap in half in two weeks. Reminder DJT was the sticker for his now defunct casino biz.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/12/trump-media-shares-drop-more-than-5percent-after-trading-day-begins.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic 😂😂😂😂

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic

Not sure I’d label that thinking “economics” but it’s clearly one of the seven deadly sins: greed.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell

blink
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Scrambles to Google … dear lord. Business Insider extolled the framing in 2012.

And the University of Chicago is PROUD of this 💩 … which is worse than my memory…

https://mfidev.uchicago.edu/about/tribute/mfquotes.shtml

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic

ALL OF THESE ASSERTIONS ARE HAND WAVEY.

Seriously… he is worse than I remembered. I was too young to deconstruct that 1979 quote in resl time, had I watched it. Wasn’t a Donahue fan.

https://mfidev.uchicago.edu/about/tribute/mfquotes.shtml

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @davevolek @pluralistic

Also, in retrospect Friedman appears to have absorbed WWII-era German rhetoric.

I’ve said it many times before: those Confederate leaders lost the battle not the war. The war, they are clearly winning.

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Corporations should not be structured like nested Russian dolls. They should not be able to buy other corporations and vertically or horizontally “integrate.” That’s an airbrushed description of outsized market power. And reduced taxes.

@pluralistic again, The Beezle

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I knew Cory had been an editor at Boing Boing and worked with EFF.

Funny, I’ve always thought of him as a sociologist steeped in technology (specifically, IT). Economics is, at its roots, sociological philosophy.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic

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Economics started as philosophy.

Academics wanted to be thought of as “hard” science so they added mathematics and statistics. (BTDT)

The projections usually have a MoE that is laughable, particularly macro economics. The integration of psychology is overdue: “rational man” doesn’t exist. Can you tell I’ve thrown in the towel on my graduate work?

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic

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Dear news media:
Stop normalizing MAGA politicians. They are not conservative. They are RADICAL, and many are fascists.

Do. Better.
@CNN

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I had to re-add a dormant Twitter account to my app to rt something as a favor to a friend, and suddenly I'm getting push notifications of Elon tweets and other right wing garbage.

Is this new, or has it been ongoing and I'd just disabled it?

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@misc

I do not get any Musk push but Right wing ads are everywhere and “For you” isn’t.

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Arizona’s S.C. decision reflects the chaos Dobbs was designed to deliver. The 1864 law prohibiting is pre-statehood AND more than 50 years before women could vote. Oh, and doctors didn’t wash their hands.

https://themoderatevoice.com/arizonas-civil-war-era-abortion-ban/

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A @pluralistic historical reference from Sen John Sherman (R-OH, William Tecumseh’s younger brother), in 1890.

Sherman articulates the need for federal anti-trust legislation (“the first federal law targeting monopolies and anti-competitive behavior”) at a time when the learned understood this was the foundation for Adam Smith’s economic philosophy. Unlike today’s rhetoric.

Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is the closest in philosophy today, I think.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic

I blame Milton Friedman and the Chicago School but Reagan was the enabler.

I learned about market power in my graduate program but outmr focus was natural resources and agriculture: one treated as a commons and the other with a powerless set of suppliers (farmers) except in few cooperatives.

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From the “you can’t make this stuff up” and “things the Washington DC political press corps ignore” departments … Trump accused Biden of using cocaine and cheating in golf in Hugh Hewitt interview.

Voters who aren’t MAGA cult members need to come face-to-words. That’s only happening in independent reporting.

I’ve said for years, like a broken record stuck on repeat, that no Hollywood studio would green light a screenplay that featured Trump’s transcripts.

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-accused-biden-of-using-cocaine-hugh-hewitt/

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Where the @washingtonpost engages in

Rewrite:
Trump plan to end Ukraine war would reward Putin, foreign policy experts warn

  1. Many do not read beyond headline
  2. Headline implies Trump could end the war
  3. Needs approach
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