"though I agree that blanket grumbling about neoliberalism and big and complicated phenomena...there is a ‘there’ there when people highlight the problems with economic policy in the 1980s, 90s, and beyond when they try to understand the rise of economic populism..."

“This is not who we are, America” just doesn’t ring true to me. My father was assassinated in this nation, gunned down on a motel balcony in Memphis, where he was engaged as a nonviolent warrior for nondiscriminatory, humane wages. He was killed for working to end racism,

Tune in this Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET for a virtual discussion with K. Sabeel Rahman, Jeremie Greer, Susan R. Holmberg, Lauren Jacobs, and gabrielle rejouis, esq. (she/her) 🇵🇸 about how monopolies leverage systemic racism and what we can do to democratize economic power. RSVP ⬇️ilsr.org/articles/power…

Everyone who had “talks too much” on their report cards in school, what do y’all do for a living?

Motivated by shareholder primacy, utility monopolies are blocking solar projects & hiking prices—They're undermining a just transition. For public clean energy investments to succeed, we must restructure the electricity sector. Via Institute for Local Self-Reliance's John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋: promarket.org/2024/07/08/upg…

Join us Wednesday!

It's day two of #PrimeDay. Meet Masani Barnwell, co-owner of Source of Knowledge bookstore in Newark, NJ and Main Street Alliance / Main Street Action member. Buying from Masani supports local jobs and community. Buying from Amazon supports one of the world's biggest monopolies. youtu.be/RH5EaCxD51o?si…

My Institute for Local Self-Reliance colleagues working on Community Broadband are doing fantastic work bridging digital equity via "Tribal Broadband Bootcamps" with more than 72 tribes. AP Story: apnews.com/article/broadb…

the “i can’t breathe, SIR” really fucking hurts. cops and the system of policing demand such a (fatally outsized) level of authority and respect above others — that Black people are especially forced to abide — and then they kill us over and over again and whole worlds die

Happy Birthday to our Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib.

Come be my boss Roosevelt Institute! We're hiring for a CEO. rooseveltinstitute.org/careers/presid…

It was great to see Kamala Harris talk about the Biden-Harris record on anti-trust. Let’s sustain that, and keep Lina Khan and Antitrust Division Deputy AG Kanter at the wheel.

My Op-Ed with Sue Warfield, President of the ASTRA Toy American Specialty Toy Retailers Assn, refuting a recent Op-Ed claiming the #CreditCardCompetitionAct primarily benefits large retailers like Amazon and Walmart. FALSE. A thread 🧵1/

Harris could take Biden's trustbusting to the next level -- and build the Democratic working class base while doing it.

“The legacy of disingenuous outsiders taking advantage of Tribes does not seem to be consigned to history.” Our Community Networks team just published a report examining the consequences of a federal broadband program’s failure to prioritize Tribal consent: ilsr.org/articles/repor…

As a non-Midwesterner married to a Midwestern man I’m here to tell Kamala to make sure to budget in an extra hour to every meeting so Walz can say goodbye to people and then stand at the door of the Oval Office for 45 mins still making small talk.

1. Why have gov't efforts to fix food deserts failed? Because the problem isn’t capital costs, or even poverty per se. Poor neighborhoods used to have grocery stores. The problem is the antitrust agencies haven’t enforced the Robinson-Patman Act in 40 yrs. propublica.org/article/food-d…

There is advocacy $$ focused on efforts like this without needed market reforms. States have price discrimination laws and a robust state/local antimonopoly infrastructure could make those an avenue for protecting investments like these. #BreakEmUp propublica.org/article/food-d…

1. Hello. Today, a federal court in Oregon will begin hearing the FTC’s case to block a merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons. Yes, the lawsuit is about consumer prices and workers’ wages. But it’s really about power. Let’s take a look.