Marka Peterson

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Mike Rogers...

Voted to raise prescription drug prices.
Voted to expand opioids.
Has taken $5 million of corporate money to run a campaign.
Believes his election was stolen.

Let's send him back to his McMansion in Florida for good.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

If so much money weren't getting thrown at this garbage and these people didn't have the loudest mics and the whole world wasn't taking these people seriously and our planet wasn't getting wiped out, it would have been pure comedy seeing this ridiculous discourse.

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Kenyan McDuffie, centrist DC mayoral candidate, has throughout his campaign been working with Global Strategy Group, a top Third Way contractor notorious for assisting union busting efforts at Amazon.

Third Way voices have been vocally supportive of McDuffie.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Before there was “hipster antitrust,”there was Courtney Love in 1999.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A woman in Texas was arrested after she made a Facebook post sounding the alarm about the water quality in her town.

The water in Trinidad, Texas, sometimes runs brown, but when Jennifer Combs posted about it, the cops came and took her to jail.

Video via @FOX4

[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

The end of surveillance pricing and wages is starting !

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

I testified on this bill, alongside workers harmed by surveillance wage-setting, an algorithmic rat race to the bottom that forces them into a state of perpetual financial precarity.

My comments also addressed the need to protect bona fide discounts and loyalty programs.

[Marka Peterson @PetersonMarka]

@saalevine Wonderful news! NYC couldn’t do better!

[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

In today's column, Ezra Klein argues antimonopoly is not "fit for purpose" as a tool to address the human cost of social media addiction.

I worked on child social media legislation in New York, the SAFE for Kids Act, directly targeted to child social media addiction.

The opponents of basic safety laws, and anti-addiction laws, are the monopolists like Meta whose gross political power--which we gave them--makes it extremely hard to pass laws, and whose outsized financial power means that every law we pass gets attacked with an aggressive, leave-no-social-media law untouched, strategy.

The very task in front of us--deciding as a society how we want tech to work for us--is the task that the big tech companies do everything they can to foil.

It's like arguing about banking reform when five banks own Washington--the condition for democratic decisionmaking requires antitrust.

Antitrust is a democracy tool. It is fit for purpose.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

OMG! This is No Kings in South Korea. Thousands of South Koreans protesting against Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

I have a new essay in the New Republic. I used to see things as left versus right. Now I worry about the money at the top. And while it may sound strange, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

About to go on @Morning_Joe to talk with Joe and Mika about my new essay in the New Republic, about how I became a populist, and the coalitions that can create

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

One video after another

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

ICE agents just snatched a Journalist & were Speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work & doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her,but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them! 🤬

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is Donald Trump's America

September 25, 2025.

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

German Gestapo Police.

Imagine living in a world where you could get arrested , suspended or beat up for saying don't kill children, because it might hurt the feelings of the killers.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Marka Peterson @PetersonMarka]

@Raghadwshamia99 …

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

Paris Gestapo Police.

Imagine living in a world where you could get arrested , suspended or beat up for saying don't kill children, because it might hurt the feelings of the killers.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Here's what I think about the FTC's settlement with Amazon about its enrollment and cancellation process for Prime.

1) Last year, FTC alleged that Amazon tricked consumers into enrolling in Prime and then made it weirdly impossible for them to get out. Like, you click the button that says "End Your Prime Membership" and it does *not* end your Prime membership, but rather starts you on a 4-page, 6-click, 15-option cancellation journey that Amazon itself compared to that slim airport read, Homer's Iliad.

2) Too often, corporate shells are charged with wrongdoing and the C-suite executives who knowingly enabled that wrongdoing get off free. Not here. Chair Khan, Comm. Slaughter and I made sure we charged, by name, three Amazon executives who we alleged *knew* this was happening, rejected pleas from their own staff to fix it, and "slowed, avoided, and even undid user experience changes" they knew would fix the problem.

3) FTC staff just scored a *huge* win last week. A federal judge granted a key motion filed by FTC staff, agreeing that the law we alleged applied here did in fact apply here, that the way we alleged Amazon collected consumers' data was in fact the way it collected the data, AND that the individual executives we charged *did* in fact have the authority to control the subscription & cancellation process.

4) So, to take a step back, the FTC was *winning* -- the judge was agreeing with the FTC... and the FTC was about to start a trial where they would likely get *more* leverage and could air out the full allegations and evidence against Amazon in public.

5) And then, today, the new FTC leadership announced a settlement: $2.5 billion, $1.5 billion of which will go to consumers. I'll let others address the money. What I'm focused on is those three executives. Because the order effectively tells Amazon to stop doing what it's doing, to follow the law, and then to pay out the $1.5 billion to the consumers -- and the order is in effect for 10 years.

5) Based on my initial read, do the executives need to do anything separate from that? Do they pay any fines? Are they being demoted? Are they subject to extra monitoring? Do they need to admit any guilt whatsoever? The answers, as far as I can tell are no, no, no, no, and no. What's worse, the order applies to the executives for only three years -- seven years less than the company.

6) Why do the flesh and bone executives get off easier than the liability limited fictional legal entity which is Amazon corporation? I feel like asking that question answers it, but still.

7) We have to ask ourselves: What pressure did the White House put on this FTC to enter into this settlement? What communications were there? This doesn't smell right.

8) To be completely clear, I'm being critical of the FTC's political leadership. Staff have to work under them. They worked extraordinarily hard in this case, and whatever my opinion is of this settlement, it says nothing about them, their acumen, and their commitment to protect consumers.

[Caitlin Legacki @caitleg]

Just gonna start posting every night that Kay Graham published the second tranche of Pentagon Papers in the middle of an IPO, at the same time Nixon was threatening to pull her FCC licenses.