Matt Keliher

Saint Paul Minnesota

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy?

McDONALD: I'll take a different question

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

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

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.

Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.

Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model.

Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole.

Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

This settlement legalizes meat price-fixing — it just says you have to bring the giant retailers and distributors in on the game. Get ready for even higher prices for chicken, turkey, and pork.

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

The usual suspects are blaming Biden's DOJ for blocking the JetBlue merger. They're wrong.

Spirit was killed by three things: shareholder greed, corporate mismanagement, and Donald Trump's war with Iran.

[Matt Keliher @MAKeliher]

@conorsen If it were true that the merger would have saved Spirit from collapse, then then why didn't they articulate a failing firm defense to the judge? Such an argument would have saved the acquisition and imperilled low cost travelers. Any comments on Citadel's role in this?

[Nidhi Hegde @nhegde]

Btw Citadel, Ares Management & Cyrus Capital just killed Spirit Airlines. They calculated they’d recover more money liquidating Spirit’s gates and airport slots than accepting a government bailout. 17,000 workers lost their jobs. Wall St got paid! 6/

[Pat_Garofalo @Pat_Garofalo]

Colorado has a huge opportunity to lead on consumer and worker protection by passing HB26-1210 to ban surveillance pricing and wage-setting. The Senate should get it done! #coleg

[Chris Hine @ChristopherHine]

Jaden McDaniels, deadpan delivery, on what worked for the Timberwolves offensively.

Jaden: Go at Jokic, Jamal, all the bad defenders. Tim Hardaway, Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon, their whole team.”

Q: They’re all bad defenders?

Jaden: “Yeah, they’re all bad defenders.”

[Doha Mekki @dohamekki]

In a moment so defined by corruption and abuses of power, there's something deeply democratic and just about a jury of citizens seeing the facts and deciding right from wrong. That's exactly what happened today and it's why we sought a jury demand when we filed this case in 2024.

This huge antitrust win affirms that even the most powerful corporations are not above the law and that lawyers and citizens have the power to take on monopolies even when the federal government falls down on its obligation to do so.

[Khushita Vasant @KhushitaVasant]

WE HAVE A VERDICT!

Live Nation and Ticketmaster violated US federal and state antitrust laws, a New York jury found!!

[Katie Van Dyck @CapitolKVD]

The president sat in the public gallery, on a bench, surrounded by ordinary citizens. There was no announcement of his arrival. No Hail to the Chief. Instead, Trump came in quietly, shuffled around looking for a seat, and waited in silence with the rest of us for the final 10 minutes before arguments began.

I was 50 feet away from him. It was stunning. Trump looked small on that wooden bench in the grandeur of the courtroom, sitting below the nine justices. It was a stark reminder of how our founders structured our government.

Trump is not a king. He cannot ignore the Constitution. And the Supreme Court has the last word on what he can and cannot do.

[Minnesota DFL @MinnesotaDFL]

1. Skip half the Education Finance committee about absenteeism.
2. Drink with fellow Republican @WalterHudson at Burger Moe's before session.
3. Vote to keep high-capacity magazines on the streets of Minnesota (after several drinks).
4. Get arrested for suspected drunk driving.
5. Smile for your picture! 🙂

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Judge Subramanian just berated the Justice Department in court, saying it "shows absolute disrespect for the court, for the jury, for this entire process."

This is the most incompetent and corrupt administration of our lifetimes.

[Thom Petersen @ThommyPetersen]

Minnesota gains a new billion-dollar company. @pivotbio relocates headquarters from California, choosing the Twin Cities over other Midwest cities.
https://t.co/aMzesawCUh

[Max Nesterak @maxnesterak]

“The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders.” https://t.co/ZyrxIVxZ4o

[Joe Van Wye @JoeVanWye]

Headlines like these drive me nuts. The DOJ can still block this deal. State AGs can still block this deal. The CMA can block this deal. The EU can block this deal.

It's an ILLEGAL merger, and press talking about it like it's done undermines enforcers' ability to do their jobs.

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy WBD with $24 billion in money from the Saudis, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

🚨 NEW: Tariffs didn’t raise beef prices. A meatpacking monopoly did.

Here's @WallachLori from @econliberties ⬇️

[Luke Goldstein @lukewgoldstein]

In state of the union speech, Trump called for Congress to ban Wall St from buying up single family homes.

The GOP bill now being sent around is actually a federal preemption blocking states from doing exactly that.

We got a draft of the bill: