For the pro-monopoly crowd that absolutely dominated antitrust law from the Carter administration until 2020, Amazon presents a genuinely puzzling paradox: the company's monopoly power was *never* supposed to emerge, and if it did, it should have crumbled immediately.

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Newsletter is up, continuing our writing con & heists 101 series and some resources for the aspiring crime-y writer. buttondown.email/kungfumonkey/a…

Just peer-reviewed a forensic analysis in a case.

The suspect mailed a package with a hidden Apple AirTag in it to a victim's old home address.

The package was forwarded to her new (and formerly safe) address....

Might be good to warn DV victims of unexpected mail.

The number of messages I have gotten from cisgender people who read Pamela Paul's article and were nearly swayed until reading mine easily debunking it is unreal.

I am glad I am able to fight back.

But I do NOT have the reach that the New York Times has to offer.

The brains behind Trump's stolen #SupremeCourt have detailed plans: they didn't just scheme to pack the court with judges who weren't qualified for - or entitled to - a SCOTUS life-tenure, they also set up a series of cases for that radical court to hear.

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Mississippi has approved bills to give Amazon a 10-year, 100% corporate tax exemption, plus 30 years of state tax exemptions.

Lawmakers also set aside $44 million to help fund Amazon's latest project in the state.

Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in America.

She’s baaaaaack! Leverage: Redemption 🔥 #BTS photo still from our camera tests yesterday. Leverage: Redemption Dean Devlin Prime Video John Rogers Kate Rorick Chris Downey 💋

After the transformation of La Jolla Blvd, noise levels dropped 77%, retail sales rose 30%, and traffic crashes fell by 90%.

'Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.' - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

30 years into my professional writing career I took MRK's short story class and found it very, very useful. I'll absolutely be back this year for a few of these. Take a look!

Hey folks--JW Hendricks, who documented our strikes with the most beautiful, epic photos, has posted them all on his website. They run thru the Sept. WGA Membership meeting, many grouped by theme picket. You can even download them! Check it out:

jwhendricks.pixieset.com

Happy 2024. Since we're still pretzeling ourselves to explain why folks think the economy is bad despite all the data, here's the latest update of media coverage of inflation/recession vs unemployment/recovery, thru 12/31/23. The truly astounding imbalances persist even in Q423.

Happy Holidays to all our friends who are, understandably, still over here. As noted, no new content for this platform, but I will mention a new edition of the newsletter's out. Take care out there in the Slow Apocalypse.
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Congratulations to both Dr.
Taber and the state of North Carolina for this opportunity to have her serve.

I've been following and reporting on Patrick Byrne for years and none of this is surprising. He is a spoiled trust fund baby who is an idiot who thinks he's smart. He's rotten human and a criminal who only hasn't been arrested because he's rich.

Claiming that immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of the country' is the literal language of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Trump and his allies are openly embracing fascism, and it's time for the media to stop being scared to use that word.

The path to autocracy for Trump runs through our countermajoritarian institutions as much as through voter apathy about democracy.

Yet prominent discussions of the autocratic threat gloss over the need for majoritarian reform. 4/

(citing b-boy bouiebaisse)

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It's AMA time!

I'm doing a digital Q&A/fundraiser for my run for Commissioner of Agriculture for North Carolina.

It's Mon 12/18. There's a session at 7pm ET & 7pm PT, so there's a friendly time slot for almost everyone in US time zones.

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