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Corporation & billionaire greed are not good for our world! We need to put an end to it!!
#SustainablePlanet
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#EnforceAntiTrustLaws
#BreakUpBigBusiness
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 31
John Deere announced another round of layoffs last week, impacting hundreds of workers.

But the company reported a profit of over $10 billion in 2023.

Its CEO received $26.7 million in compensation.

And it spent over $7 billion on stock buybacks.

Textbook corporate greed.
August 1, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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#EnforceAntiTrustLaws💰
ernest33141.bsky.social Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · May 8
State attorneys general across the country can intervene to stop this antitrust nightmare.
We need to keep up this fight.
Courtesy by @warren.senate.gov
May 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Cory Doctorow

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#UnionStrong #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #WealthTax #NursesRights #EnforceAntitrustLaws #UniversalFreeHealthcare #SecondBillOfRights #HealthcareIsAHumanRight
December 18, 2024 at 8:26 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” – Cory Doctorow

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#Enshittification #EnforceAntitrustLaws #RegulateCorporations #MoneyOutOfPolitics #RepealTheDMCA #EndCopyright #PrivacyMatters #UnionStrong #CapitalismKills
August 18, 2024 at 3:36 AM
mvario.bsky.social
DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right

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#EnforceAntitrustLaws #RegulateBigTech
DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right
Khan warned that enabling protectionism for tech monopolies wouldn’t just hurt all of us, it would hurt them too. Now they’re getting wiped out.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Pluralistic: America’s best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees — Cory Doctorow

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#CapitalismKills #EnforceAntitrustLaws #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #WealthTax
September 9, 2024 at 2:46 PM
mi-forest.bsky.social
It's not INflation, it is GREEDflation.
#RaiseTaxesOnBigCorporations
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#EnforceAntitrustLaws
July 28, 2024 at 1:01 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Supreme Court Won’t Help Big Telecom Kill NY Law Requiring Affordable Broadband For Poor People | Techdirt

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Supreme Court Won’t Help Big Telecom Kill NY Law Requiring Affordable Broadband For Poor People
During peak COVID in 2021, when everybody was freaking out about how shitty and expensive U.S. broadband was for telecommuting and home education, NY state officials had an idea: what if we pass a …
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December 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust – Cory Doctorow

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#EnforceAntitrustLaws #RegulateCorporations #CapitalismKills #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
September 25, 2024 at 11:21 AM
mvario.bsky.social
The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing – Cory Doctorow

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"Economics is the "look what you made me do" stick that capitalism uses to beat us with."

#CapitalismKills #SurveillanceCapitalism #EnforceAntitrustLaws #RepealTheDMCA
January 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
mi-forest.bsky.social
#BreakUpMonopolies #EnforceAntiTrustLaws
Consolidation of industries makes the rich richer at the expense of everyone else and the planet!
August 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
mvario.bsky.social
It's time for some John Deere execs to go to prison.

FTC Investigating John Deere Over ‘Right To Repair’ Violations | Techdirt

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FTC Investigating John Deere Over ‘Right To Repair’ Violations
A few years ago agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust lawsuit for its efforts to monopolize tractor repair. The lawsuits noted that the…
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October 23, 2024 at 6:18 AM
mvario.bsky.social
Bezos And Musk Agree: Privatize Federal Agencies

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Bezos And Musk Agree: Privatize Federal Agencies - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Post reports: The relationship between billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and billionaire Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk is warming up, a Friday morning exchange on Musk’s social m...
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December 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Lina Khan on a Second FTC Term, AI, Price Gouging, Data Privacy - Bloomberg

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Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)
Biden’s FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy. She hints that there’s a lot more to come, if she’s given the chance.
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October 11, 2024 at 7:45 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Lina Khan’s future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America – Cory Doctorow

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#EnforceAntitrustLaws #EndNeoliberalism #SupportLinaKhan #EndMonopolies #RegulateCorporations #PeopleBeforeCorporations #AbolishPrivateEquity #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires
October 11, 2024 at 7:02 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Trump FCC Pick Thinks Broadband Caps Are Great, Likens Them To Coffee Refills(?) | Techdirt

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Trump FCC Pick Thinks Broadband Caps Are Great, Likens Them To Coffee Refills(?)
As we recently noted, the FCC has announced that’s finally “taking a look at” broadband usage caps. We’ve noted for decades how such limits are completely artificial, techni…
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October 21, 2024 at 1:07 PM
mvario.bsky.social
FTC Chair Lina Khan Responds To Calls For Her Firing

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FTC Chair Lina Khan Responds To Calls For Her Firing
“Monopolies not only have economic power, but use that power to buy political power,” she tells The Lever’s David Sirota.
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July 26, 2024 at 10:05 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Biden's FTC is fighting corporate greed after D.C. looked away for decades

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#EnforceAntitrustLaws #TaxCorportations #EndCorporateLobbying
Biden's FTC is fighting corporate greed after D.C. looked away for decades | Opinion
Opinion: Want to know more about inflation? Let's go back to the 1980s and the start of deregulation.
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April 19, 2024 at 1:50 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom #EnforceAntitrustLaws #RenewACP #BroadbandPriceControl #GigiSohnForFCC
Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices
A new U.S. News And World Report survey of 2,500 Americans across the five most populous U.S. states (PA, TX, NY, CA, and FL) found that U.S. broadband prices continue to soar for most users. Most …
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November 1, 2024 at 2:24 PM
mvario.bsky.social
AT&T Pouts, Pulls Home 5G Service From NY State Over Law Requiring It Provide $15 To Poor People | Techdirt

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AT&T Pouts, Pulls Home 5G Service From NY State Over Law Requiring It Provide $15 To Poor People
To be clear up front, AT&T is a predatory telecom monopolist. It works tirelessly to lobby (and sometimes bribe) government for favorable treatment as it works tirelessly to undermine competiti…
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January 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish. | Techdirt

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Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish.
As we recently noted, telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast are having some very good luck using a corrupt, MAGA-heavy court to not only kill popular net neutrality rules — but to effectiv…
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August 19, 2024 at 2:13 PM
mvario.bsky.social
It’s not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Cory Doctorow

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#StopBigPotato #EnforceAntitrustLaws #RegulateBigBusiness #PriceControlWorks #EndPrivateEquity #CapitalismKills
January 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas | Techdirt

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#EnforceAntitrustLaws #Enshittification #CapitalismKills
Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas
Early last year, streaming company Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery after the three companies decided to launch their own joint streaming live spor…
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January 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
mvario.bsky.social
AT&T Tries Charging Users $7 Extra For ‘Turbo’ 5G | Techdirt

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#RegulateTelecom #EnforceAntitrustLaws
AT&T Tries Charging Users $7 Extra For ‘Turbo’ 5G
For years, big ISPs have made it abundantly clear that they dream of being able to abuse their gatekeeper power over telecom markets to tilt the playing field in their favor. Whether it was Verizon…
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May 8, 2024 at 2:28 PM
mvario.bsky.social
Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds

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Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds
The report finds that Amazon workers in robotic warehouses feel more isolated at work, which makes it difficult to unionize.
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June 5, 2024 at 1:32 PM