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"[We're] inches away from each other and apparently that's enough for a price difference." Corporations are using mass surveillance and hidden algorithms to set individualized prices and exploit consumers based on personal data in a practice called surveillance pricing.

Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison. They sent the outside world a message: S-O-S reut.rs/4jBIC1c

Colorado just became the first state in the country to pass a ban on algorithmic rent-fixing. A huge, hard-fought win. It’s an elegant policy that prohibits 2 or more landlords from using the same piece of software to set rents or restrict supply. Polis has 30 days to sign it.

"DMV has more private equity-owned apartments than most metros." "Beyond rent hikes and evictions, tenants at private equity-owned properties say they've had issues with 'hidden fees and poor maintenance,' and 'lack of responsiveness to tenant concerns'."

NEW: We won a $6.8 million judgment against a DC slumlord with over 8,700 housing and lead violations. Tenants in Ward 4 and Ward 8 who endured appalling conditions for years were awarded full rent refunds. This is one of the largest housing conditions judgments in DC history.

The Tech Right: “What we want is fully privatized cities each owned by a corporation and ruled by a CEO/Monarch.” Matt Yglesias: “Here’s why that’s great urban planning.”

It's not just Starlink the US govt is pushing. How about this letter from the US Consulate in Munich lobbying against minimum fare prices for Uber? Source (from Berlin parliament): instagram.com/p/DJB5ERColYr/

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka was arrested as he attempted to enter an ICE facility in Newark to make sure it’s up to code. This is leadership. This must be the next Governor of New Jersey. Thank you Mr. Baraka!!!!!

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David Seligman entering the Colorado AG race is a huge deal for Colorado and for fighting the oligarchy by going after its power directly with law and love and a lifetime of experience doing right by working people.

Right now, people know that the world feels deeply unfair and deeply scary. And I want to fight to be their lawyer to make sure the law is on their side — and not on the side of billionaires and corrupt politicians. TY for the interview, The Denver Post dpo.st/3SxsLEP

"Last year, Uber drivers made an average of $513 a week in gross earnings, a 3.4% decline from the previous year, even as they worked six minutes more a week on average. For drivers in Los Angeles, average hourly earnings on Uber are down 21%." nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec…

Woah. The Abundance Institute backs a moratorium on state child social media laws that protect kids against AI harms, state cybersecurity laws related to AI, state consumer protection laws related to AI. Mask off moment for Abundance: opposed to democracy in response to AI?!!!

An National Weather Service office in eastern Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office in Jackson, KY no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster as a result of job cuts by Department of Government Efficiency. nytimes.com/2025/05/16/wea…

In 2013, Tim Maughan published a short story of dystopian fiction about Nicki, a 19-year-old zero-hour contract worker. Today, it reads as a plausible description of the working world of American nurses. My latest: lpeproject.org/blog/nursing-o…

New rule for the ✨discourse✨: For every Mamdani post this week, you must also post about Trump’s bill to take away health care from 17 million people, slash food assistance for families, and shutter nursing homes and hospitals.

“I hate being a nurse right now with [what] these greedy, immoral, corporate companies have done to health care.” Wall Street’s takeover of U.S. healthcare infrastructure and Silicon Valley’s introduction of gig nursing apps are working to erode our healthcare system.